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12 Reasons Why Aakash May Soon Be Doomed!

noreply@blogger.com (Best International Finance Books) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:45:00 +0000

The cheapest tablet meant for students has very basic tech specs, which may not even be of help for students.

Friday, January 13, 2012: Well, we have all been hearing about the world's cheapest tablet Aakash being sold out. More than 1.5 million units of the device have already been ordered. Despite all the hype that has been created around the device since its very launch, doubts have started to trickle in about its performance and durability. According to industry experts, technical flaws, total cost of procurement and no hands-on experience have resulted in disappointment for its over-excited buyers. A few buyers who got the tablet can just rejoice to be the early users of the cheap tablet.

Despite all odds, a second version of the device--Ubislate+, with hopefully better tech specs--is already in production and is expected to be out soon. It will have a SIM card slot to support phone calls as well.

Here are 12 reasons why Aakash tablet is not up to the mark and can be a complete failure in the market...

Pricing: The famous $35 tablet, available for around Rs 2,500 in the Indian market, is actually not cheap as it is said to be. Though it sports a price tag of Rs 2,500, if somebody buys a 4GB or an 8GB microSD card with it the charges will go up by Rs 500 to Rs 800. A pair of earphones (tablet does not come with earphones) will come at a price of Rs 400. So the price of the tablet along with basic accessories will touch Rs 4,000.

Low on memory and storage: Aakash has a 256 MB RAM and 2GB internal storage, which means a user can hardly store two movies and a few songs in the tablet. Users can increase the memory storage to 32 GB but a microSD card of 8GB itself costs an extra Rs 800, which will escalate the price of the tab to around Rs 3,500, defeating the sole purpose of an affordable tablet.

Low-quality processor: The tablet has a very basic 336 MHz processor, which is even lesser than the processors in the cheapest Android mobiles. The tablet runs Android operating system, which needs enough memory to run applications and graphics. Thus, a user will not be able to perform multiple tasks on the tablet as the processor will not support them.

Display issues: The screen resolution of the tablets is very bad as it has no high-definition output. The tablet reflects light and even at its maximum brightness levels, it is unable to display things properly on its screen in bright surroundings. The usage of the tablet will be restricted to close doors and not under the sun, says a report by ZEE News.

Low battery back up: Aakash does not even have proper battery back-up to last long for students. As the tablet has a large screen as compared to smartphones, which have a mere 7.6-cm (3-inch) to 8.9-cm (3.5-inch) display and a battery of 1500 mAh. Aakash comes with a 2100 mAh battery and since it has a bigger screen, the battery is not enough for the device. According to the makers of Aakash, Datawind, the tablet has a battery back up of 3 hours but the firm does not specify the kind of usage that is possible in that duration.

Heats up quickly: The device is said to heat up quickly as it has a low-end processor, which is not for multi-tasking on the tablet. People who have used the tablet have confirmed that the device heats up within an hour while browsing or using the WiFi.

Resistive touchscreen: Aakash offers a resistive touchscreen at a time when even most of the low-cost smartphones have a capacitive touchscreen these days. But even the resistive touchscreen of Aakash is way too bad, specially when dragging any item on the screen. Even if an icon is to be selected, the resistive touch seems to be a problem.

Does not support Bluetooth: The tablet currently does not support any version of Bluetooth.

No support for hardware upgrade: Users will have a problem in installing third-party applications on Aakash as most of the applications need at least the Android 2.3 version, while Aakash runs Android 2.2 OS. Also, hardware upgrade would be a tough task with the 366 MHz processor.

No access to Android Marketplace: Aakash lacks the best feature of an Android operating system--the Android Marketplace. This would limit the usage to the pre-installed apps on the tablet. The target buyers of the tablet would hardly know how to install the apps separately.

Lacks external speakers: The Aakash tablet does not have external speakers and does not even come along with earphones. The users would have to make extra investment of Rs 400 to buy decent earphones for audio output.

Poor network connectivity in India: Though Aakash does have a Wi-Fi connection but it will hardly be of any use in India, specially in rural areas, where connectivity will be an issue.

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Interview with Bill Gates-Transcript (One of the rare Interviews).

noreply@blogger.com (Best International Finance Books) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:14:00 +0000

Australian Broadcasting Corporation Broadcast: 15/12/2011
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Reporter: Scott Bevan

Scott Bevan speaks with Microsoft founder Bill Gates in a rare interview.

Transcript

CHRIS UHLMANN, PRESENTER: He's the software engineer who helped drive the personal computer revolution and his company Microsoft conquered all before it and Bill Gates became one of the richest people in the world. But Bill and his wife Melinda have committed to giving away over 90 per cent of their wealth, and he hopes that's another idea that will conquer the world.

Today, Scott Bevan sat down with Bill Gates for a rare interview.

SCOTT BEVAN, REPORTER: Bill Gates, welcome and thank you for your time.

BILL GATES, PHILANTHROPIST: Great to be here.

SCOTT BEVAN: Now, a few years ago at the World Economic Forum, you described yourself as an optimist, but an impatient optimist. Now, bearing in mind those two words: impatient and optimist, whey have you pursued trying to eradicate stubborn diseases and trying to enlist the help of sometime stubborn political leaders?

BILL GATES: Well the improvement in health over the last 50 years is one of the great miracles of development. 50 years ago, over 20 million children died every year. And last year that was down below eight million. And the reason for that is that we invented great vaccines and then we had the generosity through aid programs to make them available to even the poorest.

SCOTT BEVAN: Now in your former life with Microsoft, you brought about or helped bring about radical change, global change, fairly rapidly. With that experience, with that thinking that would have developed through that process, how much is it a blessing, how much is it a curse in what you're dealing with now, takes time and change comes much slower?

BILL GATES: Well I think the IT industry at times does move very quickly, but we founded Microsoft back in 1975 and the personal computer revolution I don't think was evident to the population at large for over 20 years. And, it's only now, with the internet changing so much of how we do things, that people see, "Wow, this digital revolution's a big deal." There's still more to be done there - education, health, many areas are not yet revolutionised. And so as I focus now on the poorest and their needs, I can tap into the same kind of innovation, brilliant scientists, people who work in the field, and I can say that, hey, in 10 years we can reduce malaria by half. Three years or so, we should be able to get polio to be the second disease that's completely eradicated. So the timeframes aren't that different. It's not one political term that we can get these things done in, but if you think in terms of 10 or 15 years, we will be able to see immense progress.

SCOTT BEVAN: How hard is it to get that across to political leaders, particularly at the moment; say recently with the G20, the report you did there, where you reiterated the importance that donor countries stay the course, that they don't pull back on how much they give? How difficult is it to express to political leaders what you've said in that report and what you just said?

BILL GATES: Well anyone who's been out to see populations getting AIDS drugs or communities getting malaria bed nets, they'll be very sympathetic to these things, but the politicians and particularly the voters, very few of them have actually seen it in action. And their image of aid goes back to several decades ago where it was more about buying friendship than it was about putting the money where it could have the most impact. And so we need to get these success stories out. We're very pleased that Australia is increasing its aid generosity. It has a commitment by 2015 to get up to 0.5 per cent, which would put it at the average of what rich countries give - quite phenomenal, and those increases are going into very effective activities. They're a great partner on vaccines, great partner on polio. So I'm enjoying the fact that aid is getting smarter all the time and that's helping to back that it should be part of the budget, even in times where budgets everywhere are very, very tight.

SCOTT BEVAN: In your G20 report again, you propose certain taxes as a means of raising revenue for development, and you said, "Markets and governments should drive price carbon more explicitly through taxes and other means." Now, as you know, Australia is about to have a carbon tax. What do you think of it and what do you think it's likely to achieve, if anything, in regard to tackling climate change and the work that that involves in what you do with the foundation?

BILL GATES: Well I wish the world at large found it easier to get together on this because a carbon tax is a very important tool to encourage the invention of low-cost energy technologies that don't emit carbon. And to help that happen, a carbon tax is really a key piece. You wanna fund basic research so that the science is there and then you want companies thinking, whether it's solar or nuclear or wind. I wish the United States was stronger on the taxation piece, but I will say that it is funding research more than any other country in the world.

