Latest from Pluggd.in | Nimbuzz opens its Messenger API, Introduces Chat Buddy Developers Program Nimbuzz has opened its Messenger API with launch of Chat Buddy Developer Program (CBDP). This initiative is expected to help brands, publishers, and independent developers get access to the 90 million Nimbuzz users from across 200+ countries. The CBDP allows developers to build chat buddies across various verticals such as Cricket, astrology, shopping, games, news, besides utilities such as ticketing, movie reviews, classifieds, etc. Nimbuzz has already seeded a few apps in nWorld, the Nimbuzz App store – IBNLive, Cricbuzz, Twitter, Vantagetrade, Wikipedia, IMDB etc. Nimbuzz boasts of ~90 million users and a daily average session time of more than 55 minutes per user. Watch this introductory video on Chat Buddy Developer Program: - more at developer.nimbuzz.com | | Samsung Tab 2 310 to launch this month; Priced at Rs 23,000 Samsung has announced that the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich-based Tab will launch in India sometime soon this month. The Samsung Tab 2 310 has a 7 inches WSVGA PLS TFT touch screen with a screen resolution of 1024*600 pixels and looks sleeker and thinner than its predecessor. Additionally the slate is equipped with a dual-core processor clocked at 1GHz and packs 1GB of RAM. | | Mobile Payment Readiness Score : Singapore tops the chart, India at number 21 The report reveals that no market has progressed to the inflection point of 60 on the mobile payments adoption curve and no country has hit the dart. There are no standouts— with the possible exception of Kenya—and no one country has a monopoly on success factors. | | PayMate launches PayPOS App that turns your phone into credit card processing terminal PayMate has launched PayPOS app that allows businesses to accept and process electronic transactions using credit and debit cards directly on their mobile phones at the point of sale (POS) itself. The app enables anyone with a Smartphone to sign up with PayPOS and begin transactions immediately. | | 0.4% Rural and 6% Urban Households have Internet Connectivity: NSSO Report Goa tops the rural penetration with 50 per 1000 households having access to internet, followed by the most literate state Kerala with 34, and Arunachal Pradesh with 19 households per 1000. Among the urban landscape, Mumbai leads the chart with 104/1000 households connected to the Internet, followed by Kerala and Himachal Pradesh (95 each) and Delhi (89.5). | | Navteq launches Indoor Navigation in India [Last Meter Guidance] Navigation to a shopping mall, for example, takes a user to the closest location to a listed address on the road network, while in reality the final destination for the user could be a shoe store on the second floor of the mall. Destination Maps addresses this need of "last meter guidance" by guiding the user all the way to the shoe store. | | News Roundup: Google launches App Vault in India Vault gives Google Apps customers the extended management and information governance capabilities to proactively archive, retain and preserve Gmail and on-the-record chats. | | Rocket Internet in India: What's the Big Deal? Their true strength is execution and exits. I have never seen a team execute as well as they do. They are in my opinion by far the most focused players in the European market when it comes to the start-up scene. Are they aggressive, unfair and hard to work with? Well, I don't know about you but most successful people I know out there are usually aggressive, competitive and hard-charging. Whether you see them as unfair or hard to work with depends on which side of the table you sit. One can't argue with their success though. | | Sony Xperia U to launch on 10th May, Priced at Rs. 17399 Sony Xperia U has ambient illumination of the transparent element design that changes the colour of the phone with the colours of the UI theme, the album art of the song playing, and the selected photo in the gallery. | | | More to read:
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