Tatadocomo introduced another great plans for its customers. Now they launched Pre Paid GPRS Packs for an unlimited internet access on your mobile handsets or with any PC or Laptop that has Bluetooth or USB port for the cable.
A costly News for Indian Bike lovers! Yamaha lunched a super-bike 'VMAX' in India priced at Rs 20 lakh (ex-showroom-Delhi). Yamaha brand ambassador John Abraham, who unveils 1,679 cc superbike Yamaha VMAX, also launched limited edition of Yamaha 'FZ' series in three variants.
Happy news for the mobile phone lovers in India. Some cool mobile phones to launch this month in India. If you are awaiting for a new touch phone or a camera phone, it is a chance to hands on these cool new mobile phones before reaching them to your friends.
HTC Hero
Bharti Airtel has launched two mobile internet recharge vouchers for its Prepaid users in Delhi & NCR. The vouchers would be available for Rs 26 (valid over seven days and usage of 15 MB) and Rs 95 (valid over 30 days and usage of 100 MB).
Tata Indicom Broadband introduced More-4-Sure offer for its subscribers. Become a Tata Indicom Broadband 2.0 customer and you could get a free laptop, or Linksys router or free broadband.
Now you have one more reason to hang out on Orkut. Orkut just introduced video chat to talk face-to-face with your friends. Open your webcam and download a small plugin, install it,that's all. Next time when you signed in to orkut, if you see a small green camera icons next to your friends names in your chat list that means they are ready to video chat.Then, open a chat window and click on the "Start video chat" link in the "Actions" menu. You can also pop out your chat window and increase the size all the way up to full-screen for a better view of your friend.
How is that ?
Source : orkut Blog: Talk face-to-face with your friends with video chat in orkut
Airtel DTH service (Digital TV) announced the addition of 14 new entertainment and news channels to its bouquet – taking the total to 164 channels in 11 languages across the country.The 14 new channels include the following: News Channels - ET Now, DD Bangla, DD Oriya, CNEB News, India News, ETV UP, Asianet News, Indiavision; Movie Channels - Bindaas Movies; Music Channel - ETC Punjabi; Entertainment Channels – Bindaas, Amrita, Kasthuri, Siripolli. With the addition of these channels, the Airtel digital TV language line up will now have 45 Hindi, 45 English, 6 Punjabi, 3 Oriya, 13 Tamil, 9 Malayalam, 9 Kannada, 7 Bengali, 3 Gujarati, 7 Marathi, 2 North East and 10 Telugu channels. The new channels will be available across various subscriptions plans starting July 20, 2009. The new channels will be available across various subscriptions plans starting July 20, 2009.
For more information, visit: www.airtel.in
LG has launched a new 8 megapixel camera phone the LG Viewty Smart (LG-GC900) in India. The LG Viewty Smart is priced at Rs. 27, 500.
The Canada-based Research In Motion launched the Blackberry Curve 8520 smart phone in India. The Blackberry Curve 8520, priced at Rs.15,990, will be available from Aug 7 through Airtel's authorised outlets.
Key Features
* Full-QWERTY keypad
* Wi-Fi support
* 2.0MP Digital Camera
* Video Camera Capabilities
* 256MB Flash Memory
* Wi-Fi® enabled
* Bluetooth® enabled
* Multimedia Player
* Wireless Email
* Organizer
* Browser
* Phone
* SMS/MMS
* Talk Time: 4.5 hours
* Standby Time: 17 days
* 320x240 pixel screen
* Displays over 65,000 colors
* 2.64" size
* 320 x 240 pixels Resolution
Airtel customers can sms 'BB' to 543210 to register to purchase the BlackBerry Curve 8520 and to get more information about the plans offered with the smartphone.
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd has introduced MobileVoice Remote Email Access in India.
MobileVoice Remote Email Access works from any MTNL mobile or landline phone allowing to read and send email to anyone worldwide. MobileVoice Remote Email Access works with all major email providers including Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, Bol Mail, AOL and more.
By dialing 1290 from a MTNL phone to have email messages read to you. Personalized email messages can be send to anyone worldwide by your own Voice! There is no special phone required for this service. This service cost for Rs. 50/- per month + Service Tax (as applicable).MobileVoice Remote Email Access is initially available for MTNL Delhi customers and will be available shortly throughout Mumbai.
