How often have you wished you could run two or more operating systems simultaneously on your computer? A lot of people indeed do that, but doing so isn’t easy for a non-geek. Now you can do it, and for free, courtesy the software giant Microsoft. Yes, the company's latest version of Virtual PC 2007 is now available for free download from its website.
In simple terms, Virtual PC is a virtualization suite for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Virtual PC emulates a standard PC and its associated hardware. Thus, it can be used to run nearly all operating systems available for the PC. With virtual technology, users can simply switch back to a previous state. They can install their virtual operating system and save the current state (ie. the current installation) and then switch back to that, at a later date.
Users can use the virtual machine to run OS such as MS-DOS, Windows, and OS/2. They can run multiple OS simultaneously on a single physical computer and toggle between them as easily as switching applications-instantly, at the click of a mouse! In fact, the choice of the OS can be made from a simple drop-down menu.
see the below link
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News_By_Industry/Infotech/Software/Free_virtual_PC_from_Microsoft/articleshow/msid-1669064,curpg-1.cms
source: Economic Times.
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Airtel launches `Mobile Radio` in Nashik
Airtel has launched `Mobile Radio', an innovative value-added service (VAS), for its customers in Nashik. The new service will enable customers to listen to FM radio ‘anytime, anywhere on the move?. The company is also planning to make this service available in Marathi in Maharashtra and Goa circle, shortly.
Speaking to the media, Mandeep Bhatia, COO, Bharti Airtel Ltd (Mobile Services), Maharashtra & Goa circle, said: “Airtel’s Mobile Radio is a step further in offering our customers more options in listening to music on mobile phones”.
source: Buesiness Standards.
Speaking to the media, Mandeep Bhatia, COO, Bharti Airtel Ltd (Mobile Services), Maharashtra & Goa circle, said: “Airtel’s Mobile Radio is a step further in offering our customers more options in listening to music on mobile phones”.
source: Buesiness Standards.
Guruji.com developing local language search engines
About 30 per cent of all global searches are local in nature. Most of us use Google to query India-specific information. It only seems logical then to have an India-specific search engine.
"Local search engines are the future. As Internet content gets local, so will search engines," says Mr R. Ramaraj, former Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Sify Ltd, who is now a board member of Guruji.com, a recently-launched Indian search engine. Russia, China, Korea and Germany have their own local language search engines.
"Search is the second most frequent activity on the Internet after e-mail usage. A vernacular search engine will attract more Internet users in India," says Mr Ramaraj. At present, there are about five crore Internet users accessing English content and about 15 crore are expected to be added by 2010. These will be driven mainly by vernacular content, he says.
Guruji.com is developing Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada platforms for its search engine, with the Hindi platform likely to be released in a few months. It plans to develop platforms for all Indian languages over the next year.
On the content front, the company is focused on `relevant search'. For instance, if one were to search for `newspaper', guruji.com would throw up links to Indian newspapers unlike Google that is more likely to show links to foreign newspapers.
The company's city-centric search (similar to a yellow pages listing) today covers 15 cities providing information on private and government entities including telephone numbers, URL or any other content provided by the owner. Large cities such as Mumbai have about 3 lakh listings while smaller ones like Pune have about 1-lakh listings.
According to Mr Anurag Dod, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Guruji.com, the company plans to cover 15 more cities by the end of this year.
"We also plan to add more content, like reviews and pictures," he said. An image search is also in the pipeline. The company has tied up with Tata Infomedia and also has an in-house team collecting information through field visits.
"We have invested about $100,000 so far on infrastructure alone. A significant amount will be spent on developing the vernacular search and extending the city search," said Mr Dod. Sequoia Capital has committed to invest $7 million in the company.
Guruji.com also plans to host online ads in future. "Search engine based marketing in India is doubling each year, though it still constitutes only 1 per cent of the total ad spend in the country," says Mr Ramaraj. The Internet and Mobile Association of India has estimated this market to be about $50 million.
source: Hindu
"Local search engines are the future. As Internet content gets local, so will search engines," says Mr R. Ramaraj, former Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Sify Ltd, who is now a board member of Guruji.com, a recently-launched Indian search engine. Russia, China, Korea and Germany have their own local language search engines.
