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Kerala firm logs youngest entry in Nasscom Innovator roster -- The Financial Express

Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 6 Kerala campus IT startup MobMe (Mobile Media and Entertainment) has entered the league of majors like Infosys, TCS, CTS, HP and Texas Instruments in the Nasscom's list of top 100 Indian IT Innovators, released this week. MobMe is the youngest company entry in the Nasscom. roster.

"The entry gives credence that innovation can happen in backyards too," says MobME CEO Sanjay Vijayakumar. The company was formed by a bunch of engineering college students in Kerala. As part of an ambitious $7-million venture capital funding plan, the promoters had raised $250,000 from NRI investors. more>>


Kalam pat for MobME --- CIOL
President urges MobME to build an Entrepreneurship Knowledge Platform for the benefit of the student and youth community in India

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Torque Technology Solutions, a business incubated company formed by a team of Thiruvananthapuram Engineering College students, has received an encouraging pat from President AP J Abdul Kalam for innovative efforts in technology. more>>



Movie tickets via SMS -- The Hindu

The mad rush to the theatre to book tickets for the latest flick in town may soon be a thing of the past. An exciting new venture, movieonline.in, provides an online platform for cinema ticket reservation, but with one interesting innovation – the movie ticket is sent via SMS. more>>


A Bluezone for mobile freaks! -- New Indian Express

KOCHI: Cellphone freaks in the city have a reason to cheer! Kochi will get its first bluezone kiosk on Monday. more>>


MobME creates BlueZone for mobile users -- Business Standard

MobME — the mobile, media and entertainment arm of Thiruvananthapuram-based technology company Torque — has logged on to the country’s first interconnected bluetooth zone. more>>


MobME unveils BlueZone Kiosk at Kochi -- The Economic Times

KOCHI: The largest bluetooth network in the world, proposed to be launched by a local company, has got off to modest start with the opening of the first such centre here. more>>


MobME sets up Blue Zone kiosk -- Business Line

Kochi, Nov 20 MobME, a mobile media and entertainment start-up, has rolled out its first Blue Zone kiosk here at Barista at Bay Pride Mall. Blue Zones are interconnected blue-tooth zones where mobile users can switch on blue-tooth to send and receive mobile content such as photos, wall papers, ring tones etc.more>>


Bluezone Trials by Kerala Tourism -- The New Indian Express

T’PURAM: Kerala Tourism is making use of mass media tools like there is no tomorrow. Even at the risk of overstretching itself the Department plans to set up ‘bluetooth kiosks’ at select points in the state to spread its message, a first in the country.more>>


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MobME’s open source tool -- Business Line

Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 5 MobME, a Kochi-based start-up that develops value-added services for telecom and media companies, has announced the launch of OpenVoice, an open source-based voice solution. more>>


MobME’s open source tool --Sify

Thiruvananthapuram: MobME, a Kochi-based start-up that develops value-added services for telecom and media companies, has announced the launch of OpenVoice, an open source-based voice solution. more>>


MobMe develops open source voice solutions -- Personal Finance Today

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala-based mobile media and entertainment startup, MobMe, has developed carrier grade open source voice solutions, offering low-cost voice solutions to a ... more>>


MobMe develops open source voice solutions -- The Economic Times

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala-based mobile media and entertainment startup, MobMe, has developed carrier grade open source voice solutions, offering low-cost voice solutions to a host of users. more>>


George Brody new Chairman of MobME -- The Innovator

MobME, the start-up offspring of TORQUE, a company created by a group of students from the College of Engineering, Trivandrum under T-TBI, is going truly global, roping in Mr. George Brody, former Vice President & General Manager of Nortel Networks, as its Chairman. more>>


George Brody is MobME Chairman -- Business Line

Thiruvananthapuram, July 26 MobME Wireless Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of the city-based Torque, has announced the appointment of the US-based investor, Mr George Brody, as its Chairman.
According to Mr Sanjay Vijayakumar, CEO, MobME, Mr Brody has invested in the company and will also work on efforts to help MobME grow its mobile media and entertainment business and enter the international market. He will also assist the company with its plans to go public in the next two-three years, he added. However, Mr Vijayakumar declined to reveal details about the value of Mr Brody's investment in MobME. more>>


Former Nortel V-P joins Torque`s arm -- Business Standard

George Brody, former vice-president and general manager of Nortel Networks' Wireless Network Solutions, has joined Torque's arm MobME Wireless as its chairman. MobME is a mobile, media and entertainment sector service provider. more>>


Sanjay, the delegated student-administrator -- CORRIERE DELLA SERA

Sanjay has 22 years, and to its last year of engineering succeeding that is already general executive manager of a society of it offers services for telefonini. A launch company two years ago with to a group of six students inside of the Tecknopark di Trivandrum, the great technological and computer science district of the Kerala, Indian State model for quality of the life. more>>


IT young turks try to recreate Silicon Valley in Kerala -- liveMint

Eight engineering graduates are looking to give jobs to people in their IT startup that is already being valued at around $7 million Thiruvananthapuram: They are fresh from college but not desperate for a job! Eight engineering graduates from this state, known better for its thriving tourism industry, are looking to give jobs to people in their IT startup that is already being valued at around $7 million. This team of graduates, which actually shaped its destiny by setting up Torque to provide IT solutions across verticals, now dreams of turning Kerala into the Silicon Coast of India. more>>


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