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Get ready for the official Twitter app for iPhone
Everyone knows how successful and revolutionary twitter is. However, if you look closely at Twitter’s history, you will notice that the company has reached this level primarily because of its API. That’s right, Twitter (the company) did not offer any desktop or mobile app developed by them until now. Their primary product is the twitter…
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Apple announces iPhone OS 4 with multitasking
Alas. Our prayers have been answered. Apple announced the next iteration of its iPhone OS – version 4 yesterday. And finally, succumbing to criticism around the lack of multitasking, they have added the feature in this version. First, here is a full list of features in the next version:
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Airtel launches digital TV recorder (PVR)
Finally, Airtel has launched its personal video recorder (PVR) in the market under the name “digital TV recorder”. It has all the features TataSky+ has including some extra cherries such as: Can record 100 hours of video (10 hours more than TataSky+) Has HDMI port Ability to record shows from your mobile phone using a…
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Who says twitter is a waste of time?
Whosoever says (or believes) that tweeting is like any other useless social networking waste of time needs to look at the following tweets. Apparently, a couple in Hyderabad is trying to get a passport for their 4 months old baby but the officers at the Passport office in the city are not accepting their application…
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Airtel introduces 50 Mbps & 30 Mbps broadband plans in India
Looks like Bharti Airtel is on a spree. The company announced today that it is introducing 30 Mbps & 50 Mbps broadband plans in India. This translates to 3.75 MBPS and 6.25 MBPS speeds respectively. Wow. It looks like we are finally catching up to the rest of the world in terms of broadband speed.…
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Taco Bell comes to India
The popular Mexican fast food giant Taco Bell is now in India and has opened its first outlet in Bangalore. They plan to open more outlets in other locations in India in the coming months. The company will put a touch screen self ordering kiosk in its outlets for all the tech savvy customers.
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Airtel launches iPhone 3GS in India, no surprises
Looks like iPhone 3GS is finally hitting the Indian shores on 26 March 2010. Bharti Airtel announced the availability of the iPhone 3GS on its network in a press release on 24 March 2010. As expected, the price of the phone is absurdly high. Here is a run down: Model Price (INR) iPhone 3GS 16GB…
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BSNL joins the bandwagon, offers new, lamer plans
State owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) does not want to stay behind in the lame tactics of ISPs in India. They have come up with plans going up to 2 Mbps, but with terribly absurd FUP. Here are the details:
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Airtel launches 4Mbps plans with absurd FUP limits
Airtel is desperate to woo in new customer. The company recently launched four new broadband plans offering speed of 4Mbps. However, the Fair Usage Policy (FUP) limit on these plans is completely absurd for a speed like that. Equally absurd is the post FUP speed of 256kbps! Here are the details:
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DTH Companies planning to launch HD Set Top Boxes this year
With the 2010 Commonwealth games available for HD broadcast, the DTH companies in India (Dish TV, Reliance Big TV, Airtel Digital TV and Tata Sky) are planning to launch High Definition (HD) set top boxes (STB) this year. Sun DTH already has HD ready boxes and HD service in India. While Dish TV and Reliance…