SCOTT BEVAN: So when Australians say - and there has been opposition to this carbon pricing - when they say, "What difference are we going to make on a global scale?"," how would you answer that by extrapolation of what you see in the poorest nations?

BILL GATES: Well, the - it's absolutely true that somebody has to lead on tough global issues, and if only a few countries do something, in this case it doesn't solve the problem. And so you have to believe that by setting a good example, that others will come in. The United States and China have to come in in a big way to this. Technology has to come along that makes the price premium for energy without CO2 omissions less than it is today. Now I'm a big optimist that that will happen.

SCOTT BEVAN: Let's talk about philanthropy in Australia. The whole culture of philanthropy, or perhaps the lack of it, has been discussed lately and been criticised by some prominent Australians such as Dick Smith. And once again, the Australian of the Year Simon McKeon said at a recent speech, "It is the elephant in the room," and that our wealthy, our very wealthy are far from generous. And he said, "Our culture is one that supports the rich being selfish." How do you reaculturate a population or a wealthy part of that population?

BILL GATES: Well I know there's a lot of great philanthropists in Australia. The goal should be to grow it and grow it at a reasonable rate. You know, you want people at all parts of society to feel like they can give back, whether it's volunteering their time, their voice or some financial resources. It helps if those who are the most successful, some reasonable percentage of them are setting an example. And so everyone that joins that I think will encourage more to join in with that, and certainly our foundation is very willing to talk about what's work and what's not work.

SCOTT BEVAN: We do have 35 billionaires apparently in Australia. Some of them with the resources boom are growing richer by the minute. Would you consider holding a meeting like you have done so in India, in China, to try and give the advice and kick-start this and kick along the culture of philanthropy among the very wealthy in Australia?

BILL GATES: If somebody was organising a meeting that was gonna get a number of those people come, I'd be glad to join in and share my experiences. I don't know the people so I won't organise it myself, but, yes, that's - willingness to participate in a meeting like that is something I enjoy a lot.

SCOTT BEVAN: To give us a sense of why you give, is there a particular moment, a particular person, a particular face that has been seared into your memory that constantly reinforces to you in the quietest moments, "That's why I give"?

BILL GATES: Well there's many different ways you come at giving. I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on. And then when I got married, Melinda and I both knew that would happen, but we wanted to find out was there something we could do that was dramatic? So, it's personal, it's seeing it, it's thinking about it numerically, and the next thing you know, it's - you're full-time work and you're not even questioning it because it's so exciting and yet when it goes slower than you want, you get impatient and you try to be creative about pushing it along.

SCOTT BEVAN: More exciting than anything that you achieved in Microsoft and with Microsoft?

BILL GATES: I'd say equally exciting. I mean, the - in my 20s and 30s, that work was thrilling. And I worked day and night, I loved it. We believed in something that most of the world didn't see, and that revolution continues. Now I get that same kind of satisfaction in my foundation work.

SCOTT BEVAN: Time magazine's person of the year just announced, the The Protester, in recognition and acknowledgement of the enormous changes brought globally this year by protests and popular movements. For someone who's trying to change the world along another avenue, another path, what do you think of this other avenue of change and how do you assess the success of the protest?

BILL GATES: Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore. The Protestor I think will speak up for the world's poorest. Why did we get the attention at the Gleneagles G8 summit that led to a huge commitment to the poorest people? Well there was a set of protestors who came together. There's no cause more just than the need to care about the very poorest. And - so I think it is a powerful tool. I think young people want to get behind these causes, and so they - some protest about aid issues'll be a real friend of the causes I believe in.

SCOTT BEVAN: Finally, the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy said more than a century ago that, "money is a new form of slavery". By giving away or pledging to give away billions of dollars, how liberated do you feel?

BILL GATES: Well I feel it's great. You know, it's gotten me away from the title of being the richest, and that's a nice thing. But, it's also a responsibility. You want to do it well. I think you need the same type of diligence that you had in being able to make a great fortune. Picking people to work with, picking goals, being honest about the limitations of what impact you can have. So, it's fun, but I also take it quite seriously.

SCOTT BEVAN: Bill Gates, I wish you and your family a wonderful Christmas in Australia.

BILL GATES: Thank you.

SCOTT BEVAN: Thank you for your time.

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Verizon Wireless announces Samsung Galaxy Nexus

noreply@blogger.com (Best International Finance Books) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 05:35:00 +0000

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Google’s latest superphone, has just been announced, so those who want to pick it up can make a beeline for the smartphone, be it online or at brick and mortar stores. Just how much do you think you will need to fork out for the Galaxy Nexus? Looking at a $299.99 price point with a new two-year customer agreement, of course. What is so special about the Samsung Galaxy Nexus? For starters, it will be able to let you browse the Web, stream music and do much more at blazing speeds thanks to Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE network, where you can experience fast download speeds of 5 to 12 megabits per second (Mbps) and upload speeds of 2 to 5 Mbps.

Not only that, this is the first smartphone from the Android-powered community that will run on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich right out of the box, delivering an entirely new look and feel to the world of Android. The Galaxy Nexus will deliver a redesigned user experience with improved multi-tasking, notifications, Near Field Communications (NFC) sharing with Android Beam and a full e-browsing experience. A slew of standard user interface features such as the lock screen, home screen, phone app and others in between have been rethought and redesigned, with Google hoping to turn Android into a simple, beautiful and useful operating system.

As for the hardware specifications, we are looking at a super slim 9.47mm design which will surely please those who place plenty of priority over the aesthetics of a device, and even being so slim, it will still be able to cram in a 4.65″ HD Super AMOLED Contour Display that lets you watch movies, view pictures and play games which will come to life in 720p (1280 x 720) resolution. A dual-core 1.2GHz application processor will run proceedings from within, and the HTML5 Web browser that has been optimized for dual-core processing with Android 4.0 will make your online experience a seamless one.

You can also be super popular with the rest of your mates as well thanks to the built-in Mobile Hotspot capability, letting you share either a 4G LTE or 3G connection with up to 10 Wi-Fi-enabled devices. A 5-megapixel camera is located at the back, boasting zero-shutter lag for instant photo capturing, autofocus and LED flash with full 1080p recording, while up in front you have a 1.3-megapixel camera for video chat purposes. Since this is such a beauty, there is a textured soft-touch back cover to turn this into a slip-resistant phone (to a certain extent, of course). Any takers for Google’s latest beauty?

Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S: things that make me jealous and things that don’t

noreply@blogger.com (Best International Finance Books) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:58:00 +0000

Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S

This is the successor to the Xperia Arc from just 6 months ago. The “S” might stand for speed as the only notable differences is the 1.4ghz CPU, over the previous 1.0ghz. Since Androids seems to have a thirst for CPU cycles, this can only be a good thing.

Hardware build: A bit jealous.

Straight out of the box, the Arc S feels as slick as it looks. At 8.7mm thick and 117grams, it’s a slice off the Samsung Omnia 7 Windows Phone which is 11mm and 138grams respectively. Even the much adored Nokia Lumia 800 is slightly bulkier at 12.1mm and 124grams.

Hardware buttons: Not jealous.

It appears the same diet the Sony Ericsson designers applied to the hardware casing was also applied to the power and camera buttons because they’re unhealthily anorexic. Not only are they too small but they barely extrude from the casing. In the case of the two-stage camera button, it’s a nightmare to hold and press to quick activate the camera app.

Hardware extensibility: Jealous.

Besides supporting the latest hardware and connectivity standards, one of Android’s strong points has always been hardware differentiation and the Arc S is no exception. With it’s Sony association, it boastsnative HDMI output capability that not only mirrors the display but also displays high definition content for media content like photos and video. Great for sharing high quality photos taken straight from the phone.

In addition, the phone also supports ANT+ connectivity which is used in some new-generation fitness equipment to monitor data outputs wirelessly.

HD Voice (wideband audio): Super jealous.