Microsoft soft launched a social networking website,WindowsLivePlanet.com, in India. WindowsLivePlanet.com is coming with a title description match and make new friends. Look at the following where Microsoft says about WindowsLivePlanet.com.
A Microsoft India initiative, the program has been designed to allow you to find people that match you. All you need to do is complete your profile: I am (demographics), I do (habits), I feel (attitudes) & I like (interests), and Windows Live Planet will open up a whole new world! The match-meter automatically suggests friends, and even lets you find friends exactly the way you want! There is no limit to the number of friends that you can make.
Key Features
Match-meter : A cool feature to find friends like you
Exciting zone to meet interesting strangers
Windows Live Messenger right within the web page
Any one can join by their existing Gmail, Yahoo or any other ID
Nokia has launched its new 8 megapixel N-series mobile phone, N86,in India. Nokia N86 is available in Indigo Black . Nokia N86 is priced at Rs 27,359 in India. Nokia claims, the Nokia N86 8MP is a powerful all-in-one mobile featuring a great 8 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics. You'll have a convenient way to capture quality images and share them on-line with friends and family.
Key Features of Nokia N86
8 megapixel camera (3264 x 2448)
Dual LED flash and Carl Zeiss Optics
2.6-inch AMOLED screen
2-way slider
Numeric keypad
MicroSD memory card slot, hot swappable, max. 16 GB
Internal memory 8GB:
S60 3rd edition, feature pack 2
Adobe Flash Lite 3.1
Adobe Reader
Video and Photo editor on device
WiFi
HSDPA
Gaming keys,
Bluetooth 2.0,
USB 2.0
GPS
FM transmitter
Send free SMS to Kuwait, UAE and Saudi Arabia from India. 160by2.com, one of the leading free SMS service providers in the country, has launched a service for its customers to send free text messages to and from the Middle East.“The first-of-its-kind service is open to all internet users in India and enables free SMS connectivity to mobiles in these countries and vice versa. 160by2 users from the Middle East can also send messages to India and between those countries,” said a company release.At present, the service is being offered in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and it will shortly be launched in the rest of the Middle Eastern and North African nations.
How to Send Free SMS
A consumer can login to www.160by2.com, register himself free of cost and start using the service to send free SMS. Earlier, users could only send messages in India.
One has to enter the mobile number and the country code with which he/she intends to communicate and then type in an 80-character message and send it to the designated mobile.The remaining 80 characters space in the message will be used by 160by2 to feed in an advertisement.
How do Indian users send SMS to friends in Kuwait?
Kuwaiti mobile numbers are 8 character long. You will have to prefix the country code of Kuwait (965) in front of the mobile number to send the SMS. If your Kuwaiti friend’s number is 9123XXXX, then you need to enter 9659123XXXX in the ‘Mobile Number‘ field.
How to use 160by2 on mobile phones?
Visit 160by2 from your mobile at http://m.160by2.com
Mobile Application
Visit http://m.160by2.com/app from your mobile phone to start using the application.
Check your device Compatiblity here
MTS India launched a new plan named ‘One MTS One India’. This new plan offers subscribers local and STD calls within MTS network for a tariff of 35 paise per minute or a voucher priced at Rs.11. The voucher to be made available for a period of 12 months will come with validity period of one month. This Voucher will be available both on paper and easy Recharge.
Actor Rahul Bose launched a blog on environmental issues at BigAdda. The blog has a title 'Go Green with Rahul Bose' and having the web address http://gogreen.bigadda.com. Rahul Bose has become the brand ambassador of Planet Alert. Planet Alert is India’s first ‘peoples’ movement to combat a climate in peril. Announced by The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and an initiative by GYAAN. He published an introduction post and says "this is oing to be a blog on all issues ‘green’ (including money!) watch this space for more! Let's welcome Rahul Bose to blogosphere and join hands with him to protect our planet from the danger of climate change.
Nokia has launched its new Camera phones Nokia 6700 Classic and 6303 Classic phones in India. Nokia has priced the 6700 Classic at Rs. 14, 000 and 6303 Classic for Rs. 8, 000.
Nokia 6700 classic
The Nokia 6700 classic is a stylish and functional device that lets you take excellent pictures, and helps you to find your location, browse the web faster, and be heard more clearly.
