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Blackberry 9700, love to be bold

February 09, 2010 By: Hema Manchanda Category: Science & Tech

Bold 9700 comes with a touch trackpad, a dark chrome frame and rear leather. The handset includes a 624 MHz processor. The Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM) launched the BlackBerry Bold smartphone 9700 in India. In India the handset and Blackberry services are available with telecom operators like Airtel,BSNL,Idea Cellular, Loop Mobile, MTNL, Reliance,Tata Docomo and Vodafone Essar.

The Airtel says that the, “BlackBerry smartphones are the world’s most desired integrated communication device on Airtel. Now be constantly accessible on mail, talk on phone and surf the internet at the same time, schedule and coordinate appointments in the middle of meetings, raise approval request, log in orders, update business databases and stay connected to your colleagues, customers, friends and family – from anywhere, anytime.”

The blackberry bold offers advanced features and multimedia communications with a compact and sophisticated design, appealing to women and men, both personal and business use.

It includes support for HSDPA 3G connectivity, a 624 MHz processor, 256 MB of Flash memory, GPS and integrated Wi-Fi and a 3.2 MP camera.

It comes with a touch trackpad, a dark chrome frame and rear leather new smartphone, which will provide a sleek appearance.

The clear screen has resolution of 480 x 360 to 245 ppi. The full-QWERTY keyboard touch, with sculpted keys precisely and chrome accents for greater speed and accuracy when typing.

Includes a slot for micro SD memory card / SDHC 16 GB card ready to withstand up to 32 GB, when available, will include a 2GB card.

Unlimited Free Airtel to Airtel Local and STD calls on Valentine fortnight Sundays

February 09, 2010 By: Hema Manchanda Category: Science & Tech

Bharti Airtel , leading integrated telecom services providers with operations in India and Sri Lanka announced the launch of Unlimited Sunday on the occasion of Valentine’s Day for its 2.9 million Fixed Line customers across the country. On the occasion of Valentine’s Day Airtel offers Unlimited Sunday for its Fixed Line through this offer customers can enjoy unlimited free Local and STD calls to other Airtel Fixed Line numbers on the three Sundays during the Valentine fortnight. The Unlimited Sunday offer will be available on – February 7, February 14 and February 21. For more information, customers can call 121 from their Airtel Fixed Line.

Announcing this, Mr. Vikas Singh, Chief Marketing Officer–Telemedia Services, Bharti Airtel said, “As one of the country’s leading fixed line service providers, we are committed to delighting our customers through great customer service, value for money and superior calling experience. In keeping with this intent, we are happy to introduce Unlimited Sunday on the Valentine Fortnight which will enable our customers to easily reach out to their friends and families on the Airtel Fixed Line network”

TCS website now functioning fine

February 09, 2010 By: Hema Manchanda Category: Science & Tech

India’s most renowned software exporter Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) website is now resorted. TCS became a victim of cyber attack on Sunday when the company website was hacked and the domain name was put up for sale, Hackers put TCS website ‘For Sale’ in English & French. IT service provider website hacked? People were surprised to hear this. This hack will definitely lead to total embarrassment for the software firm who thrives on creating software and security systems day in and day out.

It was hacked for nearly three hours and www.tcs.com displayed the message ‘this domain name is for sale’ for nearly three hours and was restored by around 7 am.The attack happened at the domain name registrar’s end, which is Network Solutions in this case.

Network Solutions is one of the top five domain name registrars on internet, managing almost 6.4 million domains.

According to techie-buzz.com, it was a French hacker who did the malicious act. This hack is alleged to be a DNS hijack which is quite similar to the breach that Twitter buckled under last year. The good part is that none of the servers were compromised. Initial investigation reveals a DNS redirection at the domain name registrar’s end. TCS is busy in further investigations.

Aston Martin Rapide body, engine, transmission and steering specifications

February 09, 2010 By: Hema Manchanda Category: Auto

Aston Martin models which are available in India now are Aston Martin DB9,Aston Martin DBS,Aston Martin DBS Volante, Aston Martin V8 Vantage, Aston Martin V8 Vantage Roadster,Aston Martin V12 Vantage and Aston Martin Rapide. Here we are giving the specifications of Aston Martin Rapide Body, Aston Martin Rapide Engine and Aston Martin Rapide Transmission and last but not the least Aston Martin Rapide steering.

Aston Martin Rapide Body: The car has Four door body style with 4 individual seats,Extruded bonded aluminium VH body structure,Aluminium, magnesium alloy and composite body,Extruded aluminium door side impact beams,Single bi-xenon headlamps with integrated LED side lights and direction indicators and LED rear lamps and side repeaters.

Aston Martin Rapide Engine: All alloy quad overhead cam 48 valve 5935cc V12,Front mid-mounted engine, rear-wheel drive,Fully catalysed stainless steel exhaust system with active bypass valves.

