What does google page rank give to your blog?

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The next google page rank update is round the corner. No no no…easy, now don’t bug me on IM asking when is the date, I honestly have no clue. The grapewines say it’s around in April mid/last, so let’s watch and see.
Everytime there’s a page rank update the most excited would be the bloggers who started their blogging venture is less than three months earlier. This is the time when there are more searches for the term “when is the next google page rank update” and the related long tail ones on Google. Rest of the best, the boring daily bloggers wouldn’t be as excited as the young blogger because he’d have gone through the  update – downgrade – upgrade process by now and (probably penalized) lost his affinity to the green bar.
Now, the enthusiasm of the young bloggers is something that’s universal. Everyone is worried about whether their blog will get the green bar filled or not.
My question is – How much value does Google page give to your blog?
So you are a young blogger with a blog less than an year old. You have around 100 posts and gathered a few links from around the blogosphere. Hell, you’ve even submitted to directories only to know that they are a waste of time. I’m sure some of you might have even bought links from others in the blogsphere for as chaep as 5-10 bucks. So what value is Google Page Rank going to give you once you are calibrated?
You might sell some links? But Google will penalize you.
You might show off the page rank to potential advertisers? But they are more interested in your subscriber count.
You might show off your PR to a fellow blogger? They might have a better one.
Essentially, Google Page rank does not give you any value what so ever other than a fancy green bar.
It is just a publicly available visualization of Google’s own standards of rating sites to gather information.


And yes, please do not mistake that if you get a higher Google Page Rank you’d get better search engine rankings. That’s a mistake.

Google Page Rank has got no effect whatsoever on the search engine rankings position of a site. It is just an internal metric of Google to grade sites to make it convenient for them for data collection (or something similar).
So this time around, rather than fretting over the green bar, try gathering one way incoming links to your blog and developing unique content rich pages. Those two things can earn you lot of respect from Google, this page rank update.

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Fraud v/s genuine SEO – make them out from their claims

I had to write about this. There are lot of fraud SEO‘s around. No doubt. Many of them somehow downloads a pirated copy of some popular SEO book ( there are many around ) and becomes SEO’s overnight (That’s not my idea – I read it on the DP forums ). Now they go on to set up a one – page website with a Google, MSN and Yahoo logo with a dart picture (un-licensed) saying something like “The world’s best SEO – Rank No.1 guaranteed “. Have you seen one?
It’s easy to make them out as frauds from their overly detailed testimonials and super-duper client list (Some even have Yahoo on the client list – what the..?). It’s essential for genuine SE optimizers to make aware the public on these frauds and hence this post.
This post is inspired from this article by Philip Lenssen. I thought this post might enlighten you to make out between fraud SEO’s and genuine one’s from their claims. Though Philip has mentioned many white-hat terms here, I think it’s OK to assume that many of them are used by fraud SEO’s than genuine ones.
He says

In the SEO industry agencies, experts and even bloggers have adopted a special mode of speech not to say slang that might be misunderstood by outsiders like clients, website visitors or the general public. To help you understand what search engine optimization experts really mean I devised this real glossary of SEO speak:

And here is the article –

What they say…
What they mean…
We offer Search Engine Optimization/SEO
We assume you are the Google bot and want you to index this page for both keywords
We offer Search Engine Optimisation
Our SEO company is based in the UK
Guaranteed top positions
We place Google Adwords for you
We do SEO, SEM, PPC to increase your ROI
We do not want you to know what we do
We stick to the Google Webmaster Guidelines
We only break them in a way that we assume Google won’t notice
We tell you how to make money online
We want you to click on our ads
10 ways of making money onlineThose are our 10 affiliates, please click on the respective undisclosed ads
We offer social media optimization
We got several accounts banned at Digg
We offer link baiting services
We want to put those drunk naked ladies video on your site
Our network
Our link farm
Authority sites
Sites that do no SEO
Black hat SEO
We do anything to get rich quick, even if your site gets banned
White hat SEO
We only cheat Google where we have to, others do it too, come on!
We optimize for Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask
If we fail in Google you still have to pay
Search Engine Submission
We need your mail address, those guys offered us $$$ for each 1000 verified addresses
Partners
People we never heard of until we exchanged links
PageRank optimization
Sorry, we just started doing SEO and do not have a clue
SEO India
We offer 1000 links for 30$
Alexa optimization
All our employees have the Alexa Toolbar installed, it really works!

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Steps Migrating from Blogger to WordPress

Back to some basics today. For some time now, I haven’t written about blogger(blogspot.com) even though I get emails once in a while asking about things like migrating from blogger to wordpress and the like. In fact, there’s been repetitive questions on Blogger to WordPress migration. So here are some of my thoughts, ideas for Blogger to WordPress migration you’ll find useful.

Ensuring a smooth migration from Blogger to WordPress

Before the migration

1. Getting the domain name.

I assume you’ve bought a great domain name.
Make sure that,
a. If you have a site that needs promotion ( above the natural organic search )
- Get a “brandable” domain name with good recall value.
b. If you have a site that has a natural pulling through organic search through your content,
- Then get a domain name that matches with your niche.

Ensuring a smooth migration.

2. Don’t delete the old blog, build the new one first.

I assume that you already have some traction with the traffic on the blogger account. Now the most important step to take before moving to the WP account is to make sure that you don’t lose your traffic.
For this, before deleting your blogger.com account, set up your WordPress blog on the new domain, and import all the blogger post using the import function. Find more information about importing here.

3. Get the new blog indexed on Google.

Now, make sure that you get the new blog indexed through a valid external link. During this time, I’d advice that you block all the google indexing to the inner pages/articles either using noindex tags or password protecting those pages. And only let the main domain name be indexed. The reason is that if you let the content get indexed now, it may result in duplicate content.

4. Issue a 301 redirect on the old domain.

Once the new blog gets indexed on Google, install a 301 redirect on all the pages/main domain of your old blogger.com account. This will make sure that all the old posts will be “deleted” from Google and replaced with the new blog. I’d also advice that you create URL structures on the new domain to match the old one and therefore make redirecting easier and less complicated. Also make sure that you’ve lifted the “noindexed” tags and “unblocked” all the inner pages/articles from the new domain. More information on 301 redirects from blogger can be found here, here , here and here.

5. Watch the traffic closely for a few days, see for fluctuations.

For every migration, things take their own time, although if we have done things right, we should be able to expect a quick change over. So watch the traffic to the new blog carefully and see if you’re getting the same traffic as much as the old blog. If not, don’t worry, there might be some temporary glitches so hang on, you need to worry only if things don’t get right in a week or so.

6. If the traffic is okay, drop the old blog.

If you’re getting half as traffic as the old blog, things are fine. So its safe to drop the old blog. But wait, hang on for some more days until you get the traffic steady.

