Just Tech 2.0.

Here is a complete list of Nokia Mobile Phones released in India with FM Radio compatibility. Kindly tune into your local FM station and test the audio before you purchase the phone.

Entry Level Models
Price: Less than Rs5,000
Models: Nokia 2310 and 6030
(6030 on your left)


Between Rs5,001 and Rs10,000
Models: 6070, 7260, 6101, 6220
7360, 3230 (On your right)



High end phones, Rs 15,001 and above
Models: 6270, 3250, N70, 6280, 7710
E60(On your left), N71, N91 -5 Edge,
N73, 7280, N80, N93

Adlabs Films Limited owned Big FM 92.7 went live in New Delhi and Hyderabad. Pooja Shetty, Director, Adlabs Films Limited and Tarun Katial, COO of Big FM 92.7 are seen together at the launch party in New Delhi.

Tarun's strategies are, Content Branding and Street Level Marketing. They have roped in Big B as their brand ambassador.

It is also learnt that Reliance Entertainment, Anil Ambani's holding company for AdLabs is set to launch Internet Radio. Reliance India Mobile is planning to launch its Mobile Radio much on the lines of Hutch's Visual radio. Sure, Anil Ambani is thinking big like his elder sibling Mukesh, by going for all sorts of backward and forward integration in the Infotainment business :-)

If you are shopping or banking online then you MUST look for these bare minimum requirements before you enter any details such as your credit card number or online banking id and password.

In the picture below, we examine ICICIBank.Com website. As shown, you should always look for "https" in the URL and the "safe secure lock" at the right-hand bottom corner of your browser window in which you will enter your confidential information.


However, for HDFCBank website a new window will pop-up and you won't be able to see the URL text bar which displays "https". So just look for the "safe secure shopping" lock at the bottom right hand corner of the window as shown in the picture below and even that implies the site is secure.
For any website where you wish to enter confidential info always look for "https" and/or "safe secure shopping" lock at the right hand bottom corner of the browser window.

It is worth browsing this website for more information on safe online shopping and banking. Should you have any questions or comments, drop me a line nascentnet @ yahoo com.

Aye Microsoft Wale Na, Customer Ko Bara Bar Samaja Hey Rey!!! Abhi Dekh Google Itna Mehanat Kar Key Acha Products Market Mein Diya. Microsoft Ka Izzat Ka Sawal Aya, Tou MSN Wale Ne Diya Supari Munna Bhai Aur Circuit Ko, Aur MSN Rating in India- Sky Rocketing!!!

Here is yet another Bot from the MSN India Specials. Add
munnabhai@mumbainotout.com to your MSN Messenger or Live Messenegr, chat with Munna Bhai and Win free Movie Tickets, CDs and Casettes. Cheers & Chill Out !!!

It happens such that you are reading a blog and you bump into a difficult word for which you need to open your Dictionary or visit Merriam-Webster online. The exercise won't be painful anymore. Thanks to Microsoft's "Encarta® Instant Answers" that can be added to your MSN or Live Messenger and access the power of Dictionary, Encyclopedia, WorldBook, Maps and the entire Encarta all from your chat window. "Encarta Instant Answers" will also solve your kids Quadriatic Equations, no joke.

Requirements: MSN Messenger 7.5 and above. OR Windows Live Messenger. Both are Free.
Note: Windows XP users, you get Windows Messenger for free pre-installed. "encarta buddy" won't work with Windows Messenger.

How to add Encarta Instant Answers to your messenger Buddy List ?
Contacts --> Add a Contact --> Add this id "encarta@botmetro.net".

Exploring the power of Encarta Instant Answers:
Dictionary - Click on the Encarta buddy and begin chatting. Say, you want to find the meaning for "Shangri-La". (LazyBoy is me) Just type in the chat window, define shangri-la and you get the answer within few microseconds as "Here is the definition for Shangri-la: imaginary utopia."

Encarta now sends you an invitation to open Encarta, if you accept, a new window pane will open within the same window as shown here. Now you can also listen to how "Shangri-La" is pronounced.


Encyclopedia - Now to explore the power of encyclopedia, I typed in my next query "tell me about Gandhi". Boom!! In few milli seconds you have the answer, "Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), Indian nationalist leader, who established his country's freedom through a nonviolent revolution..". It also loads more details about Gandhi Ji from MSN encylopedia as shown to your left.


Maps - Say you want to view Map of Mumbai. Just type "Map of Mumbai" and there it displays the Mumbai Map as shown to your left. It also tells you little bit about Mumbai "Mumbai, India is in western India, on Bombay Island, on the Arabian Sea; capital of Mahārāshtra State." in the chat window. Indian Maps are not very exhaustive while Maps of American cities are very refined and you can also slide the map with your mouse literally getting driving directions.

Maths - Arithmetic calculations are trivial tasks to my Encarta Buddy. He can now solve your Maths assignments. Can calculate percentages and solve Quadriatic Equations explaining every step involvedi n the calculation. Some of the examples I tested are as follows.
"what is 20% of 150,000"
Encarta® Instant Answers says:
20% * 150,000 = 30,000

"Solve 2x^2-7x=5"
Encarta® Instant Answers says:
Equation Solver:

Let's solve the quadratic equation:
2x^2-7x = 5
First we need to put the equation in the form:
ax^2 + bx + c = 0
For this, we set the equation to equal 0, and arrange the terms from the highest exponent to the lowest:
2x^2-7x-5 = 0
We have:
a=2 b=-7 c=-5
We can now apply the quadratic formula:
x = ( -b ± √(b²-4ac) ) / 2a
We find two solutions:
x=4.1084952830142 or x=-0.60849528301415

HaHa!!! Encarta® Instant Answers buddy is great.

