Aircel Launches Social Gaming on Mobile Phone Powered by ibibo

Aircel, the fast-growing Pan-India GSM Mobile service operator join hands with ibibo.com, India’s leading Social Gaming and networking website have introduced First Social Gaming to Mobile Customers in India.

Aircel & ibibo.com will offer, “Great Indian Parking wars” on the Aircel Pocket Internet, which will further expand to a catalogue of Games. The customers can log on to these games via their Facebook ID or ibibo.com ID.

Mr. Gurdeep Singh, COO, Aircel, said, “With first Social Gaming on your Mobile Phones the intent is to drive innovation at the convergence of Games and Social Platforms while you are on the move. It is our endeavor to offer our consumers exciting and engaging opportunities such as gaming and staying socially connected anytime, anywhere”.

In Great Indian Parking Wars, users role play as owners of a street and they are encouraged to role play and do tasks along with their friends. Tasks further drive points for the users and hence a leader board that drives competition amongst friends. The key aspect here is that the social application acts as a catalyst for users to come back and pull friends to the social network every day. These games act as conversation starters and makes relationships in the social context more valuable.

The game dynamics allow the users to add friends to their network, buy new cars, issue challans to cars parked on their street, block parking areas on others’ streets and lots of such interesting in-game activities which keep the user glued to the game at all times. The games do not require any downloads, and are Free-to-play for the users where there are no subscription charges involved.

To access these games, users just need to visit Aircel Pocket Internet on their WAP-enabled handsets.

Empowering Future India With Broadband Wireless Access LTE India 2010

In a past decade wireless industry has seen an explosion in the demand for both voice and data services with the growth in number of mobile telephone subscribers as well as the usage rate.

Long Term Evolution (LTE) will be strongly emerge as the next generation wireless technology that will lead the growth of mobile broadband services into the next level.

Its adoption by service providers around the world has the potential to generate economies of scale unprecedented by any previous generation of wireless networking technology as it becomes the universal 4G mobile platform used by both GSM/HSPA and CDMA/EVDO service providers.

Organized by Bharat Exhibitions & supported by 3GPP Supporting Industry Global Association for LTE & Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), LTE INDIA 2010 scheduled to be held on May 28, 2010 at Le Meridien, New Delhi is India’s first & only event on LTE for promoting LTE in fast growing Indian Telecom Industry. LTE INDIA 2010 will offer the best business platform in the country for Telecom Industry to conduct business & introduce LTE service offerings.

“According to Mr.Adrian Scrase, Head of 3GPP Mobile Competence Centre, LTE INDIA 2010 will be an ideal & best platform to set the future roadmap for LTE in India – We will encourage Regulators, Operators and Manufacturers to be a part of LTE – The most successful mobile broadband Standard. We will demonstrate that this is not just a new radio technology; there is a whole eco-system – all fully standardized and ready to go. LTE specifications give Operators a way to deliver more speed, more data and a better experience in the most cost effective way. As discussions move from ‘Why LTE’ to “When LTE”, we will put the Standards experts alongside Indian Telecommunications experts to discuss the time-scales for getting this technology in to the hands of Indian users.

Mr. Shashi Dharan- Managing Director, Bharat Exhibitions the organizer of LTE INDIA 2010, says, “This conference will help in strategizing a strong vision for LTE technology in the future India as it is an ideal stage between the key influencers and decision makers under one roof – Leading Companies scheduled to be engaged in LTE deployment will share their plans for India.

Global majors scheduled to be engaged in LTE deployment are participating in the event – Making it truly global platform to conduct business (Nokia Siemens Networks, Motorola, Bridgewater Systems, Hitachi Cable, Tekelec, Agilent Technologies and Alcatel-Lucent)

Among the Telecom Operators & Service Providers – Airtel, Vodafone, Idea, Aircel, BSNL, MTNL, Reliance Communications, TATA Teleservices, Sistema Shyam, Virgin, Etisalat, Uninor, TATA DoCoMo etc would be part of the event. The event is supported by 3GPP & COAI – Cellular Operators Association of India.

Videocon SIM Card supports congestion free 2.75 EDGE Network

The recently launched Videocon SIM card is expected to do their business quite well. People somehow liked their unique green shade which makes then look pretty eye catchy. Though the SIM card takes nearly 2 days to even get activated, which is a little disappointing, but the cost is nominal and available at only Rs.49 and comes with lifetime validity and talk time of Rs.5. The customers will need to get a First Recharge Coupon. The value for the Recharge Coupon is starting from Rs.61.Videocon claims to have a clogging free 2.75 EDGE Network, though there is no any specific report on that particular issue but it is expected to be revealed soon. Videocon being an established brand has 160 million customers already. They have been able to reach the masses due to their entire consumer electronics business. They first launched the services in Chennai and now aiming to go PAN-India shortly. Their services are at present available in Gujarat, Haryana, Kerala, Mumbai and Tamil Nadu.

