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ISRO Bhuvan Geoportal is Enhanced, Added New Features

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. […]

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Chinese Cyber Attack on India Government Offices Too?

Mr M K Narayanan told The Times that his office and other government departments were targeted on December 15. A ‘Trojan’ virus was embedded in an e-mail PDF attachment. The virus was detected and officials were told not to log on until it was eliminated. This was not the first instance of an attempt to hack into India’s computers. People seem to be fairly sure it was the Chinese. China has denied any role in the hacking attacks. […]

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Mobile News

Mobile Numbers to Remain 10 Digits, Proposes 2-9 Series for Mobile Phones

TRAI proposes to retain the current 10-digit format for mobile numbers, and open up 2 to 7 series for mobile numbers. With this plan, mobile phone numbers will remain the same, and existing landline numbers will be migrated to 10-digits across the country. Currently, over 90% of the mobile numbers begin with 9 and the rest with 8. TRAI proposal will open up all levels except numbers beginning with the digit ‘1’, which will be reserve for emergency services, toll free numbers and for government-related issues. […]

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Google

Google Keyboard for Indian Languages (Google Transliteration IME)

Google Transliteration Input Method Editor (IME) allows users to enter text in one of the supported languages into any input window using a roman keyboard, without needing any internet connection. The IME is currently available for 14 different languages including Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu. The IME assists you with dictionary based word completions for prefixes. Users can type a word the way it sounds using Latin characters and Google Transliteration IME will convert the word to its native script Unicode. […]

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Indian Railway’s SMS Alert on Railway Level Crossing

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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India Global Economic Leader by 2030, Says Survey of Indian Entrepreneurs

India is currently the 12th largest economy in the world, according to the World Bank. According to an unprecedented new survey of nearly 2,400 Indian entrepreneurs conducted London-based Legatum Institute, senior managers and aspiring entrepreneurs, India is now on course to outstrip the USA, Japan, Germany and the fast-emerging economic giant of China over the next two decades. […]

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Mobile Apps

SatGuide Navigation Maps for Nokia, HTC, HP, imate, ASUS and ACER

SatNav Technologies, pioneers in GPS Navigation in India, launched a FREE version of GPS Navigation Software and Maps for Symbian OS phones by Nokia. The software with maps of 412+ cities of India can be downloaded from the website. Windows based phones from HTC, HP, imate, ASUS and ACER are already offering SatGuide Navigation Maps, which enjoys majority share in the India market. With this move, SatNav has reached out to the large base of Nokia users who will now be able to access extensive localized Indian maps and chose from the application most suited to them. […]

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Internet

A R Rahman Store (store.arrahman.com) – Buy Sound Tracks and Albums

A R Rahman has opened an online shop selling a few sound tracks of films like ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ and ‘Elizabeth’ besides other scores. Called “A R Rahman Store” (store.arrahman.com), this online shop presently sells only seven items but promises to expand the inventory to “include exclusive pre-sale tickets, DVDs and more”. Currently one can shop only with Canadian Dollars, Euros, British Pounds and US dollars. […]

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Mobile News

Uninor Mobile Services Launched in India

Norwegian telecom firm Telenor Group’s Indian mobile operation, Uninor, today announced the launch of its mobile services in seven Indian telecom circles, making it the largest single day launch in the telecom history. On the first day of service Uninor will cover a footprint of close to 600 million people. Uninor services were launched simultaneously in the circles Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh East, Uttar Pradesh West and Bihar (including Jharkhand), making it the widest coverage any operator has launched within India. […]