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Mobile Operators may soon start offering adult content
Mobile phone operators, who have given you everything from jazzy ringtones to examination results, now appear set to venture into more exciting territory: adult content on handsets. Brickhousemobile.com, a company that specialises in tailoring technology and content to migrate adult content to handheld devices, claims it has already tied up to offer “hot content†for Hutch and Idea.
TV Ramachandran, director-general of the Cellular Operators Association of India, who is in Barcelona, points helplessly to the growing spread of adult content worldwide on mobiles.
via Hindustan Times
Mobile VAS providers dont plan to hike rates
Value-added service (VAS) providers for cellular users will not hike tariffs for mobile content like ringtones and downloads despite the Government bringing them under the service tax net. Mobile content providers have said that they would absorb the impact of the service tax and would continue with the tariffs being offered currently.
via The Hindu
Indian community website Ammas.com offers mobile answering system
New Zealand-based Indian community website Ammas.com is releasing a beta version of its mobile technology in India this week. Mobile users anywhere in India will be able to SMS a question about anything from anywhere, and receive an answer within an hour.
via exchange4media
Service tax net could spoil India’s content hub dream
Ad agencies, designers and content providers are wincing. Budget 2007 extends service tax net to development and supply of content for telecom and advertising purposes and design services.
via DNAIndia
Interview with Neeraj Roy, MD of Hungama
Back from Barcelona where he attended the 3GSM World Congress, the Hungama managing director, Neeraj Roy, is on a high. At the world congress, he made a presentation on “Bollywood goes mobile†and premiered two short Bollywood feature films on the mobile screen. As CEO of Hungama, a mobile marketer and an aggregator and publisher of mobile content, Roy believes that action in the entertainment space will shift to the third screen. Little surprise, then, that the company has already acquired the mobile rights to nearly 70 per cent of Bollywood films to be made in 2007-2008.
Mobifusion Establishes & Expands India based operations
Mobifusion, Inc., a global developer, publisher and distributor of mobile applications and technologies, today announced the establishment and expansion of its Delhi, India office that focuses on product development and engineering for the company’s mobile content portfolio.
Mobifusion has been rapidly expanding its presence in India over the past six months, growing its headcount more than 2000% from one employee in August 2006 to a current staff of 25. The company plans to double in employee size by the end of 2007. To support this growth, Mobifusion also announced it has promoted Prashant Gupta to Managing Director of Mobifusion’s India Center.
via IndiaPRWire
