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Nope, must be a problem with the connectivity since both browsers didn't work. Are you still experiencing any issues ?

wow, some great plans there, let me check their availability here

@Shubhanyu and Niral: I've now informed Sadik about your posts. Since he is unable to access the internet now, he will check this topic when he is available.

Mobile WiMAX: Bangalore city is all set for a leap The Hindu - Monday, Aug 20, 2007 BANGALORE: Bangalore will be ahead of Pune in mobile WiMAX, according to M.N. Vidyashankar, Secretary, Department of Information Technology. WiMAX is the short form for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access that enables high-speed Internet access. Delivering the valedictory address of a two-day national workshop on wireless communications here on Saturday, Mr. Vidyashankar said Pune had overtaken Bangalore in offering fixed WiMAX connections. In Bangalore, Reliance had given 21,000 fixed WiMAX connections, he said. “But what thrills me and others is mobile WiMAX,” he said. Bangalore was poised to overtake Pune in mobile WiMAX communication. “The technology is finalised,” he said and added that each WiMAX tower would cover an area of three km to 10 km around it. Mr. Vidyashankar said that information technology and information technology-enabled Services (ITES) employed about 5 lakh people in the State and contributed nearly 25 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP). Director of the International Institute of Information Technology in Bangalore S. Sadagopan; advisor to SiRF Technology Pvt. Ltd. M. Chandrasekaran and Director of BMN Institute of Technology T.J. Rama Murthy spoke.

It might be difficult to get one with .com TLD, how about a .in instead ?

Good find !

Great work, congrats !

Press Trust of India Mumbai July 17, 2007 Reliance Communications has grand plans. The Anil Ambani-led telecommunications major aims to have the single largest wireless network in the world by year-end, covering over 900 million Indians. The company will invest Rs 16,000 crore (Rs 160 billion) for network expansion in FY08, said RCom chairman Anil Ambani on Tuesday in Mumbai. RCom is looking at inorganic growth route across the world. The company will cover 23,000 towns, or every single Indian habitation with a population of over 1,000 persons, he said. The company will cover almost 100 per cent of all rail routes, all national highways, and 84 per cent of all state highways, he added. The company has more than 1 million retail customers in the United States, the largest for any Indian company across any sector, a media release from RCom said. RCom has launched virtual international calling and voice content services in the US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand. The company is one of the leading providers of international connectivity and data services to telecom operators, content providers and Internet communities. Reliance Communications plans to invest Rs 16,000 crore for network expansion in FY08. The company will launch DTH services by end of this year. Reliance Communications to spin-out BPO business. Reliance Communications to unlock value in Flag Telecom through private placement of equity and international listing of shares before year-end. The company will also unlock value in tower business through placement of minority stake to financial investors. FLAG Telecom has turned around and delivered profits at the net level for the first time since its inception. FLAG connectivity to expand from 40 to 60 countries across the world, representing over 80 per cent of global population and 90 per cent of global GDP. Yipes acquisition will transform RCom's position in data communications services business in the US and globally. Yipes operations in 14 major cities of the US, from New York to Los Angeles, from Boston to Houston, from Washington to Seattle. Yipes has nearly 1,000 enterprise customers in the US. RCom to take the Yipes franchise global, leveraging FLAG network in nearly 40 countries, including India, the Middle East, Asia and Europe. RCom enterprise business serves more than 800 of the top 1,000 companies in India. RCom wireline network expanded to cover almost 5,00,000 buildings, located in 360 business districts in the top 40 cities of India. RCom has secured a higher share of the IT and telecom spends of enterprise customers, with market share of more than 50 per cent in new business. RCom has also won repeat orders from premium marquee customers from banking to finance, from aviation to hotels, from IT to BPO. RCom is already deploying broadband and wireless WiMax network in top 10 cities to serve over 4 million small and medium enterprises, RCom has equipped Bangalore and Pune to provide premier WiMax business solution on an "anyone, anywhere, anytime" basis. Next generation DTH network is in the final stages of preparation, and services will be launched before the end of the year. RCom plans to launch premium IPTV services in the top cities of India. Reliance multi-play IPTV platform will leverage optical fiber Ethernet network to deliver the most advanced suite of services. RCOM undertaking 4 key initiatives for unlocking value this year. Unlocking of value in TowerCo through placement of minority stake to financial investors at an advanced stage. Expect positive surprise in TowerCo valuation compared to analyst estimates. Yipes acquisition to substantially enhance FLAG Telecom valuation. Unlocking of value in FLAG Telecom through private placement of equity and/ or international listing of shares before year-end. Further unlocking of value through development of Special Economic Zone at Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge Centre focused on IT and IT-enabled services. IT/ITES SEZ project already cleared by the GOI's Board of Approvals. BPO biz RCom will spin out global-size and profitable BPO business leveraging in-house skills and operational capabilities. RCom in-house BPO enjoys unique competencies and demonstrated operational excellence in telecom, BFSI, utilities and entertainment verticals. RCom BPO has over 7,800 employees providing multi-lingual support in voice and back office services from multiple locations. Unlocking of hidden value through 4 initiatives could represent a significant proportion of RCom's current market capitalisation. Over the next few years, RCOM will have over 100 million customers, becoming one of the top 5 global telecom players. Convergence between telecom, media, entertainment and the Internet will transform how telecom companies are viewed by all stakeholders. Digital connectivity brings infinite possibilities of creation, consumption and proliferation of media content in all its diverse forms. RCom will provide the interface and multiple delivery platforms for digital content to be served to hundreds of millions of customers.

