Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Mobile’

By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Infrastructure, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Life, Mobile, People, Start-ups

We have a nice mix of interviews that spans life, people and ideas. Murli Wanchoo is a retired Indian government official, who lives in Silicon Valley and he looks back at India in the early days. Then we have Anusuya Devi (88), who is known asĀ  the “Queen of Folk Music” of Andhra Pradesh. Age […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 27th, 2008 • Category: Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Mobile, Technology, The New York Times, YouTube Videos

Last week Carnegie Mellon University and Haas Business School at Cal held a one day conference on “The Mobile Future.” The conference featured a clutch of well-known researchers and industry people.
The take away was that perhaps the mobile phone revolution has finally arrived in the USA. It was also interesting to see that […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 26th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Electronic gadgets, India, Internet and Telecom India, Mobile, Only in India, People, Technology, YouTube Videos

Every month India adds millions of new mobile users. Currently about 20 percent of India (population over 1 billion) has mobile phones. In a short span of less than 10 years the number of mobile users in India has grown from a few thousands to millions.
In India about 60 percent of the mobile handset market […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 11th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Business, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Mobile, Podcast, Video, YouTube Videos

What is MSN Mobile India’s strategy? I turned to Senthil Sundaram, business head of MSN Mobile India to find out the answers to my questions. I met with Senthil at MSN India’s office in Bangalore and spent quite a bit of time talking about the subject. Why is it that we don’t hear much […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 29th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Electronic gadgets, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Mobile, Technology, Video

A few days ago I received the latest phone from Nokia: Nokia 6110 Navigator. The Nokia 6110 Navigator had its world-wide launch in Singapore in August 2007, and the phone finally hit the Indian market in December 2007.
I put the loaner Nokia phone away since I was going through a bad patch of flu. Over […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 23rd, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Electronic gadgets, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Mobile, Technology, Video, YouTube Videos

Apple’s iphone is not available in India, but that does not mean people not have access to them. A small number of people have access to iPhone and in this video clip you will meet Sidharth Mehta, who knows everything about iPhone.
In December 2007 Sidharth gave a demo of his iPhone at the […]