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If you are on Reliance, EVDO needs to be activated from backend.

Hi Rudradeep. Are you the Same Rudradeep Biswas designated as Senior Writer for telecomtalk? Mr. Chandrasekhar did not blame telecomtalk for 384kbps upload speed mention. He was saying some error in the document.

Google's annual Zeitgeist reveals India's top web searches for 2010. Interesting. Top ten fastest growing search terms 1. irctc login 2. micromax mobile 3. youtube videos 4. fifa 5. facebook 6. cricket live score 7. twitter 8. way2sms 9. samsung mobile 10. zedge Top ten list for the most popular search terms 1. songs 2. facebook 3. google 4. youtube 5. yahoomail 6. gmail 7. yahoo 8. nokia 9. orkut 10. irctc Top ten list for fastest rising people 1. aruna shields 2. sonakshi sinha 3. zarine khan 4. lalit modi 5. neha sharma 6. shakira 7. katrina kaif 8. sachin tendulkar 9. lady gaga 10. salman khan Top ten list- Most Popular Movies 1. kites 2. endhiran 3. dabangg 4. 3 idiots 5. harry potter 6. ravaan 7. veer 8. my name is khan 9. twilight 10. rajneeti Top ten list- Most Popular Brands 1. nokia 2. samsung 3. airtel 4. micromax 5. dell 6. maruti 7. vodafone 8. apple 9. sony ericsson 10. hp Top ten list- Most Popular How To 1. get pregnant 2. kiss 3. impress a girl 4. improve spoken english 5. reduce weight 6. gain weight 7. tie a tie 8. create a website 9. make money 10. meditate

I spoke to Mr. Chandrasekhar Panda who is one of the two innovator behind this product. Sharing here for everyone. -The product is ready and they will be manufacturing it here in India. It is tested on many networks like Aircel, Tata Docomo and should be compatible with all networks. They are actually using it for a month now. -Not yet available in retail market. They are in talks with Futuregroup and if it succeeds, the product will be available across the country at all Big Bazaar and Ezone. They are expecting the results in the next 10-15 days. -They are not intending to sell it Online. -The report on Telecomtalk is wrong regarding the upload speed of 384kbps. The device is actually giving upload speeds of upto 1.6 Mbps. -The Wi-Fi Hotspot Function is Secured with WEP Encryption. -The Call function can be used when you connect the modem to either a PC or Laptop with the help of Headphones. You can make and receive calls. -In the 150 Channel TV Application, they have integrated channels which are having web streaming. Most of the Channels are Indian and includes even some pay channels. -They are planning to increase the no. of channels to 300. The Application has a feature wherein the user himself can add a channel from a Webstream. -While this device is for GSM, they are also developing a Product for CDMA 1x. The price range may be around Rs 500. They are not sure about EVDO support on this device but it may be incorporated.

My favourite-How to tie a tie remains the most perplexing questions for a vast majority in India's small and medium towns particularly during marriage season. It is more difficult to understand than Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity. The marriage reception time is 8 p.m. It is already 8.30 p.m. All the guest arrived waiting for a Dekho of Groom and Bride. While in the background Groom's room 3-4 friends trying furiously to get the tie to tie correctly with the right "Small SAMOSA shape". With every try it is changing from a round lemon to small orange to rubic cube shape. The Groom sweating profusely, the Bride cursing him. Time is running out. Ultimately a hero emerges and gets the tie to tie correctly. And All iz Well. The Great Indian Wedding Rolls on..

You are under a wrong impression. If you watch 3 youtube videos and getting 1 mbps, Reliance is not throttling your speed. When watching 1 youtube video and getting 300 kbps is also O.K. if you are watching Non HD videos. The speed of downloading a single file from internet will obviously differ based on the location of the server, its bandwidth, no. of users connected etc. When you are downloading multiple files from different sources, your net connection will download it simultaneously utilising the full data bandwidth available for your particular internet connection speed which in Reliance Netconnect+ theoretically is 3.1 Mbps. Download Managers again utilize technologies to download the same file from different locations if available together and so naturally the speed is higher as it is connecting to different servers at the same time. Do an Internet Speedtest http://www.speedtest.net/ DO it atleast 3 times during the day, Morning, Afternoon, Evening. If the results are anything between 1 Mbps to 2 Mbps, Everything is in order.

