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 Broadband India now has Google's custom search engine. You can now search for any specific story we have broken in the past instead of browsing through 100s of web pages. It is available on all sub-domains and will search the best sites for original content and news analysis.
Thanks to Google and Happy Searching. |
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| Thursday, October 26, 2006 |
| Bangalore Wimax goes Live |
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 We had earlier reporetd about Bangalore's unwiring plans. The trial project has gone live coinciding with the BangaloreIT.In launch.
The State Government will offer a 10-day free trial of wireless Internet access (using WiMAX, Wireless Interoperability for Microwave Access) . Between Wednesday night and the weekend, the network will be up, offering a 2 MBps connection at Palace Grounds, Vikas Soudha and Vidhana Soudha. It will be available to citizens till November 2nd. |
| Published on Thursday, October 26, 2006 at 11:13 PM |
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| Wednesday, October 25, 2006 |
| Bollywood Video Content soon on your Mobile |
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 Their are lot of operators offering Ringtones, Picture Messages, Wall Papers etc for your Mobile. Ananad Bazaar Patrika is planning to distribute Bollywood and other sought after Video content for Mobile phone. So you will very soon be able to view Amitabh in Kabhi Kabhi on your cell phone :-)
You may recall that we earlier reported that Airtel will launch Mobile TV on 2G networks instead of waiting for 3G and also their Star TV clips already available for your Mobile.
"At present, the e-marketplace does not contribute significantly to our overall turnover, but we have plans to make it a popular brand nationally. Providing video content appears more interesting to us and we are in the process of developing it" said Sinha of ABP.
Any media business is dependent to the extent of 60% on advertising. |
| Published on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 at 9:13 AM |
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| Friday, October 20, 2006 |
| Top 5 Digital Camera Gift Ideas for this Holiday Season |
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Here is a review of of Top 5 Digital Cameras to capture those splendid moments with family and friends this Holiday season.
Sony CyberShot DSC-T10
 The Slim and Sexy Cybershot T10 is a 7.2 MegaPixel camera with 3x Optical Zoom. It is also equipped for video shooting at a resolution of 640*480 and 30FPS. Can also record sound and costs Rs 21,000. Its a truly marvellous camera from Sony.
Canon Powershot A640
 PowerShot A640 is a great compact camera. It offers manual exposure controls (shutter speed, aperture size) and manual zoom control, which may not be the most convenient to use, but is still a great value-add. The A640 is definitely not the smallest or the sleekest of the compact cameras, but it sports an extremely useful tilt-n-swivel screen and gives results make that extra bulk worth it. A street price of Rs. 18,500 for a 10 megapixel makes it totally worth it.
Olympus µ 700
 The all-weather Olympus µ (mju) 700, which is not only weatherproof, but also looks great. With a good 7.1 megapixel resolution under the hood, and an ultra compact dust/water/scratch resistant ultra-compact body outside, and a price tag of only Rs. 13,000 (retail price) the 700 makes a pretty good buy for all purposes.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ50
 Tthe Panasonic FZ50 may look like an SLR, but it does come pretty close. Cameras like the FZ50 are a bridge between manual and D-SLRs— a camera that boasts functions similar to an SLR, like manual focus, zoom, manual exposure, but comes with a single fixed lens.
With 10 megapixel native shooting resolution, a whopping 12x (35mm – 450mm) optical zoom and a tilt and swivel LCD screen, the FZ50 is a great choice for an amateur photographer looking for a camera with all the functionality and without the fuss of lens replacement and CCD noise. However, at a suggested retail price of Rs. 37,000 it looks bit expensive.
Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-H1
 The H1 is Sony's first foray into compact, big zoom image-stabilized cameras. As well as a huge 12x optical zoom the H1 is a real treasure chest of photographic control, offering a wealth of automatic, semi automatic and manual exposure modes, a big 2.5" screen and captures VGA/30fps movies in space-efficient MPEG format. Full photographic control with Real Imaging Processor & 14-bit DXP A/D Conversion and Optional wide and tele lens converters. Sugegsted retail price is Rs27,000 in Mumbai.
Also you might want to check out the Top 5 Laptops and Top 5 Mobile Phone gift ideas for this holiday season. |
| Published on Friday, October 20, 2006 at 2:25 PM |
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| Thursday, October 19, 2006 |
| Yahoo launches localized Messenger in India |
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 Yahoo India today launched a new feature 'Indichat' in its instant messenger that would enable users to chat in Hindi and Tamil even without a language keyboard.
Yahoo! India Managing Director George Zacharias said,
"Internet is becoming increasingly popular and there is a big shift in the market towards providing Indian localised products. Ideally, we will launch the messenger in 14-16 languages in next few quarters"
How to access Indichat ?
Yahoo Messenger users can access this feature by logging into the Side Panel plug-in. You can also listen to Indian Language audibles. |
| Published on Thursday, October 19, 2006 at 12:33 AM |
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| Tuesday, October 17, 2006 |
| Time for Mobile Instant Messaging |
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 It's not Yahoo! or MSN Messenger, but SMS is the most popular communication medium for Millions of Indians today. To cash in on the Mobile boom, all the GSM mobile service providers in India have come together to build a Mobile Instant Messaging Platform. This will enable all the mobile phone users to stay connected.