Telstra in Australia recently enabled HD Voice making them the largest mobile network in the world now to support the new wideband audio technology. The Xperia Arc S is one of the few phones that support this.

Upon testing it with another fellow HD Voice user, the difference was phenomenal. Not only is the voice clarity like the transition to high-definition video, it’s also far better at reducing background noise. It’s like having a high-quality Skype call at the convenient of just a normal call.

Apparently the Samsung Omnia 7 sold by Orange in the UK supports HD Voice but I haven’t heard this for any other device or carrier.

Camera features: Jealous.

The Arc S has a f/2.4 aperture lens, the same wide-aperture featured on the new iPhone 4S which allows for much better low-light and depth-of-field photos, like above. Having said that, some of the 2nd-generation Windows Phones have an improved if not better aperture, for example f/2.2 Carl Zeiss on theNokia Lumia 800.

The custom camera app in the Arc S comes a smile detection mode that automatically takes a photo when it detects people smiling and sweep panorama which makes panoramas in one continuous shot. Although these might seem gimmicky, both actually works really well.

Android 2.3: Not jealous.

Recently, there’s been many good posts surrounding why the Android UI performance is sub-par to iOS or Windows Phone. This couldn’t be more true after using Windows Phone full-time. Although Android has made improvements in this area over several versions, there’s enough momentary freezes and unresponsive keyboard touches to annoy you.

Since Sony Ericsson has cemented plans to make available the Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 update to all Xperia Arc and Arc S owners in early 2012, it’ll be worth watching if the user experience improves much for existing hardware owners.

Bundled/third-party software: Not jealous.

If first impressions mean anything, the first thing I saw when I booted the phone for the first time was a prompt from “McAfee Security”. Like most Android phones today, the Arc S comes with a selection of OEM and carrier apps that either customizes the default Android apps or adds additional functionality. Some of these are useful, most are not.

An example of a bundled app I actually found useful was the Sony-customized radio app. In this, they added their proprietary TrackID music matching service which identifies songs played on FM radio with a single tap. Unfortunately the same usefulness wasn’t true to the other dozen or so trialware.

Sony Ericsson also took it upon themselves to develop a Timescape widget which aggregates friends and messages from social networks in a carousel on the home screen. Coming from Windows Phone, this actually reminds me a little of the People hub.

What I found interesting was that it was extensible by third-parties. Some of the extensions available adds additional content from the likes of YouTube, Foursquare, Google Reader and news outlets.

In conclusion, it’s nice to see Android phones doing what they do best, differentiate themselves through compelling hardware. The Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S is a pretty solid Android device with some features worth boasting about. Amidst its issues, I’m hopeful Android ICS can deliver some of the improvements the platform needs. I’ll be keeping a close eye on it.

Panasonic does the 3D gig with Lumix DMC-3D1

noreply@blogger.com (Best International Finance Books) — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:41:00 +0000

Stereoscopic 3D is the way to go where the future is concerned, but it will still take a fair bit of time before it catches up with the masses. After all, not everyone is lining up and rushing to purchase a 3D HDTV, and you don’t see a mad craze for all movies to be shown in 3D glory although you might say that film executives think otherwise. If you have a 3D-capable HDTV sitting at home (preferably part of the Panasonic ecosystem for obvious reasons with this post), then why don’t you take full advantage of it with the newly announced Panasonic Lumix DMC-3D1?
Yes sir, just like all other 3D cameras out there in the market, this particular model will also come with a twin-lens design so that it can shoot not only 3D images but stereoscopic 3D videos as well. Want to shoot regular stills without any eye-popping visuals? Not a problem, the Lumix DMC-3D1 does that equally well.

Just what kind of lenses does the Lumix DMC-3D1 pack? Well, for starters, it comes with 25mm ultra-wide angle lenses alongside 4x optical zoom that will deliver the outstanding capability to shoot high resolution 8-megapixel 3D photos and 1920 x 1080 60i high quality 3D HD video thanks to a side-by-side method. Thanks the kind of optics found in the Lumix DMC-3D1, you will be able to enjoy a wider range of composition possibilities as you have approximately 169% larger viewing space compared to that of 35mm cameras.
We used to have to make a choice – do we shoot photos or videos with a single camera? With the Lumix DMC-3D1, such a dilemma is no longer part of the equation, since it can do 2D photos and videos simultaneously. Shooting 12-megapixel 2D photos and recording 1920 x 1080i full HD 2D videos, you can always capture a particular moment in time for all immortality in two different formats, now how neat do you think that is?
Other hardware specifications include iA (Intelligent Auto) mode, MEGA O.I.S, AF Tracking, Intelligent Scene Selector, Face Recognition and Intelligent ISO Control, Intelligent Exposure and Intelligent Handheld Nightshot. Expect to see the Panasonic Lumix DMC-3D1 this coming December for $499.99.

(Source)

Students push the boundaries of the Microsoft Touch Mouse with SDK competition

noreply@blogger.com (Best International Finance Books) — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 07:49:00 +0000

The Microsoft Hardware blog yesterday featured the winners of the UIST 2011 Student Innovation Contestwhere university students were challenged to come up with interesting uses for the Microsoft Touch Mouse with the public sensor SDK. Between the 30 groups that participated, the projects ranged from the surprisingly practical to bizarrely intriguing.

As a highlight of some of the projects that I found interesting, TUI.TAR was the first prize winner in the creative category. This application turned the Touch Mouse into a virtual guitar with plucking and strumming capabilities. Even though the music it generates leaves a lot to the imagination, this was a very creative use of a device that otherwise would not have been used horizontally.

One of the most practical projects was “Window Manipulation“. As the straight forward name implies, it enables more advanced window manipulation through the Touch Mouse with gestures than what Microsoft ships out of the box. For example it allows users to move windows with simply three fingers on the sensor.

The most intriguing project has to be Moussage. This allows users to physically message another person on an electronically-controlled bed that translates the touch sensor input into motorized vibrations. Although the project sounds reasonably practical, the idea of being able “message oneself or a distant friend” as the authors describe it sounds a little bit awkward.

Other notable entries worth mentioning include the FlipMouse which simulated a tilt sensor by using the mouse upside down, and Grip to Identify which is a login replacement by sensing how users grip a mouse.

The six prized students teams took away a combined $6000 worth of prize money contributed by theMicrosoft Applied Sciences Group. Video embedded of my favorite projects embedded after the break.

HTC Rezound announced

noreply@blogger.com (Best International Finance Books) — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 05:25:00 +0000

HTC has teamed up with Verizon Wireless yet again for another exclusive in the US market – we’re talking about the HTC Rezound, which is the first smartphone Stateside that will feature Beats Audio integrated into its hardware. This is made possible thanks to the recent understanding that was forged between HTC and Beats, ensuring that the HTC Rezound will not disappoint your ears at all by delivering a powerful entertainment experience without sacrificing on audio and multimedia capabilities, thanks to the 4.3″ true HD 720p display.

The HTC Rezound’s integration with Beats Audio will let you experience music the way the artist intended to, thanks to unique audio tuning by Beats that ensures your ears will be able to pick out the thundering bass, soaring midrange and crisp highs. Not only that, another winning point for the HTC Rezound would include the new lightweight Beats headphones that were specially created to integrate with the Beatsâ€™ audio profile on the device. Are you busy with your hands at the moment and cannot attend to an incoming call? Not a problem, hands-free calling is a snap thanks to the integrated microphone.

The HTC Rezound will fall under the premium smartphone category, where it will also ship with the latest HTC Sense experience as well as boast the ability to take full advantage of the 4G LTE network over at Verizon Wireless. If you are interested in picking one up for yourself, it ought to be out in slightly more than a week’s time – November 14th, to be exact. As for the rest of the system specifications, you can always check out what the HTC Rezound carries in the extended post.
Other hardware specifications include Mobile Hotspot capability, Android 2.3 Gingerbread with the Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade coming early next year, 16GB of internal memory, 1GB RAM, a microSD memory card slot, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, GPS support, HDMI, a variety of sensors, where all of them are powered by a 1.5GHz Qualcomm MSM8660 processor. The asking price? $299.99 with a new two-year customer agreement. (Source)

Microsoft shows 'touch screen' for any surface

noreply@blogger.com (Best International Finance Books) — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 04:01:00 +0000

Microsoft Research is unveiling technology that turns any surface into a touch screen at a user interface symposium this week in Santa Barbara, Calif.
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Dubbed OmniTouch, it is a wearable system that allows multitouch input on "arbitrary, everyday surfaces," according to a description on a Microsoft Research Web page.

