Last Saturday (April 25, 2010) MobileMonday had organized an interesting panel discussion – “3G – Are we ready?”. The panelists were, N. Chandrasekhar, GM (Sales & Marketing), BSNL Karnataka Manjula Sridhar, Head, Market Analysis Group in Huawei Technologies Sunil Rao, Head of Forum Nokia India Sunil M, Mango Technologies S.R. Raja (Moderator), GM (Strategy), Sasken […]
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Top mobile sites in India for Jan 2010: Opera
Opera has released the mobile Internet usage for Jan 2010 report recently. Of the 10 countries covered by them, India too has been covered. Clearly shows mobile internet in India is on the rise. Snapshot: India Page-view growth since January 2009: 225.9% Unique-user growth since January 2009: 236.3% Page views per user: 344 Data transferred […]
Majority will access the web from mobile by 2013
Gartner spells out various ways in its “Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users, 2010 and Beyond.” The boldest prediction is that “by 2013, mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common web access device worldwide.” Gartner believes that the number of smartphones or phones with web access will surpass 1.82 billion by ’13, […]
Mobile Internet in India: How big is it really?
As of September 2009 India had 471 million mobile users. The December 2009 report from IAMAI on Mobile Internet in India says, Mobile is emerging as the potential point of access for low PC and high mobile penetrated Indian market, although the present usage is restricted to 4% of total Active Internet user base. 2 […]
Mobile advertisers must first invest in mobi sites
These days I see some nice ads on mobile sites. When you click on them you don’t see the mobile version of the advertiser’s site but it is the normal web site. Fail. On a small screen or even on a Blackberry how can you consume a graphic rich site? I believe these advertisers are […]