Blog The Value Added Services space in Telecom has recently seen a spate of hi profile VC investments be it mobile payment gateways/ applications/ gaming/ alternate technologies etc (cases in point being the VC funding deals with Nazara/ Mobile 2 Win/ Mauj and Indiagames to name a few) This is surely...

• Jan 03, 2007 04:03 AM
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Blog Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs says the new iPhone is a product destined to ignite a "revolution" in telecommunications. But could the iPhone also spark a civil war between the companies that produce it? That's what business experts are wondering as Apple, founded by hippie renegades in a Silicon Valley garage...

• Jan 12, 2007 12:58 AM
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Blog Apple's (AAPL) introduction of the iPhone on Tuesday (see BusinessWeek.com, 1/10/07, "The Future of Apple") underscores the lesson Motorola (MOT) learned with the Razr: A sleek, sexy design can create lots of buzz and drive sales, but without smart, usable interface design, consumers will end up angry and disinclined to...

• Jan 12, 2007 01:02 AM
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Blog Apple dropped the “computer” from its name Tuesday, further underscoring the company’s plan to permeate every aspect of a consumer’s digital lifestyle, as CEO Steve Jobs delivered the type of fast-paced and entertaining presentation that has become synonymous with the company. Mr. Jobs delivered on rumors of an...

• Jan 12, 2007 08:04 PM
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Blog Where is the next hit game for mobile phones coming from ? or are we destined to spend the rest of the lives passing the pillow in the grand Bollywood tradition of the Barjatyas or just shoot people aimlessly to take your body count to 56……….a la Ab Tak Chappan. Contrary...

• Jan 14, 2007 09:34 PM
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Blog The cost to make an iPod, Xbox, and other electronics has big bottom-line implications at Apple, Microsoft, and their peers. Some companies are willing to swallow losses on some gadgets—for instance, gaming consoles—in hopes that they'll make up the difference, and then some, on sales of related gear, such as...

• Jan 17, 2007 10:49 PM
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Blog I used to be an iPhone skeptic. Then I cleaned out my bedroom closet. Let me explain. In the two hours or so I spent sorting the detritus of the last six years of my life, I came across my first iPod, the first-generation, Mac-only version that Apple unveiled in...

• Jan 24, 2007 09:43 PM
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Blog Imagine a scenario where you are seeding about 6 million handsets in the market every month in the country (India). About 70 million handsets last calendar year and expected to be close to 85 - 90 million this year. Windfall for the handset makers you believe ? wrong. Profit margins are...

• Jan 28, 2007 09:02 PM
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Blog The news that Verizon Wireless, Apple’s first carrier choice, passed on the iPhone two years ago is generating immense chatter in the telecommunications community. For Apple supporters, Verizon Wireless made a dreadful mistake in turning down a chance to co-brand with the Cupertino, California-based marketing juggernaut. Particularly since the iPhone’s...

• Jan 30, 2007 10:47 PM
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Blog Big global international handset makers Nokia, Motorola, and Sony Ericsson, along with Korean players LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics, are in hot pursuit of mobile-phone growth in India, and it turns out with good reason. The emerging economy's white-hot mobile-phone market grew faster than China's for the first time last...

• Jan 31, 2007 02:54 AM
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