August 15, 2007 14:05 IST Business Standard On 60th Independence Day, it is bonanza time for telecom subscribers with operators rolling out a range of services. Service providers, including Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd [Get Quote], Tata Teleservices [Get Quote] (Maharashtra) Ltd, Bharti Airtel [Get Quote] and Reliance Communications [Get Quote], are starting new services from Wednesday. To begin with, state-owned telecom major MTNL will commercially launch its video-on-demand services on Wednesday. The company, operating out of Mumbai and Delhi metros, will roll out its services jointly with India OnLine Broadband, an internet backbone and service provider. According to company's executive director J Gopal, VOD services allow users to select and watch video content, music, movies and other content, over a network as part of an interactive television system. MTNL service will include Bollywood and Hollywood content (including movies and songs), English and Hindi songs and infotainment content. On August 15, MTNL's partner IOL will launch its IPTV services in Bangalore and Kolkata. The services were earlier launched in Mumbai and Delhi on October 14, 2006. CDMA major TTML is launching eight new recharge vouchers for public call office users on Wednesday. The vouchers will enable users to make calls from coin-operated PCOs and Public Telephone Booths. TTML vice president (marketing) Ajay Mathur said: "It has been a tradition with us to launch a new initiative during every Independence Day. We believe it is an auspicious day for a new beginning". The recharge vouchers will be available starting Rs 600 and is available for use in Mumbai, Rest of Maharashtra and Goa circles. Not to be left behind, GSM service provider Bharti Airtel is rolling out a slew of value-added services on the Independence Day, including a caller ring tone, Jaya He Hello Tune, composed by AR Rahman. The company is also rolling out two additional services, Independence Recharge and Freedom Bonanza on Wednesday. Bharti Airtel CEO (Mobile Services - Maharashtra & Goa circle) Manu Talwar said the company would offer full talktime on recharging of Rs 555 pre-paid card, waiving off processing fee and service taxes. While under Freedom Bonanza, subscribers on the first recharge with Rs 352, Rs 444 and Rs 571 recharge vouchers will get 30 minutes extra Airtel to Airtel local calls. Telecom service provider Reliance Communications is in the process of launching commodity quotes on mobile phones, a service that will enable users to get information from commodity exchanges and mandis in the country. The company has also entered into a tie-up with a TV18 group firm, commoditiescontrol.com, for the service. The Anil Ambani group company has completed the trial runs and the service is expected to be launched on August 15. This will enable Reliance subscribers in both metros and rural areas check news, information and prices of the commodities. The service would be charged at Rs 3 per entry.

Thanks again for those valuable suggestions. I might go with Canon PowerShot S3 IS as well. The best price I have found on eBay is Rs.14,650 which has 1 year warranty

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Thank you StaticElectricity, supernova, Honest, Ashoksoft, Vishal Gupta and neerajayshree for the warm wishes !!!

Press Trust of India August 09, 2007 16:48 IST People using mobile phones for more than four years and longer than 30 minutes a day are at risk of developing hearing loss particularly at higher speech frequencies, a study conducted by Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research at Chandigarh has said. "This hearing loss was more in the dominant ear (ear of use). Presence of fullness in the ears, ear warmth, strange noises in the ear are warning signals which should not be ignored," Dr Naresh Panda, head of the department of Otolaryngology at PGIMER, who along with his team conducted the 18-month long study, said. He said the aim of the study, which is a preliminary one, done on 100 long term mobile phone users from Chandigarh, was to assess if long term mobile phone use had any adverse effect on hearing and central auditory pathways. Panda said the study was conducted on people between the age group of 18-45 years and those who were using GSM handsets. The study group was divided into three categories -- those using mobile phones for 1-2 years, 2-3 years and 3-4 years and above. Asked if PGIMER was suggesting that people should stop using mobile phones, Panda said it was just a preliminary study and our aim is not to spread panic among the public. All we are saying that people should limit or curtail their usage and take measures like using ear phones.

