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BSNL spins web of lies to save Raja

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:27:20 GMT

The BSNL is cooking up one lie after another to save its ‘political’ master, who reportedly arm-twisted the officials in granting WiMax franchise to a non-existent company. First, the BSNL claimed that the franchisee short-listed for running WiMax operation in Chennai, West Bengal and Haryana and Himachal Pradesh was one Ampules (company). The news was widely reported in the media. When The Pioneer carried a report on Wednesday that this was a non-existent company, the BSNL came with a rejoinder, identifying the short-listed firm as Ampoules & Auto Private Limited of Kolkata. In its rejoinder to The Pioneer, the BSNL’s Chennai unit said, “The company M/s Ampoules & Auto Private Limited, Kolkata, who has participated in the said tender is a registered firm under the Registrar of Companies, Government of India.” The signatory of the letter is AGM (Admn & Legal) of BSNL, Chennai unit. A cursory look at the online registry of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs shows that Ampoules & Auto Private Limited is not registered as a company with any of the Registrars of Companies. Read Complete Article @ The Poineer

Aksh Optifibre to invest Rs 150 crore for FTTH services

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:28:59 GMT

JAIPUR: IPTV provider Aksh Optifibre Limited is planning to invest Rs 150 crore over the next two years to strengthen its IPTV network in the country. “We have initiated the pilot project in Jaipur where we intend to target 25,000 subscribers by December 2010 from the existing base of 3,300 customers. We will then replicate to model in other parts of the country to cross one lakh customers from the existing 30,000 in 22 cities in that time frame,” he said. Aksh Optifibre’s IPTV partner Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has invested Rs 200 crore to set up optical access network in Jaipur. BSNL Jaipur principal general manager P K Aggarwal told ET that the telecom company has laid down 400 km of optical fibre to cover the entire city. “The basic infrastructure has been laid down. Now, the Aksh Optifibre Limited just has to connect each home with the optical access network. We expect to get 10,000 connections by this fiscal,” he said. ET Complete Article

Reliance Com to sell part of FLAG optic fibre capacity

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:54:23 GMT

Quote: R-Com to sell part of optic fibre capacity Mumbai, Dec. 14: Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Communications is planning to sell a part of its optic fibre capacity on its FLAG network to global broadband users. Put simply, the company plans to sell “an asset within an asset” while retaining ownership of the world’s largest private undersea cable. “The cable is made up of millions of fibre pairs and Reliance Communications is considering selling some of those to large broadband users,” said sources. The FLAG network — or Fibre-optic Loop Around the Globe — owned by Reliance Communications overseas arm Reliance Globalcom covers 65,000 kilometres and is integrated with the company’s domestic optic fibre network. Read More

What is Google Chrome OS?

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:00:10 GMT

Dennis Hwang draws a Google Doodle

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:49:14 GMT

Video that shows how Dennis Hwang draws a Google Doodle

Finland: Broadband Is a Legal Right

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:19:56 GMT

Come July 2010, every Fin will have access to a 1 Megabit-per-second broadband connection. Finland just became the first country in the world to sign a law that provides every citizen of the country with a legal right to a broadband connection. The Finnish government had already announced that every citizen should have access to a 100 Megabit-per-second broadband connection by the end of 2015. Now, it took an intermediary step toward that goal. On Oct. 14, the Ministry of Transport and Communications announced that every Fin should have a legal right to a 1 Megabit-per-second connection by next summer. The move could pave the way for other countries to start looking at broadband as its citizens’ inalienable legal right, akin to freedom of speech and freedom of movement. That makes a lot of sense: Most of us can no longer perform our work duties, do homework or communicate with friends without having access to the Internet. Many Web-based communications and video services, such as Skype, require a broadband connection to work. People need broadband connections to live normal lives, as Finland is the first nation to acknowledge. Read Source

