Bharti Airtel has announced that its 170 million plus mobile customers in India will now potentially be able to access Twitter on their mobile phones for free till 1st March 2012. What’s more, even without activating GPRS — Airtel mobile customers can sign up for Twitter or subscribe to SMS updates of specific users (via [...]

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 [...]

Canada-based smartphone maker Research In Motion will provide free aptitude test application on its BlackBerry phones for students in India in partnership with content providers Ipomo and mobile operator Vodafone. \”We are looking at the way a student can utilise his time for productive work on mobile phones. Hence, we have decided to give students [...]

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) tied up with Bharat Berry Technologies to provide push e-mail services to all its mobile subscribers of all circles in India. \”After the successful launch of its Bharat Berry services with MTNL Delhi and MTNL Mumbai a couple of months back, now Bharat Berry services will be available for all [...]

Poynt Corporation, a leading provider of mobile local search services, and Times Internet Limited, the internet and mobile venture of India\’s largest media house – the Times Group, on Sunday announced the launch of their mobile local search application, timesPoynt (\”timesPoynt\” or the \”app\”) in India. The new app, developed by Poynt in partnership with [...]

Myriad Group, a global leader in mobile technology having shipped over 3.8 billion software applications on more than 2.2 billion phones, today announced that it is partnering with Vodafone Essar Ltd., one of India\’s leading telecommunications services providers, to deliver social networking and messaging services over SMS and USSD to its subscribers across India. As [...]

Loop Mobile today announced the launch of Mobile Money service in partnership with ZipCash. Loop Mobile subscribers can now use their mobile phone as a virtual wallet for mobile & utility services as electricity bill payments, prepaid recharges, digital TV recharge, online shopping, buying movie tickets and more. In addition, subscribers can also book travel [...]

Tata DOCOMO, the GSM brand of Tata Teleservices, on Thursday launched a video service that will give breaking news in the form of video clips. The Video News Alert can be streamed, viewed and downloaded by both 2G and 3G subscribers on their mobile phones, Tata DOCOMO said in a statement. Tata DOCOMO has inked [...]

MTNL (Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd) has joined hands with Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd to roll out its 2G and 3G Video Value Added Services for its gen-next mobile service subscribers in Delhi and Mumbai. Shemaroo will shuoulder the responsibility of managing the packaging of the content on MTNL via its own 3G video delivery platform. This [...]

Mobile social communications leader Bubble Motion is announcing further expansion throughout India with the launch of its market-leading Bubbly social messaging service on Vodafone India — bringing India\’s hottest social communications phenomenon to the operator\’s 130 million subscribers. Sometimes described as a \’voice-based Twitter\’, the Bubbly social messaging service enables celebrities and everyday people to [...]