7. Check the SERPS.

If the SERPs still show the old blog URL, please contact Google Webmasters and request a manual deletion. But if you’ve done things right, it should already have replaced by the new one.
That pretty much summarizes it, but make sure you don’t skip any step in between or things can screw up. One grave mistake I’ve found many people repeating is that they delete the old blog even before the new one is indexed on Google. They import the contents on to the new blog and just delete the old blog thinking that things will get automatically fixed from there. Actually in all chances, there may not be screw ups, but you might as well see a major dip in traffic so much as to zero while the new site is being indexed. So, do it slow and steady, things will be alright.

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How to build a sitemap for blogger and large websites?

                               Today, let’s see more about sitemaps. Every webmaster must have a sitemap ready for his site and submit it to google in order to get all the pages listed on Google.Sitemaps are of two types, as you know the HTML sitemap you use to navigate a site and second the sitemap used to help crawlers crawl the pages more effectively.


Why are they necessary?
Sitemaps are not necessary.(Yep i said that) Even if you don’t have sitemaps the crawlers will crawl your pages and
find the content. But, it is like letting them crawl in a dark room. What if you had a well lit room with all navigation and helpers around which will take them to each room? It will be more effective right? Sitemaps serve this purpose.
It has the site structure ready giving indication to the crawlers as to which are the folders/files that are important, which are not, which are the folders/files that are to be visited frequently, and which are the ones to be visited only once. This helps the crawlers to undersand your site more effectively.


Now, how to build a sitemap for blogger?
It’s very simple in Blogger. It only requires you to go to the Google Webmaster Central and add your site feed and the sitemap is automatically created. Make sure that you submit your full feed and not the partial one.


Which is the best sitemap generator program around?
There are lot of free online and downloadable sitemap generators.
Here’s a simplified listing of what is best.


1- Python Scipt – This is the most difficult one to install. But if you are familiar with python, then this is the best one around.It’s automated and requires no additional support.I don’t recommend it for a beginner.Requires technical knowledge.


2 – Online sitemaps- This is best for small websites. It’s easy, simple and online.Just go to this site and submit your url.Fill in some basic details like time and priority settings for the files and click go!The whole sitemap will be generated online.You will get both ROR file and the Google sitemap XML file.If you are interested only in Google, use the XML sitemap.The format is according to Google sitemap protocol and is faultless.
Best choice for beginners and small websites of less than 500 pages.


3 - Gsite Crawler - This is a downloadable application. If your website is a bit large and you have time to tweak some settings and is serious about sitemap, then i would recommend this guy for you.
It requires you to give the website url, then select the types of files to be scanned from it, priority settings are automatically detected, and you can create bot Google sitemap and Yahoo url.
It has report generation as well that will give you an idea of how many urls were crawled and broken links etc.This is very useful while handling large sites.


How to make sitemap for large sites?
If you have really large websites for instance a one million page one, then it’s really going to be tough creating a sitemap. Practically this is possible with the Python script but if you are not okay with the technical stuff then you got to depend on sitemap generator programs.(If you don’t have a really large website the follwing piece of information may not help you.)


Step 1 - Download a free sitemap generator program like Gsite crawler.


Step 2 - Use it to crawl each folder of your website as separate projects.Make sure that you create a new database each time a new project is opened.


Step 3 - Now you have separate sitemaps for each folder.
Ex:- yourdomain.com/folder1 has a sitemap called folder1.xml and yourdomain.com/folder2 has a sitemap called folder2.xml


Step 4 - Download this simple index generator program.


Step 5 - Copy paste all the folders (containing the sitemaps) from thh projects folder of Gsite crawler(C:program files…) and put it into one single folder.


Step 6 – Run the index generator program against this parent folder.


Step 7 – Now a sitemap index would be created with links to all the child sitemaps but one problem, since in Gsite Crawlers projects folder(C:Program Files) each crawled folder will be named with underscore replacing the forward slash.
Ex:- yourdomain.com/folder will be named as yourdomain.com_folder
Therefore the sitemap index produced will have the links too this way.


Step 8 - Use notepad/wordpad to open the sitemap index file. Find and replace all the underscores with forward slash.


Step 9 - Upload the child sitemaps in the respective folders online.
Ex: – yourdomain.com/folder1..folder2 etc.


Step 10 – Upload the sitemap index file to the root folder and submit it to google.
Bingo! There you go you have now created a sitemap index and child sitemaps for a large website

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Google Promises Android 4.0 For The Nexus S, “Theoretically” For Gingerbread Devices, Too

With a few hours of Ice Cream Sandwich familiarity under our belts, the looming question in everyone’s mind is: when will the Android 4.0 update roll out to existing devices? Well, nobody knows. But after talking with a few authorities on the subject, we at least have a few hints.
Google’s Android Product Manager Gabe Cohen and Android User Experience Director Matias Duarte have promised Ice Cream Sandwich for the Nexus S, and hinted that all other Android 2.3 Gingerbread devices should “theoretically” get ICS as well. Here’s the official quote: “Currently in the process for releasing Ice Cream Sandwich for Nexus S. Theoretically should work for any 2.3 device.” According to Engadget, there still isn’t a clear plan for the Nexus One.
HTC has decided to rest heavily on the fence for this one, saying that they do hope to release ICS to the masses, but will have to figure a way to lay their Sense UI on top of it first. Just like Cohen and Duarte, HTC refuses to give a timeline.
In my quest to dig up some answers, I decided to reach out to the big four carriers as well. T-Mobile never responded, while the rest had either no comment to give, or no information regarding the ICS update schedule.
Many owners of Froyo devices purchased early this year are still waiting on Gingerbread, so hopefully the carriers and phone makers have a more efficient plan for Android 4.0.
But I wouldn’t bet on it.

• company: Google

Website: google.com

Launch Date: July 9, 1998

IPO: NASDAQ:GOOG

Google provides search and advertising services, which together aim to organize and monetize the world’s information. In addition to its dominant search engine, it offers a plethora of online tools and platforms including: Gmail, Maps and YouTube. Most of its Web-based products are free, funded by Google’s highly integrated online advertising platforms AdWords and AdSense. Google promotes the idea that advertising should be highly targeted and relevant to users thus providing them with a rich source of information....

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New Study Proves Mobile Phones 'Don't Cause Cancer'

Bangalore: Cell phones don't cause cancer, says a new study, published in the 'British Medical Journal', thus putting an end to the debate over whether mobile devices harm people.

In their study, described as the largest on the subject to date, Danish researchers have found there's no link between the long-term use of a mobile phone and getting brain cancer.
The researchers at Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen looked at 358,000 people over a period of 18 years and found cancer rates were almost the same in both long-term mobile phone users and people who do not use the handsets.They concluded that using cell phones does not lead to tumours of the brain or nervous system or, indeed, any cancer.

In fact, in the study covering the years 1990 to 2007, the researchers looked at users and non-users of cell phones.

Overall, 10,729 people suffered tumours of the central nervous system. When they looked at those with the longest mobile use - 13 years or more - they found cancer rates were almost the same as among non-users.

