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WHILE STUDYING mechanical engineering at the SRM Institute in Chennai, Anirban Chowdhury, along with three fellow students, would organise workshops on robotics and embedded solutions for batchmates. more>> view PDF>>

Kerala Motor Vehicle Department Goes Mobile: The Hindu

The Motor Vehicles Department will make information available to motorists through SMS.This is part of the government's Project ‘m-governance', for which MobME has been chosen as the implementing agency. more>> view PDF>>

M-Governance Service Powered by MobME : Kerala Motor Vehicle Department Website

The formal inauguration of providing Information Services of the Department through SMS was done by Shri.V.P.Joy,IAS,the Transport Secretary and Transport Commissioner (i/c) on 26.05.2010 at the Transport Commissionerate, Thiruvananthapuram. more>> view PDF>>

MobME CEO presents paper on M-Governance at International Conference Organized by DIT(GOI) and W3C in Delhi

The paper titled "The Kerala mobile governance experience and road map for a comprehensive M-Governance Strategy", was presented by Sanjay Vijayakumar, CEO of MobME at the international conference organized by TDIL(Technology Development for Indian Languages),Department of IT in New Delhi on May 6-7, 2010. The conference was on "World Wide Web: Technology, Standards and Internationalization." Download paper here>> view PDF>>

Hassle-free access to SSLC results: The Hindu

As part of the Mobile-Governance initiative of the Kerala State IT Mission of the IT Department of the State government, the 2010 SSLC result is being made available to the subscribers of all the mobile service providers in the State through Short Messaging Service (SMS). The SMS-solution would be powered by MobME Wireless. more>> view PDF>>

Thiruvananthapuram: City cops going mobile-way : ifg.cc and Indian Express

The City Police here are all set to launch the Mobile Crime and Accident Reporting Platform (MCARP) project during the first week of April. The project will enable the police to capture still and moving images during emergency situations and immediately send them to the mobile phones of the senior officers, who can evaluate the situation and initiate immediate action.The MCARP is powered by MobME. more>> view PDF>>

MobME Entrusted with Project Mobile Governance in Kerala: Government Website

The State of Kerala has always been a role model for all other states when it comes to the utilization of ICT technologies Project M-Governance is envisaged to propel the functioning of the Government at the next higher level. more>> view PDF>>

Kerala advances from e-governance to M-governance : The Hindu

The Finance Department will be advancing from e-governance to m-governance in the coming financial year. The solution is to be powered by MobME. more>> view PDF>>

Budget Gives Impetus for e-Governance and M-Governance : The Hindu

The Budget for 2010-11 presented by the State Finance Minister Dr. Thomas Isaac gives a big thrust for e-Governance and also m-Governance in Kerala. M-Governance to be implemented by MobME, for KSITM. more>> view PDF>>

Kerala leads in m-Governance: By Anand Parthasarathy in Kerala IT News

Dr. Ajay Kumar, Principal Secretary (IT), Govt. of Kerala, said that the state had registered a unique SMS short code - 537252 - for Kerala. This would enable the state to offer a wide spectrum of services from SSLC results and agricultural alerts to emergency requirements of blood and citizen complaints to the police. A bulk SMS gateway had also been created. The M-Governance solutions are powered by MobME. more>> view PDF>>

Sony Joy @ UnpluGGd - From Student Startup to Building a Telecom Business - The MobME Story

MobME Co-Founder talks about how it all started, the reasons to take the plunge, the complimentary skill-sets of the team, the lessons learned, importance of mentors, achievements & awards and evolution into a pan-India Mobile Technology Business. Video here & Slides here.