@mukund This phone is just launched in India. It may take some time to reach your Retail Stores. Though it may be available Online soon. Wait for few days. This is not a Dual SIM Phone. It is single SIM GSM phone. Battery is 1200 mAh. Stand By 288 Hours, Talk Time Upto 9 Hours (This is internet info. May not be 100% true) Spice MI-300 is single SIM GSM Phone.

Official Reliance 3G Plan Details https://docs.google....mknj_93cjvj98dh Some Key Points -If you only opt for 3G Data, 2G voice and SMS tariffs remain unchanged. -No Device Restrictions. It means you can use any access method. Phone, USB stick OR phone-as-modem. -No Restriction on Speed. This is Important. Speed depends on Device and not on Plan. (Tata Docomo restricts speed) -No Device Lock In. This means 3G USB Modem bought from Reliance may be unlocked. -There is no separate data charges for Mobile TV. (Tata Docomo i suppose charges for that)

^^ Sorry for the typo. It has HSDPA.

Thanks ami1 for review. Extraordinary and a fresh design concept in Tablets. Here it is, Notion Ink Adam. It is a company promoted by Indians and developing a totally new design for tablets since last 1 year. It has attracted worldwide attention as the hottest tech startup. They have shared their entire development cycle in their blog at every stage. People from all over the world has been waiting for it and writing in their blogs. Perhaps the most Open Development of a tech product i have seen. For Some of the fascinating details about how Notion Ink Adam Evolved, see post no 11 of this thread. Now they are ready with the product and pre booking is open. Final specifications, -Nvidia Dual Core Tegra 250 Processor (Two Cortex A9 Cores, Gforce GPU) -1 GB DDR2 RAM -1 GB Single Level Cell Memory -8 GB OR Higher Flash Storage On Board -10.1" WSVGA (1024x600) LCD Display. Option of Pixel Qi Display. -Transreflective Display. Scratch and fingerprint resistant coating. Anti-glare coating. -3.2 MP Auto Focus 185 Degree Swivel Camera -Full HD 1080P HDMI Output -GPRS, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n -Bluetooth 2.1 EDR -3G HSPA -SIM Card Slot -SD Card Slot, 2 USB 2.0 Ports, Mini USB Port -Flash Support -3-Axis Accelerometer -Ambient Light Sensor -GPS -Android 2.3 Gingerbread with customized Eden Interface. -Android 3.0 Honeycomb support. And they are saying some bonus mystery feature which is not yet declared. Checkout Notion Ink Website http://www.notionink.com/index.php Notion Ink Blog Page http://notionink.wordpress.com/

Specs revealed now: -1 Ghz Tegra 2 T20 Processor -32 GB Built-in Storage -Slot for upto 32 GB Micro SD Card -1280x800 Multi Touch Screen -512 MB RAM -micro-USB Jack -mini-HDMI Port -3.5 mm headphone socket Actual Images here http://www.engadget....rrycam-shows-o/

Yes. Updates are free for 1 year but it works on the same PC after 1 Year if uninstalled and fresh version installed and registered for 1 more year. So theoretically perpetual. (With Same Email ID)

Time taken to switch operators under MNP in different Asian countries. Time taken in India is the longest.