The researchers observed no overall increased risk for tumours of the central nervous system, or for all cancers combined, in mobile phone users.

They said: "The extended follow-up allowed us to investigate effects in people who had used mobile phones for 10 years or more and this long-term use was not associated with higher cancer risks."

But, they added: "A small to moderate increase in risk for sub-groups of heavy users or after even longer induction periods than 10-15 years cannot be ruled out."

Though some experts have welcomed the findings, a few others are not convinced.

Hazel Nunn, head of evidence and health information at Cancer Research UK, was quoted by the 'Daily Express' as saying, "These results are the strongest evidence yet that using a mobile does not seem to increase the risk of cancers of brain or central nervous system in adults."

But, Denis Henshaw, emeritus professor of human radiation effects at Bristol University, said: "This seriously flawed study misleads the public and decision makers about the safety of mobile phone use. I consider their claims worthless."

Earlier this year, the World Health Organisation warned that mobile phones may cause cancer and urged owners to limit their use.

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Facebook Building Shadow Profiles of Non-Users

LONDON: Facebook is gradually building "shadow profiles" of non-users of the social networking site, a privacy watchdog has claimed.

Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner (IDPC) claims that users are encouraged to give out non-user's personal details, like names, phone numbers and email addresses, which Facebook uses to create "shadow profiles" of those people.

Ciara O'Sullivan, a IDPC spokeswoman told 'FoxNews.com' that its audit of Facebook Ireland's privacy policies was part of a "statutory investigation" that the office anticipates will lead to immediate changes.

"The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner willbe commencing a comprehensive audit of Facebook Ireland before the end of the month," O'Sullivan said.

However, Facebook, with 800 million users, has refuted allegations that it is tracking information of non-account holders too. "The allegations are false," Facebook's spokesman Andrew Noyes was quoted as saying.

He added: "We enable you to send emails to your friends, inviting them to join Facebook. We keep the invitee's email address and name to let you know when they join the service.

"This practice is common among almost all services that involve invitations, from document sharing to event planning. The assertion that Facebook is doing some sort of nefarious profiling is simply wrong."

The social network also said information from users it not used to target advertisements and information is not sold to other people.

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10 World's Richest Tech Companies in 2011

Bangalore: Technology is improving every day by producing new tech gadgets loaded with features. All the Tech Companies thrive hard to achieve success by implementing new ideas and bring new waves by generating excessive income. This makes them one among the richest tech companies in the present world.

Here are 10 Most Richest Tech Companies that have made their way to the list by giving freshness in creating tech products with the available technology.

Apple

Apple's iPhone and iPad have pushed the US technology company to top of the list of the richest technology companies as well as the most valuable global brands in 2011. The computer company has made tremendous growth strides since it introduced the first iPhone in 2007. Worth an estimated $348 billion dollars with a $76 billion dollars cash reserve, makes Apple more financially fit than the US Treasury Dept with an estimate $74 billion in cash reserves.

The company, which is based in Cupertino, California, has been on a roll with the popularity of its iPad tablet computer and strong sales of the iPhone
Google

Google is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program.

Google was named as the strongest brand in 2010 and the company has held the number one position for the last four years. This year, Google's value drop by 2 percent to 111.5 billion.
IBM (International Business Machine)

International Business Machines is an American multinational technology and consulting firm headquartered in Armonk, New York. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.

IBM's value increases 17 percent to over a billion this year mostly due to its ThinkPads which have been claimed as a great deal of the best business laptops. This value helps the company ranks at the third place in the list of the world's richest technology companies.
Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufacture

s, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Microsoft's brand is estimated to $78 billion. It is placed as the world's fourth richest technology company.
Amazon.com

Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, in 1994 and the site went online in 1995. The name Amazon.com was chosen because the Amazon River is one of the largest rivers in the world and so the name suggests large size. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified, selling DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, and toys.

Amazon is now the leading retail brand in the world. The value of the world's fifth richest technology company increases 37 percent in comparison to last year and is estimated at billion.

HP

HP is a technology company that operates in more than 170 countries around the world. Hewlett-Packard or simple called HP is named as the world's sixth

richest technology company. Generated revenue of $3.7 billion, up 12%, accounting for 12% of total HP revenue.

RIM

The value of the world's seventh richest technology company RIM is down 20 percent this year compared to 2010. RIM's listed shares were down 20 percen

t to $23.58, after touching a low of $22.52 earlier. The sell-off, which wiped out $3 billion of RIM's market capitalization, underscored how bad times have become for the one-time Smartphone leader.

Facebook

Facebook is claimed as the world's eighth richest technology company this year. Facebook is now number one in display advertising, which is

a $2 billion business for them. Facebook is the enabler of social games, which is now a multibillion dollar industry, and takes a cut through advertising and credits.

Intel

An exploding market for microprocessors used in cloud computing servers led to a 162% jump in Intel's earnings though the company was late to get

into tablets. In addition, its chips strengthen many of the games and tasks used on tablets. With the company's value of over $13 billion, it holds ninth position in the list of the world's richest technology companies in 2011 belongs to Intel.

Samsung

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a leading mobile phone provider was mentioned as the world's tenth richest technology company in 2011. It announced revenues of 39.44 trillion on a consolidated basis for the second quarter ended June 30, 2011, a 4 percent increase year on year.

For the quarter, the company posted consolidated net income of 3.51 trillion, representing an 18 percent decrease year on year. Consolidated operating profit for the quarter was 3.75 trillion won.

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Latest Features on Facebook Irritates Users

Bangalore: Facebook is struggling hard to keep its users stick to it. But the tough competition by Google+ and Twitter is forcing the leading social networking site to surprise its users almost every day with more new features and makeovers. Though Facebook wants its members to enjoy the digital experience, the users seem to be very confused with new features which are resulting into a lot of anger among them. This latest addition features sending friend request on its own, which users are not ready to deal with. The users are not happy because this application sends request to even those people whom they wish to ignore. Users feel that this new innovation done by Facebook is intruding their privacy and their personal choices and they want this feature to be discarded right away.A technology blogger, Nik Cubrilovic affirmed that this might be a way to up their revenue. He said, "Verified email addresses sell for 20c to one dollar each so if they are able to extract 100,000 verified email addresses from Facebook that is probably worth upwards of 20,000 dollars to spammers". People can never tolerate someone else making picks for them on their behalf. Users want Facebook to go for makeovers only if it can benefit their needs or they should not try at all. They feel that this is a breach of personal choices and should be stopped.

The other sites like Twitter and Google+ are trying to strengthen their position at the social networking scene, so there is want for Facebook to work according to the needs and preferences of people, other than making its own applications make choices for them. This is the only way in which it can keep up its position.

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Indian IT Biggies TCS, Infosys, Wipro Can Withstand Demand Uncertainty

MUMBAI: Credit rating agency Standard and Poor's (S&P) said top three Indian IT companies Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys and Wipro -- are likely to maintain their investment grade ratings even if demand weakens.

