Mobile ventures are the hottest topic in India today, it might get hotter after the acquisition of Instagram by Facebook for $1b. While the mobile internet usage (WAP & App) has been growing well in India the monetization has been a challenge on the mobile. The article “Why Mobile Ads in Emerging Markets are the […]
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4G auction by end of 2012, language users shouldn’t be at a disadvantage: Minister Sachin Pilot
I recently attended the conference on “Mobile Web Initiative in India – Indic in Digital Universe” conducted by IAMAI and W3C India. I rarely come across events which have a focus on Indian languages on the internet, I was excited to see such a niche topic – Indian languages on mobile web! An intro about […]
Mobile web use will overtake desktop by 2015, India has 15% of world’s mobile users
The recent global mobile trends show the bullish growth of mobile across the world. Mobile usage has been growing rampantly in every country. But what is the usage trend across the world of mobile users?
Will Tablet sales in India push the sales of Murse, men purse?
I will get to the actual topic of Murse (read: man-purse) a bit later. Let us go over the background of mobile, tablet usage in India. The reducing cost of smartphones, tablets has been helping the internet trickle down to the masses, but we all wait to see the hockey stick effect in internet penetration […]
Airtel promotes a parked domain for GPRS service
Soon after I changed my mobile handset yesterday I got the following SMS from my mobile provider Airtel, Your handset does not support gprs settings, please add airtelgprs.com as Access Name and leave the username and password blank in the browser settings menu. For further help, call 12118 Surprising nobody in Airtel has realized they […]