Articles Archive for October 2007
Internet, Web Portals »
Though animated GIF’s becomes out of fashion now-a-days, there are people who are still using GIF images, mostly in profiles of forums and other social networking sites like MySpace etc. If you are one among them and if you are searching for a one stop portal for animated images, GIFTube is for you. GIFTube, which is an exact clone of the popular video sharing site Youtube in concept and partly in its name, is allowing users to upload images upto 2.5 Mb, search images based on …
Tips, Web Portals »
Rapidshare.com is one of the most popular sites for sharing any type of files including softwares, games, videos , ebooks, images etc. Though most of the files are illegal and against copyrights, most of us are using the site atleast once in a while. The major problem with rapidshare and the similar file hosting services are unavailability of search options. Unless or otherwise one knows the url of the uploaded file, it is very difficult to identify and download the file from these sites.
Rapidshare1.com is an ultra cool …
Internet, Mobile »
With rumours over the launch of GPhone from Google still swirling around, One of the Google’s competitors, Skype is all set to launch its long awaiting Skype phone across the globe. Skype phone will be intially launched in UK and the launch dates of other confirmed countries in the list, Austrailia, Italy, Hong Kong, Sweden, Denmark, Austria and the Republic of Ireland is yet to be announced. Skype phone which is named 3Skypephone, as Skype joins hands with “3 Mobile”, a mobile media company in UK. £49.99 priced 3SkypePhone comes …
EMail, Google »
After increasing the capacity of storage in its free GMail service, Google surprises all its GMail users by introducing IMAP support this week. IMAP is an acronym for Internet Message Access Protocol, by which GMail users can sync GMail with their email clients. Synching, EMail clients - if these terms looks too much techinical for you, here is the simplified version. GMail and most free web mail service providers offers POP3 access by which you can access your mail in your mobile phones, Blackberry, iPhones and email clients like …
India, Mobile, Search engine »
After Google, now Yahoo India lauches SMS search facility in the country where the number of mobile users are witnessing an exponential growth. The service, One Search enables users to search business and local listing through an SMS. Users has to send an SMS to 58242 along with Yahoo’s short code. An SMS to 58242 with the city name returns the local weather details while an SMS with the business category and location will give the details of the business category in the particular location. Say, an SMS like “Restaurant …
India, Mobile »
India has already lost their ODI series against Australia. but still cricket fever is on in the cricket loving country. If you are one among the die-hard cricket fans, but forced to work away from watching the cricket match on TV and getting the updates on net, here is a third option to not to miss the cricketing action. You can get ball by live cricket commentary of final ODI between India and Australia in your mobile, if it is internet/GPRS enabled, for Free of cost.
World’s popular cricket portal Cricinfo has …
India, Web Portals »
India’s largest eCommerce company, mJunction services limited has launched a path breaking automobile portal, autojunction.in through which it plans to sell Cars online for the first time in India. The portal aims at making the car buying experience hassle free by providing complete end to end car buying options in the Internet itself. mJunction is a joint venture between SAIL and Tata Steel.
mJunction services has tied up with Electric car manufacturing company Reva Electric to be its first Auto eRetail partner to sell the Reva i electric car. …
Mobile, Video streaming »
BSNL today launches a new service called “TV in mobile handset” to eastern and north eastern Indian regions , by which BSNL subscribers with GPRS enabled mobile handsets can watch the live video streams of popular indian channels including NDTV, AajTak, CNBC, Cartoon Netwrok, Times Now, Zoom, Bindass, ETV, TV9, MaaTV, India TV and CNN. This service is FREE for the first 30 days and later they will have to pay Rs 10 per day for one channel for one day, Rs 50 per month for one channel for …
Broadband, India »
Broadband Internet services in India is gearing up for another revolution. Bharti Airtel, India’s largest telecom operator, launches 8Mbps broadband service in Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata, Delhi, and the NCR region, with a subsequent roll-out planned in Mumbai and Hyderabad. Though the tariff details for the offering is not available, company sources says the pricing would be around Rs.2000 for 7 GB-8 GB download limit. With 8Mbps speed, Airtel network is getting ready for the proposed IPTV services.
As most of the customers do not need 8Mbps connection speed …
Broadband, India, Telecom »
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), India’s one of the biggest telecom operators, plans to bundle broadband with all the new lines which it will install hereafter. Existing landlines will also be bundled with broadband and this conversion will be completed before this month end. Customers will not be charged anything additional for this broadband enabled landlines and after this, any landline , non broadband customer can also login to the net for free. But the catch here is the available download speed will be restricted to 56 Kbps instead of …
