German police resort to 'silent SMS' to track miscreants

05 Jan, 2012, 10:27 am IST Anuradha Shetty General 1 Comments

Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, a unit that is the German equivalent of the FBI has devised an unique method ... More

Airtel offers SMS discounts for New Year to compensate for outage woes

31 Dec, 2011, 2:42 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Mobile services 7 Comments

Airtel is really working hard to ensure keep their users, who've been troubled this past week owing to the network ... More

Fire caused mass Airtel outage, some services up and running

28 Dec, 2011, 9:20 am IST Anuradha Shetty Mobile services 7 Comments

The technical snag that put down the services of one of the country's most popular mobile service providers, Bharti More

Airtel suffers technical snag, services down for some

27 Dec, 2011, 12:25 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Mobile services 75 Comments

Some Airtel users across the city may be facing issues with connectivity today, as the services of one India's most ... More

Govt. norms to keep radiation from mobiles in check

23 Dec, 2011, 4:50 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Mobile phones 2 Comments

India is currently home to millions of mobile subscribers. While this may seem to be a significant milestone to most, ... More

Smartphone app to 'Fight Back' sexual harassment

22 Dec, 2011, 2:40 pm IST Naina Khedekar Apps 1 Comments

There’s an app for everything, and now you can go ahead and ‘Fight Back’ sexual harassment, courtesy a new ... More

After free email, Sabeer Bhatia introduces app for free SMS

22 Nov, 2011, 5:43 pm IST Priyanka Tilve Apps 12 Comments

Sabeer Bhatia, the guy who gave us Hotmail has now trained his attention to mobile phones. Jaxtr Inc. founded by Sabeer Bhatia ... More

Pesky SMS use overseas servers, TRAI and telecos to find a solution

08 Nov, 2011, 12:59 pm IST Naina Khedekar Apps 2 Comments

Putting an end to those pesky calls/SMSes has been giving TRAI a tough time. Merely about a month after the 100 SMS/day initiative More

Android-enabled i'mWatch smartwatch in 4 stylish designs

03 Nov, 2011, 9:12 am IST Naina Khedekar Accessories

Those who’ve been thinking that the concept of watch phones is passé could be in for a surprise. In the past, we’ve seen ... More

TRAI raises SMS bar to 200 SMS/day, per SIM

01 Nov, 2011, 6:33 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Accessories 31 Comments

In what comes across as a major relief to scores of those who rely heavily on bulk SMSing, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India More

TRAI's 100 SMS/day, per SIM directive begins today

27 Sep, 2011, 3:58 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Accessories 17 Comments

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has, beginning from today started implementing the 100 sms per day, per SIM directive, about which it has been educating the masses, since sometime now. More

Skype goes shopping, picks up GroupMe

22 Aug, 2011, 10:29 am IST Rossi Fernandes Accessories 1 Comments

Skype has come a long way from its early days. More

Mobile Ticketing Makes Life Easy For Indian Railways' Commuters

18 Jul, 2011, 3:15 pm IST tech2 News Staff Accessories 9 Comments

Indian Railways have certainly made life a whole lot easier for commuters by introducing the new mobile ticketing application for mobile phones. More

Nimbuzz Ping for Aircel Users Coming Soon

12 Jul, 2011, 10:31 am IST Anuradha Shetty Accessories

Nimbuzz, the popular instant messaging service would soon roll out a push notification service for Aircel subscribers. More

eBuddy Brings in Real-Time Messaging App - eBuddy XMS

06 Jun, 2011, 6:23 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Accessories

The messaging app gives in real-tome messaging experience. More

Yahoo! Mail Brings Out its Latest Version

24 May, 2011, 12:23 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Web services 2 Comments

The latest version gets exhaustive with features More

Zeus Trojan Threatens Blackberry OS

07 Apr, 2011, 3:05 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Smartphones

Zeus Trojan threatens Blackberry's SMS feature More

Bulk SMS Banned in lieu of Cricket World Cup Final

01 Apr, 2011, 9:51 am IST Sriram Gurunathan Smartphones

From March 31 to April 2, bulk SMS' of any kind have been banned by the Mumbai Police. More

GSMA Will Recommend a "Mark as Spam" System For SMSes

19 Feb, 2011, 2:11 pm IST Siddharth Basrur Smartphones

Users can forward suspicious spam stuff to 7726 to report as spam. More

Onida Launch ACs with SIM Card Slots

16 Feb, 2011, 3:43 pm IST Sriram Gurunathan Smartphones

Now here's something totally "cool". More