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Source NEW DELHI: Nokia, the world’s largest cellphone maker, now wants to be a global leader in new technologies by offering software and solutions to its 1.5 billion handset users across the world, the Finnish firm’s global CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said here on Wednesday. Software and solutions will be the next frontier as customers now look for more than a handset, said Mr Kallasvuo who is touring India to chair the jury for The Economic Times Awards for Corporate Excellence. “We are investing heavily in services such as navigation, music, media, messaging and internet on mobiles. None of our competitors have articulated such an entry into the solutions market,” he said. He said Nokia is “taking a keen look” at netbooks — small, light portable computers used for accessing internet that have become immensely popular — but did not confirm if the company will start making them. Mr Kallasvuo said Indians are rapidly lapping up Nokia’s new applications. India is among the top five countries in terms of downloads from Ovi Store, Nokia’s online software and content store, launched in May 2009 in response to the success of Apple Inc’s App Store. Nokia will soon launch a new scheme, ‘Comes With Music’, where customers buying handsets could avail of unlimited music downloads for a year on their mobiles as well as computers. He said it was wrong to perceive India as a low-end cellular market: “Our high-end handsets are selling nicely here. Smartphones are showing rapid growth.” The company will start selling handsets to poor customers on weekly instalment of Rs 100 each running for more than 25 weeks in 12 new states. This follows the success of the pilot projects in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. “We will partner with microfinance companies for this. The pilots were done in the rural areas of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka across 2,500 villages and it received a heartwarming response of over 27,500 applications,” Mr Kallasvuo said. Nokia executives dismissed fears that poor monsoons would result in consumers spending less on handsets. At present, rural consumption is the primary growth driver for low and mid-segment handsets. “We don’t think the market will slow down for mobility in rural India. In fact, people will use their phones more as they cut down on travel,” said Nokia India’s managing director D Sivakumar. Nokia executives also said that a study carried out by the handset maker jointly with the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) has revealed that the communication sector would emerge as the single-largest sector of India’s economy, with a 15.4% share (equivalent to Rs 865,031 crore) of GDP by 2014-15. India is the second-largest market for Nokia in both sales and volumes after China and it is the only country where the Finnish company has close to 60% market share. India, which currently has close to 430 million mobile users, is also the fastest-growing communications market in the world with over 12 million new users every month. Nokia started off as a paper company and then ventured into making cars, bicycles, tires, footwear, cables, televisions, consumer electronics, PCs, generators, TVs plastics, aluminium and chemicals before entering the mobile phone space.

I dont think this 1p/1sec will carry on for life time.. But right now this is the best tariff among all other operators. dont worry about future. if you find a better tariff in another network u can easily change to that using MNP. So u can stay with the best always..

always welcome..

Anyone logged in to Tatatele My Account services. i tried today after so many days and found the following updates in Prepaid details Activation Date Last Recharge Date Balance Amount(Rs.) Valid Till Last 10 Call Details -Date, Time of call -Call charge, Duration Thanks to tata..

Source NEW DELHI: The Department of Telecom (DoT) and sector regulator TRAI are now headed for a new row over capping the number of telecom licences in a circle. Following the DoT’s move to ask TRAI to reconsider its earlier recommendations, where it had said that there should not be a cap on the number of telcos that are allowed to offer telecom services in a circle, the regulator had replied that it could not look at the issue in isolation. TRAI had also pointed out that in view of the ‘criticality and complexity of the issues involved, the entire subject required detailed and in-depth analysis’, while adding that it would issue its recommendations by November-end. The communications ministry has now said it cannot wait until November-end for TRAI’s recommendations. It has also pointed that the as per the TRAI Act, the regulator is required to respond to the DoT within 60-days and must therefore submit its recommendations latest by September 5, 2009. The DoT’s move to ask TRAI to speed up is on account of two factors. First, last month, the Delhi High Court, in a landmark judgment, had quashed the communications ministry’s notification announcing September 25, 2007, as the cut-off date for granting telecom licences. This had opened up the Pandora’s Box for the government as several of the 24 companies, which were denied licences on account of this cut-off date, are planning to drag the communications ministry to court. These 24 companies, which between them had filed about 343 applications, were denied licences on the basis of this cut-off date. Several of these companies have alleged DoT changed the cut-off date to September 25 so that only a few select Indian companies, such as Swan, Unitech, Loop, Datacom and Shyam, get licences. So far, DoT has provided no explanation for changing the cut-off date. While the DoT has now challenged the Delhi High Court order of quashing the September 25, 2007 dateline as the cut-off for applying for telecom licences that come bundled with start-up 2G spectrum, the communications ministry urgently needs favourable recommendations from the regulator to strengthen its case. This is also the primary reason behind the DoT’s move to emphasise to TRAI that even as there were 343 pending applications (from 24 companies) for telecom licenses, there was already sufficient competition as there were already between 12 and 14 operators offering mobile services in every circle. The second reason behind the DoT’s move to seek a quick reply from TRAI is that earlier this year, the telecom tribunal (TDSAT), had said it was ‘puzzling as to why TRAI recommended a no cap policy on the number of service providers’, while adding that the ‘DoT would be well advised to review this policy.’ The DoT has now pointed out that keeping in view of the TDSAT order and ‘since the growth in the telecom sector was of very critical importance to the nation’, TRAI must adhere to the 60-day deadline. However, industry watchers say that the DoT is only taking cover under the tribunal’s directive, while adding that the real motive behind asking TRAI to speed up was because that the Delhi HC ruling had exposed the communications ministry. Chennai-based S Tel had then approached the Delhi High Court after the company was granted licences for only six circles. The reason cited was that the company had applied for licences in the remaining 16 circles after September 25, but before October 1, 2007. DoT had not processed S Tel’s applications for the remaining circles because these had come in after the cut-off date. S Tel had then demanded that DoT offer an explanation for unilaterally setting September 25 as the cut-off date, when DoT itself had earlier announced that October 1, 2007, would be the deadline. The Delhi HC in its judgement then set aside the DoT notification stating September 25, 2007 as the cut-off date.