Tata Docomo Introduces Special Recharges for Prepaid Customers in Bihar, Jharkhand and UP East- Pay for 45 Seconds and Get 15 Seconds Free!

Tata Docomo has come with a special recharge offer for its prepaid customers in Bihar, Jharkhand and UP East circle. Now all existing as well as new customers can get free seconds while making calls to local or STD numbers. Customers will get 15 free seconds after every 45 seconds of a call.

Details of Tata Docomo Special Recharge Voucher:
MRP: Rs. 31 for existing customers and Rs. 52 for new customers
Talktime: Rs. 15 for new customers
Benefit: For every 45 seconds of paid local and STD calls, customers will get 15 free seconds
Charges for every 45 seconds of call: 1 paisa per second
Validity: 6 months
For any information customers can contact Tata Docomo customer care number: 121.

Videocon Introduces New Night Pack for Prepaid Customers in Haryana

Videocon has introduced a new Night Pack for its prepaid customers in Haryana circle. Customers can avail Videocon Night Pack for Rs. 26 and enjoy Videocon to Videocon free minutes during night.

Details of Videocon Night Pack:
MRP: Rs. 26
Free local Videocon to Videocon minutes between 10 pm to 8am: 400 minutes
Validity: 30 days
For any information customers can visit Videocon website: www.videocon.com
To avail Videocon night pack, visit Videocon store nearby.

BSNL offers 24 GB free usage on Huwaei make 3G Data cards in tamilnadu

State run telecom PSU BSNL has revised its freebies offer on Huwaei make 3G Data cards in Tamilnadu circle. Customers will get 24 GB free on purchase of HUWAEI make HSDPA 3.6 USB Type 3G data card. Earlier BSNL was offering 12 GB FREE in which 2GB during day and 10GB during night may be used. Customers will be required to use free 24 GB usage

An employee stole a prototype of Nokia phones

Nokia's subcontractor's employee has stolen almost a hundred mobile phone and a host of other electronics mobile phone company Research in Helsinki Ruoholahti. Phones were of new phones, the model of prototypes.

Helsinki District Court sentenced a man aggravated theft, a suspended seven-month prison term. The man took the theft in March 2009 and February 2010 during the period when he worked as a subcontractor employed by Nokia Research Center in Ruoholahti.

The convicted man's work included the Nokia prototype phones and phones of competitors trial.

An employee stole a mobile phone in 1998, of whom 55 were prototypes.He took possession of unauthorized access to, inter alia, 28 laptop, projector and 232 of the phone's battery.

Nokia's rules, the prototypes may not leave the company's facilities.

He told me that the reason of professional activities of interest and the desire to find out, would there be non-functioning devices assembled functional.

Many a man stealing equipment were unserviceable. He kept the goods at home and not sold or passed them forward.

Nokia has agreed to tell the Helsingin Sanomat, what and how the equipment he stole the secret of the company premises.

Man's wife told the court that he had trials of her husband's behalf as a competitor, and Nokia phone model. Spouse was not Nokia or its subcontractors employed.

Nokia has received the stolen goods back. According to the company the value of the stolen property had been vested with at least 27 500 euros.

Nokia law requiring a man, only one tenth of this amount. The district court ordered the man to pay the required amount.

Employee Steals Over Hundred Nokia Devices!

The employee of one of Nokia’s subcontractorsubcontractor has stolen over hundreds of devices from the Research center in Helsinki, Finland. According to company rules prototypes should not leave company premises

The man had stolen:

• 98 mobile-phonesmobile-phones of which 55 were prototypes.
• 28 laptops
• 232 mobile-phone batteries
• 1 projector

That is such a high figure to go unnoticed and maybe there was more than one person involved.

The total cost of the stolen property was estimated at 27500 Euros. The court gave him 7 monthssuspended sentencesuspended sentence and 3000 Euros fine.

Leaked products or Prototypes in the wrong hands are never good for any company and for a company like Nokia leaked phones mean that competitors gain unfair advantages !

Samsung Phone Explodes in Face

In a shocking incident a Samsung phone on Verizon exploded in the face of a user reports GizmodoGizmodo. The user dropped the phone inside his car and the phone exploded rendering the man shocked.Luckily the person is not blind and did not suffer any serious injuries. We are not sure if the phone was misused or  deliberately made to explode. Anyway its shocking to hear. Looks like the battery inside the phone exploded.

