Penguin India Partners with Mobifusion to Make Books Available on Mobile Platform

I think this is one of important event for Indian mobile consumer. Books delivered to mobile are already a big hit in Japan and was $82 million business a year ago, India promises a great prospect! Content will play a big role here. Traditional books in e-format will not be preferred stuff to read on small mobile screen( and that's where I doubt how much Penguin will be successful here), rather a small sized content relevant to Indian context will make a big difference. Good development to keep watch on!

India wireless subscriber's addition touches new peak of 8.77 million per month!

8.77 million wireless subscribers were added in January 2008, as compared to 8.17 million added in month of December 2007, highest ever addition in a month till date! Total wireless subscriber base stood at 242.4 million at end of January 2008. On the other hand wire line subscriber base has decreased to 39.22 million as against 39.25 million in December 2007. Broadband (>=256Kbps download) subscriber base has reached to 3.24 million by January 2008 end as compared to 3.13 million at the end of December 2007.

Our cell phones, ourselves

Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase investigates the ways we interact with technology -- a quest that has led him from the villages of Uganda to the insides of our pockets

Follow this link to watch the great video!

zzzPhone... A Beginning of New Era in Cellphone Industry?

Ever wanted to customize your phone the way you could do it with PC either on Dell or with your local computer retailer shop? Turn on and off the features you like or you don't need? Wanted to have your own logo ? Well its all possible... You can customize many features of this zzzPhone and often with less money than what similar products in market would be priced at along with 30 day service guarantee! See image below to check out all the features that you can customize!

Active infrastructure sharing and Indian mobile subscriber

In a important move Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has approved Trai's recommendation to allow service providers to share their active infrastructure, which is going to help service providers to reduce their infrastructure expenditure drastically directly benefiting the Indian mobile subscribers. The move will certainly help to reduce tariff rates but beyond that, its boon for new spectrum licensees who will piggy back on larger service providers for most of their infrastructure and will launch services quickly and probably with less investments. Another interesting outcome will be nation's "largest network" advertisement, and Reliance Communication's "No Air" advertisement will not hold true going forward. Situation will be interesting as, if for a given geographical region, there is cellular coverage, all networks will be present there... This "everyone or no one" situation will fuel competition and further tariff wars..... Rural areas will get benefited. All in all very important move!

11 Digit Mobile Numbers in India?

With Indian mobile subscriber base increasing by approx 8 million per month, Government and regulator are thinking of 11 digit mobile numbers in India. Currently in India we have 10 digit numbers and India had around 237 million mobile subscribers by end of 2007. 2008 will be interesting year for India as it will have second largest pool of mobile users after China as India will surpass USA's 257 million pool.

Nutrition on the Go

They say that new year resolutions are broken even before 31st January! But now you might be able to keep that resolution for all 365 days if its related to controlling your calories intake! Nutrition on the Go service from diet.com allows you to send restaurant name and menu item name as SMS and will send you reply back with SMS message indicating calories in specified menu item!! Won't your decision to choose right menu item will be more informed decision then? Cool!

Chute: A cellphone with cover made of bamboo!

Michael Laut has designed a cell phone, Chute, which is quite interesting. Chute does not have familiar plastic, metal or glass body cover, rather it's body cover is made with bamboo! As he describes on his website 'Chute: Chute is a bamboo-faced smart phone designed to give consumers a new experience with regard to mood and style that are expected from a cellular device. The wood creates a warmer, more relaxed feeling than the current "cold" materials used in typical devices.'

Well that's really interesting!

Nationwide network of cellphones to detect radioactive dirt?

This is interesting idea... ubiquitous nature of cellphones making researchers at Purdue University to think of nationwide network of cellphones to act as intelligence system to report unexpected radiation in crowded areas such trains, theatres, etc. A sensor in cellphone will detect the radiation along with location information obtained from GPS, will be reported to security officials using cellular network over Internet. Looking at radiation report and location information, officials can take action quickly! Good stuff!!

Check out details at here.