Key features
Samsung's latest outdoor mobile phone Marine-B2100 is very suitable for someone who is doing some rough outdoor activities. This phone has the shock urethane material case which protect from bumps, bangs and scrapes. You can use this phone in any the toughest environment conditions such as rain, fog, humidity, sand and extremely hot and cold temperatures, etc. Sumsung Marine-B2100 is a water-resistant, dust-proof and shock-proof mobile phone.
Key Features
External loud speakers
8GB of expandable memory
Noise cancellation
Built-in camera
FM radio
A flash light.
The Samsung Marine B2100 is available in a choice of red and green colors and is priced at Rs. 7,030.
Virgin Mobile introduced vTurk – a once-in-a-lifetime assignment that allows college students to earn as a Virgin Mobile representative in college. Over a period of 3 months, vTurk representative to collect data for Virgin Mobile from their college. This data collection includes post-purchase behavior of 90 self-acquired Virgin Mobile users on campus and attitudes and preferences of at least 350 non-Virgin Mobile cell-phone users on campus.This allows Virgin to create completely customized solutions for their target audience.
Benefits
Virgin Mobile handsets + connections
Personalized visiting cards
Hip sling bag
Mobile holster/pouch
Fun badges
Yo-yo pack loaded with unlimited talking amongst friends (for a month)
Performance Certificates from Virgin Mobile India
A Chance For the Highest Performer to Intern at Virgin Mobile India
FREE VMI Phone with Yo-Yo Pack
Every Acquired User - Rs. 100
On the End of the 60th & 90th Day
of the Project - Rs. 1500 each time
Source: virginmobile.in
Orkut launched two new cool features which work with your Orkut photo album. Orkut introduces a face detection feature and an auto-fill feature on all new photos uploaded to orkut.
Face detection in photo albums
Orkut is now able to automatically detect when faces appear in photos (by recognizing features like eyes, noses, mouths, etc.), but without actually identifying specific individuals.
Photo tagging made easy
Orkut made the tagging process even easier by adding an auto-fill feature that suggests names from your friends list for the people that you tag. Just start typing in your friend's name, and auto-fill will take care of the rest.
Tata Indicom has launched English Seekho, Conversational English language lessons on your mobile. English Seekho is aimed at teaching situational, spoken English through a simple interactive voice call. You can join this service by dialing 129222 from a Tata Indicom Mobile/Walky. It costs a monthly Subscription Fees – Rs.20/- and Call Charges 60 paise per minute.
Tata Indicom launched 'Nano Ganesh',remote-access-device,for farmers. This new service allows the farmers to operate their irrigation pumps from remote locations. Farmers will have to buy a Tata Indicom mobile connection and a mobile modem. The device costs Rs 2,700 and an additional amount for the handset that offers lifetime validity. Using the mobile handset, the farmer can remotely switch on and switch off the pump set with the assigned code number. The farmer can also check the on/off status as well as the availability of power by a particular tone.
For Details : www.business-standard.com
Microsoft Developer Network has released Visual Studio Learning Pack 2.0. Microsoft created Visual Studio Learning Pack 2.0, a software package, to help students learn about computer programming. It consists of five main components.
Key Features
1. Sort Designer Control is a supplementary teaching tool developed to help students learn the basic concepts, algorithms, and implementations of popular computer sorting algorithms.
2. Search Designer Control is a teaching tool developed to help students learn the basic concepts, algorithms, and implementations of popular data search algorithms. It supports binary and sequential searches.
3. Visual Declarative Designer is an intuitive variable declaration tool designed for novice programmers.
4. Assistant Class Designer is a visual class designer for novice programmers.
5. Visual Programming Flow Chart is a supplementary teaching tool designed to help students understand program control flow.
Download Visual Studio Learning Pack 2.0
About Microsoft Visual Studio
Microsoft Visual Studio is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It can be used to develop console and graphical user interface applications along with Windows Forms applications, web sites, web applications, and web services in both native code together with managed code for all platforms supported by Microsoft Windows, Windows Mobile, Windows CE, .NET Framework, .NET Compact Framework and Microsoft Silverlight.
Wiki
Try Visual Studio 2008 - Trial Software
Microsoft offer Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition 90-Day Trial in India.
You can download it from here
Star TV India launched Star Player to watch Star TV channels online. This new video site shows the most popular and talked about videos across the Star network. The Star Player has features like - Lights Off/On, Adjustable picture settings, adjustable video size and a smart sleek look to enhance your video watching experience.