The car engine has Compression ratio 10.9:1 withMax Power 350 kW (470 bhp / 477 PS) at 6000 rpm,Max Torque 600 Nm (443 lb ft) at 5000 rpm,Acceleration 0-60 mph in 5.1 seconds; 0-62 mph (0-100 km/h) in 5.3 seconds (predicted) and Max Speed 188 mph (303 km/h) (predicted)

Aston Martin Rapide Transmission: Rear mid-mounted ‘Touchtronic 2’ six-speed gearbox with electronic shift-by-wire control system,Alloy torque tube with carbon fibre propeller shaft,Limited slip differential with Final Drive Ratio 3.46:1
Steering:-Rack and pinion, Servotronic speed-sensitive power-assisted steering, 3.0 turns lock-to-lockColumn tilt and reach adjustment.

PayPal not in India

February 09, 2010 By: Hema Manchanda Category: Business, Science & Tech

PayPal stop its services in India – without providing the reason. The company has decided not to allow payments of individuals to and from India. Till date no one knows the exact reason behind this decision, but the bloggers believe that this lies in the new banking regulations in the country However, commercial entities will still be able to make payments through the Service

Want to buy products online from Indian? Now, you cannot pay them through PayPal .Popular payment company decided to stop the payments through to and from India. However, the company has not provided a reason for the decision, as well as information how long it will last.

Bloggers had suggested that the reason is that new regulations that entered India in late 2009, to the effect that mandatory reporting banks on International Activities.

Enugu, Mayer, director of international communications of PayPal, wrote in company’s blog that the suspension is carried out together with partners in the company’s stakeholders who have questions about it. ”

It should be noted that the company still allows payment of commercial companies, but these will not be able to trade through local banks.

PayPal apologized for the inconvenience that makes her move and gave, that “we try to resolve the situation as quickly as possible”. The company promised to update as soon as the what.

Factors that will be most affected by this parade of PayPal are thousands of Web designers and software developers freelancers receive payment for their work through the service.

PayPal suspends certain transactions in India and trying to solve the situation

February 09, 2010 By: Hema Manchanda Category: Business

The U.S. online payment company PayPal has suspended transfer funds, and private users will not be able to transfer out of India, and transfer to the Indian’s Bank.

PayPal on weekend at the company’s Web site blog said service was suspended on 28th January. It’s now more than a week. The company’s spokes person also told that “we are working with business partners and stakeholders to resolve some of their problems.”
EBay auction site owned by PayPal, did not disclose further details. PayPal said that the customers can still transfer to India accounts, but local banks, businesses can not withdraw from the Indian rupee.

PayPal, said: “We are trying to resolve the current situation as quickly as possible, we are sorry this may give India and other countries, customer inconvenience.”

Chocolate day 9th February messages for your beloved

February 09, 2010 By: Hema Manchanda Category: Entertainment

Chocolate day 9th February messages for your beloved: People are wishing 9th February Chocolate day to each other.Here the world is sharing and wishing Chocolate day to their beloved. We bought real time messages on chocolate day which people are sending to each other.
Real time search results (Twitter) on9th February Chocolate day :

well valentines day is coming i want some ugg,boots,choclate,flowers,clothes,dinner,whipcreme,strawberries and cake..thats all
happy choclate day babes !!!!!
Lyf is lyk a choclate box,Each choclate is lyk a portion of lyf,Sme r crunchy sme r nutty,Sme r soft bt all r DELICIOUS HAPPY CHOCLATE DAY
Lyf is lyk a Choclate box each choclate is lyk a portion of lyf sum r crunchy sum r nutty sum r soft BT all r delicious. HppY CHOCLATE Day
i was mssing u a lot……………….Happy choclate day……….
hey. mr.busy,happy choclate day.no msg frm mrng mujhe.,now dys itna jayda busy kaha ha aap.
Happy Choclate Day:
i want a twilight bundle pack for velntines day. 100 bucks for 24 roses, a dvd,choclate,vase,card and poster..DAMN I WANT IT!!! please :)
hmm.. *gm* hapy choclate day..toh aj kis kisko khil rha hai #Cadbury
Happy choclate day friends
y On Valentines day imma go to church then stop at Rite Aid buy madd candy n choclate then come home n watch movies all alone :/
I got gifts 4 all my loves on valentines day!!! I jus hope I get my white choclate covered strawberries
………… Frnd celebrate choclate day……
*heya* gud mrng !! kaisi ho n happi choclate day.. a XXL #CadburyTemptation 4 u..
I m on my way to college.Nd 2day, 3rd day of valentine week is chocolate day. So pass sum choclate here:) :-)

TODAY’S choclate day gonna buy a choclate frm my bf’s side.

Hathway Cables to set IPO price band at Rs. 240-265

February 09, 2010 By: P.B. Narayan Category: Business News

Cable television and broadband service provider Hathway Cable & Datacom has received a commitment for Rs 119.88 crore from 13 anchor investors (Qualified institutional buyer who gets an allotment of up to 30 percent of the institutional quota), a day before opening of its initial public offer (IPO) at the lower band of its issue of about 49.95 lakh equity shares.