479 Million Telecom Subscribers in India Source According to the latest Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) figures (Warning: PDF link), India has increased its telecom subscriber base from 464.82 million in June to 479.07 million by the end of July. Posting unprecedented growth, the teledensity in the country has also reached 41.08 percent. Out of the 479 million-subscriber base, wireless subscribers consisted of 441.66 million users. This was a growth of 3.36 percent over the figure of 427.28 million a month ago. The teledensity too was below the 40 percent mark back then, standing at 37.87 percent. As expected, the figures for the wired sector were not at all with the subscriber base seeing a decline from 37.54 million users in June to 37.41 million in July. The saving grace is that fact that only the State Run operators were losing customers. Private players in the fixed line telephony sector have managed to increase their base. The figures also had data for the broadband subscriber base. This sector has seen an increase in the subscriber base from 6.62 million in June, to 6.8 million in July, registering a growth of 2.7 percent.

RBI limits free use of ATMs Source Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India , which made third party ATM transactions free from April, has said not more than Rs 10,000 can be withdrawn each time they are used and limited the number of such transactions to 5 a month.— PTI

Source Who uses mobile phones? If you ask Nathan Eagle, a researcher at Santa Fe Institute in the United States, he will tell you it is the developing world. As the majority of mobile phone subscribers live in the developing world, it made sense for him to pack his bags and move to a small village on the coast of Kenya when he was a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. And there he came up with the idea of a service that helps people make money through their mobile phones, and created Txteagle, which is set to come to India soon. The service enables crowdsourcing through mobile phones. "People need to be aware that large chunks of work can be broken down into micro-tasks that can then be distributed to people around the world," said Mr. Eagle, in an interview to The Hindu, describing the shift in mindset corporations needed, to make use of crowdsourcing. Any task that a human could outperform a computer was appropriate, and there is a wide range of such tasks including translation and labelling images. A farmer in Orissa who could spare a few hours could translate some lines of a phone manual and SMS it. But how to ensure quality of the tasks? 'Secret sauce' "This is our secret sauce — a sophisticated machine learning [Artificial Intelligence] algorithm developed jointly at MIT and Harvard lies at the heart of our accuracy inference engine," said Mr. Eagle. "It does three things — infers if a task has been completed accurately within a 99% confidence interval, estimates the expertise of our users in a wide range of application domains, and allocates tasks — sending each particular task to the most suitable active user." The idea used to determine accuracy was straightforward, he said. If multiple individuals were given the same task and asked the same questions, and if they provided the same response, then we could assume it is right, he said. And the service is active — the more the user uses it, the more it learns. The clients pay for the completed tasks. "We pay our users and provide the operators with a fraction of the money their subscribers earn," said Mr. Eagle, describing the revenue model. The payment to the users could be in airtime too. Search for partners In India, there was a huge market for mobile crowdsourcing, said Mr. Eagle. "The question is not whether or not there is a market, the question is whether there are clients." Currently Mr. Eagle is scouting for partners in the BPO industry who are familiar with Indian outsourcing. A certain degree of literacy was required for the tasks, said Mr. Eagle. An average user in a place such as Kenya who did not have any special expertise could earn 70 cents to $1.75 an hour for doing work, he said. Companies were typically "extremely excited about a new and cheaper way of completing their tasks." Initially, they were sceptical of the performance until they saw a demonstration, using a small subset, of how the tasks could be performed accurately, he said.

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Techtree News Staff, Aug 18, 2009 1025 hrs IST A 2G network GSM Phone which lacks WiFi Last week, we saw a whiff of speculation winds brought information about Dell's Chinese smartphone dubbed Mini 3i. Now, Dell's Chinese handset Mini 3i has seen the bright light but with lower specifications and images captured by Chinese site NetEase. New Dell Mini 3i is a 2G network supporting GSM phone that lacks 3G support and WiFi capabilities. No word was available on phone's availability and pricing. Dell Mini 3i runs Android OS-based Open Mobile System customized for China that incidentally is part of China Mobile's new Application Platform for Mobile Market, the app store just like several other mobile app stores. Apparently, the Mobile Market site www.mmarket.com was expected to launch yesterday but it still shows 'Mobile Market Coming Soon'. Dell Mini 3i has 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen offering 320x640 pixel resolution, 3.2 megapixel camera, two volume keys, miniUSB interface, microSD slot, Bluetooth and 950mAh battery. The hardware specifications look decent enough for 3G network and it's quite surprising that Dell didn't go for that. Though it's a 2G phone, we don't expect it to be cheaper than current 3-inch touchscreen phones with 3.2 megapixel camera. Even the mobile OS has been customized for China so it might take a while to be available to other countries.

thanks, but he is a most wanted person. i am sure that if i create awareness about its badness then he will quit.. also i noticed that he started this habit recently..

