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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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Airtel App Central Crosses 2.5 Million Downloads
Airtel App Central, was launched just over a month ago in India. Since the launch, it has accounted for over 2.5 million downloads. This is what the data for the past 30 days suggests.
Airtel was soon followed by Vodafone who went live with its own App Store last week. Reliance too has joined the fray and is readying its own App Store. The Airtel store, however, was the first of its kind in India. The surprising bit about the Airtel App Store is the fact that the maximum number of applications downloaded were from smaller cities and not large metros!
The most downloaded applications included social networking and utilities. Airtel added that its users were downloading 1 app per second in the 30 days since the existence of the app store. The Airtel App Central has now over 1,500 apps available for download and supports over 550 devices categorized under 25 customer categories. Apps are available for as low as Re. 1/day with options to pay on a weekly, monthly or one-time basis.
To check out the Airtel app store, navigate to the Airtel Live page on your phone browser. You can SMS app to 54321 to receive the URL via a text message.
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Sprint Unveils A New Eco Friendly LG Remarq
LG Electronics recently launched the new eco-friendly phone LG Remarq on the airwaves of the wireless carrier Sprint. This handset is made from 87 percent of recyclable materials and 19 percent of recycled plastic. This handset features a slide-out QWERTY keypad, 1.3 megapixel camera, 16GB expandable memory and much more.
Announced Date 22 Mar 2010
Network Type CDMA dual band (1900/800 MHz)
Data 1xEV-DO rev.0
3G Capable Yes
Size Dimensions 3.50 x 2.50 x 0.60 inches (89 x 64 x 15 mm) Size Compare
Weight 3.80 oz (108 g)
Battery Type Li - Ion, 900 mAh
Talk 5.5 hours (330 mins) of Talk time
Main Display Resolution 320 x 240 pixels
Type 262 144 colors, TFT
Camera Resolution 1.3 megapixels Resolution
Features Digital zoom
Multimedia Video Playback Yes
Music Player MP3
Memory Slot microSD/microSDHC
Input Predictive Text Input Yes
Keyboard Full keyboard (QWERTY)
Connectivity Internet Yes
USB Yes
Bluetooth 2.1, Stereo Bluetooth
PhoneBook Limited; Ring ID, Picture ID, Multiple numbers per contact, Caller groups
PIM Alarm, Calendar, To-Do / Tasks, Calculator, World Clock, Notepad
Voice Recording, Speaker Phone
Email Yes
GPS Yes
FCC Approved Yes
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NEW DELHI: The Centre should involve its agencies to build a wireless broadband network to bring internet to the masses, rather than laying an optical fibre network, the department of telecommunications (DoT) has suggested.
The proposal, which will give a fillip to WiMAX technological platform in the country, envisages formation of an infrastructure company under BSNL, which in collaboration with other PSUs such as Power Grid Corporation of India (PGCIL) and RailTel, could execute the project.
Earlier, an inter-ministerial panel comprising telecom, HRD, rural development, economic affairs, panchayati raj and information technology ministries and the Planning Commission, had drawn up a Rs 18,000-crore plan to lay a five lakh km optic fibre cable (OFC) using resources from the Universal Service Obligation Fund.
All telcos contribute 5% of their annual revenues to the USOF, which is used to support communications services in areas considered commercially unviable. DoT cites two main disadvantages for an OFC-based network: delay and higher costs. Laying an OFC cable of the size envisaged may take more than 10-years and rollout of broadband services cannot wait that long, DoT says. Also, OFC lacks the speed of deployment and feasibility available on wireless, while being a costlier option.
On the contrary, DoT says, wireless is an intelligent pipe stream, on which bandwidth allocation can be apportioned among different uses dynamically at a nominal cost. “OFC is a dumb pipe, while managed OFC is very expensive. Wireless backhaul would be quicker and faster in deployment, reliable and easy to maintain and will be scaleable at low costs when demands initially are perceived to be low,” the DoT note said.
The department said that by the time the fibre backhaul becomes operational, operators would have already put in place “complete wireless backhaul up to the block level”. According to Trai data, India had only about 8 million broadband users, compared with 546 million mobile users at January end. While mobile growth has exceeded all targets and projections, the country is unlikely to achieve even 50% of its target of having 20 million broadband connections by 2010-end.
India’s broadband penetration is less than 1%, while mobile penetration is about 45%. But, with 11 players lining up for broadband wireless spectrum auction and with only two slots of airwaves available for sale, the bidding process is expected to be highly competitive. Successful bidders are also expected to immediately launch services, providing the much needed thrust to increase broadband penetration. DoT estimates that with three WiMAX operators, it can provide 300 mbps data connectivity to 12,000 subscribers with 256 kbps minimum speed.
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Japanese electronics company Kyocera has launched its first Android phone, the Zio M6000.
The Zio M6000 happens to be a tri-band CDMA EVDO Rev. A handset. It supports 800/1700/1900MHz bands. The phone runs Android 1.6 and as of now, there is no word whether it will be getting an Android 2.0 update.
It features Wi-Fi, Bluetooth (with A2DP) and GPS. The M6000 has a largish 3.5-inch, capacitive, WVGA screen that is capable of a very high 800 x 400 pixel resolution. The phone also has a 3.2 megapixel camera complete with a dedicated camera key and a multitude of camera options. It can record VGA videos at 30 frames per second. Other features include a digital compass, accelerometer, and support for microSD cards up to 32GB.
