Canadian digital accessories brand Hip Street enters India
June 22
Hip Street, one of the fastest growing global company specialized in Consumer Electronics and related products has forayed into the Indian market. With this, the company is going to make its full array of IT Peripherals, Telecom and Lifestyle digital accessories available in India.
Hipstreet is also an exclusive licensee from Disney for certain product categories in India. Head Quartered and designed in Canada, Hip Street strives to provide the most innovative and reliable products keeping in mind the ever changing consumer aspirations and market dynamics.
The company has already taken three industry veterans – Sukhesh Madaan, Sandeep Ramani and Sanjeev Ariaratnam as GM- South East Asia, Country Manager-India and Country Manager-Sri Lanka respectively, on board. Together they will be driving the growth of Hip Street in SAARC.
In the first year of its operation, Hip Street is looking at expanding the channel partner base and strengthening its market presence. Through their distribution partners-Global Infonet and Fortune Marketing their range of products will be available across channel and Large Format retailers. In addition, the organization will be spending the considerable amount on innovative marketing to build the brand in the region.
ApnaCircle adds innovative features to its website
June 20
ApnaCircle, India’s first global Business and Career networking site, announces the addition of Rich Media and other innovative networking features to its website that enables users to have a more interactive profile. The new features broaden the scope of communication one can have with other professionals or prospective employers/employees on ApnaCircle.com, as they will allow members to post and view rich content including images and high - definition videos on the site.
Some of the new features include:
- Dashboard: This feature enables users to share videos, slide share documents or any article by providing a preview directly on the news feed
- I-frame: It gives an integrated option of interaction on the website. This means, no switching pages to express your views on a particular news/article.
- Images: One can now upload up to 30 images and photographs in .png, .jpeg and .gif format in forum/community post
- Rich Media Videos: Videos can also be uploaded inside a forum/community post by pasting URL's of videos already posted on video sharing websites like YouTube ,Vimeo or Dailymotion.
According to Mr. Yogesh Bansal, Founder & CEO of ApnaCircle.com said, “ApnaCircle being a strong local network has always encouraged aspiring professionals from myriad parts of the country to gain domestic and global visibility and improve their professional and business prospects. We aim at innovating with coming times and giving our user base the best and the latest features.”
Comviva wins top honors at Asia Communication Awards 2011
June 23
Comviva, the global leader in providing mobile solutions beyond VAS, announced that it has won three awards at Asia Communication Awards 2011 held in Singapore. The awards were presented at the award ceremony in the presence of leaders from Asian telecom industry on Wednesday, June 22, 2011.
Comviva’s Mobile Wallet solution deployed by Banglalink, the second largest telecom operator in Bangladesh, transforms the mobile phone into a convenient cash-free and card-free transaction medium, enabling customers to receive funds from overseas foreign workers into a secure, wallet account. The service supports multiple transactional methods, including cash-to-bank, cash-to-cash, cash-to-wallet and wallet-to-wallet to maximize service access. The service fully complies with regulations and benefits from a robust, open ecosystem of multiple banks, money transfer operators, billers and service providers.
Comviva’s Dynamic Discounting Solution enables operators optimize mobile network utilization and enhance revenues by introducing a new approach to pricing. Using Dynamic Discounting operators can dynamically model tariffs in proportion to the current load at a specific cell location – the lower the traffic volumes, the higher the discount and vice versa. The discounts can also be tailored to individual call transactional patterns of customer to drive higher minutes of usage per cell site.
Comviva provides Managed VAS Services to both greenfield and established operators, enhancing revenues by improving service performance and speeding time to market, while achieving improved operational and cost efficiencies. It offers operators an opportunity to differentiate their brands and improve margins in a complex and highly dynamic global VAS space.
Held in Singapore, The Asia Communication Awards 2011 seek to recognise the achievements of Asian telecoms companies and individuals responsible for the innovations, achievements and great new services that are helping to build tomorrows industry
Vdopia inks Middle East deal with IAS Media–Digital
June 23
Vdopia Inc., the leader in mobile and online video advertising, announced it has entered into a marketing agreement with IAS Media–Digital, one of Middle East’s largest media marketing groups, which handles a vast spectrum of high-profile media titles across the region. The agreement will help significantly drive market penetration for Vdopia’s online and mobile video advertising solutions.
IAS Media enjoys a favorable status with media buying houses, advertisers and advertising agencies across the Middle East. IAS Media–Digital, the company's digital arm, represents 80 international portals as well as major publishers and large networks. It will now offer the full array of Vdopia offerings, from pre-app, in-app and mobile web video ads on smartphones to Vdopia's full portfolio of online video products.
China Telecom and Huawei deploy world’s first end-to-end 100G WDM System
June 22
Huawei, a leading telecom solutions provider, and China Telecom, announced the successful deployment of the world’s first end-to-end 100G WDM (wavelength division multiplexing) system. The system establishes an ultra-broadband transport link between metropolitan hubs Nanjing and Wuxi in the Jiangsu province of the Yangtze River Delta.
As the rapid increase in demand for large-bandwidth services, such as storage, video, and inter-area private-line enterprise services, puts global carrier networks under increasing strain, operators are searching for ways to adapt their live IP core and 40G WDM backbone networks to carry more services. Huawei’s 100G solution satisfies the demand for large bandwidth, while protecting live network investments and allowing networks to be upgraded smoothly without affecting existing services.
