Thursday, July 24, 2008

Subhiksha Mobile stores has scored a century in Andhra Pradesh

Subhiksha Mobile, India''s largest telecom retailer has scored a century and crossed the golden figure of 100 mobile stores in Andhra Pradesh. It has thus become the largest mobile retailer in Andhra Pradesh as well. The company is successfully operating 59 stores in Hyderabad and 43 stores in various other towns in Andhra Pradesh.

Subhiksha Mobile, which started its operations in Andhra only in the second half of 2007, has now galloped past other retailers and holds close to 15% share of the mobile retailing market in Andhra Pradesh.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. R Subramanian, MD, Subhiksha said, "Andhra is a very important state for us and we are delighted to be the first mobile retailer to cross the 100 stores benchmark here. We thank consumers for overwhelmingly reposing their faith in our philosophy of offering the lowest prices and the best value on all leading brands of handsets and accessories "
In line with Subhiksha's aggressive expansion plans, Subhiksha Mobile plans to add 800 -1000 more mobile stores to its current number of 750 mobile stores all over India with a total investment of Rs 500 crore by the year end. The conveniently located neighborhood stores offer the latest range of handsets and accessories at the lowest prices.

To find the store closest to them or simply to check prices of models that they wish to buy customers could just call 60607777 from any city in Andhra.

Emoze launches the world's first push mobile email solution for Java handsets

Hundreds of millions of mobile phone owners can now take advantage of email on-the-move as emoze launches the world's first push mobile email solution for Java handsets. Push-mobile email is now available to a whole new category of mobile users, with more than 800 handsets added to the mobile email mix.

Push-mobile email is now available to a whole new category of mobile users, with more than 800 handsets added to the mobile email mix. Standard-grade handsets previously considered 'dumber' than Blackberry handsets, Smartphones or Windows Mobile devices, can get very smart with emoze.

Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and Samsung users will be able to get emoze push mail on their handsets. The deployment will be in stages; Nokia Series40 handsets will be the first to be added, followed shortly after by the rest.

Unique web-like graphics, flexible layouts and animated screen transitions are all supported by the emoze Java client. Unlike other simple push email solutions, emoze delivers slick, colorful and well laid out messaging and content - mirroring what you get on your PC screen - to even the most basic mobile phone.

Emoze is available to everybody for free by quick and easy download from http://www.emoze.com independent of operator.

"This technology has been a long time in the making. We are committed to providing the most robust solution to the broadest number of handsets which fits into the emoze mass market strategy and serves millions of Java mobile phone users worldwide," said Eitan Linker, emoze CEO.

Data is never stored on any third party site. emoze's Java client supports a range of personal and corporate data sources including Microsoft Exchange (Outlook), POP3/IMAP servers, as well as Web mail servers like Gmail. Mobile email on the move with emoze: 'Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere!'
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Samsung launched Samsung Innov8 with 8 MP Camera

Establishing a top name in camera phones, Samsung Electronics is all set to introduce 8 mega-pixel camera phone, Samsung Innov8 enriched with multimedia entertainment features.

The Samsung Innov8 is a photographer’s dream phone; featuring a massive 8-megapixel autofocus camera that offers image stabilization and blink, smile, and face detection, for the best possible photos. The camera also takes panoramic photographs, and uses the handset’s built-in GPS receiver to geotag images with location information. The Innov8 is also capable of recording QVGA video at up to 120 frames per second and VGA-resolution video at up to 30 frames per second, with a full suite video editing tools right on the Innov8.



If music is your thing, there’s a lot to love about the Innov8 - thanks to the built-in FM radio, 3D surround sound, and a standard 3.5mm audio. The Innov8 comes with 16GB of built-in memory in addition to a microSD card slot for even more storage options. Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP support for stereo headsets makes wireless music much more enjoyable!

Further the phone supports video player formats such as DivX, WMV, Real Player and MPEG4 and comes equipped with A GPS technology, offering navigation and geo-tagging service, said the company. The phone incorporating Symbian OS V9.3, S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 comes with latest imaging technology which enable user to use applications like smile shot, blink shot and face recognition.

