Airtel
Bharathi Airtel:
One of Asia’s leading integrated telecom services providers with more than 110 million subscribers as of 2009. It is is now the world's third-largest, single-country mobile operator and sixth-largest integrated telecom operator.
Globally, Bharti Airtel is the 3rd largest in-country mobile operator by subscriber base.
Bharathi Airtel also provides services like:
- Mobile Services - GSM Technology:
- Broadband & Telephone Services (Fixed line)
- Internet Connectivity(DSL)
- Long Distance Services and Enterprise Services
Globally, Bharti Airtel is the 3rd largest in-country mobile operator by subscriber base, behind China Mobile and China Unicom. In India, the company has a 24.6% share of the wireless services market.
With Airtel giving one of the best services in the Mobile Networks industry in India, it is the top Network provider in India which has been giving the best network services in India.
Aircel
Aircel:
The Aircel group is a joint venture between Maxis Communications Berhad of Malaysia and Sindya Securities & Investments Private Limited, whose current shareholders are the Reddy family of Apollo Hospitals Group of India, with Maxis Communications holding a majority stake of 74%.
Aircel commenced operations in 1999 and became the leading mobile operator in Tamil Nadu within 18 months. In December 2003, it launched commercially in Chennai and quickly established itself as a market leader – a position it has held since.
Aircel began its outward expansion in 2005. The company gained a foothold in 18 circles including Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Assam, North East, Orissa, Bihar, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Kolkata, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Delhi, UP(West), UP(East), Maharashtra & Goa and Mumbai.
With over 25 million happy customers in the country, Aircel is a full-fledged national operator.
Aircel has gained momentum in the Mobile Internet field by introducing Unlimited Browsing offers, which has forced other Network providers to decrease the Browsing rates to be in competition.
Indian Telecom Providers
Indian Telecom Industry is the fastest growing in the World with a massive increase in population and the ever decreasing call rates from the network providers is what helped Indian Telecom Industry to get to the No. 2 position.
There are estimated to be 500 million mobile phones in India by the end of 2010, so this shows that there is going to be a drastic increase in new users,, so this has waged a war in the Mobile indusrty. With the likes of Docomo shocking the industry with 1Ps/sec all the network providers have had to decrease the call rates to be in the competition.
With Aircel and Uninor coming into the Indian market have further added to the woes of the already present Providers by introducing lesser call rates then the existing ones. So now the call rates have come down to 0.5 Ps/sec for local calls and 50 Ps/min for STD.
This is getting better and better for the common public as now everyone can afford having a mobile phone due to these less call rates.
Here is the list of the Mobile Network providers in India:
- Aircel
- Bharathi Airtel
- BPL
- BSNL
- Hexacom India
- Idea Cellular
- MTNL
- Reliance
- Spice
- Tata Cellular
- Virgin Mobile
- Uninor
Apple iPad Specifications and Price
Apple and Steve Jobs have released the much awaited Apple Tablet which is named Apple "iPad" there were a lot of speculations and gusses about the design of the device. But eventually it was out on 27th Jan 2010.
Steve Jobs unveiled it by his own hands.
The Apple iPad has the following Specifications:
Dimensions:
- Height – 9.56 inches (242.8 mm)
- Width – 7.47 inches (189.7 mm)
- Depth – 0.5 inch (13.4 mm)
- Weight – 1.5 pounds (.68 kg) Wi-Fi model, 1.6 pounds (.73 kg) Wi-Fi + 3G mode
- Screen: 9.7-inch LCD screen
- Resolution: 1024×768 pixels
Battery Backup:
- 10 hrs on full usage
- 1 month on standby
Location services:
- Wi-Fi
- Digital compass
- Assisted GPS (Wi-Fi + 3G model)
- Cellular (Wi-Fi + 3G model)
Hardware:
- Chip - 1 GHz Apple A4 chip. They went in-house instead of going to Intel.
- Memory - Three models with 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB solid state hard drives.
Features:
Videos: The large, high-resolution screen makes iPad perfect for watching any kind of video: from HD movies and TV shows to podcasts and music video.