Entrepreneurial View: Sanjay Vijayakumar - Nasscom Emergeout

Sanjay Vijayakumar belongs to the new breed of Indian youth who are unheard but fearless. Starting an entrepreneurial journey at the age of 22 while in fifth semester of engineering, Sanjay led and created a team of engineering graduates who were passionate about technology to build up MobME, one of India’s most exciting and innovative mobile companies. more>> view PDF>>

"e-Suneha" , a two-way SMS System provided for NREGA by MobME Wireless

The article published in Hindustan times about "e-Suneha" , a two-way SMS System provided for NREGA by MobME Wireless, on 12/03/2010 more>>

CEO Speak: Kerala an amazing place for a startup company - ManoramaOnline

MobME CEO, Sanjay Vijaykumar has described Kerala as an amazing place to a startup company. The low cost for setting up operations here is definitely a big advantage when compared to other cities in India, he told Manoramaonline in an exclusive interview. more>> view PDF>>

Meet Sony, Sanjay and Vivek; the founders of MobME - Your Story

They say the power of one is the power to do something. About four years ago, three students from Kerala got together to do exactly that! Meet Sony Joy, Sanjay Vijay Kumar and Vivek; the founders of MobME. Their venture has already become a popular name among the cellular circle of the country and their story from young students to corporate know-who's is indeed a remarkable one. more>> view PDF>>

The mobile way to financial inclusion - The Hindu

Several States have started rolling out mobile governance projects, or are preparing to do so. It is the way forward for three reasons: reach and penetration, the easier learning curve and the mobile phone’s capability to handle SMS, voice and data, says Sanjay Vijayakumar, chief executive officer, MobME Wireless Solutions. more>> view PDF>>

Tax Welfare IVRS: An m-governance initiative - Kerala Calling

The Commercial Taxes Department is getting ready to launch by the second week of January a mobile phone based Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) to receive complaints and initiate action for the eradication of problems such as official harassment at the check-posts.The m-governance initiative will go a long way in ensuring transparency at the check-posts to the benefit of all traders getting their merchandise transported across the State’s border. MobME, a Techno park company operating in the field of mobile media and entertainment, has designed this IVRS. more>>

New tool to help traders - The Hindu

Kerala Commercial Taxes Dept to adopt M-Governance - Business Line

The State Finance Minister, Dr Thomas Isaac, has said that the Commercial Taxes Department would launch an M-Governance initiative for grievances redressal. MobME, a player in mobile media and the entertainment platforms based in Technopark here, is implementing the M-Governance initiative on behalf of IT-Kerala. According to Mr Lishoy Bhaskar, Director (Operations),MobME, a 24/7 monitoring team will transcript the complaints and assign them to the authorities. more>> view PDF>>

The Young achiever who dreamed big - The Hindu

Six months and he would have been an engineering graduate. Only, he was not ready to curb his entrepreneurial urge even for six days. He simply quit. So while his batchmates at the College of Engineering in Thiruvananthapuram were writing university exams in December 2006, he went on and registered his company. more>> view PDF>>

Government plans a range of Mobile based Services - The Hindu

20-odd pilot projects under active consideration. MobME chosen to help setup the Platform Services likely to be launched in Mid-December. From SMS alerts related to electricity and water bills to SSLC and entrance examination-related information, a whole new range of mobile phone-based services are being planned in the coming months, as the State has embarked on a major initiative to get its mobile governance infrastructure in place and scale up the services delivered to citizens through this channel. more>> view PDF>>

Kerala to introduce m-governance initiatives - Afaqs

A week after the Himachal Pradesh government and Cochin-based VAS company Spice Digital introduced mobile governance (m-governance) for its people, another state has followed suit.
The Kerala government has announced its tie up with MobMe, a mobile media and entertainment company, to roll out m-governance initiatives in the state. In the initial eight months, more than 20 projects will be rolled out as pilots. more>> view PDF>>

Kerala Govt to pilot 21 M-Governance Services with MobME Wireless - Medianama

State governments in India are exploring m-Governance options for providing critical (and often tedious to retrieve) information to citizens: the state of Kerala recently awarded an M-Governance contract to VAS company, MobME Wireless more>> view PDF>>