Mr Manoj Kohli, President, Bharti Airtel, "We in Bharti Airtel are greatly excited about the potential for Mobile IM in India. We are working for an interconnect hub solution to ensure seamless IM interoperability between all mobile networks. Our common goal is to launch mobile IM in India by early 2007." |
| Published on Tuesday, October 17, 2006 at 12:51 PM |
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| Sunday, October 15, 2006 |
| Weekend Updates |
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Here are some of the key developments in the past week.
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| Published on Sunday, October 15, 2006 at 5:38 AM |
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| After Red iPod, Motorola launches Red Razr |
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 Apple launched the Red iPod to support the fight against AIDS in Africa.
It didn't take long for Motorola to respond. They unveiled Red Razr V3M. Both are expected to hit the Indian market next month.
Red Razr is pricey and will probably cost you Rs14,000. |
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| Friday, October 13, 2006 |
| Mobile Operators Market Share - Sept-2006 |
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 The top 6 Mobile Service providers in India(GSM & CDMA) depending on the number of subscribers at the end of Sept-30-2006.
1. Bharti Airtel limited - 26,267,593
2. BSNL - 20,536,253 (Excludes MTNL numbers for Mumbai and Delhi)
3. Reliance Communications Ltd - 2,708,881(GSM) + CDMA individual breakup is not given and Reliance is intentionally confusing people by combining the figures of Fixed Wireless Phone with CDMA Mobile. BEWARE of Reliance Communications Ltd.
4. Hutch - 13,700,199
5. Idea Cellular - 11,552,620
6. Tata TeleServices , Indicom - 8,435,405
Total Number of GSM Subscribers in India are - 91,013,599
Total number of CDMA subscribers in India are - 31,547,917 (This includes, only Reliance Communications' fixed wireless phone subscriber numbers as well) |
| Published on Friday, October 13, 2006 at 12:18 PM |
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| Wednesday, October 11, 2006 |
| Nortel to conduct IPTV Trials |
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 Canadian telecom, Nortel is planning to conduct IPTV trials in India. It has tied up with LG to manufacture its settop boxes.
The company plans to use the services and networks of Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd and Reliance Communications Limited. However, Bharti has been totally silent over its IPTV launch. Reliance Communications Limited with its 80,000Km dark fibreoptic network is in a fix whether to go for IPTV or Dish TV. IPTV is unlikely to gain a major market in the absence of cheap hardware and poor bandwidth at last mile (mere 256KBPs). In any case a subscriber wouldn't want to shell out Rs1,000-2,500 for high bandwidth connection and another Rs400 for TV channel subscription every month when Dish TV lets you enjoy all the comforts at mere Rs300 per month. |
| Published on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 at 8:59 PM |
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| Monday, October 09, 2006 |
| Rediff to launch Gaming Portal - RediffGames.com |
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 After seeing the terrific success of IndiaGames.com, Indian internet company, Rediff wants to test waters in the online gaming market. Rediff.Com CEO, Ajit Balkrishnan, said that "We are very much interested in online gaming and we will launch it this quarter itself". He further added that Rediff is building its gaming division internally rather than buying out.
I hope Rediff will port it's games to the mobile platform :-) RediffGames.Com is registered to Rediff.com India Limited.
Rediff , India Games , Mobile Games
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| Published on Monday, October 09, 2006 at 2:06 PM |
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| Saturday, October 07, 2006 |
| Weekend Updates |
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Quite a hectic and short week. Here are some excellent posts of the week.
Got a weekend Mobile story to tell ? SMS Broadband to 98444-90000 and you will receive a call from us. Happy weekend. |
| Published on Saturday, October 07, 2006 at 8:13 PM |
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| Friday, October 06, 2006 |
| Bangalore to be Wi-Maxed |
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 The Silicon Valley of Asia, Bangalore is all set to go Wi-max. BSNL is planning to roll out its first WiMax tower for broadband internet access in Jayanagar (South Bangalore). The tower is expected to cover a radius of 20Kms which will provide internet access to residents of other tech savvy localities like J P Nagar, Kormangala, SarjaPur Road and Basavangudi.
Incidentally, Infosys Chief Mentor, N R Naryana Murthy is a resident of JayaNagar too.
Hopefully Wi-Max will help broadband roll out faster in India. |
| Published on Friday, October 06, 2006 at 10:55 PM |
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| Wednesday, October 04, 2006 |
| 1 Billion People and 1.5 Million Broadband Subscribers |
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 India has a population of 1 Billion of which, just 1.5 Million have broadband connection,(According to Indian Government, Internet speed greater than 256 Kbps is broadband) not even 1% of its population. In contrast, the number of cellular phone subscribers has reached a whopping 10% of its population. In the chart above, (Reproduced with permission from goBroadband) we see that the state owned PSUs have a far greater lead over private service providers. Also the top 5 players command over 90% of the broadband market in India.
This implies that the government needs to do some serious thinking about this imbalance and put a favorable broadband policy before its too late. Send in your thoughts and suggestions to the TRAI.
Internet India ,
Broadband India ,
India Mobile ,
Internet Subscribers
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| Published on Wednesday, October 04, 2006 at 6:56 AM |
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| Tuesday, October 03, 2006 |
| Cartoon Network on Tata Indicom Broadband |
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 Video on Demand(VOD) over Internet is becoming a reality in India. Cartoon Network has signed a deal with VSNL. Tata Indicom Broadband subscribers can watch their favorite Cartoon Network toons on their PC.
Tata Indicom Broadband will offer subscribers as much as 40 episodes each with some of Cartoon Network's most popular and iconic toon stars. The content will be made available in both Hindi and English. |
| Published on Tuesday, October 03, 2006 at 2:34 AM |
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