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R.I.P Internet Explorer 6 !

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Funny :

A Denver based design group is conducting funeral for Internet Explorer 6, the 8 year old browser.

The design group is even conducting mass funeral for IE 6.IE 6 sustained major injuries from its rival browsers and is not in a position to compete with them, according to the design group.IE 6 was born on August 27, 2001 and died on March 1, 2010 🙁

[It’s also noteworthy that YouTube is going to stop IE 6 support from March 13, 2010].

Event organisers has started a new website http://ie6funeral.com/ and a brand new Twitter account http://twitter.com/ie6funeral to promote this mass funeral event.

ie6_funeral_illustration_new

The most interesting part of this funeral is the flowers sent by Microsoft ( pic )

So on this historic occasion, let us recall the sweet memories of our grand ma IE6, comment your moments with IE6.

R.I.P IE6

Indian Mobile Company Launches ‘AAA’ Battery Based Mobile Phone Handset

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An Indian mobile handset manufacturing company ‘Olive Telecommunications’ has come up with an innovative idea of including most commonly used ‘AAA’ size batteries in the mobile handsets.

Gurgaon based Olive telecommunications has said while launching the model FrvrOn (= forever on) that this product is will come handy for those residing in rural areas that are having erratic power supply. The specially mobile handset as you can see in the picture, will have a provision for inserting an ‘AAA’ battery besides conventional Lithium-ion battery on the rare side.This is a dual powered phone.

"With our phone, all one needs to do is pack a few extra cells (batteries) if one is travelling in areas where one expects power supply disruptions."

AAA battery powered mobile handset

Mobile Handset Details:

Brand name: Olive Telecommunications

Handset model: FrvrOn

Battery backup : 3 hours (Li-ion) + 1 Hour (AAA battery emergency back up)

Price: Rs. 1699 INR ($ 35)

This is interesting.We need to see how other mobile phone manufactures will take out of this.Using ‘AAA’ batteries may not provide the longer talk time but definitely will reduce the hazards of  conventional Li-ion batteries bursting.

Via Yahoo News(AFP)

New LG GD510 Cookie Pep Phone, A Corby Killer ?

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LG launches Corby killer in India:

LG has finally decided to launch its globally popular model LG GD510 in India, six months after it’s global release.It will be known as the LG Cookie Pep in India.

LG GD510 is a 3-inch full touchscreen phone,with 3.15 MP camera (sadly no flash !), Bluetooth 2.0, multimedia player, social networking app for Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace (like Samsung Corby).

Cookie Pep supports 3G but lacks Wi-Fi.Check out the full specifications from the following table.

LG GD510 Cookie Pep

LG GD510 Cookie Pep Specifications:

Brand Name LG GD510
aka
LG COOKIE PEP
Physical Details Weight: 3.2 oz.
Dimensions: 4×1.9×0.6 in.
Display 3″ WQVGA full touchscreen
256k colors
240 x 400 pixels(resolution)
Memory 42MB internal memory
Expandable up to 8GB (using memory card)
Talk time 4.1 Hours
300 Hours standby time
Camera 3.15 Megapixels
Max res: 2048×1536 pixels
Audio Playback formats eAAC, MP3, WAV
Video Playback formats H263, H264, MP4
Network EDGE, GSM, UMTS (3G)
Connectivity Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP
MicroUSB
Colors Silver

LG GD510 Cookie Pep Pictures:

LG-GD510-Pop-1

Price:

The phone is priced at Rs. 7,799 in India.

At this price (below Rs 8,000), the phone is truly a competitor to Samsung Corby.

Airtel Announces Unlimited National SMS Packs Across India

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Airtel which has enjoyed the monopoly over the Indian mobile services is now facing the stiffest competition from the other mobile operators who have slashed down rates and are coming up with innovative offers, thanks to the likes of Tata Docomo and others like Aircel.Even Reliance is pulling large number of mobile users through their “Simply Reliance” plans that offers cheaper national /roaming calls and SMS.

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Airtel seems to be working out on minimizing the users migration, and it is evident now as they have come up with the Unlimited National & Local SMS pack across India.

The only difference is that unlike Reliance, which is offering the uniform rates across all the states, Airtel is offering this service for different tariff rates for different states.

Airtel is promoting this offer big time through Television Ads with “3 Idiots” fame Sharman Joshi.

Check out this Airtel Unlimited SMS Pack page to find out the exact tariff for your circle (for prepaid subscribers).