The phone will be compatible with select carriers in U.S. Kyocera has, however, not revealed when they plan to release the M6000 or at what price. There is also a lingering doubt if a GSM version of this phone will ever be announced.
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DoT to announce eligible 3G, BWA applicants on Mar 29
The Department of Telecom (DoT) will declare on March 29 the names eligible applicants, who can participate in the auction for 3G and wireless broadband spectrum, after scrutinising the initial applications put in by 20 telecom and other players.
"The process of scrutinising the applications is on. We will announce the eligible applicants on March 29," a senior DoT official, who is part of the process said.
Nine players have submitted their applications for pan-India 3G spectrum, which will begin on April 9. In addition, the DoT has received 11 applications to participate in the auctions of broadband wireless access (BWA) spectrum, making for a total of 20 applications.
The auctions have attracted most of the 2G players -- Aircel, Bharti, Etisalat, Idea, Reliance Telecom, S Tel, Tata Teleservices, Vodafone and Videocon Telecom. Foreign telcos, however, skipped the process.
The BWA list has four new players -- Augere, Tikona Wireless, Infotel Broadband Services and Qualcomm -- while Spice is making a comeback into the telecom space.
The reserve price for pan-India 3G spectrum is Rs 3,500 crore and for BWA auctions, the reserve price is Rs 1,750.
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Idea Customers in Chennai will be charged 50p/3minutes , starting today. Idea Cellular is the first operator in Chennai and Tamil Nadu, to charge its customers for the call.
A call made to Customer Care(12345) , will be free until the customer gets connected to a customer care executive. Further, the first 25 seconds would not be charged, after which the customer would be charged 50 Paisa for every 180 seconds.
Idea cellular Tamilnadu is one of the newest operators in the Chennai and the Tamil Nadu circle.Other private operators such as Airtel, Vodafone and Aircel, who have a huge customer base in this circle have not started charging their customers, yet.
This has been implemented since 21st March and would be applicable for all Idea Cellular Customers in TN.
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Indian market is not yet ready for 3G: Uninor
Chennai, March 21
Uninor, the four-month-old telecom operator, may have kept away from bidding for a 3G licence, but the Unitech-Telenor joint venture is eagerly awaiting the 3G regime in India.
Surprised? But it there is a logic.
“Now, operators who are bidding for 3G will be down for some months in their preoccupation with 3G,” says Mr Stefan Kercza, Hub Head, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, Uninor, told Business Line.
He said that 3G hopefuls would need to do a lot of things, such as upgrading their base stations, which are “very costly and time consuming.” “You wait and see how much time and money they will be spending in building up their 3G business,” he added.
Uninor, which stormed into the telecom market in January with an aggressive 29 paise-per-minute offering, has won 3.5 million customers in the last three months. It expects to consolidate its customer base further – when its well-entrenched competitors are busy with 3G – launching more features to its offerings, the principal one of which will be GPRS. (General Packet Radio Service is a wireless communications technology that is particularly suited for sending and receiving small bursts of data, such as e-mail and Web browsing, as well as large volumes of data.)
GPRS launch
Mr Kercza said Uninor would launch GPRS within the next fortnight.
Uninor, whose Norwegian partner, Telenor, is a large player in Europe, did not bid in the recent 3G auctions. Mr Kercza said that Telenor knows from its experience in the Nordic countries that the Indian market is not quite ready for 3G. He recalled Telenor, which had not participated in the first round of bidding for 3G, did get into 3G five years ago, but found there was no market.
“All the revenues that we were looking at did not come because people were not ready to use it as it should be,” he said. Operators thought people would use their mobile phones “to see each other while talking” but it did not quite happen that way because to do that both talkers need to be on the same network and same technology platform.
In developed countries with high broadband penetration, people were used to higher speeds than 3G and were hence apathetic to 3G. But now with the onset of 4G or ‘long term evolution', which allows speeds of 100 mbps (against 14.4 mbps of 3G), operators in the Nordic countries are now planning to roll out the technology, Mr Kercza said.
In countries such as India, first there has to be an ecosystem of value-added services for 3G to take off, he observed. It takes time for the ecosystem to develop because there will always be teething problems such as revenue sharing and who takes responsibility in case the service fails.
Uninor, which currently operates in eight telecom circles, intends to roll out its services in five more over the next couple of months. It is also engaged in an exercise of collecting data of its customer profiles and behaviour.
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Godrej will soon launch GoJiyo, which seems like a SecondLife version for India. Go Jiyo features interesting promos which will introduce people to “a world where flying, teleportation and time travel are routine”.
Here is the promo video for GoJiyo going live now
A countdown on the site shows Go Jiyo will launch in about 5 days. How Godrej plans to integrate their brand products with social media tools and GoJiyo will be interesting. Will GoJiyo replace SecondLife as prefered virtual destination for the Indian youth? … wait for a few more days to find out.
See more videos below and check out what Go Jiyo would look like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at8Y-8glXIU
Get ready to believe in a new world. Your life will change. Preregistration is open.
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i am still playing with it to find flight mode.. i think i will die before the phone.. lol
Videocon Launches Exciting Three Offers
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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.