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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“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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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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Mobile payment company, Obopay, has just announced the closing of its $20 million fourth round of venture funding. Essar Communications Holdings Limited, the telecom subsidiary of Essar Global Limited, led the round and current investors, including Alliance Bernstein, ONSET Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Richmond Management, Citi, Societe Generale, Qualcomm, and Promethean India participated.
“This round of investment […]
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Expecting to make a windfall from the country’s cellphone addiction, Twitter, the service that launched the micro-blogging movement, has launched an edition in Japanese - which in a first for Twitter will also carry advertisements.
Despite the site’s popularity in the United States, an estimated one-quarter of the people who accessed Twitter in February originated from […]
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“Today, only about 7% of mobile subscribers (cell and data) watch video on their phones,” says Forrester Research’s Charles Golvin. But the industry is poised for major growth: Mobile video revenues at domestic carriers jumped to $308 million in the last three months of 2007 from $112 million in the same period a year earlier, […]
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Providing a range of online clinical research training programs comes cliniminds.com - the online avtaar of the company with the same name which was set up in 2004 to offer training solutions in the field of clinical research, pharmaceuticals and healthcare. Online programs include - Advanced Post Graduate Program in Clinical Research; Certificate Program in […]
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Jaxtr, a Silicon Valley startup that lets users bypass a carrier’s international phone charges via the Web, claims that is now offering free mobile phone text messages between 38 countries.
Jaxtr members can use a simple Web form to send a text message to a mobile phone in any of the supported countries, which include the […]
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Google’s social networking site Orkut has gone mobile, with a mobile version of the site at http://m.orkut.com.
The homepage (post-login) has updates on scraps, upcoming birthdays, friend requests and updates from friends…one can reply to scraps. Interestingly, the functionality is comparatively limited on the mobile, perhaps for making it less complicated - a user cannot edit […]
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The mobile banking segment in the country is set to receive a big boost following the decision of State Bank of India (SBI) to roll-out its mobile banking service within a month. Post this, SBI will join a handful of banking majors including Standard Chartered Bank, Barclays, Union Bank and Yes Bank, who are already […]
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