India Calling Cards

So last March the entire continent of South America almost imploded in nuclear war because Columbia stole a laptop from Ecuador and then Bogota said that the laptop said that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave $300 million to terrorist organization Sierra Club FARC , and it’s all so fake that it’s true. Then it got even faker-truer because Interpol got Bogota’s back , and with a winner of a one-liner Chavez fired back calling Interpol’s secretary general Ronald Noble – are you ready? – “Mr

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Hugo Chavez (Re) Ig-nites Furor in Chile

After the New York Times took a juicy Chilean FrankenSalmon by the tail and slapped it against the industry leaders , gringo supermarket chain Safeway stopped stocking the Chilean freakfish (reason given: it’s not the Times article, just that your salmon sucks), and Chilean Minister of Economy Hugo Lavados is trying to downplay the economic and image problems brought on by the racist, lying Times. But the article’s impact is real, and FrankenSalmon PR didn’t miss a beat: MIAMI, March 31 /PRNewswire/ — The Chilean Salmon Industry Association deeply regrets the numerous errors of the article, offering a biased view of our industry and product, which is consumed daily by over 6 million consumers worldwide.

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Chilean FrankenSalmon’s Friends and Foes

The world has witnessed yet another avant garde accomplishment by the telecom giant Bharti Airtel with the launch of ‘ airtellive.com ’, the only telecom service provider to enter into the domain of web application services. There are reasons why Airtel caters to over 61.91 million satisfied customers not only in India but also in the USA. The telecom baron’s US customers are those who are using Airltel Call Home, USA to India calling cards , to stay connected with their home country.

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Airtel to launch airtellive.com – All in One Web Portal

IANS March 12, 2008 Bharti Airtel, India’s leading mobile service provider, Tuesday said it would launch calling cards for non-resident Indians (NRIs) in Singapore and Canada by April-June of this year. The company also launched an enhanced version of the CallHome Service, its calling card for NRIs in the US. The upgraded version enables a caller in the US to make payments through Indian credit cards for purchasing talk time for calling to India.

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AUGUSTA (AP) — Some consumers who use prepaid calling cards are finding out that they’re not getting all of the minutes they thought they paid for. But a bill that’s won the solid support of a legislative committee ensures that customers get all of the minutes they signed up for when they bought their cards. The issue came up last year, when the Maine Public Utilities Commission got complaints from a number of card holders who thought they had 1,000 minutes but were surprised to learn they only had 300 left

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Bill Would Ensure Customers Get Phone Minutes

Three local telecom companies have won international call service licences breaking the decades-old monopoly by the state-run BTTB, officials said. Novotel Ltd, Bangla Trac Communications Ltd and Mir Telecom won the licences offering 51.75 per cent of their call tariffs to the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) after a 26-hour long auction at Radisson Water Garden Hotel Dhaka on Tuesday, BTRC spokesman Abbas Faruq said.

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Bangladesh – International phone calls: Novotel, Bangla Trac, Mir Telecom receive licences

LONDON – March 4, 2008 – The days of making expensive international mobile phones calls are over thanks to Truphone, an innovative UK mobile company. Truphone, the “mobile operator for the Internet age,” has revealed a revolutionary new pricing structure that makes international calling more affordable than ever by eliminating international roaming charges.  The company’s service routes all mobile and landline calls using Wi-Fi and the Internet.  Truphone customers will be able to call countries in its “Tru Zone” at the fabulously low rates of just USD0.06 per minute to landlines and USD0.30 per minute to mobiles from almost anywhere on the planet.  More importantly, a Truphone-to-Truphone mobile call is always free, no matter where in the world the two parties may be traveling

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Truphone Makes International Calling Affordable For Everyone

Your old cell phone buys phone time for troops! If you donate your used or discarded cell phones, the “Help them Call Home” organization can earn calling card minutes for American Troops. So many Americans express the desire to reach out and support our troops serving in Iraq, but many just do not know what to do. Jodie Butler has found a way to turn his family’s tragic loss into a wonderful nationwide effort to make a difference in the lives of the men and women serving our country

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Help troops stay in touch with their families: Your old cell phones can ‘Help them Call Home’

3D Stacks created in Illustrator… Aside being the resident Flash & Map guy at STC , one of my main task was business illustrations… Cleaning up Powerpoint Illustrations to make them shiny and pretty. I actually started doing all the re-makes in Illustrator and gradually extracted icons and elements to use directly in Powerpoint.

