Tata Docomo introduce BlackBerry phones and offers two plans for BlackBerry data service. “Do 299″ plan offers unlimited data usage for e-mail and instant messaging. “Do 899″ plan offers unlimited data usage for Internet, e-mail and instant messaging access. The user needs to subscribe to the voice plans separately. BlackBerry 9000 costs Rupees 31, 990, and BlackBerry 8900 costs Rupees 24,990. Read full story »

Reliance launched BigMaps.com, local search service, on GSM network. BigMaps.com claims to have over 20 million geoc-tagged buildings across India. This service is available only to Reliance Communications users over SMS, WAP and download medium, With BigMaps, subscribers to search across business, directions, events and movies. The maps can be zoomed up to 15 zoom levels and the services aim to provide real time landmark based routing. Read full story »

Nokia announced its details of its new Booklet 3G netbook. The netbook will be powered by Microsoft Windows 7 operating system – Windows 7 Starter Edition, Home Premium, or Professional. Nokia Booklet 3G is powered by an 1.6GHz Atom Z530 processor. The system features 10.1-inch 1280×720 screen, Webcam, HDMI-out, three USB ports, SD card slot, 3G, Wi-Fi, GPRS/EDGE ready, Bluetooth, A-GPS support, 1 GB of DDR2 RAM and 120 GB of storage. The netbook claims to have 12-hour uptime. Read full story »

Way2SMS.com has achieved the five million subscriptions mark, reported in a press release. Way2SMS records twenty five thousand new subscriptions per day. Way2SMS.com is a Hyderabad based Free SMS service provider and claims to be India’s largest free SMS service provider. Way2SMS provides users with advertisement funded free, web-based, text messaging services. GPRS enabled mobile-phones users can also send messages via the WAP portal: http://wap.way2sms.com. Read full story »

Tata Teleservices introduced a new tariff plan “Pay-Per-Call” for pre-paid CDMA subscribers. The calls will be charged Re 1 for all local calls and Rs 3 for long distance calls, regardless of the duration. Tata Indicom and Teleservices subscribers would be able to avail of the plan by paying a daily fee of Re 1 or Rs 30 monthly and call rates would also apply on mobile to landline and to calls made to other networks. The plan also offers subsidised rate for SMS at 50 paise, for both local and national SMS. Read full story »

Tata Docomo has now introduced a new SMS service, “Timed SMS”, the next generation SMS service giving you the power to schedule your SMS to be send on a desired date and time. Type TSMS <Recipient Mobile Number> <Time in HHMM> <Date in DDMM> <Message> and send it to short-code 53030. This is a premium service and is charged Rs 3 / SMS. Read full story »

Bharti Airtel launched its m-Commerce service ‘mChek on Airtel’, which will allow its susbcribers to pay their Airtel mobile and fixed-line bills on the voice platform. The service would also help in recharging Airtel mobile pre-paid and DTH accounts as well as Delhi-Gurgaon expressway toll tags through Interactive Voice Response (IVR). Call toll free 543219 to access the seamless and secure IVR service for m-Commerce transactions for all Airtel mobile customers. Read full story »

STel Ltd is planning to roll out its mobile phone services in India in the fourth quarter of this year, the chief executive of Bahrain Telecommunications Co. (Batelco) said.

Batelco is a shareholder of STel. Batelco, listed on the Bahrain Stock Exchange, provides telecommunications services in Bahrain and also has joint venture companies in Jordan, Kuwait, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Read full story »

Google Docs now offers “Translate document” tool to enable Doc users cross the language barrier. Users can send documents in a specific language to anyone and have it translated into teir preferred langugage by the receiver. The content can now be translated into 42 different languages, including Hindi, Arabic, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, German and French. Read full story »

The Nokia N900 encloses a powerful ARM Cortex-A8 processor, up to 1GB of application memory and OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics acceleration. Nokia N900 provides multitasking, allowing many applications to run simultaneously. With N900, switching between applications is simple. The panoramic homescreen can be fully personalized with favorite shortcuts, widgets and applications.

The Nokia N900 features a high-resolution WVGA touch screen and fast internet connectivity with 10/2 HSPA and WLAN. The browser is powered by Mozilla technology. The Nokia N900 has 32GB of storage, expandable up to 48GB via a microSD card. For photography the N900 come with a 5MP camera and Carl Zeiss optics. The N900 has full physical slide-out QWERTY keyboard. You can setup upto 10 personal email accounts with Nokia Messaging service. Read full story »