The launch of iPhone 5 & iOS 6 has attracted a lot of negative publicity to the much used maps utility. Many felt Apple tried to fix something that was not broken. Google Maps can be installed on iOS6 but it doesn’t get shipped by default as before. Google is working on an iOS 6 […]
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Oneindia releases mobile app for Samsung Bada & iPhone
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.com covers (Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu). The app development on Samsung platform was seamless. We did not have any hurdles working with the […]
Finally an Apple with Indian flavors, yummy!
Apple released a new version of their OS for iPads, iOS 4.2.1, on November 22, 2010. I had heard from others iOS 4.2.1 was going to support few Indian languages. We do see a reasonable amount of traffic coming from Apple devices (iPad, iPhone) to Oneindia. Many of our users were unhappy about not being […]
Column: Should I buy an Android phone or iPhone?
My tenth column in “Vijaya Next” (Kannada) was about maintaining the new mobile handsets that are getting popular – iPhone and Android-based phones. Main points were, India has about 700 million mobile users PC internet penetration is low, about 60 million of them Mobile will introduce internet to most users in India (thru mobile internet) […]
Is the naming industry in India non-existent?
We take a lot of interest in naming our children – we buy all sorts of books, browse baby name sites, ask a zillion people for suggestions and last but not the least numerologists are taking over the baby naming job. But when it comes to naming companies or products, is the Indian corporate world […]