And this is how the phone looks when it’s not a bomb !

Motorola FlipOut: A Square, Android 2.1 Phone

Images of an upcoming Motorola handset FlipOut have surfaced online. Photos of the square shaped Motorola handset were grabbed by Italian HDblog.it. FlipOut has MotoBlur interface layered over the Android Eclair 2.1 operating system. U.S. nationals can expect to see this phone next month in three different colors.

Motorola FlipOut has a square form factor in which the screen can be slided to reveal the QWERTY keyboard. This square handset has a 2.8-inch display screen and runs Android Eclair 2.1 with MotoBlur branding. Inside the FlipOut, Motorola has packed a 700MHz microprocessor, 512MB ROM, and 256MB RAM so that Android's 2.1 update can run smoothly.

Apart from that, FlipOut will sport a 3.1 megapixel camera and GPS. This phone will support 3G networks. It would be interesting to see how this phone performs against the Microsoft's freshly announced Kin One.

The Kin One has more rounded corners and bit stubby looking while the FlipOut is purely square in shape. Again, both smartphones seem to target the social network frenzy audience. In a way, it looks like square-DSi. We're yet to get an official word on this smartphone.

Twinkle khanna to twinkle in Micromax Promo

Bollywood actress and now an interior designer ,wife of Film Star Akshay Kumar,Twinkle Khanna will  appear in Micromax Mobile ad.With this ad Twinkle Khanna is making her comeback after a very long hiatus.Akshay Kumar has already appeared in Micromax Gamolution ad and it seems Micromax has gone for a family package deal by signing Twinkle for next commercial.Mobile handset company is very hot these days with the entry of many new players.The companies are signing big bollywood stars to establish the face by associating with the brand.Aamir Khan is promoting Samsung mobile,Abhay Deol,John Abraham & Genelia D’Souza are endorsing LG’s Cookie range of mobiles and Sonam Kapoor is endorsing Spice mobile .So many Mobile handset marketers in fray it’s to be seen how they fare.

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Fingers-on video

Here is an amazing video that describes the added contigents of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini. This FCC passed Mini has exciting applications like Timescape and Mediascape. The X10 Mini is outfitted with Android 1.6, 5 MP camera, Wi-Fi, GPS and it is awe-some that perfectly fits your pocket.

Catch the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini on the video, where a Lady’s finger is tempting to play with it

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Motorola Flipout leaked yet again, codenamed ‘Ruth’

The Motorola Flipout is one of the more interesting Motoblur devices we’ve seen thus far. Following on the Flipout leak from not too long ago, we’re beginning to see the device again. This time around it’s from Italian site, Zumo.

The site is calling the device Ruth, a name we’ve previously never heard mentioned in reference this particular Android phone. The Flipout “Ruth” also bears the model number MB511. The small ad for the device says everything we’d expect from pretty much any Android phone, featuring Push Email, Android OS, WiFi, GPS, and a memory card slot. Nothing to revolutionary to see here, folks. Zumo also reports that device should be coming sometime in June of this year, which we’d said before.

I’m not much of a Motoblur fan, and the form factor of the phone makes it even less appealing to me. It’s good to see Motorola (NYSE: MOT) trying to get out absolutely any form factor they can get away with, but I’m just not feeling this one – which is not to say the Flipout will do badly in terms of sales, as I could see many people finding this attractive. It’s small, and it’s kinda cute, but I need power behind my devices. This is where this device will surely fall short.

Still, Android is meant to run on various hardware and price points, and I’d expect this device to run relatively cheap.

The Ruth does sport Android 2.1 though and that’s better than any other Motoblur device we’ve seen yet – a definite upside to this small, quirky phone. Also, this could hint at the possibility that the existing Motorola Backflip, Devour, Cliq, and Cliq XT could be receiving the update in the near future.

While we’re waiting for Motorola to announce another high-end Android device, they seem to biding their time with odd-shaped phones. That’s fine for now, as long as they deliver the goods at some point in the near future.

Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited intros IPTV Prepaid plans in Mumbai

Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited unleashed a new prepaid plans for the IPTV subscribers of Mumbai.The new Box Office and BlockBuster plans is incorporated with more entertaining features and sports stuff with an unlimited Video-On-Demand for 12 months. The Super Premium and Premium plans will remain viable.

