A commendable initiative by handset manufacturers – the Indian Cellular Association (ICA, represents handset manufacturers) has sought Rs 5,000 crore from the Universal Services Obligation (USO) fund to give free cellular phone and a connection to families under the below poverty line. Basically, telecom operators pay 5% of their revenue to USOF fund for DoT [...]
Jan 31st – and we are two years old ! Woof!! I started NextBigWhat.com as an attempt to be of some help to tech startups..and it’s amazing that what started as a fun activity is now going full steam. Some stats of general interest (as of writing this post): 1,858 Posts 11,976 Comments ~2,000 registered [...]
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Few days back, Indian govt. announced $10 laptop, but realized the typo and immediately hiked the price to $100. The story is back again! Govt., in partnership with IIT M and IISC is again claiming to have developed a $10 laptop which will be available in 6 months. “The computer will be a small equipment [...]
Nokia and HCL have announced a joint venture to to sell value added services (VAS) and entertainment content for mobile devices directly to consumers (for Nokia OVI launch). Nokia OVI has been delayed by almost a year and while Nokia has signed some content deals, distribution is going to be a big challenge – so [...]
DailyDump helps you manage your household waste and convert it to useful high-quality compost. Basically, any waste can be converted to compost which, in turn keeps us green (has other advantages as well). For environment friendly, DailyDump offers several products/composters (Gamla/Khambha etc) and one can also buy their service plans. Bangalore based startup is also [...]
Glam Media, a vertical content network has acquired AdaptiveAds, Mumbai based startup that serves display ad targeting and optimization to brand advertisers. AdaptiveAds brings audience targeting, ad optimization and brand engagement tracking to Glam Media’s brand ad platform. AdaptiveAds also has a self-service ad platform that enables Advertisers to target ads based on different parameters [...]
My Presentation on Mobile VAS in India at MoMo Bangalore: VAS PPT View more presentations or upload your own. (tags: vas) The presentation was meant to throw up some perspective on numbers/strategy – so take a look and do share your perspective. We had an interesting debate whether voice is king, whether bundling works or [...]
Jaxtr launched it’s VoIP service in India, around 7 months back and the service has now been shutdown due to illegal usage. This is what Jaxtr mail reads as: —- We have been informed that the Indian Department of Telecommunication has temporarily disabled all our local jaxtr numbers in India. Any call placed using one [...]
Norwest Venture Parnters has announced an investment of $4.2 million in Appnomic, Bangalore based Infrastructure Management services startup. Appnomic’s patent-pending application management services platform provides mid to large size corporations with end-to-end analysis of the application load, response and infrastructure behavior in production and pre-production environments. The market opportunity for IMS in India is predicted [...]