OmniTouch allows any surface to be used as a touch screen.

(Credit: Microsoft)

"We wanted to capitalize on the tremendous surface area the real world provides," said Hrvoje Benko of the Natural Interaction Research group at Microsoft.
The technology combines a laser-based pico projector and depth-sensing camera, the latter not unlike Microsoft's Kinect camera for the Xbox 360. But it is modified to work at short range.
The camera is a prototype provided by PrimeSense. When the camera and projector are calibrated to each other, the user can don the system and begin using it, Microsoft said.

Key research challenges included defining to the system what fingers look like; the notion that any surface is potentially a projected surface for touch interaction; and detecting touch when the surface being touched contains no sensors--according to Chris Harrison, a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University, who participated in the project and wrote about the research.
Presumably a consumer-friendly system wouldn't require the bulky apparatus that only a card-carrying propeller-head would be brazen enough to wear in public.
The project is being unveiled during UIST 2012, the Association for Computing Machinery's 24th Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, being held October 16-19 in Santa Barbara, Calif.

noreply@blogger.com (Best International Finance Books) — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:40:00 +0000

Use any one of the method to unlock your 3G USB modem,

Step 1: Goto site a-zgsm.com,

Step 2: Enter your modem’s IMEI, enter the CAPTCHA code and click on the “Calculator” button. Within seconds, it will return you with your modems unlock code and flash code.

Step 1: Free Download DC Modem Unlocker Software here.
Password: www.wildhacker.com

Step 2: After extraction of file, install the DC Unlocker Software on your computer to see:

Note : If there is a memory card stick on your datacard, please remove it. remove sim card and put sim card preferably from another another carrier that you want to unlock.(it will display invalid sim)

Step 3: Plug your 3G Usb modem stick device in to your computer Usb port or adpater, sometime connection manager will display,close it.

Step 4: Select the manufacture then select the model as Auto detect (recommended). If you know the model and which com port you use.you can do that in same way also.

Step 5: Click the detect Modem button. after your modem model will display below box.

Step 6: When your modem has been detected, then click the Unlock Button at your right hand side top corner.

Thats it........

when you keep another network sim in the Modem , and then insert into computer, the computer will ask for the unlock code so you have to enter the unlock code which you got.
Hence your modem has been unlocked, and now you can use any 3g, 2g sim of any networks.

SRC: wildhacker.com

How hackers hijack your Facebook photos

noreply@blogger.com (Best International Finance Books) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 05:14:00 +0000

LONDON: Beware of uploading your pictures on Facebook -- as an Indian origin computer scientist has warned that by doing this you could be helping someone to steal information from your computer.

The scientist created a botnet called Stegobot to show how easy it would be for a crook to hijack Facebook photos to create a secret communication channel that is very difficult to detect.

Like most botnets, Stegobot gains control of computers by tricking users into opening infected email attachments or visiting suspect websites. But rather than contacting the botmasters directly, it piggybacks on the infected user's normal social network activity.

"If one of your friends is a friend of a friend of the botmaster, the information transfers hop by hop within the social network, finally reaching the botmasters," New Scientist quoted Amir Houmansadr, a computer scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who worked on the botnet, as saying.

Stegobot takes advantage of a technique called steganography to hide information in picture files without changing their appearance.

The botnet inserts this information into any photo you upload to Facebook, and then waits for one of your friends to look at your profile. They don't even have to click on the photo, as Facebook helpfully downloads files in the background. If your friend is also infected with the botnet than any photo they upload will also pass on the stolen data.

From there, the data will eventually make its way to the account of someone who is also friends with the botmaster, allowing them to extract details on your identity. The botmasters can also send commands to the botnet through the reverse process - uploading a photo with hidden instructions that make their way to infected computers.
"It's scary because it's virtually undetectable," said Shishir Nagaraja of the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, New Delhi, India, who led the project.

src : Times of India

Walkie Talkie Watches

noreply@blogger.com (Best International Finance Books) — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:56:00 +0000

What are They?
It doesn’t take a genius to work out what Walkie Talkie Watches could be. Yes. you guessed it…. Its two watches that double up as walkie talkies. Granted, the first thing we thought was “a walkie talkie in a watch! That’ll be poo, as it will have no range, eat batteries, have no functions and be seriously fiddly/difficult to use”. So naturally we had to have a closer look.

At first glance we were surprised by the size. They are oversized, compared to a Casio watch, but not as much as you might think. The face of the “watch” only measures in at 7 x 6 x 2.5cm and when you consider that the aerial can be folded in and out when needed it is surprisingly small. The next thing we noticed was that they come with an AC adapter and earpiece each. So the AC adapter means no replacing batteries and nowind-up walkie talkies, Bonus! And the AC adapter means no batteries necessary, double bonus!

A big grey power button brings the wrist pleaser to life and shows you the time on the large backlit screen. Now this is where the watch really starts to show its true colours. It comes with 22 channels, each with its own sub-channels, meaning you would have to be seriously unlucky to cross connections with a stranger. Once the aerial is flicked out and you have used the built in channel scan to find its counterpart, you can start to talk to each other.

There is no messy pressing of buttons to speak and calling everyone “Charlie, over” as the units are voice activated! It even has an incoming call alert to tell you that the other person wants to chat to you and the earpieces have a built in PTT button. This makes them seriously easy to use and while out and about they become almost instinctively simple.

These are all very good points but they are not our favourite. Our biggest pre concern about the walkie talkie watches was that the range was going to be about as far as you could see, in the dark, when drunk. How wrong could we have been? The main trick that these gadgets possess is that they have a range of 5km! That’s further than I can see in the day, sober, and with some really good glasses. We have learnt our lesson not to pre-judge a book by its proverbial cover…

Why do want it?
If the idea of walkie talkie watches with a 5km range does not interest you then this probably is not the website for you. We did not have to think hard to see a number of possible applications that these little gadgets could help with. This could range from the most obvious uses, like outdoor activities with friends (hiking, mountain biking, paint balling) to the more social or quirky (stay in contact with a friend at work/school, communicate between cars on a road trip, keep in contact with a co-worker while on a job) these brilliant watches could really make life easier.

Our favourite thoughts were of organising calculated battle manoeuvres while out paintballing. Keeping in close communication with the rest of your army could lead to perfectly timed attacks on your unsuspecting victims. TAKE NO PRISONERS! Fancy something for serene? Another helpful use was brought up by a member of the team who loves biking. Thanks to the earpiece and wrist mounted position it would be easy to communicate with other members of your party while on the road and would allow you to pass on words of encouragement or, most probably, abuse.

The final surprise is the price! We could not believe that such great bits for gadget tech were going for so little. Check out the Walkie Talkie Watches price tag today and be as pleasantly surprised as we were. If we did not sell it to you please watch the video below and let a random American shopping channel sell it to you in their typical fashion…

src: coolest-gadgets.com

Pack-Away Kettle

noreply@blogger.com (Best International Finance Books) — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:45:00 +0000

When you mention the word “kettle”, what comes into your mind? Well, most of us would think of those high end, stainless steel types which use either the gas stove or electricity to get the water boiling so that you cap sip you Earl Grey tea just the way you like it while having scones and strawberry preserve on the side. What happens when you’re traveling and need hot water? A thermos flask can do the job by retaining heat in your water, but that works only for a certain amount of hours.

