As per the rumours by many websites yesterday, Google has finally launched Google Buzz, a social networking platform integrated into current Google services. You can access Google Buzz inside Gmail below the Inbox tab.
Airtel has announced a special offer for its all Fixed Line Customers. All Airtel Fixed Line Users will enjoy free calls to other Airtel Fixed Line Customers on 7th, 14th, 21st Feb 2010 (i.e. The upcoming 3 Sunday’s). The usage of Fixed phone have been heavily affected by the recent price drops of calls rates on mobile phone’s. Most of the fixed line operators are now depending on broadband users.
Virgin Mobile in partnership with Tata Teleservices is raising the heat in Telecom industry again. A few months back industry was shook up with the pay-per-second plans. Now Virgin Mobile is all set to revamp the Indian Telecom Industry once again with its low calling rates.
Interesting part is Virgin Mobile uses the network of Tata Teleservices and still being able to provide calling at such a low rate. So now you can imagine how telecom operators used to fool us with high charges an year back.
The group will start its services from southern region of India and other parts will be followed up till end of March 2010. Virgin Mobile will provide STD calling rates at 20p/min without any top-up packs, in order to capture the market space, however the other tariffs details are yet to be declared.
Not only this but they will also be offering itemised bills to all their customers at no extra charge. Also if the bill complaint is now answered with a span of 48 hours, the bill will become the liability of Virgin Mobile. Now this generates a true win-win situation for the users.
The big players such as Airtel, Reliance are creating a no-match for the cheap rates provided by the new telecoms. Its interesting to see where this competition is going to end. ”India is the first country where Virgin Group will be offering both CDMA and GSM services” said Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin group.
Number portability is also expected to launch by the same time i.e. March 2010 end, thus creating a new room for Virgin Group to grasp customers from other teleco’s.
How will you respond to this move – Stay with current 1p/sec plan (60p/min) or go with the new scheme as 20p/min?Leave your thoughts in comments.
Firefox 3.5 is going to be released in next few hours. But you can download it just now before it officially launches at Mozilla’s site or anywhere. Grab it on before the rest of the world gets it. Here are the links to download it direct from mozilla’s site. Read more…
Nokia is all set to sell the upcoming passion of youth like hot cakes. Its no other than the heart throbbing Nokia N97. But before it gets out in streets you may get a chance not just only to see it, touch it, use it but you can own one. Nokia has sponsored 10 Nokia N97 in India and many more worldwide and are giving them away for free before its official launch.
Well you can figure it out from my words above, how special this handset is and how much am I personally excited about this release from nokia. N97 features ultimate features making us not to call it a phone but a internet tablet. We checked out the features of Nokia N97 when it was officially declared and now we have its official release date and price.
If you are located in India you have a great chance to win a Nokia N97. The contest will start from June 15 and will continue till June 19 across the 5 most popular tech blogs of India. You can enter at any one of the five sites which will be giving away two Nokia N97 each and answer some very simple questions by digging the site’s archives. Each participant can enter only once per day at one site and multiple entries will be discarded.
The list of blogs where contest are being held are provided below:
Nokia N97 will be available at all Nokia Priority Stores and Nokia Dealer in India on 23rd June 2009. Nokia N97 is priced at 35,000 INR. You can also fill your details here to get notified by Nokia about the launch.
The contest is up and running. The question for Day 1 is It makes your Internet experience more personal and the the correct answer is Widgets. Do try you luck on any one of links above.
Note: Do not post on multiple sites, this will get your entry discarded. However, different family members can apply.
Today’s question is Thanks to this feature, you won’t need a keypad. What is it? and the answer is just Touch (not Touchscreen). Wish you all the best!
Nokia is today busy in popularizing their Ovi Store. The question for today is ” A virtual store that lets you store, share and access content”. And the answer is Ovi Store.
Q: The first six characters on a modern keyboard.
A: QWERTY
Q: Largest phone storage available for any Nokia.
A: 32GB
We will keep a watch at all the five sites above and provide more updates on this contest daily so stay tuned at LifeBaker.com don’t forget to subscribe to our feed here. You can also visit the official site of this contest at http://www.searchforn.com/.
The intervention of disks with storage capacity 2000 times the present disks can prove to be a boon in the field of Microphonotics. Researchers of Swinburne University of Technology have been successful in explaining how disks with such huge capacity can be manufactured without changing its physical dimensions.
Protection of Vulnerable Road Users (VRU’s), like pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists, has always been an important issue in the discussions of Road Safety Measures, as their motion is very unpredicted and cannot be easily followed. Moreover, they also cannot be provided with some sort of safeguarding accessories to wear on. But now with the efforts of European researchers, the problem seems to be solved.
The instilled hard work and strong determination of European Researchers for the WATCH-OVER project explored new ways of road safety and resulted into a new and advanced technology to protect and safeguard VRU’s. The system can sense the terror of impact from a safer distance followed by a proper communication with the help of sensors. But for a proper and convenient use, it requires a perfect coordination between the drivers and the VRU’s.
The working of the system is divided into two versions which include:
Sensors form a basic part of pre-cash system which senses the danger and feeds it into the system. But in order to make the public aware of the danger, it needs to be coordinated by some communication technology. To take the idea into practice, the system is to be united with gadgets or attires.
The development of the system is in process and is not ready for use as it need to be improvised and advanced keeping in mind all the perspectives for a better and complete tracking of arenas, covering all the angles-of-approach to provide a compatible and cost-effective system with higher degrees of accuracy.
Hewlett-Packard popularly known as HP, has recalled the batteries sold with their laptops for the fourth time in two consecutive years. These batteries were built in China and are suspected to overheat and may even catch fire and cause harm to the consumers. Consumers of such defected batteries are given instructions to immediately remove batteries from their system and run their laptops on main power (without battery plugged-in) until the replacement battery arrives. Read more…
Windows 7 has been loved by the beta testers and so they are eagerly waiting for the Windows 7 RC1 which is officially due sometime next month. But some of the naughty minds have teased users with torrents that claim to be the upcoming Windows 7 RC1. These fake builds not only carry the potential of harming your system but may also expose your data to those naughty minds who build it. Read more…
We see new shapes and sizes of gadgets with little bit improvement almost every week. Every company has a habit of raising the features in their products slowly but continuously. Such a case is with the memory cards which we use in our day to day devices such as mobiles, digital cameras, etc. But at the CES 2009, a huge development is seen in memory cards. The new cards known as SDXC (eXtended Capacity) are capable of offering up to 2TB of storage on a single card. Unbelievable? Believe it!