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A few days ago, Bharti Airtel took a big step towards customer satisfaction by stopping bulks SMS services . This was great news for customers of the telecom giants as more and more mobile users around India were troubled through such services. Being the first in the industry to do so has definitely given Airtel an edge over other services providers in the industry (though there might still be some disgruntled customers regarding service).

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Bharti Airtel Ties-Up With ip.access For Picocells – Readying For MNP?

Till recession hit globally, India had grown phenomenally at more than 8% per year for couple of years. This was possible due to the growth of many sectors primarily among them – Telecom, IT, Manufacturing to name a few. And this phenomenal growth also led to the ballooning of CEO salaries across organizations across various sectors.

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Government Panel to decide on CEO Salaries – Is it right ?

Saregama the music label company has taken a serious stride into the digital arena by revamping its current web presence. Saregama which is an age old music label since the gramophone days is looking to bring all its music on one platform via this new website at saregama.com . One of the key changes and additions to the website has been the addition of free streaming of music.

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Saregama Revamps Website – Allows Streaming, Downloads & Internet Radio

A trusted source has confirmed that French-blogging platform, Overblog , will soon be part of the Wikio family. Rumor has it that the growing Luxembourg-based news portal is apparently trying to develop European Google News for blogs. For anyone who isn’t familiar with Wikio, all you really have to know is that it’s a news portal founded by Pierre Chappaz in 2005 after his previous company, Kelkoo , was acquired by Yahoo in 2004 for some 475 million euros.

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Overblog marries Wikio to breed a European Google News for blogs

On one hand you can see Steve Jobs’ keynote on “Apple TV” which is a revolutionary step towards Web-TV integration and on the other you can find Indian TV producers experimenting with local content to make interesting programs.

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Modern Technology but Traditional Content: Experimentation has just begun in India’s TV Market [Media Monday]

A social support revolution is taking place in the United States and it is firmly dealing with the issue of independence to people with disabilities and their acceptance in society. This is being brought about by Pacific Diversified Services , an integrated work and community inclusion agency as they describe themselves. What got me writing today is the technological side of societal integration for people with disabilities

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Technology That Makes A Level Playing Field For People With Disabilities

Finally, Blackberry Issue seems to have been resolved – Research in Motion has bowed down to the demands of Indian Government and offered to setup their messaging / Email servers here in India . They have promised to offer full monitoring access to Indian security agencies. They will also have a review in 60 days time

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Weekly Wrap-up: Blackberry issue, DTC calculations, $35 tablet, Most Trusted brands, telephony price war, Internet usage, 3G allocation & more..

Evan Roth wants a Graffiti Markup Language tag recorder badly enough to pay 1200 euros for one . GML Field Recorder Challenge An easily reproducible DIY device that can unobtrusively record graffiti motion data during a graffiti writer’s normal practice in the city. Project Description and Design Requirements: The GML Field Recorder Challenge is a DIY hardware and software solution for unobtrusively recording graffiti motion data during a graffiti writer’s normal practice in the city.

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Build a GML tag recorder, win 1200 euros

“Forget Prepaid, Forget Postpaid” is the news been splashed by T24 mobile services. T24 mobile services are the India’s first unpaid mobile connections soon to be available in metros of India although its running in Andhra Pradesh. T24 mobile is joint venture by Future Group and Tata Teleservices to offer GSM Services in India.

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Get Free Talktime on T24 network by Shopping at Future Group Stores

This HTC QWERTY device, emblazened with the Verizon logo, has just popped up on the FCC. At a guess this will no doubt be an Android device (no Windows flag in sight) and the keyboard, as you can see, is a lovely shade of red. Known as the “HTC PD42100″ it’ll be arriving on Verizon pretty soon and, we can only hope, to a European network in a slightly different guise soon

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HTC Sliding QWERTY spotted on FCC

Vodafone have updated their Coming Soon section of the website to include information on the Samsung Galaxy Tab which will be available on their network soon here in the UK. The Tab is an Android based tablet running 2.2 FroYo so you get the latest version of the OS right out of the box, it also offers a 7 inch touch screen and features like a front facing camera for video calling.

