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Vodafone Essar, one the leading cellular service providers has announced special services for pilgrims traveling to Sabarimala. Vodafone had increased facilities for prepaid recharge users at retail outlets and route to Sabarimala, while postpaid subscribers from other States could make bill payments at Vodafone stores and Vodafone mini-stores across Kerala, a company release said here. The Sabarimala pack offers pilgrims temple timings, prasadam information and ... Full story

Big C mobile, second largest mobile retail chain in south India, has intended to improve its growth by investing Rs. 50 crore in the coming year. It is focusing to boost up its stores to 200 by March 2010. As an initial stage, it is aiming for 100 stores in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka by March 2009. By 2010, it will be extending its network ... Full story

A cut in an undersea cable owned by Reliance Communications has disrupted communication networks in the Gulf region, especially Kuwait. The cut on Reliance's FEA Cable System happened between Italy and Spain on November 24. This is the sixth cable disruption in a year. In February this year, FEA and SEA-ME-WE-4 (a consortium cable) were cut at many locations across West Asia, which were later ... Full story

Spice Televentures’ mobile handset retail chain, HotSpot, introduces SIM-card like or micro SD card like,  Movie Card with an objective to entertain movie consumers. HotSpot’s Movie card is a 1-GB SD card. The movie card has a full-fledged movie with ringtones , wallpapers and trivia related to the movie. ... Full story

Hassle about current updation’s, No matter, Here comes the solution, The leading search engine giant Google India has recently launched a newer version of its SMS based text message service. To acquire this service, just SMS your query to 9-77-33-00000 at regular SMS cost and get instant reply then and there. According to the company, the new Google SMS Search service is available across all operators on ... Full story

Union Telecom Minister Raja says that Local call rates can be dropped to 20 paise and STD rates to 50 paise/minute. The minister calls the industry's situation as ideal situation for operators to reduce tariff. He pointed out the reason as competitive environment with the entry of new players. In India , basically tariffs are decided based on the market environment. Whose is the operator to ... Full story

IDEA Cellular, one of the largest telecommunication service providers, launched its EDGE enabled USB Data Card- NetSetter for prepaid and postpaid subscribers in Mumbai. The Plug & Play NetSetter provides anytime-anywhere wireless Internet access. The new data card claims to offer affordable voice and data connectivity to the subscribers in the city. It also offers faster speed and consistency than Dial up Internet connection. Speaking on the ... Full story

UniverCell has launched its second store in Vijayawada on November 14th. “This will be the largest store in Andra Pradesh. The store is internationally designed and showcases the latest models and accessories,” Mr Satish Babu, Founder, UniverCell, said in a statement. UniverCell Indias largest mobile retail giant  plans to scale it to 300 stores by 2009 Full story

Yahoo, the major search ware is one the news again and this time with a great voice. All these days you've to browse the web with your keyboard buttons in the PC or the mobile phones. But Yahoo thought different way. The result, web search through voice mail in the mobile. Doesn't it sound fantastic? That's yahoo. All that you have to do is to ... Full story

Google enables us to order iPhone to bring whatever we ask. ASking, that too in words. ya, Google adds voice search feature to its iPhone browser which wants user to dictate the search keywords without typing. Browser has been set for release on this friday on which you can your iPhone 'Movie Releases this friday'. The voice will be recorded and will be sent ... Full story