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. I believe this is a very good and welcome step from Blackberry which has a good user base in India. It would be necessary […]
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Mobile Internet in India: 150 million users
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, India has about 150 million mobile web users as of now (assuming June 2011) 150 million mobile internet base includes […]
Who installs apps on your mobile? Many say their kids
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 of it!) is yet to […]
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 […]
Bandwidth Usage: Fair usage policy
Most ‘unlimited’ broadband plans today in India have incorporated ‘fair usage limit’. Even though I have an unlimited data transfer on my Airtel broadband, the speed reduces to 256K the moment the usage crosses 10 GB. With a teenager at home hitting the 10 GB is not at all difficult, month on month! I received […]