Posted on May 3rd, 2008 by dhirender
Adding the 10.16 million wireless (GSM, CDMA, WLL) subscribers in March, India overtook USA to come in at second place after China. The total number of wireless subscribers now stands at 261.09 million.
A total of 10.40 million telephone connections (wireline and wireless) have been added during March 2008 as compared to 8.49 million connections added […]
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Posted on May 3rd, 2008 by dhirender
SMS CG <name of products> to 53030, and you could get the comparative price on CafeGadgets.in - the trick however is that CafeGadgets only sells … not unsurprisingly, gadgets.
So for instance, if you are at a shop wondering if you are paying too much for the Nokia E51, all you need to do, is sms […]
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Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by dhirender
“Well over 3.5 billion mobile phones are in use around the world and organizations are harnessing this technology to help overcome humanitarian challenges,” according to Timothy E. Wirth, President of the United Nations Foundation.
The recent report, Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO Mobile Use, examines emerging trends in “mobile activism” by looking at […]
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Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by dhirender
Describing itself as the most revolutionary and most efficient dating service in the world, BuyUCoffee.com is an online dating community where users can actually get paid for going out on dates with other users. I wonder what this implies for the person who gets paid.
The site is for members only with a gold membership making […]
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Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by dhirender
Launching May 1, a multimedia guide linked to global positioning satellites which map the path of the erstwhile Berlin Wall is expected to make it easier for historians and tourists to visit the last remains of the Wall. The guide includes infomation and anectodes about historically significant spots along the route. The guide would be […]
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Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by dhirender
More than 800 million mobile phones were sold in developing countries in the past three years (GSM Association 2006) - in South Africa and Botswana for instance, one-third of people who do not have a bank account own a mobile phone or have access to one.
This report presents the first public findings on how low-income […]
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Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by dhirender
The website for the UTV business channel has finally launched at UTVi.com, albeit in beta.
The site has news, market updates, industry-wise updates, opinions, UTVi School, along with a community. There is also a section called Guru Blogs, which currently however has only two bloggers - I guess we can expect this to increase.
Surprisingly, there is […]
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Posted on May 1st, 2008 by dhirender
Describing itself as a “product discovery and research tool powered by online reviews” with the objective of helping you make fast and authoritative product buying decisions, ReviewGist gathers review information for different products from various online review sites, and then tries to understand the specific opinions expressed by the reviewer about the product in question […]
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Posted on May 1st, 2008 by dhirender
Six hands wearing fingerless gloves and typing away at three iPhone touchscreens - that’s what you see in this YouTube video, which has been viewed over 2.8 million times.
The hands represent the iBand, a trio from Vienna, who fascinated by the iPhones possibilities decided to experiment with the accompanying software, and are living proof that […]
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