Indian mobile space along with cellphone devices are finally through with anticipation of web 2.0 and social networking wave. Already caught the online web space among Indian crowd, social media and networking services are showing interest in ever growing mobile user base in India. Recently, Vodafone has announced that its research in motion product BlackBerry Storm to be launched in India soon that will carry all big apps of web on mobile such as MySpace, YouTube, Facebook social networking, Flickr, Google Maps, Find&Go navigation through its high speed navigation and touch screen. On other part LG Electronics India partnered with RockeTalk mobile social networking application to pre-load on all new LG KT610 and KF750 (Secret) mobile phone models with RockeTalk mobile social networking App. If you are a regular reader of IndianWeb2, you might have noticed that mobile 2.0 in India is most busy stream getting updates in terms of newly launched services, companies coming in, partnerships and expansion of mobile 2.0 in Indian mobile spectrum. Meanwhile Microsoft launched its Live search Maps for India earlier this week on web and Mobile (http://m.live.co.in). Microsoft’s Live Search Service, thereby allowing users to search for geographical information, places of general interest and business listings both on ...

Lately past month an another Mobile Social Networking App has been Launched in India and it seems that past couple of weeks were the busiest period when mobile startups in India has been launched. Rocketalk has launched public beta of its free mobile social networking application in India just after Zook.in, Qeep and a recent one - MobileAdda of BigAdda.com etc. It is one of earliest mobile 2.0 startup from India (since 2004) as the founder of company is a product himself of premier Indian institute IIT, Mumbai. Rocketalk is a downloadable mobile phone application (m.rocketalk.com) which allows mobile phone users to meet and interact with new people through text, voice, picture and video messaging. Users can mash-up user generated content with other content, create and share their own content with friends and family and obviously join and interact with mobile communities. Moreover the company is in verge of making RockeTalk an IM chat compatible in near future i.e. IM facility with Yahoo, Google Talk, MSN, AIM and ICQ. RockeTalk is a venture-backed company, headquartered in San Diego, California, USA with offices in Delhi, India.

An another Mobile web startups Zook.in has been launched by Bangalore based startup Ziva this week. Zook is India's first mobile fetch engine that gets exact answers to any query made across India. The mobile search start-up has been incubated at IIM Bangalore, a premier management institute of India. Zook.in let users to search info such as Movies, Businesses, Restaurants, ATMs, Travel, Weather, Traffic and at the same time create custom alerts for search results. To set alerts, users can visit www.zook.in to find and set the desired alerts by searching for "alerts " where category can be deals, movies, etc. or by SMS as well such as "alerts " where category can be deals, movies, etc. to 5757 5665 (India). Other than this user can also search and get SMS Forwards, Mobile Graphics/Videos, Ringback Tones, Games, Ringtones by sending simple SMS code.

Blue Lion Mobile, a Cologne-based company has officially offered it mobile 2.0 product 'Qeep', a social network for mobile phones in India, which would allow Indian users to stay connected with their friends, make new friends and do all such social networking activities on their Mobile handsets by downloading the application qeep on to their mobile phones. Qeep is a Java based App and can be downloaded for free at www.qeep.net or via WAP portal at wap.qeep.net. Any internet-ready mobile phone that supports Java MIDP 2.0 is qeep-compatible. Qeep offers host of interactive features like private messaging, photo-blogging with unlimited storage space, live multi-player gaming, sound attacks and QMS, a special kind of text message designed for qeep and costs a lot less than an SMS. The beta-version of the qeep mobile community was launched in December 2006 and have a user base of over 3,00,000 users fronm around 160 countries.

Momail, acclaimed as world’s smallest mobile email, has today launched its entry into the Indian market with its popular mobile email product that helps you begin accessing your existing e-mail accounts on your mobile phone. The site for Momail India is now open for up to 1,00,000 beta testers and they can sign up at www.momail.in using the password momailrox. The Momail offer is perfect for a market like India with an ever increasing interest in mobile technology compared with a relatively low pc penetration. Momail’s service includes a full email offering, and for many Indians, only having a mobile for their communication, Momail will be their first way to use email including having their first email address. For Indians already using email, Momail can be the "mobile postman" collecting all existing email accounts, including Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo! Mail, and local ISP mail into one super inbox on the mobile. "We have had a lot of interest from India and now we are happy to offer Momail for free for a number of beta testers. Our plan is to open Momail for all Indians before Christmas, so soon all users with an email capable mobile will be able to enjoy the world’s ...

BigAdda.com, the most widely used social network portal in India and made in India as well has launched its mobile version past week to catch the ramping mobile usage by Indian crowd. The company launched the Mobile version of BigAdda in two parts - online version (wap.bigadda.com) and Downloadable version called Mobile Adda (not to be confused with website with similar name). When it comes to features it is providing this is probably the first time that an Indian made social network is providing such features on mobile platform such as - inviting friends from your phonebook and to use the in-built phonebook in mobile handsets to send invitations to his/her friends network, as phone-book on mobile devices is the closest replica of ones social & professional contacts. Moreover, the built in phone book backup utility stores your phone book on BigAdda servers and if in case a user changes a device, the same can be retrieved - an alternative to back-up your contacts on your mobile devices and thats too free of any cost. Apart from above Mobile Adda's includes key features of social networking like searching for friends, inviting them from your phonebook, communicating with them through options such as text, ...

Question - With Free Internet Telephony just come up in India some of you could thought that, you were already making calls over the internet, than what's this Free Internet Telephony meant for? Answer - That works only over net-enabled PCs. You couldn’t terminate internet telephony calls on fixed and mobile networks and vice-versa. Now TRAI newest recommendation has now made it possible to do so. TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) has broken the ice finally after all that scrutiny over illegal Internet telephony in India in last year's October when big names such as Skype, Google, Net2Phone has to go under scrutiny and alleged of 10 million minutes of illegal net telephony without any license. On 12th of May TRAI released a 12 questions consultation paper on "Issues related to Internet Telephony", which needs to replied by the stake holders, example of various countries and background of Internet Telephony in India. The question relates to whether ISPs should be permitted net Telephony services to land-line phones within India, what would be implication and Interconnections between computers and land-line/ mobile phones. On Aug 18 TRAI come with detail recommendation i.e. conclusion to permit Internet telephony to ISPs with permission to provide Internet ...

Mapunity an Indian based GIS/ MIS and Mobile based technology company has brought a 'real time' traffic details in form of Maps (optimal directions, routes, location tracking of buses and trains) and this live traffic information service is for four cities - Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune. Thanks XploreDotNet. Mapunity has led the development of Urban Transport Information Systems for the above cities via different inputs namely teledensity data from Airtel's mobile telecom tower network, video images from police cameras, location-tracking of buses and taxis to create real-time knowledge of traffic conditions in cities. These are then made widely available through Airtel's mobile telecom network to city residents, accessible on web and mobile both. As per Mapunity the development would be stretching further, as website describe: Mapunity is also building a free mobile-based navigation system that will help people access data from its traffic information systems on their phones. A few other related applications have also been developed. These include a carpool partner-matching program for regular commutes and a vehicle tracking application for taxi and bus operators. Mapunity is also building administration platforms for transport management authorities in different functions. Moreover, the service also have traits of networking for people such as ...

Indian technology company Infosys technologies has revealed a plan to develop a special chipsets for Mobile devices that will transform it to able to capture and project 3D holographic images. The company will release the attached chipsets mobile devices by year 2010, moreover the company has even protected this latest technology via US patent 7209269. This patented onboard processor of Infosys would build a series of 2D shots taken, for example, from a digital camera, into 3D holograms using algorithms called Fourier transformations to calculate that extra third dimension. This latest technology from Indian giant will provide ultimate support to few critical real world situation such as analyzing car crash, educational aids, medical case studies by transforming objects into 3D capured from camera, scanners. Apart from this information, the company hasn't revealed further news or sample prototype of device of how it would look like when launched.

Savitr, a wireless and mobile company in India has launched a custom mobile application for varieties of use in Business, marketing, Website or social apps. The product Txtme is text messaging application and software that connect subscriber data to carrier networks to provide custom use of this product such as - Sending sms to customers for marketing use. Integrating sms alerts in applications & online stores. Corporate use to stay connected with employees & partners through web interface. Integration with HR management system with predefined message for specific events. Web applications use by integrating text message functionality in web, social apps in networks such as Facebook, MySpace or Orkut. Other custom use such as message wall in clubs, restaurants, launge etc. Customized applications and solutions for startups & enterprises. Savitr through this product has provided solutions that rely on mobile device usage in perfect scenario when mobile usage is rising enormously in India being just second after US in mobile usage. At this time all type of businesses particularly startups are showing interest in exploiting mobile products of every sphere whether its is Twitter or short code mobile network services. Earlier Savitr had also launched one of its Txtme Facebook app to send free sms to USA, UK ...

