Monthly Archives: December 2010

T24mobile

December 27, 2010
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Free talktime for shopping at Big Bazaar, Central, Food Bazaar, Brand Factory, Home town, Pantaloons, Ezone. After shopping in Big bazar for a Kodak C43 and a Koryo Iron box, i had a surprise. Talktime on T24mobile connection. Registration was simple as the boy at the counter only wanted a address proof and he...

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National programme on technology enhanced learning

December 26, 2010
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National Programme on technology enhanced learning an initiative by Seven IITs and IISc to enhance engineering education through virtual class rooms.It is built along the same lines as OCW open courseware of MIT There was a newpaper report which mentioned that they nptel would expand the number of  courses and also grant degrees and...

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A Google alternate in china www.gosu.cn

December 22, 2010
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A chinese search engine has been launched which is stated as the alternate to google. www.gosu.cn the google alternate search engine in china. Entry of the search enigine has all market factors in favour of it as google.cn has moved to google.hk ( hongkong).

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Mobile number portability is available.

December 22, 2010
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Long back there was a proposal for mobile number portability and later there was proposals for it to happen. After almost a year after its pilot run and deadline its into action. Its available for just Rs 19/- Send an sms “port” to 1900  which sends you a ‘uid’ which should be provided to...

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Services associated with web hosting industry.

December 15, 2010
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These are a list of web hosting services that might be of some use at some point of time, and they are worthwhile to understand the basic concept of these. .htaccess 301 Redirect Addons Apache Backup Bandwidth cPanel Dedicated IP DNS Domain Name Domain Transfer E-commerce Email Account Fantastico DeLuxe File Manager File Permissions...

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Telecom mud-slinging

December 10, 2010
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Times of  India published the Open letter from Rajeev Chandrashekar  and JRD Tata it has something to do with the Telecom Licenses. I would call the entry of Reliance and Tata into  Telecom in 2002-2003 as illegal. Because the prevalent Licensing policy was 2 licenses in each Telecom circle in every 7 years which began...

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CMOS Integrated Silicon Nanophotonics – New technology capable of improving processing speed to 1 exaflop/sec (1 mil trilion)

December 4, 2010
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To improve the speed of a computer several research projects are going on, here is a new technology that promises a lot by integrating optical devices onto a silicon chip, this improves the way chip communicates. It is expected to be capable of processing 1 Exaflop (1 million trillion) operations in a sec. Thus...

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