Tata DoCoMo's pulse plan becomes a huge hit Source BANGALORE: Gajanan Gowda (name changed), a teacher from Chikmagalur district in Karnataka uses his mobile phone sparingly. Usually, his calls last for less than a minute. But even if he makes a 20-second local call, he pays the same price if his call had lasted a full minute. In effect Gowda pays for the extra 40 seconds that he is not using. For a large number of Indians like Gowda, especially those from the semi-urban and rural areas where 50 paise and 25 paise coins are still has value, this is set to change. Tata DoCoMo, a late entrant in the countries hugely popular GSM sector, has launched its services where its customers will pay a paise for each second of usage. So for Gowdas 20-second call, he will pay 20 paise, and not more. On a monthly basis, this could cut down on Gowdas telecom bill substantially. ‘The pulse war’, as the telecom industry is terming the Tata Docomo move, was launched a month ago and has already caused a big flutter in the Indian mobile phone market. While it could change the way an average Indian pays for his mobile calls, the plan could also force incumbent telecom companies to either cut tariffs or go the Tata DoCoMo way of pay-by-the-pulse service. Many tier-II towns and rural areas witnessing serpentine queues for Tata DoCoMo Lifetime SIM cards that cost Rs 99 and comes with a call value worth Rs 43. Some places have even witnessed mild stampedes. Tata Docomo has entered in nine circles, including Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Chennai, the rest of Tamil Nadu, Orissa, Mumbai, the rest of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

Source Mumbai: Anil Ambani’s ADAG Group and Steven Spielberg’s Dreamworks Studios are ready with the first phase funding for their motion picture company. The JV between these two companies have been presented in a statement that informs “JP Morgan Securities arranged the syndication of about $325 million of senior debt, which has priority in repayment over other kinds of debt.’’ Anil Ambani and Reliance Big Entertainment will have to give equity commitment to match the debt. Similarly, Walt Disney would be involved in the distribution and marketing and the statement further informs “The Walt Disney Studios, who will handle marketing and distribution for the studio, will also extend a loan to DreamWorks as part of the distribution deal”. Initially, ADAG and Dreamworks had started the JV with $825 million from Reliance Big Entertainment. Anil Ambani has shown much hope from this venture and says “Our partnership with Stacey and Steven is the cornerstone of our Hollywood strategy as we grow our film interests across the globe. Now Stacey and Steven can focus on producing more of the great films for which they are renowned”. Similarly, Stacey Snider and Steven Spielberg expressed their opinion in a joint statement that says ‘‘This will allow us to move ahead quickly into production with our first group of films”.

now i need information on the badness of using 'ganesh paan' or 'kanja'. hope u got what i am saying.. something people used to keep inside lower lips and spits frequently. need to alert my friend who uses this frequently..

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so soaps with grade 1 and nearest TFM to 74 are good ?

60 timetable is also one of the answers 61. is correct 63. If I were in the sun and you were out of it, what would the sun be ?

59 and 62 are correct.. 60. some vegetables has legs

after seeing many soaps i found one almost near to the required specification Liril 2000 TFM 73% Gr. 2

59. Which time is the same spelled backward or forward? 60. Which kind of table has no legs? 61. It can run but never walks, It has a mouth but never talks and it has a bed but never sleeps?? 62. In the English language,find the only number whose number of letters is equal to its value.

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not sufficient, still some more height to go..

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@Asit, no exam preparations.. 56. How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 25? 57. Einstein's Riddle: Einstein wrote the following riddle. He said that 98% of the world could not solve it. But several NIEHS scientists were able to solve it, and they said it's not all that hard if you pay attention and are very patient. Give it a try: There are 5 houses in 5 different colors in a row. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar, or drink the same beverage. Other facts: 1. The Brit lives in the red house. 2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets. 3. The Dane drinks tea. 4. The green house is on the immediate left of the white house. 5. The green house's owner drinks coffee. 6. The owner who smokes Pall Mall rears birds. 7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill. 8. The owner living in the center house drinks milk. 9. The Norwegian lives in the first house. 10. The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats. 11. The owner who keeps the horse lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill. 12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer. 13. The German smokes Prince. 14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house. 15. The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who drinks water. The question is: WHO OWNS THE FISH? 58. Two convicts are locked in a cell. There is an unbarred window high up in the cell. No matter if they stand on the bed or one on top of the other they can't reach the window to escape. They then decide to tunnel out. However, they give up with the tunneling because it will take too long. Finally one of the convicts figures out how to escape from the cell. What is his plan?