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Source KOLKATA: Telecom service provider Tata Teleservices Ltd. (TTSL) announced the launch of DIALOG, a product that enables customers to connect to the internet on their television set in Kolkata and Chennai. Customers can access the internet without a desktop or laptop, transforming the TV set into a multimedia device with the help of DIALOG. "We are launching the product first time in the country simultaneously in Chennai and Kolkata. We will take three months for the testing period and after that we will go for an all-India launch of DIALOG in the first quarter of FY11," TTSL national sales head Abhijit Sanyal said here at a press meet.

I am not getting BL6c battery for my Nokia 6265. Most of the shops recommends BL5c instead of BL6c.. Can i use BL5c in 6265? any technical problem ? Also is there any difference in capacity (mAh) for BL5c and BL6c ??

Source Tata Docomo recently launched a new special recharge voucher of Rs.120 for its prepaid subscribers in Mumbai and Maharashtra circle. This special recharge offers local and national minutes as well as free local and national SMS. After recharging this special pack, you wont get any talktime in your core balance. Tata Docomo subscribers in Mumbai and Maharashtra & Goa circle can recharge with Rs.120 special recharge and get 200 local and national minutes as well as 400 free local and national SMS. This local and national minutes can be used to call any mobile and landline number within India. Plan Details: Price: Rs.120 Circle: Mumbai and Maharashtra Benefits: 200 local/national minutes and 400 free local/national SMS Validity: 30 days This offer is available only on e-recharge and valid only for 30 days. This plan is better than the basic per second billing plan since it offers both local and national minutes along with free SMS at an affordable price. If you have any queries, feel free to ask us in the comments.

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Source NEW DELHI: India’s 560 million cellphone users will pay an extra 2% of their mobile bills as R&D cess to boost the country’s manufacturing of telecom equipment, in case the government accepts a communications ministry proposal. If implemented, this will add another levy to mobile users who currently pay 12% service tax and a 2% education cess on their bills. The telecom department first floated this proposal in 2006, but did not press for implementation. It now wants to revive this option of imposing an R&D cess, an internal department note said. This is part of a 14-point strategy, which the department of telecom (DoT) is advocating to transform India to a telecom manufacturing hub. “It is estimated that the requirement of telecom equipment would be over Rs 500,000 crore till the year 2015,” the department’s internal note said, adding, “However, despite the growth of market many folds, share of indigenous equipment has fallen down from 74% in 2003-04 to 30% in 2008-09.” Some of the 14-point turnaround strategies have been implemented over the past few months. For instance, last week, the government issued a directive mandating foreign gear makers to manufacture core telecom equipment locally or mandatorily transfer technology to Indian manufacturers within a three-year period. Another reason for the indigenous push for telecom network equipment relates to the security threat posed by imported hardware. The home ministry had repeatedly warned that equipment vendors may install back-door entries, remote logic facilities and also design Trojan horses in networks and hardware they sell here. These could be used to remotely bring down the network or monitor the voice and data traffic on it, security agencies say. To counter this threat, last month, the Centre armed itself with powers to seize imported telecom network equipment that failed to pass security tests. In December 2009, the telecoms department directive said all telecoms network equipment and related hardware must pass security test before deployment. Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, in his budget last month, allotted resources for building a national test to scrutinise all imported telecom networks equipment before they can be installed here. The test lab and security clearance for all imported equipment were also part of the DoT committee note to promote indigenous manufacture. Other measures include rationalisation and reduction of the existing tax structure to ensure procuring locally-manufactured equipment is more economical, tax breaks for service providers who source hardware manufactured in the country, easier loans and financing schemes for setting up telecom gear plants and providing soaps to companies that export telecoms equipment from India. The DoT report adds that multinational telecom vendors were fiercely marketing their products here as markets in developed world were saturated. “This is creating additional pressures in hindrance of development of indigenous manufacturing. Indigenous steps to catch up are further nullified by the rapid developments in technology. Hence holds steps have to be taken...,” the DoT note said. It also warns that Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) for the software developed by Indians were not used by them, but are begin sold back to the country.

Source After successfully launching GSM Services in Tamil Nadu, Videocon Mobile Services announces the launch of three more First Recharge Options (FRC) priced Rs 61, Rs149 and Rs399 apart from Special Tariff Vouchers (STV) of denominations Rs 28, Rs 148 and Rs 395. FRC Rs61 will provide Local and STD at just 1p/sec for a period of 365 days with Rs 61 as Talk-time FRC Rs149 will provide 30 min of Local Off-net +30 min of Local On-net calling per day with no talk-time and the tariff validity is 30 days FRC Rs399 will provide Unlimited Local Usage and tariff validity will be for 30 days. STV Rs28 provides Local and STD at just 1p/sec for a period of 365 days with Rs 25 as Talk-time. To enjoy the lifetime benefit customer has to do recharge of at least Rs.200 in every six months.