This is where the £29.99 Pack-Away Kettle comes in handy – it will be the perfect tool if you tend to rough it out regularly, and you need not brew your favorite cuppa in a metal mess tin. No sir, the Pack-Away Kettle will do the job, and do it excellently, as it is capable of boiling nearly 1.1 litres of water each time, and when it is no longer in use, just compress it – it will end up flatter than your standard army mess tin, taking its cue from the Swedish masters of flatpacking – Ikea.

You can place it over the gas, electric or induction stove, it doesn’t matter as the sturdy stainless steel base is capable of transferring heat into the water within.

src: coolest-gadgets.com

Victorinox Slim and Slim Duo

noreply@blogger.com (Best International Finance Books) — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:49:00 +0000

Victorinox Swiss Army (VSA) has created a lot of USB Flash Memory devices (not to mects like the famous Swiss Army knife, and the Duo is the one with two USB plug-ins.

The Slim and Slim ntion cutlery), and they recently have released the Slim and Slim Duo. Both of them have a USB plug that retraDuo are both waterproof and shock-resistant, and is also TSA-approved. Not only are they hard on the outside, but they have “iron-clad protection” with many layers of data encryption as well as password protection.
The Slim and Slim Duo are available at many shops like the Swiss Knife Shop, Amazon, B&H, and Datavision. They come in many colors like silver, blue, orange, pink, and green. They have a range of storage needs as the Slim is available in 4GB, 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB. The Slim Duo is available in 128GB. The price begins at $39.99 for the 4GB Slim, and $349.99 for the 128GB Slim Duo.
Yeah, that is pretty high for the Slim Duo, but for students going back-to-school, it can be a worthwhile investment. It is good for 25,600 songs (14.6 years of uninterrupted music), 25,000 pictures taken with a 20 Megapixel camera (50,000 with a 10 Megapixel camera), 18 full videos in HD format, and 32 Britannica encyclopedias.

src: coolest-gadget.com

Coupon culture proves successful in India !!

noreply@blogger.com (Best International Finance Books) — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:58:00 +0000

(Click here to watch this video.)

Entrepreneur Kunal Bahl reckons the key to business success is understanding what your customers are interested in.

"I often say Indian consumers are all about ABCD which is astrology, Bollywood, cricket and discounts and if you're doing one of those four you're in pretty good shape."

Mr Bahl chose to focus on one of these factors when he launched Snapdeal, a company which provides money-off coupons, aimed at a wide range of platforms.

"We'll do mobile coupons, we'll do internet coupons, we'll do insert coupons," he explains. "We are a couponing everywhere company."

Growing up

Entrepreneurship runs in Kunal Bahl's blood. After working in the coal-mines, his father set about establishing a manufacturing business. The will to succeed imbued family life.

"Me and my brother used to get incentivised to do well in our courses so we can watch one movie on a Friday night or go to have a pizza," Mr Bahl recalls.

He adds that his father, "still works six days a week, probably 10 to 12 hours a day and that energy just doesn't go away. To me that's very inspiring."

Mr Bahl studied in the USA at the University of Pennsylvania. He found the approach to education very different to that back home.

"In India, if you raise your hand in class… to ask a question that's looked down upon… it seems like you're disrespecting the teacher because they feel that you… didn't understand what they were teaching you. America is completely the opposite."

He says he learnt a lot from the experience. "Learning to think for yourself and sometimes breaking the rules… inspiring that learning amongst yourself, your team and constantly questioning what people are saying, is what you need to do."

Firm belief

Kunal Bahl says entrepreneurs in India can encounter a lot of resistance to innovative ideas. He call this "environmental viscosity".

He recalls the dismissive nature of shops when he broached his discount service in 2008.

SNAPDEAL

Turnover (estimated - 2011): $20 million
Number of employees: 400
HQ Location: New Delhi, India
Year founded: 2010
Ownership: Privately-held

"Their view was 'Oh my brand is supreme; I do not do discounts; I do not know what couponing is; India doesn't do discounts, we don't have a couponing culture.'

"We got all kinds of reasons why this was not going to work," he says.

Ironically, it was the economic downturn that convinced retailers of the merits of coupons and which kick-started Snapdeal.

"They were calling us and saying 'you guys told us you will help us sell our products or services. Tell us more'," he remembers.

The entrepreneur says it is important to have a firm belief in your own ideas. He was able to withstand the scepticism he originally encountered because he had researched his product and had confidence in it.

"There was a lot of investment happening in retail in India and we realised…there was going to be a supply-side glut," he explains. The result would be retailers who were desperate to shift their stock - and discounting is one approach that could help them to do this.

"People respond to incentives and this is an incentive for people to shop," he says.

Don't 'copy and paste'

Kunal Bahl admits that the concept of money-off coupons is not an original one; the idea is more familiar to consumers in the West than in India.

Indeed, he reveals that he got the idea for Snapdeal when he launched a detergent company in the US.

Adapting the business model for the Indian market was key to Snapdeal's success

He remembers "we had no money" and were "completely bootstrapped". He saw coupons as a cheap and efficient way to get consumers to start buying his product.

"That product eventually got into four thousand stores in the US, was featured on Oprah's Club, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times - all without spending a lot of money on marketing," he says.

It was then he realised he could build a business around couponing.

But Kunal Bahl believes the key to making progress lay in adapting the approach for the Indian market.

"Localisation… is critical in markets like India," he says. "You cannot copy paste a model from the West." You need "an in depth understanding of the texture of that local market… to be successful".

He says that, at first, they had to start providing coupons offline, because many people did not use the internet. Mr Bahl says the explosion of the internet in India has resulted in them having a new subscriber every four seconds.

Pick your team

“Start Quote

If you don't have the right person in the right role, it's very easy to go wrong”

Kunal BahlCo-founder, Snapdeal

Despite the strong growth rate of his company in the last twelve months, Mr Bahl admits it hasn't always been easy.

"I would say the biggest mistakes we've made have always to do with the people," he says.

He says they've had to put in place "checks and balances" to their recruitment process to ensure "the most suitable person for that role makes it through".

"At the end of the day it's the people, it's our team that drives the business forward and if you don't have the right person in the right role, it's very easy to go wrong."

But the entrepreneur also adds that persuading the right employees to work for you can be just as difficult. "India is a hard market to get high quality talent to work for companies that are in their growth phase," he explains.

"There is a lot of societal pressure to work with a company that's a big brand because it helps your matrimonial resume."

Path to politics

Kunal Bahl believes a certain amount of humility is needed to launch a successful business.

"You may be a very capable person, a highly accomplished person but you cannot think of everything," he says. "Neither can you do everything yourself," he adds.

Indeed Mr Bahl says his work as an entrepreneur has given him "a great experience to learn more about people: how to work with them, how to get them to work with you, how to create value by getting some smart minds together".

He believes the set of skills he's learnt will come in useful in his future plans.

"I want to go into politics," he reveals.

"I think that in India we have policies, we have good regulation. However the last mile in the implementation of policies is something that we could add a lot of value to in terms of… more efficiency."

For Kunal Bahl, the processes involved in resolving problems in business and politics are very similar; both require the ability to identify "what's the problem, how to solve it… who are the right team members to bring on board to solve it and then get down to solving it".

He says, "to me, from a role perspective, it's very similar to what I do in my day job right now."

T-Mobile Officially Announced The Launch Of Sidekick 4G

noreply@blogger.com (Best International Finance Books) — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:32:00 +0000

T-Mobiles a popular firm in Mobile industry has officially the next iteration of T-Mobile’s popular messaging device — the Sidekick 4G. The mobile is featured by Android 2.2 Froyo operating system. The Sidekick 4G has the familiar rectangular shape with a “pop-tilt” hinge that flips the phone’s screen up and out to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard. When the keyboard is open, the magenta paint job of the screen’s back and sturdy hinge is hard to ignore. The same goes for the all-white color of the handset’s backside, which contrasts with the front’s jet-black shade. Those who want to keep things more conservative can opt for the matte black finish.

The mobile measures 5 x 2.4 x 0.6 inches and weighing around 5.7 ounces. The Sidekick 4G’s keyboard is just awesome. Not only are the keys well spaced, their rounded rubberized design provides a pleasing click when pressed. You’ll be able to fly on this backlit layout. Other welcome touches include two Shift keys and dedicated @, Search, emoticon, and voice action buttons.

