Convergence of fixed and mobile networks has been an area of interest for telecom operators, and has seen some action in the form of value added services like parallel ringing on the mobile phone and the fixed-line phone. The concept of fixed mobile convergence (FMC)...
Apple iPad 2 is coming to India this Friday — sooner than many had expected. Apple launched the iPad 2 in the US on March 11, expanded its availability to 25 other countries, mostly European ones, on March 25, and on Wednesday added a dozen more countries to the list,...
With rapidly changing ICT delivery paradigms, we are entering the era of everything-as-a-service, where the consumers would pay as they use. Interestingly, the mobile services market in India has already taken the pay-per-use route since its early days, due to the...
In an increasing number of market segments, the No. 1 product leads the closest competitor by too wide a margin. Examples are aplenty--Facebook in the area of social networking, Google in search engines, Apple iPad in the tablet PC market segment, and so on.So is...
Just as ATMs have made branchless banking a reality, it has been theorised for some time now that mobile commerce will make cashless payments a commonality, at a scale much wider and deeper than that enabled by the smart card-based payment infrastructure. But while...
In a matter of just over half a decade, Facebook has swelled its user base to more than 500 million. But the ramp-up to the next 500 million would be much slower if Facebook were to bank only on access over PCs and smart phones--the devices that help users connect to...
A key inhibitor to adoption of notebooks as mobile devices has been their weight, of which the battery and charger constitute substantial portions.Let’s consider this. The average weight of a notebook (not a netbook) would be around 2.5 kg. Of this, a typical six-cell...
So the iPad 2 is out, and is thinner, lighter, and faster. “It’s 33 per cent thinner and up to 15 per cent lighter,” says Apple. And the reviewers by and large seem to be pleased with the device, just as the investor community seems to be happy about Steve Jobs making...
In a relatively little noted development, the number of monthly subscriber additions exceeded the 22-million mark for two months in a row, as per numbers reported by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) for the months of December and November 2010. India’s...
Stores in Bangalore say they would be getting the iPad 2 pricing details within the next two weeks. And they sounded confident that the stocks would be arriving over the next couple of months. If so, that would be a significant development, given that iPad 1 arrived...
Did you recently notice that you can use up and down arrow keys to move from one search result to the next? Also, the right arrow key can be used to highlight contents of a search entry, while the enter key can be used to load the page for that entry.These keyboard...
Can Microsoft and its new partner Nokia get swarms of developers to build apps for their forthcoming line of the WP7 phones? Can HP really squeeze the juice out of WebOS enough to build challengers to iPhone and Android phones?The last week got suddenly full of some...