Webaroo has announced the launch of a new group messaging service in India, called “SMS GupShup”. The company says “SMS GupShup” is a free service that offers users a chance to create groups of any size, and communicate within them. The messages sent by the creator of the group are forwarded by Webaroo, at no…
Microsoft is set to unveil its next generation of handsets and telephony devices that tie into the current beta trials of Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communicator 2007. Notable partners in the venture (unveiled at WinHEC this year) include ASUSTek Computer Inc., GN, LG-Nortel Co. Ltd., NEC Corp., Plantronics Inc., Polycom Inc., SAMSUNG, Tatung…
US soldiers serving overseas will lose some of their online links to friends and loved ones back home under a department of defence policy that a high-ranking army official said would take effect today. The defence department will begin blocking access worldwide to YouTube, MySpace and 11 other popular websites on its computers and networks,…
Live TV on mobile! No, this is not another value-added service spiel on the yet-to-arrive 3G mobile services. It’s about TV to be available on your handset, on existing mobile networks (that is, 2.5G) and as early as next month. Cost containment for communications vendors and their carrier customers can be achieved on two fronts….
The worldwide mobile marketing and advertising market is expected to be worth $3 billion in 2007, according to market research firm ABI Research. The market will balloon to $19 billion by 2011, the firm said in a study published Tuesday. The bulk of the revenue will be generated by advertising through mobile search and video….