Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: August 18, 2008
The Telecom regulator in India, TRAI on Monday allowed ISPs to offer unrestricted internet telephony services, a move that will further boost competition in the domestic long distance segment and lower STD tariffs.
“It is envisaged that customers will ultimately benefit from cost effective and innovative internet telephony service.
These recommendations will put Indian telecom sector in [...]
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: March 1, 2008
I am happy with my new Broadband offering me 2Mbps, but I am not satisfied with the initial download limit they have imposed for the starter plan.
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: November 30, 2007
CDMA services provider Tata Teleservices Ltd (TTSL) is taking the tariff war to a new turf with the launch of low-end handsets priced around Rs 2,000 with internet connection.
The company will charge around Rs 100 per month for its services, the lowest in the country for browsing the Net over mobile phones, compared with the [...]
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: July 15, 2007
According to Wall Street Journal, this is the 10th year since the first blog came to life..thats quite an incredible fact.
Blogging has got several advantages
1. It allows people to create web content that people can read and comment on
2. It also made use of RSS (web site syndication), and also introduced several new concepts like [...]
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: July 4, 2007
Theres a strange aura about Apple iPhone, theres so much to write about it, people outside America are madly waiting to lay their hands on this wonderful amalgamation between a Apple Macintosh + mobil phone + iPod + PDA + fragile design + hype.
How about winning this incredible device for free without answering freaky questions, [...]
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: June 12, 2007
From the past few days theIndian media is in all sorts of frenzy, displaying the news and reports telling that Indian government has instructed CERT India to ‘ban’ Orkut access primarily because,
1. Indian authorities believe that Orkut allowes creation of flame communities that pack enough ammunation to set cities on fire and a punch [...]
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: April 7, 2007
One of the most common ways to transport data from one computer to another is to write them onto magnetic tape or removable media (e.g., recordable DVDs), physically transport the tape or disks to the destination machine, and read them back in again. Although this method is not as sophisticated as using [...]
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: April 2, 2007
Finally its there. The ‘Unwiring Pune’ project has kicked off.. This new wirefree access utilizes WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) and Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) technologies to equip Pune with high-speed wireless internet. Wireless connectivity will allow people to access the Internet through a laptop or personal digital assistant (PDA), sans the need for cables. [...]
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: March 12, 2007
5 reasons for avoiding satellite TV services in India esp Dish TV
1. Dish TV is a utter crap service handled by a couple of jerks. Their STB’s (set top boxes) are manufactured in China and are of very inferior quality. One of our boxes has gone on a ride
2. Their service is very bad. [...]
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: January 19, 2007
Gosh..Its my blogs 1st birthday today. Happy birthday little blog.
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: January 11, 2007
Apple iPhone is todays equivalent example of Sony Walkman of yesterday. Theres no path breaking features that it offers, but apparantly, its PDA and smartphone capabilities(alongwith very good marketting) can help Apple to reach a wide customer base and also it will give comman non technical consumers the chance to learn the Apple way [...]
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: January 10, 2007
Shares in Apple Computer closed some 8% higher on news that it is launching a touch screen mobile phone, the iPhone.
News of the device – to be used exclusively on the Cingular Wireless network – sent shares in smart phones, iPhone’s competitors, sharply lower.The iPhone, costing from $499 (£257) to $599, [...]
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: November 26, 2006
Today BSNL announced a launch of a new broadband service codenamed ‘TripleNet’ which will allow users to use the phone, surf the net, and above all, watch the TV on PC.
Phase 1 will include free to air TV channels and Phase 2 will have value added services like games, FM radio, movies on demand and [...]
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: November 25, 2006
Watching the TV continiously for a few days has made me realize that all the major TV Channels in India have absolutely lost their creative ideas and are hell bent in aping the US reality TV shows and hopelessly trying to ‘indianize’ that version.
Its a shame that these people, who are capable of having a [...]
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: November 3, 2006
I think I am a little late on this topic,but anyway…
This is my new Google Co-op Search Engine over here.
Feel free to experiment, but note that it dosent index thousand/million/billion pages. However, it does incorporate nice links and good content for technology/food/linux/Web 2.0 fans and users. And following Googles method, its currently in beta.
Direct [...]
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: October 13, 2006
If by any chance you have encountered this image on some other site for more then 40 seconds, then you know that you are not using Broadband to access that particular site.
Broadband is often called high-speed Internet, because it usually has a high rate of data. In general, any connection to the customer of 256 [...]
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: October 4, 2006
Each time I used to log in my Google personalized page, I just couldent used to stop me from wondering – ‘Can I add these rich apps on my blogs too??’
The Google AJAX Search API is designed to make it easier for webmasters and developers to do two things:
Add a dynamic search box to your [...]
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: September 29, 2006
Tommorow is gonna a great day. 298* people. 6 different cities. One competition, One aim – Who is going to be a Google Wordmaster..??
Here I come…
Because I blog of nothing but mainly of Google and its related technologies, I shouldent worry much. But its scary when someone asks you to write [...]
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: September 27, 2006
Today I had a nice closer look at . Infact, I must say that it is a nice product, definately a good competition to its paid and bloated counterpart MS Word.
Going by current product releases by Google, it seems that now the paradigm is slowly but surely shifting from offline, desktop based apps to online, [...]
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