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With the launch of the dual SIM phones last year, the Indian handset industry witnessed the arrival of a new technology all together. Dual SIM phones are meant to support two active connections in one phone. This saves the effort and money invested in keeping two handsets for two separate connections. This trend was started by Spice, who launched two dual SIM phones It gained popularity and apart from Spice many companies such as Samsung, Fly and Bleu introduced a number of dual SIM devices. Today, markets are also flooded with unbranded phones offering dual functionality. But the question that crops up with so many launches is that the right dual sim phone.
Connectivity Support
Before buying a dual sim device consumer should consider their con-; nectivity needs. In simple terms the first thing a users needs to identify is whether they will be using two GSM connections or one GSM and one CDMA. A lot of these phones are avail¬able in various combinations. Some support two GSM connections whereas some support one GSM and one CDMA connection. For instance, Spice offers two dual SIM phones. The Spice D88 supports one GSM and one CDMA connection whereas the D80 supports; two GSM connections. Same is the case with the phones launched by Fly and Samsung.
But if your requirement is of just two CDMA connections in one phone, then you need to wait for the time when companies will launch whether these phones will be able to perform and much up to your needs as well as expectation?Well,the answer is yes but only if you go in for a sensible buy considering a few things while buying one.

Many more Indian companies are entering the mobile handset busi- ness. What does this mean for consumers? Sonia Sharma finds out .Around 9 million handsets are consumed every month in India. That pretty much makes us one of the largest mobile phone markets in the world. Also these days, people are getting increasingly conscious about the kind of mobile phones they carry. Everyone wants a good looking phone and possessing one is no longer just the privilege of the upper class. Another noticeable change is that phones are becoming entertainment devices with better music quality along with multimedia features like cameras and GPRS receivers. All this has been achieved without compromising on the phone’s looks.

Ironically, the Indian handset market is marked by the presence of five major and many smaller global handset compa-nies.However, till date only two Indian companies have made it big in this segment. But today, the scenario is changing and many more Indian companies are venturing into this sector to dig into the mobile boom pie. The best part is that these companies are not some obscure newcomers in the Indian market. Some of them are big shots in the consumer electronic segment.
Kunal Ahooja, CEO, Spice Mobiles Ltd, an Indian mobile handset company, says, “The Indian market is the fastest growing in the world. There is a huge demand at the entry level and mid tier segments. This is where we being an Indian company have an edge over the MNCs because we understand the Indian psyche better and build customised handsets for our consumers. On the other hand, global brands that are present here build brands at the global level and then bring them to India - a move which cannot cater to the needs of all segments of mobile users.”
Currently mobile penetration in India is around 25 per cent. It is expected to grow to 40-50 per cent in the next four years. On the other hand, the replacement market is also growing rapidly, making it a very lucrative proposition for these companies.
According to our sources, Onida, a leading brand in consumer electronics like TVs and washing machines, has already launched a handset called V110, which has a standby time of 28 days. This is an important aspect as battery has always been the most important criteria especially in the hinterlands where there is a perennial shortage of electricity. But Onida is not limiting itself to the entry-level and mid-level phones. It will soon come out with a smart phone as well.

