A Konkani film that won accolades worldwide has made it to the 101 best movies of the worlds released in 2009, its producers claimed. Entertainment Network of Goa (ENG), which co-produced Paltodacho Munis (The May Beyond The Bridge), has said that www.film101.com website has listed these results which has James Cameron’s Avatar leading the chart
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Goa: Konkani Film Makes it to Best Hundred of 2009
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
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
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%
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
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
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
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
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 ?
[France] Nomao defines itself as a personnalized search engine. It helps you to find places, based on what you like or what you Facebook friends like and where you are. Their search is using not only the data they have about the places, but also what they found on the web about them (a kind of aggregator)
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Nomao iPhone app brings Augmented Reality to its local search engine
Welcome to 2010 and the first weekly roundup of the mobile phone news stories you may have missed this week. With the CES show in Las Vegas just getting under way, we should be seeing more than a few new handsets and mobile accessories – speaking of which… 1. LG Calm Windows Mobile 7 Fears.
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Top Ten Mobile Phone News Stories of the Week
We always love to receive your emails , Tweets and forum posts , and today we received a message from Tom Ranson about his App Review Shows . There’s currently three of them, but he’s recording more along with some funny vids involving beer
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Got an Android phone ? Check out the App Review Show
While surfing the internet, I came across another voip provider which is offering unlimited calls from Pakistan and unlimited calls to Pakistan. If you check out various voip providers, you will notice that calling rate to Pakistan are not cheap, with most… This is only content summary.
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iCallPakistan : Unlimited Calls from Pakistan and Unlimited Calls to Pakistan
For weeks now, the Google Phone has hogged the spotlight, and it doesn’t look like things are about to change. The first ever Google Phone is already being shipped, sim-free to the USA, UK, Hong-Kong and Singapore, but as yet no carriers are taking it outside of the US.
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Vodafone’s Getting the Google Phone…
Total Telecom is reporting the the Nexus One handset will actually be available on several networks here in the UK. Vodafone was initially reported as carrying the device here but now there’s news that T-Mobile UK and 3 UK are in negotiations to support the handset from “Spring 2010″. A T-Mobile spokesman stated that.
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Nexus One could be headed to T-Mo UK and 3 UK
Virgin Mobile has brought a new face to its lineup of basic messaging handsets – the Kyocera X-tc M2000 . As a slider phone with a large screen and a full QWERTY keyboard, it is made for staying connected on the go using its email, instant messaging and social networking capabilities.
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Kyocera X-tc M2000 – Virgin Mobile’s Prepaid Messaging Phone
Internet surfing from mobile devices witnessed huge growth during this holiday season. Although mobile web browsing still only accounts for a small part of all web activities, major mobile operating systems have registered considerable gains in Internet usage between the last two months of 2009, according to the analysis by market tracking site Net Applications. The use of mobile browser has grown from merely above half a percentage point in early 2009 to 1.3 percent in December
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Android Led Mobile Web Browsing Growth during Holiday Season
By Grant McCool NEW YORK (Reuters UK) – A former director of McKinsey & Co told a court on Thursday that Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam paid him $1.75 million (1.09 million pounds) in exchange for tips on clients of the consulting firm, giving prosecutors potentially more ammunition in… Reuters – Ex-McKinsey exec: Rajaratnam paid $1.75 mln for tips New York Times – Ex-Consultant Pleads Guilty in Galleon Insider Case BusinessWeek – Rajaratnam Insider Profits Said to Top $30 Million (Correct)
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Ex-McKinsey Exec – Rajaratnam Paid $1.75 Mln For Tips
Palm’s announcement at this year’s CES weren’t quite as splashy as last year, when the company announced the Palm Pre , but the smartphone maker is making news nonetheless. Palm today announced that updated versions of its two webOS phones, the Palm Pre and the Palm Pixi, will be coming to Verizon Wireless later this month. Sprint is currently the exclusive carrier of both the Pre and the Pixi.
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CES 2010: Palm Updates the Pre and the Pixi
Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel Today the FCC asked Congress for a one-month extension to deliver its National Broadband Plan, explaining that it needs more time to review the public record and to brief key officials. The deadline originally had been set for February 17th. For years Google has been a vocal proponent of a national broadband strategy, and we’re eager to see this plan delivered to Congress as soon as possible.
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FCC seeks short extension to complete National Broadband Plan
As with any new venture, we all learn as we go and eventually gain experience and knowledge. I am still in my first year with blogging, and granted I have learned a lot, but I have so much more to learn. I have many goals for my blog in 2010 and I am going to really focus on its growth. I want to gain more readers, create great content, and reach new heights
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Geared Up for 2010
Internet marketing research company, comScore has released its latest data regarding the U.S. market share of smartphone operating systems. The findings reveal that while BlackBerry still dominates the field, Apple’s iPhone OS has for the first time taken the second spot once belonged to Windows Mobile.
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Top Smartphone Operating Systems in US by Market Share