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IIT Professor Invents Device To Block Radiation
(Tuesday, February 09, 2010 1:35:32 PM IST)
Girish Kumar, an IIT Bombay professor, has invented a shield that can be installed in concrete structures to block radiation. He has installed the newly invented device at a 300-m building near the TV tower in Worli, Mumbai, reports DNA.
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MCD Cracks Whip On Illegal Service Providers
(Tuesday, February 09, 2010 10:09:49 AM IST)
A new policy on mobile towers will come up soon, under which service providers operating illegal towers are likely to be given 15 days to conform to revised norms to be brought in by the MCD, reports The Economic Times. About 2,517 cellphone towers in the city had been set up without taking permission from the MCD. More...
BSNL Aiming For The Skies
(Tuesday, February 09, 2010 10:01:32 AM IST)
BSNL has already started 3G services in more than 318 cities in the country and plans to take it to 100 more cities by the end of this fiscal year. This has been achieved in less than one year. BSNL has 8.56 lakh subscribers in these 318 cities. More...
Itisaluna Abr Al Iraq To Use RoutoMessaging
(Monday, February 08, 2010 3:21:32 PM IST)
Itisaluna's customers can now text and interact with the rest of the world. More...
Digi-Key Application For iPhone
(Monday, February 08, 2010 2:58:01 PM IST)
New mobile app gives users anytime, anywhere access to Digi-Key. More...
ZTE Tops China’s Patent Application Ranking List
(Monday, February 08, 2010 2:45:55 PM IST)
More than 90 per cent of ZTE’s 6,000-plus patent applications locally and abroad were invention patents. More...
Juniper Announces New Silicon For Routers
(Monday, February 08, 2010 2:42:01 PM IST)
Upgrade of T Series Will Enable 250 Gbps Full Duplex Slot Capacity and 4 Tbps Total Capacity to Address Increased Service, Subscriber and Bandwidth Growth. More...
Govt Should Invest More In Digital Infrastructure
(Monday, February 08, 2010 12:33:05 PM IST)
Srinivasan S., the founder-director of VIVA Communications, speaks to EFY Bureau on what motivated him to enter VoIP. More...
Nokia Siemens Expands Bengaluru R&D Centre
(Monday, February 08, 2010 11:53:49 AM IST)
The new facility is equipped with R&D facilities, telepresence to enable strong interaction with the company’s other global development sites. More...
Linus Torvalds Loves Nexus One!
(Monday, February 08, 2010 11:46:40 AM IST)
Linus Torvalds hates phones as he feels they irritate and disturb you while you are working. But of late he seems to have changed his mind and is in love with Google's Nexus One as it is Android-based and runs the kernel that he built. Moreover, it supports GPS and Linus wanted a GPS device for his car. He says that a GPS may finally make a phone useful, reports Katonda.com. More...
Nokia To Roll Out Sub-Rs 1,000 Mobile
(Monday, February 08, 2010 10:58:12 AM IST)
Aims at a dream phone for the common man. More...
Telcos To Move HC Over 'Illegal' Towers
(Saturday, February 06, 2010 2:27:42 PM IST)
Over the proposed threat of sealing 70 per cent of the telecom towers constructed on residential or commercial buildings, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) is gearing up to take the matter to the Allahabad High Court, reports Business Standard. The association will seek protection against such action and demand uniform rules for raising these across the country. More...
Vodafone Punishes Worker Over Obscene Twitter Message
(Saturday, February 06, 2010 12:22:03 PM IST)
Vodafone has suspended a member of staff after an obscene message was posted on the mobile firm's official Twitter account, according to The Telegraph. More...
New Smartphone Platform 'Nirvana'
(Saturday, February 06, 2010 11:53:26 AM IST)
Open Kernel Labs and Citrix have developed a new reference architecture for 'Nirvana Phone' that will be able to work on virtual desktop and e-mail environments, says EETimes. The new phone is expected to be in the market in the next 12-18 months. More...
Symbian Leads Smartphone Operating System Arena
(Saturday, February 06, 2010 11:09:10 AM IST)
All the hype about the iPhone has made people forget Symbian, which is actually the leading smartphone operating system globally, says Computerworld.in. Symbian has nearly as much market share as the rest of its competitors combined, including the iPhone. More...
India Game Developer Summit 2010
(Saturday, February 06, 2010 10:55:39 AM IST)
First, Independent Event on Game Programming, Business and Careers. More...
Another Security Flaw In iPhone
(Friday, February 05, 2010 4:24:47 PM IST)
iPhone allows settings configuration files to be installed over-the-air through Safari. Once it gets installed, hackers redirect all traffic through a server of their choosing. It is also used to wreak havoc on WiFi/e-mail settings, and disable the use of Safari, mail and other first-party iPhone applications. And it can set the configuration file so that the user can't remove it - so once it's installed, getting it off the handset would require a full wipe, reports Silicon India. More...
'Unlimited Sunday' For Airtel Fixed Line Customers
(Friday, February 05, 2010 11:58:31 AM IST)
Enjoy free Airtel to Airtel local and STD calls all-day long. More...
Symbian Goes Open Source Ahead Of Deadline
(Friday, February 05, 2010 11:48:26 AM IST)
According to Computerworld.in, Symbian has completed the process of open sourcing its entire code base, in advance of its June deadline. While the release is ahead of schedule, the first phone is expected to be out early next year. The release of the phone is after more than two years after the first Android phone became available. The process of making the Symbian operating system open source started with Nokia’s announcement in June 2008 that it would buy out the rest of Symbian and release the code to the public. More...
Mobiles To Go Dead In Delhi?
(Friday, February 05, 2010 11:41:11 AM IST)
It could end up being a nightmare for mobile users in Delhi telecom circle if MCD goes ahead with its plan to seal nearly 2,517 illegal cellphone towers in the Capital. More...
NCR To Get BSNL WiMAX Service
(Friday, February 05, 2010 10:04:00 AM IST)
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is all set to start its WiMAX service in the NCR this month, reports CIOL news. BSNL will start by launching the service from Dhakor of Greater Noida, in Uttar Pradesh. More...
BSNL Suffers Setback In Global Expansion Plan
(Friday, February 05, 2010 9:45:05 AM IST)
BSNL suffers a setback, yet again in its international expansion plans. It has not been able to bag the the bid for managing telecom networks of the Ethiopian Telecommunications Corp. (ETC), a state monopoly in the African nation, as reported by The Economic Times. BSNL lost to France Telecom, despite the fact that it had bid aggressively for the contract. More...
BSNL Rolls Out WiMAX Broadband Service In Assam
(Friday, February 05, 2010 9:35:15 AM IST)
State-owned telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has launched WiMAX wireless Broadband Service in Chaygaon in Kamrup district of Assam. This technology offers broadband speed of 7 MBPS at a distance of 15 kms, reports Telecom Talk. More...
RIM Wins Patent Battle
(Thursday, February 04, 2010 4:10:42 PM IST)
Research In Motion (RIM) won its patent battle in Britain with Motorola when a court in London ruled in favour of the Canadian wireless giant based at Waterloo, reports Silicon India. More...
Free Snapfish App For iPhone Users
(Thursday, February 04, 2010 4:07:11 PM IST)
Everything you love about online photo service Snapfish is now available on your iPhone! More...
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