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“Blue Moon” on this New Year’s Eve 2009

December 31, 2009

Today (December 31) is the “once in a blue moon” day. But don’t expect to see a blue colored moon in the sky. Blue Moon is a celestial phenomenon, which is named such not for the color, but because it is the second full moon in a calendar month. The first full moon this month came December 2. A blue moon happens about once every 2 or 3 years. This New Year Eve’s blue moon is rare because it will have an eclipse, an event that has not occurred in the last 5-6 decades. This celestial rarity will be witnessed on the New Year’ eve again only in 2028 and 2066. […]

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Indian Railway’s SMS Alert on Railway Level Crossing

December 31, 2009

The Northern Railway had launched the scheme on December 12 sending SMS to about 10 lakh people each day covering areas with high density of unmanned level crossings. The railways transmit four types of SMS currently. The messages are designed to bring about attitudinal changes. They either persuade people to change for the better or warn them of the consequences. […]

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Nokia E72 – Price Rs. 16599 in India

December 30, 2009

With the Nokia E72, its very easy to access popular email accounts such as Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail and Ovi Mail. Sporting a 2.3 inch TFT display screen, with the ability to display up to 16 million colours, images are displayed with very good clarity and vibrancy of colour. It has a 5 megapixel camera (2592 x 1944 pixels) with autofocus and flash, with 5x digital zoom and LED flash. GPRS, EGSM, WCDMA, HSDPA, HSUPA, WLAN, Bluetooth 2.0 are supported. The E72 device supports IMAP4, Nokia Messaging, Microsoft ActiveSync, POP3 and SMTP email protocols. The office capabilities have been updated with a new version of Quickoffice, which delivers Microsoft Office 2007 compatibility as well as free version upgrades when new features become available. […]

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Nokia 5530 XpressMusic – Price, Features, Specifications

December 30, 2009

Nokia 5530 XpressMusic has a full touch interface of 2.9″ with 16.7 million colours and 640 x 360 pixels resolution. The full screen QWERTY alphanumeric keypad comes with handwriting recognition. The camera is 3.2 megapixel capable of 2048 x 1536 pixels resolution for JPEG format with autofocus, LED flash and 4x digital zoom. It can record video at up to 640 x 480 pixels (VGA) 30 fps. The Nokia music player with Stereo FM radio and 3D surround sound stereo speakers can playback .mp3, SpMidi, AAC AAC+, eAAC+ and WMA files. Nokia 5530 XpressMusic is priced at 14,029 Indian Rupees (INR). […]

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Samsung Duos Touch SCH-W299 Dual Sim (CDMA+GSM) Phone, Price Rs 16,999

December 30, 2009

Samsung Duos Touch (SCH-W299) mobile phone supports 2 card slots ( CDMA & GSM), both GSM and CDMA connections remain active simultaneously. Duos Touch has a vibrant 2.3 inch, 16 Million colours, TFT display with 320 x 240 QVGA resolution.It has a high-definition 2 mega pixel digital camera with 4X digital zoom. Use camcorder function for video recording. Stereo FM with one time auto tuning up to 30 FM stations. Duos Touch supports Bluetooth headsets, stereo music headsets, dailup network, file transfer, object push profiles. The phone is priced at Rs 16,999 in India.
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Samsung Corby Speed CDMA Phone – Price Rs 10,400 in India

December 30, 2009

Samsung Corby Speed is the Samsung’s maiden touch-screen mobile handset on the CDMA platform with high-speed mobile broadband capability. Corby Speed also supports various social networking sites by integrating user-generated content sites such as Flicker, Picasa, Facebook and MySpace. The Samsung Corby Speed handset is priced at Rs 10,400 in India. […]

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Fly Mobile C250 CDMA Phone – Price Rs 4490, Features – 2″ QVGA, BREW, 2MP Camera

December 30, 2009

Fly Mobile launched its latest 800MHz CDMA mobile phone model, C-250 in India, priced at Rs 4,490. The Fly Mobile C-250 has QC1110 chipset. It is a BREW (Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless) capable phone. Fly Mobile C-250 is a candy bar phone with 2” QVGA screen that offers 65K colours with display resolution of 176×200 pixels. It also has a 2 mega pixel camera with image capture resolution of 1600×1200 pixels, digital zoom and self-timer. It has expandable memory slot for mini-SD card upto 4GB. It also has Bluetooth connectivity.The C-250 CDMA phone is loaded with utilities like FM Radio, calendar, alarms, world clock, voice recorder, speed dial, network information & time zone, currency converter etc.. […]

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Samsung Corby CDMA Handset at Tata Indicom Offers High-Speed Data Services

December 29, 2009

Tata Indicom, the CDMA brand of Tata Teleservices has partnered with Samsung to launch the high-speed data-enabled phone Samsung Corby.Tata Indicom prepaid as well as postpaid subscribers can now access high-speed data while on the move with this new device. Tata Indicom claims this to be the first ever high-speed data enabled mobile device on CDMA. Prepaid and Postpaid subscribers of Tata Indicom will get 10 GB memory space as free trial usage to use in the first two months on their Samsung Corby handset. […]

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HCL ME 06 3G Enabled Netbook – Price Rs 19,990 in India, Features

December 29, 2009

HCL Infosystems Limited has recently unveiled its new range of 3G enabled ME series Netbook, the HCL ME 06. HCL ME 06 comes with integrated 3G capabilities, offering seamless connectivity and faster access to the internet. It will be available in a range of exciting festival colours including red, blue and black. The ME 06 model features Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz processor. It has a 10.1-inch LCD panel with LED backlit, 512KB L2 cache, 1GB DDR2 533 RAM and 160GB HDD. ME 06 has a built-in camera. It is Bluetooth enabled, has 3 USB ports, 3 in 1 card reader; and up to 5 hours of battery back-up. HCL ME 06 is priced Rs 19,990. […]