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I (heart) Powerpoint

Tata Communications is planning to invest $2 billion (Rs 8,000 crore) in the next three years for expansion of its infrastructure and services . Speaking at a press conference in Kolkata, Srinivasa Addepalli, senior vice-president, corporate strategy, Tata Communications, said, “ Half of the investment will go into submarine cables and network enhancement and the rest 50 percent will be invested to roll out WiMax to cover 15 cities by 2009. Currently, WiMax services are available only in Bangalore .” The company is also expanding its global virtual private network (VPN) to China through a network-to-network interface (NNI) agreement with China Enterprise Netcom Corporation (China Entercom or CEC), a value-added telecommunication services and integrated IT solutions provider and subsidiary of China International Trust and Investment Corporation

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Tata Comm Plans $2 Bn Expansion

ARYAN invasion theory, proven false — INDIA (part 1 of 3) The video shows how the Britishers filled in an inferiority complex into the already sad post Moghul invaded India through their Aryan Invasion theory to convert all Indians into their culture and religion (Christianity). A vast number of statements and materials presented in the ancient Vedic literatures can be shown to agree with modern scientific findings and they also reveal a highly developed scientific content in these literatures

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ARYAN invasion theory, proven false — INDIA (part 1 of 3)

You might not get exactly what you’re paying for when it comes to using prepaid calling cards to reach out to family and friends, according to a new study by the Washington-based Hispanic Institute. It tested 45 international prepaid calling cards for efficacy and value, and found that the average card delivered only 60 percent of the minutes promised. A third of the 45 cards delivered the full call-time promised; seven, or 15.6 percent, didn’t work at all; and eight had call completion rates of 50 percent or less

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Some prepaid calling cards are no bargains

Bharti Airtel has also launched it’s International Calling Service, www.airtelcallhome.com  to call India from US in the competitive calling card market last year. Bharti Airtel India’s largest integrated and the first private telecom services offers GSM mobile services with a footprint in all the 23-telecom circles of India is the largest mobile service provider in the country, based on the number of customers, with more than 50 million customers.

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Call India from US by Airtel Calling Cards

Close up of the navigation bar As requests for flash based presentation grew at STC, I developed a simple platform to quickly create and manage them. Each presentation uses a simple XML data structure to update the presentation’s config, sections and slides. The slides could be of 3 types: static, animated or stepped

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Flash Presentation Platform

EAST of England businesses have joined national retailers in calling on banks to reduce their “prohibitive” plastic card charges as a survey revealed more than half of transactions are still in cash. The British Retail Consortium (BRC), which carried out a “cost of collection” survey, has claimed there is a drive by plastic card issuers to kill off cash, and condemned it as a “self-serving attempt to rake in millions more in charges”. The BRC said customers did not realise the “huge” sums retailers were charged for processing card payments.

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Retailers call for cut in card charges

The PIN less dialing characteristic of Reliance India Call is the feature in which entering of the PIN can be skipped when placing calls on a certain number of registered lines. The system possessed by Reliance India recognize up to six different phone lines as belonging to its customer’s account, to be more specific 6 numbers for Pay After Use service and 4 numbers for Prepaid service. Inorder to make use of the PIN less dialing feature of Reliance India Call it is important to activate the caller ID number on the phone line that you register.

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Dial PIN Less with the long distance calling service of Reliance India Call

Good news for the Canadians, there is a chance for “a couple” to win tickets to the Harbhajan Maan concert which is on 6th Oct 2007 in Toronto, all you need to do is just recharge or register with $25 or more before 2nd Oct’07 23:59 hrs IST and call up Reliance India Call ’s voice portal, dial 01234 and enter the “ Chak de Phatte ” contest. Then on voice prompt mention your unique serial number which you got while recharging or registering and answer a few simple questions.

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Reliance India Call’s “Chak de Phatte” contest for the people in Canada

You can listen to ball by ball commentary and can also get latest score updates for the ICC Twenty 20 World Cup through Reliance India Call ’s voice portal dial 01234, not only that you can even get 20 mins of talktime for free if reliance India call’s voice portal dial 01234 is accessed for 20 mins or more between 15 Sept ’07 00:00hrs IST to 24th September 2007, 23:59hrs IST. Now anyone can call India for as low as 7.4 cents*/minute through the “ call and save ” offer provided by Reliance India Call till September 25, 2007. One need to dial reliance India call’s “call & save number” i.e

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Reliance India Call: Call and Save

Reliance India Call services will be active within an hour of signup. To make a call with a registered phone number, you just need to dial Reliance India Call’s toll-free access number and after that enter the number that you would like to reach. If the local exchange carrier does not provide Reliance India Call with the Caller Line Identification you may be asked to enter your 11-digit registered phone number and 4-digit PIN even if you are calling from a registered phone number

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Placing a Call with Reliance India Call

Reliance India Call is an international long distance calling service to India and over 200 countries across the globe from the entire mainland USA, Hawaii and Alaska. The service of Reliance India Call can be accessed from any phone by dialing the toll-free number as specified in the applicable service guide. Reliance India Call ensures superior quality calls with their state-of-the-art-network which starts from their hubs in New York and Los Angeles all the way to Reliance Wireline & wireless user in India.

