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| Mobiles fuelling spurt in citizen journalism in J&K |
| Mobile phones or more precisely those mobile phones with camera is coming handy to people in trouble torn Jammu & Kashmir in a different way. People are using the handy gadget to record events and uploading the same on video sharing sites like like YouTube. All this is making Citizen Journalism a favourite pastime, reports the BBC
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| Spoken web project by IBM on |
| IBM is into a pilot project that may forever transform the way we receive information about a local place. It's called the spoken web project and basically it tries to integrate web on the other side of our mouthpieces, reports TOI
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| Census data out of RTI? |
| The census data of 2011 should be kept out of the ambit of Right to Information (RTI) Act, feels the government of India. Already there are divergent views appearing in sections of media abut this move, reports The Asian Age
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| Organised move for rural connectivity |
| The private cellular operators (both GSM & CDMA providers) have embarked upon a major initiative towards rural telecom push and they have planned some cash sops as part of the package to lure villagers to their schemes, reports igovernment.in
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| Indian content to become gaming kings |
| India centric themes like mythology, cricket, bollywood is set to cross oceans and become part and parcel of ($30 bn) or Rs. 1.2 lakh crore global gaming industry soon according to an industry estimate starting with the launch of Hanuman on Sony PlayStation 2, reports HT
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| e-governance course for smart governance |
| With the ever increasing emphasis on e-governance across the country, NISG and Tapmi has tied up to come out with a one year specialisation course in e-governance. The programme starts later in the year, reports ET
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| Railway tickets at the mobile recharging shop? |
| Acting upon the promise made by the Railways minister, Indian Railways are planning to sell railway tickets through the local mobile shops. It means we can purchase railway unreserved tickets to begin with locally and travel with ease. Gradually, reservation tickets will also be brought under its ambit, reports Livemint.com
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| Microsoft indicates a shift in policy |
| IT major Microsoft is indicating a major shift in policy as it begins the trial run of web based Word & Excel shortly. The move comes in the wake of similar developments by rival Google, reports Timesonline
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| Maldives plans phone banking |
| The government of Maldives is planning mobile phone banking across the island state to better serve its populace. The geographical location also makes a service like mobile phone banking quite customised to this region, reports igovernment.in
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| SL puts emphasis on English |
| By all acounts, Indian colonial past seems to be benefitting the country as far as fluency in English langauage is concerned and its ITeS spinoffs. Sri Lanka seems to see merit in it and plans major push towards English learning for its common citizens, reports igovernment.in
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| Mobile broadband catching on in UK |
| While we in India seem to be in struggling to reach optimum braodband connection, in UK the concept of mobile broadband is fast catching up and people are liking it, reports Timesonline
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| coming soon : e-greetings on mobiles |
| The slow but sure shifting of most things from computers to mobiles seems unabated. E-greetings are the latest features now to be made available on mobiles, reports BS
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| Chat/IM without Internet |
| A new revolutionary software, "WiPeer", and an application "Peersonalizer" has been developed through which it would be possible to chat on social networking websites without having an internet connection. It could be extended to mobile phones also, reports TOI
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| Get paid for hearing ads via your mobiles |
| A new software developed called Airvoice and telecom major Airtel are going to experiment a new phenomenon in Indian advertising world soon. The subscriber is actually going to be paid to hear an ad on one's mobile for few seconds while the call is being connected, reports IBNLive.com
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| 'Virtual sabbath', the new fad? |
| People in developed world are getting fed up of too much technological usages day in and day out and some of them are taking 'virtual sabbaths' to get back to the real world if only for a short period, so much so that it is becoming a fad, reports Manorama Online
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| Call monitoring centre planned |
| The GoI is mulling setting up a centre where every call made by the mobile phone users across the country is stored and analysed for many purposes. The move comes on the heels of a similar centre being planned to tap media (radio/TV) content, reports Livemint.com
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| Dial a cycle rickshaw a la a radio cab |
| Want a cycle rickshaw, it's just a phone call away. This amazingly simple phone based service has been started in the sleepy town of Fazilka in Punjab where the environment concious residents have replicated radio cab theme, reports The Asian Age
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| Work errands outsourcing catching up |
| After BPO & KPO boom, now it seems time has come to outsource your work & non work related errands virtually and save on precious time and mental agony in the processs, for a small price of course, reports TOI
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| Multitasking making us unproductive dolts? |
| Multitasking in terms of 'info overload' a feature of modern digital age is putting us in constant stress as our brains need some time to recuperate to shift from one task to another, a well-research report has indicated, reports London TimesOnline
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| Idea Cellular adds Spice |
| Aditya Birla Group Idea Cellular has bought 40.2% share of Spice Telecom's owner BK Modi to create 4th largest M&A deal involving an Indian company. More such deal are in offing in coming months, reports FE
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| India's first women IIT coming up |
| Noting that the number of girls making it to the IIT is quite less, President Pratibha Patil has hit upon the idea of setting up a just for women IIT. It is coming up in Amravati, Vidarbha, Maharashtra, President's constituency, report TOI
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| Cars with wi-fi coming soon |
| Soon your cars will be connected to the internet through a satellite via a dashboard. The wi-fi enablement would help in combatting traffic congestions or any emergency on the highways besides surfing inside the car, reports TOI
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| Future group calls MVNO market |
| Big Baazar & Food Bazaar brand owner the Future group have decided its time that they enter MVNO business. They reckon mobile phones have become a daily necessity for many of us, reports Mint
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| After Vodafone, Airtel in i-Phone pact |
| The battle among the telecom majors has gone beyond price war & overseas acquisition. After Vodafone announced the deal to sell Apple's i-phone in India, Bharti Airtel has also entered into an agreement with Apple Inc. to sell the gadget in India, reports mint
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| Speak into your mobiles & search |
| Yahoo is offering its voice recognising search facility for mobile users in India, the only other country apart from the USA where it is being launched. The service is first being tested, reports The Hindu
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| Web proving as boon of self expression in China |
| In China, the Internet is emerging as the most powerful medium of self expression these past few days when lots of imporant incidents have been happening like Olympic torch relay & the earthqake, reports TimesOnline
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| No comic stuff, comics on mobiles |
| Comics are coming into the mobiles big time. In advanced countries such as Japan boasting of a 85% mobile penetration, the trend is surely a shift towards content rich cellphone experience, reports HT
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| Chinese President 'powering the nation' |
| In a major vote of confidence to the powers of the Internet, the Chinese President has started chatting with citizens online through a major news portal. A unique initiative certainly for Asia, reports iGoverment.in
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| Mobiles reaching people @10K/hour |
| As many as 10,000 mobile handsets are being sold every hour in India according to a latest report. No wonder, country is attracting interests from all the big global players, reports NDTV Profit
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| First Hindi portal on stock market is here |
| In the continuing march of Hindi on matters economic, a website (www.moltol.in) on the stock market claiming to be the first such portal in Hindi has come up after Hindi business newspapers & a slew of business TV channels.
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