"The largest Indian IT companies have strong margins, are cost-competitive, and have proven delivery models. These attributes will help them to weather uncertain and volatile demand," S&P's Credit Analyst Abhishek Dangra said about the three firms.

S&P has given TCS and Infosys BBB+ and Stable rating, while Wipro holds BBB and positive credit rating.
S&P report said that the three leading IT companies will be able to grow at a faster pace than the global industry, at least over the next few years.

It expects these companies to maintain industry-leading EBITDA (indication of cash flow) margins and grow in double digits in the next 12 months.

"Bigger challenges for the Indian IT companies will occur in the long-term. We expect the cost advantages of these companies to diminish as foreign competitors increase their already-large employee bases in India," a S&P statement said.

The agency said business and reputation risk is rising due to increasing protectionism and it expects the three Indian IT companies to adapt to the challenges, as they have in the past.

On dependency of IT companies on the slowing economies of the US and Europe, it said sovereign budget cuts across these markets could hurt business sentiment and lower private-sector IT spending.

The agency, however, added that deal cancellations would not have as much impact as in 2008-2009, and the time it takes to close deals has lengthened.

Dangra said high unemployment rates, slowing growth and political activism in many countries are generating opposition to outsourcing.

"Still, we expect focus on cutting costs in a slowing global economy to support demand for outsourcing to India. Such a practice results in significant cost savings," he added.

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Steve Jobs Biography a Hit in China

BEIJING: Late Apple CEO Steve Jobs authorised biography seems to be a great hit in China as dozens of people were seen lined outside book stores even before they were opened and entire copies being almost sold off within an hour.

Eager fans queued up in front of local bookstores from 6 am today for the Chinese version of the authorised biography of Jobs.
'Steve Jobs', written by Walter Isaacson went on sale at 10:05 am across 30 selected bookstores in 21 cities on the Chinese mainland, including three in Shanghai.

At the Shanghai Book City on Fuzhou Road, 512 copies were sold there within an hour.

The Chinese copy is priced at 68 yuan ($10.68). Cheng Ji, the first in the line at the Shanghai Book City, bought five copies for her son in college and friends.

Denis Chen, a 24-year-old Apple enthusiast, arrived at 9 am and was surprised to see the long line.

"I already ordered one in the online bookstore for 51 yuan, but I wanted to see the premier. It is definitely rare to see such a long line of readers of different ages queuing up for a book. It shows how influential Jobs was and still is," he told Shanghai Daily.

Chen received his copy from amazon.cn after he got home. The book was pre-sold on online shops as early as August and has been on the best pre-seller list after Jobs died on October 5.

Amazon.cn reported a daily order of 10,000 copies on October 5.

Jobs has become household name in China as his Apple products made a big mark all over the country, with many local companies selling imitation version of Apple phone.

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InfrasoftTech to Acquire DFS Unit of KPIT Cummins

NEW DELHI: IT company InfrasoftTech has entered into a definitive agreement with KPIT Cummins Infosystems to acquire the latter's diversified financial services (DFS) unit over the next few quarters.

"This new business strongly complements our software services portfolio, in our choice of markets. It's our first major inorganic growth step which promises to complement our organic growth plans," InfrasoftTech Group Managing Director Hanuman Tripathi said in a statement today.

The company, however, did not reveal financial details. KPIT Cummins' DFS unit provides project-based software services to banks and financial services firms in France, the UK, Canada, the US and India.

Under the arrangement, KPIT Cummins will progressively transfer people and most of the customer contracts of its DFS Unit to InfrasoftTech, a company statement said.

"In the long term business plan of InfrasoftTech, specialised software solutions and services business is expected to contribute nearly 70 per cent of our revenues in coming years," Tripathi said.

InfrasoftTech specialises in software products, solutions and services provider for banking and financial services.

The company has over 200 banks and financial institution clients in international markets, largely focused in the UK, Africa, Middle East, India and South Asia.

With addition of DFS business in its portfolio, InfrasoftTech will gain access to about 10 new customers, 140 skilled professionals and presence in Europe, Canada and the USA markets.

To service this new business, InfrasoftTech will add one new development center for InfrasoftTech in Pune and add strength to its newly set-up Chennai centre, the statement said.

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F1 Grand Prix 2011: Vodafone Launches Slew of Offers

NEW DELHI: Rival Bharti Airtel may have walked away with the title sponsorship but telecom giant Vodafone remains upbeat on opportunities brought by the Indian edition of the Formula1 race for its subscribers to connect with the race.

The company has undertaken a slew of initiatives to help subscribers connect with the teams and to experience the race at a closer level.
"We have been associated with McLaren Mercedes team since 2007 and the partnership has helped us bring not just the race but the team closer to our subscribers.

"Even with the Indian edition, we have undertaken two initiatives which have engaged fans and helped them become a part of the F1 experience," Vodafone Essar Vice-President (Marketing) Anuradha Aggarwal told PTI.

The race in India, which will be the 17th in the Formula One World Championship, will be called the 'Airtel Grand Prix of India', following Bharti airtel's tie-up with the Formula One Group Companies.

As part of its association with F1, Bharti airtel will offer Formula One enthusiasts a host of innovative offerings and initiatives like race clips on mobile TV, racing games like Need For Speed (NFS) and other exciting Formula 1 applications.

Vodafone has also announced two initiatives for the first Indian F1 Grand Prix is slated to be held October 28-30 at Buddh International Circuit in Greater Noida, near the national capital.

The first initiative -- Vodafone Race to Fame -- will see four selected winners get a chance to spend the weekend with the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes (VMM) team during the motor racing event.

In addition, the operator has offered an opportunity to small and medium enterprises to have their logo on VMM car under the Vodafone Drive into the Big League initiative.

Enterprises with a turnover between Rs 10 crore-Rs 250 crore and an employee base of 1,000 could participate in the event.

"As the title sponsor and 'Total Communications Partner' to the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team, our subscribers get access to the team and the drivers. We have similar initiatives across the world to engage with subscribers and enterprises," Aggarwal said.

F1 has more than over 500 million fans across the world and is spread over 185 countries across the world. Vijay Mallaya-owned Force India is among the teams that are competing in the world championships along with biggies like Red Bull, Ferrari, McLaren and Petronas Mercedes, among others.

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Developers Evolve with Blue Re-volution at the Nokia's Developer Conference

Bangalore: Nokia's Developer Conference is scheduled to be held on November 4 at Bangalore. The event entitled "Blue Re-volution" will have sessions on different mobile platform of Nokia, it will be also focusing on the Windows Phone ecosystem along with sessions about developing for Symbian Belle and S40.

