Government considering to reduce telecom tariffs

Budget after Budget, the Indian telcos and cellcos have been lobbying hard to bring down the government levies. In a pre-budget memorandum submitted by the telcos last year, they had requested the government to reduce annual revenue share or license fees from 6-10%[Metros & Circle-A 10%, Circle-B 8% and Circle-C…

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PlayStation 3 available in Indian Grey Market

Sony Corporation’s PlayStation 3 which went for sale in the US over Thanksgiving is now available in the Indian grey market. Sony India is expected to launch PS3 in Q2-2007. PS3 which is competing directly with Xbox 360 is available in two versions – 20GB and 60GB HDD. The 60GB…

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SnehaH – A Social Network for Indians

snehaH.com – Where friends meet – Social Community Network from INDIA, a social networking utility portal was launched recently. snehaH.com has been launched by Sravan, a web entrepreneur from Hyderabad. He dreams of making snehaH.com a platform for resource and knowledge sharing for people from different parts of the world….

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BSNL IPTV to be launched in 3 Months

After MTNL’s IPTV launch, BSNL is planning to launch IPTV services in the country starting from Pune within the next 3 months. I don’t understand the logic behind IPTV deployment in India where broadband penetration is pathetic and pay additional monthly fees of Rs500 for IPTV service the broadband fees…

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BeingGirl – P&Gs challenge to Sunsilk Gang of Girls

Global FMCG giants, Proctor & Gamble [P&G] and Unilever are always at war – not just in products but also on the web. Hindustan Lever Ltd, the Unilever subsidiary in India early this year launched SunSilkGangOfGirls.Com, a social networking space for the Indian girl. SunsilkGangOfGirls is a superhit space and…

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Nokia N91 with 8GB and N97 with 20 GB Hard Drive ?

Mobile India had an exclusive coverage on Nokia N Series Music edition in October. We had reported about the 8GB internal HDD on N91. These devices Rock!!! The Nokia NSeries is the convergnce of phone with your music player. Nokia is a big pusher of Symbian phones and Symbian last…

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Google Ads for Mobile go live in India

We all know that Google and Yahoo! have been aggressively spending on research to get a pie of the worlds largest mobile markets – India and China. Finally, Google has announced that it is testing Mobile Ads in India. So the next time when you use your mobile to search…

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Airtel Launches SongCatcher in India

Bharti Airtel Ltd, has launched instant SongCatcher for Airtel customers. What is SongCatcher ? SongCatcher lets you download a song from Airtel if it is available in their database. Currently Airtel has 25,000 songs in their database. How SongCatcher works ? Say, you are listening to a song being played…

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