“This is a great moment in history, when we can say to you, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, turn on your cellphones.’”, Paul Freeman, the group’s music director, told the audience beforehand. And that triggered the birth of a new style Musician called ‘CellPhonists‘. Audience went on to play ringtones on their cellphones at defined moments, signaled by the Conductor [...]

Whole Mobile world is buzzing about highly personalized Advertisements delivered on mobiles. If noise levels at the recent conferences is any indication, many are very serious about it.  Chetan Sharma wrote an interesting article “Sell Phones: What will make mobile advertising tick?” that delves into the details of Mobile advertising and what makes it tick. [...]

 My first impression is Thumbs Up!! Wonderful !! Guruji.com a new search engine from India, is challenging Google in bringing better results for local search. Guruji.com is attempting to bring much better and relevant search results than popular search engines like Google and Yahoo for local search in India, much like what baidu is doing for China. Google does not offer Local Search [...]

Satellites deliver UV index via SMS According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 60,000 deaths are caused annually by excessive exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation. In ‘Satellites help ensure safe sunning,’ the European Space Agency (ESA) reports that a new service using its satellites can deliver the UV index to your cellphone via SMS. The [...]

In his keynote speech at the Symbian Smartphone Show in London, the company’s chief executive, Nigel Clifford, told delegates that the dawning era of the smart phone represents a shift “as profound as the Internet and PC were in the 1990s.” Clifford suggested that the popularity of smart phones in the developed world and the [...]