The ban on mobile phones that have no identification number, also called International Mobile Equipment Identity or IMEI number, is too little, too late. Even now, anyone in India can steal a phone, or buy and use a stolen mobile. Slideshow of the day: Cute X-Mas gifts The Department of Telecommunications (DoT), in a directive, has blocked phones that do not have an IMEI number. The 15-digit IMEI number is unique to every mobile handset, and even some satellite phones. You can usually see it by...
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Apple launches new iPod series for festive season in India
Apple has announced that it has introduced a new range of iPods in India to coincide with the festive season. The new range varies from the 1GB iPod Shuffle starting at Rs2,300 to a 32GB iPod Touch at Rs21,100. THe iPod Nano is now available in eight colours such as silver, purple, blue, green, orange, yellow, pink, and black, it also sports a curved aluminum enclosure. It comes wit the option of an 8GB or 16GB flash drive and holds up to 2,000 or 4,000 songs in 128-Kbps AAC format. When fully charged,...
ISRO all set for Chandrayan II in 2012, Mars mission in 2013
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is all set for its second moon mission `Chandrayaan II' and space scientists plan to send a robot to moon in 2012, followed by a spacecraft to Mars in 2013. ISRO will also sent a man to space astride a Russian spaceship the same year, its chairman G Madhavan Nair said. Besides, ISRO has lined up a slew of missions, which also include landing a spacecraft on an asteroid and sending a probe to fly past a comet, the ISRO chief told reporters at a function organised...
BPL Mobile launches campaign to curb ‘drinking & driving’
BPL Mobile announced the launch of its ‘Reach Home safely’ message campaign which curbs the menace of people drinking and than driving. The Mumbai-based operator’s campaign also puts across the point that it is better to be driven than to risk drinking and driving. Upon calling 9773865256 mobile subscribers, irrespective of their operator, can opt to be driven by a chauffer from Party Hard Drivers. The operator is running the campaign for third year in a row and says it is in line with the campaign...
Samsung Launches MPower Series of CDMA Handsets
Samsung has introduced its MPower series of CDMA phones - MPower 569 and MPower 309. The MPower series has the capability to interoperate on Reliance Mobile, Tata Indicom and Virgin Mobile. The MPower phones adapt to the network settings of the respective service provider on change of the SIM card, says the company. Both the new phones support high-speed wireless data of up to 153kbps. The phones also perform the function of data cards on connection to laptops through Bluetooth or data...
Nokia Maps under fire for showing Kashmir as part of Pakistan
New Delhi, Dec 24, 2008: Nokia Maps came under fire for showing Kashmir as part of Pakistan. The largest mobile handset manufacturer in the world that controls around half mobile handset market in the country was attacked for showing the disputed Kashmir region as Pakistani territory.Nationalist Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) activists torched a large...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Apple To Be The Real Winner This Holiday Season!
Apple gadgets are in great demand this Christmas, as US consumers shop for slighter, affordable and versatile electronics. Whereas the Consumer Electronics Association forecasts flat fourth-quarter sales as compared with last year’s sales, market analysts report Apple stores have been the busiest among electronics retailers. iPods, previously responsible...
Audi announces special pricing, offers for India
Audi, the German luxury car manufacturer, today announced a special offer for its customers – a zero percent financing rate and an extended four years warranty for the Audi A6 range in India. The Audi A6 range includes four variants - 2.8 FSI, 3.2 FSI quattro, 2.7 TDI and 3.0 TDI quattro. The Audi A6 package includes providing finance on a rate of...
Intex IN 3030, the Rugged Music Phone
The Intex IN 3030 is all set to strike a chord with mobile users who expect to have a music mobile phone which can endure tough use. This phone which is resistant to water, sweat & dust, offers features such as a FM radio, audio player, voice and audio recording. The phone is aimed at consumers whose lifestyle involves lot of traveling, rugged...
Monday, December 22, 2008
See-Through' Touchscreen A Relief For Fat Fingers
Most of us love to flaunt electronic devices that has shrinked well in size. But, how do you handle its operation with your over sized fingers. Patrick Baudisch and his student Gerry Chu from the University of Toronto have come to the rescue of customers who love touchscreen devices and are gifted with fat fingers.A "see-through" prototype device called...
Japanese Group Asks Google to Stop Map Service
A group of Japanese lawyers and professors asked on Friday that Google stop providing detailed street-level images of Japanese cities on the Internet, saying they violated privacy rights. Google's Street View offers ground-level, 360-degree views of streets in 12 Japanese cities and is also offered for some 50 cities in the United States and certain areas in Europe.TOKYO (Reuters)—A group of Japanese lawyers and professors asked on Friday that Google stop providing detailed street-level images of...
Why you shouldn't buy a netbook for Christmas
Price wise, there really isn't much to talk about when it comes to netbooks. Both in terms of pricing and hardware, most are closely matched, so we'll keep this roundup brief. More and more vendors are entering the netbook market, but offering few innovative products to distinguish them from the competition. There are no real bargains when it comes to netbooks, no models nearing EOL, no obsolete hardware, as almost all are based on the same platform.Vendors failed to meet the promise of a cheap,...
Private operators cry foul over BSNL WiMax services
WiMax operators in India have cried foul over the allotment of broadband wireless access (BWA) spectrum to state-owned telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh.WiMax Forum, the representative body of WiMax operators, alleged that BSNL had deployed its WiMax services on the frequency division duplex (FDD)-based spectrum band, which does not conform to international standards for WiMax technology. This renders it obsolete and prevents other operators...
Makeover for Apple's Mighty Mouse?
Is it time for Apple's Mighty Mouse to get a tune-up? That's the question many people on the Internet are asking as MacBlogz has published images of what it expects Apple to do with the multibutton mouse. Extrapolating from Apple's patents on multitouch, MacBlogz's prototype features a sleek profile and aluminum body. This mockup shows one vision...
Legal Struggle: Chinese Phones in India
Legal Struggle: Chinese Phones in India Techtree News Staff, Dec 22, 2008 1321 hrs IST The IMEI is an identification number that is unique to each GSM handset, which it is legally bound to haveOver 25 million Chinese handset users can heave a sigh of relief as the government mulls over a plan to legalize these IMEI (International Mobile...
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