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Stolen mobile telephones are being taught to turn against thieves by sending home word of where they are and letting owners snoop on calls. Maverick Mobile won accolades at a recent DEMO gathering of 72 startups in Southern California by debuting software that lets rightful owners track swiped mobile telephones and torment whoever has them.

Sistema, one of the largest public diversified corporation in Russia and the CIS, on Tuesday announced that it would invest over $1.5 bn in India next year to build a pan-India telecom network on the CDMA platform. The Russian major, which holds a majority stake in Shyam Telelink, also announced the launch of CDMA services [...]

France-based Voxmobili , which was acquired by Bangalore-based VAS (value added services) provider OnMobile in September 2007, has been included among the winners of Google Android Challenge for its offering Phonebook 2.0 , a secure and interactive phonebook application that combines elements of social media and instant messaging.

For students enrolled with Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), especially those staying abroad or in remote areas of India, IGNOU has some good news. Getting information about IGNOU for its students will now be as simple as SMSing one’s friends. As IGNOU kicks off the first level of its mobile services in the next [...]

Intelligence agencies along with the department of telecom (DoT) and the ministry of consumer affairs (MCA) are planning to undertake audit of duplicate mobiles and take stringent steps to curb the import of fake devices, which are posing a threat to national security.

Reliance Communications (RCom) has commenced the soft launch of its GSM network across major cities, company sources said. The company has invested about Rs 800 crore in Mumbai circle to set up 2,500 towers. Full GSM service is likely to be launched by mid-December.

Already crowded telecom space is becoming over crowded - 6 more operators will join the scene. Though Bharti in GSM and Reliance in CDMA dominate the space, the new operators will add to the competition. Indian telecom industry is seeing an explosive growth with 9.22 million new mobile subscriptions in July. This would take the [...]

Country’s leading telecom operator Bharti Airtel on Thursday said it has tied up with mobile maker i-mate to offer its customers the latest smart phone ‘JAMA 101′. Priced at Rs 12,900, the model would be available at all i-mate retail outlets and the subscribers of Airtel will also get additional benefits for data dowload of [...]

Following its $900 million deal with UAE’s Etisalat, Swan Telecom has now received a further boost. It has got the department of telecom’s nod to offer both national and international long distance (NLD & ILD) services, in addition to getting the government’s nod to operate as an Internet Service Provider (ISP) in India.

ZTE, the China-based sixth-largest mobile phone handsets maker, wants to enter the retail market in India by the end of this year. So far, its handsets were sold by telecom service providers such as Reliance Communications, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, Vodafone, Bharti and Tata Teleservices as their own —- that is, the phones carried the [...]