February 2009 - TECK.IN

From the Professors to The Sidekicks – Some Truths from Satyam I

February 18, 2009

So what happened at Satyam? This will be a two part series trying to bring in some perspective – now that the big picture has by and large emerged and the media cacophony has died down, its a good time to try to make some sense out of the sordid Satyam scandal. Rather than the chronology of events, looking at the people who played the lead roles in the plot perhaps more enlightening and indeed, more interesting. […]

Windows Mobile 6.5 and My Phone from Microsoft

February 17, 2009

The Windows Mobile 6.5 would be released in the second half of 2009, which will only be available as the pre-installed OS on new devices. Windows Mobile 6.5 comes with a hexagon-based layout rather than the default grid layout. The hexagon layout almost matches with the shape of the fingertip’s point of contact, making it an intuitive design choice. […]

Billu Barber Apps on orkut

February 16, 2009

Billu, the Bollywood movie starring Irfan Khan and Sharukh Khan, which is a remake of “Katha parayumbol” in Malayalam, is now on Orkut Apps too.
To promote the movie, two new Orkut apps has been launched – ‘Dosti ke Rang, Shahrukh ke Sang’ and ‘Billu’s Official Makeover Salon’.

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Aircel Launched GSM services in Kerala

February 10, 2009

Aircel, the fifth largest mobile service provider in India, launched GSM Service in Kerala. Actor Prithvi Raj inagurated the service in Kochi. Aircel claims to have far reach in almost all villages in Kerala. Aircel introduced the lowest inbuilt Gulf tariff at Rs 5.99 per minute. Aircel also has special tariff for calls and SMS between Kerala and Tamil Nadu. […]

Amazon Kindle 2 Arrived and Google Books on Cell Phones

February 10, 2009

Kindle 2, the latest wireless e-book reading device from Amazon holds over 1,500 books and pried at USD 359, weighing about 290 grams.

Google also announced that 1.5 million books titles available from Google Book Search service can now be read on Apple iPhone and the phones running Google’s Android operating system. […]

Multiple Inboxes in Gmail – New Feature

February 6, 2009

Gmail Labs has launched a new feature to view multiple panes in the same Gmail window to view Gmail labels or searches as a new pane. If you have setup multiple email accounts with Gmail, and have associated a label for each of those email accounts, this new pane feature helps you view each of the accounts new emails separately in the new panes. I really like this new feature, very useful. […]