Nokia C3 Exists; Gets FCC Approval While the existence of the Nokia C5 and the C6 has been confirmed, let us remind you that there was another C-Series handset that had made its presence felt in rumorsville not long ago. That's right. We're talking about the Nokia C3. Well, in a recent development, the C3 has apparently cleared the FCC in U.S. The phone, which bears the internal model number RM-614, will soon see the assembly lines. The FCC website also has an image of the rear of the phone. It is clear by the looks of the phone that it is a low to mid-range segment device that would be targeted at emerging markets. It also appears wider than usual and might as well add a QWERTY keypad? But then, that bit is unconfirmed as of now. But then, it would make sense to have a QWERTY keypad on a phone that belongs to a series that focuses on social interaction and social networking. Going by the naming convention, the C3 might just be cheaper than the C5. The latter also happens to be one of the cheapest Nokia smartphones currently available. Will the C3 beat it in the price wars? It also boils down to the fact that if this phone indeed gets a QWERTY keypad, it could be positioned above the C5.

Source IDEA Cellular the pan India integrated GSM operator, has become the first operator to launch a first-of-its-kind Value Added Service titled ‘PreTones’ in partnership with Oorja Mobile Services. Idea subscribers can access this unique service by simply dialling 55955 from their mobile phone, for Re. 1 per day. The content is live and available for all prepaid Idea subscribers in Andhra Pradesh. PreTones’ users can register their preferences on the IVR, and can resume listening to the content by dialling 55955, after the call is completed.Idea subscribers using ‘PreTones’ can enjoy listening to highly compelling content of their choice, everytime they make a voice call. A rich portfolio of content such as live cricket action, jokes to tickle the funny bone, breaking news as it happens, astrology forecast, latest movie review and spicy Bollywood gossip, will be available at the user’s fingertips. The caller can listen to these updates, before the call gets connected. Launching the new initiative, Mr. Subbaraman Iyer, Chief Operating Officer – Andhra Pradesh, IDEA Cellular said, “At Idea, we constantly innovate to bring facilities closer to mobile consumers and delight them with rich content offering in the mobile infotainment space. ‘PreTones’ brings the best-of-breed technologies to the mobile market, promising a first-of-its-kind mobile calling experience for over 6 million Idea subscribers in Andhra Pradesh”.

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Health risks caused by smoking - Cigarette smoking causes many types of cancer, including cancers of the lung, esophagus, larynx (voice box), mouth, throat, kidney, bladder, pancreas, stomach, and cervix, as well as acute myeloid leukemia. - Quitting smoking substantially reduces the risk of developing and dying from cancer. - Strong and consistent evidence shows that nicotine replacement products can help people quit smoking. These products are available in five forms—patch, gum, lozenge, nasal spray, and inhaler. - Bupropion and varenicline are prescription medications that can also help smokers quit. Health Effects of Alcohol Almost every system in the body can be negatively affected by alcohol. Health effects of chewing tobacco Oral and spit tobacco increase the risk for leukoplakia a precursor to oral cancer. Chewing tobacco has been known to cause cancer, particularly of the mouth and throat.

Cigarette filters have pig's blood? Cigarette filters may have traces of pig's blood, an Australian professor has said, adding the devout may find this "very offensive". Simon Chapman, a professor at the University of Sydney, said a recent Dutch research had identified 185 industrial uses of a pig - including the use of haemoglobin in cigarette filters. "I think that there would be some particularly devout groups who would find the idea that there were pig products in cigarettes to be very offensive," Chapman was qouted as saying by Australian AAP news agency. "The Jewish community certainly takes these matters extremely seriously and the Islamic community certainly do as well, as (so) would many vegetarians. "It just puts into hard relief the problem that the tobacco industry is not required to declare the ingredients of cigarettes ... they say 'that's our business' and a trade secret." The research found pig haemoglobin was being used to make cigarette filters more effective in blocking harmful chemicals before it entered a smoker's lungs. The professor said that one cigarette brand sold in Greece was confirmed to be using pig haemoglobin in its processes, Chapman said.

