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NTT DoCoMo – 4G Mobile Phones by 2010, Solar Handsets in Septemer

Sree Pillai — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 04:56:03 +0000

The world's first 4G mobile phone network is on schedule to launch next year! Japan's NTT DoCoMo is going head with plans for a 2010 launch of 4G (Long-Term Evolution - LTE) services on its own. LTE will play a significant role in quickly delivering movies and other media over connections expected to hit 300Mbps. NTT DOCOMO also announced its development of the SOLAR HYBRID (docomo STYLE series SH-08A), a solar-powered, waterproof mobile phone that will go on sale at all DOCOMO sales channels in Japan from September.

Harry Potter Games & Wallpapers on Airtel

Sree Pillai — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 04:35:08 +0000

Airtel has the exclusive rights for the latest Harry Potter game, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Using Airtel live access point, customers can also download Harry Potter Mastering Magic, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix games, by sending an SMS with HP to 54321.

BIG TV Recharge Options – Oxigen, IVR, SMS & Online Payment

Sree Pillai — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:52:02 +0000

According to Reliance press release, Reliance BIG TV's portfolio of easy recharge options now include Oxigen, Online Payment using Credit/Debit Cards or Internet Banking, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Mobile Mode Payment (SMS) or just calling the toll free number 1800-200-9002. This strategic tie-up by Reliance BIG TV is a part of its customer service motto to offer convenient and user-friendly customer service experience.

Hungama & BSNL Launches Music on Demand Portal – Music Rental Service

Sree Pillai — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:04:00 +0000

Hungama and BSNL launched digital entertainment store BSNL.HUNGAMA.COM exclusively available for BSNL Broadband subscribers. BSNL Hungama has various kinds of entertainments such as music tracks, videos and online games that you can rent out and listen from your computer using BSNL Broadband. You may browse through the library of more than 50,000 items and download your pick from the best of Indian entertainment – Bollywood, Devotional, Regional - Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali and much more. You can sample, select and download your favourite music tracks and videos and play online games.

Tata Docomo i-Channel – Interactive News, Sports, Stocks and More

Sree Pillai — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:47:46 +0000

Tata Docomo launched an interactive GPRS application, Tata i-Channel. This is one of the first products of the Japan-based NTT Docomo to be introduced in India. This service lets you check the latest news and useful daily information, easily and conveniently. The latest news is shown on the standby screen. Press the i-channel button on the compatible mobile phone to easily check the latest news, weather, movies, stocks, and other information useful in daily life. You just need to click a button to immediately view information, with pictures included.

Face Detection Feature in Orkut Photo Albums for Photo Tagging

Sree Pillai — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:36:36 +0000

Google launched face detection feature on all new photos uploaded to orkut. Orkut automatically detects faces appearing in the photos. You can now add tags to those detected faces, and make the photo tagging process much faster. When you start typing a friend's name, the auto-fill feature suggests names from your friends list. Only your friends will be able to tag you in their photos. To keep your privacy, you can remove all tags if you would prefer not to be tagged in this manner.

Voice Based Internet Search on Indian Mobiles – Google India

Sree Pillai — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:48:04 +0000

Google India launched free voice-based internet search facility on mobiles, built entirely by the Google's India engineering team. Th is feature is currently available for 400,000 Blackberry cellphone users only. This search service is currently available only in English. To use the voice-based mobile search, a user log on to the internet on the handset, open Google search page, and "ask" for a particular location, like pizza joint, taxi stand or florist while driving a vehicle.

Google Voice – About, Benefits, Cost, Savings

Sree Pillai — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:38:51 +0000

Google Voice is a unified voice communications service for consumers and solves the problem of having multiple contact points. Google Voice lets you switch wireless carriers without sacrificing your phone numbers and keep the same Google Phone Number as your mobile identity. Google Voice has a 'follow-me' service that unifies both wireless and wireline communications. Google Voice provides one number for voice calls. Google Voice also serves as a hub for SMS as it lets users send text messages from any of their devices or even from their computer.

India’s First SMS Novel – Deaf Heaven by Pinki Virani on Reliance Mobile

Sree Pillai — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:10:18 +0000

India's first SMS cell novel 'Deaf Heaven' written by te National Award winning writer, Pinki Virani will be condensed into a pack of 90 SMSes and Reliance Mobile will make this novel available through a sms subscription pack. Subscribers will receive the entire novel thru a series of SMSes, 3 per day, spread over a period of 30 days. This SMS novel will be available by August.

ICICI Bank TV Banking – ICICI Active on Dish TV – Channel 98

Sree Pillai — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:10:46 +0000

ICICI Bank in association with Dish TV has introduced Television banking, for the first time in India. TV Banking has revolutionised banking by bringing it right into your living room. The service is called ICICI Active, and available on Channel 98 in Dish TV. With ICICI Bank, you can get quick look at New offers and updates from ICICI Bank, Savings and Deposits, Loans and Credit Cards, Investments, Insurance and other Additional Services like financial counselling, interactive features like calculators for loans and premiums, and lots more, directly on your TV while you're watching your favorite show.