MTNL IPTV tariff by Aksh provides 126 deliverable channels for both the Box Office and BlockBuster plans. Both the plans comes with a registration charges of Rs 100 and Rs 399 (BoxOffice Plan, monthy charge), Rs 4999 (Blockbuster plan, per annum ) as fixed charges..The Box Office and BlockBuster plans offers 10 paid and 5 FTA channels.

The Box Office Plan will refund the security deposit of Rs 1499 while BlockBuster plan donot provide any refundable deposit money option. The Voice-On-Demand subscription includes ESPN, Star Sports, Cricket Unlimited, and the subscribers can also utilize the unlimited list of movies on VOD for 12 months.

Particulars	Premium	Super Premium	Box Office Plan	Bloackbuster plan
Registration charges	100	100	100	100
Monthly fixed charge	199	249	399	4999 ,per annum
Deliverable Channels	125	125	126	126
Deposit refundable	5 pay channel	10 pay channel	10 paid, 5 FTA channel	10 paid, 5 FTA channel
VOD subscription	Free VOD monthly subscription with minimum 75 movies (excluding listed movies)	Free VOD monthly subscription with minimum 75 movies (excluding listed movies)	ESPN, Star Sports, Cricket Unlimited VOD list movies for 12 months	ESPN, Star Sports, Cricket Unlimited VOD list movies for 12 months

Plan migration from Rs 100 to Rs 249 or Rs 199 is allowed.

Aircel Launches ‘Music Connect’ Service with Vibrant Social Networking

In an attempt to encash the social networking habits of youngsters and taking a cue from this trend, India’s leading GSM Mobile service operator Aircel today announced the launch of first of its kind “Music Connect” a dynamic VAS with vibrant social experience.

The Aircel Music Connect service is all new concepts in terms of Mobile Value Added Services (M-VAS) which provide you with an option to subscribe and share the song you are listening to with your friends through most popular social networking sites Facebook and Twitter.

To use and subscribe the service Aircel postpaid and prepaid subscriber may Dial 543219 (Toll Free) from their Aircel Mobile number or they can register by visiting Aircel website (http://www.aircel.com) and look for MusicConnect. The Subscription charges will be Rs.30 for 60 Minutes access of the service.

Here are the Details-:

Aircel GSM Mobile Service users can subscribe the services via IVR – Dail a toll-free number 543219 or Aircel website (http://www.aircel.com), Visit the site and look for MusicConnect or logon to www.aircelmusicconnect.com. On the product information page click Join now. Follow the instructions to attach your mobile number and your Facebook or Twitter profile.

Sneak Peak in to Aircel MUSIC CONNECT Service-:

• MusicConnect will be currently available as application for Facebook and as tweet on Twitter.
• For status update you should have added & linked the facebook application or authorized twitter for Aircel MusicConnect and also have a valid subscription. MusicConnect will be updating the status of the song in real time on your Facebook/Twitter profile.(Networkdelays might lead to delay of few seconds)
• To register for Music Connect, you may do so through IVR Dial 543219, After subscriptionthe 4 -digit password will be sent to you by  SMS. Or Visit website(www.aircelmusicconnect.com) or social networking site – Facebook.
• On the MusicConnect website application, enter the Password and your mobile number.
• Social networking sites – Facebook, Login to your profile Search for MusicConnectapplication, Add the application to your profile,
  Open the application and follow registration process to generate PIN, PIN will be sent to you by SMS.
• MusicConnect will allow you to listen to the songs of your choice through : IVR – dial 543219 and listen to songs, or on Social networking sites – Facebook open the MusicConnect application and listen to your favorite songs.
• MusicConnect will let you share the current song you are listening to immediately after registration on the Facebook through application. Your Twitter account will be updated in real time as and when you are accessing IVR and website (www.aircelmusicconnect.com).
• After the registration for MusicConnect is successfully completed, you will get a SMS notification with your username and password. By default username is your Aircel Mobile Number.
• MusicConnect provides you with an option to search and listen to your favorite song through the application on your social networking site – Facebook or on www.aircelmusicconnect.com. The search functionality is currently not available through IVR.
• MusicConnect provides you with the option to create playlist while listening to songs. To create a playlist on IVR  Press 6, while the song is playing and on Facebook/Twitter just  Click the + sign next to each song Or Website www.aircelmusicconnect.com Each customer gets his own dial-in number for playlist as soon as it is created.
• The playlist on MusicConnect will be available to you as long as your subscription to the service continues and you hold at least one song in that.
• Online streaming is an add-on to Aircel MusicConnect subscription, online streaming is absolutely free for you. As long as you have a valid account and balance left, you can browse the web store front at any point in time!