Beerud Seth, CEO,Webaroo, talks to Anand Singh about SMS QupShup an SMS community service, which lets its users to send free group SMS across the country
SMS GupShup is a social messaging platform. Tell us something more about the service
SMS GupShup was inspired by a desire to bring more content to mobile phones, even the most basic of handsets.
It is a free group messaging service that helps mobile users create and join groups and send/receive group messages or greetings. Users, as well as publishers such as bloggers and news organisations can generate the content. SMS GupShup has more than 2 lakh user-based commu¬nities in categories such as finance, entertainment, spirituality, education and business.
How is SMS GupShup performing? What all can be done with its features?
Since its launch in April 2007, SMS GupShup has grown dramatically. It is actively used by mil¬lions of users on a daily basis to share content across a variety of categories such as finance, entertainment, colleges, clubs and associations, religion, jokes and politics.
These groups reflect the emerging SMS trend in India. There are a number of things one can do with SMS GupShup like creating multiple groups to stay in touch with friends, family, colleagues and customers, access a picture gallery for latest content etc. Apart form that, one can also search for new friends and groups through our systematic list of all the categories of communities.
FToday our users include every segment of mobile users like stock brokers who send tips to their clients (Nikstock), organisers to announce parties (LetzParty), by the spiritually minded to share religious thoughts (SikhNetwork), jokesters to share jokes (SMSWorld), leaders to organise their community (SinlengNews) and much more. We have some¬thing for everyone.
The trend of messag¬ing through Web por¬tals is on an upswing. This facility is also used for mass campaigns. Please high¬light the news serv¬ice pro¬vided in Orissa and other initiatives taken by Webaroo SMS GupShup?
SMS GupShup does not publish any content of its own - all of it is User Generated Content (UGC). We only provide a platform for users to express themselves, which in other words is microblogging. Odisha is one of our partners, which sends out breaking news from within Orissa. As mentioned earlier, just like Odisha, SMS GupShup has more than 2 lakh user-based commi nities in categories like finance, entertainment, spirituality, education and business.
What other features will be included in SMS GupShup in the near future?
We have a very aggressive product roadmap wherein we will launch newer and better features and will also continue to provide delightful user experience to millions of our users who have reposed faith in our product.
We are also striving to make a contribution to the society by using the power od messaging. For instance, we are the official SMS partner for the United Nation’s (UN’s) End Poverty 2015 campaign. SMS GupShup will promote the cause of this cam¬paign among millions of its users. The UN has also created a community ‘EndPovertj^OlS’ on http:/Avww.smsgupshup.com, which anyone in India can join by sending an SMS: “JOIN END-POVERTY2015″ to 567678.
Who are your competitors in the Indian market?
SMS communities are still a very nascent seg¬ment in India but definitely has a potential to grow bigger. Currently the only other company providing similar services is Netcore through its MyToday SMS service.

High performance pcs generally need a lot of active cooling and high speed hard drives however also add to ruckus your pc might makes especially noticeable at night. Over time the hunning turn into droning and son . your can’t take it any more . this happened to a lot of us here at digit where even a graphics card fan picking up speed can be hard in our otherwise silent environment.

All we needed in our quest to silence the pcs ws a screw drier set. some tape rubber grommets washers and a used toothbrush. All very easily available and dost nothing or nest to nothing . after shutting down the pc opening the cabinet and tuning it on again . we looked for the noisiest component.

CASE FAN

We found that the case fans were the worst culprits . a lot of the cheap quality fan were the nosiest and since they are not really expensive we just replaced them . for those of you who don’t want to buy an new fan cleaning is the only alternative . whenever we found find a fan spinning at lower rpm we would know it was due for replacement.

THE CPU FAN

The very careful when removing the cpu fan to clean it because one wrong jerk means you could dislodge the fan to the wrong angle and damage your cpu or motherboard. When remover the cpu fans cleaned them applied artic silver thermal paste on to the cpu and fixed the fan back making sure it vas seated firmly.

This one illustrates the idea of ‘internet phenomenon.”having read this bit of news this writer fondly remembers mahr cagri internet phenomenon par excellecnce in 1999. there is a org devoted to preserving the original mahir homepage were pages then not while updating it with photographs of mahir’s new successes with the public at large.

The page to keep a long story short was the trukish mahir’s attempt at reaching out to people by telling them about him self. The English was atrocious and that made for about half the people of the padge and of mahir. essentially people loved mahir because of his seeming innocence. Generosity and child like frankness. Some of the gems on the page included “l like music I have many music enstrumans my home . I can play and l like to be friendship from different country. Well that’s quite enough of the nostalgia fast forward to 2007. and we have casey seren 24 a woud bereal state agent form California who bought eight houses in eight months in four states with no money as won payment. He managed that through credit he was hoping to sell the properties for a huge profit. As it came to pass he lost everything and ended up owing about $170000 to his creditors.

