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There has been a lot of talk about the application economy and how has it changed the consumption of mobile internet. The contribution of application stores towards making applications a huge success cannot be ignored. However, there is still room for improvement and below is my list of five things that I hate about applications: 1. Applications are [...]

$1.8B potential for location-based advertising http://bit.ly/8Ysh2x # RIM Avoids Indian Ban Hammer, Cooperates With Security Authorities Over BlackBerry E-Mail http://bit.ly/9nhuld # YouTube courting Hollywood for pay-per-view movie service by end of 2010, says Financial Times http://bit.ly/d8gNIM # Intel gobbles up Infineon’s mobile unit in $1.4 billion deal, looks to ‘accelerate 4G LTE’ http://bit.ly/bX1ezr # Foursquare Now 3 [...]

Intel, the world’s largest chipmaker, has announced that it would buy Infineon’s wireless business solutions group (WLS) for $1.4 billion in cash. WLS’s has annual revenues of ~$1.16 billion but ranks at No. 5 in the chipset industry, far behind sector giants Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and Broadcom. There could be several reason to Intel acquiring the [...]

Location Is the New Shopping Assistant http://t.co/Ke5LGBL # BlackBerry sales drop ~50% in India as consumers turn wary http://www.telecomcircle.com/poi # Leak HTC Upcoming devices http://www.telecomcircle.com/a58 # Intel Said to Be Near Purchase of Infineon’s Wireless Unit http://www.telecomcircle.com/w7j # Fennec Shows Glimpse of Future Mobile Browsing http://t.co/fOd9sIt # OPERA says number of women accessing mobile web surges by 575% in past 2 years http://www.telecomcircle.com/7sb # Ericsson study [...]

“Don’t be evil “ is the informal corporate motto of Google, originally suggested by Google employees Paul Buchheit and Amit Patel at a meeting.  Google has the philosophy that” You can make money without doing evil. ” Google claims to have made “Don’t Be Evil” a central pillar of their identity, and part of their self-proclaimed core values. Google has [...]

Here are the top news articles for the week ending 22nd Aug: RIM Shops for Mobile Ad Network http://www.telecomcircle.com/rnz # Newspaper Reports # iPad mini (7” iPad) Coming in Christmas http://www.telecomcircle.com/o7l # NOKIA announces X3: 3G cheaptouch; 4×3 keyboard; WiFi; available AUG for EUR125 (US$275) contract free http://www.telecomcircle.com/iwr # LG hopes to launch the first WinPho7 device: Optimus series; 3.8″ touch; QWERTY in US; OCT launch expected http://www.telecomcircle.com/9l8 [...]

Internet changed many industries but its impact on the retail industry has been the maximum. The value chains and the supply chains changed dramatically especially in the developed countries due to fixed internet. Now the mobile internet is changing the way people shop but its impact is significantly different from that of fixed internet. Retail industry has [...]

When pushed to the wall due to competitive pressures from the CDMA players in 2003 , Bharti Airtel decided to focus on cost reduction as well as prepare itself for explosive growth. More than the cost reduction, Bharti wanted to ensure that it builds a world class network and still able to focus on the core, i.e. [...]

Like any business , we face the dilemma of outsourcing even in Telecom Industry. There are various views on outsourcing and the arguments of the proponents and opponents are equally convincing. Indian companies like Bharti Airtel, Idea, Vodafone Essar have outsourced some of the functions like network and IT which is still considered as core by many [...]

Over the last many months, I have received numerous requests and gifts in my Facebook account from a game called Farm Ville. There is a friend of mine who is regularly playing this game and updating her status with the levels she has managed to crack in the game. I too played this game for a while and found pretty addictive but [...]

Word of Mouth has been the oldest marketing tool but was relegated to the background due to higher popularity of direct advertising. In the last century, the mass media became popular and direct advertising soon became a great tool in the hands of the marketing professionals. At that time, the number of TV channels were few, newspapers were few [...]

There is a strong rumor of Qualcomm partnering with Airtel to roll-out TD-LTE network in India. Qualcomm has bid for the ongoing BWA spectrum and would need to find an Indian partner if it were to win the bid as Indian laws prohibit any foreign company to hold more than 74% share in any telecom company. [...]

Lately, a new dimension has been added to the fight between WiMax and LTE, which is TD-LTE. Developed largely in China, TD-LTE has started to make inroads into other markets as well. Huawei recently launched TD-LTE network for China Mobilewhile Qualcomm has put in a bid for BWA spectrum in 2300 MHz in India and plans to [...]