I have been using Hindustan Time mPaper for months now and it was never a smooth experience, until last night . The UI was pathetic, fonts needed huge imporvement, eventhough the app was fast and the navigation was smooth but there were some stability issues. But now things have changed with the new update ( ver 1.25.19 ) from the guys at Eterno Infotech .
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Hindustan Times Mpaper Gets A Timely Upgrade
If you are a current subscriber to T-Mobile’s 5GB webConnect data plan the recent announcement made by the wireless network may be some good news or bad news depending on how you look at it. T-Mobile recently announced that the carrier will no longer be charging its $.20 per megabyte overage fee for any data used beyond the 5GB limit. Instead of these overage fees the wireless network will be implementing bandwidth throttling on any data used on top of the standard 5GB. While T-Mobile did not say exactly how much they will slow things down this latest announcement effectively makes the 5GB webConnect data plan an unlimited plan. This new data structure will also affect those customers who are on the 200MB monthly plan for their iPhone or other devices. While these customers will not see any bandwidth throttling they will see their overage charges cut in half from $.20 to $.10 per megabyte. Both changes are effective immediately.
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T-Mobile drops some overage charges in favor of bandwidth throttling
The big online companies have always looked offline when it came to their big expansion plans. So Naukri, Shaadi and Bharatmatrimony had ventured into matrimony centres and Travel guys like Makemytrip and Yatra have looked at travel offices.
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Zoomin.com Expands Via Photo Studio Retail Strategy
Our recent WATShow with Abhijit Saxena Of NetCore Solutions had questioned the importance of vernacular content to his business ( check his answer here ) and now it seems Netcore has gone ahead and acquired Greynium which owns Indian language portals in oneIndia.in. The acquisition would have been helped by the fact that the NetCore’s founder and Managing Director, Rajesh Jain, had earlier invested in Greynium through his personal venture capital fund, Emergic Venture Capital. Besides for OneIndia.in greynium also owns an online Indian classifieds portal Click.in which competes with the likes of quikr and clickindia in the Indian classifieds space.
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Netcore Acquires Greynium – Bullish On Local Languages
Its the financial results season and online and mobile companies seem to be reporting their quarterly and yearly results for year ended 09-10. Here are 3 such results that were recently reported.
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Financial Results Roundup: Naukri (Infoedge), Idea Cellular & Onmobile
Handmark will develop and support mobile applications for Lee Enterprises newspaper and online media properties, the two companies recently announced. The latter is a provider of local news, information and advertising servicdes primarily in midsize markets, with more than…
Late last year, the National Audubon Society made several mobile app versions of its field guides available for download from the App Store. It recently added three more guides, bringing the total number Audubon iPhone apps available in the iTunes…
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Audubon Releases More iPhone App Guides for Nature Lovers
AdMob, which acquired AdWhirl eight months ago, says these changes will enable developers to use an unlimited number of ad networks in their mobile apps, including support for Apple’s iAd service once it’s available. Previously, developers could add only one…
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AdMob Updates Open Source AdWhirl Ad Mediation Tool
Apple has recently acquired Siri, a company that makes a virtual assistant app. Siri was inspired by Darpa’s CALO – the Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes – project. While Siri was initially designed to help streamline military personnel’s activities the consumer app now focuses on helping your find things like restaurants, hotels, businesses and even utilizes speech recognition tools. This app is essentially a smart search app and has people speculating about the direction that Apple might be taking. Many industry experts feel that this acquisition is leading Apple into Google territory. While the terms of the acquisition are not known Business Insider guesses the deal could be worth $100 to $200 million. A deal of that magnitude would definitely signal a commitment to this new type of technology for Apple. The technology that Siri can bring to the table for Apple’s various consumer electronics will certainly enhance the user experience of iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad users.
