Vodafone India and HDFC Bank have announced plans to launch a mobile banking service across the country next year after a successful trial period. The service, which is called ‘M-Paisa’ (named after its monetary unit, the paisa), enables selected retailers to offer banking services to Vodafone customers, who are able to withdraw from or deposit [...]

SRS Labs, Inc., officially recognized as one of America’s Greatest Brands and the industry leader in surround sound, audio and voice technologies, today announced that it has established its first mobile phone partnership in India with LAVA International, Ltd. and will incorporate SRS WOW HD™ within the LAVA M-Series feature phones.   “It is particularly [...]

Aircel subscribers can now update their status messages on popular social networking site Facebook using their voice. \”Facebook Voice Updates on Aircel will allow people to connect to their friends on Facebook in their own voice without internet access on their mobile phones, which makes it an easy access for a large audience anytime anywhere,\” [...]

In order to take advantage of the mobile teledensity in India, private sector lender ICICI Bank today entered into an agreement with mobile service provider Vodafone Essar to offer financial products such as savings accounts and pre-paid instruments. This partnership is expected to bring the unbanked and under-banked population into the organised financial services framework [...]

Yahoo! India and MTS announced a service and content partnership for MBlaze, MBlaze users will now be able to access a Yahoo! and MTS co-branded page that will provide their account information and content including Yahoo! Mail, News, live TV and mobile search. The co-branded page will deliver greater convenience for MBlaze customers as they [...]

Times Internet Limited has inked a deal with Poynt Corporation, a leading provider of mobile local search services, to make Poynt application available to over 670 million mobile users in India. TimesPoynt, as it will be known in India, will provide relevant and local data to the users whenever and wherever they require it. To [...]

OnMobile Global Limited has entered into a strategic venture with Madison World, a renowned and diversified communications group that has specialist  units in Advertising, Media, Out-of-Home, PR,  Retail, Entertainment, Mobile and Sports. This joint venture will aim to be the leading mobile marketing company (Kabuza Marketing) in India and the Indian sub-continent, opening up new [...]

Bharti Airtel is in talks with other mobile operators, including Vodafone Essar and Idea Cellular, to form a strategic alliance to offer third generation services on a pan-India level. The alliance has been made necessary because none of the operators has won 3G spectrum in all the circles. While Bharti has won spectrum in 13 [...]

Following close on the heels of the launch of India’s first 3.5G OlivePad, Olive Telecom has recently partnered with Airtel for its handset ‘Olive FrvrOn’ V-G2300, India’s first hybrid-dual powered mobile phone compatible with any AAA battery. The users will have an advantage of a free Airtel connection with the handset. Olive FrvrOn has the [...]

Virgin Mobile India has announced its alliance with GetJar, the cross platform mobile applications store. With this alliance Virgin Mobile customers will have access to a wide gamut of applications ranging from games, education, social networking, entertainment, finance, food, health, search, lifestyle and several other utility applications. Popular applications such as Facebook Mobile, Yahoo!, Nimbuzz, [...]