Tarang Software unveils Mobile Wallet Service
Submitted by Navjot Singh on Wed, 09/23/2009 - 06:34Tarang Software Technologies, a leading provider of payment services for financial institutions, has uncovered its new Mobile Wallet service. The service permits a customer to have access to their approach their financial portfolio through their mobile phones.
The new service is designed to fulfill the demand of growing trend of mobility in banking.
Wanted ‘International girl trafficker’ arrested at Kolkata airport
Submitted by Kamal Gupta on Tue, 09/22/2009 - 08:54A 37-year old woman, allegedly involved in the trafficking of girls in East Asian countries, has been arrested by the police on arrival from Bangkok at the N S C B international airport.
According to an airport official, the woman had produced the fake passport after her arrival from the Air India Express Bangkok-Kolkata flight. The woman alias Jyoti Rana alias Nisha Sharma alias Meherunnisa is a Delhi resident.
Seagate brings out FreeAgent Theater+HD media player
Submitted by Navjot Singh on Tue, 09/22/2009 - 08:52Seagate, which deals in hard disk and storage solutions, has launched its new FreeAgent Theater+HD media player in the market.
It is said to be the next generation home theater solution and its basic aim is to connect the user’s digital media library to the home entertainment system.
The player can easily maintain link to the external hard drive to the TV or home entertainment center.
The ports of theater are to be connected with the hard drive containing movies, videos, music and pictures for accessing media library.
Nokia Beta Labs unveils ‘Nokia Braille Reader’
Submitted by Navjot Singh on Tue, 09/22/2009 - 08:48Nokia Beta Labs has come up with a great option for the Blind and Visually Impaired as it has launched a new SMS application that permits blind users to receive Braille text messages through Nokia’s touch phones.
The project is jointly undertaken by Nokia, Tampere University and the Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired. The program will receive the tactile text, which relays the message to the user after converting into a series of coded vibrations.
Airtel slashed its STD and local call rates to 50p/min
Submitted by Navjot Singh on Sun, 09/20/2009 - 07:05Bharti Airtel, country’s leading service provider, has rolled out its new ‘Airtel Advantage’ scheme for all its nationwide subscribers.
With this offer, customers can make STD as well as local calls to any Airtel number at the cost of just 50 paise per minute.
AL flight takes off without 25 riders
Submitted by Kamal Gupta on Sun, 09/20/2009 - 07:02The incident took place at Netaji Subhash Chandra International Airport in Kolkata. A Port Blair-bound Air India flight took off without 25 passengers. All the 25 passengers had confirmed their tickets but the plane did not have the sitting capacity for them.
Star One and Star Vijay on mobile
Submitted by Kamal Gupta on Sun, 09/20/2009 - 07:01Star India has announced the launch of its Hindi general entertainment channel (GEC) Star One and Tamil GCE Star Vijay on mobile TV platform.
Star has joined hands with Apalya Technologies PVT Ltd. for streaming its satellite channels for mobile users across all leading operators and regions.
In the beginning, Star will launch the service with video-on-demand content.
Sony Ericsson to unveil its new X3 in January 2010
Submitted by Navjot Singh on Sun, 09/20/2009 - 06:59According to some unofficial sources, Sony Ericsson will introduce its first Android powered handset ‘X3’ in January next year. The new X3 is better known as ‘The Racheal’.
A tipster has apparently confessed to buffs over at MobileCrunch about this possible action. So, the news is yet not confirmed.
The new X3 is powered with 1GHz snapdragon processor. The touchscreen should be 4 inches in size with an 800 x 480 resolution.
Samsung’s new 12MP camera phone
Submitted by Navjot Singh on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 08:19The leading mobile phone maker, Samsung India has launched its new handset named as ‘Samsung Pixon 12’ (M8910). The new handset has 12MP camera with full touch screen functionality.
During the first public appearance of the handset, Edward Chester of Trusted Reviews said, “The various photo-based technologies that have been crammed into the device do little to enhance its look, but overall it was undoubtedly the best camera phone we've used.”
Is John Abraham already married?
Submitted by Kamal Gupta on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 08:18The interesting news hitting the stalls is that Bollywood hunk John Abraham is already married. Yes, this is true, but the actor also added that he is married to his bikes.
The actor said that he would marry Bips only after he will add four more bikes to his collection. It was John Abraham, who inspired biking in India through his movie ‘Dhoom’.
His passion for bikes is well known to everyone in the industry.