Archive For March, 2009

Challenges for VAS Industry in India

Yesterday, I was on panel of Convergence India’s VAS in Indian telecom industry  and had a chance to see Telecom Value Added Services Industry’s challenges. Here is my take:

Read more »

Fourth Screen

From one page newspapers and theatre to… silent movies to… television to… cable to… internet content on ones fingertips the media has gone through a rapid evolution. We talk about the shrinking global village but the true potential of media and its reach is yet to be unleashed. We have barely scratched the surface of [...]

Read more »

Where is the MVAS Industry headed?

Telecom is one of the few sectors that has not been hit ( or hit as badly) by the economic slow down world over. Closer home it  is one of the sectors still showing steady growth, however as is true for all industries in this time  it is a more sane and steady story now. It is coming [...]

Read more »

People I know, my friends and my connections

Usually, LinkedIn does not allow Alice to add Bob as a connection unless, Alice somehow knows Bob – Bob and Alice may be from the same school or organization, or may have worked together in the past and so on. In FaceBook, Alice and Bob once connected, are considered “Friends”. Though FaceBook does allow Alice [...]

Read more »

My search for free Push Mail Client for my E71

It was only when I brought recently launched (July 08)  Nokia E71, I realised that Nokia has discontinued their support for BlackBerry and there was no BB client available for E71. And in One97 Communications, I was expected to be always accessible on my official emails. And then started my search to find free push [...]

Read more »

Upgrading my Nokia E71 firmware to V200.21.118

Last night I decided to upgrade firmware of my Nokia E71 to the latest available V200.21.118 when I saw the very long list of changelog posted on few of Nokia / Symbian blogs.  The improvement in  WLAN, VOIP, Camera, Email functionality was of interest to me. Well as everyone is aware firmware upgrade of any [...]

Read more »