Postpaid subscribers can enjoy this Unlimited National/Local SMS pack at a monthly rental of Rs. 99.SMS “UNLIMITED” to 121 to activate this SMS pack.

Note:

  • This is not actually fully unlimited offer, Fair usage policy applies to this, meaning that there may be limit on the number of SMSs that you send on any given day (ex: 500 SMS per day !)
  • The free SMS offer doesn’t work on the Customary/ Festival days (Blackout days), Airtel will charge Rs, 1 per local SMS, Rs 1.50 per national SMS on these days.

BSNL 3G Launched In Hyderabad (& AP) : Tariff Plans

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BSNL 3G in Andhra Pradesh

BSNL has officially launched all new third generation (3G) mobile services in Hyderabad on March 3, 2010.

3G offers more bandwidth, hence better call quality, video calling facility and much faster data transfer speeds (data download speed up to 3.6 Mbps)

As you can see from the following tariff plans, the subscribers can make cheaper calls on the net (STD-on-net @ 50 paise/ min, local-on-net @ 30 paise/ min).Data usage charges are 1 paise/10 KB

These are the tariffs for the newly introduced 3G services in Hyderabad (and soon to be launched in 29 towns in Andhra Pradesh).

New users have to buy USIM(Universal Subscriber Identity Module) available at a price of Rs. 59.

Existing BSNL subscribers can send “M3G 120” to 53733 for free migration to general 120 plan (Prepaid), existing BSNL postpaid customers can send an SMS “M3G25” to 53733 for free migration.

Prepaid Tariff

3G Prepaid tariff AP

Postpaid Tariff

Post paid 3G tariff in Ap-Hyderabad

Looking at the tariffs, we can easily conclude that this isn’t quite useful for internet browsing, as there is no plan which offers unlimited data usage.

BSNL is offering a promotional offer of free talk time (50 mins both local and STD) and free data transfer( 25 MB).

Toll Free number for enquiries on 3G services is 1800 180 1503

for BSNL prepaid broadband plans in AP (launched sometime back), read BSNL Prepaid Broadband Plans

SearchWiki Goes, Stars Debut In Google Personalized Search

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Google Kills SearchWiki, Adds Stars For Customized Search:

Google has rolled out new “Starred results” in Google search results, killing its previous “SearchWiki”.

This feature will be available to all the users in the coming few days, according to a blog post on Official Google blog.

Google has been offering personalized search via SearchWiki, which the search engine giant thought should be replaced by much simpler “Starring the results”

How This Works?

Google Bookmarks actually allow you to bookmark the sites right from the search results.Just go to search for anything you want in Google,

Find the small white star logo on the extreme right after the every search result listing, click on any result that you liked or what to bookmark to save it.

adding star bookmark in Google results

Now that you have saved the result page in your Google bookmarks using star, next time when you search for the same query, you would see the results like this:

Google starred results overview

Add YouTube Official Buttons For Your Website

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YouTube has released brand new set of banners that you may keep in your website to promote your channel in YouTube.

You can either use them to link to your main YouTube channel (ex:http://www.youtube.com/user/google)

or

link to your YouTube subscription page (ex: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=google)

The following are the some of the YouTube buttons available on this YouTube page for download.

The image buttons are available in all possible sizes (small, medium & big) for your site.

YouTube Banners:

iheart_youtube watchmyvids2_yt subscribemyvids_yt

ytsuperstar_green

Youtube_watch_blue

Add these buttons to your website to make yourself popular on YouTube.

You may also grab Twitter, Facebook, MySpace Ribbons For Your Website

Download: Skype App For Nokia Symbian Phones [via Ovi Store]

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Nokia which has just announced Nokia 5230 Nuron for T-Mobile USA, has another important announcement to follow.Nokia in partnership with Skype, has announced Skype mobile application for Nokia’s Symbian phones  via Ovi Store.

Skype in these Nokia Symbian phones works both on Wi-Fi , as well as through mobile data connection like 3G (also works on GPRS/EDGE, but 3G is recommended for Skype as it offers more bandwidth for better clarity).

If you are using any of the below supported Nokia models, you can point your browser to skype.com/m to download the application or alternatively you can use the links given below to get it downloaded to your PC.

Skype for Nokia Symbian Phones

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You can download Skype Nokia Symbian Application from either Ovi App store or from Skype website.

