OnMobile, a value added services [VAS] provider for phones and handheld devices, has created an M-search voice based search service for mobiles.

M-search is a handset independent music search solution applicable across voice, SMS and WAP. With M-search users are able to search music in nine languages including English, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Bangla, Sinhala and Bahasa, and the company plans to add 21 more languages to the collection.

M-search is optimised to read dialects without being affected by the accent, which in a country like India changes every 100 kilometres.

OnMobile at present has deployed M-search on 13 telecom networks across India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Brazil with plans of expanding into other regions including Latin America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

M-search is flexible and can be deployed anywhere independent of which platform you are on. It is currently available as a voice search platform for content and a search service for caller ring back tones.

According to Arvind Rao, CEO, OnMobile, “As mobile technology shrinks frontiers by bringing diverse regions closer together, M-search helps maintain a personal connect between the music service and the subscriber.”

Opera’s State of the Mobile Web report 2010 says that Facebook is the second most searched website after Google on the mobile web in India. Orkut, owned by Google, and once the numero uno in India, has slipped to fourth position.

Another big gainer in the latest report is Youtube, currently at third spot. Youtube is accompanied by another video site vuclip.com at the tenth position. This suggests that people are watching online video on their mobiles, which is good news for operators launching 3G services.

Another thing people do on their mobile phones is download apps. Getjar, a mobile App website for Java based phones is the fifth most often visited website among mobile users in India. Getjar is followed by zedge.net, which is another website for free mobile stuff.

Wikipidia has moved up one notch in popularity and is not at the number eight position; and Twitter too is a gainer at the sixteenth position.

The biggest loser in the current report is Songs.pk, a website for Hindi film songs. The decline in its popularity doesn’t indicate a slump in interest in Hindi songs though. We believe that Nokia’s Ovi Music is gaining popularity, and people prefer Ovi because it has legal music of consistent quality, unlike the pirated music on songs.pk. The ten handsets most used by mobile web subscribers in India are all Nokia devices.

Another major trend unfolding on the mobile web is the increasing use of shopping websites. People seem to be accessing shopping websites from stores to find out if they can get a better deal online.

If you are usually unable to watch Fashion TV in front of your wife or girlfriend, you can now do so on your mobile phone. Fashion TV has been launched on the global mobile TV network Yamgo.

Fashion TV, loved by men and hated by the government, which has censored its content many times, has spread its wings. Now you can watch the channel on your mobile phone free of cost. All you need to do is open your mobile Browser and enter: https://yamgo.mobi/fashion-tv. You will, however, need to pay data charges.

The service does not require any application download because it streams video from mobile web portals. Yamgo’s technology platform works on 3G (2.5G EDGE and beyond), and also on Wifi.

The channel will be available on all mobile devices including phones running Android, Symbian, BlackBerry OS, iPhone and iPad. Yamgo’s Fashion TV will host over 500 hours of new programming every year and over 300 new catwalk shows and 600 new clips every season.

“Fashion TV is a young and dynamic channel watched by an audience who is sensitive to new technologies and trends; therefore we are very excited to launch Fashion TV on mobile phones worldwide with the global leaders in mobile TV Yamgo,” said Michel Adam Lisowski, president of Fashion TV.

Mobile viewers will have access to shows such as The Catwalk featuring designers and international fashion weeks; Behind The Scenes, presenting backstage access to the world’s top hairstylists and makeup artists; Midnight Hot, a lingerie modeling show; and VIP Events, which showcases celebrity get-togethers.

“This new channel is an exciting addition to Yamgo’s existing linear and catch-up TV service, and part of an ongoing strategy to expand our channel line-up to meet the fast growing demand from mobile users around the world for live mobile TV,” Ian Mullins, the founder and chief executive officer of Yamgo said.

Yamgo delivers the experience of live television, primetime programming and video-on-demand on all major mobile platforms including Java, Android, iPhone, iPad and Symbian. Other channels on Yamgo include B4U Music (only Indian channel), UCB TV, BellaClub etc.

Imagine printing an important document from your smartphone on your way to work and finding the printout when you walk in the door. Google has announced a beta or trial run of Google Cloud Print for mobile documents and Gmail.

You can now open a document in Google Docs or an email in Gmail and choose “Print” from the dropdown menu in the top right corner. You can also print some email attachments (such as .pdf or .doc) by clicking the “Print” link that appears next to them.

This feature is for English speaking users in the US for now and will work on most phones that support HTML5, particularly devices running at least Android 2.1 or iOS 3. Users outside the US will have to wait a bit longer.

To connect your printer to Google Cloud Print you will need to install the latest beta version of Google Chrome on a Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7 computer that’s connected to your printer. (Support for Linux and Mac are coming soon.) Once it is installed, enable the Google Cloud Print connector in Google Chrome.

Right now you cannot share your printer with other users. Printers are only accessible to the account that connected them to Google Cloud Print. Google is, however, working on tools that will let you share your printer as easily as you can share files on Google Docs.