Images: Th Albums can be seen as a stack and one tap opens up the stack to show all the pictures.
iPod App: With the iPod app, all your music is literally at your fingertips. Browse by album, song, artist, or genre with a simple flick. To play a song, just tap it. iPad even displays album art at full size. Listen to your music with the powerful built-in speaker or with wired or Bluetooth wireless headphones.
iTunes: A tap of the iTunes store icon lets you browse and buy music, TV shows, and podcasts — or buy and rent movies — wirelessly, right from your iPad
App store: iPad runs almost 140,000 apps from the App Store. where you ca find Gaming apps also.
iBooks: It is a new native application for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad that allows you to browse, download and read e-books given presently by Penguin, Simon and Schuster, HarperCollins, Macmillian and Hachette and also McGraw-Hill.
Maps: See maps on the go with the help of the 3G version, where we can get the GPS facility whereas in the basic Wifi enabled piece we cannot enjoy the GPS facility.
Notes: Te massive screen makes it easy to jot down notes even in a class. Its the same as seen in the iPhone and the iTouch
Spotlight Search: helps you search each and everything present on the iPad in just one go.
Pricing:
$499: 16 GB, Wi-Fi only
$599: 32 GB, Wi-Fi only
$629: 16 GB, Wi-Fi and 3G
$699: 64 GB, Wi-Fi only
$729: 32 GB, Wi-Fi and 3G
$829: 64 GB, Wi-Fi and 3G
iPad is iFail
The much anticipated iPad was supposed to be the biggest release by Apple in the beginning of 2010, Everyone was stuck to the computers on 27 and it was finally "Released" from the hands of Steve himself.
There was a lot of Expectations form the device, but it let us down very badly. Lets see where the iPad went horribly wrong.
No Multi Tasking:
This device which is supposed to be a gadget built to fill in the gap between a smart phone and a Mac, does not support multi tasking, then how in the world can they say that it is something near to a laptop. Even a basic Smart phone supports Multi tasking. This is the major let down by apple they just copied the Features of the iPhone and elongated it into the iPad.
The least apple could have done is including Multi tasking into the iPad, to make it something worth giving a try.
The Design:
What can be told about the design, it is just a copy of Apple iPhone minus the curves. The Design is just taken from the iPhone and put into the iPad it is just an Elongated thinner version of the iPhone.
Apple could have done much better than just making it a taller brother of the iPhone, with the same central key and the Sleep buton on the top.
Does not Support Flash:
This is another disappointing feature, the iPad does not support Flash and this is the same taken from the iPhone, insted of correcting and including Flash Apple has just made it more worse by not including Flash atleast for the iPad.
This means that we cannot have Flash based games and the Flash based websites cannot be viewed to their full capacity.
No USB Slot:
There are no USB slots included in the iPad, which also adds to the misery of using this Tablet, we cannot transfer stuff from other computers easy and fast. The only thing which we can do is use this tablet as a Netbook and god knows why Steve made the statement that this is a device which will fill in the gap between Smartphone and Laptops, and it is just another Net book like the many other devices we can find out there.
No Camera:
There is neither a camera, the feature available in the iPhone is also absent in this.
The Same Apps as iPhone:
The iPad supports the same Apps as that of the iPhone, without any Flash even the Apps which support Flash cannot be used in this. The App developers are left helpless due to this and we have to suffer with the same 3rd party apps available in the App store.
No Full GPS:
The Wi-Fi-only versions flat out have no GPS support whatsoever. The basic versions have to compensate of GPS. The 3G versions have Assisted GPS, which makes use of the cellular connection to help pinpoint your location.
No SD Slot:
The absense of an SD slot makes the iPad memory very costly, with 15$ for 250 MB we have to shell out a lot of money to get to the higher end version of the iPad.
The Pricing is based on the memory:
For a Tablet i think this is just a lame thing to do, by placing the pricing based on the memory and that too by giving 250 MB for 15$ is such a shame.
Overall looking at the Device we can say that, iPad is not living up to its expectations. There were way too high expectations on the device and it has got nothing near it.
