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Mobile News

Broadband Wireless: Reliance Industries to Acquire Infotel

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire a substantial stake in Infotel Broadband Services (P) Ltd, which has emerged as a successful bidder in all the 22 circles of the auction for Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) Spectrum conducted by the DoT. RIL will invest about Rs 4,800 crore by way of subscription to fresh equity capital at par to be issued by Infotel Broadband. Post this investment, RIL will own 95% of the equity and Infotel Broadband will be a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited. […]

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Mobile Devices & Apps

The Wireless Power Consortium – Get Rid of the Power Cable too!

The Wireless Power Consortium is a cooperation of Asian, European and American companies from different industries, works on setting the international standard for interoperable wireless charging. Why do we still need to plug the power cable in our phones and gadgets? Everything else is wireless. Today each product comes with its own wireless charger. We got rid of the last wire, but created a jungle of incompatible charging stations. The consortium demands that the charging station will work with products from many companies, and will work with next year’s products as well. […]

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Internet

BSNL EVDO High Speed Wireless Broadband Modem Price Slashed

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has a promotional offer on its CDMA Data Services, the NIC and EVDO cards which costs Rs. 2,500 and Rs 3,500 respectively will be sold at Rs.1,680 and Rs. 2,100 respectively for limited period.

BSNL currently offers unlimited data access to both NIC and EVDO card users for a fixed monthly rental of Rs. 250 and Rs 550 respectively. However from July 1, 2009 the monthly charges will be revised to Rs. 350 and Rs. 600 respectively. […]

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Internet

Reliance Netconnect Broadband+ Tariff Plans, Modems, Comparison

Reliance Netconnect Broadband+ service offers fastest internet connection in India. Reliance Wireless Broadband works well as the Wireless Broadband for laptops & desktops, which is 20 times faster with speed upto 3.1Mbps in Reliance Broadband + Network, with the fastest uploads at a speed of upto 1.8 Mbps. The downward process is compatible with Reliance High Speed 1X network to ensure seamless connectivity across 20000 towns & 5 lakh villages, as well as along major highways, railway routes, airport lounges and remote locations in India. […]

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General

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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Send Free SMS Text Message Worldwide From Your Email

Cell phone email address for sending free SMS text message worldwide from your email for the supported providers worldwide via email gateways. This list is collected from various sources. Many networks & countries supported. We have not tried out any of them and do not guarantee delivery. To send SMS text message as email, replace the n with the number or part of the number as required, and use it as the TO field in the email. […]

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BlackBerry Storm Touchscreen Smartphone in India by Vodafone

Blackberry Storm is the first touch-screen based BlackBerry smartphone, featuring “clickable touch-screen”, and supports multi-touches, taps and slides. It also features a built-in accelerometer. It provided a full HTML high-performance browser supporting file downloading, audio and video streaming, and built-in RSS support. Blackberry Storm supports e-mail, SMS, MMS, IM, Facebook and MySpace. […]