Google has acquired reCAPTCHA

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:49:55 GMT

Google has acquired reCAPTCHA, a company that provides CAPTCHAs to help protect websites from spam and fraud. Quote: Since computers have trouble reading squiggly words like these, CAPTCHAs are designed to allow humans in but prevent malicious programs from scalping tickets or obtain millions of email accounts for spamming. But there’s a twist — the words in many of the CAPTCHAs provided by reCAPTCHA come from scanned archival newspapers and old books. Computers find it hard to recognize these words because the ink and paper have degraded over time, but by typing them in as a CAPTCHA, crowds teach computers to read the scanned text. In this way, reCAPTCHA’s unique technology improves the process that converts scanned images into plain text, known as Optical Character Recognition (OCR). This technology also powers large scale text scanning projects like Google Books and Google News Archive Search. Having the text version of documents is important because plain text can be searched, easily rendered on mobile devices and displayed to visually impaired users. So we'll be applying the technology within Google not only to increase fraud and spam protection for Google products but also to improve our books and newspaper scanning process. Read More

Leoxsys LEO-150N-BT Wireless N-Router with bit torrent unveiled in India

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:48:59 GMT

Leoxsys brings out some interesting piece of news for its Indian users. The company has unveiled its Wireless N-Router with built-in Bit Torrent download to the Indian market. Called as the LEO-150N-BT, this router boasts of all wireless routing functionalities along with being compliant to the latest technology standards. This router offering seamless wireless connectivity, is exclusively designed for both home and business users. The device enables easy-usage along with offering compatibility with high speed 11n standard. Claimed to be the first ever consumer routers in India offering an integrated Bit torrent/HTTP/FTP download, this device is sure a great catch for torrent enthusiasts and heavy downloaders. “LEO-150N-BT is a unique product that is designed to achieve the goal of making total solution for SOHOs and mid-enterprises, as it combines high-speed wireless 11N, USB NAS, FTP Server, File Server, Print Server, Bit torrent/HTTP/FTP download and up to 8 Multiples SSIDs functions in a single device,” shares Sunil Savaliya, Managing Director, Leoxsys Networks. Furthermore, the ones who heavily download data can perform effortless downloads via an attached USB drive, minus PC. Thereby, enabling reduced power consumption as well as complete protection of the PC from virus and other malfunctions. The router’s unique Schedule functionality allows users to add Bit torrent/HTTP/FTP download files and also schedule it. Also, the downloading of files on the USB drive can be controlled per schedule, sans the computer. This Leoxsys creations runs on a 384 MHz MIPS processor, ensuring speedy download/upload using the bit torrent/FTP server. In addition, Parental control is also enabled by using WDS, WPS, QoS WMM, MAC/IP Filtering, and URL/Content blocking functions. In addition, the novel router swanks an integrated 4-port switch, high speed USB 2.0 port and a built-in DDNS functionality. Also, conversion of the USB storage into a personal FTP Server is now possible along with managing access authority. Backed by a one-year warranty and online and telephonic tech support, the device also allows creating user accounts of FTP server as well as sharing files with others over Internet. Finally, the router also facilitates smooth and secure connections with a button press while negating manual setting through the WPS One Touch feature.

Try Google Fast FLip - News Reader

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:03:35 GMT

Quote: Fast Flip is a new reading experience that combines the best elements of print and online articles. Like a print magazine, Fast Flip lets you browse sequentially through bundles of recent news, headlines and popular topics, as well as feeds from individual top publishers. As the name suggests, flipping through content is very fast, so you can quickly look through a lot of pages until you find something interesting. At the same time, we provide aggregation and search over many top newspapers and magazines, and the ability to share content with your friends and community. http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/

IBM Throws Out Microsoft Office

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:13:46 GMT

360.000 IBM workers have been told to stop using Microsoft Office and switch to the Open Office-based software Symphony. Quote: Quoting an inside source, the German economic newspaper, “Handelsblatt” reports that staff at IBM have been given ten days to change to Symphony, IBM's in-house Lotus software. The use of Microsoft Office will in future require managerial approval. With immediate affect, the Open Document Format (ODF) will rule at IBM with the file ending .doc soon belonging to the past. Lotus Symphony is an office software that incorporates huge chunks of customized Open Office without a databank module. The free software download provided by IBM is an attempt at luring customers away from Microsoft. IBM's cooperation with Linux distributors like Red Hat, Canonical and Novell was designed to strengthen the software's market chances. Read More