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SunTec’s IPTV Billing Solution for Smart Digivision’s MyWay IPTV Service

February 19, 2010

SunTec Business Solutions, the leading provider of convergent transaction pricing and billing solutions for the Communications, Media and Entertainment (CME) industry announced that Smart Digivision has successfully deployed its IPTV billing solution to price and bill Smart Digivision’s MyWay IPTV Service in India. MyWay IPTV service is available in 54 cities across India on Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. (MTNL) broadband networks and is expected to reach three million subscribers in the first five years. […]

HBO Go – HBO’s Online Movie Streaming Service

February 19, 2010

HBO Go is a video streaming service which will allow subscribers to watch streaming movies on the internet. This content delivery service will enable Verizon Wireless’s FiOS TV customers to enjoy masses of HBO-branded content while online. The service, available only in the United States, offers live streaming at HD picture quality. With HBO Go, subscribers can watch their favorite movies either by ordering the DVD, or watch the streaming movie online. […]

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. […]

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. […]

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. […]

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. […]

Google to Offer Ultrafast (1Gbps) Consumer Broadband in the US

February 11, 2010

In an effort to offer improved access to the Internet, Google plans to create fast, cheap and ubiquitous fiber-to-the-home Internet broadband networks with one-gigabit-per-second (1Gbps) speed. The broadband connections will be as much as 100 times faster than most cable and DSL services. Google hopes to offer the service to at least 50,000 people and as many as 500,000. It will announce which communities will get the service later this year. Google said it will sell access to customers directly “at a competitive price” and team with telecommunications companies that want to package services with its fiber network. […]

Social Networking Sites Provide Evidence for US Divorce Cases

February 11, 2010

In a poll conducted among American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML), who handle divorces and legal separations in the USA, 81 percent of 1,600 members said that they have seen a rise in the last five years in the number of cases using evidence from the Internet. Facebook was the main source of divorce and custody evidence, according to 66 percent of AAML members, followed by MySpace at 15 percent, Twitter at 5 percent. […]

Internet Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 2010

February 7, 2010

The Internet was nominated by the Italian version of Wired magazine, which cited its use as a tool to advance “dialogue, debate and consensus through communication” and to promote democracy. Organizers said signatories to its petition backing the nomination include 2003 peace laureate and exiled Iranian activist Shirin Ebadi, which would make it a legitimate entry. […]

TCS Website (tcs.com) Hacked and Put for Sale!

February 7, 2010

The official website of Tata Consultancy Services, TCS.com, has been hacked. The homepage says “This domaine name is for sale. Please contact us for further informations. [email protected]”. We have accessed the hacked website at 2:30PM, 7-Feb, in India. It is rumored that, the hackers have made changes to the DNS settings of the website. TCS is maintaining many of the government websites and this case points out the immaturity of TCS. Let us hope that, this will be an eye opener for major Indian software firms. […]