The lifecam nx -6000 is a compact 2mp webcam with and inbuilt microphone made for laptops and it will easily fit into your pocket. The cam lens can be rotated vertically and also pushed into the body of the device . when not in use . the lifecam comes with a carry pouch. T

The camera attaches to the laptop using a coip on like mechanism. A little indicator with microsoft. On it flashes when the is in use . although not hot enough to cause any real damage . it still does get pretty warm. Pressing the sole button on the camera starts windows live messenger.

Like all usb devices these days installation is very simple . plug it in and windows xp detects the camera and the microphone without your having to install and drivers.

A vista styled software called lifecam is provided. It lets you record photos . audio and moves . visual effects can be added as well to make things a little more fun . panning and zooming can be done but only at lower resolutions. The software lacks face tracking features.

Sp whats special with KODAK EASYSHARE V803, its compact sleek and stylish.Another thing is that its available in different colours ranging red,blue and even pink  which might be interesting for girls as  pink is the favorite colour of majority of girls.The perfect layout of keys on with menu makes the navigation much easier.22 different scene modes are there which adds special attraction to V803.Coming to the memory capacity,it has 32 Mb internal memory which is very small comparably,you can extend the memory via SD cards.It has 8.0 MegaPixel photo quality.

A drawback is that the non availablity of AV cable which is available with almost all digital cameras.The Red focus make it little more special  as it helps you  to focus exactly and take the accurate photographs,auto focus is much time consuming and also not that accurate.Another features are red eye removal,Blurry photo warning ,White balance etc,4x digital  zoom,It produces MP4 movie at 640 x 480 or 320 x 240 pixel resolution at 30 frames per second.Coming to the battery, Kodak EasyShare V803 is given power via KODAK  KLIC 7003 Lithium Rechargeable battery.So if you are planning to buy this digital camera,there is not much thinking just go for it!

Personal computers have now turned to be an inevitable part of life to College students and even school students,But high price force them to depend on parents or other sources.Even though computers are available in school labs and all it wont give the effect of one personal computer as personal computer is ones private property .

Some might not know about the CLASSMATE PC designed by intel  is fixing this problem to an extent.In the first look ,it may appear like a toy with small buttons round touchpad dual tone finish.800 x 4800 and 7 inch display are another important feature of Classmate PC.Winows XP pro version is inbuilt  in it.Coming to processor side ,it has intel celeron with 900 mhz which is sufficient for a school student.2 GB flash hard drive is used instead of normal Hard Disks,This problem may be fixed in future.It demands only that much as far as purpose of Intel Classmate PC is concerned.Coming to the memory side it has 256 mb of  RAM.It weighs 3.2 -4.1 pounds.coming to cost side its very much affordable and that makes the Intel classmate PC very much economical.

PRICE :250-350 $

The problem with the software world today is that they are platform dependant. Not all of them but the majority. Application are being made as windows only or mac only. Linux being open source has a sot of application built for it with source code available. Thus open source application generally are available as source linux binaries and windows binaries . in a sense open source is more cross platform than closed source application a generalisation but the numbers support it.

It’s problem that doesn’t seen to be solvable microsoft will release application programming interfaces to developers but they are obviously not going to release source code. Cross platform applications need to run on a different layer from the os something that is installable on any os something like’s sun’s java. Which runs anywhere and allows . java based applications to be run on any operating system . java has invaded the mobile phone markets as well and anything from games to software applications are now installable on your phone.

Every family has its black sheep every armour a chink batteries and hard drives have come to be the bane of technology’s existence hard drives are bottlenecks and batteries just don’t last as long as they should especially now that they are gaining in importance with everything shifting towards mobile computing and sadly they have been found wanting desperately.

Enter the sugar battery .it’s still a fuel cell but in this case the fuel is anything that contains sugar even soft drindks. It this catches on you will be sharing your coke with your phone and laptop. Not only do these batteries last up to four dimes longer than lithium based batteries they are easy to recharge ar e bio degradable an d run on sugar . so you keep wondering when someone will yell april fool ! such innovations are desperately required in the battery segment. The cange this promised is radical because we might soon se ourselves refilling our own batteries and never running out of charge. The developers of this technology are based at sain louis university missouri. Usa