The phone will be available in Europe in August followed by other markets in September.

Google Launched Knol Like Wikipedia

Google has just launched Knol (which was announced in December), their new author driven knowledge project that appears to be a direct response to services like Wikipedia and Mahalo. Its a place where people can share and collaborate on authoritative articles focusing on their areas of expertise. Knol allows people to write about their areas of expertise under their bylines in a twist on encyclopaedia Wikipedia, which allows anonymity.

"The Web contains vast amounts of information, but not everything worth knowing is on the Web," said Cedric Dupont, a Google product manager and Michael McNally, a Google software engineer, in a blog post. "An enormous amount of information resides in people's heads: millions of people know useful things and billions more could benefit from that knowledge. Knol will encourage these people to contribute their knowledge online and make it accessible to everyone."

Knol's means of encouragement is Google's AdSense program. At authors of Knols -- otherwise known as articles -- may, if they dislike toiling on Google's behalf for free, include ads from Google's AdSense program alongside their contributed content, which can be words or images.

The key principle behind Knol is authorship. Every knol will have an author (or group of authors) who put their name behind their content. It's their knol, their voice, their opinion. We expect that there will be multiple knols on the same subject, and we think that is good.

With Knol, we are introducing a new method for authors to work together that we call "moderated collaboration." With this feature, any reader can make suggested edits to a knol which the author may then choose to accept, reject, or modify before these contributions become visible to the public. This allows authors to accept suggestions from everyone in the world while remaining in control of their content. After all, their name is associated with it!

Knol differs from Wikipedia in that each Knol has a designated author. That author may have collaborators, but all payments go to the primary author. If there's any revenue division to be done, that's left to team members to sort out.

Knol's collaboration model is also more hierarchical than Wikipedia's. Article collaborators can suggest changes but cannot make them without the author's approval. While this authorial bottleneck may lead to Knol being less timely than Wikipedia, which often reflects breaking news minutes after events occur, it should prevent the revision wars that plague controversial Wikipedia articles.

If you want to write some information anythink in which you are intrested then visit knol.google.com

Lexar - 8GB Platinum II 60x SD Memory Card



The Lexar 8GBPlatinum II 60x Secure Digital memory card is a high-speed, high-capacity card designed for fast picture-taking, full-motion video, or use with other SDHC-enabled digital devices. The card is speed-rated at 60x, the equivalent of a minimum sustained write speed capability of 9MB per second.

With the 8 GB high-capacity, high-speed performance of the Lexar Platinum II SDHC card, you can take a huge number of photos in quick succession using the “burst mode” feature of your camera, as well as fully leverage the video capabilities of your SDHC-enabled point-and-shoot digital camera. Using a Lexar Platinum II SDHC card means you can always capture that perfect moment.

Sony Portable Reader to read ebooks




It has become more and more common for people to read eBooks the fact that they are as easily available and distributable on the internet. Sony has come up with innovative way to enhance your digital reading experience. Sony reader is available on 6″ display, weighing at as light as 9 ounces and as thin as half an inch. It reads PDF, JPEG, MP3 and more formats. The battery allows contiguous reading of up to 7500 page flips per charge session. It uses a revolutionary paper-like display with E Ink technology to ensure comfort reading even in bright sunlight. Selection of colors currently in Silver and Dark Blue. Sony also offers range of customization services, such as custom engraving with laser, and selection of covers to make your Sony Reader more personal.

Blogspot.com cited as the No. 1 host for malware

According to a report out Wednesday, antivirus vendor Sophos says it detects one Web page with malicious content every 5 seconds--a trend that is up 300 percent from 2007

In its Security Threat Report for the first half of 2008, Sophos says it finds just over 16,000 malicious pages each day, mostly the result of malicious SQL-injection attacks on legitimate Web sites such as the attack on Sony's U.S. PlayStation site in July. Tricks used by criminal hackers include using simple HTML code to place via SQL-injection a 1x1 pixel element (about the size of a pin prick) on an infected page. In loading the page, the Internet browser would then contact a server running exploit scripts and malicious code. But because the sites are legitimate, some security vendors struggle with blocking infected Web pages.

