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From the News Desk
Wednesday, 30. April 2008
Now Vodafone Customers in India Get to Enjoy Live Search
Vodafone and Microsoft India has jointly announced the launch of a new service, powered by Live Search, which provides SMS Search for Vodafone customers in India.
Live Search on Vodafone mobile offers users:
- On-portal/deck content like ringtones, images, articles, etc
- Local / directory information like restaurants
- Mobile sites (WAP sites)
- World Wide Web (WWW)
Vodafone subscribers can type in their query as a SMS text message on their mobile handset and send to 55060. The mobile originating SMS will be charged 30 paise per query. Currently, the local search/directory information is available in 8 major cities including Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune and Ahmedabad. In addition, 21 more cities are expected to go live soon.
Announcing the launch, Gurpreet S. Pall, Director of Live Search and Emerging Markets at Microsoft India Development Center (MSIDC) said, “We are offering some very unique features like local results based on the user’s city location, keeping track of user’s search session for 24 hours and delivering results formatted to match the user’s phone capabilities – seen in India for the first time,”
Live Search on Vodafone mobile offers users:
- On-portal/deck content like ringtones, images, articles, etc
- Local / directory information like restaurants
- Mobile sites (WAP sites)
- World Wide Web (WWW)
Vodafone subscribers can type in their query as a SMS text message on their mobile handset and send to 55060. The mobile originating SMS will be charged 30 paise per query. Currently, the local search/directory information is available in 8 major cities including Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune and Ahmedabad. In addition, 21 more cities are expected to go live soon.
Announcing the launch, Gurpreet S. Pall, Director of Live Search and Emerging Markets at Microsoft India Development Center (MSIDC) said, “We are offering some very unique features like local results based on the user’s city location, keeping track of user’s search session for 24 hours and delivering results formatted to match the user’s phone capabilities – seen in India for the first time,”