THE INTERNET IS WATCHING YOU Everything you do online is being used to track you and guess what you'll want to do next. Should you be scared yet? The owner of the corner shop has known you for a long time. He knows what you eat, that you like to drink Italian wine, and that you usually watch action movies on Sundays. That's how he can offer you things that you need, like a new crime thriller, the perfect bottle for your next party, and reserved bags of your favorite snacks when you forget to order them. What sounds like a pleasant community store in the past occurs every day on the Internet. Our "corner shop owner" is not behind the counter, but instead runs a successful online business that offers exactly what his customers need. He might have had to know you personally 30 years ago, but today the business's computers simply have to analyze your online visiting habits. Now imagine that man in the store is following you around, reminding you to buy a gift for the party you said you'd be attending on Facebook last week. Or imagine that he's seen your status updates about starting a diet, and starts telling you about the store's low-fat foods section. This is pretty much what's happening online these days. CHIP shows how online shops today use advanced Deep Packet Inspection to screen customers such that they can offer exactly what the customer wants. We also give you the lowdown on how behavior-based advertisements work with behavioral targeting. Online shops collect data en masse Online shops such as Amazon swear by one rule: get to know everything about our customers. The more information it has, the more specific its user profiles will be, and the more effective its advertisements. Thus, products that one has viewed on Amazon influence the display of others. For instance, if someone buys a Wii game console, he will be offered accessories for it in the future. Many find this invasive and Amazon has had to face criticism from individuals, activists, and even the media. German TV host Günther Jauch famously called out the store after he once received a package with something he called "erotic", which had not been meant for him. Since then he has constantly received pornographic recommendations. Though Jauch's surprise has given rise to plenty of jokes about his supposed gifting ideas, it also exposes the weaknesses of this system. Amazon does not know that the erotic product was not supposed to match with Jauch's profile. Amazon also often displays products that are not of interest to the customer—a waste of advertising space. In one such example, Amazon displayed two different types of refill packs for a coffee machine it was selling, in the advertising module titled "Customers who bought this product also bought….." The packs did not work with this machine at all! This is annoying for those who see an opportunity and quickly buy what looks like a good product, assuming it matches. Analyzing surfing habits Behavioral Targeting techniques are an evolution of this idea, which many marketing professionals consider a wonder weapon. Behavior-based advertisement displays take into account where the user comes from, which websites he has visited previously, and what he has clicked on. For a long time, Google's AdWords service has been displaying advertisements after detecting keywords on a web page. However since March 2009, the search giant has also been offering behavioral targeting and can display specific advertisements to groups of people. For instance, if a user has been browsing through a sportswear website for a football shirt in August, he might be shown ads for another website with Christmas offers on similar products in December. Google itself describes its technique as using cookies which save tracking information on users' computers. The possibilities available to a shop through behavior-based display are as endless as the creativity of search and marketing providers. If a customer only clicks on special offers, the online shop can even discourage him by directing him to a slow server in the future and spoiling the fun of bargain shopping. In addition, the dealer puts the customer at a disadvantage by not displaying advertisements related to special offers. These will be shown only to customers they want to reward! Online shops also apply marketing tips from the real world. For instance, if a retailer wants to attract only well-to-do customers, leaflets with attractive offers are only put in mailboxes in upmarket areas with well-situated residents. Similarly, one can use geolocation information to analyze the place of origin of a surfer and recommend specific offers to him or her. The coordinates obtained through IP address identification on the Internet are very fine-grained, but modern cellphones and certain desktop browsers now supply precise GPS locations, which can even be used to guess the financial behavioral pattern of any surfer. In-depth analysis divulges too much information Deep Packet Inspection, or DPI in short, is a technological continuation of this personalized advertisement strategy. While theoretically a surfer can avoid behavioral targeting by not allowing any cookies, DPI traces a user's activities on the Internet as if he or she is under surveillance. In theory, every website that is called up can be recorded; every mail can be scanned in real time—and with the help of keywords found in these, an individual profile can be created through which advertisers can send users specific offers. For instance, if an advertiser detects a number of messages to a car dealer from a customer inquiring about certain accessories, advertisements for those very products can be inserted in advertisement spaces as he or she browses the Web. However, online shops cannot use DPI by themselves; they need Internet service providers to offer it, but they seem to be cautious of violating user privacy agreements. Governments will soon be forced to formulate policies to regulate this practice. The technology is not new. It is already being used for things like filtering viruses and spam. ISPs normally look at the IP headers of data packets in transit (in which the sender and the recipient IP addresses are mentioned), which means they can easily use the same techniques to search through an entire packet. This way the provider gets an insight into the actual data that is being sent and received. DPI can be misused, but there are no cases that could be cause for any alarm at present. It possible for providers to analyze data traffic, and manipulate it as well—just like cybercriminals do when they attempt to send malicious code to a victim. When a user calls up a website, he receives more than just its source code. The Internet service provider can use DPI to