Aqua 4.0 smartphone launched by Intex

Intex Technologies, a mobile phones, IT accessories, and electronic products company today forayed into the smartphones category in India with the launch of its first Android phone, Intex Aqua 4.0. Available at a price of Rs 5,490, the phone has been targeted towards urban and semi-urban students and young professionals.

Sanjay Kumar, GM- Mobile Business, Intex Technologies said, “We at Intex are geared up to offer best of the smartphones. AQUA 4.0 is one such offering which has a host of bundled applications and features that make it an ideal choice at a pocket-friendly price for youngsters... Spurred by the market demand, Intex is planning to launch 5 new models of smartphones in the next few months,” he added.

ZOTAC announces ZBOX Nano AD12 Series Home Theatre Mini PC

ZOTAC International, a channel manufacturer of graphics cards, mainboards and mini-PCs, has recently refreshed its product line up with the announcement of the Zbox nano with AMD Radeon HD 7340 graphics processing capabilities. The latest ZOTAC ZBOX nano with AMD Radeon HD 7340 graphics helps in boosting graphics and CPU processing capabilities while also maintaining energy efficiency to create a palm-sized home theatre PC capable of high-definition video playback and fast system responsiveness.

MTNL begins Home Delivery of telecom connections

State-run MTNL's mobile, landline and broadband connections can be availed by just sending an SMS or communicating online, a top company official said. "Under single window service, we have started providing mobile connections, landline and broadband at the doorstep of customers. They just need to send an SMS or communicate us online about their need. This is first of its kind service in country," MTNL Executive Director A K Bhargava said.

The company has operations in Delhi and Mumbai only.

Samsung Loses $12 bln Market Value after Apple's Legal Victory

Samsung Electronics shares slumped 7.5 percent on Monday, wiping more than $12 billion off the South Korean giant's market value, as a sweeping victory for Apple Inc in a US patent lawsuit raised concerns about its smartphone business - its biggest cash cow. Samsung, which says it will contest the verdict, was ordered to pay $1.05 billion in damages after a California jury found it had copied critical features of the hugely popular iPhone and iPad and could face an outright sales ban on key products.

Reliance Offer Extra 10 Percent Free 3G Data Usage on Online Recharge

In a bid to promote its on-line prepaid recharging system among its 3G Data customers, India’s second largest mobile service provider, Reliance Communications (RCOM) has launched an exciting offer of FREE 10% Extra Data usage on selected 3G Data Packs for its customers across all 3G circles.

Airtel Brings Upto 100Mbps Fibrenet Plans in Delhi-NCR

If you are waiting for superfast broadband, Airtel is here to impress you! At selected places of Delhi-NCR Airtel has launched ultra fast fiber to home broadband network.

With Airtel Fibrenet plans you can enjoy internet at upto 100Mbps. In India in terms of customer popularity top fibre players include BSNL (pan India), MTNL (Delhi and Mumbai), Beam (Hyderabad), Alliance (Kolkata) and others. Beam is offering true unlimited plans at a very affordable prices.

Idea Cellular and Vodafone Introduces SMS Browser For its Subscribers

XL Telecom Pvt. Ltd has tied up with Idea Cellular and Vodafone India to launch their revolutionary SMS Browser.

The mXLBrowser is an SMS-based App Platform that provides a sophisticated GUI for access to a variety of apps which the user would otherwise have been deprived of, due to handset limitations the application allows seamless service updates over SMS, without the need for access to GPRS.

The various services can be availed for a nominal fee of as low as 10 paisa per request and support pull as well as push (subscription) models. The mXLBrowser is currently supported on nearly 280 popular handset models and more handsets are being added daily.