During the launch of its new multimedia mobiles in the Indian market, Karbonn Mobiles said that it is aiming to invest around Rs 100 crore in the current financial year.

Moreover, the company anticipates gaining 7-10 percent market share in the multimedia handset zone in India.

Karbonn Mobiles is a joint venture between Delhi-based Jaina groups and UTL.

Software major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has announced that it has signed a two-year multi-million dollar deal with Singapore-based People’s Association for application management services.

People’s Association is a constitutional board under Singapore’s Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports.

In a communiqué to NSE, TCS said that it will develop and maintain software applications for the association.

Tata DoCoMo is no longer offering unlimited GPRS service to its customers as the company has revised its GPRS plan from ‘unlimited’ to ‘limited’. 

As per the newly revised GPRS plan, with the recharge of Rs 15 pack, customers can use free data upto 20MB for 3 days. 

In the same manner, Rs 95 GPRS Pack will offer free data usage of 100 MB and the pack is valid for 30 days.

Due to the recent changes to India’s regulations concerning foreign investment, UK-based Vodafone Group aims to increase its stake by 6 % in its Indian subsidiary. The company already holds 52 per cent of its Indian mobile joint venture.

It is said that company is buying 6 % stake from two of its companions for Rs 8.62 billion.

According to the reports, former MD of the Indian ventures Asim Ghosh, who posseses 4.68% of Vodafone Essar, and Indian businessman Analjit Singh, who holds 7.58%, would sell 49% of their holdings to Vodafone.

Google Inc is again in trouble as the owner of an Indian matrimony website has alleged that the online search engine is using its ads on their site to sell space.

The case was filed by BharatMatrimony.com, one of the leading matrimony website of the country, owned by Consim Info. 

In the case, which has been registered in the Madras High Court, it disclosed that when a user does a search with the keyword BharatMatrimony, Google shows ads of its competitor websites like Shaadi.com.

Star India has announced the launch of its Hindi general entertainment channel (GEC) Star One and Tamil GCE Star Vijay on mobile TV platform.

Star has joined hands with Apalya Technologies PVT Ltd. for streaming its satellite channels for mobile users across all leading operators and regions.

In the beginning, Star will launch the service with video-on-demand content.

Reliance Mobile has introduced its local search service named as "BigMaps" on its GSM network. The service will help customers to search for directions, events, businesses and flicks.

The BigMaps service is only available for RCom through SMS, WAP and downloads. The newly launched users will be provided with maps data across 15 zoom levels and real time landmark based routing.

Moving a step forward, Indian Finance Minister, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee said that he will talk to the West Bengal government on the issue of land allocation to Wipro and Infosys to retain IT majors in the state.

During a press release, Finance Minister said, "It is unfortunate. It does not convey a good signal. I will talk to state government to see if land is provided to the companies."

He also ensured that the IT majors will provide jobs to at least 5,000 to 10,000 youths in the state.

Nokia, the world’s largest mobile phone seller company, has decided to introduce its push email service in India by the end of 2009.

The push email service is named as Nokia Messaging.

Nokia has been undertaking experiments for push email service in India since April, and now the company is in the process of getting the green signal from the Indian Department of Telecommunications (DoT).

The world’s first dual screen laptop will hit the market by the end of 2009.

An Anchorage computer developer, gScreen Computer Corp., developed a plan to built dual screen laptop.

Accordingly, they designed the gScreen Spacebook and plan to establish manufacturing unit in about six to eight weeks.

It's the first dual-screen laptop computer having two screens and a full-size keyboard built into one laptop unit.