Key Features
Get ready for the fastest web surfing experience. Mozilla released Firefox® 3.5, a major update to its popular, free and open source Web browser.
Key Features
Bharti Airtel Introduces India's first Android™ Phone, the HTC Magic. The Android ™ platform opens up an unique opportunity to mobile users to customize their device with multiple mobile applications. Airtel customers can avail many utility based applications such as Portfolio Manager, Hello Tune Manager, Weather Channel, Mobishare, In-mobile search and City Search. Airtel customers to get free data download of 100 MB per month for 6 months. The HTC Magic will be available at a market price of Rs. 29,990/- at Airtel Relationship Centres and authorized HTC resellers across 17 cities.
Key Features
Are you planning to make website for your small business? There is no need to run after the web designing agencies. You can make your own website which looks as professional too. Creating a website is an easy process now and you don't worry about technical jargons. There are plenty of web tools to create websites Instantly. I prefer Microsoft Office Live Small Business for your online business.
http://smallbusiness.officelive.com
The following two You Tube videos help you to make a website in http://smallbusiness.officelive.com
A mobile browser is web browser designed for use on a mobile device. Nowadays it's a trend that people use their handset for checking e-mails and everything like on desktop. There are few good web browsers which give you desktop like experience on your mobile phone screen. The following are few of the mobile phone web browsers.
Opera Mini
Opera Mini is the world’s most popular mobile Web browser with over 20 million users.Opera Mini enables you to take your full Web experience to your phone.
Download Opera Mini
BOLT
BOLT is a free downloadable browser that offers an uncompromised browsing experience on even lower-end mobile phones.Rather than offering a simplified, mini version of the Internet, BOLT provides users with a fast, efficient, feature-rich way to enjoy full PC-style web pages and rich media applications on all levels of mobile devices.
Download Bolt
Skyfire
•Free mobile browser
•Windows Mobile and Nokia phones
Download Skyfire
Microsoft IE for Mobile
•Key Features: Standard browser features
•Operating System: Windows Mobile
Safari
•Key Features: Display rich websites like You Tube, zoom feature, excellent touch-based user interface
•Operating System: iPhone
Mozilla Fennec
•Mobile version of FireFox
Google Android
•Key Features: Display rich websites, zoom feature, touch screen interface
•Operating System: Google Android
Two-wheeler manufacturer Bajaj Motors claims 'the new edition of Pulsar-220' becomes the India's fastest bike. Bajaj launched the new variant of its popular bike Pulsar, priced at Rs.70,000 (ex-showroom Delhi). The new edition of Pulsar-220 has further raised the bar in the performance segment by becoming India’s fastest bike. This new Pulsar 220cc, which the company claims is the fastest two-wheeler in the Indian market, comes without a fuel injection-based system earlier equipped in a 220cc variant of the same model. Bajaj team with the new pulsar 220cc, has successfully reached the top speed, 144 kmph and thus made the bike as the fastest bike in the country.
It's time to stop borrowing the News paper from your co-passenger when you travel on a local train. Now you can read your favorite Newspaper on your handset. Eterno Infotech launched a new revolutionary product-NewsHunt-which allows Mobile users to read the News paper of their choice on the go. NewsHunt is mobile application which you can download from here. After installing this application you can access News Papers on your mobile handset. The most attracted feature is that you can read Newspapers on your regional language. NewsHunt supported regional launguges which include Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telegu. There are three English News Papers also included at present.
How to get ' NewsHunt' on your mobile?
1. SMS 'hunt' to 57333 from your mobile
2. Visit http://newshunt.com/hunt from your mobile
3. Download ' NewsHunt' on your PC
Kodak Easyshare C1013 is one of the best budget Digital Camera in India. If you are planning to buy a new Digital Camera, Kodak Easyshare C1013 is affordable to your pocket.
Key Features
# 10.3 MP for prints up to 30 × 40 in. (76 × 102 cm)
# 3X optical zoom lens
# 2.4 in. (6.1 cm) indoor/outdoor color display
# HD picture capture
# Face detection
# Blur reduction mode
Latest Price
In.com offer: Offer: Rs. 6,655/-
Tata Indicom announced a new Wireless Broadband Service, Photon+ in India. Tata Photon+ offers Internet speed up to 3.1 Mbps ( 20 times faster than current wireless technology). Home users can access Photon+ With the new USB Modem. It is a plug-n-play device and completely free from wires. This mobile Internet device is priced at Rs 3500 and to choose a tariff plan based on your usage needs.
