Nokia to launch Mixed Reality application’Nokia Point & Find’ in India in 2011

Nokia is planning to launch a new  application  ” Nokia Point & Find” in India by 2011. It is one of the “Mixed Reality” applications being developed at Tampere, Finland. Mixed Reality means the merger of real and virtual worlds to produce new environments and visualisations where physical and digital objects co-exist and interact in real time.  In short it is about combining digital information with physical location. This will enable the development of the next generation...

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Indian GSM subscriber base reaches 355.2 million, addition of over 10 million subscribers in October

The Indian GSM subscriber base has now increased to 355.2 million, with an addition of over 10 million subscribers in the month of October. The subscriber addition data for the month of October is: Vodafone Essar – 2.98 million Bharti Airtel -  2.7 million Aircel -  2 million Idea Cellular – 1.9 million BSNL and MTNL ( together) – 0.6 million However, this data released by the Cellular Operators Association of India does not include the additions made by Tata Teleservices and Reliance Communications. Source: Economic Ti...

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Airtel launches Twitter on SMS

Twitter will be available in India on SMS only on the Airtel network. There is exclusivity for the same for 4 weeks, in which only Airtel consumers will be able to use the service on SMS across the nation. This period of exclusivity is something that we want to take advantage of and make sure that Brand Airtel can own the property Twitter in consumer mind space. For details on how to use Twitter on Airtel visit this page on Airtel site. How to use Twitter ? How does one register for Twitter? New...

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Mobile Flash Will Make Smartphones Smarter

Adobe Systems, the developer of software for PCs and mobile phones that allows devices to create, display and interact with rich-media content, has revealed that development of its Flash Player software for mobile phones is well underway, in partnership with a growing number of hardware and software firms, including most of the leading handset manufacturers. Read through the press releases I’ve linked to here and you’ll see that beta versions of Flash Player 10.1 are on track for release by the...

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Meet the Facebook Mobile Team in India on 9th October in Delhi -MOMO Delhi

Mobile Monday, Delhi chapter is glad to invite all of you to meetup with Facebook Mobile Team who will be visiting India soon. Detail of meetup is listed below . You Are Cordially Invited To meet up with Facebook Mobile Team When? Friday 09 October 2009 Venue: Impetus Infotech Pvt Ltd, D-40, Sector-59, Noida. Phone: +91-120-4363300 Register yourself at http://momodelhifbmeetup.eventbrite.com/ Schedule 5:00-05:30 PM : Introduction 05:30PM-06:00PM:Opening Address By Impetus 6:00PM-6:30: Talk By Henry ,Head of Facebook Mobile &A Session. Format:...

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Cairo Hosts the 4th Annual North Africa Com Conference and Exhibition

Informa Telecoms & Media, the leading provider of business intelligence and strategic marketing solutions to global telecoms and media markets, announces today that it is hosting the 4th annual North Africa Com conference and exhibition on the 27th and 28th of October,  2009, at the JW Marriott hotel in Cairo, Egypt. Under the theme of “Strengthening Operators’ Positions in North Africa with New Technologies & Services”, the region’s largest telecommunications event is expecting to...

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Vodafone Qatar’s subscriber base reaches 100,000 in 2 months

Over 100,000 customers have joined Vodafone Qatar since the company had launched its services two months ago, the firm has said. Half of this number had opened a Freedom account, Vodafone’s Postpay-equivalent product, while the remaining half had joined Red, Vodafone’s new Prepay tariff, Vodafone has said...

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Google releases Android 1.6 SDK

Google announced the Android 1.6 software development kit is now available for developer download–based on the donut branch from the Android Open Source Project, the update introduces a series of new features and technologies including support for CDMA and additional screen sizes. Among the highlights of Android 1.6: Gesture APIs, a text-to-speech engine and integration with Quick Search Box, enabling users to search across multiple sources–including browser bookmarks and history, contacts, and the web–directly from the device homescreen. An updated...

