http://www.unwireindia.com l l tidings on wireless India l l Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:30:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en MySpace users with mobile phones are about to find out if they can walk and watch TV at the same time. On Wednesday, News Corp’s online social network will make video clips from its members’ pages available for viewing on mobile devices including the BlackBerry Bold, Palm Centro, Motorola Q9, LG Voyager, Nokia N95 and [...]]]> http://www.unwireindia.com/myspace-goes-mobile-delivers-video/ A court in India has given the country’s taxman the green light to pursue Vodafone, the world’s largest mobile operator by revenue, for an estimated $2 billion (£1.4 billion) in capital gains tax. The ruling makes it likely that hundreds of other overseas companies that have invested in the sub-continent – many of them British – [...]]]> http://www.unwireindia.com/vodafone-faces-2-billion-indian-tax-bill/ The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), an anti-corruption organisation of the government, has ordered an investigation against officials of the Department of Telecom (DoT), who have allegedly been involved in a case pertaining to under-reporting of revenues by Reliance Communications (RCOM). The CDMA operator has allegedly evaded payment of Rs 352 crore of revenue share on [...]]]> http://www.unwireindia.com/cvc-orders-investigation-against-dot-staff/ Despite a moderately lower contribution to the overall teledensity of the country, rural areas have succeeded to beat the metros with a comparatively high subscriber additions rate. Based on the TRAI figures, the four metros together added 10.3 million subscribers in the first nine months of 2008, while the rural areas added over 11.3 million. Revealing [...]]]> http://www.unwireindia.com/rural-areas-have-high-subscriber-additions-rate/ With four billion mobile phones in use world wide, the biggest maker of such devices suggests that they are next iteration of computing platforms that began with the personal computer and evolved into the laptop. At its annual developer event that opened here on Tuesday, Nokia suggested that the Internet should be personal too, and [...]]]> http://www.unwireindia.com/nokia-unveils-n97/ Intuit’s QuickBooks small business accounting software runs the back office for many of North America’s 31 million small businesses. Now Intuit plans to expand globally by targeting 10 Asian countries, including India, Indonesia, Malaysia and South Korea. Collectively, these 10 Asian countries have 250 million small businesses. You won’t see many notebook computers in the street [...]]]> http://www.unwireindia.com/intuit-goes-global-using-mobiles/ Dear Readers, Continuing the trend, here is the list of TOP 5 most read articles during November 08. In-case you missed these news, please don’t forget to check them now Here we go …. 1. Spice D-90, dual SIM mobile phone for India (2,397 views) [same] 2. Subhiksha Introduces Helpline Number for Mobile Phone Buyers (696 views) [...]]]> http://www.unwireindia.com/most-read-articles-of-november-08/ Vodafone Essar today removed the mobile phone signal towers following dismissal of their petition against the Thane Municipal Corporation by the Bombay High Court. Vodafone Essar had challenged the order of the Thane Municipal Corporation to remove the towers in the vicinity of the Thane district court. Apprehending threat to the society from the cell towers [...]]]> http://www.unwireindia.com/vodafone-essar-removes-towers/ State-run telecom company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd on Friday said it would start BlackBerry services by next month. “We are well on track to launch our BlackBerry services by next month,” BSNL Director (Finance) S D Saxena told reporters on the sidelines of a CII conference here. Five mobile service providers — Airtel, Vodafone, BPL, Reliance [...]]]> http://www.unwireindia.com/bsnl-soon-to-start-blackberry-services/ Bharti Teletech, manufacturers and distributors of telecom and allied products, Thursday said it has bagged a contract worth Rs.350mn from Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) to manufacture fixed line phones. Bharti Teletech will manufacture and supply over 900,000 caller line identification phones (CLIP) for the state-run telecom giant over a period of five months, a [...]]]> http://www.unwireindia.com/bharti-teletech-bags-rs350-mn-contract-from-bsnl/