Apple allowed Bharti Airtel to ‘unlock’ its 3G iPhones. Airtel to sell it through their stores to any user, not necessarily only an Airtel subscriber. But it would an additional fee for the unlocking.
Reliance Mobile introduced a new micro website - Goforit.co.in - which offer one minute free call to everyone. You can make a one minute call to your friend between 9.00 am and 9.00 pm for free. One person can only make one call. You just enter your name and cell number, then you friend’s name and mobile number and press ‘call now’ to connect with your friend's mobile. This is a Reliance Mobile GSM Service promotional offer and valid to Internet users all over India for a time duration of thirty (30) days (“Offer Period”). The Caller/Sender Number and the Called/ Recipient Number should be local and/or STD only. Will you call your old friend today?
India’s leading GSM telecom operators -- Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Essar -- are set to bring Apple’s latest iPhone, called iPhone 3G S, to India in August. 3G S is a GSM cell phone that's also an iPod, a video camera, and a mobile Internet device with email and GPS maps. The iPhone 3G S would make its debut in India in August, but date and the pricing for the country is not announced yet.
Now, everyone knows that Vodafone Zoozoos are not animated cartoon characters but human beings. Would you like to know who were the theatre actors behind the most funny ads? Ahmedabadmirror.com published an article about these Zoozoo starts.
Samsung launched new full touch screen phone, Samsung Star S5233 in India.
Samsung Star S5233
1. Slime phone just 11.9mm.
2. 3.2 megapixel camera with ‘smile recognition’.
3. 50MB internal memory
4. Expandable up to 8GB via microSD cards
5. Gesture Control feature.
6. 3.0-inch WQVGA full-touch screen.
7. Multi-format playback
Price Rs. 11,100 (May, 2009)
Dune Kossatz was crowned Miss IPL Bollywood SA at the Monte Casino entertainment complex today.The 34-year-old actress and model from East London outvoted the other 15 finalists selected from among the contestants chosen at each IPL game at various venues South Africa.Johannesburg Business Marketing graduate Genna Cloud, 24 was also named First Princess and Dunay Nortje the Second Princess.
Bharti Airtel announced the launch of Airtel Net PC – a low-cost online computer for its broadband customers.The Airtel Net PC is a ready-to-use computer - inclusive of a 15 inch LCD monitor, keyboard, mouse and Nivio companion – offering just about everything a PC does at a fraction of the cost. It is available at only Rs. 7999 exclusively for Airtel broadband customers in Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.
The Airtel Net PC – powered by Nivio and Microsoft - brings many advantages:
• Provides a friendly Operating System with the Windows-based Online Desktop
• 10 GB space to store documents, photos, presentations at a central location
• 100% data security assures no loss of data or computer crash
• Regular original software upgrades resolves the fear of obsoletism and escalating cost.
Airtel broadband customers can purchase the Airtel Net PC by choosing from 3 entry packs –
1, Home Pack – which at Rs. 699 per month gives an Airtel broadband connection at 256 Kbps speed with 3 GB Data Transfer PLUS an Online Desktop service with 10 GB storage and MS Office standard
2, Professional Pack – which at Rs. 899 per month gives an Airtel broadband connection at 256 Kbps speed with 3 GB Data Transfer PLUS an Online Desktop service with 10 GB storage and MS Office standard with Admin rights
3, Business Pack – which at Rs. 1199 per month gives an Airtel broadband connection at 256 Kbps speed with 3 GB Data Transfer PLUS an Online Desktop service with 10 GB storage and MS Office premium with Admin rights
For further details visit www.airtel.in/netpc
Nokia launches the cheapest 3G mobilephone, Nokia 2730 Classic, to date for Rs.5,300. Nokia 2730 Classic will be available in the second quarter of 2009.
Key features
1. 3G
2. 2-megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom.
3. Bluetooth and Stereo FM radio.
4. Java
5. 2-inch QVGA screen
6. 3.3 Hours of talktime
7. 3.5mm jack
8. Nokia Life Tools and Ovi Mail.