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Freedom to talk for free with Reliance India Call in this festive season

Iron Maiden – Flight of Icarus I've uploaded one of my favourite songs called Flight of Icarus from Piece of Mind album (1983). Enjoy! As the sun breaks, above the ground, An old man stands on the hill, As the ground warms, to the first rays of light A birdsong shatters the still. His eyes are ablaze, See the madman in his gaze.

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Iron Maiden – Flight of Icarus

Closup of the 3D render… It was nice to walk into the Singapore office of then VSNL International and seeing the wallpaper I had designed on everyone’s desktop… I actually don’t like to have a background (other then a solid grey or black on my desktop(s)) but clients love them. They help remind people who they work for and/or that they are on the wrong floor or wrong office.

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Staring at the Wallpaper…

Firstly, there are strict guidelines to picking wild mushrooms in France, and these must be followed: French Regulations state (Article 547 Code Civil) that mushrooms belong to the owner of the land where they grow. Each commune has the right to decide whether mushroom picking is allowed, and on what days, can say what quantities can be picked, can charge a fee or can totally forbid mushroom picking in the surrounding forests

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Mushrooms in France

Businesslights.com stocks Sylvania and Eye Lighting mogul base HPS lamps, which meet Federal EPA TCLP guidelines to qualify as non-hazardous waste, and are available in 50, 70, 100, 150, 200, 250, 400, and 1000 wattages. These high output HPS lamps feature significantly reduced Mercury content and there disposal results in a cleaner environment compared to standard HPS light bulbs. Eye Lightings 1000 watt HPS lamp features a ceramic base that prevents arcing and a nickel plated base that will not seize in the light fixtures.

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Metal halide Light Bulbs & Light Fixtures

Some Useful Information on French Customs Shaking hands upon greeting and parting is customary in France, (a light grip and a single quick shake) and man to woman, woman to woman, and woman to man by lightly kissing on the cheeks, it can be once on the left and once on the right, this can vary upon the region of France, (like Mayenne) it is repeated so “four times” – (left to right, right to left and repeat). It is customary to say ‘Bonjour’ or ‘Bonsoir’ when entering a shop and ‘Au Revoir’ when leaving. Use the same greeting for neighbours adding Madame, Monsieur or Mademoiselle and their surname, only family and very close friends are greeted by the first name

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French Customs

Whilst on the sit on mower this morning, dealing with the long grass in the orchard and having just completed once again one of Tuesday Lobsang Rampas books “I Believe”, (and I shall cover this topic another time as I could ramble forever about this physic and author) I remembered all the controversy years ago surrounding this gentleman, and my mind wandered onto the subject of life in general. With the UK news recently highlighting the fact that they have now discovered a “fat” gene, it took me back many many years ago when I remember there was a huge outcry from experts who identified plastics that were used to contain food and drink products, having toxicological effects on the human body. Scientists concluded that eating and drinking from bottles made of plastic would over a period of time affect the genetic make up of the human body and both physical and mental aspects of sexuality would be affected, together with increase in cancer, and Alzheimer disease to name but a few

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Digressing to Life in General

Have been using Windows Mobile 6 on my device(s) HTC Hermes (8525) and HTC Wizard (8125);thanks to http://xda-developers.com for their support. Windows Mobile 6 on Hermes is not a finished product but Wizard rocks with WM6 installed on it! Installing WM6 on Hermes is a piece of cake whereas Wizard needs a guide to be followed -Strictly I tried Xplore 1.1 version of WM6. In the video you can see Vista like interface.I liked it (freeware).Have a go at it here .Post a comment for more info

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HTC Wizard (8125) and WM6 – A Perfect Combination!

Microsoft’s Labs unveils a new product ‘ DeepFish ‘ which renders the web pages optimized for the small screens,the way ThunderHawk does.Dont’ know why they mimicked ThunderHawk but all in all its released for testing recently.On the other hand, Minimo 0.2 was released after a long gap and even the latest Mozilla release doesnt’ react properly on my WM6 device. Mozilla has this resource hog issue on PCs,Macs and PDAs!!Enjoy the preview of DeepFish.Minimo review follows if it impresses me on the second trial

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DeepFish from Microsoft and Minimo 0.2 from Mozilla released!

Looking at our website we decided to do some more research and place another couple of pages of information on it, so I had this idea that I should list some French Cheeses on it which I thought would be interesting, so I set about researching this. Several months later, I was still researching, as I was not aware that France had over 500 cheeses, and I seemed to be living and dreaming Cheeses. Some were very difficult to research and took a lot of time, French markets helped quite a lot, but was not easy taking photographs from this source without getting some strange looks

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French Cheeses

Detail of the new GUI As part of the exploration process for re-branding Broadstreet Digital (BSD), I was tasked with updating the GUI of their platform. As far as I know this was never implemented internally by BSD’s IT team. The key here was to try to respect the original elements to allow for a quick and easy production of the new GUI

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Broadstreet Digital platform GUI