Users can also program the phone’s LED light to blink in red, blue, or purple for specific notifications such as missed calls and new messages.

Other specs include a 3.5-inch capacitive touch screen, mobile hotspot capabilities, Wi-Fi calling and that five-row keyboard we all loved. It also comes with two new messaging features called Sidekick Group Text and Cloud Text.

FEATURES

3.5mm jack.
QWERTY keyboard.
Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate.
Proximity sensor for auto turn-off.
Multi-touch input method.
MP4/H.264/H.263 player.
MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player.
Organizer.
Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF).
Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration.
Voice memo.
Predictive text input.

Price:

T-Mobile Sidekick 4G price is around Rs 17300/- and available in all leading mobile stores.

src: india365.org

LG Optimus Black Smartphone Coming to Sprint on September 2nd

noreply@blogger.com (Best International Finance Books) — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:58:00 +0000

A recent leak predicts that Sprint will apparently carry the LG Optimus Black Smartphone into the U.S. market supposedly on September 2^nd though we are not certain at the moment if this 2D Smartphone will be available on the carrier’s 3G or 4G network.

The LG Optimus Black is likely to be a valuable addition to Sprint’s ever growing line of Android Smartphones which includes such handsets as the HTC EVO 3D and the Motorola Photon 4G.
However, the Optimus Black is a little higher-end boasting 1 GHz processor, a very bright 4“ WVGA touchscreen display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, and dual cameras (a 5 mega pixel rear and a 2 mega pixel front camera). Particularly the handsets, extremely bright display would be a great choice for consumers who use their handsets in direct sunlight.
The rear 5 Mp camera can record HD video in 720p and the 2 MP camera which is placed at the front is ideal for video chat. All the features are bundled in only 9.2mm thick device that is easily pocketable.

src:gadgetgeek.com

Tour bus has detachable bikes

noreply@blogger.com (Best International Finance Books) — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:29:00 +0000

This is the “Bike Guide Concept”, a way of travel that could be the next form of tourism.

As you can tell from the image, the Bike Guide uses bikes attached to the bus itself. The bus has a screen to announce information about the next destination, and then each bike has a screen to share even more. Screens are also used in bus stops, and the user scans their credit card to arrange a bike/bus tour.
You can watch a video of it after the jump, and you see that the bus parks and drops off the bikes. The tourists pedal around the attraction, and I believe that there is a timer on each bike to let the rider know when it is time to return them.
You will notice that the bikes are completely without spokes, and how it locks in place. I’m not certain how much trouble tourists can get into with a locking mechanism like that. Something tells me that the bus driver will be pulling double duty.
This is still a concept designed by Kukil Han, Daehyun Kim, Bojoong Kim, and Jihwan Yun for Korean tourism. I can see this being used in any country with tourist attractions.
src: coolest-gadget.com

noreply@blogger.com (Best International Finance Books) — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 06:21:00 +0000

Life in a BPO-Hiccups and Sneezes

Indefatigably written topic and might be boring to most of you but the thoughts which are being penned down here are purely on the basis of personal experiences. There are no intentions to hurt the sentiments of anyone, so kindly bear with us. When I joined one such BPO, I actually looked at the big picture, challenges of handling a huge workforce, reduction of attrition, new techniques and models of motivation and engagement, dealing with the youth of today, their ideas and creativity and so on.

We won’t talk much about the advantages of such institutions of mass employment opportunities, may be not more than a paragraph devoted to their goodwill, but mostly as the title says it will be a journey of hiccups and sneezes…though medically both of them are good for health. :)

But the hiccups these young generations are facing seems brutal in some way or the other.. lack of sleep, tired eyes, no specific routine as shift keeps changing which means, people can adapt to changes in their sleep patterns, but often shift work means that a person will change their routines too often to adjust properly and a 9 hour shift generally ending in 14 hours. Reporting half an hour before the shift is important for the pre-shift meeting, not to forget the time taken to commute to work everyday.

Spectrum of rudeness – from sexual harassment to fury at unsolicited sales calls, to open racism and insulting remarks from customers, less incentives and unlimited working hours, non AC cabs in summers, wrong food habits, noises, repeating the same script over and over for eight hours or more is so exhausting and monotonous that you will end up feeling like a robot when the day is done, hire and fire policies, no leaves (one was not even allowed to get sick), deadlines and targets

The heartfelt agony and obscurity and health hazards, the smoke filled air, and divorce prone call centers….and what not.

Some who stayed for longer time period are promoted and have a clearly defined career path but for how long? After a few years with no higher education to support, no formal certifications you become obsolete and someone better educated is hired from outside and you are asked to support him/her with your experience in the company.

A similar case study is given here, which sings the saga of an insecure HR Manager who was once the apple of the eye:

Parool, was the HR Manager, her dream from day one was to reach this place; she joined this call center as an associate (caller) and was just an undergraduate. With her degree her career also started shaping up and she became a Team Leader and then got a job rotation promotion to the HR department. The journey was long but the learning curve was going steady and in 6 years she became a wife, HR Manager and was on the way of becoming a mother but the storms of working in night shifts made her journey crimped and she started working as a consultant with the same company (with no idea to anyone as to what she was working on).

In the mean time HR department was taken over by a more educated, trained and experienced professional but nevertheless she was supporting the Head of HR (GM HR). But lately problems started to slink in when Parool, could not see her beloved department being handled by someone else. The anguish of politics started for this new person and the entire team was divided between the two groups. The Management in the mean time got really impressed with the changes the new person brought and no matter how many smoking sessions were spent with the MD, Parool,did not seem to be winning the war by any means,so she went along with the stride and played her games …from stealing the ideas to narrating her sob story to team members to draw some words of sympathy.

She left no stone unturned to make the life of the new person nothing less than hell and so the tussle went on till the management got involved and clearly specified Parool’s work areas.

But do you think the agony for the new person was ever going to stop? The insecurities of people, who have never seen any other company and processes, are like frogs in a well who know nothing about the ocean.

Then there are some, who believe that they are Gods of their own functions and no matter who you are they will not let you enjoy your stay.

by: Khurana Sharma (Citeman Network)

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NOKIA ::. Nokia Universal Codes Code Description :
These Nokia codes will work on most Nokia Mobile Phones

(1) *3370# Activate Enhanced Full Rate Codec (EFR) - Your phone uses the best sound quality but talktime is reduced my approx. 5%

(2)#3370# Deactivate Enhanced Full Rate Codec (EFR) OR *3370# ( Favourite )

(3)*#4720# Activate Half Rate Codec - Your phone uses a lower quality sound but you should gain approx 30% more Talk Time.

(4)*#4720# Deactivate Half Rate Codec.

(5)*#0000# Displays your phones software version, 1st Line : Software Version, 2nd Line : Software Release Date, 3rd Line : Compression Type. ( Favourite )

(6)*#9999# Phones software version if *#0000# does not work.

(7)*#06# For checking the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI Number). ( Favourite )

(8)#pw+1234567890+1# Provider Lock Status. (use the "*" button to obtain the "p,w"
and "+" symbols).

(9)#pw+1234567890+2# Network Lock Status. (use the "*" button to obtain the "p,w"
and "+" symbols).

(10)#pw+1234567890+3# Country Lock Status. (use the "*" button to obtain the "p,w"
and "+" symbols).

(11)#pw+1234567890+4# SIM Card Lock Status. (use the "*" button to obtain the "p,w"
and "+" symbols).

(12)*#147# (vodafone) this lets you know who called you last.

(13)*#1471# Last call (Only vodofone).

(14)*#21# Allows you to check the number that "All Calls" are diverted to

(15)*#2640# Displays security code in use.

(16)*#30# Lets you see the private number.

(17)*#43# Allows you to check the "Call Waiting" status of your phone.

(18)*#61# Allows you to check the number that "On No Reply" calls are diverted to.