The Blue Re-volution with the new direction taking the evolution is the journey that leads to progress. Let's pledge to join hands and evolve to change the way the world sees us. Let's evolve to a new world. The world where the journey has just begun on the Windows Phone, where there are exciting updates on the enriching Symbian smartphone platform. The evolution of the Java and Web Apps is driving amazing experiences on the S40 platform and get a chance to explore an incredible educational experience to discuss, demonstrate and grow with the latest Nokia technologies on smartphones, feature phones and entry level phones.
The conference provides an experiential opportunity to discuss, demonstrate and leapfrog with the latest Nokia developer offerings. It also let you know the latest development on Nokia -Tools & SDKs, App Design best practices and Nokia apps stores, learn about the Nokia apps eco system by the leading minds of the industry including monetization opportunities in apps eco system.This is a chance for all mobile app developers to talk with Nokia Developer Experience and Marketplace team experts and share your work and explore upcoming opportunities towards Nokia developer and apps eco system.

The Nokia Developer Conference is a must attend for developers who want to learn, enhance their app development experience and maximize their consumer reach with Nokia on Windows Phone, Symbian and S40 platforms.

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China Has 952 Million Mobile Phone Users

Beijing: The number of mobile phone users in China has crossed the 950 million-mark.

China had 952.31 million mobile phone users by the end of September, said the country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

A total of 12.22 million new mobile phone users signed up in September alone, the MIIT site reported in a statement, adding that China's 3G mobile phone users reached 102.46 million by the end of September.
According to the statement, the country's telephone users totalled 1.24 billion by September, with fixed-line telephone users dropping 363,000 in September to 288.43 million, according to the statement.

China's internet users with broadband access totalled 149.93 million by the end of September, up 23.64 million year-on-year, whereas the number of dial-up connection users dropped by 198,000 to 5.7 million.

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Fibre Optical Scheme for Panchayats Approved

New Delhi: The cabinet cleared a scheme for creating a National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) for providing broadband connectivity to panchayats that is likely to boost rural employment.

The scheme will also facilitate electronic services including e-education, e-health and e-agriculture and reduce the migration of rural population to urban areas.
"The cost of this initial phase of the NOFN scheme is likely to be about 20,000 crore. A similar amount of investment is likely to be made by the private sector complementing the NOFN infrastructure while providing services to individual users," an official note said.

"The objective of the scheme is to extend the existing optical fibre network to the gram panchayat level," it added.

So far the optical fibre network was available up to the district level.

By facilitating implementation of these services, the scheme will also lead to inclusive growth besides providing high bandwidth connectivity for electronic delivery of services to citizens.

According to a study conducted by the World Bank, with every 10 percent increase in broadband penetration, there is an increase in the gross domestic product growth by 1.4 percent.

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5 Smart Ways To Use Your Tax Return

  Bangalore: Receiving your tax return is the happiest feeling one would ever get. It can make a big change to your financial condition. Most of us think on how to spend it and the first thing popping our mind would be to buy a new gadget, go shopping, eat, travel and enjoy. There's nothing wrong in thinking this, but at the same time planning for your future use is a better option to go for. Due to bad decision, we lose the money saved all these years. So, think before you do anything save for the future which would benefit you some day. Here are few ways on how to spend money for your recreation as well as in an economic way for the days in advance.

Pay all your debts

Use your refund money to pay off all your debts. Especially those with high interest like the home loan, car, credit card and other debts you have. This would reduce your load and make you relaxed. To spend the money this is a precious way. Few loans do have a chargeable fee to pay off the whole loan early; instead of using all your tax refund money to pay at a time. You can hold and use the tax money on your savings account.

A place to rest Buying a home is a big step. Much required option is to invest on a place to live. You will own a property of your own and can reduce on your monthly rentals. If you all ready have a home you can use your refund to even remodel the home, or buy furniture and kitchen sets also install energy efficient appliances to make your work much easier. Restore Your Emergency Fund If you have no other debts in your life, then it is advised to restore the fund for emergency. Many people over the past have very less money for any emergency situations. You can start storing the tax refund and get benefited with the interest earned. You don't have to wait for your salary to be put up; instead you can take the emergency fund which has been saved and pay your credit bills or other utility bills. To guard against situation like these or any other emergencies it is essential to store the money in an easily accessible account.Save For Your Child When you don't have any overdue and you're fully settled in life. Then you can start saving for your c hild. It's never too late to help your child with the costs of living ten years later from now. Taking heavy loan for education and finding it difficult to repay back, save some on your child's account for his future use. Starting from his childhood days, schooling, college and till they are settled in life a lot of money is required and even the cost of living would have been increased. Opening a separate account on your child's name would do wonders for them later.Save For Retirement If you're a person who spends more, control your urges and change your weakness to strength by saving the tax fund for retirement. This is a better option for those who are fifty and above. If you don't have any credit card debt and your thinking in your future terms, then saving money in your account will help you for the days ahead. With the economic rates rising every year, bank is a great place to gain benefits. All you have to do is see for a good bank that gives policies best suited and put the money in it for a long term investments, till you need the

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China to Launch Spacecraft

BEIJING: China plans to launch its Shenzhou-8 spacecraft in early next month to dock with its first spacelab module Tiangong-1.

The spacecraft, to be launched from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, is expected to perform the first space docking with Tiangong-1, or Heavenly Palace-1, a space lab module that was launched in September from the same launch center.

The Shenzhou-8 spacecraft and the carrier rocket, Long March-2F, are being vertically transferred to the launch pad at the center, marking the countdown of the blasting off of the unmanned spacecraft, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

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RIM Sets Up Facility in India to Help With Surveillance

Bangalore: Research In Motion has set up a facility in Mumbai to help the Indian government carry out lawful surveillance of its BlackBerry services, reports Reuters.

RIM gave India access to its consumer services, including its Messenger services, in January this year after authorities raised security concerns, but said it could not allow monitoring of its enterprise email.

RIM partly assuaged India by setting up the small Mumbai facility earlier this year to handle surveillance requests from India.

India can submit the name of a suspect its investigators want to wiretap, and RIM will return decoded messages for that individual, as long as it is satisfied the request has legal authorization.

RIM was not available for comment outside regular Canadian business hours. The new facility will handle lawful intercept requests for consumer services including the BlackBerry Messenger chat service.

India saw the move as a positive step, but would prefer an arrangement where it has the ability to decode messages itself, so that it can conduct surveillance without disclosing the names of suspects to RIM.

India still has no method to intercept and decode BlackBerry enterprise email, which is used by corporate customers and features a higher level of encryption than consumer email and instant messaging.

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RIM Sets Up Facility in India to Help With Surveillance

Bangalore: Research In Motion has set up a facility in Mumbai to help the Indian government carry out lawful surveillance of its BlackBerry services, reports Reuters.

RIM gave India access to its consumer services, including its Messenger services, in January this year after authorities raised security concerns, but said it could not allow monitoring of its enterprise email.

RIM partly assuaged India by setting up the small Mumbai facility earlier this year to handle surveillance requests from India.

India can submit the name of a suspect its investigators want to wiretap, and RIM will return decoded messages for that individual, as long as it is satisfied the request has legal authorization.