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Register At Vodafone For Galaxy Tab

In the network appeared the official images of [smartfona] T -Mobile G2 (HTC Of vision). We already wrote in the news about this device, were published its photographs. T -Mobile G2 will become the first model of this American operator with the support of new high-speed honeycomb networks HSPA+

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Official images T -Mobile G2

At the outset I would like to point out that I don’t have anything against Air India, Economic Times or AC Nielsen. I got the idea of this post after reading the recent article about Air India being voted as the most trusted brand in Indian aviation by the Economic Times survey of Most Trusted Brands. Yes you heard it right – Air India is the MOST TRUSTED BRAND IN INDIAN AVIATION ! To be honest, I don’t buy it, but before I say that let us first analyze the survey a little.

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Air India – Most trusted brand in Indian aviation? Are you serious ?

CAMS has started an initiative where NFOs can now be applied for by investors online.The initiative called the e-NFO will make the process of applying for new fund offers less cumbersome and time-consuming for the investors. What this essentially means for the mutual fund investors is that they don’t have to go the old-fashioned way of filling in details in a form and submitting it when applying for an NFO

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Apply online for MF New Fund Offer (NFO)

The new joint venture company combining Orange and T-Mobile UK, Everything Everywhere today announced the launch date of the combined network roaming agreement which will allow customers of both groups roam on each other’s network. From the 5th October customers will be able to ‘opt-in’ to the service which will mean if their existing network has no coverage where you are but the other network does you will be able to use your phone as normal.

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T-Mobile/Orange Roaming From 5th October

A while back I left a GPS unit in a rental car and when I returned it. I don’t want to be offensive to any particular company so I will refer to the GPS company supplying my device as PomPom . When I realized I wasn’t going to get it back I called the company because I remembered it was M2M-enabled and as such I paid a $10/month fee for Google search access and other online goodies.

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How The Internet Can Reduce Global Theft

Image via Wikipedia SBI has inaugurated first-of-its-kind branch for HNIs in Hyderabad on Sep 2. The high networth individuals (HNIs) has to give only Rs 1 crore minimum to open an account in the government lender, State Bank of India (SBI). However, the money is not enough to have the account but the applicant has to have go through a tough application process.

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Rs 1 crore needed to open SBI SAVINGS account

Yahoo and Vestel Group, the largest TV manufacturer in Europe you’ve never heard of (because much of their business is white-label), have struck a deal to ship Yahoo! Connected TV to consumers in more than 40 countries across Europe starting in Q1 2011. The service covers movies, TV shows, social networks, videos, and other kinds of Internet content.

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Yahoo! Connected TV to come pre-baked into Euro TVs

There’s a good video on the BBC website which takes a look at the new 7″ Samsung Galaxy Tab we covered yesterday. There’s a hands-on and a wry smile from Carey McGregor (Senior Product Manager at Samsung) when BBC reporter Rory Cellan-Jones states, “It looks lovely, but it looks just like a shrunken iPad though”. The Folio 100, from Toshiba, is also shown and comes with Android 2.2, Flash 10.1 support and a miniHDMI port

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Samsung Galaxy Tab and Toshiba Folio 100 handled

The Android-powered Samsung Galaxy S handsets have only arrived the United States for one and a half months, but they have already proved a great hit among smartphone users. According to the company’s press release, more than 1 million units were sold across the country since their launch in mid July. The impressive sales figure was contributed by the two released variants, the Samsung Vibrant from T-Mobile and the Samsung Captivate from AT&T.

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Samsung Galaxy S Smartphones – 1 Million Shipped in the U.S.

