'Eterno declared winners at Eneterpreneur's showcase at Mobile India 2010: Medianama'

January 12th, 2010 -- Medianama  

In October 2009, Rediff-funded Eterno Infotech, a Bangalore-based mobile company, decided to go global and has since partnered with Bangladesh-based Inforev and Vietnamese VAS provider Mobile Plus for its product NewsHunt. NewsHunt is a mobile application that offers 15 English and regional language newspapers including Dainik Jagran, Dainik Bhaskar, Sakal, Malayala Manorama, Matrubhumi, Dina Malar and Indian Express on the mobile. The application covers a total of 9 Indian languages. Read our coverage of other applications by media companies launched for Nokia’s N97 handset.

Eterno will also be signing an agreement with a Sinhalese firm soon. Inforev is talking to local Bangladeshi papers to launch Newshunt while Mobile Plus has tied up with 2 papers - Vn Express and Dantri. The launches will happen in a month, Chandrashekhar Sohoni, Founder and Director, Eterno Infotech told MediaNama. He said that the company may have to rebrand NewsHunt before going live globally as readers associate the mobile application with India and not an international product.

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NewsHunt nominated for Best Mobile Internet Service at Asia Mobile Awards 2009

Eterno is happy to announce NewsHunt platform's nomination for Best Mobile Internet Service at the prestigious GSMA's Asia Mobile Award 2009.

The GSMA announces the shortlist of 40 nominees for the Asia Mobile Awards 2009, which will be presented at the forthcoming Mobile Asia Congress, Asia’s leading mobile communications event that is set to take place at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, November 18th & 19th.

Judged by independent analysts, journalists and industry experts, the winners of the GSMA’s Asia Mobile Awards will be presented on 18th November, at the Mobile Asia Congress being held at the famed Happy Valley race course.

The Asia Mobile Awards attracted more than 100 entries this year from companies across Asia and across the mobile value chain, with a wealth of commercially available products, services, content and applications.

Nominees for Asia Mobile Awards 2009

Eterno announces availability of NewsHunt for iPhone and Blackberry users
October 15, 2009 -- WAN IFRA Expo 2009, Vienna

Eterno specializes in enabling Newspaper viewing on variety of popular application platforms like Nokia S60, S40, Nokia Touch-screen devices like N97, etc supporting thousands of handsets. Now Eterno announces the availability of their popular application, NewsHunt, for iPhone and Blackberry users.

Eterno already caters to most of the top 25 dailies in India thereby reaching out to almost 10 million subscribers across India in 9 different languages. Newspapers can mobile enable their content on NewsHunt platform in just few days time and that too without any CAPEX investment.

Commenting on the launch, world’s largest read daily, Dainik Jagran, commented,
"NewsHunt’s ability to display Hindi on a wide variety of handsets ranging from vary low end to high
end phones was crucial to us. In addition, we liked the platform’s ability to customize the application for various city editions. These features were important for us to reach the largest readership in the world which Dainik Jagran enjoys.”

Rediff.com invests in Eterno
November 10, 2008 -- Business Wire India

Eterno founded by ex- Nokia employees, Umesh Kulkarni and Chandrashekhar Sohoni, today announced an investment from Rediff.com. Bangalore based Eterno is focused on mobile enabling print, radio and television media companies as well as mobile handset makers and mobile operators by providing connected' Mobile applications with Indian Language support on popular mobile operating systems such as Symbian, J2ME and BREW. Eterno's suite of innovative mobile applications include IndiSMS- an application which allows users to communicate in nine different Indian languages, viz Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Bengali, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil.

Airtel has adopted a regional language application, enabling customers to recieve communication from company in Hindi and four regional languages.This service is all set to enhance the concept of customer communication and is primarily aimed at making its services more inclusive.The regional languages include Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam

This services is available in two formats - picture messages and unicode. This platform is capable of sending messages in any indian language and is very user friendly.

CEO, Mobile Services, Bharti Airtel Ltd., Venkatesh V said, "This service enables us to reach out to customers in the language of their choice ". ENS