The company would offer 2.77 crore shares at a price band of Rs 240-265 per share in the issue that opens on February 9 and closes on February 11 and is rising between Rs 666-737 crore in total”. About one thirds of the IPO proceeds (230 crore) will be utilized for customer acquisition while the rest will be used to expand its broadband business, digitization, and repayment of loans according to the president-finance and company secretary, Milind Karnik.

The shares are proposed to be listed on the National Stock Exchange and the Bombay Stock Exchange.

The company has had a CAGR of 34% in income in the first four years and operating profit has expanded by 100% and is cash positive.

Hathway reaches about 8 million homes across 125 cities and towns and has about 3 lakh broadband users.

BBEP, KWK, CME, NTES, AIG, KEY, CADX, IDSA Popular Stocks

February 09, 2010 By: Gaurav Singh Category: Business

U.S. stocks traded mostly lower Monday, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.50% to 9962, the Standard & Poor’s 500 fell 0.35% to 1062 and the Nasdaq Composite Index declined 0.24% to 2136.

BreitBurn Energy Partners L.P. (NASDAQ:BBEP, $14.98, +$1.63, 12.21%) said it settled its litigations with Quicksilver Resources Inc. (NYSE:KWK, $13.83, +$0.32, 2.37%) for $13 million. The energy company expects the payment to be paid by its insurance. BreitBurn Energy will also reinstate its quarterly cash dividend for 37.5 cents.

Derivatives exchange operator CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ:CME, $283.82, +$3.02, 1.08%) on Friday saw trading activity on its markets jump to levels last seen at the onset of the financial crisis, amid a drop in the U.S unemployment rate and stock market turbulence driven by Greece’s debt woes.

American depositary shares of Netease.com Inc. (NASDAQ:NTES, $34.11, +$1.61, 4.95%) rose Monday after the company said on the World of Warcraft Web site warcraftchina.com that it will postpone new user registration and reapply for a license for the international game, a move seen as a positive step toward resolving regulatory overhang.

Financial-services veteran Peter Hancock will join insurer American International Group Inc. (NYSE:AIG, $22.37, -$0.04, -0.18%) as its executive vice president of finance, risk and investments, leaving his job at KeyCorp. (NYSE:KEY, $6.86, -$0.03, -0.44%).

Shares of Cadence Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:CADX, $9.77, -$0.73, -6.95%) fell Monday after a research note called the risk/reward scenario on the stock “unappealing” heading into a potential approval for the drug company’s pain and fever drug Acetavance.

Industrial Services of America Inc. (NASDAQ:IDSA, $9.94, +$0.33, +3.41%) said it will report improved fourth-quarter results as the company has benefited from operating in higher-margin segments of the metals-recycling business.

LFUS, SNIC, BRKS, RENT, DISH, CHDX, NBG, GBX Popular Stocks

February 09, 2010 By: Gaurav Singh Category: Business

U.S. stocks traded mostly lower Monday, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 62 points to 9950, the Standard & Poor’s 500 fell 4.9 points to 1061 and the Nasdaq Composite Index declined 7 points to 2134.

Littelfuse Inc.’s (NASDAQ:LFUS, $32.07, +$2.88, 9.87%) fourth-quarter earnings beat expectations and the maker of fuses and other circuit protection devices for electronics, power equipment and automotive uses projected current-quarter results well above expectations.

Shares of Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ:SNIC, $8.55, +$0.61, 7.68%) climbed 10% Monday as investors showed excitement about the accelerating rollout of CinemaNow connected devices. Sonic has traditionally provided software used to format, press and distribute about 90% of conventional DVD and Blu-ray format video discs. Now, Sonic is also the company behind the digital transition, with its technology turning movies into a digital format transmitted through its Roxio CinemaNow platform.

After falling more than 12% on Friday, semiconductor-equipment maker Brooks Automation Inc. (NASDAQ:BRKS, $7.99, +$0.50, 6.68%) shares climbed back somewhat Monday. The Friday slide was blamed on slimmer-than-expected gross margins, though revenue was stronger-than-expected and said customer demand had increased.

Rentrak Corp. (NASDAQ:RENT, $17.60, +$1.84, 11.68%), a media-viewership data and research company, has reached a deal to integrate its audience-measurement service with Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ:DISH, $17.76, +$0.01, 0.06%), a deal which will make Rentrak the only one in its field offering data in all 210 television markets in the U.S.

Chindex International Inc. (NASDAQ:CHDX, $10.46, -$2.11, -16.79%) reported fiscal third-quarter profit rose as revenue increased 12% from a year-ago period. Still, the healthcare company results came in below analysts’ estimates. Following the news, BWS Financial downgraded the stock to hold from buy.

National Bank of Greece SA (NYSE:NBG, $3.47, -$0.47, -11.93%) shares declined as the European financial markets and the euro came under renewed pressure Monday, when investors were looking to possible plans coming later in the week to staunch a growing government debt crisis.

Greenbrier Cos. (NYSE:GBX, $8.23, +$0.30, (3.78%) was raised to buy from neutral by D.A. Davidson based on the decline in the railcar maker and refurbisher’s shares and modest improvements in macro data.