Here is quick recap of some top stories across telecom world.
- Mobile Payment: After Airtel’s nation wide launch of mobile payment services recently, a Hindu newline story focuses on growing mobile payment industry in India. In fact Visa & Monetise also going to offer mobile banking services inIndia. A Real boom indeed!
- Content monetizing: Tata DoCoMo’s latest launch of location based advertising service could be spin off some money out mobile contents in India. This Advance Television report gives insight intoIndia’s way to monetizing contents.
- Application Data Breaches: Are Android & iPhone applications tracking your data? The WSJ Article investigates into mobile app data breaches & user’s privacy concerns.
- Cloud disruptions: Can Cloud computing disrupt the way we think about our industry? Perhaps yes! This Forbes report summarizes the six examples of Cloud deployments, not only to reduce costs, but to gain flexibility and disrupt the way we build our infrastructure.
- Green Telecom: Delta power has recently implemented first Fuel Cell powered Telecom Tower for Idea Cellular in Madhya Pradesh. Read on the Idea’s experiment with Green Telecom.
- Top 5 mobile App trends in 2012: Here is short Appli report on what to expect in mobile app industry in year 2012. Though in Indian context, financial services are gaining momentum, other app segments, like health & enterprise mobile apps are big deal to tap in. This NYT article lists some interesting health apps which helps in monitoring health withMobile devices.
- Android Apps cost more than iPhone Apps: This CNNMoney report share some insights into mobile app business, both for Android & iPhone Apps.
- Why BADA matters for Samsung? This interesting blog shares some insight into Samsung’s Mobile OS strategy. Despite deploying Windows 7 & Android on its Smartphone, Samsung is still betting on BADA strongly. Interesting!
- Days are numbered for SMS: With single digit growth in SMS revenues in past two years, Light Reading & Ovum predicts that by 2013, SMS revenue growth might come to halt totally. With cheap calling rates already avail on mobiles, why to bother to send txt?
- What will happen to DataWind?: After being kicked out of Aakash Tablet Project, the company has strictly denied the reports of exit from project. Twist & Tale?
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