In a least noticed and publicized development less than 20 hours ago, Facebook toppled Google to become the No. 1 Alexa ranked website globally. Google still maintains the lead in Alexa’s website rankings for the US though.As far as the “reputation” comparison goes, a...
Earlier in the month, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) data for July 2012 showed six out of 13 operators registered a combined negative subscriber growth of 24.71 million over the previous month.This was followed by a Cellular Operators Association of...
The iPhone 5 launch shows why Apple’s stock prices have scaled newer heights even after the passing away of its iconic founder Steve Jobs.To Jobs, iPhone development (as much as the iPad or iMac development) was an art. His successor, Tim Cook, has adeptly turned...
The long awaited announcement on delinking telecom licenses with spectrum has been made and welcomed too by some industry players and bodies. It has the potential to become a rare move towards bringing in some healthy competition in the industry without causing...
As spectrum price rise looms large, telcos rush to burn subscription flab.Impacted by Reliance Communications reportedly switching off around a couple of crore of its inactive subscriptions, the mobile subscriber base in India dropped by a whopping 20.61 million in...
While launching the new range of Kindle Fire and e-readers, when Jeff Bezos reportedly said, "We want to make money when people use our devices, not when they buy our devices," he immediately achieved two key objectives for Amazon.One, he took the glare away from the...
Yes. The stock markets don’t seem to care much about the handful of ‘amazing’ new features that Lumia 920 sought to impress with, when debuted a couple of days ago.Nokia executives seem to have forgotten that for now, they were launching the next Lumia for the US...
The much awaited Nokia Lumia 920 was launched just about a couple of hours ago in New York. I attended a live online event and it seems that while the event managed to engage the audience, the venue wasn’t bubbling with excitement. It is not surprising that Nokia...
The judgment day for Nokia has come, almost. The erstwhile leader in the smart phone market would be anxiously looking forward to revive fortunes of its glorious past, on the back of the Windows 8 platform.The timing couldn’t have been more favorable for the Finnish...
The prevailing regulatory, licensing and policy uncertainties in the telecom sector have been taking their tolls on the private and public sector players alike.While sentiments have already been subdued in the wake of Airtel posting ten consecutive declines in...
Just a month after Delhi High Court heard a petition seeking that the cellphone towers be installed at least 50 meters away from residences, and more so from schools and hospitals, Department of Telecom (DoT) has implemented a new set of norms for mobile tower...
In the mobile services world of bulk advertising, SMSs were a mainstream vehicle for long, before the do-not-disturb registries and regulations heaped crackdowns on pesky advertisers. The mobile user has thereafter been relatively less disturbed if not completely free...