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Nov
19

Airtel To Appear In A Whole New Avatar

Category: Social, Technology Tags: A. R. Rahman, Africa, airtel, airtel new logo, Bharti Airtel, Brand, Business, india, Marketing and Advertising, Mobile network operator, new airtel 3 Comments

Airtel will now sport a new logo and a new signature tune.

As Airtel subscribers await the coming of 3G services, Airtel has decided to surprise them by bring out a new logo and a whole new signature tune.

In a bid to celebrate the 2000 crore users landmark, Airtel will introduce a whole new logo and signature tune for its subscribers.

According to Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman and Managing Director, Bharti airtel “Fifteen years ago Bharti airtel started its journey in India with a promise of delivering world class and affordable services. Today, as we expand on the global stage, this new brand identity gives us the opportunity to present a single, powerful and unified face to our customers, stakeholders and partners around the world. It reinforces our promise to deliver innovative services and a superior brand experience to our 2000 crore customers across Asia and Africa.”

The new logo which will come in the colour red will have a curve which will give automatic recognition to the identity of the brand. The red colour will represent the energy and dynamism that has made Airtel the success it is today.

The Signature tune on the other hand is composed by none other than the Oscar winning music maestro, A.R. Rahman, who composed the previous airtel signature tune.

Airtel promised users that it will deliver 3G service by the end of next month.

Nov
12

By pratyushkp

Internet mastermind Vint Cerf Alerts over address changes

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Business, google, growth of internet, growth of world wide web, History, internet address changes, IP, People, Protocols, Vint Cerf, World Wide Web, www Leave a Comment

Is the growth of the world wide web is rapidly depleting the store? As the experts predict; in less than 18 months there will be no more big blocks of net addresses to give out.

“There’s work to be done. It’s not massive work but it is meticulous work” quotes Mr.Cerf.

Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the internet, spoke, “With current addresses due to run out in 2012, nations and businesses must get on with switching.”

Although during the switch internet links could become unreliable, making sites and services hard to reach. He stated that instability could last years, as even search giant Google, took three years to get its IPv6 network up and running.

According to the Internet masterminds, the net has grown to its current size using version 4 of its addressing scheme (IPv4), which allows for about 4.3 billion addresses. And estimates suggest that this pool of addresses will be exhausted by the end of January 2012.

“The business community needs to understand that this is an infrastructure they are relying on and it needs to change for them to continue to grow and to rely on it,” Mr Cerf said.

He criticised global businesses, saying they were “short-sighted” for not making the shift sooner.

Time is running out for firms to get using the replacement addressing scheme!

Oct
20

By pratyushkp

Now A Software To Detect Sleepy Drivers And Warn Them

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Business, Device driver, Eyetracker, Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology, Fraunhofer Society, Insurance, Microsoft Windows, Software To Detect Sleepy Drivers, Stuttgart, Vehicle insurance, Zune Leave a Comment

German researchers are working on software that will detect and warn sleepy drivers.

Researchers in German are working on a new software that will help in deducting sleepy drivers and also warn them to stay off roads. To be developed by Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology, Eyetracker, a driver assist safety system that monitors facial features, and delivers an audible warning whenever the driver appears sleepy.

The system uses two cameras to monitor the pupils’ positions, and then watches for changes in a person’s line of vision. Utilizing up to six dashboard-mounted cameras with compact 3 to 4 millimeters lenses, the Eyetracker system processes up to 200 images per second to detect sleepiness using parameters like line of vision and eyelid position, irrespective of the spatial position of the driver’s head. he self-contained control unit is about the size of a matchbox, which means it could easily fit under a seat or in a console and can be installed anywhere in the car without much effort.

The researchers are planning to showcase the gadget at the VISION trade fair in Stuttgart to show how Eyetracking works in the field. Until that the product won’t be commercially available.

Sep
17

By pratyushkp

Cisco Launches A New Social Networking Site

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Asia, Business, Business and Economy, cisco, Cisco Systems, india, Online newspaper, Organization, social media, social network Leave a Comment

Cisco India today announced the launch of its web 2.0 technology platform – www.myhumannetwork.com.

This new technology platform is built on Google Earth application, which allows people and organizations across geographic locations to connect, collaborate and share experiences and ideas for various causes and initiatives.
The website allows individuals and organizations to get registered and provide feeds of their initiatives, share content such as pictures and videos and build a network of like-minded people to support various causes and initiatives.

My www.myhumannetwork.com aims to connect charitable organizations and individuals who want to make a change or difference and allow’s them to collaborate and share ideas, experiences and issues and help them find solutions online. Individuals can identify causes from various categories such as education, healthcare, education, environment, animal welfare, economic development and infrastructure and social welfare and choose initiatives under each cause. About, 40 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and individuals across India have registered on the website and the company expects over 250 NGOs and people in next 6 to 9 months.

Cisco India denies any involvement of profit or monetary intent in creation of this platform

Sep
13

By pratyushkp

Facebook’s New Application Helps You Discover Pages You “like”

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Application programming interface, Business, facebok india, facebook, Facebook features, google, Likes, Online Communities, social network Leave a Comment

Facebook has launched a new application that will let users find pages based on their previous taste and choices that their friends have made.

“Discover Facebook’s Popular Pages” is a new tool built by Facebook that helps users find more pages to “Like” based on their past selections, what’s popular and what their friends liked. The page is divided into nine categories like musicians, sports, celebrities, movies, TV shows, media, politicians, brands, and games from where users can choose.

While on one side a list of the friends who have the most pages in common with the users will be displays and clicking on any of the names will pop up a list of your mutual likes, and users can also click on the “All Likes” tab to see the other things they like.

Users can access the pages through “http://www.facebook.com/pages/browser.php”, the application also has the ability to browse pages by country.

Aug
7

By pratyushkp

Telemarketers To Face Ire Of Indian Government

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Business, Business and Economy, Mobile phone, Pranab Mukherjee, Security, Service provider, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Telecommunication, Telemarketing, TRAI Leave a Comment

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The Telecommunication ministry is all set on convene a meeting of all telecom operators to stop telemarketing nuisance.

Telemarketers have gotten themselves in quite a fix while trying to sell their schemes to the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. Apparently Pranab Mukherjee was in the midst of talks with opposition leaders on Monday in an effort to break the logjam in Parliament. That’s when his mobile phone rang. Thinking it was an important call Mukherjee answered his phone. However it turned out to be a telemarketer trying offer a home loan, fuming the minister cut his call.

And now thanks to this call the Communications and IT Minister A. Raja has written a note to Telecom Secretary P.J. Thomas, asking him to seek a reply from the operators what action they have taken to stop this nuisance, which he termed “intrusion of privacy” of subscribers.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has made several attempts to curb unsolicited commercial calls, including creating a ‘Do Not Call Registry’ but without much success.

Mr. Raja telecommunication minister said “A wide range of products and services is nowadays offered through telemarketing which results in inconvenience and disturbance to telecom consumers. These calls are made at any time of the day encroaching on the privacy of consumers,”

According to senior ministry officials, a meeting of all service providers could be convened at the earliest to take steps to prohibit such calls.

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