(19)*#62# Allows you to check the number that "Divert If Unreachable (no service)" calls
are diverted to.

(20)*#67# Allows you to check the number that "On Busy Calls" are diverted to.

(21)*#67705646# Removes operator logo on 3310 & 3330.

(22)*#73# Reset phone timers and game scores.

(23)*#746025625# Displays the SIM Clock status, if your phone supports this power saving feature "SIM Clock Stop Allowed", it means you will get the best standby time possible.

(24) *#7760# Manufactures code.

(25)*#7780# Restore factory settings.

(26)*#8110# Software version for the nokia 8110.

(27)*#92702689# Displays - 1.Serial Number, 2.Date Made, 3.Purchase Date, 4.Date of last repair (0000 for no repairs), 5.Transfer User Data. To exit this mode you need to switch your phone off then on again. ( Favourite )

(28)*#94870345123456789# Deactivate the PWM-Mem.

(29)**21*number# Turn on "All Calls" diverting to the phone number entered.

(30)**61*number# Turn on "No Reply" diverting to the phone number entered.

(31)**67*number# Turn on "On Busy" diverting to the phone number entered.

(32)12345 This is the default security code.

press and hold # Lets you switch between lines NOKIA 5110/5120/5130/5190 IMEI number: * # 0 6 #
Software version: * # 0 0 0 0 #
Simlock info: * # 9 2 7 0 2 6 8 9 #
Enhanced Full Rate: * 3 3 7 0 # [ # 3 3 7 0 # off]
Half Rate: * 4 7 2 0 #
Provider lock status: #pw+1234567890+1
Network lock status #pw+1234567890+2
Provider lock status: #pw+1234567890+3
SimCard lock status: #pw+1234567890+4 NOKIA 6110/6120/6130/6150/6190 IMEI number: * # 0 6 #
Software version: * # 0 0 0 0 #
Simlock info: * # 9 2 7 0 2 6 8 9 #
Enhanced Full Rate: * 3 3 7 0 # [ # 3 3 7 0 # off]
Half Rate: * 4 7 2 0 # NOKIA 3110 IMEI number: * # 0 6 #
Software version: * # 0 0 0 0 # or * # 9 9 9 9 # or * # 3 1 1 0 #
Simlock info: * # 9 2 7 0 2 6 8 9 # NOKIA 3330 *#06#
This will show your warranty details *#92702689#
*3370#
Basically increases the quality of calling sound, but decreases battery length.
#3370#
Deactivates the above
*#0000#
Shows your software version
*#746025625#This shows if your phone will allow sim clock stoppage
*4370#
Half Rate Codec activation. It will automatically restart
#4370#
Half Rate Codec deactivation. It will automatically restart
Restore Factory Settings
To do this simply use this code *#7780#
Manufacturer Info
Date of Manufacturing *#3283#
*3001#12345# (TDMA phones only) This will put your phone into programming mode, and you'll be presented with the programming menu.
2) Select "NAM1"
3) Select "PSID/RSID"
4) Select "P/RSID 1"
Note: Any of the P/RSIDs will work
5) Select "System Type" and set it to Private
6) Select "PSID/RSID" and set it to 1
7) Select "Connected System ID"
Note: Enter your System ID for Cantel, which is 16401 or 16423. If you don't know yours,
ask your local dealer for it.
8) Select "Alpha Tag"
9) Enter a new tag, then press OK
10) Select "Operator Code (SOC)" and set it to 2050
11) Select "Country Code" and set it to 302 for Canada, and 310 for the US.
12) Power down the phone and power it back on again
ISDN Code
To check the ISDN number on your Nokia use this code *#92772689# .:: Ericsson ::. Ericson T65 *#05# Fake Insert puk screen Press no to exit Ericsson T20
Ericsson T20

MENU tecnichal Info
[type] >*<<*<* Displays :
1] Info service
1] Info SW
2] Info hardware
3] SIMlock
4]setup

2] Service setup
1] Contrast 3]Service Test
1] Display
2]Leds
3]Keyboard
4] ringer
5] Vibration
6]Headset
7] Microphone
8]Clock
4] Names List
MENU info
[Type] >*<<**<
Network and Subnetwork : NCK and NSCK Ericsson T28 >*<<*<* menu Tecnichal info
SW vers. and name list
>*<<**< menu Personal Info
Network and Subnetwork : NCK and NSCK
<> are the right and left menu's keys Ericsson T18s/T10/A1018s >*<<*<* software
CXC125065 Internal product code
PRG
970715 1515 Software version and SW rev.
<* CLR <><**
<> are the right and left menu's keys
!!!><**
Control /Enable SIM Lock!!! Ericsson R310 Technical Info : >*<<*<*
Options :
1) service Info
info Software
Simlock
Configuration 2) Service Test
Display
Led/Illumination
Keyboard
ringer
Vibration
Headset
Microphone
Clock
3)Text's name List
Info personal : >*<<**< SIM Locking ( 8 digits' code ) ( it could harm your phone )
1) Network
2) Subnetwork
3) SP
4) Corporate
.:: Siemens ::. Siemens C25 IMEI number: * # 0 6 #
Software version: put off sim card and enter: : * # 0 6 # and press LONG KEY
Bonus screen: in phone booke: + 1 2 0 2 2 2 4 3 1 2 1 .:: Bosch ::. IMEI Number: * # 0 6 #
Dafault Language: * # 0 0 0 0 #
Net Monitor: * # 3 2 6 2 2 5 5 * 8 3 7 8 # .::Alcatel ::. IMEI number: * # 0 6 #
Software version: * # 0 6 #
Net Monitor: 0 0 0 0 0 0 * .:: Samsung ::. Samsung SGH600/2100DB IMEI number: * # 0 6 #
Software version: * # 9 9 9 9 # albo * # 0 8 3 7 #
Net Monitor: * # 0 3 2 4 #
Chaning LCD contrast: * # 0 5 2 3 #
Memory info: * # 0 3 7 7 # albo * # 0 2 4 6 #
Reset pamieci (SIMLOCK`a removing!!!): *2767*3855#
Reset pamieci CUSTOM: *2767*2878#
Battery state: * # 9 9 9 8 * 2 2 8 #
Alarm beeper: *#9998*289#
Vibra test: *#9998*842# .:: Dancall ::. IMEI number: * # 0 6 #
Software version: * # 9 9 9 9 # .:: Philips ::. *#3333*# Displays the blocking list.
*#7489*# Displays the security code.
*#06# Displays the IMEI number.
*#8377*# Displays the SW info. .:: Panasonic ::. Panasonic gd90 gd93 *#9999# SW - Type the code on switch on , during network seek
-Vers. SW and production code
Enable ringing and vibration contemporarily
Enable vibration with # then increase volume with "tone menu " Panasonic gd70 *#9999# SW - Type the code on switch on , during network seek
-Vers. SW and production code
Enable ringing and vibration contemporarily
Enable vibration with # then increase volume with "tone menu " .:: Acer ::. Acer V 750 *#400# Display Adc/ Set Cal-Value -
*#402# Set LCD Contrast
*#403# Display Errors Info
*#300# Display Info Hw & Sw
*#301# Menu Test
*#302# Menu Acoustics
*#303# (Settings saved) Set English language?
*#307# Menu Engineering
*#311# Reset Phone Code - [ Also reset Security Codes ! ]
*#330# (Execute not success) [ unknown ]
*#331# (Service deactivated) [ unknown ]
*#332# (Service unavailable)[ unknown ]
*#333# (Execute not success)[ unknown ]
*#351# (Service unavailable) [ unknown ]
*#360# (Invalid input)[ unknown ]
*#361# (Invalid input) [ unknown ]
*#362# (Invalid input) [ unknown ]
*#363# (Invalid input) [ unknown ] .:: Genie ::. Genie DB *#06# IMEI.
*#2254*# Near Cell Mode. For every received BTS will be displayed :
Current channel and 2 channel levels
*#06# IMEI
*#2558# time of network connection ( D/H/M )
*#2562# Fores reconnection to network
!!!*#7489# Dispalys and modify phones' security code!!!
!!!*#3377# SIM lock information !!!
*#7378# SIM card Informations : supported phase name and tipe
*#7693# Enable/disable "Sleep Mode"
*#8463# State of "Sleep Mode"
*#2255# Debug Call Mode enable/disable
*#3333*# Displays the blocking list.
*#7489*# Displays the security code
*#06# Displays the IMEI number
*#8377*# Displays the SW info. .:: NEC ::. NEC db2000 *#2820# software vers.
IMEI *#06#
Reset *73738# (send?)
SP Lock info:
* # 3210 # (send?)
Network barring info : *#8140# (send?)
( it could harm your phone )
SIM lock it could harm your phone )
*#4960 # (send?) -Inquiry * 4960 * password * password # (send?) lock
#4960* password # (send?) unlock
[password] [8 digits]
Net Lock
*#7320# (send?) -Inquiry * 7320 * password * password # (send?) lock
#7320* password # (send?) unlock
[password] [ 8 digits]
Net Lock 2:
*#2220# (invio) - Inquiry * 2220 * password * password # (send?) lock
#2220* password # (invio?)unlock
[password] [8 digits]
Unlock subnetwork
*#1110# (send?) - inquiry * 1110 * password * password # (send?) lock
#1110* password # (send?) unlock
[password] [nï¿½ 8 cifre]
( it could harm your phone ) .:: Trium ::. Trium Geo/Geo @ - Astral - Cosmo -Aria Enter the menu and type *
A new menu will be displayed :
Application : SW version and battery's voltage