Alcohol linked to poor nutrition People who drink more are also likely to eat less fruit and consume more calories from a combination of alcoholic beverages and foods high in unhealthy fats and added sugars. Heavy drinking and dietary factors have independently been associated with cardiovascular disease, certain cancers, and other chronic health problems. To examine the relationship between alcoholic beverage consumption, nutrient intakes, and diet quality, researchers analysed data on 8,155 men and 7,715 women in USA, aged = 20 years who reported their past-year alcoholic beverage consumption and 24-hour dietary intake. Alcoholic beverage consumption was defined by drinking status (never, former, current drinker) and, among current drinkers, by drinking level (number of drinks per day, on average: men <1 to =5; women <1 to =3). Among men, there was no association between drinking status and dietary intake of energy as well as most nutrients. Among women, former and current (compared to never) drinkers had significantly higher intakes of energy and several nutrients, and current drinkers had significantly lower total healthy eating index scores (current drinkers 59; never drinkers 63). Among current drinkers of both genders, as drinking level increased, intakes of energy and several nutrients significantly increased, whereas total healthy eating index scores significantly decreased (from 56 to 41 in men, and from 60 to 52 in women). Higher alcohol consumption was associated with poor diet quality, but these findings raise questions about whether the combination of alcohol misuse and poor diet might interact to further increase health risks. This could be explained by the higher energy intake from alcohol as well as other differences in food choices.

Vodafone adds more subscribers in Feb NEW DELHI: Vodafone Essar added the highest number of mobile users in the country last month beating market leader Bharti Airtel and Tata Teleservices, in the world’s fastest-growing telecom market. Vodafone Essar’s total subscriber base in India rose to 97.2 million as it added over 3 million new users, ahead of Bharti Airtel who added 2.9 million last month to remain the largest player with 124.6 million subscribers, as per sector regulator Trai. The industry added over 18 million new mobile users last month, lower than 19.09 million added in January. The total number of phone connections, including mobile and landline, crossed 600 million, up 3.2% from 581.81 million in January, Trai said on Monday. Tata Teleservices signed 2.8 million new users, but slipped to third spot after topping subscriber additions for over six months. Reliance Communications also added 2.8 million new users while Idea - Spice added over 2 million new subscribers, followed by Aircel with 1.8 million new users. State-owned telcos — BSNL and MTNL — together roped in about 1.7 million new mobile users. In contrast, new private player Sistema Shyam’s subscriber base fell to 3.17 million from 3.18 million in January. The subscriber base in the wireline segment declined 1% to 36.96 million in February led by BSNL and MTNL. But private players like Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices added users even in wireline market. The total number of internet users grew 6.95% to 8.59 million in February.

Tofu Festival Start time: Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 7:00pm End Time: Friday, April 30, 2010 at 11:00pm Location: 400 Stonegrill Lounge at Saket, New Delhi - contact: 09910588226 Japanese food consultant Yukio Nishimagi is in India to encourage Indians to develop a taste for tofu Matter of Taste - Indian Express -

Bangalore Vegan Meet Date: Saturday, April 24, 2010 Time: 4:00pm - 7:00pm Location: Cubbon Park The monthly Bangalore vegan meet is open to everyone: new and long-term vegans, vegetarians or anyone who would like to learn about veganism and sample some delicious vegan dishes. This is a great way to meet and make friends with vegans in Bangalore and share experiences, tips and recipes. There is no agenda, just come, eat, socialise and enjoy! BUT PLEASE DO BRING A VEGAN DISH TO SHARE. This time we will have a vegan tea. Bring your favourite vegan sweet or snack. We are trying to be eco-friendly, so please also bring your own plate, cup and cutlery. And something to sit on! We will meet at Rani Park (the small park adjacent to Cubbon Park) at 4pm. It’s located across the road from Chinnaswamy Cricket Stadium.

Source To introduce mobile phones that integrate key features of social networking sites Aircel on Tuesday tied up with British phone manufacturer INQ Mobile to introduce first-of-its-kind ‘dynamic social' handsets that help users stay connected on popular social networking sites. The mobile operator will also be participating in 3G and WiMAX spectrum auctions. 3G-ready The two dynamic social handsets, INQ CHAT 3G and INQ MINI 3G, which will be available in 55 cities and sold from Aircel retail outlets, have been priced at Rs.7,599 and Rs.5,399, respectively. “These multimedia phones are 3G-ready that will deliver superb value-added service (VAS) experience,” Aircel COO Gurdeep Singh told journalists here. “We at Aircel have consciously focussed on VAS which is the future of telephony to be able to provide our consumers a rich and valuable experience and introduce to them a world of possibilities on their mobile. We are completely in sync with INQ's philosophy and devices which are built with the Internet at the core for a new generation with a different attitude to communication. That means a never before, rich and authentic Facebook, Twitter and email experience along with Aircel innovations,” he added. Advantage According to INQ Mobile Chief Executive and Founder Frank Meehan, “these attractively priced phones will soon become popular with Indian youths who want to remain constantly in touch. It will give them true Internet experience while on the go. The advantage with these handsets is that they integrate key features of social networking sites into the phone's address book, removing the need to separately log on to the service.” Future plans On Aircel's future plans, Mr. Singh said it would participate in the 3G and WiMAX spectrum bids. “We will begin our services in five more States — Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan — within the next couple of months, thereby covering the entire country. So far we have invested $5 billion while a similar amount will be invested in the next two years to expand reach and built infrastructure,” he added. With presence in 18 circles, Aircel today has over 3.5-crore subscribers.

