Your search for an entry level handset is over as LG rolls out two new low-end handsets namely the GB110 and GB106. These candy bars are aimed at low to mid range consumers.
The GB106 bundles up a 1.5 inch color screen, five-way D-pad, 1.5MB of memory and an FM Radio. The built-in FM receiver eliminates the need of a headset while listening to radio broadcasts. Its battery life provides talktime up to 4 hours and standby time up to 400 hours.
Well, the other handset GB110 takes you to a slightly higher level, in addition to the features in GB106, it also packs in a microSD card slot up to 2GB and a VGA camera. Its 950 mAh battery lets you extend your conversations.
The LG handsets may hit the shelves this month, the pricing details are not announced.
Source:
http://www.techgadgets.in/
Monday, January 19, 2009
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Bharti, Vodafone launch new BlackBerry smartphone
Leading mobile operators Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Essar on Tuesday launched yet another BlackBerry smartphone. Priced at Rs. 21,990, the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 smartphone allows easy typing and dialling, besides incorporating many enhancements into its sleek flip design.
The spacious keyboard allows easy typing and dialling, while its external display helps in previewing calendar reminders, email, text messages and phone calls at a glance. It also has leading mobile messaging solution and a wide range of impressive Internet and multimedia capabilities.
“BlackBerry smartphones have been well-received in the Indian market and the launch of the BlackBerry Pearl Flip will help expand the appeal of the BlackBerry platform to an even wider range of customers,” said Research In Motion (RIM) Vice-President (India) Frenny Bawa.
The combination of RIM’s powerful mobile email solution and rich multimedia capabilities, together with support for text messaging, picture messaging, enhanced web browsing and built-in Wi-Fi, makes the BlackBerry Pearl Flip ideal for balancing a busy lifestyle, said Sanjay Gupta, Chief Marketing Officer, Mobile Services, Airtel.
Similarly, Vodafone Essar Director (Marketing and New Business) Harit Nagpal said they had long been a partner of RIM, bringing various BlackBerry smartphones to India. “The new smartphone is ideal for people who want a uniquely powerful and sophisticated clamshell handset, delivering the full capabilities of the BlackBerry solution as well as access to various mobile business and lifestyle applications.”
source :
http://www.hindu.com/
The spacious keyboard allows easy typing and dialling, while its external display helps in previewing calendar reminders, email, text messages and phone calls at a glance. It also has leading mobile messaging solution and a wide range of impressive Internet and multimedia capabilities.
“BlackBerry smartphones have been well-received in the Indian market and the launch of the BlackBerry Pearl Flip will help expand the appeal of the BlackBerry platform to an even wider range of customers,” said Research In Motion (RIM) Vice-President (India) Frenny Bawa.
The combination of RIM’s powerful mobile email solution and rich multimedia capabilities, together with support for text messaging, picture messaging, enhanced web browsing and built-in Wi-Fi, makes the BlackBerry Pearl Flip ideal for balancing a busy lifestyle, said Sanjay Gupta, Chief Marketing Officer, Mobile Services, Airtel.
Similarly, Vodafone Essar Director (Marketing and New Business) Harit Nagpal said they had long been a partner of RIM, bringing various BlackBerry smartphones to India. “The new smartphone is ideal for people who want a uniquely powerful and sophisticated clamshell handset, delivering the full capabilities of the BlackBerry solution as well as access to various mobile business and lifestyle applications.”
source :
http://www.hindu.com/
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Over 20,000 chicken culled in West Bengal's Malda district
Over 20,000 chicken have been culled in West Bengal's Malda district where culling operation was continuing in some new areas while mopping up operation had started in those areas where culling has been completed, a top district official said on Saturday.
District Magistrate Sreedhar Ghosh said that around 20,875 chicken have been culled in 24 villages under Narhatta and Kotwali gram panchayat of English Bazar Block of the district till last night.
New culling operation was being carried out in some villages under Mahispathani gram panchayat area under Old Malda Block of the district today, the DM said.
Mopping up operation was being carried out in the 24 villages under Narhatta and Kotwali gram panchayat of English Bazar Block where culling had been completed, he said.
Asked about media reports of death of a large number of birds and chicken in Alinagar area under Bargachi I gram panchayat of Gajole Block of the district, Ghosh said "I have not received any fresh report of any deaths of large number of birds and chicken."
The DM was hopeful that the culling operation in the district would be over by tonight.
source :
http://www.zeenews.com/
District Magistrate Sreedhar Ghosh said that around 20,875 chicken have been culled in 24 villages under Narhatta and Kotwali gram panchayat of English Bazar Block of the district till last night.
District Magistrate Sreedhar Ghosh said that around 20,875 chicken have been culled in 24 villages under Narhatta and Kotwali gram panchayat of English Bazar Block of the district till last night. New culling operation was being carried out in some villages under Mahispathani gram panchayat area under Old Malda Block of the district today, the DM said.
Mopping up operation was being carried out in the 24 villages under Narhatta and Kotwali gram panchayat of English Bazar Block where culling had been completed, he said.
