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India

Indian start-up Optinno brings SMSBlocker to fight mobile spam

July 1, 2010

India is the fastest growing mobile market in the world and it continues to reign when it comes to number of mobile handsets sold annually in the recent years. But as with all good things, there’s much baggage involved in the form of mobile spam. Even the ‘National Do not call’ initiative didn’t work too [...]

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HTC HD Mini releases in India; Full specs and price

May 13, 2010

After releasing the brew-based Smart and HTC Legend (with Android 2.1), HTC released the HD Mini for the Indian ‘junta’. HTC HD Mini is, as the name suggests, a subset of the big brother HD2 which was launched by Tata DoCoMo back in Dec. 2009. Full Specifications: Sense UI OS: Windows Mobile 6.5.3 Display: 3.2 [...]

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New Bollywood movie ‘Housefull’ being monitored 24/7 to prevent illegal downloads

April 28, 2010

[India] Bollywood movie ‘Housefull’ is releasing worldwide this friday and the director, Sajid Khan wants to make sure you watch it in theatres only. The producer-director team has set up an anti-piracy software called ‘Republique’ to prevent any illegal downloads of the film. Sajid said, If anyone tries downloading it, not only will the files [...]

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India: one of top 3 countries that annoys Google

April 21, 2010

Since years, Google has been bearing privacy related blows from every nook and corner of the world. This time we talk about ‘blows’ that are data requests and removal requests. Till today Google has kept everything under wraps but now it has decided to expose those countries which continually send them such requests. Google released [...]

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Samsung Corby TV & Samsung Metro TV launched in India

April 16, 2010

Samsung brings in two new mobile phones, Samsung Corby TV and Samsung Metro TV to Indian markets following the huge response to the original Corby series and also the Corby CDMA series mobile phone released a few months ago. Samsung Corby TV and Metro TV has mobile TV application called MimobiTV that enables access to [...]

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Free SMS service 160by2 extends character limit from 80 to 145

April 16, 2010

In a rare case that you don’t know, 160by2 is a hugely popular web service that lets you send free SMS within India, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Malaysia and Philippines. As the name justifies, until now there was a character limit of 80 to every SMS being sent through the service. The rest of [...]

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India already started plans for 4G

April 15, 2010

While the Indian government has managed to rake in 350 billion Rupees ($8 Billion) from the 3G sell-off, the Communications Minister, A. Raja is keen to start early preparations for 4G spectrum. The auction for the 4G spectrum will start immediately after the operators spread out their 3G networks this year. Mr. A. Raja said, [...]

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Chip India brings contest for Opera; Wii’s and mobiles to be won

April 15, 2010

Chip Magazine India division has come up with a contest to find out the biggest fan of Opera and the winners are to get Nintendo Wii and Micromax mobile. To enter the contest, all you need to do is to give answers just 5 question listed here. Be quick though because, if you are among [...]

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Triple SIM Olive Wiz mobile phones for Rs. 6000. Will you buy one?

April 13, 2010

A lesser known mobile manufacturing company in India called Olive Telecom has slipped out a pocket friendly phone called Olive Wiz with triple SIM slots and some decent social networking features. Out of 3 SIM slots, 2 are for GSM cards and 1 for CDMA. Olive Wiz has support for social networking apps that comes [...]

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Sony Ericsson Xerpia X10 and Vivaz hits India

March 26, 2010

Sony Ericsson just launched a series of five high-end mobile phones including the most anticipated Xerpia X10 and Vivaz in India. These phones belong to the high end category with prices starting at Rs. 25,695, reaching to the maximum of Rs. 35,795. The models launched were – Xperia X10 Xperia X10 mini Xperia X10 Mini [...]

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