Yatta – We are Red Herring Asia 100 for the year 2011 – http://bit.ly/taIiX5. Thats a real good sign to us at a time when we are growing at a lion’s pace.
Seems like some journalists found the slums in the area around our office building more interesting than us (http://bloom.bg/peb9CU). So we finally decided to go look for a place which would seem much more industrial and commercial in the urban jungle. Turns out the place we chose is also much larger than our current one.
Just out of curiosity I scanned for all available networks at our head office in Mumbai. It was as expected however with a few surprises:
Airtel: Well they sell iPhones in India themselves
Vodafone IN: They to sell iPhones
Reliance
Aircel
IN-DOLPHIN: I had almost forgotten that MTNL does exist
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IDEA
etisalat: Why didn’t thy name their network as Cheers; well that’s what they are called in India
TATA DOCOMO
BPL MOBILE: They still did not change the network name to Loop
I was expecting a much larger set of carriers as this is Mumbai. Well others do exist but they don’t have their own networks. I was surprised not to find Uninor and Videocon which made big entry in recent times, probably those numbers are these networks. No idea what these two numbers could. Ideally should be the MCC-MNC combination. However, I know that India’s Country Code as per GSM was 404 no idea when 405 stepped in. That confused me out. Might also be some secret band used by the defense forces!!! I will definitely try to get underneath this as well.
-Sudhir
Now all MoFirst team members can log on to the blog via their MoFirst mail email login accounts. The same account you use to log onto your email may also be used to log onto the MoFirst blog on our website.
-Sudhir
Now blogging via e-mail. All MoFirst team members can now blog straight off their e-mail.
-Sudhir
Seems like our popularity is growing despite our silent activities. There was an interesting incident (or should I say accident) last week which caused me to come down to such a conclusion. An unscrupulous competitor of ours managed to hack into our website and inserted a malicious script on our site. This resulted in Google blacklisting our site. Thankfully our well versed technical experts worked day in and out to identify the same and clean up our site. Thanks to these efforts of our technical team, our site was back to normal by the next day.
I guess this is a good juncture to all other such insane people who might think of stopping us, Nothing Can Stop Us from accomplishing our mission - Mission Mobilize. We are all the more motivated in generating more mobile based services in a much more awesome fashion.
On behalf of MoFirst team,
-Sudhir
Search&Dine – Explore. Connect. Locate
Search&Dine is a Zero Step Restaurant Search application. Foodies can now enjoy their meal without any trouble to search their favorite restaurant. This restaurant finder gives instant results based on your location using GPS. Search&Dine is designed to work globally and has database of more than 500,000 restaurants across the world. One can get complete address, location on Map and contact details for booking at their favorite restaurant.
ZERO STEP RESTAURANT SEARCH
Search&Dine restaurant finder uses GPS/network provider to find location and provides fast and efficient way to locate nearest restaurant details. It helps to filter restaurant by ‘Cuisine’ to provide details of your favorite food places.
ADVANCE RESTAURANT SEARCH
You can use advance search option if you have more choices to find restaurant. Using advance search you can search restaurants across the world by providing location and some optional information. ‘Advance Search’ gives the option of searching a specific restaurant.
UNIQUE FEATURES:
SCREEN SHOTS:
It seems just a little while back when everyone at our office were giving bizarre reactions when project management system was being introduced in the company including myself. There were people that said its an overhead and others who expressed their upfront rejection towards it. However, its been almost a year now and it never felt like a big change at all. All thanks to Redmine. There were mixed reactions when the term Redmine came up – ‘Open Source’ no way, ‘Who is gonna manage and support it’, ….. That was the time when I took up all those over me and stood up for Redmine. Well it was a little difficult for me in the beginning in particular with the fact that I had absolutely no idea of Ruby let alone Ruby on Rails. But Redmine did make things quite easy for me to learn.
But now almost everybody loves Redmine. Not just a project management tool, it has sort of become an intra-organization social networking tool. People have also begun sharing & discussing new thoughts and ideas over Redmine. We have gradually adopted multiple plugins also into the system. We are now in a process of integrating our repository also with Redmine.
Well now we are planning as to how we can turn Redmine into the complete knowledge repository of the company over a period of time.
On the lighter side there is a popular saying that I used to circulate to make people a little comfortable with the PMS – “All is well with Redmine”.
The merge of Media Entertainment and Services onto the Mobile enhances the charisma to a greater extent, capitalising on this information delivery system, MoFirst Solutions has launched iMedia a content providing application for iPhone platform.
iMedia is MoFirst’s proprietary application development framework on iPhone. iMedia has a wide range of features which enhances and enriches the user experience. iMedia enables a media company to go on the lofty iPhone platform to explore the market and open business opportunities. The application has a ready component which allows the user to publish articles, pictures, audio and video content. The platform extended to work offline so you don’t need network connectivity always and reduces the time to load content. There is a wide range of sections for content provision which are classified into Specials and Categories as Health & Beauty, Kids, Music, Performing arts, Restaurants, Shopping etc. and the user has the option of bookmarking an article or sharing it by sending the article as an E-Mail. The powerful social media support engage the customer and open an new era to get more publicity of the application. It has support of most of social networks such as facebook, myspace and twitter.
MoFirst supports to integrate with the existing Web based Content Management Systems. It’s advertisement plugin gives content provider one more channel to earn revenue and provide additional business opportunity. MoFirst has delivered many quality products on the iPhone platform and iMedia magnifies the quality of services delivered.
EVENING FLAVORS MOBILE APPLICATION
Eveningflavors.com, India first party planning and restaurant booking website launches lifestyle based mobile application named “EveningFlavors” in the market. The application has been launched in association with MoFirst Solutions, a leading provider of mobile technology to businesses globally. The eveningflavors mobile platform brings to your lifestyle ease of party planning with several unique offers. The launch will enable eveningflavors’s users to search for party, special offers and booking in various restaurants whilst travelling.
The mobile product has some unique features like:
- Plan your party on mobile even when you are travelling
- Search the restaurants in a specific location
- Search various unique offers of restaurants, pubs
- Book your table any time anywhere in a restaurant or pub
“This is a creative lifestyle mobile application powered by eveningflavors’s unique content on restaurants, pubs along with their special offers. The application would offer ease of party planning and restaurant booking to the rich demographics of eveningflavors” Said Akash Dongre, COO MoFirst
Eveningflavors.com has consistently strived to ensure the needs of the customers are fulfilled in best possible way. With the launch of the mobile application, Eveningflavors.com has bridged the gap between the customer and the Food and Beverages Industry. The application enables the user to search, book and plan a party in any restaurant and pub across cities like Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata and Delhi with a click of mobile phone. As values add , Eveningflavors also updates their customers with all the happening events and parties buzzing across the City through SMS and Calls.
The technological services rendered by MoFirst promises impeccable service and success and has made the application user friendly, rich and efficient. One of the Co-founders of Eveningflavors.com, Mr. Akash Srivastava says, “Our association with MoFirst has enabled the successful launch of our mobile application. Finally our aim of bringing our services on to the mobile is fulfilled. Our hopes are high and as always our service will be up to the mark.”