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Mobile VAS player, One97 Communications and Express network Pvt Ltd promoted by the New Indian Express Group, announced a tie-up to offer the readers of the publication, access to local news and information while on the move.

As per the tie-up, content from the New Indian Express and its website, www.expressbuzz.com will be offered on a subscription-based model to the mobile subscribers through the SMS channel. Interested subscribers need to send an SMS to 53030 to avail the services.

Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Managing Director, One97 Communications said “Our constant effort has been to come up with services which benefit our consumers to the fullest and we hope to sustain it in the future as well. This partnership would assist us in our goal of enabling the consumers to select and receive information that is relevant and of interest to them. Effectively, people across India can subscribe to this service and receive the latest news and information from South India.”

Mayank Kabra, Assistant General Manager (Marketing,) Express Network Pvt. Ltd., said, “The New Indian Express Group along with One97 has created a value proposition for consumers across India who would want to be abreast with the latest news from South India. Mobile phones these days are the best medium to communicate and enable us to make the print medium much more interactive. We are happy to associate with One97 Communications as our partner and believe the services like this would bring our newspaper closer to the customers.”

If that description of Mobivox strikes you as odd, that’s because Mobivox recently announced a change in their strategy – moving from a direct to consumer Mobile VoIP play, to a value added services platform for carriers play. …

Nokia is gradually scaling the value chain in reaching out to the end-consumers as it plans to introduce informative services for the farming and student community in India.

Clubbed as ‘live tools’, the services will offer information on agriculture, commodity prices and weather to the farming community in alliance with Reuters.

For the student community, Nokia will introduce a service imparting knowledge of language by making the student understand some key words of the language.

The company plans to price these services at a monthly rental of Rs 30-Rs60.

Airtel and BIG Street announced the opening up of an air-conditioned bus station in Bangalore situated at the pavement diagonally opposite to Sree Kanteerava Indoor Stadium and is adjacent to the pavement near Cubbon Park entrance (Kasturba road).

The bus shelter has a capacity to accommodate 20 people and has dimensions of 25×8 feet. It will be manned by a guard.

Venkatesh V, CEO, Mobile Services, Bharti Airtel Ltd, Karnataka, said, “Airtel has always been the first when it comes to offering innovative services to customers – be it path breaking services like Hello Tunes, BlackBerry or the iPhone. On the communication front, the first-of-its-kind Airtel Rajdhani Express and this Airtel Air conditioned bus shelter, which is India’’s first ever such bus shelter are two such examples of our innovative initiatives.”

Leading mobile services provider, Bharti Airtel and online movie ticket portal, Bookmyshow.com announced a tie-up to offer mobile access to subscribers of Airtel though a wapsite as well as tele-booking facility.

Bookmyshow CEO and co-founder Ashish Hemrajani said, “We are indeed happy to extend our service to Airtel customers for an effortless ticketing experience. We hope this alliance would help Airtel customers discover an easy and convenient way to book tickets, which is what Bookmyshow is about.”

A consortium of 14 prominent merchants based in USA have come together to offer Visa Mobile services on Google’s Android. Services on offer include alerts, offers and location-based services.

JP Morgan Chase is serving as initial launch partner for Visa Mobile in USA in alliance with T-Mobile.

Alerts will provide notification to subscribers on every transaction made to their account. Offers will include informing the subscribers of discounts or vouchers on shopping while location-based services will provide information based on the subscriber location, for instance location of an ATM nearby.

1-800-Flowers.com, Bonefish Grill, Jos.A.Bank, Lenovo, Overstock.com, Planet Hollywood, and Shoes.com comprise some of the popular US-based merchants joining the Visa Mobile initiativ

User-generated informative content portal, Wikipedia announced the launch of a dedicated mobile version to address the needs of the ever growing mobile subscribers.

As compared to the conventional online version which has a start page with options to choose from 14 languages, the mobile version comes with a search page where users can directly feed entries or queries.

Additionally to make sure the website is not heavy to download, only Wikipedia logo appears on the site and no other graphics. Also the articles are broken into separate chunks and put into different pages.

For a long time, Chinese vendors were known for low prices and low quality of products. ZTE, which is set to become a global leader in this field, has defied this perception, thanks to its focus on R&D.

The company spends about 10% of its revenues on R&D activities. It has 16 R&D centres in China alone. Additionally it has 7 centres across the globe outside China. About 40% of its work force comprise of personnel from the R&D department

“Our focus is on providing competitively priced products without compromising on quality. Our products are the best in the world,” said D. K. Ghosh, chairman and Managing Director of ZTE Telecom India.

Though Indian telecom market is one of the fastest growing high potential market in the world, the reality is that the operators are finding it difficult to deal with high capex/opex and low Average Revenue per user (ARPU).

“ZTE realizes this and has offering for operators to deal with this situation,” said Ghosh. Value Added Services (VAS) is one of the solutions which can help operators in improving their revenues.

“Indian operators are set to launch 3G services within a year. The VAS market will mature once 3G services are launched in India,” said Ding Kun, Director, ZTE India R&D centre. He is also in charge of ZTE’s VAS product line in the Indian market.

The company is a global leader in VAS. Its solutions are deployed in 70 networks worldwide and support about 320 million subscribers.

Its VAS portfolio includes Data & Content solutions, Operating platforms, Voice Solutions and Messaging Solutions. The company terms these offerings as part of its ‘Any Service’ offerings.

In India, the R&D centre catering to development of VAS solutions has 150 highly educated and talented professionals. Indians comprise about 80 percent of the headcount, said Ding Kun.

Kirusa is the world’s leading vendor of Voice SMS and a leading developer of mobile value added services. Kirusa’s solutions include the hugely successful KV.SMS(TM), the world’s most advanced “Voice SMS” solution that has been selected …