BSNL Mobile Money Transfer Services Coming Soon

By jay on February 23rd, 2010

BSNL plans to launch a mobile banking platform which will help mobile subscribers to send money orders electronically through SMS. The SMS by the sender will be encashable at all post offices. In order to send money, go to the nearest post office and transfer the money by way of an SMS. The SMS will contain a unique code. The person who receives this SMS real time, can go to his nearest post office and collect the money by showing the code. BSNL expects to roll out the service after getting the Reserve Bank of India’s approval.   Read more @ teck.in

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Mobile Number Portability (MNP) in Chennai & Bangalore from May

The Union Minister for Communications and IT, Mr A Raja, on Friday announced that mobile number portability would be introduced by the first week of May in Chennai and Bangalore. The MNP implementation got delayed due to certain issues related to getting security clearances.   Read more @ teck.in

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Amazon Kindle Now On BlackBerry Too

Amazon launched its Kindle application for the BlackBerry devices. Kindle For BlackBerry app enables users of the Blackberry smartphone to read digital books purchased from Amazon and synchronize bookmarks with the Kindle electronic reader and other supported devices. Apart from the Amazon Kindle e-Book Reader device, currently it is available in Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch with a Kindle app and also on Windows PCs. Amazon also plans to release applications for the Mac and Apple iPad, a tablet computer set to be released at the end of March.   Read more @ teck.in

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15th Annual GSMA Global Mobile Awards for Steve Jobs, Kenya and RIM

The GSMA (GSM Association) announced the winners of the Global Mobile Awards at the 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. BlackBerry Enterprise Server v5.0 from RIM (Research In Motion) won the Best Mobile Enterprise Product or Service award, Kenya won the Government Leadership Award, and Steve Jobs won the Mobile Industry Personality of the Year as Voted for by the Media.   Read more @ teck.in

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SunTec’s IPTV Billing Solution for Smart Digivision’s MyWay IPTV Service

SunTec Business Solutions, the leading provider of convergent transaction pricing and billing solutions for the Communications, Media and Entertainment (CME) industry announced that Smart Digivision has successfully deployed its IPTV billing solution to price and bill Smart Digivision’s MyWay IPTV Service in India. MyWay IPTV service is available in 54 cities across India on Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. (MTNL) broadband networks and is expected to reach three million subscribers in the first five years.   Read more @ teck.in

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HBO Go – HBO’s Online Movie Streaming Service

HBO Go is a video streaming service which will allow subscribers to watch streaming movies on the internet. This content delivery service will enable Verizon Wireless’s FiOS TV customers to enjoy masses of HBO-branded content while online. The service, available only in the United States, offers live streaming at HD picture quality. With HBO Go, subscribers can watch their favorite movies either by ordering the DVD, or watch the streaming movie online.    Read more @ teck.in

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meebo IM for iPhone and iPod Touch Launched

Meebo instant-messaging tool is now available on iPhone and iPod touch. It provides full chat history, enabling you to view and search your complete chat history anytime, anywhere. The apps syncs with Meebo on desktop. Take your chats seamlessly from your desktop to your iPhone or iPod touch. IM messages show up just like text messages when you enable push notifications. Meebo iPhone app supports landscape mode, providing you a widescreen view and a larger keyboard by turning Meebo on its side.    Read more @ teck.in

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mChek Certified as Western Union Mobile Money Transfer Vendor

mChek is certified by Western Union as a Mobile Money Transfer Vendor. Whether for sending money or receiving money, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) around the globe can now use the mChek platform as their technology service provider platform and partner with Western Union to offer Money Transfer Services to customers through a turnkey hosted service. This reduces integration costs and accelerate go-to-market activities for banks and mobile operators by creating standard technical deployments.    Read more @ teck.in

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Job Vacancy: Official Twitterer of the US President Barack Obama

WSJ reports that, barackobama.com has published an online job description for the post of Social Networks Manager, who will be responsible for maintaining the President’s accounts on Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. The person currently holding the job of ‘Barack Obama’s twitterer’ is stepping down soon. Obama now has more than three million followers on Twitter and nearly 7.5 million Facebook fans.   Read more @ teck.in

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Google Buzz to Have Stand-Alone Version Soon

Google may create a stand-alone version of Google Buzz social networking tool and will continue to keep Buzz in Gmail too. Buzz is a Facebook + Friendfeed like service launched earlier this week. Bloggers and social media experts have raised privacy concerns on the Buzz contact network being publicly viewable by default which could could expose people’s private contacts. To overcome these concerns Google announced a couple of changes including making it easier for Buzz users to keep their contacts list private and option to select followers from the recommended list.   Read more @ teck.in

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