Robbie Bach is President of the Entertainment & Devices Division at Microsoft and, along with Mindy Mount (ahem) held a Financial Analyst Briefing last week at CES. The boys from WMPoweruser.com have gone through the transcript and picked out some meaty sections involving Windows Mobile 7.
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Robbie Bach reveals more on Windows Mobile 7
It was way back in early 2006 when we read that ACCESS and PalmSource announced the ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP) that was initially intended to be the next Palm operating system. While Palm no longer has any ties to ACCESS, we heard in October that Emblaze Mobile Ltd. introduced the first ELSE mobile device running the ELSE INTUITION platform based on ALP.
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CES 2010: Hands-on with the ELSE ACCESS Linux Platform-based smartphone
[UK] Self-employed ad man Sam Butterfield , who describes himself as “an ideas person”, has created possibly the world’s most pointless iPhone application iPhone Pilot . That said, with its ability to turn grown men into excited children, it may also be a work of pure genius. The app turns the iPhone itself into a WW2 fighter plane that you hold in your hand and fly around the room, accompanied by flying and shooting noises, and attachable paper wings
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Turn your iPhone into a WWII fighter? Yes, there’s an app for that too
DoP (Department of Posts) for a long time has been trying hard to lure back citizens back on to its fold through initiatives like ‘ePost’ in this digital age. This facility allowed individuals to send messages as a soft copy through internet and at the destination it was delivered to the addressee in the form of hard copy
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DoP To Open Up ‘EPost’ – Print And Deliver Facility To Corporates
Month of December 2009 This month, Fox Sports and NASA discovered that their Web sites were compromised. Web 2.0 widget-maker RockYou suffered a major security breach where it was discovered that RockYou failed to apply the simplest security best-practice: encrypting the password of their users.
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This Month in the Threat Webscape
Virtual interviews seem to have become a hit with recruitment managers across India as it is turning into a cost-effective and smart medium to attract quality candidates. A recent piece in Businessline highlights the growing importance of this segment among the recruitment activity in India.
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Virtual Interviews Finds Rapid Adoption In Indian Recruitment Space
We had reported that Sunil Nair – CEO of Nautanki.Tv had resigned and now we have official confirmation from Hungama Digital Media that indeed Sunil has moved on. Hungama has sent us the following updates on his reasons to exit. Commenting on his decision, Sunil Nair said, “Over the past few years, we have created some exciting propositions for Nautanki.tv on the video platform business.
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Hungama Confirms Sunil Nair’s Exit – Siddhartha Roy To Manage Nautanki.tv
Vdopia the video ad network which was last in the news for its live streaming success story in relation to its live streaming monetization contract with Cricketnirvana has now announced a new product on the same. Vdopia has launched VLIVE which is a Dynamic Online Live Streaming Ad Insertion Technology Platform that will enable Media Companies & TV Channel owners to monetize their live feed online. Vdopia is currently working with cricket nirvana on their live stream monetization and this new technology allows the ad display to be dynamic as well
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Vdopia Launches Dynamic Ads For Live Video Streaming – The Web Goes Live?
It is generally thought that children should not be allowed to have their own cell phones too early, but here is the fact: the faces of those fiddling with a mobile gadget just keep getting younger and younger. According MRI’s American Kids Study 2009, cell phone ownership among U.S.
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American Kids’ Cell Phone Ownership Jumped to 20%
Using Brightidea’s WebStorm technology, YTL Communications Issues Global USD$1 million Challenge to Developers to Spur Innovation on YTL’s 4G Network
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YTL Communications Chooses Brightidea to Power its…
NiteLites Outdoor Lighting Annual Conference to train on outdoor LED lighting in Myrtle Beach. Outdoor lighting franchisees to learn about the integration of their new, eco-friendly LED lighting solutions for commercial and residential clients, fresh and innovative marketing ideas to increase sales, key strategies for expanding business in current marketing conditions, and the presentation of sales awards.
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2010 Outdoor Lighting Conference to Focus on Outdoor LEDs Lighting for National Lighting Franchise
Ceatus Media Group LLC has acquired the web-based assets of My Choice Medical Holdings from Vertrue, Inc. These assets consist of 23 websites that offer extensive information about plastic surgery and other cosmetic enhancement procedures.
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Ceatus Media Group LLC Purchases My Choice Medical Holdings Assets from Vertrue, Inc.
You are here: News / Huge demand for carbon labels on food products found in survey of 400+ supermarket shoppers 72% of consumers want carbon labels on food products, according to new research among over 400 supermarket shoppers by Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. The findings…
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Huge demand for carbon labels on food products found in survey of 400+ supermarket shoppers
You are here: City and Corporate / Blacks Leisure mulls equity fundraising Group considering equity fundraising in the first quarter of 2010 to raise between 15m and 20m depending on investor demand. “Proceeds from the potential fundraising being announced today would allow us to accelerate… BBC – Blacks Leisure ‘begins recovery’
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Blacks Leisure mulls equity fundraising
Whether you own a smartphone or a basic feature phone, you can easily find accessories for protecting your devices from bumps, falls and drops – simply a case or a snap-on cover will do the trick. But when it comes to a freezing environment, there is nothing we can do other than putting the phone inside our jacket pocket
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Can Cell Phones Survive in Extreme Cold Weather?