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Opera Software debuts Mini 5 mobile browser beta

Opera Software released a beta version of its new Mini 5 mobile web browser, promising new features and a more intuitive user experience. According to Opera, Mini 5 boasts an advanced look and feel, adding tabbed browsing–enabling users to browse several mobile sites simultaneously–as well as touchscreen and keypad browsing, password manager and speed dial, which offers pre-selected websites once the browser is loaded. A special version of Mini 5 optimized for the BlackBerry platform includes opening links and copy-and-paste functions. More than...

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China Mobile has become the world’s first mobile operator to pass the 500 million subscriber mark.

The Chinese carrier yesterday said it had added 5.26 million new customers in August to take its total to 502.94 million. The world’s largest operator by customer numbers, it continues to dominate growth in the mainland market, capturing 65% of all new mobile subscribers for the month. However, growth is sluggish for its TD-SCDMA network, which attracted just 239,000 new customers. It now has 1.33 million customers on the network. China Mobile’s most aggressive competitor is newcomer China Telecom,...

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Mobile VAS not attractively priced in Middle East & Africa

Mobile VAS not attractively priced in Middle East & Africa Top 10 Mobile Applications of 2009 Middle East’s top job site Bayt.com launches mobile version Samsung announces mobile app store. India launch 14th September ? Motorola’s Android phone focuses on social networks Reliance Mobile launches BIGMaps,focuses on driving VAS leadership through innovative offerings. India’s GSM user base grows by 9.3 mn in August reaches 335.4 million as of August-end Telecom operators in the Middle East and Africa find mobile value-added services...

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‘Mobisodes-On-Demand’ to light-up 3G mobiles

MoVi, Mumbai-based made-for-mobile content fountainhead, has teamed up with Dallas-based telecom convergent solutions provider, Corpus, to launch a bouquet of video-on-demand unicast for the broadband 3G mobile user. MoVi plans to launch its Mobisodic journey initially across 7 leading Asian Mobile markets along with Corpus’s expertise in VAS and support solutions while the joint offering will be scaled up globally. “The proposed MoVi-Corpus joint portfolio for the 3G media platform is a premium mix of video-on-demand and value added services,...

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Upcoming Event: MobileTV Middle East, Dubai 15th-16th Nov, 2009

Mobile TV Middle East 15 – 16 November 2009, Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Dubai, UAE http://me.mobiletvseries.com/Mobile TV Middle East will bring together key thought-leaders from across the sector to demonstrate how to capitalise on this opportunity and how to take Mobile TV forward into 2010.Now in its third year, and co-located with the IPTV World Forum Middle East & Africa event, Mobile TV Middle East 2009 will focus on the specific regional challenges and opportunities being faced by Companies working within this fast-paced market. The 2009...

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Nimbuzz launches Android application

Nimbuzz has announced the launch of an Android application for it’s mobile social messaging service. The free app for Android comes after the updated iPhone 3.0 release in mid-July. What does Nimbuzz do?It’s a mobile messaging hub, combining a lot of different services in one application. Nimbuzz mainly focuses on Instant Messaging, geo-presence, and VoIP. Through the Nimbuzz “buddy list”, you can see if your friends are available to talk, what service they are available over, and where they are....

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The new Nokia N900: Computer-grade performance in a handset

The Nokia N900 runs on the Linux-based Maemo software that Nokia has been working on for several years, and marks the third operating system that the company has said it will support—just in the past week. It was only on Monday that Nokia announced the 10-inch “Booklet 3G,” a netbook running Microsoft Windows. The company also says it also remains committed to the Symbian OS for its smartphones, although analysts are starting to wonder if Maemo could eventually replace it.In the N900 press release,...

