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BSNL Mobile Money Transfer Services Coming Soon

February 23, 2010

BSNL plans to launch a mobile banking platform which will help mobile subscribers to send money orders electronically through SMS. The SMS by the sender will be encashable at all post offices. In order to send money, go to the nearest post office and transfer the money by way of an SMS. The SMS will contain a unique code. The person who receives this SMS real time, can go to his nearest post office and collect the money by showing the code. BSNL expects to roll out the service after getting the Reserve Bank of India’s approval. […]

Mobile Number Portability (MNP) in Chennai & Bangalore from May

February 23, 2010

The Union Minister for Communications and IT, Mr A Raja, on Friday announced that mobile number portability would be introduced by the first week of May in Chennai and Bangalore. The MNP implementation got delayed due to certain issues related to getting security clearances. […]

Amazon Kindle Now On BlackBerry Too

February 22, 2010

Amazon launched its Kindle application for the BlackBerry devices. Kindle For BlackBerry app enables users of the Blackberry smartphone to read digital books purchased from Amazon and synchronize bookmarks with the Kindle electronic reader and other supported devices. Apart from the Amazon Kindle e-Book Reader device, currently it is available in Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch with a Kindle app and also on Windows PCs. Amazon also plans to release applications for the Mac and Apple iPad, a tablet computer set to be released at the end of March. […]

meebo IM for iPhone and iPod Touch Launched

February 19, 2010

Meebo instant-messaging tool is now available on iPhone and iPod touch. It provides full chat history, enabling you to view and search your complete chat history anytime, anywhere. The apps syncs with Meebo on desktop. Take your chats seamlessly from your desktop to your iPhone or iPod touch. IM messages show up just like text messages when you enable push notifications. Meebo iPhone app supports landscape mode, providing you a widescreen view and a larger keyboard by turning Meebo on its side. […]

mChek Certified as Western Union Mobile Money Transfer Vendor

February 19, 2010

mChek is certified by Western Union as a Mobile Money Transfer Vendor. Whether for sending money or receiving money, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) around the globe can now use the mChek platform as their technology service provider platform and partner with Western Union to offer Money Transfer Services to customers through a turnkey hosted service. This reduces integration costs and accelerate go-to-market activities for banks and mobile operators by creating standard technical deployments. […]

Job Vacancy: Official Twitterer of the US President Barack Obama

February 15, 2010

WSJ reports that, barackobama.com has published an online job description for the post of Social Networks Manager, who will be responsible for maintaining the President’s accounts on Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. The person currently holding the job of ‘Barack Obama’s twitterer’ is stepping down soon. Obama now has more than three million followers on Twitter and nearly 7.5 million Facebook fans. […]

Google Buzz to Have Stand-Alone Version Soon

February 15, 2010

Google may create a stand-alone version of Google Buzz social networking tool and will continue to keep Buzz in Gmail too. Buzz is a Facebook + Friendfeed like service launched earlier this week. Bloggers and social media experts have raised privacy concerns on the Buzz contact network being publicly viewable by default which could could expose people’s private contacts. To overcome these concerns Google announced a couple of changes including making it easier for Buzz users to keep their contacts list private and option to select followers from the recommended list. […]

ISRO Bhuvan Geoportal is Enhanced, Added New Features

February 12, 2010

The Bhuvan, ISRO’s mapping application is now revamped. National Remote Sensing Centre of ISRO, Hyderabad has revamped its Geoportal Bhuvan (www.bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in) providing enhanced user experience. The Bhuvan team have now removed the login process to access the application. You will be taken directly to the 3D globe page wherein you can explore all the Bhuvan functionality. Bhuvan is poised with a vision to be a one-stop versatile Indian Earth Observation visualization system evincing the Indian imaging capabilities. Bhuvan visualization portal is now serving the global data from IRS P6 (Resourcesat-1)-AWiFS data. Updated raster and thematic information, Bhuvan 2D Viewer and Ocean related services will soon be launched. […]

Google Buzz – Social Networking in Gmail and Mobile Phones

February 11, 2010

Google Buzz is a Facebook + Friendfeed like service introduced by Google. Google Buzz is built into Gmail Inbox. You can simply go beyond usual status messages and share updates, photos, videos, and more. The Buzz tab is right below the Inbox tab in Gmail. To access Google Buzz, logon to your Gmail account and click on Buzz. You automatically follow the people you email and chat with the most in Gmail. Buzz provides a rich and fast sharing experience, within your friendly Gmail UI and supports Gmail keyboard shortcuts. Buzz supports public and private sharing. If you need to, you can block users too. Your public messages are are instantly indexed by Google. […]

Facebook Chat Available from Any Jabber IM Client

February 11, 2010

Facebook announced that Facebook Chat is now available on Jabber (XMPP) clients – which means you can chat with your Facebook friends from any of your favorite desktop instant messaging client including iChat, Pidgin, Adium, Miranda and more. Jabber (XMPP) is an open messaging protocol supported by most instant messaging software and Facebook is now using the Jabber technology to make Facebook Chat available everywhere. […]