Posted on August 4th, 2010 by dhirender
In an attempt to help consumers make more informed choices for picking stocks, BloombergUTV.com has rebranded and relaunched itself as UTVmoney.com. Building on the Wisdom of the Crowds, the new website hopes to serve as a credibility manager for ‘celebrity tippers’ who make predictions on several TV channels. It also allows users to offer regular tips and build their individual reputations. Read more »
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Posted on August 4th, 2010 by dhirender
Andriod based phones have been sneaking up on the iPhone over the last six months, and it’s adoption by new smartphone subscribers have has finally passed phones with the Apple iOS to grab 27% of the market share of news as opposed to the iOS’s share of 23%. RIM is still up there at the top with 33%. However, among the current subscribers thinking of switching mobile phones, a staggering 90 percent of iPhone owners say they will opt for the iPhone (talk about loyalty in the face of the mess that Apple is currently in), while 21 percent of Android owners and 29 percent of BlackBerry users would consider switching to the iPhone. Read more »
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Posted on July 27th, 2010 by dhirender
The total wireless subscriber base increased by 17.98 million in June 2010 to reach a total of 635.51 Million, even as the wireline subscriber base declined 0.18 million to reach 36.18 million in the same timeframe. Read more »
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Posted on July 26th, 2010 by dhirender
As telecom firms begin to deploy Broadband Wireless Acess (BWA) based solutions, the number of high-speed Internet users is expected to touch 275 million up from nine million by 2015 according to a study by Assocham and Frost & Sullivan. Hopefully, the definition of “high speed” should change as well. Read more »
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Posted on July 8th, 2010 by dhirender
With a planned investment of Rs. 70 crores for rolling out services in Punjab and Chandigarh, BSNL has already launched services in Punjab, and are now in the process of rolling out the services in Chandigarh within the next two months. Read more »
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Posted on July 7th, 2010 by dhirender
Twitter seems to have finally gotten serious about making some money from the humungous members it seems to go on adding. First advertising, and now e-commerce (the deals variety that seem to be the rage these days – with Amazon buying Woot, Snapdeal buying Grabbon, others raising funding, etc.)
Through it’s company managed @earlybird account, Twitter plans to partner with advertisers to tweet and retweet offers that they would like to promote. Read more »
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