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Category Archives: India and Asia Pacific
Opera: India has the lowest percentage of females using mobile web
Review: According to Opera’s data, a mere 4% of mobile web users in India are female (and the country with the most female users may surprise you). Regardless of the reasons why, this disparity represents an enormous opportunity Continue reading
Smartphones to make up more than half of Asia’s phone sales by 2015
Review: Driving the cost of smartphones down, and carrier revenues up, but ignoring the feature phone market would be premature to say the least Continue reading
Survey from Opera shows female mobile web stats
Rating: Facebook trails Google badly in Vietnam
It’s a common view that the crux of the mobile web is to empower people and a recent survey by Opera, the mobile web browser specialist, has found that it is now empowering more and more females. In the last two years, the percentage of women on the mobile web has risen 575 per cent. Buried in the same report are figures about Google and Facebook’s popularity in South East Asia. Continue reading
Tata Consultancy Services working to turn its mKRISHI agricultural info service into a global entrepreneurial platform
courtesy TCS
For the last few years Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the IT consulting division of India’s mammoth Tata Group, has been developing a set of interconnecting technologies to help India’s rural farmers, all under the banner of mKRISHI (the ‘m’ is for mobile while “krishi” means farming in many Indian languages).
The mKRISHI system is a [...]
HTC betting on smartphone growth in India
Review: The Indian launch of the HTC Desire is only beginning. Anticipating big gains, HTC is investing in its Indian retail presence Continue reading
Mobile social application market Mobango gets bought out
An Indian mobile media company has reached out for a more global audience today. People Infocom has a pretty dizzying portfolio of media channels, and has been in operation since 2003. Today, it has announced the complete purchase of one of the bigger application markets around – the UKs Mobango. Continue reading
Why is Tata Group selling out of Indian mobile telecoms?
One of the biggest and smartest conglomerates in India is reducing its stake in its mobile phone operations – even as the market grows by almost 20 million subscribers a quarter. Tata Group is India’s second largest company – not only in the telecoms market, but overall. As reported on GoMo News, the Group is pulling back from telecom by increasing NTT DoCoMo’s share from 26% to 40% while reducing its own stake to a minority share. GoMo News reporter John Kneeland explores why. Continue reading
India Announces Mobile Number Portability by 31 October
Review: Mark your calendars for the Indian mobile market apocalypse as number portability and 3G both arrive right on top of each other Continue reading
NTT DoCoMo moves in on four Indian mobile networks
Mobile owners in India suffer from a standards problem: specifically network standards. There are GSM and CDMA operators across the country, and for the most part they don’t cover the same areas. As such, phones that take two (or more) SIM cards are essential for someone who wants coverage across the entire country. There are only two companies that deal in both standards in India – and one of them is moving towards control from Japanese telecoms giant NTT DoCoMo.
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Australian Government Initiative: Apps4NSW
Winners were recently announced for a NSW government initiative called Apps4NSW. Entrants were invited to either develop an application prototype or submit an idea for an application. There was also a special category for ideas from school students. The aim of the competition was to find new and useful ways to deliver Government information to the public via the internet and mobile devices. Continue reading
Nokia goes for 100% household mobile penetration in 5 Indian villages in a bid to promote its rural VAS offerings
Review: Nokia kicks off its 15th year in India by giving Nokia phones—and Nokia VAS—to villages in what is part self-promotion, part larger strategic promotion of its rural-centric VAS Continue reading
Vodafone India Intros Solar-Powered Handset
Review: Interesting but not actually the first solar-powered phone in India. What’s interesting is the emerging strategic possibility that Vodafone may be looking to differentiate themselves (and capture more wallet-share) with phone hardware Continue reading
Instant Mobile Surveys with MPoll
Australian innovators MPoll have launched a beta site, showcasing their new mobile survey tool that allows customers to create instant polls online and deliver them via SMS. The service is available to trial now for Beta customers and MPoll are offering vouchers to local media & marketing professionals who want to check it out for free. Continue reading
India to get iPhone 4 in October
Review: Frustratingly behind other major markets, but a marked improvement over India’s 9-month wait for the 3GS. Still, don’t expect many takers in the world’s most price-sensitive phone market Continue reading
The best phones you’ve never heard of: India becoming a hotbed of new handset manufacturers
Review: Relative lack of established brand loyalty, extreme price sensitivity, and rapid growth have made an opening for new entrants to the mobile phone business. India might become a launch pad for these new companies to scale and break into the Western markets. Continue reading
