The Google Mobile App is designed to understand Indian accents, the company said in a statement. The application processes the voice query and triggers a Google search and returns location-sensitive results. This means a voice search from south Delhi for ‘restaurants’ will return relevant results that are closest to where you initiated the search from.

“Speech is one of our key innovations in the mobile space out of the India engineering center. With millions of new mobile users being added every month Google Mobile Apps will provide them with a quick and easy way to get the required information whenever and wherever they need it,” Google India’s head of products, Vinay Goel, said in a statement.

Tata Docomo, the GSM brand of Tata Teleservices Ltd, today launched a value-added service—CoMix On The Go—that will allow users to download and view full comic books on the mobile phone. At Rs20 per comic book, some 2,000 titles such as Suppandi, Mickey Mouse, Winnie The Pooh, Popeye and Princess Diaries will be made available for a year. The content comes with special effects such as character vibration, sounds and zooming text bubbles, the company said in a release.

Zero Sum Wireless Solutions India Pvt. Ltd is the technology partner for the service. The Bangalore-based company is a subsidiary of Japanese VAS firm Zero Sum Ltd. Tata Docomo was born out of a strategic partnership between Tata Teleservices and Japan’s NTT Docomo Inc.

MTNL has launched its prepaid 3G services in Mumbai. For Rs109, subscribers get lifetime validity and tariff that is lower than 2G rates, the company said. Voice and video calls to other MTNL users will cost 20 paise per minute, while those to other networks will be charged at 50 paise per minute.

Free data usage of 25MB, 25 free video calls and free talktime worth Rs25 come with the pack.