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The capital is gearing up for India’s largest consumer exhibition on mobile phones and accessories - Mobile Asia 2008 - to be held at Pragati Maidan from Feb 29 to March 3.

Organised by the Indian Cellular Association (ICA), the four-day exhibition will also highlight the latest technological developments in the Indian mobile market with several domestic as well as global companies showcasing a slew of their latest products and offering.

Some of the leading mobile handset manufacturers and service providers that will participate include Airtel, Vodafone, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, i-mate, Intex, Leuci, SanDisk, Scratchgard, Sony Ericsson, Tata Teleservices, World Phone and World Space Radio. Read the rest of this entry »

The sixth international conference on communications convergence here next month will focus on wireless communication in today’s age and how the telecom revolution could be taken to the remote rural areas. “Leaders from the telecom industry and business will participate as speakers and will deliberate upon various policy matters and future directions of wireless communication,” Niraj Bajaj, president of the Indian Merchant’s Chamber (IMC), told IANS.

The IMC is organising the March 6-7 event.

The conference would discuss a wide range of issues including the past, present and future of mobile phones and broadband, fixed-mobile convergence and future of broadband applications. Read the rest of this entry »

The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), the association of internet and mobile value added services (VAS) companies in India has announced their annual flagship conference: The India Digital Summit 2008 in partnership with Intel.

For the first time in India a conference on the Digital space would have a heavy dose of internet and mobile VAS thought and business leaders from across the world participating. The Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and IT, is the Guest of Honour at the Summit.

It is a mark of the maturity as well as the expectation from the Digital media in India that speakers such as Esther Dyson, Chairperson, EDventure Holdings (USA) and the Founding Chairman of ICANN, and an active member of many other non-profit and advisory organizations; Tomihisa Kamada, Co-Founder, Executive Vice-President and Chief Technology Officer, ACCESS CO., LTD (Japan) and a recognized authority globally in communications and mobile technology; Read the rest of this entry »

Although India’s internet user base is growing at a rate similar to that of the US, venture capitalists are of the view that internet-based firms still have a long way to go before they challenge the likes of Yahoo! and Google.

Considering the nascent nature of India’s internet population, the internet community says that the Web 2.0 entreprenuers have to adapt and learn for the industry to succeed in India.

Speaking at a conference on Web 2.0 by the Internet and Mobile Association in India, Ravi Datanwala, Online Business Strategy Manager, Microsoft India said, “Indian entreprenuers in the Web 2.0 space can only suceed if Read the rest of this entry »

Hungama Mobile, a premier mobile entertainment company, headquartered in Mumbai, India. has won the ‘Best Marketing Campaign in Mobile Entertainment’ award organized by the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), the world’s premier body representing the fast growing US$ 23 billion Mobile Entertainment industry.

The Award (MEFFYS) were given to the CEO of Hungama Mobile, Neeraj Roy at a glittering ceremony at the Grimaldi Center in Monte Carlo, by Patrick Parodi, Chairman of MEF. The award was judged by an eminent panel of judges from the field of entertainment, media and mobile networks for Hungama Mobile’s innovative packaging of mobile entertainment content for the box office hit film Read the rest of this entry »

‘Sameera Reddy Mobile VAS Content’ launched by MAUJ, People Infocom and Essar’s The MobileStore

Today, MAUJ, India’s leading wireless solutions provider, and the flagship brand of People Infocom, announced a tie-up with Bollywood beauty Sameera Reddy for exclusive personalized Mobile VAS content. Present at the event was Manoj Dawane, CEO-People Infocom (MAUJ), Anupam Mittal, MD & Chairman, People Group, Rajiv Agarwal, CEO & Director, Essar Telecom, and of course the most alluring and elegant Sameera Reddy.

For this, MAUJ has developed various Sameera Special products as part of the Sameera Reddy VAS content. These will include ring tones, SMS tones, alarm tones, caller ring back tones, themes and wallpapers.

Sameera Reddy actually lent her Read the rest of this entry »

The India Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group is holding their first eSeminar on June 1st at 10:30 EST: Putting technology to mobile emotions.

The presentation topic is MobileWish: Putting technology to mobile emotions.

To give you an introduction about Mobile Wish - MobileWish is world’s first complete mobile greetings messenger created with Adobe Flash Lite 2.0 allowing users to send and receive the greetings to almost anyone around the world on their mobile handsets.

When an user sends a card that is published with the MobileWish client , the recipient can receive the card on his/her mobile. Apart from this an email link is also be sent to the recipient’s email so that so that he can also view it through internet browsers on a PC. In addition to this , there is a Desktop version which is similar to the mobile client, which can be used to get in touch with the mobile wish cards on the desktop.

TechMela is an evolution of the erstwhile TechEd, Mobile and Embedded Developers’ Conference, and IndiMIX. TechMela is a fusion of the latest technologies, business gurus, and structured learning experiences - all you can ask for, in one grand, mother-of-all-tech-events!

Creating many pathways to knowledge exchange, TechMela comprises of technology presentations, scenario showcases, experience zones and discussion forums. TechMela is the convergence of many knowledge streams. From connected experiences for the consumer, to anywhere-anytime access for decision-makers, to the evolution of the ubiquitous enterprise - it’s an exciting discourse about the potential of the future. It’s an unprecedented ensemble brought together under one roof.

TechMela is comprised of two separate events:
1. TechMela TECHNOLOGY
2. TechMela BUSINESS

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