"We can say that iPad is just and Elongated iTouch"
Find / Track your lost phone in India
Find your lost smartphone anywhere in India without lodging a complaint in the Police or going around your network for help.
Steps to be followed to track yopur lost phone:
When you buy a new phone the first and foremost thing you have to do is to note down its imei number. If you dont know how to get your imei number you can check here
So when you loose your phone, take your imei number and then mail it to this i.d
The email should include the following:
Your name:
Address:
Phone model:
Make:
Last used No.:
E-mail for communication:
Missed date:
IMEI No.:
Wish you all good luck with your lost mobile phones, hope this helped you, if yes please leave a comment.
I am sorry to inform you that the invaluable service provided by the Chennai police has been suspended for some unknown reasons, so this service may be helpful or not. So you can try your luck and see.
How to get imei number
Imei number is the most important number to get your lost phone back.
IMEI number-The International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI)
The chennai police has implemented a easy method to trace your lost mobile phones with the help of just your imei number and that too just by sitting at home. You can see the method click here
This number can be used to recover Stolen Mobiles by tracing the mobile via a complex system of GPRS and internet.
How to get the imei number:
There are 2 ways to find your imei number:
1)
Take your phone and then all you have to do is
Dial: *#06#
And then you will get a 15 Digit number which is your imei number.
2) The second method is to check behind your phone under the battery, where you can see a 15 digit number which is your imei number.
Samsung BADA OS
Samsung is now entering into the OS market after grasping quite a good share of the Mobile market. Recently Samsung has introduces its own OS which is said to be based on Linux and is made available in UK so that developers can make Applications on the new platform.
Samsung has named it "BADA OS" which means Ocean in Korean language.
And it is out for the developers to bring out some good internet apps out for the OS so that it can compete with the big guns in the segment like Apple OS and Android OS by google.
Samsung has to come up with an App store also following Apple and Nokia. Samsung which is the largest mobile phone company in numbers, surely has some big ideas to take over the market completely.
Most of Samsung's smartphones use Windows Mobile and the handset maker also launched one of the first Android-based phones.
Purpose of Samsung Bada OS in its own words:
More and more people want the rich and connected application-experiences that are currently only available for smartphone consumers. Samsung has developed bada to make these exclusive smartphone experiences available to everyone.
Microsoft Office 2010 – Whats in Store
Ideas are Everything
"Microsoft Office 2010 gives you powerful new tools to express your ideas, solve problems, and connect with people." Microsoft.com
The all new Microsoft 2010 which is waiting to be explored in its Beta version on Microsoft's official site.
The Microsoft company claims that Office 2010 will have the following benefits:
- Express your ideas more visually
- Accomplish more when working together
- Enjoy the familiar Office experience from more locations and more devices
- Create powerful data insights and visuals
- Deliver compelling presentations
- Manage large volumes of e-mail with ease
- Store and track all your ideas and notes in one place
- Get your message out instantly
- Get things done faster and easier
- Access work across devices and platforms
I cant see any new benefits in this list, all this can be achieved in the last Office as well, many of these depend on the persons ability to use the Office and upto its potential.
When the full version is released we have to see wether we have any major changes, which will be much welcome.
The Office has been a boon for everyone right from a student to a high end professional to give presentations. I must say we should thank everyone involved in bringing it to us.
Palm Pre Web OS 1.3.5 releasing today
The Palm is going to release its updated WebOS 1.3.5 today i.e on 28th Dec 2009. This is some good news for the Palm pre owners who can get their Palm Pre's updated and wnjoy the following features:
- Improvement in battery life optimization when in marginal coverage areas.
- QCELP capability fix to allow play and audio of video sent via MMS.
- Launch Google Maps or Sprint Nav when tapping an address from contacts.
- Customers can nowdownload over 2G connections if necessary.
Updating your Phone is always necessary to maintain it and keep it going, so Pre owners just go for the Update when it is released any time today.
There is no official announcement on the Palm support site, but it is given in the Sprint site.