"Search is the second most frequent activity on the Internet after e-mail usage. A vernacular search engine will attract more Internet users in India," says Mr Ramaraj. At present, there are about five crore Internet users accessing English content and about 15 crore are expected to be added by 2010. These will be driven mainly by vernacular content, he says.
Guruji.com is developing Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada platforms for its search engine, with the Hindi platform likely to be released in a few months. It plans to develop platforms for all Indian languages over the next year.
On the content front, the company is focused on `relevant search'. For instance, if one were to search for `newspaper', guruji.com would throw up links to Indian newspapers unlike Google that is more likely to show links to foreign newspapers.
The company's city-centric search (similar to a yellow pages listing) today covers 15 cities providing information on private and government entities including telephone numbers, URL or any other content provided by the owner. Large cities such as Mumbai have about 3 lakh listings while smaller ones like Pune have about 1-lakh listings.
According to Mr Anurag Dod, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Guruji.com, the company plans to cover 15 more cities by the end of this year.
"We also plan to add more content, like reviews and pictures," he said. An image search is also in the pipeline. The company has tied up with Tata Infomedia and also has an in-house team collecting information through field visits.
"We have invested about $100,000 so far on infrastructure alone. A significant amount will be spent on developing the vernacular search and extending the city search," said Mr Dod. Sequoia Capital has committed to invest $7 million in the company.
Guruji.com also plans to host online ads in future. "Search engine based marketing in India is doubling each year, though it still constitutes only 1 per cent of the total ad spend in the country," says Mr Ramaraj. The Internet and Mobile Association of India has estimated this market to be about $50 million.
source: Hindu
New tool from Sun Micro India
A group of engineers at Sun Micro India headed by Mr Moinak Ghosh have developed BeleniX, which they describe as the first OpenSolaris-based live CD. It allows users to have a full-fledged operating system running on desktop or laptop without installing the system on their hard disk. This can also be loaded on to a USB drive and carried along.
Mr Moinak Ghosh told Business Line that the product was intended to increase OpenSolaris awareness in India and make it more accessible to users. BeleniX includes free open source software and efforts are on to include new features.
source: Hindu
Mr Moinak Ghosh told Business Line that the product was intended to increase OpenSolaris awareness in India and make it more accessible to users. BeleniX includes free open source software and efforts are on to include new features.
source: Hindu
Hutch Roaming Sans Rentals
Hutch has announced national roaming without monthly rentals. Hutch has also announced a drop in national roaming rates by up to 56 percent. Now users will also not pay any security deposit for national roaming.
Hutch users will now pay only Rs 1.75 for incoming calls, which will save costs between 54 to 56 percent, depending on the roaming distance. Outgoing local calls will be Rs 1.40 per minute, while STD calls will cost Rs 2.40 per minute. There will be no change in cost for ISD rates and SMS or GPRS usage.
Commenting on the slash in tariffs, Samuel Selvakumar, Operations Director, Hutch, said, "The drop in roaming tariffs and abolition of monthly rentals on roaming service is uniform across all operators, and is in line with the recent guidelines issued by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. While TRAI had initiated various rate drops in the 'local calls' segment, this is the first initiative by them in the long distance calls segment. This was introduced by TRAI with a view to providing customers lower call rates, and was a decision taken in conjunction with representatives of COAI and AUSPI organizations."
Reportedly, TRAI has said that the new tariffs; effective from Feb15, 2007, would be applicable for the dominant GSM network as well as the CDMA platform, and the new charges would cut roaming tariffs by 22 to 56 percent.
Selvakumar said, "TRAI has in the recent past introduced significant developments, which have brought down cost of serving the customer. Constant innovation, new and evolving technologies have brought about drop in costs, and we have been keen to pass this on to customers."
"We in fact have a backend team that constantly analyses usage and advises customers proactively on 'toppings' viz SMS packs, STD packs for high end SMS users, or STD users, as applicable. We also advise customers on new tariff plans, and how to subscribe to these plans basis their usage."
source: Techtree
Hutch users will now pay only Rs 1.75 for incoming calls, which will save costs between 54 to 56 percent, depending on the roaming distance. Outgoing local calls will be Rs 1.40 per minute, while STD calls will cost Rs 2.40 per minute. There will be no change in cost for ISD rates and SMS or GPRS usage.
