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I will put my neck out and say real time monitoring of voice/data communication is required provided (and this is the operative word)the data collection is handled by the IB i.e. government itself and not by ISPs/telecom operators. There must be provisions to ensure that the data collected is encrypted, and remain safe. We cannot entrust public/private operators to do this monitoring. It must be done only by the government. I know most members will disagree and say this is invasion of privacy etc. but fact is, in the dangerous world we live in, surveillance is required real-time. Outdated policing methods will not work, preemptive action is the only option. The intelligence agencies must know of threats before they are carried out. Most of us are already giving all our personal data to ubiquitous third party - Google - GMail, GTalk, Youtube, Orkut, Chrome browser, Android, Chrome OS etc. with very little concerns(Dkaile ji had infact opened a thread for such issue). It is only when our government asks for it that we have a tendency to cry foul. Most developed countries already have such evesdropping mechanisms in place since way back. The CIA has been monitoring citizen's calls for years - and this is public domain information, god knows what else they are monitoring. In the UK there is highest concentration of CCTVs, infact on average a person is photographed over 1000 times daily in London. There is a proposal by UK government to stop porn at ISP end for households with children. I will not give more examples as the list of big brother activities in these countries is endless. I have read even there the people are angry at obtrusion and there have been cries of police state but at the end of the day, they know what is required for national security and they comply. Bottom line is, if monitoring is required for national security then do it. But do it efficiently and do not dither over it. We cannot afford another 26/11. PS I do not think that this real time monitoring will be done in the end. There will be hue and cry from operators and the government will backtrack. If it really meant to do it, then the government would have ensured that all operators are compliant with this from day 1. After all, cyber crime has been going on for long time (recently the CBI website was hacked by friends across the border and was down for multiple days), so operators and government had enough time. So I think this will mostly be a gimmick with no real results.

I read all the pages in this thread, amazing how they got away with apparent daylight robbery. But let this topic remain open so that no one else gets cheated from them.

Off topic. Kamalbhai - read your linked post, you have mentioned Orange. I have used Orange, they have very good GSM network. I used to get unlimited UK landline calls, 100 messages, 300 any mobile network minutes, all for 15 pounds a month. And for 35 pounds you get more minutes, messages and unlimited internet. There is another provider called 3 owned by Hutchinson, and they used to give unlimited free Skype calls on their network. That is the level of affordability Indian service providers should target. There is huge potential and vast untapped market.

In rimweb often the buy sell forum is most active so this problem is less here but still increasing. In sites like XDA this is a major issue. Your idea is very good but no need to manually merge existing problem solving threads. Instead there could be a sticky thread named Q&A in each section. This thread will contain links to the problem solving threads. Whenever a new problem solving thread is added, it can be linked to the Q&A thread. And also members must be encouraged to follow search in Q&A threads before posting.

Hitesh ji, A 2008 photo of Win7? And also no tablet PC has desktop style taskbars complete with volume button, start button, quick launch button etc. Till winmo 6.1 we used to have computer style interface and that is why no one used it. So I am pretty sure in Win7 tablet they would not make same mistake. A tablet would have redesigned UI. Anyway it is proven these are photoshopped so no point discussing.

Both images are fake, first one has a 2008 date in top left corner, and the second one shows the windows desktop taskbar. Though it would be good if they do come up with a sliding keyboard tablet. That would blow iPad out of the water.

Dhiraj ji, on XDA there is an AOSP Gingerbread ROM being built for Hero as well.

Using the ADB rm method will still keep the entries of the removed apps in Manage Applications list. To remove them one needs to use adb uninstall. The Titanium Backup Pro is an easier option. Please be careful while uninstalling apps, for safe apps list please check XDA threads.

^^ True that.

I will stick with RCDMA because most of my home numbers are RCDMA for long.

LOL Hitesh ji, good reason I must say! Wonder how many Airtel users will switch because the new song is poor compared to the old one. Also Airtel rotated Videocon's logo, might be to attract Videocon mobile customers! Found this on the internet: http://i51.tinypic.com/2dqms2g.jpg

Why would they want to call it a village though? It clearly is an industrial city, and one that could shame our metros.