slip in JavaScript that displays an advertisement, even if the website owner designs his/her website advertisement-free. Spyware installed on your computer can also do this. In the worst case scenario, a website owner is not even aware that an advertisement has been embedded into his site. ISPs could also determine which users are generating the most peer-to-peer file sharing traffic, and which are using their service mostly for email, leading to bandwidth throttling. In 2009, British Telecom started the first tests with a DPI service provider, Phorm, without informing its customers. In Germany, T­Mobile and Vodafone allegedly manipulate cellular data traffic and assign identifying codes to users. The argument is that this enables faster access to frequently used websites, but the downside is that the injected JavaScript can sometimes lead to errors in displaying sites in a browser. In addition, DPI has a negative connotation since it is used for monitoring and manipulating specific Web content—countries such as China and Iran use it to filter and censor the Web, which is alarming for free-speech advocates and political campaigners. Advertisers do not always need ingenious techniques to get information about surfers from the Internet. Users voluntarily give away plenty of information too. For instance, Amazon users can create wishlists in which they save products they desire but do not own yet. Friends can have a look, to order the products and send them to the creator of the list as gifts. What many do not know is that if one isn't careful with his or her Amazon settings, the wishlists become public and the whole world can access them through search engines. Web 2.0 follows specific identities Social networks are also ideal data sources for marketing professionals. Data collectors have been known to make the most of Facebook with its open API. One can program applications that convince users to grant them access to personal information, including details about their other friends. Other less ethical means include persuading people to add a fake profile as a "friend", thereby granting it access to more of your user profile, which most people leave totally visible to their friends. Through the Facebook API, programmers can access information about members, including details such as their employers, religious affiliations, and sexual orientation. According to the Facebook developer Wiki, applications can access over 50 sets of user information—which is interesting for marketers and hackers alike. American students of MIT at successful in programming a "radar" system for Facebook, which can analyze the information stored in a user's friends' profiles to draw conclusions about that person, even if his own settings made all information private. This should be a warning sign for users of a community not to publish too much of their real lives online. Most importantly, people need to be cautious about the kinds of applications, games and quizzes they click on, since doing so grants all of them access to one's personal information. While Facebook is a superb example, all of this also applies to other services that identify individuals, such as OpenID and Google Accounts. These let users log into dozens of websites with a single username and password. For example, with a valid Facebook account, members can use the Facebook Connect system to log in to the video sharing portal Vimeo which also lets you publish your "likes" on your wall. This is easy for users and opens up new ways for companies to court customers if they are ethical. Online shops are experimenting with ways to display products that friends have bought or looked at often (although this famously spoiled many people's Christmas shopping surprises when Facebook demonstrated the capability with its highly criticized and short-lived Beacon advertising program in late 2007). Another example is a promotional online trailer for the videogame Prototype, which came out in mid 2009. Those who used Facebook Connect suddenly found themselves becoming part of the trailer! It accessed users' names, photos and professional backgrounds through their Facebook profiles and integrated this information into scenes in the trailer. Users become advertising figures People are more receptive to recommendations from friends than from strangers, so companies try reaching customers personally by creating so-called fansites. Any user can, for instance, become fans of products, people, companies, and even designs. With Facebook's Open Graph tool, companies even have the opportunity to put advertisements on external websites to receive testimonials from members of the fansite, and gain advertising exposure through the profile picture. People who recommend products of their own accord are particularly of interest to online shops. Economists have conducted research on filtering out these opinion makers in the populations of online networks through community analysis. There are plenty of scenarios for such identification services to thrive in, when advertisers start linking information from the digital world with the real. Data and the Google juggernaut Of course no discussion of privacy online is complete without analyzing Google's data-mining habits. The search giant is in a position to use its multiple online properties to gather amazing amounts of information, and possibly even link these profiles to individuals in the real world. The company's motto has long been "Don't be evil", but it's difficult to ascertain what exactly the company considers to be within this limit and what is too much. Incidents of anti-Google dissent are growing more common, from strangers being able to follow you on Google Wave, to protests in the publishing industry against the mass digitization of books, to rumblings of antitrust cases because of the company's dominance in online advertising. Jeff Jarvis, blogger and author of the book "What would Google do?" sharply criticizes the company for a product called Sidewiki which collects user comments about websites and saves them on Google servers. The site operators themselves, and the furious Jeff Jarvis, have no control over it. Google copies entire libraries, and has detailed photographs of the entire planet, covering all countries and cities, many streets and houses, the oceans, the Moon and Mars. Google offers an operating system for mobile phones, and soon there will also be one for netbooks. Google says "It is our mission to organize the information of the world and to make it accessible and usable worldwide". The information of the world also includes health data. Google has for example invested in the start-up 23andMe, run by Sergey Brin's wife Anne Wojcicki, which offers genetic analysis for