A BlackBerry with a new form factor may be on its way to the smartphone arena. A newly-published patent application filed by Research in Motion (RIM) presents us a unique design concept of a physically rotatable keyboard that can be used in both portrait and landscape layouts

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RIM’s Latest Patent Reveals Innovative Keyboard Design

A phone-hacking scheme involving British royals and reporters working for one of Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid newspapers went far beyond what was previously disclosed and prosecuted, according to The New York Times . Andy Coulson, currently media advisor to British Prime Minister David Cameron, is accused of having encouraged the hacking during his tenure as editor of Murdoch’s News of the World paper. According to the N.Y

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Murdoch Reporters’ Phone-Hacking Was Endemic, Victimized Hundreds

It has been an extremely exciting week again for tech news and moreover for me personally as I got a chance to open up my Sony Dash and it is a very cool addition to my desktop as it allows me to view my photos and take advantage of widgets of all kinds which among other thinks allow me to see the pandas at the San Diego Zoo. This handy gadget has a slew of communications, social networking and calendar features as well but for now, I just want to see the pandas.

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Apple, Sony, Microsoft, Google and ITEXPO News September 1, 2010

After a daylong standoff, authorities shot and killed an armed man wearing an explosive device who had taken three hostages at the Discovery Channel’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, just outside the District of Columbia. Most of the hundreds of employees, including children at an on-site daycare center, had already been evacuated, police said. The station was airing its normal broadcast

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Police Kill Hostage Taker Who Besieged Discovery Channel

A civilian defense attorney hired recently by alleged WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning says the Army was so concerned about his client’s mental health prior to the alleged leaks that supervisors removed the bolt from his military weapon, disabling it.

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Attorney: Army Disabled Manning’s Weapon Prior to Leaks

Having recently purchased a Sony Dash which I still need to take out of the box, I am obviously intrigued by the idea of devices which allow widgets to run on them. Apparently Alcatel-Lucent too is enamored with the concept of widgets and mobile apps as the company just picked up OpenPlug , a company focused on cross-platform application development solutions.

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Alcatel-Lucent Outlines Next Generation Communications

By Duncan Geere, Wired UK Notorious filesharing website The Pirate Bay is a long-standing enemy of the movie industry, but one Swedish filmmaker has plans to create a documentary called TPB AFK about the three founders of the site, and their reactions to being found guilty of being accessory to crime against copyright law and fined about $3.6 million.

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Pirate Bay Documentary in the Works

I see you’ve now gotten around to requesting an interview with me or a company spokesperson, 90 days after you ambushed our namesake and founder, Craig Newmark , following his May 20th talk on veteran’s affairs and other issues unrelated to craigslist, at a conference in Washington. You knew Craig was not in management or a company spokesperson, but setting CNN’s ethical code aside, you sidestepped company channels in favor of ambushing our semi-retired founder, complete with a misleading “set up” for your surprise questions. Now that CNN has aired your highly misleading piece dozens of times, mischaracterizing your stunt as a serious interview on this subject, and you’ve updated your “bio” to showcase this rare jewel of investigative journalism, you’re ready to try actually interviewing the company itself on this subject.

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Posted by Andrew Silverman, Senior Product Manager Last month we announced our plans to acquire ITA Software. Today, after meeting with many companies in the industry, we’re even more excited about building new tools that will make it easier for consumers to search for flights, compare flight options, and get you quickly to a site where you can buy a ticket. We’ve been encouraged by the travel industry support we’ve seen for this acquisition — from airlines to online travel agencies.

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An update on our ITA Software acquisition

The greasy fingerprints and oily residues left on your touchscreen devices are unpleasant to look at, but it turns out this is not the only flaw – they also pose potential security threats to users as they can be used to infer our passwords, according to researchers. In a recently published report, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania revealed how partial or complete password patterns can be retrieved by lifting and studying the smudge marks on screens. These smudges, or oily residues, left behind by fingers on smartphones and other touchscreen devices, are surprising persistent in time and difficult to remove even through wiping.

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Could Smudges on Touchscreen Phones Give Away User Passwords?