Ovi Store

Skype website

List of Nokia supported phone models:

Nokia 5530, Nokia 5320, Nokia 5800, Nokia 6210, Nokia 6220, Nokia E51, Nokia E63, Nokia E66, Nokia E71, Nokia E72, Nokia E90, Nokia N78, Nokia N79, Nokia N81, Nokia N81 8GB, Nokia N82, Nokia N85, Nokia N95, Nokia N95 8GB, Nokia N96, Nokia N97, Nokia N97 mini, Nokia X6

Nokia 5230 Nuron: Affordable 3G Smartphone With Touchscreen, Ovi Maps And More

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Nokia has announced the availability of Nokia 5230 Nuron in USA through T-Mobile 3G.

The phone comes with great features like 3.2” inch touchscreen, pre-loaded Ovi Maps that offers free turn-by-turn navigation.In fact, Nokia Nuron is the first carrier-supported phone to be released with pre-loaded with free Ovi maps.

Review: Of course, like many of the recent phones from Nokia, this one also is modeled after Nokia 5800.The differences are , no Wi-Fi and just a 2 Megapixel camera in case of Nuron.No inclusion of these features mean a heavy price drop for Nokia Nuron, priced at $180.The 3G phone is worth a buy for it’s affordable price with 3G, touchscreen, A-GPS etc.

Nokia 5230 Nuron Picture:

Nokia 5230 Nuron_front_view_Tmobile

Nokia 5230 Nuron Full Specifications/Features

Display Size: 3.2 inch,
Up to 16.7 million colours,
Full touchscreen display
Camera 2 megapixel
3x digital zoom
CMOS sensor
Dedicated camera key
Video Recording – U to 640 x 480 pixels and up to 30 fps (TV high quality),

up to 640 x 352 pixels and up to 30 fps (widescreen quality),

up to 320 x 240 pixels and up to 30 fps/15 fps (email high/normal quality),

up to 176 x 144 and up to 15 fps (sharing quality)
– Up to 4x digital zoom

Formats: MP4, 3GP, MPEG4-SP & AVC, WMV9
Music 3.5 mm stereo headphone plug, Dedicated music keys, Nokia Music, formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, eAAC+, WMA
Video Playback Supported file formats:
MPEG4-SP playback 30fps VGA, MPEG4-AVC playback 30fps QVGA, WMV9 playback 30fps QVGA, MPEG4-SP playback 30 fps nHD
Memory 4GB microSD memory card in-box, expandable up to 16 GB

70 MB internal dynamic memory
Connectors Micro-USB connector, USB 2.0 high speed, 3.5 mm Nokia AV connector
Messaging MMS, SMS, Email, Nokia Xpress audio messaging
Browsing/ Network GPRS/EGPRS/EDGE 177/296 kbps (DL/UL), WCDMA 384/384 kbps (UL/DL)
3G: HSDPA Cat 6, Upto 3.6 Mbps
Software S60, 5th Edition, Symbian OS version 9.4, FOTA (Firmware update Over The Air)
Applications JavaTM MIDP 2.0
Flash Lite 3.0
Ovi Maps 3.0
Nokia Music
Navigation Integrated A-GPS, Ovi Maps 3.0 application

Price:

The price of Nokia 5230 Nuron is : $179.99 (U.S)

Price in India : Rs. 8,200 Approx.

You may also checkout our coverage of Nokia’s recent phones:

Nokia 5530 XpressMusic,

Nokia 2730 Classic 3G,

Nokia X6 16 GB Phone ,

Nokia 5233,

Nokia 6303i classic,

 

The phone would be available from end of March 2010 according to Nokia online store.

What do you feel about this phone? Let’s know through comments..

Google’s SEO Report Card Available For Download

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Google SEO report card

Google has released SEO report for its product pages for search engines.Actually, it is intended for Google engineers to analyze how the Google’s product pages doing in search engines so as to optimize them for better SEO.

subjects in SEO report for Google

The report (PDF file, 49 pages in total) contains 3 Subjects:

Subject I: Search result presentation

Subject II: URLs and redirects

Subject III: On-page optimizations

These subject cover the all the basic tests and reports reports for better SEO.These are not just for Google employees, you can use this report perhaps to start preparing for your own SEO report for your site.This would be the perfect reference guide if you want to come out with such a report for your site.

Download Google’s SEO Report Card

[Link updated]

If you want to start from scratch in Google’s SEO, you may want to download Google’s SEO beginners’ guide which is available in more than 40 languages.