Microsoft Office 2010 Web Applications – Free Online Office Productivity Suites

Sree Pillai — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:59:33 +0000

Microsoft has released the technical preview version of Microsoft Office 2010), the successor of Office 2007. Microsoft Office Web Applications are the online companion to Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote applications, which allow you to access documents from anywhere from the Windows Live. The Office Web allows you to even simultaneously share and work on documents with others online. You can view and share documents across PCs, mobile phones, and the Web, create new documents, and do basic editing using the familiar Office interface.

Google Updates Available on Twitter

Sree Pillai — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:25:44 +0000

Google has now officially announced the Twitter accounts the company uses to keep users up-to-date on various programs and initiatives of Google. You can find the full list at Google's official blog. @google is Google's central account. Other important accoutns are @blogger, @GoogleNews, @GoogleReader and @YouTube

Firefox 3.5 Starts Up Very Slow on Windows – Workaround / Solution

Sree Pillai — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:04:27 +0000

Do you face issues with the slow start up of Firefox after the recent upgrade? Sometimes Firefox 3.5 takes long startup time of the order of 10 seconds to a few minutes. This is identified as a bug and is expected to have fixed in Firefox 3.5.1, in a few weeks time. The workaround is to have a noticeable improvement by deleting temporary folders and Internet Temporary Files.

Koobface Worm on Twitter and Facebook – Protection & Removal Tips

Sree Pillai — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:59:56 +0000

Koobface is a computer worm popular among the social network sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, hi5, Bebo and Friendster. Koobface is an anagram of Facebook (koob -> book). Te worm targets users and gather sensitive information such as credit card numbers from the victims. The Koobface worm has been around for the last one year.

Desktop and Portable Hard Drives from Seagate – FreeAgent

Sree Pillai — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:35:48 +0000

Seagate FreeAgent Desktop and Portable Hard Drives give the fastest data transfer rates available and a sleek, stand-out design. These devices are good for storing photos, music or other files, available in portable and desktop options. Capacities of the devices range from 250GB to 1.5TB. The devices come with automatic backup software and software encryption. It is easy to sync between FreeAgent drive and other drives. All these devices support fast data transfer with USB 2.0 interface. The storage devices are preloaded with software, no setup needed. The devices are equipped with smart utilities that rest your drive after 15 minutes of idle time and save energy.

Jabra BT4010 Bluetooth Headset Features and Specifications

Sree Pillai — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:11:13 +0000

Jabra BT4010 is small in size and very user friendly providing long talk time and crystal clear sound. Jabra BT4010 has a smart display, to tell you the battery status, Bluetooth connection status and call status. With auto-pairing and instant connections, the BT4010 can be up and running within a matter of seconds. It is easy to use with the 3 button operation and ideal for for all day talk. The approximate price of Jabra BT4010 Bluetooth Headset in India is Rs 3390. Read the list of features and specifications below.

LG KM900 Arena Phone – 5MP, Touchscreen, Dolby Mobile Music

Sree Pillai — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:13:51 +0000

The LG KM900 Arena reminds of iPhone, with iPhone's all good features. It has sleek and stylish external body, with scratch-resistant tempered glass. The touch screen of the best quality, has QWERTY keyboard, 5MP camera, Dolby Mobile digital surround sound, WAP, Wi-Fi, FM Radio, speaker phone and video recording. The LG KM900 Arena costs Rs 24,990 in India. The Key features of LG KM900 Arena are Dolby Mobile for Music, Impressive Screen Resolution, 5 Megapixel Camera and Touch Connectivity.

Hello, I am Justina! I Went Through Your Profile : Spam Email

Sree Pillai — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:26:29 +0000

Recently I started getting a lot of such email spam messages in Gmail and Gmail for Google Apps, which are not caught by the spam filter of Gmail. The email seems very personal, friendly and genuine. So people tend to reply to that email and then possibly get caught in troubles. So, beware of email spammers! Here is the copy of th email I received:

SMS Group Chat from SMS Gupshup

Sree Pillai — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:39:55 +0000

SMS GupShup has recently introduced GupShup Chat. The GupShup Group Chat enables up to 4 friends to chat with each other through SMS. Participants of the GupShup SMS Group Chat can reply to a message and the message will be forwarded to everyone. To start a GupShup group chat, you can invite upto 4 friends by sending an SMS to in the following format: CHAT phno1 phno2 phno3 phno4 to 567678 To add a nickname: NICK yournickname to 567678 To leave a chat, reply with END To view the list of people in a chat, reply with LIST For help, reply with HELP

How to Add SMS GupShup Widget to My Blog / Website?

Sree Pillai — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:50:31 +0000

SMS GupShup enables developers to build SMS-based widgets and services using GupShup API. Developers can build a variety of widgets and services to share their GupShup group messages on their website or blog, and post messages to their group through their favorite website. SMS Gupshup also provides a widget which is ready to use in your website or blog. You can enter your group name and select a color scheme from the dropdown, and copy the generated HTML code to your webpage or blog template.