Advertising on mobile phones should really take off within two to three years, driven by new applications on smart phones and the growing popularity of social networks such as Facebook. Executives, who attended last week’s Cannes Lions 2009 ad festival, told Reuters that emerging economies were also promising though the lack of a global mobile phone standard could be a brake to speedy development. As... 

Spice Mobiles has launched the Spice D-1111, a dual mode (GSM+CDMA) mobile phone based on the Windows Mobile 6.0 platform. The Spice D-1111 features a 2 MP camera, stereo Bluetooth, expandable memory up to 2GB, Push mail, access to Microsoft Outlook, Nimbuzz, cricbuzz.com, naukri.com and jeevansaathi.com. Reuters and  Opera Mini comes pre-loaded on the handset.   The phone also features email2SMS... 

AVG Technologies is launching AVG LinkScanner as a free standalone product to protect users against random, invisible online threats. Everyday two million web pages are poisoned by hidden threats and 60 percent of those threats shut down or move to a different destination on the web making real-time link scanning crucial. Any type of site can be affected and if a user simply visits one of these poisoned...