Source Nokia Corp, the world’s largest cell phone maker, has purchased Novarra, a Chicago based mobile browser company. Novarra Technology will be used on Nokia smartphones by the end of the year to ease mobile internet browsing. The Novarra Vision Browser will have support for Flash full HTML with complex JavaScript AJAX RSS Widgets Apart from this, it also includes a “fit to screen” layout, zooming, scrolling, password management, and autofill. Novarra also claims to be much faster in rendering very complex Web pages, as it does not make use of webkit rendering engine, which is usually used by quality smartphone platforms including Android. The company has made a detailed video explaining all of the above points quite clearly. Be sure to have a look at this video.

Source NEW DELHI: Handset maker Spice Mobiles on Thursday said it will start manufacturing mobile phones in the country by the end of this year and plans to sell one million devices from April. The company will start trial production of handsets in India from next month. "We already have a facility in Baddi, Himachal Pradesh, where we manufacture other devices. We will start trial production of our handsets from next month and start start the commercial manufacturing following that by the end of this year," Spice Mobiles Director and CEO Kunal Ahooja told reporters after launching its 12-mega pixel (MP) camera phone here. The phone--S-1200--is priced at Rs 14,500 and has a 12-MP camera with 3X optical zoom. With aggressive plans to sell one million handsets a month, Spice Mobiles today named actor Sonam Kapoor as it new brand ambassador. The B K Modi Group-owned company, at present, sells half a million unit in the country. As the Indian mobile market expands, most handset makers are seeing a business case in manufacturing handsets locally. Nokia, which is a leader in the Indian market, has its handset manufacturing factory at Chennai. Besides manufacturing, Spice Mobiles, which is credited for making dual SIM mobile phones popular, is planning to sell mobile handsets in developing markets of Africa and Asia in a bid to replicate its growth story in India.

MTS India to enter new circles, targets 30 mn users MTS India, mobile telephony brand of Sistema Shyam TeleServices, would be a pan-India operator by next year, a top company official said today. "Currently we are present in 11 circles, very soon we will be entering new circles like Andhra Pradesh", Sistema Shyam Teleservices Ltd Chief Operating Officer (Tamil Nadu and Kerala) Srinivasa Rao Saripalli told reporters here. The company currently has four million customers across the country and has set a target of reaching 30 million customers by 2012. About $1.5 billion have been invested."Of the $1.5 billion, Rs 350 crore has been invested in Tamil Nadu and Kerala alone", he said. On the data services platform (MBlaze) which the company launched last year, he said the company has seen seen additions of 5,000-10,000 (subscribers) over the last three months. "In Tamil Nadu alone we have 35,000 data service subscribers", he said. MTS would also enter into Post-Paid services in May this year Saripalli, here to announce a range of services as part of their first anniversary celebrations, said. In view of this MTS Subscribers can avail free calls from MTS to MTS customers across India and can freely download from data services for 24 hours today. A range of features like 27 service packs for MBlaze offering free usage from 250Mb upto 180 GB were also announced on the occasion. Sistema Shyam Teleservices is a joint venture between Sistema of Russia and Shyam Group of India. Sistema is the majority share holder with a 74 per cent stake while Shyam Group holds 23.5 per cent.

Uninor Marks Its 100 days In Andhra Pradesh Uninor the GSM mobile service provider today successfully completed its 100 days mark in Andhra Pradesh by establishing its base in 23 districts, 423 towns and 1328 villages. Uninor boasts of 6 Company owned outlets, 14 Franchisee owned outlets and 100 Modern Trade outlets in Andhra Pradesh. On the event of 100 days, Dushyan Vaithiyanathan, Executive Vice President, AP, Uninor said, “I am extremely elated at the response we have received from the market in only 100 days. As a brand, we are here to do much more than to offer a telecom service. Our business is about people – real life, young and aspiring people and we are here to provide our services to help fulfill their dreams and aspirations. We believe enhanced communication translates into opportunities. Ab Mera Number Hai is about the sense of opportunity through communication and the will to seize it. It’s these aspirations and opportunities that Uninor will help its customers fulfill.”