RIM was not available for comment outside regular Canadian business hours. The new facility will handle lawful intercept requests for consumer services including the BlackBerry Messenger chat service.

India saw the move as a positive step, but would prefer an arrangement where it has the ability to decode messages itself, so that it can conduct surveillance without disclosing the names of suspects to RIM.

India still has no method to intercept and decode BlackBerry enterprise email, which is used by corporate customers and features a higher level of encryption than consumer email and instant messaging.

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Google Spends More Than $500 Million on Acquisitions

 NEW YORK: Internet giant Google Inc has spent more than $500 million for as many as 54 acquisitions and asset purchases so far in 2011 to expand into new markets and expects its current pace of takeovers to continue.

During the nine-month period ended September 30, 2011, Google completed 54 acquisitions and purchases of assets for a total cash consideration of about $502 million, the company has said in a filing with the US market regulator Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)


This exceeds Google's previous annual record of 44 purchases completed last year. The company had spent cash worth $669 million for its all acquisitions in 2010.

In the first nine months of 2010, Google completed 37 acquisitions for a total cash consideration of approximately $626 million.

"Acquisitions are an important element of our overall corporate strategy and use of capital, and we expect our current pace of acquisitions to continue. These transactions could be material to our financial condition and results of operations," the company said.

The internet firm, which has $42.6 billion of cash and cash equivalent, said, "We also expect to continue to evaluate and enter into discussions regarding a wide array of potential strategic transactions."

Google is estimated to have acquired over 100 firms in the last decade, translating into purchase of 10 companies every year, on an average.

Google disclosed in the filing that that it spent $151 million to buy restaurant-reviews firm Zagat Survey last month. It also also spent $114 million on German company Daily Deals GmbH in September.

Further, in August, Google said it would buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc for about $12.5 billion in a bid to introduce hardware to the Android system.

The Motorola deal is still subject to closing conditions including the approval of the transaction by Motorola's stockholders. If Google fails to meet certain regulatory requirements and is forced to terminate the merger deal, it will have to pay Motorola a fee of $2.5 billion.

Google said it expects to complete the deal by the end of this year or early next year.  

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China Launches First Electric Car for Public

Beijing: Chinese car-maker BYD, which is backed by famous U.S. investor Warren Buffett, has made its first all-electric car available to private buyers in the country.

The BYD e6 -- launched Wednesday in the southern town of Shenzhen, where the auto-maker is based -- will be sold at over 300,000 yuan (about $46,800), Xinhua reported.
The five-seater is equipped with a 75 kw motor and an iron battery, powering the vehicle to a range of nearly 300 km on a single charge in urban conditions, BYD said on its website. It takes 40 minutes to fully charge the vehicle.

The car's projected top speed is 140 km per hour, said the company, in which Buffett owns a 10percent stake.

The e6 can save its owner about 75 percent of energy cost compared to ordinary oil-consuming vehicles, said Lian Yubo, the firm's vice president.

BYD Auto was established in 2003 and is a part of the BYD Co Ltd, a rechargeable battery maker. According to reports, in 2010 production capacity was estimated at 700,000 units, and sales at 519,800 units. I

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China's 3G Phone Users Exceed 100 Million

Beijing: China's 3G mobile phone users reached 102 million by the end of September, authorities said.

Xiao Chunquan, a senior official, said Wednesday that the 3G network covered all cities, counties and some villages in China.

3G, or third-generation mobile telecommunications, is a generation of standards for mobile phones and mobile telecommunication services such as mobile Internet access, video calls and mobile TV.
During the first three quarters, the country's telecom sector posted a 10 percent year-on-year growth in revenues from its main business, with comprehensive charges down 5.1 percent, Xinhua quoted Xiao as saying.

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Cool New Features of Android ICS

Bangalore: Google's latest operating system Android Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) offers a massive array of improvements over its predecessors, brings the best of both Gingerbread and Honeycomb, and provides a raft of innovations.

ICS with its fresh look is much more user friendly than previous Android versions. Here are five cool features of Google's new OS.

1. Android Beam

The only Ice Cream Sandwich innovation that is really new, Android Beam allows users to share information with NFC technology. Just place your ICS handset next to another Android Smartphone or tablet and pass on whatever you are doing, be it watching a YouTube or playing the Minecraft app.
2. New Look Screen

Lock Screen now lets you jump directly to the camera app from home screen, simply by dragging the lock icon to the camera icon. This functional

ity was earlier found in Android phones from HTC and Samsung with 3rd-party apps that had this feature, but it is nice to see it on Android.3. New Home Screen

Home Screen has a brand new look. The Google search widget at the top is seen through, just like the one in Honeycomb for tablets. Since the G

alaxy Nexus does not have buttons, Ice Cream Sandwich adds virtual function buttons at the bottom of the screen. They disappear when not needed.

4. App Menu

Google?s new operating system ICS also features a new view for all apps. There is also a separate tab where home screen widgets may be viewed and sort

ed.

5. Screenshot

The most awaited feature is now available without the need of any add-ons to capture a screenshot image. Android phones or tablet can now take sc

reenshots of your Smartphone or tablet screen at any time, by the pressing of Home and Power buttons together.

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Nokia Eyes 50 Percent Market Share in India by 2012

LONDON: Finnish mobile handset maker Nokia said it is targeting over 50 per cent market share in India on the back of innovative products, services and content within 2012.

The company is banking on its newly unveiled mid-end phones from the 'Asha' series priced between Rs 4,100 and Rs 8,000 and other smartphones, including the new two Lumia models with Windows Operating System tagged at about Rs 29,000 and Rs 19,000 respectively, to drive up sales in India.
"Our target share should always be more than half of the total market...I think we would be able to get there in 2012 by focusing on great innovative products, great delivery and experience at retail points, services and content integration," Nokia India Vice-President and Managing Director D Shivakumar told reporters here.When asked about the company's current market share in India he said: "I won't be able to say that but I can say that we are well on our way."

Nokia is eyeing a majority share across categories within the total mobile and smartphones segment.

According to industry journal 'Voice & Data', in the fiscal 2010-11, the Indian mobile handset market touched Rs 33,171 crore and Nokia's share was Rs 12,929 crore.

"India is not the right market for anybody to just do a value play in any one category. If you want to be meaningful, you have to be a full line player," he added.

Nokia has unveiled four new mid-end phones from the 'Asha' series priced between 60 Euro and 115 euro, along with two new Lumia smartphones with Windows Operating System tagged at 420 euro and 270 euro respectively.

"The Asha range will be a huge boon in a market like India, where the total Internet penetration is under seventy million and the total mobile population is over 800 million," he said.

To support the launch of Lumia phones in India, the company has plans to give demonstrations and let consumers experience the new phones at over 5,000 retail points.

Nokia and Microsoft are training about 12,000 people for this. On the day of the launch, all the employees of Nokia's corporate office in India will be selling phones at stores, Shivakumar said.

