India’s biggest carmaker Maruti Suzuki has increased margins for its dealers to drive sales of petrol cars. The 8-10% rise in commission comes at a time when the company’s share in the domestic market has dipped below 40% for the first time. While Maruti will pay 1,000 more to its dealers to sell small cars, [...]
Give ‘Missed Call’ in an ordeal to save our forests
The Indian arm of Green Peace, the International environmental NGO, in an ordeal to save our forests, has taken an innovative route to make people pledge against the coal mining in regions like the Chandrapur region of Maharashtra or Singrauli. The NGO has tied-up with a Bangalore based mobile technology company, ZipDial to make it [...]
iXiGO.com Launches India’s First Travel Search App on Android
iXiGO.com, India’s leading travel search engine, today announced the launch of India’s first full-featured flights & hotels search application for Android devices. The iXiGO app is available globally on the Android market and can be downloaded and installed for free on any smartphone running the Android Operating System. iXiGO’s Android App ( available at https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ixigo) [...]
Airtel starts India’s first free mobile access to Twitter
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 [...]
TRAI pushes SMS limit to 200 SMSs per day per SIM
Mobile phone users will now be able to send 200 text messages a day as sector regulator Trai has doubled the daily cap after it received representations from consumers and service providers to relax the limit. Trai had introduced the 100-SMSes a day cap to stop unsolicited and pesky text messages from telemarketers selling everything [...]
Maruti Suzuki is all set to introduce the new Swift next month
Maruti Suzuki India Pvt. Ltd (MSIL) is all set to introduce the new Swift, one of India\’s best-selling cars that have always been “wait-listed” since its launch in 2005 due to its high demand. The next generation premium hatchback, to be launched next month, will be based on a new platform, making it much bigger [...]
Airtel launches international video calling services
Have you ever missed sharing a special moment with a loved one living abroad, or wished you could share visual information instantly with your colleagues in the international markets? Now talking with your family, friends and colleagues based overseas is just one video call away. Bharti Airtel, leading global telecommunications company with operations in 19 [...]
Air India market share slips to 5th position
The month of May saw three airlines – Jet Airways, Kingfisher and IndiGo – fly a record one million passengers each, whereas national carrier Air India slipped to the fifth position in terms of market share. Air traffic data for May, released by aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), shows that the six [...]
Mahindra & Mahindra launches its new sedan \’Verito\’
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., today announced the launch of its sedan – the Verito, in Kerala. The new Verito retains the famed strengths of the Logan, while adding a new style with some key changes. Now equipped with several rugged and sporty styling elements in keeping with Mahindra\’s DNA, the Verito is all set to [...]