Google launched Chrome OS today, which I guess will take this privacy question to a next level. Because Chrome OS is radically different from other existing OS like Linux/Windows/MacOS, in the sense that Chrome is a cloud based OS rather than a traditional offline OS. All of the user's data - be it word documents, playlists, user settings or surfing habits - will presumably be stored online on Google's servers. The computer will immediately connect to the internet after booting (booting time will be superfast, needless to say) and the user will not even feel that they are doing even the most mundane tasks online. This is a very different approach to OSes, and great for accessiblity from anywhere/portability/cloud computing. No more pains in setting up all software/settings after formatting your computer or after buying a new computer. Just login to Chrome OS using account and everything will be there - voila! Imagine - your entire computing time - online. To me it is frightening because it erases the boundaries between online and offline. To me it poses an uncomforable question - who has rights over my data, who has rights over my computer usage patterns - me or Google? Did I authorize Google to collect data over every single keystroke pressed in my computer - even when doing a traditionally offline task such as typing out a word document? How do I stop someone from intruding into my offline computing life?

Tata Group biggest beneficiary of out-of-turn spectrum: MP Source: http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/cnbc-tv18-comments/tata-group-biggest-beneficiaryout-of-turn-spectrum-mp_503562.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11930190

Sorry if this is thread hijacking (Mods please do delete if so) but thought of sharing an E-Mail verbatim for everyone info, this I had sent to my office colleagues.

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Wish you a very happy birthday!

Yes IP messenger is a good software, we used in our office LAN also, very light on system requirements and useful for sending files - you can directly drag and drop the file onto chat window. Good find KoolK.

@Rajan, True I forgot to mention that categories will inevitably have overlaps, and there one will have to use some judgement to make the categories as far mutually exclusive as possible. It is not about making everyone happy, but it is about making the polls broad based so that we can award more winners instead of just one - so that winners in each category who are doing the good work get motivated and continue to excel - and those who come close seconds in each category also up their game and strive to win. Healthy competition = good for community.

@Parin lol! @Genius here is an awesome Bollywood dance video...please do not hate me for this.

@Rajan true but this is the first time we are having such a vote right? Effectively this is a baseline not an incremental YoY vote. Hence many members including myself am having the dilemma, though it is a good dilemma to have because it means the forum has many stalwarts who are contributing. If this vote is made an annual exercise then in next edition things will be smoother. Other way is to make nominations in different categories.

This is a very good initiative. However was very confused as to whom to vote as all the nominees are winners in their own right so choosing one is difficult. Initially I had thought suggesting to Rajan it might be better to keep several categories and make the awards more broad-based ala filmfare awards (instead of choosing one winner) e.g. Best techie - Mufaddal, HetalDP, Kesav, Kshah, Dkaile, Dj etc Best seller - Sadikk, Hitesh, Tushar, Gauravjc, Senthil, Shripal etc Good samaritan - KanagaDeepan, Genius, Kunal, Raccoon etc Best mod - Arun, Kamal, Greens, Ashoksoft etc Rising star (newer members who are coming up fast) - Parin, SumitVerma etc Disclaimer - the above is just my 2 cents and categories/member names are by no way exhaustive. Anyone's name missed out is unintentional. Now after seeing over a 100 votes cast and already nice explanation given by Rajan, so I think existing format is also good and have cast my vote.

^ Tarun, The 2.27.651.6 is rootable via 1-click Androot. 2.31.651.7 is not directly rootable via this because it has a root exploit patch. But Nfinitefx on XDA has developed a rooted 2.31.651.7 ROM. This is a stock Sprint 2.31.651.7 ROM with addition of root and other features like overclocked and undervolted kernel - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=790889.'>http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=790889. ^Vijay, You will first need to download 2.27.651.6 Sprint ROM from Hitesh's ROM post (http://www.rimweb.in/forums/topic/26722-all-roms-in-one-post/). Then connect your phone to PC and run the RUU on your PC to upgrade your ROM. If you want root, you can use 1 click Androot method (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=753910). After this if you want a custom ROM you can optionally upgrade to rooted 2.31.651.7 ROM (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=790889).

There is a Sense 2.2 being developed - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=795444