Mobile Content: A view from India - 38 Minutes

Our favorite quote comes from Sanjay from Mobme, in which he describes the whole Indian Mobile market eloquently in one simple sentence:
'In India, mobile content is as simple as ABCD - Astrology, Bollywood, Cricket and Devotional’ more>> view PDF>>

MobME Success Story (Winner of Most Innovative Startup for 2008) - Nasscom

MobME Wireless Solutions is one of India’s Most Exciting and Innovative Companies. Founded by a passionate bunch of engineering students who turned down lucrative jobs in Microsoft and Yahoo, MobME has grown in a span of two years from a small incubated office in Technopark, Trivandrum to setup a team of 45 people across Cochin, Chennai, Delhi and Mumbai.. more>>

Mobshare signs Agreement for Incubation in T-TBI

Mobshare Mobile Systems Pvt Ltd, a technology business startup working on Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO) launched their operations in T-TBI, Nila. The team is lead by Mr.Sanjay Vijayakumar and other promoters of MobME Wireless Solutions Pvt Ltd (formerly known as TORQUE), a successful graduated incubatee of T-TBI. more>> view PDF>>

Striking out young: An interview with Sanjay Vijayakumar - Live IT

A time when parents and youngsters, fresh out of college consider ‘What next’ and come up with the response ‘Join an MNC!’ But few, like Sanjay Vijayakumar, CEO, MobME, opt the alternative and with determination move forward to be an entrepreneur. And within months of the startup, they are in the news and bag recognition, for creating innovative products!. more>>

Hello, Jayalalitha here - The Hindu

Voice messaging services for political campaigns are in high demand for the parliamentary elections, according to Vivek Steve Francis, co-founder of MobME, a media and entertainment company based in Kochi. more>> view PDF>>

Kerala Tourism to use mobile as a media tool - Express Buzz

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Tourism has found just the right media tool that will help it draw the maximum number of domestic tourists to the state. It is not the radio, or the television or even the computer. It is the mobile phone. more>> view PDF>>

Innovative Photo Sharing on Bluetooth Networks by MobME Wireless - Mobile Marketing Blog

As you probably remember, I was pretty impressed with the work from the folks at MobME, and their bluetooth network for photo sharing in India. I posted this a couple of weeks ago and have since managed to get in touch with Sanjay Vijayakumar, one of the co-founders of MobMe, who was patient enough to answer a few questions about their network and how they are planning to exploit it. more>> view PDF>>

City Police to get new devices to report traffic offences visually - The Hindu

KOCHI: The City Police is making another first in the history of the State Police by providing the personnel on field with the facility to report accidents and traffic violations visually. more>> view PDF>>

A college start-up's success story - Rediff

Innovation is the secret of success for these young guns. They believe a simple idea can transform lives. They dream big and are passionate about their ideas. . Meet India's brilliant young innovators in this special series. Oh yes, they are also winners of the latest Nasscom Innovation Awards. more>> view PDF>>

Real-time use of photo and video sharing -The Hindu

Chennai: Technology advancements have increased the nature and frequency of communication, either through telephone, mobile phones, voice over Internet protocol, email, photo-sharing or SMS (short messaging services). One tends to assume that these are used by youngsters. But obviously there are many serious applications for the technology. more>> view PDF>>

The hesitant Auctioneer - The Economist

ONE drunk driver, 32 traffic violations and 15 miscellaneous offences. A daily tally of crimes in Cochin, a city in the Indian state of Kerala, appears on the mobile phone of Sanjay Vijayakumar, the young co-founder of MobME. His firm, which provides “value-added services” for mobile phones, has outfitted the Cochin police with camera-phones. Instead of describing crime-scenes to their control room over a walkie-talkie, the police can now snap a picture (stamped with date, time, and place) and send it over the airwaves." more>> view PDF>>

