Mobile subscriber base in the country is growing at such a fast pace that operators are breaking the record for net additions almost every second month. In July, mobile operators, both GSM (global system for mobile communications) and CDMA (code division multiple access) together, added 9.22 million subscribers, which is the highest ever additions in [...]

-Contributed by Ankit After a long wait, the government finally announced the guidelines for the 3G spectrums. As expected, government owned MTNL and BSNL were granted licenses, giving them a head start of several months over their competitors. Government also had a surprise announcement for CDMA operators, who would also be granted 3G licenses along [...]

-contributed by Ankit Linux for many years has been trying to eat into the market share of Microsoft windows, the undisputed number one PC operating system. But still, it captures only 1% market share. There are many reasons why, still more than 90% people prefer windows over linux. The most important being the learnability of [...]

The all-in-one TouchSmart computer lets your fingers pick up where the mouse leaves off A couple of decades ago, all the big personal computer makers except Apple (AAPL) ceded the development of software to Microsoft (MSFT). The inevitable result was that PCs became commodities, running identical programs on nearly identical hardware. Manufacturers are now fighting [...]

Individuals today have an array of options to transact with their banks. Physical branch, ATM and the Internet are some of the common routes used. Now, mobile banking will make its presence felt across the country. On the Move BankingThe Reserve Bank of India has issued guidelines for mobile banking and banks that meet the [...]

Technology Enables Transfer of Data up to 35 times faster than regular Modem What are 3G phones?Third generation mobile technology or 3G technology is just one more stage in the transformation of the mobile phone from a simple communication device to a multi-function device. It was launched for the first time in Japan in 2001. [...]

Your independent source for news, information, commentary, and discussion of One Laptop Per Child’s “$100 laptop” computer, the OLPC Children’s Machine XO, developed by MIT Media Lab co-founder Nicholas Negroponte. Retail Sales of CDMA-connected XO Laptops in India! Tucked away in Deepshikha Monga’s short article, “OLPC looks to World Bank for India funding” is a [...]

-Contributed by Ankit With 3G Iphone hogging all the limelight in recent past, one big news which many might have neglected was the acquisition of Symbian by Nokia. Nokia will now create a foundation which will give away Symbian’s softwares for free. Nokia by taking this step has made it clear that they are not [...]

Research firm Gartner said it cut its forecast for cellphone market growth in 2008 to 10-11 percent as a global economic slowdown started to crimp demand in the second quarter. At end-May Gartner forecasted that 10-15 percent more phones would be sold this year. “In the last month however, the economic environment started to negatively [...]

Claiming that existing commercial terms are heavily in favor of the mobile operator, mobile value-added service (VAS) providers have sought the telecom regulator’s intervention in determining the revenue sharing formula with cellular operators. VAS accounts for nearly 25 percent of mobile operator’s revenues. This revenue is expected to go higher as third generation mobile services [...]