anyone. Will we one day be able to run a search to find out which illnesses we are predisposed to? One can also see it as part of a strategy to be omnipresent on the Web. In order to submit and read comments in Sidewiki, the Google toolbar must be installed. This piece of software doesn't have a very good reputation, and continuously provides Google with user information, linking information on sites you surf to Google services, such as addresses in Google Maps. On the sidelines of the 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair, Google announced its entry into the digital book business. Google soon intends to digitize every book in the world! Even the Chrome browser doesn't have a clean record when it comes to privacy—it identifies each user with a unique ID. As of version 4.1, the ID is purged when a user first downloads an update, but it should not be there at all. Brilliant ideas underlie most Google services. They are easy to use, technically solid, and best of all, they're nearly all free. Google does a lot of good as a company by investing in alternative energy production and giving employees an allowance if they buy a hybrid car. But Google is also greedy for data. It commands the largest Web index available, and has insight into every website, photo and video. "We are building a mirror world," said Marissa Mayer, head of Google Search, a few years ago at the Digital Life Design Conference in Munich. The company is setting up a digital copy of our world. It records down to the last detail, how we move in it. Google tracks 80 percent of all websites One can hardly elude Google today. It does not help if you stop using Google Search, YouTube, Picasa or even the services requiring registration like GMail, Docs and Calendar. With its astoundingly wide network, Google is present on 80 percent of all websites—for lay persons often invisibly. After its acquisition of advertising network DoubleClick, around half of all ad banners on the Web originate from Google servers. The more inconspicuous, but still more widely spread text ads come from Google AdWords as well. The Google Analytics service works completely secretly, allowing website operators to analyze the click-paths of their visitors. Whenever a surfer lands on a site that uses this service, Google sets a cookie with a unique ID and records his or her IP address. Thanks to its super dense network, Google can then see exactly who moves how on the Internet. Every click or search query generates a log entry with an IP address and unique cookie ID as well as a time stamp. The log file of YouTube until mid 2008 alone was over 12 Terabytes in size. For database security as well as privacy concerns, the different databases for each Google service are not necessarily tied to each other, but it is technically possible and Google certainly has to have the know-how. Even when there are no actual names, the records have enough parts to piece together a picture of the person who is sitting at a PC, where he lives, what interests he has, and how much money he spends. Google justifies its passion for collection by being able to improve its services with the data. Only in this way can it know how to show personalized relevant search results, or ads that users are more likely to click on. How much is too much? One can pick up interesting tidbits from the official company blogs, such as the fact that some employees are excited about the idea of building a 3D model of every building ever built on the planet. Google Building Maker already makes the required tools available. On an academic level, most of those working at high levels in the company are IT pros, mathematicians and statisticians—most of them toppers from prestigious universities. For them the masses of data collected are like toys with which they can run riot. They work on them as if possessed, to write algorithms which recognize patterns and structures in what seems like random chaos. There are no limits. Suggestions for projects which might seem outlandish are particularly welcome at Google. Lars Reppesgaard quotes a Google software engineer in his book The Google Empire: "One day, someone suggests some wild endeavor for which he needs a few thousand computers, and you say 'OK, you've got it'." Usually it takes new employees a couple of months to get so far, but the moment can come anytime. DEEP PACKET INSPECTION China uses it for Internet monitoring, the same way as Tunisia and Iran. Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) has become an explosive topic since it first started being used not only used for Internet security, but also for on-the-fly-manipulation of websites, be it to silence political dissidents or display personalized advertisements. Personal privacy becomes a concern when companies start matching individuals to the profiles they generate online. Serving advertisements by harnessing this knowledge is a questionable practice in terms of data protection regulation, and most countries' legal systems see this as a gray area. However, certain cases have come up in courts of law. The EU commission has initiated proceedings against Great Britain since it failed to prevent British Telecom from violating its user privacy guidelines. The fact that it managed to display advertisements through Phorm without users' consent implies that the UK's own laws do not have this kind of protection mechanism in place. Most countries' laws have only limited control over what people do with the data floating out there, since they can hardly keep pace with the development of new technology. However at least some countries, for example Germany, are becoming aware of the problem and have begun to enact laws precluding general-purpose monitoring of citizens through DPI. What it means for users Privacy sometimes takes a backseat when it could slow down innovative thinking. In the midst of protests about Google parsing its users' email to show related ads, founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin answered: "That is automated. No one watches, so we don't believe that personal privacy is affected" Data that doesn't include specific private information can still be enough to personally identify you. One does not need to read crude conspiracy theories to imagine how interesting such data could be for the world's governments, which are already overzealous about protecting their national security. Some agencies already monitor the eating preferences of airline passengers to filter cultural influences. What if new laws compel Amazon and Google to disclose their log files to prosecutors and intelligence agencies? Each innocent-looking mouse click would gain even greater importance; way beyond individual privacy concerns. Source: CHIP

