Archive for the ‘mobile’ Category

Will 3G rescue mobile telcos in India?

Monday, August 1st, 2011

Mobile companies in India are scratching their heads to figure out how to increase their ARPUs [average revenue per user].  The potential of increase revenues in urban India is saturating, which is the worrying point for all telcos.

Blackberry finally realizes the opportunity it missed, starts support for Hindi

Sunday, July 10th, 2011

Today I got an alert on my Blackberry for updating the Blackberry Messenger. The Release Notes of the latest version (5.0.3.22) of its messenger mentions the introduction of Hindi language support.

Mobile Internet in India: 150 million users

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

Exactly a month ago I had posted India has 40 million mobile internet users. According to Google India as of June the mobile internet users is far larger. Few key points from the article are,

Who installs apps on your mobile? Many say their kids

Saturday, May 7th, 2011

Mobile apps are gaining popularity day by day even in India (while we still have a long way to go compared to the US). Who usually installs apps on your mobile? I think most of us in India use mobiles for texting, voice, the older generation (I am not part ...

Oneindia releases mobile app for Samsung Bada & iPhone

Friday, May 6th, 2011

Oneindia.in released its mobile apps for Samsung Bada & iPhone handsets. While Samsung Bada (Wave series of handsets) don't support Indian languages (yet), our iPhone app supports the 5 Indian languages Oneindia.in covers (Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu).