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India reportedly added 10.81 million mobile subscribers in Dec-08. This has left telecom operators scrambling as they are expecting to run out of 10-digit mobile numbers pretty soon. In 2003, the telecom dept had come up with numbering plan expected to last for 30 years but the spiralling growth in the telecom subscriber base has forced them [...]

Vodafone has announced the launch of the BlackBerry Storm in India, the first ‘clickable’ touchscreen phone it has developed exclusively with Research In Motion (RIM). With a touchscreen keypad, which can be done away with when not needed, the ‘Storm’ gives a lot of space for visual experience, an advantage over earlier Blackberry models. The SurePress touchscreen [...]

The financial slowdown has reached Mountain View, as Google plans to give employees an Android powered handset instead of the $1,000 cash gifts it usually gives. In countries where the phone does not work as yet, like the BRIC countries, Google will give employees $400 (which is the cash value of the phone).

For all those who can’t enough of their daily Gmail fix, say hello to Gmail for Mobile v2.0 for J2ME-supported and BlackBerry devices.

Three months after Apple announced that the iPhone 3G would be available in India, the day finally dawned when an eager Indian junta managed to get their hands on a legit iPhone, with a 14 year old school boy among the first buyers.

Google has announced the availability of their popular social networking site, Orkut, on Symbian Series 60 (3rd edition) phones. This would include most of the newer phone’s from Nokia’s Nseries and Samsung’s SGH models.

The BBC World Service Trust, in conjunction with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have hit upon a novel method to bring awareness about safe sex into the open in India. The ‘C’ word, aka Condoms, which leaves even seasoned pros red-faced when buying them over the counter will no longer be a hushword as thousands of Indians [...]