This issue has been fixed now. There was a compatibility issue between Invision Power Board and the latest FireFox version. Thanks for informing about it. (Vishal, hope you found it out now ! )

When did it start loosing the network ? from the time you got the handset ? or did it start all of a sudden ? did you change any setting or used QPST before it started loosing the network ?

Thanks for the input Amtrag. I was planning to get Canon Powershot A630, but after seeing the A710, I'm confused which to go for. The A630 has 8 megapixels, and 7.1 megapixels for A710, but I think the 6x optical zoom (compared to 4x) and the Image Stabilizer of A710 will be great to have. The price difference seems to be around Rs.1500 edit: just noticed A710 doesn't have a swivel display

You can remove all programs that were installed by you, from the "Remove Programs" option under Settings > System You cannot remove those programs that came defaulty installed with the ROM.

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under Connections > Manage Existing Connections, does any connection exist. If there is any, edit it and check whether "Cellular Line" is select for "select a modem" option.

hey Puneet, glad to know you are in UAE now with an N95 ! it must be Etisalat network there ? how's the weather there ? can't live without an AC I guess ?

Press Trust Of India New Delhi, August 05, 2007 Reliance mobile users will soon be able to send money orders through their handsets, with the company exploring tie-ups with financial institutions for the service that will see its about 1.5 lakh retail outlets doubling as collection points. "We will launch a new service -- Mobile Money Order in Reliance mobiles, which will enable people to send and receive money through their handsets. About 1.5 lakh retail outlets of the company will act as collection points," Reliance Communications President (Applications, Solutions and Content Group) Mahesh Prasad told PTI. The service is expected to be launched by the year end, he said, adding: "We are closely working with financial institutions and banks for introducing this service." Reliance has a mobile subscriber base of over 31 million. With this, the company is aiming to capture a significant market share in the Rs 5,000 crore Value-Added Service (VAS) industry. "VAS currently contributes 10-15 per cent of the service providers revenues. The market for VAS is expected to reach Rs 5,000 crore by this year end from Rs 2,750 crore last year," Prasad said. The company is also looking at various other verticals such as finance, e-medicine and advisory services among others for introducing VAS on its mobile network. He said we are evaluating the possibility of developing regional content such as something that would be of interest to a farmer like prices of agri items at the local market. VAS in the financial space may include information on loans, insurance schemes and collection of premium. Through e-medicine, customers in the rural areas would be able to locate primary medical centres and details of visiting doctors specific to their village.

Fixed WiMAX is available in Bangalore & Pune, hope Mobile WiMAX will start soon... the spectrum issues needs to be sorted out for that I guess... aw well

NDTV Thursday, July 26, 2007 (New Delhi): Anil Ambani may have stopped running after GSM spectrum but he hasn't slowed down on his plans to make Reliance Communication phones work anywhere in the country. Reliance operates on the CDMA platform but 70 per cent of phones are on the rival GSM system and today there's no phone that can talk across both the platforms. However that could change soon. Sources have told NDTV that Reliance Communication is importing phones that use two chips, one for CDMA and the other for GSM. Reliance Communication has already tied up with suppliers and will launch these handsets in the next two months. With these handsets in the market, CDMA users will no longer be forced to use only one technology. They will be able to roam on GSM and it would be especially useful for those traveling to Europe. Roaming advantage Subscribers within the country will also be able to roam using GSM and Reliance's 3.5 million GSM subscribers in 8 telecom circles will be able to roam on its CDMA network across the country. Interestingly, Reliance Communication is also looking at ways in allowing its subscribers freedom to use GSM networks of rivals as well. It plans to charge roaming rates from subscribers who may want to use other GSM networks. But bundled handsets will definitely have a lock-in period. While Reliance Communication is still working out how it plans to leverage its dual chip handset, it will keep its fingers crossed that government rules on use of dual technology doesn't change. After all that's one of the important issues the telecom regulator TRAI is deliberating on.

If you do not have much travelling to do, then defenitely a desktop is better... more speed and lesser maintenance cost. An Intel Core 2 Duo or Intel Dual Core 3 Ghz processor.... with Intel 965 mother board... 2 GB DDR 2 667 Mhz RAM... 250 GB SATAII Hard Disk will rock (more than enough for home use actually and you can use Windows Vista on the above configuration without any issues). Since you are in Chennai, I guess AirTel Broadband will be good... go for an unlimited 256 connection at Rs.1000 + tax per month. If you have a BSNL landline, then you can try BSNL DataOne's Home 500 plan, Rs.500 + tax /month for 2 mbps connection (2.5 GB data transfer per month during day time and unlimited between 2 AM to 8 AM).

Even though its a few months old consultation paper issued by TRAI, it lists many interesting observations and grievances by consumers. While going through it, Amit Jain came across a popular figure here, check out page number 26 in the pdf ! TRAI's Consultation Paper (PDF)