Commenting on the slash in tariffs, Samuel Selvakumar, Operations Director, Hutch, said, "The drop in roaming tariffs and abolition of monthly rentals on roaming service is uniform across all operators, and is in line with the recent guidelines issued by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. While TRAI had initiated various rate drops in the 'local calls' segment, this is the first initiative by them in the long distance calls segment. This was introduced by TRAI with a view to providing customers lower call rates, and was a decision taken in conjunction with representatives of COAI and AUSPI organizations."
Reportedly, TRAI has said that the new tariffs; effective from Feb15, 2007, would be applicable for the dominant GSM network as well as the CDMA platform, and the new charges would cut roaming tariffs by 22 to 56 percent.
Selvakumar said, "TRAI has in the recent past introduced significant developments, which have brought down cost of serving the customer. Constant innovation, new and evolving technologies have brought about drop in costs, and we have been keen to pass this on to customers."
"We in fact have a backend team that constantly analyses usage and advises customers proactively on 'toppings' viz SMS packs, STD packs for high end SMS users, or STD users, as applicable. We also advise customers on new tariff plans, and how to subscribe to these plans basis their usage."
source: Techtree
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Sify's WiMAX solution with Mobility
At an event held in Mumbai yesterday, Sify along with Proxim Wireless launched its new WiMAX solution with mobility features.
In order to demonstrate the range and mobility features of the solution, the launch was held about 5 km away from land on a catamaran cruising along the sea with a live demonstration of a 3.3 Ghz based product of 802.16d WiMAX standard.
Regarded as the first-of-its-kind solution, Sify has chosen and deployed Proxim Wireless's Tsunami MP.11 WiMAX product line as the core communications platform for last mile access using the 5.8 GHz frequency band.
The Tsunami MP.11 product family of rugged base stations, indoor and outdoor subscriber units, and accessories have been developed as a platform to enable WiMAX capabilities for license-free frequency bands.
As of now, the company claims to have deployed over 700 Tsunami MP.11 base stations and 3,500 subscriber units to provide Internet access, voice, and video broadband services to all sections including enterprise, residential, and cyber cafe subscribers in over 200 cities. There are further plans on expanding the service to more cities, but haven't revealed any name in specific.
Lionel Chmilewsky, Senior Vice President- International, Proxim Wireless, said, "Sify's deployment is certainly a strong endorsement of our WiMAX technology and product line. As India's premier provider of broadband access services, Sify is setting the standard for delivering 'triple play' of voice, data, and video to subscribers wherever they are located throughout the country. We are pleased and honored to be their partner in this effort."
Commenting on Sify's partnership with Proxim, Bhaskar S, Chief Technology Officer, Sify, said, "After testing and evaluating products from a number of manufacturers over a period of eight months, we chose Proxim's product line because the company met all our criteria, and its point-to-multipoint products offer the best packet processing capacity for last mile access."
The service is available in both, point-to-point and point-to-multipoint Proxim products and Sify claims to have tested a range of about 27 km on it's solution.
When asked about the cost, Bhaskar refused to disclose the amount but hinted that it will be a little expensive (30 percent more) as compared to other solutions. However, the cost will eventually come down, he said.
source: Tech Tree
In order to demonstrate the range and mobility features of the solution, the launch was held about 5 km away from land on a catamaran cruising along the sea with a live demonstration of a 3.3 Ghz based product of 802.16d WiMAX standard.
Regarded as the first-of-its-kind solution, Sify has chosen and deployed Proxim Wireless's Tsunami MP.11 WiMAX product line as the core communications platform for last mile access using the 5.8 GHz frequency band.
The Tsunami MP.11 product family of rugged base stations, indoor and outdoor subscriber units, and accessories have been developed as a platform to enable WiMAX capabilities for license-free frequency bands.