Trium Galaxy
Push * and type 5806: Production date and SW version .:: Telit ::. Telit GM 810 MONITOR - technical menu - : type ++++ and push OK.
Adiacent cells list : # and *
Now if you push OK the phone displays battery ' s voltage and temperature .:: Sagem ::. Sagem MC959/940 Select commands' menu and push *
Displays a new menu' :
Appli : software vers. and battery's voltage
Eprom
Sim Lock
Test LCD: display test , green/red and vibration Sagem MC920 Select commands' menu and push *
Displays 5 new menus : 1 APPLI
VERSION ( SW)
BATTERY (voltage )
2 PROM (IMEI)
3!!! SIM LOCK (10 digits code requested ) !!!
4- NETWORK (returns : OPTION NOT AVAILABLE)
5- TEST LCD
SYMBOL 1 (LCD)
SYMBOL 2 (test2 LCD)
BLACK (all icons and carachters displayed )
FOR PHOTO (welcome message and time )
VIBRATOR (vibration test )
.:: Sony ::. Sony CMD Z5/J5 Vers. SW :
Without SIM , switch on phone and type l *#7353273# .:: Eprom ::.
!!! Sim Lock [10 digits code ] ( it could harm your phone )
NETWORK : OPTION NOT AVAILABLE
Test LCD: display test of the green/red leds and vibration
Push * and type 4329 :enables/disables network monitor 1 (the same of MT35)
Push * and type 621342 :enables/disables network monitor 2
Push * and type 5807 : Serial Number Software Vers.
Push * and type 936505: IMEI -- Software Vers.
TPush * and type 547 : Test serial Data Cable DISPLAYS :"Testmode"
Push * and type 362628: ISMI BLOCK (UNKNOWN)
Push * and type 476989: NS BLOCK (UNKNOWN)
Push * and type 482896:CP BLOCK (UNKNOWN)
Push * and type 787090: ? BLOCK (UNKNOWN)
Push * and type 787292 : block current network
!!! Push * and type 967678: SP LOCK!!!
Push * and type 850696:Warm Start ( ENABLE/DISABLE)
Push * and type 3926 : Swicth off phone
Push * and type 5806: Production date and SW version .:: Motorola ::. Motorola V3688 IMEI *#06#
Enhanced Full Rate Codec EFR
Enable EFR : [][][] 119 [] 1 [] OK.
disable EFR : [][][] 119 [] 0 [] OK .:: Tips and Tricks ::. Send an E-mail from your GSM From your telephone you can send an email to whichever E-mail customer of the Internet network. The e-mail will be sent to the maximum of within an hour from the reception.
The sended message will contain in luminosity the telephone number of the sender. In order for sending e-mail, send an SMS with this syntax (always separated by spaces):
EMA name@domain text-of-your-email Example: in order to send an email to john@doe.com, do the following:
EMA john@doe.com text-of-your-email if your phone cant print @ replace it with a !
EMA johon!doe.com text-of-your-email And then send this message to the folloving number: +39 338 8641732
Free SMS Center numbers
From your telephone you can send SMS messages of 160 char. max. to another GSM phone Your message will be sent through an SMS Center (usually the one that gave your provider)
You pay a little fee depending of your provider, BUT YOU WILL HAVE TO PAY something In order for sending SMS without paying anything, you got to change your SMS Center number with these one
+491722270300 or +358405202999 or +352021100003 Codes (that they dont tell you in the manual) To check the IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) type: *#06# Information you get from the IMEI:
XXXXXX XX XXXXXX X
TAC FAC SNR SP
TAC = Type Approval Code (first 2 digits = country code). FAC = Final Assembly Code (For Nokia phonfiltered=10).
SNR = Serial Number. SP = Spare (always SP=0).
To check the phone's software (firmware revision information) type: *#0000# ( or for some phones outher then Nokia 61XX you can try *#model nummber# ex. for 8110 *#8110#) Information you can get from the phone's software version:
V 3.14
28-11-97
NSE-3
1st line: Software version.
2nd line: The date of the software release.
3nd line: Phone type, .

Some versions and dates: V 3.14 28/11/97
V4.33 11/03/98 V 4.73 22/04/98
V 5.24 14/9/98 Pin-Out Diagram for the 6110 1 - VIN CHARGER INPUT VOLTAGE 8.4V 0.8A
2 - CHRG CTRL CHARGER CONTROL PWM 32Khz
3 - XMIC MIC INPUT 60mV - 1V
4 - SGND SIGNAL GROUND
5 - XEAR EAR OUTPUT 80mV - 1V
6 - MBUS 9600 B/S
7 - FBUS_RX 9.6 - 230.4 KB/S
8 - FBUS_TX 9.6 - 230.4 KB/S
9 - L_GND CHARGER / LOGIC GND Revealing Headphone and Car-Kit Menus Think about this: If you do these tricks the new menus can not be erased after the procedure. But it's not dangerous or harmful for your phone To enable the headset-function, you have to short-circuit the "3" and "4". After a short time there is "Headset" on the display Now, menu 3-6 is now enabled!
To enable the carkit-function you have to short-circuit the "4" and "5". After a short time, "Car" is shown on the display and the menu 3-7 is enabled!! This Trick is for you how want to hear more then your supposed to ! If you short-circuit the left and the right contact with the middle contact ("3", "6" and "9") the Nokia Software hangs! The profile "Headset" will be activated. Before you do this, just active the "auto call receive" function in the headphone profile and set the ringing volume to "mute" Now you can use your phone for checking out what people are talking about in a room. Place the phone somewhere stratidic and call your phone! The phone receives the call without ringing and you can listen to what people are talking about! .....gr8... Serial numbers on your 6110 For more info type: *#92702689#
The first screen gives you the serial and IMEI number.
Then there is the Date of Manufacture: ex. Made 1297
Then there is the Purchasing Date: ex. Purchasing Date 0298
Then there is the last Repair Date: ex. Repaired: 0000 Note: you must turn off the phone to exit after this test, because of the last function, "transfer user data" which doesn't work as "standard"....You can use this mode only to transfer all Calender, Profile and Callers Group Information to another phone (eg. if you are replacing phone or configuring phones for use within your company or when a particular phone doesn't works correctly )
Activating and deactivating EFR and HFR, on your 6110 *3370# to activate Enhanced Full Rate - Makes calls sound better, but decreases the battery life by about 5%. #3370# to deactivate Enhanced Full Rate
*4720# to activate Half Rate Mode - Drops call quality, but increases battery life by about 30%. #4720# to deactivate Half Rate Mode