Most of you at times want to access sites or blogs that are being blocked by ISPs or by countries such as China and Saudi which fear a political revolution in their country. Your anxiety and curiosity to access the content is at the pinnacle and want to read the blog at any cost. Here are few simple tricks for anonymous surfing. Don't use them from your workplace as you should believe in "Work is Worship"

pkblogs: Try pkblogs.com to access any blogspot blog. This service is absolutely free.

NYUD.Net: Just append .nyud.net:8080 to the URL you wish to surf.
For example, if you wish to browse CNN.com then type the following URL in your browser window, http://www.cnn.com.nyud.net:8080

SearchEngine Cache: Google's cache is an extremely valuable piece of information for sites that have been taken offline or blocked. For example, healthinsurancebids.com is taken offline after some controversy that appeared on BusinessWeek. Lets access the site from Google cache.

Query for site:healthinsurancebids.com and then Click on the "Cached" link as show in the picture above and a cached version of the page will load for you.

Using Google Translation: The controversial blog like that of Zhao Jing’s blog which is in Chinese is of no use to you unless you get an English Version or a Translator. Google Search Engine can translate the blog to you in English.

Query for site:anti.blog-city.com/2006.htm. Then click on the "Translate this page" link as shown above. You should get an .

Proxy Server Lists and Directories: Proxy.Org and Google Proxy Servers Directory

Happy surfing but not from Workplace :-)

Reliance India Mobile is developing games out of Virgin's Comic characters - Devi, Snakewoman, Ramayana 3392 AD and Sadhu. Virgin is extremely bullish on these games and is planning versions for online and PlayStation.

Suresh Seetharaman of Virgin Comics said that,
"Firstly, we develop the characters in a comic book, which is both low cost and is also the best form of expression with both visuals and words. We then follow two models of business where we would either go for an animation series followed by a theatrical release or vice versa"

After tasting the success of gaming in Reliance Web World, group company, Reliance Entertainment is investing Rs450 crores to launch gaming portals and gaming cafes across India. These games are targeted at school and college kids. The first gaming portal by Reliance is expected to go live by Diwali-2006.

Reliance Communications has launched SMS pack for cricket lovers, and is available throughout India. The pack offers only SMS alerts every 10 overs, or at critical moments and costs Rs. 49. Customers have to dial 1234 and say ’scores’ for subscription. Additional features like – comments, detailed scorecard, etc are available on dialing 1234, but it costs Rs. 6 per minute. Scores are also available on Reliance Mobile World. If you are in Delhi, you can also check out Airtel's Cricket Subscription Pack.

Reliance Mobile ,
Cricket Scores by SMS

Just like the ONGC-Videsh deal between ONGC and Mittal Steel, the junior scion of the Ambani clan, Anil Ambani, has signed a deal with MTNL to jointly look for telecom opportunities in the global markets. Both the companies have good services experience but hardly have any R&D spending or telecom products to invade the west.

Meanwhile, the Department of Telecom has initiated enquiries against Bharti-Airtel, Reliance Telecom and VSNL for reselling telecom services to foreign carrier to access customers located in India and also in viloation of service taxes. We pay flat 12% service tax and our mobiel service providers pocket them :-)

Content syndicated from BroadbandIndia. A blogger frustrated by poor customer service from FirstandSecond.com writes,

Trust me this is not how e-commerce works. It should be all instantenous without any further effort from the consumer. (I had to call DELHI 4 times and fed up of dealing with them, I decided to expose them). Please don't shop on FirstandSecond.com. FirstandSecond.Com Sux. NEVER EVER SHOP on FirstandSecond.com.

Reliance has placed an order for 2 million handsets of Nokia 1255 at an average cost of Rs2,000. Reliance maybe coming with a new offer by bundling this service just like "Mansoon Hungama" it did in the past.

Key Features:
CDMA 800 and weighs 80 gms. Handy voice recorder
Integrated handsfree speaker
Phonebook with 250 contacts and 5 entries per contact
Pre-loaded screensavers
Calendar and alarm clock
The Phone doesn't have colored display :(

Battery BL-5C Talk time Up to 3.5 hrs Standby time Up to 192 hrs(Ofcourse this will depend on the network)

Reliance with global ambitions in telecom business today went live with their international 2.5 terabit network connecting India to middle east and further to Europe's Flag Telecom network.

Reliance controlled Flag Telecom today becomes the owner of largest undersea cable in the world. A truly Reliance Anil Dhirubhai company :)

The retail space for Mobile retailing is the hottest in India as India becomes the fastest growing cellular market in the world. The following are operational retailers.

• MobileNxt
• ConvergeM, M Bazaar(Through Pantloon Retail)
  
• Mobile Magic
  

Essar Telecom also wants to enter Mobile retailing but they are'nt operational yet.

Mobile Magic Stores are already operational in 34 cities.

Mobile Retailing in India,
Retail India