As many as 2.74 million new subscribers were added by the telecom operators in November last year, bringing the total number of telecom users in the country to 917.33 million, reveals the latest data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). The data says the mobile subscriber base in the country had risen [...]

Driven by smartphone sales, the worldwide mobile phone market grew 17.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010. According to the IDC worldwide quarterly mobile phone tracker, vendors shipped 401.4 million units in 4Q10 compared to 340.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2009. Vendors shipped a total of 1.39 billion units on a [...]

Bharti airtel, India\’s leading global telecommunications company, today released the findings of airtel Mobitude 2010 – the only survey of its kind to map onto mobile phone usage trends across the country. Based on a detailed analysis of data capturing all downloaded content by airtel mobile users in 2010, this survey is compiled at the [...]

Smaato Inc., the leading mobile ad optimizer and mobile advertising company, announced today a compilation of mobile advertising trends for 2011. Smaato gathered market data for the three strongest regions in mobile marketing: the USA, Europe and Asia. The trends show market analysis published by leading market research companies. Smaato Mobile Advertising Trends 2011 View [...]

A survey done by InMobi, one of the fastest growing global mobile advertising networks, reveals surprisingly high levels of mobile advertising in Asia, with two-thirds of Asian consumers comfortable with mobile advertising, and over 50% ready to receive personalized advertisements. This finding is likely to surprise advertisers, who have, so far, been conservative in adopting [...]

IDC, whose data are closely tracked around the world, said Nokia’s share of the Indian handset market — its second biggest after China — plunged to 36.3% at the end of June from 54% at the end of 2009, providing the Finnish giant’s critics more proof of its failure to keep pace with rapidlychanging customer [...]

Around 30% of India\’s young social networkers access networking sites from their mobile phones. This is an indication of the growing need to stay connected and hence the importance of mobile phones in the ever-converging technology and communication space. According to a Social Media survey conducted by Indiabiz News & Research Services (INRS) covering over [...]

Some scientists are claiming that mobile phones are responsible for the deaths of millions of bees and the collapse of many of their hives. Few would have thought that the mobile phone would be the end of the winged honey bees\’ deaths, but apparently its the radiation from mobile phones that has it in for [...]

ITpreneurs publishes key findings of research project ITpreneurs, the global leader in IT Service Management (ITSM), has completed an extensive 4 month research project by surveying ITIL Experts, to evaluate the value of achieving the ITIL Expert level for ambitious IT professionals. The results are being announced in a series of whitepapers aimed to provide [...]

Bollywood actor Katrina Kaif is the most searched celebrity on the mobile phones and has beaten the likes of Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Bipasha Basu and Aishwarya Rai. The research was conducted by mBit Infotech, a Value Added Service (VAS) provider. Among the Hollywood and Bollywood celebrities, Katrina is on the number [...]