Making money in a Mobile 2.0 world

I wrote a piece in The Hindustan Times, Delhi’s No. 1 daily newspaper and one of the leading ones in the country. The title of the same was ‘Making Money in a Mobile 2.0 World.’ You can read the online version here, or continue reading the text of the piece in this post itself.
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Yahoo! enables driving directions in India now

They say men don’t stop to ask for directions. Or was it women who do that? Either way, neither may need to anymore in India. Yahoo! India has introduced driving directions and community search on its existing Yahoo! India Maps. What this means in theory is you could be driving in a country of poor […]

Citizen Journalism on CNN-IBN, over the mobile now

CNN IBN, a leading news channel in India and pioneer of Citizen Journalism in the country, has gone a step further now: Anyone can now send in videos and images taken from their mobile phone to their Citizen Journalism account on the channel’s website IBNlive.com over MMS without the need for a PC. The enabling […]

iPhone has shown the way: Yahoo’s Steve Boom

Your mobile network offers you internet access, and your handset enables you to connect. Why are you still a reluctant user? Too complex to use and you don’t know how much it will cost?
If these are the reasons, join the over three billion mobile users globally who feel similarly – the ones who don’t have […]

Motvik’s WWIGO builds traction, says co-founder M.Thiyagarajan

Your camera enabled smartphone can mean one gadget less to fidget with – you can do away with the webcam if you decide to use WWIGO from Motvik. The product is certainly on the upswing, going by what Motvik’s co-founder M.Thiyagarajan had to say in an exclusive chat with TechGazing. What he has not shared […]

Disadvantage Blackberry - Push mail goes free!

One of the biggest advantages offered by BlackBerry devices was the fact that they gave users a superb emailing experience. A particular strong point was push mail – the feature that sent a mail to a mobile device the moment it arrived in the user’s inbox. So popular was this service that a number of […]

Are mobiles the next big advertising medium?

The next buzz in town may well be about mobile phones as your medium to deliver advertising. This may mean another complexity to a media planner’s spreadsheets but, if it takes off, it could well address a lot of needs for advertisers.