With all the talks and news highlighting the dangers and risks involved with distracted driving, you may think that most people will now think twice before repeating this deadly practice. Unfortunately, a new study reveals a disturbing fact: Drivers know the risk, but still continue to do it anyway. The small-scale survey was conducted by odbEdge, the creator of Cellcontrol, on 100 respondents to find out their views on distracted driving.
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Drivers Keep Texting and Driving Though Aware of its Danger
The absence of a towing machine at Dabolim airport disrupted air traffic for over an hour on Sunday after a flight with a hydraulic leak landed and remained stationary on the runway. According to airport sources, “the flight was stranded for about 70 minutes on the runway, as the towing machine was not available.” Airport director Paul Manickam confirmed there was a problem, but added that everything was under control. At about 10:30am the charter flight, arriving from London with 250 passengers on board, developed a hydraulic leak and made an emergency landing.
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Stranded plane disrupts Goa airport traffic
I’ve never understood the attraction of CES . Why in January – a month set aside for recovering from the excesses of the holiday season – thousands of people would fly to Las Vegas for a gigantic tradeshow.
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NSFW: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crunchies
If you know last year TRAI had announced that it will introduce 11 digit mobile numbers , as India is expected to run out of existing ones in less than 2 years time. TRAI had never expected that it will witness such meteoric Mobile subscriber growth. The numbers which were supposed to last till 2030 (as per their planning) are nearing exhaustion 20 years earlier than expected.
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Your Landline numbers will now soon be 10 Digits!
Hey, we have not started blogging about Digital TV or Satellite TV. Its the same free voip calls blog. Its just that the new offer by Airtel Call Home is kind of a double offer – talktime (call minutes to India) combined with the Digital TV.
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Airtel Call Home : Free Digital TV connection with calling minutes to India
MortgageSaver, the premier source for Houston home mortgage loans announces the launch of its redesigned website MortgageSaver.org. The new site matches visitors with mortgage brokers around the United States who can help with their real estate financing needs.
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Houston Home Mortgage Loan Company Announces Site Redesign
The Chief Minister, Mr Digambar Kamat has said that while tourism has helped the state in many ways a number of negative aspects associated with it also have crept in and that his government has given top priority to rid the state of these problems. Addressing the gathering at the annual meeting of the Legislators’ Forum at the state assembly on Saturday, the Chief Minister said that the ills associated with tourism could not be removed by the government alone and sought people’s co-operation to eradicate them. He stated that many people rent out their premises to foreigners, and earn considerable amount as rent, without verifying their antecedents, which was a dangerous step
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People’s help key to check ills associated with tourism: Goa CM
The Telangana issue seems to have got much murkier. To break the fast of TRS chief KCR and to put down the sporadic acts of violence then happening, the Center agreed to the demand for Telangana, and they did not do any kind of consultation with other political parties, something that would be integral to
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The Telangana issue gets murkier – Congress fouled up
There’s an update for owners of the HTC Hero from 3 UK now online. As usual we’re not totally sure what this fixes or improves, but if you’ve got your Hero from 3, download it here and let us know what happens! To install ROM version 2.73.771.73 (3UK) don’t forget to backup your apps first (preferably with that rather excellent Astro File Manager) so you can stick them back on after. Link – HTC.com Support Credit – Ritchie Read on and add your comments
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HTC Hero Update for 3 UK Customers
Whenever i write a article in Wordpress, the CMS would automatically create a ‘Permalink’ also called as the ‘Post Slug’ which would have all the words you have mentioned in the Blog Post title along …
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Optimize Blog Post URL with SEO Slugs Wordpress Plugin
With so many voip providers in the market, it is really difficult to decide which voip provider to choose from. Today we discuss one more voip provider CallPakIndia.com I came across this voip provider while surfing the internet.
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CallPakIndia.com : Cheap call to India, Pakistan, Bangladesh
In their first ever visit after taking over Margao blast case, National Investigating Agency (NIA) officials today questioned Sanatan Sanstha’s managing trustee Virendra Marathe at its Ramnathi ashram. Sources confirmed that the five member NIA team visited ashram and inquired about the functioning of Sanstha, which has been under scanner after Margao blast. Marathe reportedly informed the team about various activities of Sanstha in spirituality and publishing.
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Goa: NIA questions Sanatan Sanstha trustee
I like to explore how email gets from one place to another and sometimes make sure that it’s really from who I think it’s from, so I like to dig into the arcane Received-By: and other headers that are atop an email message I get on MSN Live/Hotmail. Problem is, that’s not so easy.
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How do I view the full headers of email in MSN Hotmail?
Indian Education Sector(IES) is by far the largest capitalized space in India with $30bn of government spend (3.7% of GDP; at global average), and a large network of ~1m schools and 18,000 higher education institutes.But, a literacy rate of 61% does not do justice to the government spend, does it? Government has increased its focus on uplifting the education sector and has upped the government spend on education by 20% to around 34 thousand crores.However, the investments have not seen a huge turnaround in terms of increasing the efficiency and the levels of education in India. Educomp report on the IES sector points out the holes in the government spend on education and the roadblocks for the private sector involvement in IES
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Corporate India Making In Roads Into Education Sector , Will It Help ?
A national recession in the first three quarters and uncertainty during two automaker bankruptcy restructurings helped make 2009 a relatively muted year of growth for Oakland County’s Emerging Sectors program.
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Oakland County Emerging Sectors program marks $191.8 million in investment in 2009