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Nokia Money, a new mobile financial service enables financial management and payments from a mobile phone

Nokia today introduced Nokia Money, a new mobile financial service offering consumers with mobile device access to basic financial services. For many consumers, this will be the first time they have had any access to such financial services.Nokia Money has been designed to be as simple and convenient as making a voice call or sending an SMS. It will enable consumers to send money to another person just by using the person’s mobile phone number, as well as to pay merchants for goods and services, pay their utility bills, or recharge their prepaid...

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Friends or Acquaintances? Ask Your Cell Phone

Your telephone may know more about your private life than you do, according to a new study of mobile phone calls. The insight opens the door to mining massive data sets from mobile phone call logs, which should allow researchers to test theories for how relationship networks make or break businesses, shape the flow of information, and even affect the course of epidemics. A nagging problem for social scientists is the limitation of self-reported survey data. Not only are people expensive to poll, but they are also notoriously error-prone when...

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FORUM NOKIA – USID Design Challenge2009

FORUM NOKIA – USID Design Challenge2009 Enrich the lives of the differently-abled, Get rich! Do you think you can create a difference to the world with your ideas? Then how about enabling 650 million disabled people?* Forum Nokia USID Design Challenge 2009 gives you an opportunity to design an aid or a support system using the information and communication technologies (e.g. Mobile Applications, Devices, Services etc.) for the people with disabilities. Empower and Make life easier for the 10% of the world’s population – with a solution/...

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India’s GSM subscriber base reaches 315.7 million in June

As per data released by Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI), India’s GSM subscriber increased to 315.7 million in June end. The GSM based operators added about 9 million users in June, up from 8.3 million in May. However, this data does not include user figures for Reliance Telecom. Bharti Airtel became the first operator to cross the 100-million subscriber mark, ending the month with 102.3 million users. They acquired 2.8 million subscriber base in June. Source: C...

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What Google thinks about the future of mobile ?

Google’s Andy Rubin thinks this of the future of mobile: * Smart alerts: Your phone will be smart about your situation and alert you when something needs your attention. * Augmented reality: Your phone uses its arsenal of sensors to understand your situation and provide you information that might be useful. * Crowd sourcing goes mainstream: Your phone is your omnipresent microphone to the world, a way to publish pictures, emails, texts, Twitters, and blog entries. * Sensors everywhere: Your phone knows a lot about the world around you. *...

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Mobile broadband growing at 126% in Saudi Arabia

Mobile broadband uptake in Saudi Arabia is currently growing at a rate of 126 percent, figures released by Etihad Etisalat (Mobily). After 24 months of operations, Mobily said it had 600,000 mobile broadband subscribers presenting 126 percent uptake on 2008 year-end results of 266,000 subscribers and 445 percent growth when compared to the second quarter of 2008. For May alone, daily mobile data consumption reached 37 terabyte, and over one petabyte of traffic exchanged over the month, doubling consumption as compared to the end of 2008. Mobily’s...

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so, who’s actually watching videos on his mobile?

Nielsen Wire published the other week a survey’s conclusion, according to which over 10 million Americans consume video content on their mobiles. That’s a 14% rise compared to Q2 2008. What’s the common profile of these mobile video consumers? Here are some facts about them, taken from Nielsen Wires website:- 65% of mobile video viewers are under the age of 35 - compared to 35% for total mobile subscribers - 32% of mobile video viewers are between 25-34 years old - 18% of mobile video viewers are teens - an avid and engaged mobile video segment -...

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Mobile Applications for Smartphones like BlackBerry and iPhone will drive industry growth

Mobile Applications, Smartphones will drive industry growth; AppStore “miles ahead” of its rivals Despite the economic downturn, it is expected that the latest mobile applications for smartphones like BlackBerry and iPhone will drive industry growth in the coming years, providing alternate sources of revenue for operators.A new report by Juniper Research forecasts that smartphones will account for 23% of all new handsets sold by 2013 (Cellular News). Another report by Informa forecasts 35 percent growth in sold smartphones in 2009 and according...

