Archive For December, 2006

Drivers in Telecom sector in 2007

Telecom sector will drive up the rate of growth of Indian GDP in the coming years.The growth rate of mobile subscribers in India is currently an amazing 82.2%. According to Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Dayanidhi Maran, by the end of the year 2007 India will have 250 million mobiles subscribers (a teledensity [...]

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The Sixth Estate

First was the King and his clergy; Second, the royalty; Third, the people; Fourth became the media; Fifth happened when Internet came in quietly and began reigning our everyday life; The Sixth Estate might as well be the little screen that we wake up to the sound of, sleep next to, and do many things [...]

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Didi Boi – I need help

Remember those teen years when every issue was a life and death situation? What to wear, how to start a conversation with the one you have hots for, which present to give to your love, how to deal with a snub or a break up? We all turned to friends for advise and at times, when friends [...]

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Divine blessings are just an sms away

Who is that one person in whose good books you always want to be in? Think about it? Except for agnostics and perhaps communists, most would opt for lord all mighty! So whom do you revere? Siddhi Vinayak? Tirupati Balaji? Mata Sheravali? Shrinathji? Don’t you wish you could be blessed without taking those precious days [...]

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Search is the King

Search function is increasingly becoming available to mobile subscribers especially with the spread of technologies like GPRS, WCDMA, HSDPA. The knowledge of geaographical location of the mobile handset adds an important dimension to search on mobile (LBS application). Subcriber’s query about specifics like ATMs, restaurants, hospitals, hotels in his area of usage will be instantly [...]

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Problems with Short Codes

Have you noticed how NDTV anchors say SMS 6388 or NDTV on your cell phone? It works when you have a normal cell phone with 1-9 keypad. But what if you have a PDA with a qwerty keyboard? So, depending on the location of numbers on your keypad, you get some really weird acronyms – for [...]

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