Ice On R-world With Owner's Vital Information !

[Arun 795]

RIM to provide owner's vital information, puts ICE on R World

Mumbai, August 05, 2005

DAKC

Reliance Infocomm has launched a unique initiative that will host its mobile users' personal information and "health card" on R World - its portfolio of mobile data and multimedia services. This is a pioneering effort by an Indian telecom company. The information can be critical and can save the users' life in the case of an accident or some other emergency.

With this service titled Emergency under HotNnew menu of R World, a Reliance IndiaMobile (RIM) user can store his/her personal details such name, emergency contact phones and vital medical information such as blood group, diabetes details, blood pressure, allergies, and history using R World. Anybody can access the owner's personal information by sending the keyword "ICE" (which stands for in Case of Emergency) as SMS message to 1234 from that phone.

The service is being offered free.

The data of customers-- thousands of them--is stored in a secure server at Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City. In just over two days nearly 6,000 RIM users have already updated their ICE information using this service.

"Technology plays a major role in helping store and access a seemingly simple yet vital information about the phone owner's in case of an emergency. All one has to do to get this is send "ICE" on Reliance Mobile or click R World, " says Mahesh Prasad, President - Applications and Solutions Group, Reliance Infocomm.

"One should at least save the word " I C E " in one's mobile phone address book, and enter the phone numbers of the next of kin one would want to be contacted in case of an emergency," adds Prasad.

[Arun 795]

Reliance offers virtual Rakhi feel!

Thursday, 18 August , 2005, 16:17

Lucknow: Move over postal Rakhis. This Raksha Bandhan telecom and web solutions provider Reliance Infocomm plans to bring brothers and sisters living thousands of miles apart face-to-face, albeit through video conferencing.

Siblings could avail of this service 'ab raksha, no bandhan of distance' by signing up with 240 Reliance web world centres across the country and with its partner facilities in 40 countries for a fee ranging from Rs 250 to Rs 3,000.

"The charges for ten minutes facility within the country would be Rs 250 and Rs 1,200 to Rs 3,000 abroad depending upon the countries they reside in," a company statement quoting Sundeep Saksena, head Reliance Web World (UP circle) said today.

The scheme would remain open on the occassion of Raksha Bandhan on August 19 and also on August 20 and 21.

[ashoksoft 83]

wow! so where does that small thread (the rakhi) appear ? from the screen ...well anyways a nice move, at least those Distances can be cut away!

Enjoy Rakhi guys...

Cheers

Ashok

[kams19 0]

ICE Not Available on Nokia 6255

[Utsav 0]

Check R-World>Hot&New>Emergency

There is no menu called ICE!

[Arun 795]

Menu is not called/titled ICE, but 'Emergency' itself !

[Utsav 0]

ICE should be used from the handset of victim, right?

[anujit 0]

Yes when RIM screws you with a 20,000k bill thats where you call!

[ashoksoft 83]

Rather SMS! read the post sweety .. anujit bhai (kee holo?)

Ashok