SMS GupShup has raised USD 12 million in Series D venture financing round. With this new financing round, the total funding of SMS GupShup comes to $37 million. The new funding will be used to expand into other markets such as the Philippines and Indonesia, for product development and to hire new staff in engineering, advertising and marketing. Read full story »
Now you can get BSNL Broadband weekly usage statistics on your mobile phone through SMS. Register your mobile number and email id at the website http://bbusage.bsnl.in to receive weekly usage updates.
To get usage on-demand on your mobile phone, just send an SMS to +919447051550 with the keyword BBUSAGE, after registering for the service.
Download the windows application from http://bbusage.bsnl.in/app/v1.2/bbusage.exe to get the BSNL broadband usage updates on your computer. Read full story »
Reliance Communications is making SMS’s more affordable to all mobile customers in India with two new revolutionary SMS tariff plans for Reliance Mobile customers: One paisa per SMS plan and Unlimited SMS for just Re. 1 per day. The new SMS tariff plans are add-on plans and are applicable for all Reliance Mobile customers irrespective of CDMA or GSM network as well as prepaid and postpaid customers. Read full story »
Centre for Excellence in Wireless Technology (CEWiT) has developed a 7-bit encoding technology, which will allow SMS to be send in 22 Indian languages including Malayalam, Tamil, Marathi and Assamese. Further, text messages can be transliterated from one language to another. The encoding technology is approved by the global mobile standards body 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). The new 7-bit encoding scheme for Indian language SMS is now part of the 3GPP specifications. It is reported that, cell operators, phone makers and Telecome regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) have agreed to adopt the technology. Seven-bit encoding allows 160-character SMSs in regional languages also, approved by Trai and global mobile standards body 3GPP, accepted by cellular operators and phone manufacturers. Read full story »
Tata Docomo has recently announced a unique SMS service, diet-sms service, which allows you to send short SMS at the cost of just 1 paisa per character and no charge for spaces between words. It is same as normal P2P sms but in this diet-sms, you are charged 1 paisa per character and no charge for spaces between words. Diet-sms service is for message upto 15 characters.
There are 3 ways of sending a diet-sms. To send a diet-sms, go to the SIM-based Dive-in menu on the phone, scroll to the diet-sms option under the English Language menu, open it and send the SMS. Read full story »
