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Reliance National Do Not Call

If you prefer not to receive unwanted telemarketing calls, register your telephone number in NDNC Registry – Call 1909 or send SMS START DND on 1909. To deregister from NDNC send SMS STOP DND to 1909. […]

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BSNL NDNC Service – National Do Not Call

BSNL landline subscribers, who do not wish to receive telemarketing calls, can request their telephone number be included in the National Do Not Call Register available with BSNL. Any existing subscriber or new subscriber can request his telephone number be included in the Do Not Call Register. […]

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Wolfram Alpha

Last week, a brilliant web service has been released which has found its niche by redefining the rules a bit and hence maybe able to thrive as a much needed complement to Google. Wolfram Alpha is not quite a search engine, at least in the way that we have come to understand the term and in that may lie the roots to its success in the realm which has eluded others.

Wolframalfa calls itself a computational search engine and the first thing to understand about it is that it does not do phrase searches of weighed and huge database like search engines. So keying in a phrase hoping to find a document hit for it somewhere on the net would not succeed in it. The best parallel is what was attempted to do by one of the oldest ‘search engines’ in the web, Ask Jeeves (same as today’s ask?) which attempted to do natural language processing on the questions which were put into it. […]

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Why SMS Messages Are Limited to 160 Characters Only?

Hillebrand has conducted an informal study using his typewriter on how many characters are required on an average to express a sentence or question, by typing out random sentences and questions on a sheet of paper. He counted the number of letters, numbers, punctuation marks and spaces on the page, and came to a conclusion that each blurb ran on for a line or two and nearly always clocked in under 160 characters. That became the magic number which set the standard for one of text messaging. […]

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BSNL Cell Phone to All Policemen in Kerala

Kerala government planning to provide BSNL mobile phones and SIM cards to about 40,000 policemen of the state police free of charge. also all the 436 police stations in the state would be computerised using free software and broadband Internet connections will be also be provided. Video-conferencing facilities between courts and jails would also be expanded. […]

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

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. […]