Will be done this week.

Team Ala

He is also the author of the popular Mobile Blog Wireless Duniya..

Sidhartha has been with the MVAS vertical for a long time and was till recently Sr Manager – VAS for Cellucom Group in  Dubai heading the Middle East & African Markets.

He can be contacted at sidhartha.bezbora@alabot.com

His Linkedin profile

Do read the entire article if you are interested in the mobile space.  The link is here

Excerpt

“A welcome addition to the list is Alabot, a mobile search provider based out of Pune, India, with offices in Kuala Lumpur and London. I first met Akshat Shrivastava, Alabot founder, at a mobile search conference, where I had the pleasure of presenting him with the Bronze in the category Best Technology Innovation – Software. Earlier this week Akshat sent me a DM via Twitter (@peggyanne) with the great news: Alabot has secured funding from a global innovation fund and sealed a deal with a Malaysian mobile operator to develop a multi-lingual (English, Bahasa, Chinese Tamil) mobile content vertical search service.

The text search service will start off serving up ringtones and wallpapers from the operator’s online content stock, “low hanging fruit” Akshat tells me is just the beginning. As he put it: “Content services that require a syntax or Internet access aren’t getting traction [in that region] because they are not intuitive or interactive.” Moving forward, Akshat tells me plans are to extend the service to other content verticals and expand reach via deals with several OEMs. Rock On!”

I beleive that going forward content on the mobile will be easier to reach. This content could  be wallpapers, ringtones etc or complex queries for local search, mcommerce and other verticals.

Technology and user need will drive companies and operators to launch intelligent, interactive and most important of all “relevant” services on their networks.

Do read the entire article if you are interested in the mobile space.  The link is here

Excerpt

“A welcome addition to the list is Alabot, a mobile search provider based out of Pune, India, with offices in Kuala Lumpur and London. I first met Akshat Shrivastava, Alabot founder, at a mobile search conference, where I had the pleasure of presenting him with the Bronze in the category Best Technology Innovation – Software. Earlier this week Akshat sent me a DM via Twitter (@peggyanne) with the great news: Alabot has secured funding from a global innovation fund and sealed a deal with a Malaysian mobile operator to develop a multi-lingual (English, Bahasa, Chinese Tamil) mobile content vertical search service.

The text search service will start off serving up ringtones and wallpapers from the operator’s online content stock, “low hanging fruit” Akshat tells me is just the beginning. As he put it: “Content services that require a syntax or Internet access aren’t getting traction [in that region] because they are not intuitive or interactive.” Moving forward, Akshat tells me plans are to extend the service to other content verticals and expand reach via deals with several OEMs. Rock On!”

I beleive that going forward content on the mobile will be easier to reach. This content could  be wallpapers, ringtones etc or complex queries for local search, mcommerce and other verticals.

Technology and user need will drive companies and operators to launch intelligent, interactive and most important of all “relevant” services on their networks.

TIECON:

This is Mr. Sameer Saigal (sameer.saigal@alabot.com), our point man in Malaysia. He is sitting at the Alabot booth at the recently held TieCon in Kuala Lumpur.(http://tiemalaysia.org/).

The conference was for 3 days with some excellent speakers. The Alabot team met up with a lot of potential customers and just being there has helped us a lot.

FUNDING: We secured our funding from a global innovation fund. This money is going to be spent on extensive R&D and rolling out very focused applications for the telecom industry.

MORE: A partnership with one of the regions largest telecom operators has been inked. They will use the Alabot engine to enhance their ringtone, callback tones, wallpapers and game download vertical. This application is going to substantially increase their downloads and will be available in 4 languages.

A hectic but extremely fruitful trip.