Asked about media reports of death of a large number of birds and chicken in Alinagar area under Bargachi I gram panchayat of Gajole Block of the district, Ghosh said "I have not received any fresh report of any deaths of large number of birds and chicken."
The DM was hopeful that the culling operation in the district would be over by tonight.
source :
http://www.zeenews.com/
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Padmashri Jagan Nath Kaul dead
Padmashri Jagan Nath Kaul, who was instrumental in the setting up of SOS Children's village in India and dedicated his life working for the welfare of the orphan kids and displaced Kashmiri Pandits, died on Tuesday.
Kaul was 84 and is survived by his wife Indira and four children.
Born in Srinagar in 1924, Kaul, popularly known as Papaji, was associated with the SOS Children's village since its inception in 1964. In 1989, Kaul became the president of the SOS village, a position he held till the end.
The SOS village has reached out to many thousands of children and families through 39 villages. The organisation is dedicated to the welfare and development of orphan children and strengthening disadvantaged families.
Kaul was also associated with a lot of philanthropic work for the Kashmiri Pandits who were displaced from the valley.
The construction of a replica of 'Hari Parbat', a famous temple in Kashmir, in Faridabad was his idea.
Among the awards conferred on him are Padmashri, Raja Rammohan Roy Teacher Award and Rajiv Gandhi Manav Seva Award.
source : http://www.hindu.com/
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Indian woman gives birth at age of 70
Rajo Devi, who married 50 years ago, gave birth to a baby girl on November 28, and is now thought to be the world's oldest new mother.
Dr Anurag Bishnoi, a doctor at the Hisar fertility centre in Haryana state, said: "Rajo Devi and (her husband) Bala Ram approached the centre for treatment and the embryo transfer was done on April 19.
"Both the mother and child are in good health."
A 67-year-old Spanish woman who had twins in 2006 was thought to have been the previous oldest mother.
Devi's husband, aged 72, had also wed his wife's sister after 10 years of his first marriage did not result in children. His second wife also failed to become pregnant.
It was not clear whose egg and sperm were used in the successful treatment.
Dr Bishnoi, who helped the couple realise their dream, said both the mother and child were in good health.
"IVF has revolutionised the way we look at infertility," said Mr Bishnoi. "Infertility is no longer a social taboo or a divine curse. It can be treated scientifically."
"Adriana Iliescu, a retired university lecturer in Romania, was the oldest woman to have given birth. She delivered at the age of 66 in 2006. Maria Del, a Spanish woman, gave birth by the IVF treatment at the age of 67. And now, Rajo Devi has become the oldest woman to have given birth and the first woman in her seventies to do so," claimed Dr Bishnoi.
"Another woman of her age is reported to have delivered a child at Muzzafarnagar, but she was previously fertile," he added.
New mother Rajo Devi, "We longed for a child all these years and now we are very happy to have one in the twilight years of our life."
Husband Ram said he wasn't worrying over who would look after the child if they died.
"The upbringing of the child is not a problem. We have a joint family as is common in rural Haryana," he said.
The couple said they were facing social stigma for being childless for the last 55 years.
"We used the usual intra cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) technique in her case. The ICSI method enables even poor quality sperms being used creating embryos," said Dr Bishnoi.
He said his parents and wife, all doctors, performed the procedure together. "The major concern for us was that in case the woman conceived twins, she may not be able to carry them through the full term of pregnancy. In that case, all over efforts would have failed and the woman's life would have been in danger," Bishnoi said.
To avoid multiple pregnancies, the doctors used blastocyst culture, where a single potential embryo is transferred to the uterus instead of the normal two to three embryos. "This embryo is transferred after five days in this technique, while in normal cases it is done in two-three days," he added.
"Rajo is the eldest of four siblings. She is elder to me by about 16 years. We all prayed she would get a child and even married our other sister to Bala Ram in this hope. Now the whole family is very happy that she has a child," said Chand Ram, Rajo Devi's brother who is a sub inspector in Haryana Police at Panchkula.
source:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
Thursday, November 27, 2008
TERROR STRIKES MUMBAI AGAIN, 101 KILLED
Fresh gunshots rang out Thursday morning at the Hotel Taj where security forces battled terrorists holding hostages after a night of horror that left 101 people dead and over 250 injured in India's most audacious terror attack.
As soldiers, police and elite commandos fanned out across the country's commercial capital to rescue hostages and kill terrorists who stormed the city at night and struck at seven sites in the business hub of south Mumbai, one of the terrorists claimed that the attack was to avenge the "persecution" of Muslims in India.
The otherwise bustling city -- home to Bollywood -- was still on edge, more than 12 hours after a large but unknown number of terrorists armed with automatic rifles and grenades sneaked into Mumbai by the sea, a clear indication that they must be foreigners.