"It is the most important launch for us and the benchmark that we have set for ourselves is that it must be the most impactful consumer products launch in the country," he added.

For the Lumia Windows phones, the company is set to launch a new global marketing campaign, including in India. Nokia says its retail partners and operators have committed to invest three times more on he marketing and promotion of the new phones, compared to earlier launches.

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Do You Know About Bluetooth Technology of Your Mobile?

History of Bluetooth
Bluetooth can be traced to the King of Denmark from 949 to 981. Harold Bluetooth was famous for his ability to help people communicate with one another more effectively. The characters on the Bluetooth logo come from characters in the runic alphabet. The reference to this particular king is somehow appropriate as Bluetooth technology also accomplishes the often-difficult task of keeping people connected and communicating effectively.

Each Bluetooth-enabled device can simultaneously communicate with up to seven other devices within a single personal area network, called a piconet. Each device can simultaneously belong to several piconets. Each device negotiates with each other via a defined device name so that each device can keep track of who it is communicating with. Bluetooth technology offers built-in security with 128-bit encryption and PIN code authentication. When Bluetooth products identify themselves, they use the PIN code the first time they connect, thereafter staying securely connected.

Uses of Bluetooth technology
Some of the popular applications of Bluetooth technology are in wireless networking between a mobile phone and a laptop/desktop, between a mobile phone and a hands-free headset, between PCs in a restricted space and between the input and output devices of a PC (e.g., mouse, keyboard, printer). Bluetooth technology can also be used to transfer files, images and MP3 files between mobile phones or between MP3 players/digital cameras and computers.

Limitations of Bluetooth Technology

Short communication range (up to 100 m) is the greatest limitation of Bluetooth technology. Also, the data transfer rates are much lower compared to other wireless communication technologies. Susceptibility to interference from other devices operating in the 2.4 MHz band, notwithstanding adaptive frequency hopping, is another limitation. The Bluetooth technology is still not fully developed, so there is plenty of room for improvement.

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Samsung I780 mobile with latest features

Touchscreen mobile change the way of using mobile in different ways. These mobile phones have easily replaced laptops in terms of mobile computing on the move. The Samsung i780 falls in the category of the touchscreen mobile phones that operates under Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional operating system. Order this phone from a retailing site in the UK at an affordable price and enjoy imaging, browsing the internet, phoning, sending and receiving SMS, MMS, email and Instant messaging, and data installation and transmission.


The i780 Phone impresses the users through its TFT 65k touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard, 2 mega pixel camera, VGA camera, Windows Media Player, high-end messaging services, GPRS, EDGE, 3G technology, Bluetooth, Infrared and USB to implement flawless communication. Buy Samsung i780 immediately to explore the world of communication at cheaper plans and tariffs. Since this phone has adopted Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional operating system; the users will definitely access to office management tools like Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook to accomplish their routine task. With the cell phone; the users can easily create office on the move. Transferring data or downloading applications is not a Herculean task as it is well protected with 3G technology to provide speed to the machine. 

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One More Successfull Handset of NOKIA-NOKIA 6300

The success story of a particular mobile handset depends on many factors namely, the phone design, features and the phone price. The last point i.e., the phone price is one of the most crucial factors in the mobile phone market. Considering all these, Nokia has introduced a new mobile device, the Nokia 6300. Candy-bar in design, the handset is very slim and powerful. As an affordable commodity, the 6300 could be the right choice for mobile users all over the globe.

Silent Features

The Nokia 6300 is a true emblem of powerful technology and well-thought of designing. It has been finished up with easy to use candy bar design, which very well matches up with its whole profile. It works on the popular Tri Band technology, which is too good and keeps you connected across the whole globe. To add more into designing, the Nokia 6300 is finished up with an attractive stainless steel casing, which not only makes it look good, but also makes it tough gizmo to tolerate any sort of wear and tear. Moreover, it is also endowed with an easy to use four way navigation key, which helps you get quick access to all the major functions. Its two inch TFT QVGA coloured screen provides a lucid viewing experience, as it supports the resolution of 240 x 320 pixels.

Dimensions of NOKIA 6300

The Nokia 6300 comes as 0a mid range mobile device. Weighing only 91g, the device is very lightweight and compact with less than 13.1 mm thickness. Though slim in profile, the device never compromises on features and offers all that you can expect in a mid range phone device. Hold the phone in your hand or easily slip the phone in your pocket.

Other Supports

As far as productivity tools are concerned, the Nokia 6300 offers great messaging services such as SMS, MMS, EMS and Nokia Xpress Audio messaging – always keep in touch with friends and family wherever you go. For connectivity ease, the Nokia 6300 comes with Bluetooth and USB – connect the device with or without wires and share data swiftly. And with WAP, GPRS and EDGE technology, enjoy fast mobile internet anytime-anywhere.

You can logon to any mobile site for more details and also get best deal.

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Latest phone from LG-LG LG KE850

Do you love playing mobile phone games or need to stay connected to the Internet always? You can browse the Internet, play games such as Pipe, Halloween Fever, and so on, and set polyphonic ring tones in your KE850 mobile phone. This Bluetooth enabled phone allows you to send MMS, EMS, SMS, and emails as well. Besides the above mentioned features, you can record videos or click images with the 1600x1200 pixel camera, and listen to your favourite FM channel as KE850 has FM Radio. This phone has it all that you might be looking for in a latest mobile phone. It is sophisticated, unique, stylish, and versatile. Definitely the perfect choice for those who like to communicate in style
The 400x200 pixel touch screen is the most alluring part of LG KE850. The TFT touch screen can show upto 256,000 colours. A capacitive screen, flash user interface, downloadable wallpapers are a few of the characteristics of the KE850. If you are among those who wish they could store thousands of contacts in their mobile phone, this one is surely made for you. Its phone book can store upto one thousand entries. Besides this, the memory is huge enough to keep track of the call records and can store records of 40 missed, 40 received, and 40 dialled calls. Not only does it have a huge memory, but also has tremendous data transfer speed of 32-48 kbps.
The touch pad of the phone LG KE850 Prada is superb and its extra sensitive to touch. The extra large phone makes it very comfortable for finger use on the touch screen. And the extra wide LCD maximizes the view point also. The phone has a set of comprehensive software which makes the use of this mobile a new experience and joy. The web browser, the software like Adobe/Macromedia Flash support and others installed in it make it superb for office goers to view files on text word, powerpoint, excel, and PDF. The emailing and messaging applications of the phone is superb.

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New Look with Advance features mobile – Nokia 5700

The new generation of mobiles makes more and more work easy with entertainment. Nokia present its new mobile phone NOKIA 5700. It is in different and attractive look than other mobiles of Nokia. Multimedia features of mobile are excellent. Data transfer rate is very high with advance technology in this mobile.

Key Features of NOKIA 5700
Display size 240 x 320 pixels, 2.2 inches

Ringtones - polyphonic, MP3, AAC.