Winners of Nasscom Innovation Awards 2008 Announced - Official Nasscom Blog

From the 24 companies shortlisted, 8 winners will be recognized and felicitated for their outstanding contribution to the Indian IT sector at the forthcoming NASSCOM India Leadership Forum 2009, scheduled in Mumbai from 11-13 February 2009. The winners were selected after a rigorous 3 stage process culminating in roadshows at Chennai, Bangalore, Delhi and Pune." more>> view PDF>>

Nasscom Innvoation Awards '08. MobME and Sloka winners in startup category

MobME, an Indian mobile 2.0 company, providing a platform for enabling picture sharing from camera phone to a social network and Sloka Telcom, a inexpensive and compact base stations for fixed and mobile WIMAX and 3G LTE providers have announced to get awards of NASSCOM Innovation Awards 2008 under startups category." more>> view PDF>>

Technopark company bags national awards - The Hindu Business Line

The company won the award for its flagship product, Mobshare.in, which is a mobile contents sharing platform and distribution network. Its enterprise solution today powers CNN-IBN's and Mid-Day's Mobile Citizen Journalism initiative, among others." more>> view PDF>>

Technopark incubated companies win prestigious awards - Mathrubhumi

Siddhartha Bhattacharya, congratulating the two companies,said, ''The recognition achieved by these two companies is recognition for Technopark's Business Incubation initiatives. These awards reiterate the fact that our incubation initiatives are world class and one of the best in the industry." more>> view PDF>>

Technopark firm bags innovation awards - The Hindu

The ISBA awards were given away at the International Conference on Business Incubation held in Chennai from January 29 to 31. The Nasscom award will be presented to MobMe at the Nasscom India Leadership Forum from February 11 to 13 in Mumbai." more>> view PDF>>

MobME bags Nasscom, ISBA awards - The Financial Express

MobMe won the NASSCOM Innovation Awards 2008 for the most Innovative Startup as well as the Indian Science and Technology Entrepreneurs Parks and Business Incubators Association (ISBA) 2009 award for the Best Startup ICT Company of 2008." more>> view PDF>>

Bluetooth Hotspot Network for Mobile Photo Sharing - The Mobile Marketing Blog

The Mobshare activity is picking up and turning heads outside India as well. Read what Giorgos Saslis, an expert in Mobile Marketing in Greece observes in "The Mobile Marketing Blog" more>> view PDF>>

Observing Youth Trends in India - The New New Thing

Read about Saurabh Garg's experience with Mobshare and trends that come up in Mobile Media Consumption in India in his blog "The New New Thing" more>>

Finalists for NASSCOM Innovation Awards 2008 announced - Nasscom

The NASSCOM Innovation Awards, currently in its fifth edition, is a key initiative by NASSCOM to highlight the true innovators in the Indian IT industry. MobME has been nominated and voted for the finals as amongst the top 6 Innovative Startups in India. more>> view PDF>>

Mobshare case Study Presented at Mobile Conversations, Bangalore Edition - Afaqs

Mobme CEO Sanjay Vijayakumar was invited by Agency Faqs to present the Mobshare case study to an elite panel of Media and Marketing heads at Bangalore edition of Mobile Conversations. The Mobshare Case Study covered various mobile marketing campaigns including Planet M, Shah Rukh Khan and Kolkata Knight Riders. Download the presentation and. more>> view PDF>>

Kerala Tourism to launch a mobile channel to engage the brand with its audience - Afaqs

Kerala Tourism, which uses TV, print, Internet and below-the-line advertising to build its brand and promote tourism, is now ready to carve out its presence, build its brand and generate leads through the mobile media.

