Crazy Mobile Growth – What are causes ?

I am really scratching my head to find out who are the influencers for the Indian mobile markets ?  What tips consumer market behaviours here.  what are the information that Indian mobile buyers use before purchasing a mobile. A friend’s recommendation, TV ad, recommendation websites.  I read/watch all the top Indian mobile blogs, forums &  news snippets, TV shows but…More

MoMo Global and Back

Last week I was in Helsinki and St.Petersburg attending the Mobile Monday global summit. Thanks to the invitation from the folks of Mobile Monday Global/Helsinki I had a great week meeting some cool companies and making many amazing friends across the globe in the late night sun of Finland and chilly winds of Russia. Though…More

OnMobile to buy VoxMobili

OnMobile to buy VoxMobili ,  interesting ! this news only points that the VAS offerings would be maturing from Voice/SMS to data services which is very good. Another interesting aspect is that trend of Indian companies making acquisition in other markets is gaining more steam. This article quotes that VAS industry is a ~4000 crore market this…More

Open Coffee Club India

            Open Coffee Club  starts in Chennai and in Bangalore. This should result in a regular meetups and creation of informal network/community of entreprenuers and would benefit entreprenuers interacting with each other. But I think the unique thing about Open Coffee Clubthat differentiates  from other meetups & camps  is that…More

Big Media vs Individual – Indian Media

Nikhil has spurred up an interesting conversation @ contentsutra about big media and individual content creators.Read the entire post and don’t miss out the comments section as it has pretty important thoughts.I have been following this debate in many places and now it’s spilled over to this side of the globe. As much as I want…More

Nokia Research Centre , Racoon, CBP and NokiaCV

I am very excited and impressed by the folks and work that is coming out of Nokia Research Centre. The kind of products(prototypes)  that they are rolling out are amazing and at times just mind blowing. A little old news by now but nonetheless a very significant release is  the release of a  mobile web server (called Racoon)…More

VoIP India?

One the same day I come across the following three different news item. From RedHerring: Standalone VoIP business may not be viable any more in US. JajahIndia – Jajah “click to call” service has finally set foot in India (via labnol) Fring launches Fring India blog Am I being apophenic or there is relationship among them.…More

BPL Mobile TV

BPL is set to launch mobile TV and looking to getting one million users using the service in six months. What are they smoking ??!!! Either the HT reporter has massaged the message a little more than what is necessary or the executive quoted has no idea of what he is talking about.Nokia Widsets which I think…More

Blogging Junk food for the mind

Reading blogs is like having junk food (Burger/Pizza/Coke) in  many ways. Only few among the many who have the purchasing power have access to it (just like  junk food) The more you have it the more dumb you become (information obesity or physcial obesity) Its absence for makes you crave for it But then you love…More

Russ is blogging again

Was checking out Mike’s blog and while going through it I was pleasantly surprised to see Russell Beattie’s blog track back to Mike’s post. Yay ! Russell Beattie has started blogging again.  Any one interested in  mobile would acknowledge as to how much his posts were missed. Hey Russ ! Good to see you blogging…More

wwigo: cameraphone as webcam – public beta

There has been no post on this blog from me since long as the last couple of weeks had kept us extremely busy on our new release. I am happy to say now that early this week wwigo was released into public beta. It is available for free for download, so if you have Nokia…More

Lawrence Liang Property Rights Indian Stories BCB3

Have so many topics that I want to blog about but on top of that list is the talk by Lawrence Liang at Barcamp Bangalore 3 which literally blew my mind . Unfortunately no one recorded it in audio or video 🙁 but thanks to kiruba a short offline podcast with him is available.  In…More

Mobile Media MoMo India

I was’nt super excited in feb MoMo but was very happy about MoMo in  Marchespecially the demo part ( from Mango Technologies) it went great. I am sure Sunil and his team from Mango had a lot to take back from MoMo. I am very excited about this MoMo, both the topic and demo.  The…More

BCB3 Notes

BCB 3 had a great start yesterday, the mobile section seemed to be the most popular and was extremely crowded almost all through the day.  My favourite discussion of the day was not in the mobile room but rather it was the one led by Savita. It was heated debate on why/what India needs to…More

Informal Getto fup

Publishing this post a little late but this is about a meetup of a small group on 29th, it was essentially a few entreprenuers from bangalore and alok from canaan met up for about an one and half hour for an informal chat at Pecos. Amongst us we decide to do no pitching which meant that there was great and…More

video age

You know a trend has reached a zenith of when it takes political tones. Check out the Hillary 1984 video,v within a very short time it had hundred more than million views, it is a spoof on the the 1984 ad which laid the foundation of the mac cult. Year 2004 saw the use of…More

BCB 3

The third edition of Barcamp Bangalore has been announced and is scheduled to be held on 31st Mar & Apr 1st.  I love Bangalore Barcamps for the rich interactions and the high quality inputs that I take away from here which is very unique characteristic of it.  The first and second edition were fantastic and…More

Note in BW

     We were covered in  the dealtracker section in BW in this weeks’ edition, blogged about it in detail on the motvik blogMore

Indian Handango – Save2Phone

Few months ago I sounded out the need for a handango in India and I was glad to find (via Ramki) that Roshan of MyZus has released a platform called save2phone which is simillar to that. I don’t need to mention the power of a platform because everyone in the technology world understands it well,  a platform business always…More