Data Transfer- GPRS-class 11, HSCSD 42.2 kbps, EDGE class 32, 296/177.6 kbits, 3G- 384 kbps, Bluetooth, Infrared an USB support.

Memory- Memory card support – micro SD (Trans Flash), 35 MB user memory.
64 MB SDRAM, 128 MB ROM

Camera - 2MP, 1600*1200 pixels, video(QVGA), flash.

Battery - Stand by – Up to 290 h Talk time Up to 3 h 30 min

Other – FM Stereo Radio, Video calling, Video player, OS-Symbian OS v9.2,S60 rel 3.1.

General opinion about mobileAccording to most online mobile sites public opinion about this mobile is very good. It has all features of good mobile. For buying and more detail u can log on to any online mobile sites. 

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Nokia 6600 - Mobile with Latest Technology

 Nokia 6600 - Mobile with Latest Technology

Nokia 6600 hands latest slider designed handset has astir the mobile phone users with its design and high-end functionality. Mobile attct you as its new featurs fulfill your all needs of new technology mobile.You would surely love this handset as its user-friendly interface would facilitate you to access the functional menus at ease. Moreover, its sophisticated TFT screen would display the images and video clips at very high resolution. The high resolution camera which comes incorporated in this mobile phone would definitely make you a photographer at ease. You can easily capture images and store them in the memory card.

When memory becomes full in your mobile, you can use the option of memory expansion.After that you can store as much contents as you want. It is further quite interesting to note that even though this handset comes loaded with numerous features, it weighs very less and can be operated without any hassle. Moreover, the enhanced connectivity options and efficient battery of this gadget would never let you feel concerned in any case. If you are a style conscious person and love mobile entertainment then this mobile phone can prove prove to be your perfect companion. 

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W760i-A New Sony Ericsson Mobile Phone

The Sony Ericsson W760i is the latest music focussed handset from the range and incorporates some new technology aswell as upgraded Walkman software and features.The Sony W760i has been initially released in the UK on O2 contract tariffs, consumers are able to sign up to a 12 month or 18 month contract agreement and receive a W760i Walkman phone free of charge.

It is a Walkman Phone with GPRS support, the Sony Ericsson W760 is HSDPA enabled, offering 3G Services, USB connectivity, EDGE Technology and Bluetooth Wireless with A2DP Stereo Support. Messaging solutions include email and the browser comes with RSS Reader, the internal memory is 40MB with a 1GB memory stick included in the package for optional expansion and a phonebook capable of storing contact details for 1000 entries.

Mutlimedia features include a 3.2 mega pixel camera with video capture & playback features, an MP3 Player which will support AAC audio file formats and a built-in FM Radio with RDS.The camera is complimented with Picture Editing software and an image viewer and the Music Player with built-in Stereo Speakers.

With enough space to store up to 950 of music tracks on the phone and a whole lot more on removeable MicroSD memory cards, bonus features such as TrackID recognition, Shake Control, Sensme and TrackID charts, the Sony Ericsson W760i will no doubt keep users more than just entertained.

Although initially launched on O2 in the UK, the Sony W760i will be picked up by further networks in the coming weeks, this is not a network exclusive mobile phone. The first edition to be released is the Intense Black model, the red edition is to be a network exclusive with Vodafone once UK stocks arrive.

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The Serenata.- New mobile from Bang & Olufsen

Samsung Electronics and Bang & Olufsen launch serenata a new music-mobile phone which holds 4G bytes of songs (storing about 1,000 songs) and has numerous features similar to the iPhone .The Serenata doesn't look like a mobile phone . The top half has a navigation wheel with no buttons.

Serenata's click wheel navigation gives users simple and easy operation of the phone's functions. There are very few actual keys, with the wheel being used for all primary operation supported by on-screen operation based on sensi-touch technology. A large 2.4-inch colour LCD display developed by Samsung allows Serenata to show album covers in high resolution and facilitates on-screen navigation.


The amount of song storage space is a major difference between Serenata and the iPhone. Apple Inc. has already said it will only sell 8G-byte iPhones in the future, once it sells out of the 4G byte version. The Serenata works with GSM networks,900,1800 and 1900 MHz bands, and with HSDPA services on 3G networks. Users can send e-mail SMS text messages from the handset, and store up to 1,000 phone numbers in its address book. The phone allows users to create to-do lists, write in calendars, and has enough battery power for three hours of talk time.

The handsets will go on sale in Europe by the end of the month, said Anthony Lee, a spokesman at Samsung. Pricing has not yet been

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Latest phone from Sony Ericsson W995 - A walkman lover's phone

Sony Ericsson’s new Walkman series phone W995 complete all desired of  walkman phone lovers. It's a good-looking and easy-to-use music phone with excellent sound quality. This is a music phone that takes everything great about the Walkman range and makes it even better, thanks to the standard 3.5mm headphone jack at  the top.On the back is the 8.1 megapixel lens  LED flash and a small metal flip stand so you can set it somewhere handy to watch video

The Sony Ericsson W995 is a slider, so you'd expect it to be on the chunky side. That said, they've kept it reasonably slim by keeping the top part to a svelte 4mm, delivering the vital statistics of 97x49x15mm and 113g. So it's still a fair old handful, but not bad at all considering what's inside.

Display looks pleasing with its 2.6 inches. This is a feature Sony Ericsson has definitely improved on alongside of the previous models – all of them have smaller ones. Resolution, however, remains the same – QVGA and the screen supports 262k colors. No matter, image quality is really good. Thanks to the light sensitivity sensor, display is usable even in bright light, although colors get rather worn-out.

Similarly to the Sony Ericsson W705, the phone looks stylish, presentable and buttoned-down. Both its front side and battery cover are made of metal and sport nicely looking brushed pattern that is, however, hardly noticeable on the black handset we are reviewing. Still, the W995 also comes in silver and red varieties.

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Nokia N8 - Mobile with best look and best features

After long time I restarted posting on this blog with one of best mobile by NOKIA. This mobile has every features that one should want in his/her phone, it gives you best rewards to you money.This phone introdue new range in photo shooting with its 12 MP camera. Video quality of phone get better than ever. It has wide display of 3.5 inch. Touchscreen faciltiy of mobile looks very user friendly. On screen keyboard also provided.

Sound is clean and louder. Voice call quality is above average. Nokia's bundled headset, which features a pair of noise-isolating ear buds that are a clear cut above the mediocrity typically thrown in with phones. Games and softwares can be downloaded for ovi store.

Other featers include Bluetooth 3.0 plus A2DP, GPS (both the real and assisted kind), 802.11n WiFi 16GB of built-in storage, and of course a MicroSD slot for adding up to 32GB more. Light and proximity sensors are joined by an accelerometer and magnetometer in ensuring that there's no unfilled nook or cranny within the N8's aluminum body. Suffice it to say, you won't be lacking for options with this handset.

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