Today, the most revolutionary device that we could say have changed our lives is - Mobile Phones, with more and more technical up gradations, innovations coming up, right from camera phones which has got too obvious for all to PDAs, iPhones or latest one iPhone 3G. Among all the camera phones have become nominal part of our daily life along with clothing accessories. The latest Mobile buzz today we could play with and thats to with much ease is Mobile Codes and QR Codes (Quick Response Code) and both of these technologies require just one thing - a camera phone along with a reader. Let me put it this way - to read PDF files or .rtf files you need Acrobat Reader and MS Word respectively, in same way you need to have QR/ Mobile code reader to encode information in QR codes, which can be installed very easily (if I could do this, anyone can and yes, I am in India :)). The mobile/ QR codes are 2 dimensional codes different from 1 dimensional Bar-codes that we could see on products we purchase from shops/ malls and billing counter person encode it with their Bar-code reader devices. Though Bar codes can ...

Microblogging is a new form of blogging that has ramped up quickly and created various offshoots uses of itself apart from a common use of updating/publishing thoughts in form of text (usually less than 200 characters),evenmore, microblogging is said to be used as tool in communication, productivity, e-commerce, brand exposure and in many cases a serious business tool because of its instant information retrieval nature, thus nearly a real time info exchange. While on global scale brands like Twitter (need no intro) and Jaiku are main players along with Pownce (from Digg), India is also deliberately paving way in Microblogging, though Twitter remain the key player in India too, a lot of Microblogging platforms were introduced in past 6 months in India. Below are major microblogging platforms in India; A web app from Indian mobile technology company Webaroo, SMSGupShup is major Indian microblogging platform. It provide users to send/free free text SMS to any mobile device. Unlike to Twitter, it provide its users to create and join groups to send and recieve SMSs to and from users in these groups respectively. As apparent, sending and receiving SMS via mobile and online site usage seems to have 1:5 ratio thus the site doesn't appeal ...

Getmo, a startup launched in middle east conference MECOM 2008 will be offering digital content and entertainment services to Indian subcontinent region and Middle east countries including Africa as well. The startup which is yet to be launched at its full throttle will set to be providing music, movies or games for Mobile phones, personal computers or other digital device players accessible directly to consumers on internet. The website will set to provide such kind of entertainment content and services to Indian sub-continent region which includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia along with Africa and middle east regions such as UAE and other Arabian countries. The content will be available to online and mobile users at considerably low rates, moreover one can also publish their own content of such media type in order to let the content travel in these areas covering almost 40% of world's population. Getmo, a part of Abu Dhabi media company will publish such pieces of entertainment content to be consumed directly by consumers either by their own or by partnerships, as one of the tied-ship announced is with Sony BMG, in which the record label will provide local and Arabic content for the ...

BlogBard is a new India based website that turns any feed/blog to a personalized radio. The website on among new channel for consuming content that is traditionally consumed by reading, which is difficult when user are multitasking or simply not in front of PCs, typically PC users include people who like to listen to online radio in the background. To listen to Blogs one can just type in the name of favorite blogs or the url in the search box and then can subscribe to the interesting blogs at Blogbard and listen to them. The website has done integration with Google Reader as well as Bloglines, so one can use BlogBard service to listen to their subscriptions on Google Reader or Bloglines. For the mobile users and iPhone addicts BlogBard support the iPhone and the iPod touch and optimized its website specifically for the iPhone and will be rolling out support for Blackberry and Treo as well, soon. Moreover it also provide the capability to download the entire feed as audio via iTunes. For publishers/bloggers, the website provide a widget that embeds as an audio player on their website. The simplicity that widget possess provide the increment of website accessibility in ...

Ubona is one of a kind and first service in India and presently for the people of Bangalore only, the website provide new kind of service where any user can call from his/her cellphone and it comprehend the speech of consumer and trigger appropriate action. See - Demo Using the service, People in Bangalore will be able to call any wine and dine place (restaurants, hotels , sweet shops, bakeries) only by saying the name of the place. The phone number to access the service is (91) (80) 4070 0000. The service is accessible from any land-line or mobile phone at no extra cost. The Ubona service for consumers, businesses and enterprise is new service that delivers consumers information and business to reach consumer in somewhat JIT (Just in Time) methodology of ERP. Through this new online mobile 2.0 service users can make purchase, get information, make reservation or enquire about a service or product through mobile whereas a business, enterprise can reach thier targeted audience in clutter free environment unlike to paid campaigns in search engines where you compete several other advertisers visible next to your ads. This service by Ubona has definitely created new dimensions in Mobile 2.0 market in India as ...