Outlook Magazine has in its possession 800 More taped phone recordings of Corporate Lobbyist Niira Radia. Outlook Coverpage http://www.outlookindia.com/ They are uploading the recordings one by one as they transcribe it. Listen to the recordings here http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?268618 Terribly Depressing. Does anyone have a better word than Banana Republic!!

@Genius. See Post No 24. Kya Specs hai Yaar!! Sirf Rs 10,500

Bravo Jedi!! Thanks for the much needed relief

Electronics: 32" Full HD LCD Television. Source: Mumbai Mirror 12-12-2010 Advertiser: Vijay Sales. Multi Brand Electronics showroom having branches in Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad, Surat, Delhi. www.vijaysales.com Deal Applicability: For Today only i.e. 12-12-2010. (However they tend to sell it afterwards also at same price) Deal Product: AOC L32 DK99FU 32" Full HD LCD Television for Only Rs. 18,990/-* (New Launch) (*In Exchange for old 21" and above Color TV with remote in working condition) Lowest Price for a 32" Full HD LCD TV from branded manufacturer till Now. Product Specification Link http://www.aocdispla...ail.aspx?pid=30

You might have seen this thread and assuming EVDO in MTS on imported handsets. http://www.rimweb.in...aharashtra-goa/ Yes Sadikkbhai is saying there that EVDO on MTS is available through him. See 3 conditions he has mentioned. If you are fulfilling any, Contact Him.