To begin with, it has planned to launch a three-month long pilot project to gauge the potential of mobile advertising. On October 15, it will unveil a special channel, called Kerala Tourism, on the mobile social networking and content sharing portal, MobShare.in, instead of launching a dedicated mobile site of its own. A channel on MobShare is similar to a brand page on Facebook, where a brand can share information in the form of text, photos and videos. more>> view PDF>>

Mobile Conversations 2008: Mobshare Case Study - How brands create communities on the mobile - Afaqs

At the recently concluded Mobile Conversations, we were invited by Afaqs to present a case study on how Brands were using Mobshare to build Mobile Communities. more>> view PDF>>

Mobshare ties up with Mathrubhumi : A Perfect Mix of Content Technology & Promotion - Watblog

Mobme integrated their SMS short code platform GO with Mobshare Channels enabling easy Subscriptions via SMS. One of the first channels to launch on this plaform was that of Malayalam Newspaper Daily Mathrubhumi which due to the launch by Actor Mamooty saw over 44000 subscribers in Day 1 itself. more>> view PDF>>

MobME Partners with Malayalam Daily, 44K Registrations in a day - Pluggd.in

Kerala based startup, Mobme (read their inspiring story) has partnered with Malayalam Daily, Mathrubhumi and is powering its Mobile Channel for sending news and alerts to mobile users over SMS. Within a day of the launch, MobMe witnessed an awesome 44,000 registrations - to keep the numbers in context, we are talking about local content subscription delivered on mobile (Mobme suggests that ~15% of users have gprs connectivity and the rest are just fine with sms content). more>> view PDF>>

Malayalam Newspaper Mathrubhumi Goes Mobile - MediaNama

Mathrubhumi, among Kerala's most prominent newspapers, has gone mobile as a co-branded site with Kerala based startup MobMe Wireless. While access to content is free, and users can download images published on Mathrubhumi in various sizes for free, they do need to sign up to comment, and verify their mobile number. MobMe co-founder Sony Joy told us that the registration is necessary to ensure that the commenters are traceable. more>> view PDF>>

Mathrubhumi Mobile News Channel launched on the Mobshare Content Network - Mathrubhumi

The Regional Media Conglomerate Mathrubhumi, based out of Kerala today launched its Mobile Channel for sending News and Alerts to Mobile Users over SMS. Launched by National Actor Padmasree Bharat Mammootty, the Mobile Channel will allow Mathrubhumi to send News Alerts to all registered users directly on their mobile phones.

For users with GPRS capability, there will be a link on the SMS which when clicked would lead to a mobile page where images and videos will also be present along with the news text in detail. The Mobshare Content Network is a fresh step ahead on the mobile which also creates Premium Advertising Inventory for Advertisers on the Mobile. more>>

SPJIMR holds Lock, Stock & Trade: the annual entrepreneurship event

Mumbai based SP Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR) and National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN) organised the annual entrepreneurship event - Lock, Stock & Trade (LST) on August 9, 2008 at SPJIMR. As part of the competition, teams presented successful private companies' profiles to the audience and then the companies were open for trading to the audience posing as investors. MobMe Wireless Solutions Pvt Ltd (SPJAIN, DUBAI) received the Jury Award for Best Global Team. more>> view PDF>>

Inspiring story of this kickass startup - Pluggd.in

Here is story of one kickass startup that in the first place sounds very lucky (they have got all the cool partnerships and mentors in place) - But the real story is quite different and is a mix of extremism, courage and of course, fun! - These guys raised 200K USD when they were studying and are kicking everybody's ass since then! more>> view PDF>>

Starting up - The Economic Times.

If execution is critical, there is something to be said for business acumen as well. Three former students of Thiruvananthapuram Engineering College are testimony to that. Sanjay Vijay Kumar, Vivek Steve Francis, and Sony Joy were friends and classmates who took up an in-campus marketing job for BPL mobile in their third year of college in June 2005. more>> view PDF>>

Kolkata Knight Riders enable fans to receive team pics on mobile phone - Alootechie.

Shahrukh Khan's IPL team Kolkata Knight Riders has partnered with MobShare, a mobile media sharing service provider, to enable cricket fans receive exclusive photos of the team on their GPRS-enabled mobile phones. more>> view PDF>>

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