As for illegitimate sites, Sophos notes that Geocities and Blogger both make it easy for anyone to set up a Web site without much identification. Blogger, owned by Google, is particularly problematic, says Sophos, with the blog site alone accounting for nearly 2 percent of all malware hosts. I is not only possible for the Blogger sites to host malicious code, but criminal attackers can also inject links to malicious sites in the comments sections of the blogs.

A spokeperson for Google said "Google takes the security of our users very seriously, and we work hard to protect them from malware. Using Blogger, or any Google product, to serve or host malware is a violation of our product policies. We actively work to detect and remove sites that serve malware from our network."

Cnet

Samsung 2nd Generation New Series 9 LED LCD HDTV


Samsung Electronics America Inc., a worldwide leader in innovation and HDTV technology, unveils the successor to the company's award-winning 81 Series LED LCD HDTV, with the launch of the new Series 9 LED LCD HDTV. The 2008 flagship Series 9, Samsung's 2nd generation LCD HDTV to use LED SmartLighting™ technology, offers consumers the powerful combination of LED and 120Hz technologies, resulting in a 1,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio for a crisp, full HD 1080p picture. The Series 9 is also distinguished by Samsung's new addition to the art-inspired ToC™ (Touch of Color™) design – an elegantly patterned bezel with charcoal gray accent. Beyond delivering a superior picture performance with craftsman-like design, the Series 9 gives consumers the freedom to easily access and manage nearly all forms of digital content via the TV through innovative features such as InfoLink™ and WiseLink™ Pro.


Samsung's improved Ultra Clear Panel technology eliminates ambient light reflection that may affect picture quality, ensuring perfect picture clarity even in bright viewing surroundings. By enhancing color reproduction level, Samsung's Ultra Clear Panel technology also lets consumers enjoy the detail and vibrancy of colors.
Adding to the superior picture quality in the Series 9 is Samsung's Auto Motion Plus 120Hz™ technology that reduces the motion blur caused by fast-paced content. It’s ideal for diehard sport fans, avid gamers, and movie mavens alike.


Always seeking ways to expand the possibilities of the HDTV, the Series 9 LED LCD also features Samsung's InfoLink™ RSS service, which gives touch-of-a-button access to news, weather, and stock quotes. The Series 9 also plays MP3 music, JPEG photos, and video files stored on memory drives, other digital devices, or PCs with Samsung's WiseLink™ Pro and DLNA technology.


Aligned with Samsung's efforts to combine technological advancement with environmental awareness, Samsung's Series 9 950 LCD features a unique “EnergySaving Mode” that ensures the HDTV is compliant with the EPA’s EnergyStar® rating system. By adjusting the HDTV’s backlight brightness with a low, medium, or high selection, power consumption is substantially decreased compared to similar 2007 models.


Additionally, because of the unique Touch of Color manufacturing process infuses color into the TV’s bezel without any painted on color, no VOC’s (Volatile Organic Compounds) are emitted for lower CO2 emissions during production. By using LED backlighting rather than a traditional cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFL), the Series 9 950 is also mercury-free.
The Series 9 LED LCD HDTVs will be available in August in 46” class (45.9-inch measured diagonally) and the 55” class (54.9-inch measured diagonally) sizes. (Model numbers: LN46A950 and LN55A950).


The 46 inch LN46A950 and 55 inch LN55A950 are priced at $3,199.99 and $4,199.99


Gateway released Two New Laptops M-2408j & M-2410j




Gateway has decided to release its new notebook PCs later later this month. The M-2408j features 2GB of memory (supports up to 4GB), 250GB of HDD, and a DVD Super multi-drive. Meanwhile, the Gateway M-2410j offers a 3GB of memory, and 320GB of HDD. Both desktop replacements adopt a 1.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 QL-60 processor with a 15.4-Inch LCD Screen in WXGA resolution (1,280×800 pixels), WiFi connectivity, 1.3MP webcam, HDMI output, and 5-in-1 card reader. The M-2408j and M-2410j are priced at approx. €470 and €580.