Anti-meat, Anti-cruelty protest ! Sunday, March 28, 2010 Time: 5:00pm - 6:00pm Location: McDonalds, Sector-17, Vashi, Navi Mumbai All animal lovers, please come and be the voice of the countless animals who are dying in billiions every year. As part of the protest, we will be holding banners and distributing pamphlets talking about veganism. Even if you are a vegetarian, that will do. But if you love dogs and pets but still eat meat, please excuse us. The only thing required for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing. So please please do come ! Organizers :- Kranti and Diya - shashank_dixit_81@hotmail.com

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Nano car bursts into flames, raising safety fears MUMBAI, India — Satish Sawant was proudly driving his first car home from the showroom: A brand-new silver Tata Nano, draped with a celebratory garland of marigolds. Then there was smoke. And then there was fire. Minutes after the software engineer's wife and five-year-old son clambered out of the back seat, smoke from the engine, located in the Nano's rear, erupted into flames that engulfed the tiny car. His ordeal showed just the latest problem with the low-cost Nano — raising fresh questions about safety and quality as top Indian carmaker Tata Motors sets its sights on global expansion and aims to ramp up production of the Nano with a new factory next month. "My wife now doesn't want to buy any car," Sawant said by phone from his home in northern Mumbai on Thursday. "She doesn't even want to go for a Mercedes." Starting around $2,500, the Nano has been heralded as the world's cheapest car, and was meant to usher in a safety revolution, which would get millions of families off dangerous motorbikes and into the cool comfort of an affordable car. Tata Motors, which also owns Jaguar and Land Rover, plans to start selling versions of the Nano in Europe in 2011, and later, in America. Tata Motors spokesman Debasis Ray said the company is investigating the incident but believes it to be a one-off problem rather than the result of faulty design or manufacture. "We believe it was a one-off stray incident," he said. "It did catch fire. We're trying to figure out what may have caused it." Tata has offered Sawant a replacement Nano or a refund. This is not the first time there have been customer complaints about the Nano, which has been feted with rave reviews and awards since its launch a year ago. Last fall, three customers in India complained that their Nanos started smoking. Tata Motors attributed that to a faulty electrical switch and said it had changed suppliers and done additional tests to rule out a recall or redesign. Ray said Thursday that the incidents are not related. The switch problem, he said, "has been comprehensively addressed." "Safety has never been an issue with Tata cars," he added. "They are one of the safest cars on Indian roads." But some say the Nano's smoke and fire problems are symptomatic of pervasive quality control issues at India's number three carmaker, which must be addressed before Tata can successfully take its brand global — especially in the wake of Toyota's massive recalls, which have left car buyers jittery about safety standards. "As of today, is Tata good enough to take on the world? I would say no," said Deepesh Rathore, an auto analyst at IHS Global Insight in New Delhi. "On quality standards, Tata barely makes the cut." There are fewer than 30,000 Nanos on the road today, which means on a percentage basis the problem rate is fairly high, he said. "The Nano is a wonderful product, but these incidents really tarnish the image of the car as well as the company," Rathore said. "This is the time for Tata to have a deep look at quality." He said the recent addition of Carl-Peter Forster, former head of General Motors in Europe, as group chief executive is a step in the right direction. "They've got a guy running the show now who knows how the industry should work," he said. "How soon will the effects be seen across the Tata product range? Well, that will take time." Meanwhile, Uruvashi Shah, manager of Ashapura Travel World, which runs a high-end taxi service, said she has gotten rid of all the Tata models in her fleet because they needed too much repair work. She prefers Toyota. "Corolla is quite good. There is a comfortable feel but the mechanical side is good too," she said.

Source The concept of App Stores (application stores), which first became popular in the USA when Apple introduced the same for its iPhone, appears to be entering India in a big way with market leader Bharti Airtel now set to launch its App Stores on February 10, reports the Economic Times. Recently Aircel had tied up with Infosys to launch its App Stores. Idea too is reportedly working towards launching App Stores. Research firm Gartner estimates the global application store market to be worth $ 6.2 billion in 2010 with total downloads exceeding 4.5 billion. In 2009 revenues from app stores were at $ 4.2 billion and by 2013 the figure is expected to rise to $ 29.5 billion. The concept of App Stores is mainly to gain an increased pie of the VAS market. Globally handset manufacturers have used this concept to gain additional revenues from VAS. Apart from Apple, Nokia, BlackBerry, Samsung and Sony Ericsson too have presence in the App Store space.