Mid-week recap of buzz in Indian Internet/Mobile Industry.

First of all, sincere apology for the bad frequency of posts over the last 2 weeks. I was traveling extensively and am just back to the country.

Here is the mid-week coverage of interesting events in the Indian digital/mobile industry. Significant development this week is Google’s local search initiative and launch of Zoho’s offline plugin (Zoho uses Google gears for the offline support of Zoho docs).
More below:

[Mobile Industry]:

• The Hindu Business Line : Mobile Magic to set up 1,000 stores by ’10
• MChek Enables Mobile Payment In Sri Lanka With Dialog And NDB Bank (Gujarat too)
• Bharti Telesoft Eyes Software Firm Jataayu
• BSNL To Use Govt Kiosk Network To Provide 85,000 Customers Wi-Max
• BSNL loses Rs 15.87 cr revenue in last two years
• .mobi has to catch up with mobiles
• TRAI Likely To Propose Higher Stake Limit In Same-Circle Licensee

[Internet stories]

• Zoho gets offline
• Google Launches Local Search For India
• Goldstone Acquires IPTV Rights To 3500 Video Titles From Echelon Studios
• Website launched to help SMEs start, finance and grow their business
• Websites search for the future in maps
• AOL and MTNL partner to form co-branded portal
• Komli launches Pubmatic, ad-aggregator service to maximize one’s earnings.
• Over 4 million “Indian Independence” queries on the web on August 15th

[Misc]

• Goa Targets March Deadline For Complete Broadband Connectivity
• Vijay Shekhar Sharma on the future of mobile VAS
• Analysis of online newspaper readership
• Why startups should patent their ideas?
• Indian BPO exports cross $4.6 bn mark
• Bisleri may be ICL’s first big sponsor