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Apple acquires virtual assistant search app maker Siri
Eventhough AT&T’s own Ralph de la Vega mentioned all the way back in November 2008 that you would be able to tether your iPhone to your personal computer and use it as a modem “soon” it looks like we are still quite a ways away from seeing this functionality. Even with many iPhone carriers around the world deploying this tethering feature as soon as Apple had it ready it seems that AT&T’s silence is saying more than they want it to. Tech website Engadget reached out to AT&T and received this feedback concerning iPhone tethering on the AT&T network: “We understand that there is great interest in tethering but cannot provide any details at this time.
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iPhone tethering on AT&T still waiting on better network performance
Twitter showed the way with Bollywood biggies logging on to the networking site. Now rediff which recently launched a me too of facebook fanpages with Rediff pages has apparently roped in (seems like a movie promotion gimmick) bollywood star – Hrithik Roshan
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Rediff Ropes In Hrithik Roshan For Rediff Pages – To Live Chat Online
Very soon India will become one of the first countries to have non-English internationalised domain names (IDN) in regional languages such as Hindi, Bangla, Punjabi, Urdu, Tamil, Telugu and Gujarati. If things go well between the department of information technology of India (DIT) and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN) you can expect these regional language domain names by early next year. The DIT will submit its proposal by next month to ICANN including IP address space assignments.
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Coming Soon: Domain Names In Hindi, Telugu And Other Regional Languages
When Nokia N8 was launched last week everybody was pleasantly surprised but some of us were also disappointed because N8 comes with a battery that cannot be removed. But guys over at ArabNokia Forum got their hands on the N8 and have shown us how the battery of the N8 can be removed. You just need to remove the two screws located at the left and right side of the phone as shown
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How To Remove Nokia N8 Battery
Akamai announced the state of the Internet report for the Fourth Quarter – 2009 in Bangalore last week. Leveraging information gathered from its network, the Akamai report provides insight into key Internet statistics such as origin of attack traffic and broadband connectivity levels across the globe.
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Akamai Report: State Of The Internet In India – Q4 2009
If you are an Amazon Kindle user then there is some very good news coming up your way. Amazon has announced a new firmware update for their Kindle e-book reader that will add Facebook and Twitter support on the Kindle. So from now on whenever you are reading your favourite books on the Kindle, you can share you thoughts about the read on Facebook and at the same time get real time comments from your friends about your views
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Amazon Kindle & Live Messenger Get Facebook – Twitter Support
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/smartphone-shipments-jump-50-in-first-quarter-2010-04-30 Apple, a late entrant into the smart phone market has managed to do really well in the past three years with its one and only smart phone the iPhone. iPhone, when launched created an entirely new breed of smart phone users, App developers and of course game developers
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Apple is Now The Third Largets Smart Phone Vendor Globally
Found another set of interesting 3.5+ games for this weekend. Give it a shot, before it goes back to its original price: Fly Control – $0.99 Free [ App Store ] Air traffic control has never been so animated. Control the flies to their stinky targets and see what happens if you cannot avoid the encounter.
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Games4Free: Fly Control, Froggy Jump and Cell Splat
Anurag Dod (CEO) of Guruji.com and other top Guruji.com executives have landed themselves in deep trouble after they were arrested in Bangalore on charges of copyright infringement by making musical content online for free which is originally owned by T-Series (Super Cassettes Industries Ltd). T-Series president- marketing media publishing (TV) Vinod Bhanushali said that Guruji.com has been using the T-Series catalogue and the pirated website (Guruji.com) works on a non-investment model and uses content from other pirate websites
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Guruji.com CEO & Execs Arrested For Copyright Infringment
Ever since cell phones first appeared on the scene decades ago, Motorola has dominated the American market. It was the first company to sell a commercial cell phone (as far as I know), but how the mighty have fallen. In fact, Motorola isn’t even the biggest American cell phone maker anymore.
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Apple takes throne as biggest American phone company
Smartphones have surged by 50% globally from a year ago. It grew from 35.9 million units in the year ago quarter to 54 million units in the first quarter of 2010, the strongest growth rate in several years, reports AppleInsider . MarketWatch said smartphones now make up 18% of all mobile phone sales.
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Apple is now the 3rd largest seller globally in the Smartphone space