Archive for the ‘Science and Technology’ Category

Top Ten Best Budget Touchscreen Phones

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The age of smart-phones has ushered in an age of economy with an eye for the best features. With the top mobile proprietors responding to the demands of customers based on the current trend of Get More, Pay Less, its obvious that a number of phones have sprung up with competing features and flexible options. [...]

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TOP500 Enlists World’s Fastest Computers

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Top500, the Supercomputer Site, as its tagline goes, has just released the names of the top 10 fastest computers of the world. This new list differs from the site’s June 2008 release owing to several changes in the evaluation process. The TOP500 list is compiled by Hans Meuer of the University of Mannheim, Germany; Erich [...]

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Come 2100 and You May Go Under Water

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New researches by a group of 100 international scientists show that the sea levels will increase to atleast 1.4 metres before the 21st century comes to an end. “We can see the west Antarctic glaciers are shrinking at a rate fast enough to contribute to a sea level rise of 1.4 m by 2100, but [...]

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Without IMEI?!

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A year after the horrific Mumbai 26/11 attacks, the government, on tuesday, 1st december, has finally banned 20 million mobile handsets that do not have an IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) number in order to stop the usage of such phones by terrorists to make communications to high commands and launch attacks. Wikipedia terms the [...]

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How To Recharge Your Vodafone Prepaid Online

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Got to make an important call? Balance Nil? Don’t feel like stepping out to recharge your Vodafone prepaid sim? Here’s what you need to do then. Recharge online! Log into Vodafone and click on Prepaid > Recharge online menu option. Just a requirement- either you need is a valid credit card or an online banking [...]

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Airtel Brings To You Exclusive SMS Tweets

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Twitter is fun and we all know that. But in case your GPRS freaks you out or perhaps you are unable to see the EDGE or GPRS icon at the top of your mobile desktop or for some reason, your mobile internet is not working properly, Airtel brings to you exclusive freedom to tweet. Now [...]

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Opera Mobile 10 for Windows Released

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Opera 10 Mobile Beta version for Windows Mobile is finally launched. After the resounding success of Opera 9 and its seriess, the Opera team decided to launch Opera 10 that looks quite similar to the symbian platform browser in order to integrate all its browsers with the same interface. Among the newest features are speed [...]

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Vodafone Pay Per Second Tariff

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Vodafone has launched a new plan to let its prepaid customers  avail the pay per second tariff for both local and STD calls. New  subscribers get an additional bonanza of free SIM card bundled with lifelong validity. The main purpose of launching this plan is to provide customers with excellent customer service and among the [...]

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Airtel’s Pay Per Second Tariff

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Following the leads of telecom service providers Tata and Aircel, Bharti Airtel has also launched oen second billing plan. According to the new scheme, customers will be charged one paise for one second to any local and nation number in the same network and Rupee 1.20 paise for any external networks. Airtel distribution network currently [...]

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Prithvi-II Tests Successful- India

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India is proud, yes proud and feeling lucky. The tests concerning nuclear-capable surface-to-surface Prithvi-II missiles, fired consecutively with a time interval of 3 minutes from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur in Balasore district, (approx. 230 kms from Bhubaneshwar) conducted in the presence of V K Saraswat, Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister and [...]

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