In Jiangsu, Huawei’s end-to-end 100G solution enables bandwidth pool solutions to be seamlessly integrated and hybrid 100G and 40G services to be transmitted from Nanjing to Wuxi over hundreds of kilometers without having to use an electrical regenerator. Huawei’s 80-channel system with 40 Gb/s per channel solution and Tbit-level OptiX OSN 8800 are adopted in this OTN network. The successful transmission of 100G services indicates a 2.5-time increase in capacity of the live network to 100 Gb/s per channel (80 channels), which lays a solid foundation for the rapid development of backbone telecommunication services in Jiangsu.
Huawei is committed to providing operators worldwide with high-quality WDM/OTN, MSTP/Hybrid MSTP, and microwave products as well as end-to-end solutions. According to consulting firm Ovum, by the fourth quarter of 2010, Huawei ranked number one in the global optical network market, WDM/OTN market, and 40G market.
Texas Instruments unleashes industry’s most complete small cell base station solutions with dual-mode support and comprehensive software suite
June 21
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) unveiled the TMS320TCI6612 and TMS320TCI6614, the industry’s most comprehensive System-on-Chips (SoCs) for developers of metro, pico and enterprise small cell base stations. TI’s new small cell SoCs are enabled with production ready software and are the highest performing devices available for small cells.
Based on TI’s innovative KeyStone multicore architecture, these scalable SoCs encompass a mix of processing elements including radio accelerators, network and security coprocessors, combined fixed-and floating-point digital signal processors (DSPs) and an ARM® RISC processor, providing the ideal foundation for layers 1, 2 and 3 and transport processing for high performance small cell base stations.
The TCI6612 and TCI6614 SoCs are code compatible with TI’s entire KeyStone multicore portfolio, as well the TMS320C64x DSP generation, ensuring all previous software investments made by TI customers can be reused. This flexibility allows base station manufacturers to develop a wide portfolio of products at a lower cost, lower power, and in less time than with competing solutions.
TI’s long-standing history and success in the base station market empowers small cell developers to handle large amounts of data traffic with unmatched ease. The TCI6612 and TCI6614 SoCs feature network coprocessors which offload the processing of intensive functions typically performed by DSPs. This frees up MIPs for differentiating features, such as advanced interference cancellation and management techniques, which reduce noise on wireless networks.
With TI’s new SoCs developers can differentiate their products and come closer than ever before to the boundary of Shannon’s Law which defines the limits of wireless data capacity. The result is increased spectral efficiency and higher data rates for operators and a more satisfying user experience. Until today, this kind of performance was beyond the reach of small cell base station manufacturers.
Huawei unveils MediaPad – the 7-inch Android 3.2 Honeycomb Dual-Core Tablet
June 20
Huawei, the telecom solutions provider, launched the Huawei MediaPad, the world’s first 7-inch Android 3.2 Honeycomb tablet. The MediaPad is a complete entertainment powerhouse driven by Qualcomm’s dual-core 1.2GHz processor, supported by Huawei Device’s Hi-Space cloud solution and Google Android Market. The MediaPad provides a fabulous user-experience in a stylish, high-performing and ultra-portable package.
The MediaPad is Huawei Device’s smartest, slimmest and lightest tablet yet, measuring just 10.5mm (0.4 inches) deep and weighing approximately 390g (0.86 pounds). It supports 1080P full HD video playback and features a 1.3 megapixel front facing camera and 5 megapixel auto focus rear facing camera with HD video recording capabilities. With HSPA+ 14.4Mbps and high-speed WiFi 802.11n Internet connectivity, the MediaPad entertains as well as keeps you connected.
The MediaPad supports HSPA+ data services, Flash 10.3 videos and comes preinstalled with applications such as Facebook, Twitter, Let’s Golf and Documents to Go. With the 7-inch IPS touch screen, the MediaPad offers a standout visual experience for photos, movies and applications. Entertainment and gaming experience are taken to the next level with the MediaPad’s 1.2GHz Dual-Core processor, HD playback and HDMI port.
Handset sales in India likely to touch 220 mn in 2011: Gartner
June 19
According to Gartner, the global research group, India is expected to see sales of about 220 million mobile handsets in 2011. India, one of the fastest growing handset markets in the world, has millions of mobile phone users whose count is rising every month.
Based on current trends, Gartner has projected that about 220 million handsets are expected to be sold in India in 2011.
Gartner estimates showed that around 175 million handsets were sold last year in India. As many as 50.7 million mobile devices and three million smartphones were sold during the first three months of 2011.
In the wake of substantial growth, the competition has also increased, especially with rising number of local and Chinese brands, which alone accounts for over 50 % market share.
Overall Tele-density in India reaches to 72.08 at the end of April 2011
June 13
The number of telephone subscribers in India increased to 861.48 million in April from 846.32 million in March 2011, thereby registering a growth rate of 1.79%. With this, the overall tele-density reaches to 72.08 at the end of April, 2011 from 70.43 of the previous month.
The overall urban teledensity has increased from 157.32 to 159.63. However, the rural teledensity had a slight increase from 33.79 to 34.47.
Total Wireless subscriber base increased from 811.59 million in March to 826.93 million at the end of April 2011, registering a growth of 1.89%.
On the other hand, Wireline subscriber base declined from 34.73 million in March to 34.55 million at the end of April 2011.
Total Broadband subscriber base has increased from 11.87 million in March 2011 to 12.01 million in April 2011, there by showing a growth of 1.17 %.
The requests for Mobile Number Portability has shot up from 64.23 lakh subscribers at the end of March 2011 to 85.41 lakh subscribers at the end of April 2011.
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