@Honest. Now this will be a very long post but worth reading if you are serious about your health and intend to do a long term management. There is no permanent cure for spondylitis in Western Medicine OR for that matter in any streams like Ayurveda, Homeopathy etc. The keyword is effective management. Let's see approach of Allopathy and Ayureda, Allopathy: 1. As an immediate remedy medicines like Pain Killers, Muscle Relaxants, Nerve inflammation Relaxants for few days. Basically treating the OUTCOME of illness NOT the cause of it. Alongwith medicines Antacids are almost given as most of this medicine have a side effect on your digestive system resulting in Acidity. 2. Once the pain is manageable and reduced, changes in Postures, Exercises, Some Physiotherapy sessions. 3. If the pain starts again repeat 1& 2. 4. What causes spondylitis according to Allopathy? -Genetic Factors. -Natural ageing process in many with no clear answers. -Wrong sitting, sliping Postures and unhealthy computer usage. -Heavy expercises or engagement in particular professions like Atheletes, Weight Lifters, Driving continuously. 5. Does Allopathy believe in suggesting something more than the medicines, exercises, posture management etc. -Generally NO. But if your Allopath Doctor has a holistic approach and understands other streams, he may suggest something more from the Ayurveda approach alongwith allopathy. 6. Costs. Taking example of metro cities, initial treatment for spondylitis can set you back by, -First Your Family Doctor. Consulting and 4-5 day medicine. Approx. Rs 500 -X Rays etc. Rs 300 -Then next round will be a sure suggestion to consult a specialist. Initial Consulting Rs 500 to Rs 1,000 -10 Day medicine course by the Specialist. Approx Rs 1,000 -Specialist will more often than not will suggest for physiotherapy sessions generally 15. Cost of Each Approx Rs 200 to 300. Total Approx Rs 3,000 to Rs 4,500. -Most of the exercises suggested has their roots in ancient science of Yoga. -So total cost for one round of management Rs 5,300 to Rs 7,300 And such rounds may continue in future because there is no permanent cure and OUTCOME of illness is treated NOT the root cause. Ayurveda: 1. As an immediate remedy herbal medicines (Source for all medicines is natural plants. Created by the Divine Force.) 2. After the pain is manageable, Yoga Excercises, changes in lifestyle, posture management, changes in food habits. 3. Stress management. It is considered as one of the prime reasons for gastric troubles and generation of "Aama". 3. If the above is strictly followed, chances and no. of times of recurrance are far less as compared to Allopathy. 4. What causes any health problem and spondylitis according to Ayurveda? Any Health Problem: -According to ayurveda, the five fundamental elements that make up the universe--space (akasha), air (vayu), fire (agni), water (apu) and earth (prithvi)--also make up the human physiology. How do these elements work within us? Looking at the elements from the point of view of what they do in the physiology, rather than what they are, ayurveda describes three biological humors or psychophysiological energies called doshas. There are three doshas, called Vata, Pitta and Kapha, and each is mainly a combination of two elements. Vata dosha is made up of space and air. Pitta dosha is a combination of fire and water. Kapha dosha is made up of water and earth. Each of these doshas is further divided into five sub-doshas. Together, the doshas orchestrate all the activities that occur within us. The combination of the three doshas that you inherit at conception is called your prakriti or original constitution in ayurveda. While it is not unheard of for people to have nearly equal proportions of the three doshas or just one very predominant dosha as their prakriti, most people have two doshas that are more or less equally dominant, with the remaining one less dominant. For good health and well-being to be maintained, the three doshas within you need to be in balance. That does not mean they need to be equal, unless you were born with equal doshas; it means that you need to maintain your original doshic make-up or prakriti through life as much as possible to maintain good health. Unfortunately, factors such as the dietary choices you make, the lifestyle you lead, the climate where you live, levels of environmental pollution, the work you do, the nature of your relationships with people and even just the passage of time can cause one of more of the doshas in your prakriti to increase or decrease from its original level in your constitution, creating vikriti or imbalance. If this imbalance is not corrected, you eventually lose your good health. That's why restoring balance is the central theme of the ayurvedic approach to health. spondylitis: -Most of the reasons given in Allopathy apply. -With growing age, the discs of your spine become drier and less elastic. -This pains are due to formation of toxins within the intestines. These toxins are known as "Aama" in Ayurveda. -When too much "Aama" accumulates within the body, it aggrevates "Vata" and causes its imbalance. -"Aama" circulates around the body untill it settles in weak spots more often in the joint areas. -"Vata" is made up of two elements space and air. Vata Dosha governs all movements in your physical body from a fleeting thought in your mind to flowing of blood through your arteries and veins. Further there are 5 Subdoshas of "Vata". Prana Vata- Functions in the head-neck-chest region.Thinking and creativity, learning new information and inhalation. Udana Vata- Functions in throat and chest region. Singing, sneezing and exhalation. Vyana Vata- From heart to all over the body through circulatory system. Beating of heart, sweating and sense of touch. Samana Vata- Stomach area. Controls flow of food through the digestive track. Apana Vata- Colon and Pelvic area. Controls menstruation and elimination of waste. 5. Costs: -First Visit Consulting Fee to a Good, Genuine Ayurveda Practioner Approx Rs 100 to Rs 300 -X Rays Rs. 300 -15 day medicine cost Approx. Rs 500 -Cost of exercises etc. Free if self implemented. Approx Rs 1,000 to Consult a Yogasana Practioner. -Cost of Pranayam. Free. Only self will needed. -Total Cost for one round of management Rs 900 to Rs 2,100 I do not mean to lessen the importance of Allopathy by the above analysis. It has its place. If you get a heart attack suddenly, there is no first line of defence in Ayurveda. Allopathy will save you. But for 99% of health problems Ayurveda is superior, cost effective, holistic compared to Allopathy. And i am saying all of the above based on personal experience. Have a deep exposure to Ayurveda and experienced its strengths. Not suggesting any ayurvedic medicines as it is best for the Practioner to decide after analysing your "Prakriti".