Desperate to cope with a situation they had never encountered before, the authorities declared a holiday in Mumbai Thursday. The Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange were ordered closed for the day.
source :
http://www.zeenews.com/
As soldiers, police and elite commandos fanned out across the country's commercial capital to rescue hostages and kill terrorists who stormed the city at night and struck at seven sites in the business hub of south Mumbai, one of the terrorists claimed that the attack was to avenge the "persecution" of Muslims in India.
The otherwise bustling city -- home to Bollywood -- was still on edge, more than 12 hours after a large but unknown number of terrorists armed with automatic rifles and grenades sneaked into Mumbai by the sea, a clear indication that they must be foreigners.
Desperate to cope with a situation they had never encountered before, the authorities declared a holiday in Mumbai Thursday. The Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange were ordered closed for the day.
source :
http://www.zeenews.com/
Friday, November 14, 2008
Tricolour has a date with moon tonight
MUMBAI: If things go as planned, the Indian tricolour will mark its presence on the moon tonight (around 8.30pm IST) after having flown 3,86,000km from the earth. The timing of this proud moment has been specially designed to coincide with Children's Day. ( Watch )
The United States, the former Soviet Union and the European Space Agency comprising 17 countries already have their flags on the moon.
The Indian tricolour is painted on all sides of the 29-kg Moon Impact Probe which is attached to the main orbiting spacecraft, Chandrayaan-1, which was launched on October 22.
The inclusion of the MIP as part of the Chandrayaan mission came at the suggestion of former President A P J Abdul Kalam, a former rocket scientist, during the International Lunar Exploration Working Group conference held at Udaipur in November 2004.
The Indian tricolour has been hoisted on Mount Everest and Antarctica. And now it will be on the moon though it will not be hoisted.
The flight of the MIP on Friday is expected to be a forerunner to the second Indian moon mission, Chandrayaan-2, which will carry a Russian rover and alander slated for lift-off between 2010 and 2012. The crash landing of MIP will help in assessing future soft-landing technologies.
Chandrayaan project director Mylaswamy Annadurai explained to TOI on Friday that at about 8 pm on Friday, a command will be flashed to the MIP from Isro's telemetry, tracking and command network (Istrac) at Bangalore for it to detach from the orbiter. "The MIP will separate and with its three instruments, zoom towards the lunar south pole at a velocity of 1.5km per second," he said.
"At Istrac's mission control room, we will immediately come to know that the MIP has separated from the orbiter. The MIP's flight path will first take it over the Malapert crater for about nine seconds and then crashland near the Shackleton Crater about 25 minutes after its detachment from the orbiter. Malapert Crater is not far from the Shackleton crater," he added.
Annadurai said that after this, the orbiter will fly in the opposite side and thus data will not be immediately available. "The downloading of data from the MIP to the orbiting Chandrayaan and then to the ground station will start once the spacecraft comes over the north pole of the moon. It will take a couple of hours for the data from the MIP to be downloaded and processed," Annadurai said.
He said that once the MIP crashlands on the moon, its own survivability and that of the three instruments will be in question. The probe uses solid propellants. "India's physical presence on the moon with the tricolour will be assured," he said.
Source:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/
The United States, the former Soviet Union and the European Space Agency comprising 17 countries already have their flags on the moon.
The Indian tricolour is painted on all sides of the 29-kg Moon Impact Probe which is attached to the main orbiting spacecraft, Chandrayaan-1, which was launched on October 22.
The inclusion of the MIP as part of the Chandrayaan mission came at the suggestion of former President A P J Abdul Kalam, a former rocket scientist, during the International Lunar Exploration Working Group conference held at Udaipur in November 2004.
The Indian tricolour has been hoisted on Mount Everest and Antarctica. And now it will be on the moon though it will not be hoisted.
The flight of the MIP on Friday is expected to be a forerunner to the second Indian moon mission, Chandrayaan-2, which will carry a Russian rover and alander slated for lift-off between 2010 and 2012. The crash landing of MIP will help in assessing future soft-landing technologies.
Chandrayaan project director Mylaswamy Annadurai explained to TOI on Friday that at about 8 pm on Friday, a command will be flashed to the MIP from Isro's telemetry, tracking and command network (Istrac) at Bangalore for it to detach from the orbiter. "The MIP will separate and with its three instruments, zoom towards the lunar south pole at a velocity of 1.5km per second," he said.
"At Istrac's mission control room, we will immediately come to know that the MIP has separated from the orbiter. The MIP's flight path will first take it over the Malapert crater for about nine seconds and then crashland near the Shackleton Crater about 25 minutes after its detachment from the orbiter. Malapert Crater is not far from the Shackleton crater," he added.
Annadurai said that after this, the orbiter will fly in the opposite side and thus data will not be immediately available. "The downloading of data from the MIP to the orbiting Chandrayaan and then to the ground station will start once the spacecraft comes over the north pole of the moon. It will take a couple of hours for the data from the MIP to be downloaded and processed," Annadurai said.
He said that once the MIP crashlands on the moon, its own survivability and that of the three instruments will be in question. The probe uses solid propellants. "India's physical presence on the moon with the tricolour will be assured," he said.
Source:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/
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