Apple to pull the plug on free ad-supported iTunes Radio on January 29

Apple has announced that it is killing its ad-supported iTunes Radio online music service on January 29. The service which was announced in 2013, will no longer be free.

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Adobe Lightroom Mobile now available for free for Android

Adobe has made Lightroom Mobile free to Android users. The version 1.4 of the Lightroom Mobile app can be used without any fees and it also does not require a Creative Cloud Subscription.

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Google Hangouts debuts free international voice calling in India

Google is allowing users in India the ability to make international voice calls via Hangouts. This service is already available for users living in the US and Canada.

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Hike Messenger now lets users enjoy unlimited SMS

With competition in the instant messaging platform heating up by day, players are finding ways to attract users. Hike messenger which recently clocked 15 million users has announced a new offer to increase its user base. The instant mobile messaging platform from Bharti Soft Bank (BSB) is now offering unlimited SMS to its users.

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Asphalt 8 Airborne is now permanently free for iOS and Android

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Asphalt 8 Airborne, Gameloft’s premier racing franchise has now gone completely free on the iOS App Store and the Google Play Store. Following the freemium model of delivering free games and adding revenue through in-app purchases, Asphalt 8: Airborne will now be more accessible and even more affordable. The game initially went free for a small period over the weekend to push the adoption up a little bit, but in a decisive move, the game is now completely free. Packed with rich graphics and super fast gameplay, it’s easily one of those games that makes you addicted to your phone’s screen, as if you weren’t already.

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Half of the Angry Birds games go free for Windows Phone 8

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Angry Birds has been a longstanding mega hit gaming franchise from Rovio and usually, a copy sells for 99 cents, or 55 Indian rupees, in the local currency. There was a time when the original game went free for a while, as a part of Nokia’s promotion, but suddenly now, half of the collection has gone free. We are not sure if this is a store glitch or something, but exactly half of the Angry Birds collection has gone free in the Indian Windows Phone 8 Store. The games that have gone free are – Original Angry Birds, Angry Birds Star Wars and Angry Birds Star Wars II, while the Seasons, Rio and Space are still showing as paid.

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WhatsApp Goes Temporarily Free For iPhone Users

Whats the best way to cross communicate between an Android , Symbian , Blackberry or iOS device ? Why its WhatsApp of course ! Widely regarded to be one of the best cross platform messenger services , it uses the phone’s data connection to transmit messages , photos , videos , audio and even engage in group chats.

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Vodafone to provide Free Service of BlackBerry handsets in Bangalore

Vodafone has tied up with Research in Motion to organize free service camps to BlackBerry handsets in Bangalore.The camp is open to all BlackBerry users even non-Vodafone customers. The offer is open from Feb1 to Feb14

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Free Phone Calls in the Future according to Telecom Minister

In a interview with Rediff Sachin Pilot,  Minister of State for Telecommunications and Information Technology has made a interesting prediction that phone calls could become totally free in India

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Airtel Launches Unlimited SMS Packs across India

Recently, Airtel rolled out unlimited SMS packs for its customers across India following the huge demand of ‘unlimited’ SMS packs. It looks like Airtel have rolled out  these packs to retain some of its customers who were migrating to Reliance because of their Simply reliance packs and plans.

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BSNL Customers in Bihar now Roam Unlimited!

BSNL BSNL have recently launched a very exciting tariff voucher in Bihar circle that will let its customers to roam unlimited without having to worry about incoming call charges and high bills. The special tariff voucher is available for BSNL prepaid customers in Bihar costing Rs. 222 per week or Rs. 888/month that will let its users to make unlimited free calls to own network, calls to others at a flat rate and free incoming facility even while in roaming.

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Windows Mobile 7 to Have Free Navigation!

Google brought in the first free navigation with the Motorola DROID/MILESTONE. Then Nokia went ahead and took it to another level by announcing free turn-by-turn navigation for all it’s GPS enabled devices.

Now Microsoft is the next one to follow the footsteps of Google and Nokia. Windows Mobile 7 which hasn’t yet been officially announced is rumoured to be sporting free navigation as well. Microsoft are trying their level best to make Windows Mobile 7 live upto the hype. Continue reading “Windows Mobile 7 to Have Free Navigation!”

BSNL Providing Free Incoming Video Calls for 3 Months

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You must be aware that, as of now BSNL have started 3G services in many parts of the country, using which you can make and receive video calls, download data at a high speed and also browse the internet flawlessly. Continue reading “BSNL Providing Free Incoming Video Calls for 3 Months”

5 Free Group Messaging Services in India

Ever wanted to send free SMS to a group of friends inviting them for a party or a function? You keep sending such group invitation using your mobile and shelling a large amount of talk time? Just try out any of the below mentioned free group SMS solutions in India and save a large amount of talk time.

mytoday

Mytoday is among one of the first services started by Netcore solutions which provided one of its kind services and followed it are many other services like Tagg, SMSGupshup, Vakow, GoogleSMSChannels, etc.

smsgupshup

SMSGupshup – This is the service, that brought change to the Indian group messaging solution. Though, Netcore’s Mytoday was launched much prior to SMSGupShup but Gupshup was hit just because of its huge investment in advertising and marketing its product.

tagg

Tagg.in is another entrant in free group messaging solution in India followed by Rajesh Jain’s Mytoday and webaroo’s SMSGupShup. Tagg.in was initiated by another commerce graduate – Ashish Deora who was the founder of AOL broadband in India. Though Tagg.in also tried hard to market its product, it remained far behind Mytoday and SMSGupshup because of the downtime their service faced many times in the past.

vakow

Vakow is a service that you MUST have come across for sure, if you are a twitter fan. Apart from free group messaging solution, another advantage Vakow has over all other free group messaging services is that it used to update your twitter account using the SMS that you send to their 10 digit mobile number. But it seems even this service (sending tweets via SMS) has also now went down as I am unable to use it since last couple of months.

google sms channels

GoogleSMSChannels – A service that does not needs a description. This free group messaging solution is in testing phase of Google and as such tagged as ‘Labs’. Though Google was late to come out with such a service, but its definitely worth using once. The biggest advantage with Google SMS Channels is, unlike any other free group messaging solutions, it delivers the SMSs at a very fast rate and that is not all.. Its the only free group messaging services in India supporting SMS publishing of full 160 characters without any ads in the footer.

Group messaging lovers out there, now its your work to use the above mentioned services and rate them on the comments section below. 🙂