Sorry to disappoint you but EVDO is not possible in your case.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A benchtop version of the world's smallest battery — its anode a single nanowire one seven-thousandth the thickness of a human hair — has been created by a team led by Sandia National Laboratories researcher Jianyu Huang. To better study the anode's characteristics, the tiny rechargeable, lithium-based battery was formed inside a transmission electron microscope (TEM) at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT), a Department of Energy research facility jointly operated by Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories. Says Huang of the work, reported in the Dec. 10 issue of the journal Science, "This experiment enables us to study the charging and discharging of a battery in real time and at atomic scale resolution, thus enlarging our understanding of the fundamental mechanisms by which batteries work." Because nanowire-based materials in lithium ion batteries offer the potential for significant improvements in power and energy density over bulk electrodes, more stringent investigations of their operating properties should improve new generations of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, laptops and cell phones. "What motivated our work," says Huang, "is that lithium ion batteries [LIB] have very important applications, but the low energy and power densities of current LIBs cannot meet the demand. To improve performance, we wanted to understand LIBs from the bottom up, and we thought in-situ TEM could bring new insights to the problem." Battery research groups do use nanomaterials as anodes, but in bulk rather than individually — a process, Huang says, that resembles "looking at a forest and trying to understand the behavior of an individual tree." The tiny battery created by Huang and co-workers consists of a single tin oxide nanowire anode 100 nanometers in diameter and 10 micrometers long, a bulk lithium cobalt oxide cathode three millimeters long, and an ionic liquid electrolyte. The device offers the ability to directly observe change in atomic structure during charging and discharging of the individual "trees." An unexpected find of the researchers was that the tin oxide nanowire rod nearly doubles in length during charging — far more than its diameter increases — a fact that could help avoid short circuits that may shorten battery life. "Manufacturers should take account of this elongation in their battery design," Huang said. (The common belief of workers in the field has been that batteries swell across their diameter, not longitudinally.) Huang's group found this flaw by following the progression of the lithium ions as they travel along the nanowire and create what researchers christened the "Medusa front" — an area where high density of mobile dislocations cause the nanowire to bend and wiggle as the front progresses. The web of dislocations is caused by lithium penetration of the crystalline lattice. "These observations prove that nanowires can sustain large stress (>10 GPa) induced by lithiation without breaking, indicating that nanowires are very good candidates for battery electrodes," said Huang. "Our observations — which initially surprised us — tell battery researchers how these dislocations are generated, how they evolve during charging, and offer guidance in how to mitigate them," Huang said. "This is the closest view to what's happening during charging of a battery that researcher have achieved so far." Lithiation-induced volume expansion, plasticity and pulverization of electrode materials are the major mechanical defects that plague the performance and lifetime of high-capacity anodes in lithium-ion batteries, Huang said. "So our observations of structural kinetics and amorphization [the change from normal crystalline structure] have important implications for high-energy battery design and in mitigating battery failure." The electronic noise level generated from the researchers' measurement system was too high to read electrical currents, but Sandia co-author John Sullivan estimated a current level of a picoampere flowing in the nanowire during charging and discharging. The nanowire was charged to a potential of about 3.5 volts, Huang said. A picoampere is a millionth of a microampere. A microampere is a millionth of an ampere. The reason that atomic-scale examination of the charging and discharging process of a single nanowire had not been possible was because the high vacuum in a TEM made it difficult to use a liquid electrolyte. Part of the Huang group's achievement was to demonstrate that a low-vapor-pressure ionic liquid — essentially, molten salt —could function in the vacuum environment. Although the work was carried out using tin oxide (SnO2) nanowires, the experiments can be extended to other materials systems, either for cathode or anode studies, Huang said. "The methodology that we developed should stimulate extensive real-time studies of the microscopic processes in batteries and lead to a more complete understanding of the mechanisms governing battery performance and reliability," he said. "Our experiments also lay a foundation for in-situ studies of electrochemical reactions, and will have broad impact in energy storage, corrosion, electrodeposition and general chemical synthesis research field." Other researchers contributing to this work include Xiao Hua Liu, Nicholas Hudak, Arunkumar Subramanian and Hong You Fan, all of Sandia; Li Zhong, Scott Mao and Li Qiang Zhang of the University of Pittsburgh; Chong Min Wang and Wu Xu of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; and Liang Qi, Akihiro Kushima and Ju Li of the University of Pennsylvania. Funding came from Sandia's Laboratory Directed Research and Development Office and the Department of Energy's Office of Science through the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies and the Energy Frontier Research Centers program.

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Asked the same question sometime back but Dhirajbhai's view was that BSNL CDMA coverage is not good (Specifically in Meerut). But still BSNL CDMA is present in so many towns across india and EVDO too. Some Gurus can shed light whether imported handsets can theoretically be made to on work BSNL or Not. There may be a large market out there. (Heard that BSNL Unlimited EVDO data is Rs 750 per month) Hiteshbhai foofly is talking about moving to BSNL CDMA not GSM.