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Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) of UAE bans YouTube content

The content on the popular video sharing website came under the scanner when a cartoon hurting religious and nationalistic sentiments uploaded on the site resulted in heated public debates and discussion across the country. The cartoon in question shows two young Muslim characters who are constantly coerced by elders to become suicide bombers. It has Hebrew and English subtitles.The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) justified the part ban imposed on YouTube content in an official statement released yesterday.Earlier in February, the...

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Bango’s report : U.S. now accounts for 29% of mobile web browsing

The U.S. now leads the world in mobile web browsing, accounting for 29 percent of global traffic, according to new data issued by mobile web solutions provider Bango. In all, Bango’s February 2009 data identifies mobile web users spanning 208 different countries and 1,811 different handsets. While Bango cites the publicity surrounding Apple’s iPhone as a catalyst behind mobile web uptake in markets like the U.S. and the U.K., the firm credits the absence of fixed-line broadband and PCs for growth in regions such as India, South Africa, Indonesia...

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Mobile internet users on the rise in the Middle East

A rising number of Middle East business people are using mobile devices to access the internet, while fewer are using computers, according to a new survey released recently. The survey, presented to the Digital Marketing Conference in Dubai by the Dubai-based research company Real Opinions, said computers were still by far the main way to connect to the internet.However, the percentage who regularly logged in to the web with their mobiles increased from 33.5% in February 2007 to 40% last month. The number of people using desktops to log in decreased...

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Etisalat’s broadband subscriber’s reach 500,000

UAE-based telecom provider Etisalat has announced that it now has over 500,000 residential broadband subscribers in the country, with Internet penetration at about 60%.According to the company’s Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Nasser bin Obood, the UAE’s broadband connectivity is higher than Europe, where the average is 5...

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Reliance Communications implements Flytxt’s new mobile marketing platform

Reliance Communications Ltd., India’s leading telecoms player, has announced the implementation of an integrated carrier class mobile marketing software platform called Neon on its network.Neon is a product from Flytxt, a mobile advertising and marketing technology provider with experience in various global markets. It features a mobile CRM database and all the mobile applications required to conduct large scale mobile customer engagement programs.With the implementation of the Neon system, Reliance...

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Total mobile phone users reach 362.3 million in January in India

Indian telecom companies added a record 15 million customers in January, indicating that the world’s fastest growing telecom market remains untouched by the economic slowdown.This is a global record for any telecom market. The number of phone connections in the country — mobile and landline — has crossed 400 million as of January-end, telecom regulator Trai said on Friday. Mobile phone users now account for close to 91% of the country’s telephone base with 362.3 million connections, the regulator said. The robust growth has also helped push the...

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Mobile VAS to rake in Rs 18,000 cr by 2012 in India

Mobile value-added services hold a tremendous revenue-generating potential in India which could rake in around Rs 18,000 crore by 2012,These services include video telephony, broadband and mobile television, among others.In India, VAS (value-added services) is picking up. It has the potential to generate huge revenues,It will contribute about Rs 6,000 crore to total revenue from telecom operations by end of this year (FY 09). This is likely to go up to Rs 18,000 crore by 2012,” he said.Telecom operators in India currently provide 2G and 2.5 G services...

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CDMA Phones Secret Codes

Nokia: 5185/6185 programming: *3001#12345# Software version: *#837# or *#VER# or *#9999# Serial / ESN: *#92772689# or *#WARRANTY# Phone reset: *#75681# or *#75682# Nokia 6185-5170 1. Press *#639# 2. Enter OTKSL and press OK 3. Enter the MIN and select OK 4. Enter the SID and select OK 5. Programming is complete Nokia 3585 1. Enter ## followed by the OTKSL 2. Number (MDN) is highlighted. Press the upper left-hand soft key to select 3. Mobile Number will display. Enter the 10 digit MIN 4. Press OK 5. IMSI will appear. Press and hold the Clear key...

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