As of now, the company claims to have deployed over 700 Tsunami MP.11 base stations and 3,500 subscriber units to provide Internet access, voice, and video broadband services to all sections including enterprise, residential, and cyber cafe subscribers in over 200 cities. There are further plans on expanding the service to more cities, but haven't revealed any name in specific.
Lionel Chmilewsky, Senior Vice President- International, Proxim Wireless, said, "Sify's deployment is certainly a strong endorsement of our WiMAX technology and product line. As India's premier provider of broadband access services, Sify is setting the standard for delivering 'triple play' of voice, data, and video to subscribers wherever they are located throughout the country. We are pleased and honored to be their partner in this effort."
Commenting on Sify's partnership with Proxim, Bhaskar S, Chief Technology Officer, Sify, said, "After testing and evaluating products from a number of manufacturers over a period of eight months, we chose Proxim's product line because the company met all our criteria, and its point-to-multipoint products offer the best packet processing capacity for last mile access."
The service is available in both, point-to-point and point-to-multipoint Proxim products and Sify claims to have tested a range of about 27 km on it's solution.
When asked about the cost, Bhaskar refused to disclose the amount but hinted that it will be a little expensive (30 percent more) as compared to other solutions. However, the cost will eventually come down, he said.
source: Tech Tree
Govt delicenses 50 MHz of spectrum for WiMAX
In a move that will help roll-out of WiMAX services, the government has delicenced 50 MHz of spectrum in the 5.8 GHz band for commercial use.
The move assumes importance as the global WiMAX forum has identified three frequency bands — 5.8 GHz, 2.5 GHz and 3.5 GHz — to deploy systems using this technological platform. Of these three frequencies, the world over, only the 5.8 GHz is a licence-exempt band, and therefore the Department of Telecom’s move to delicense this frequency puts India in line with global standards. DoT has already initiated moves to get spectrum vacated for WiMAX services in both the 2.5 GHz and 3.5 GHz frequencies, currently in use respectively for INSAT series of satellite communications and satellite television broadcast.
When asked on the commercial implications of the move, Rajesh Chharia, president of Internet Service Providers Association of India told ET, “A lot of ISPs are likely to offer services in this frequency as it is now free. However, if a large number of ISPs switch, then this frequency can get choked, as only a total of 50 MHz (from 5.825 to 5.875 GHz) has been delicensed. This can result in poor quality of services.”
Explained an executive with another leading ISP, “Globally, since this is a license-exempt band, the equipment that are available on this frequency have not received any certification. Identifying the right equipment for using and launching services in this frequency can be an issue.” Additionally, the spokesperson of another ISP said that players would be able to derive maximum commercial benefits only if the government were to delicence the entire 5 GHz band, and not just the 5.8 GHz band. “Most of the equipment that is currently available can hop over the entire range of the 5 GHz band. This is because, the complete 5 GHz band has been delicenced in many countries. If Indian operators were to buy this equipment from vendors abroad, it would not be possible to restrict its usage to just 5.8 GHz frequency,” he added.
WiMAX, which is considered as an alternative to cable and DSL, for data transfer, is a standards-based broadband wireless access technology for enabling the last-mile delivery of information. WiMAX can offer fixed, nomadic, portable and mobile wireless broadband connectivity without the need for direct line-of-sight connection between a base station and a subscriber station in a typical cell radius deployment of 3 to 10 Km.
sourc: Economic Times
The move assumes importance as the global WiMAX forum has identified three frequency bands — 5.8 GHz, 2.5 GHz and 3.5 GHz — to deploy systems using this technological platform. Of these three frequencies, the world over, only the 5.8 GHz is a licence-exempt band, and therefore the Department of Telecom’s move to delicense this frequency puts India in line with global standards. DoT has already initiated moves to get spectrum vacated for WiMAX services in both the 2.5 GHz and 3.5 GHz frequencies, currently in use respectively for INSAT series of satellite communications and satellite television broadcast.
When asked on the commercial implications of the move, Rajesh Chharia, president of Internet Service Providers Association of India told ET, “A lot of ISPs are likely to offer services in this frequency as it is now free. However, if a large number of ISPs switch, then this frequency can get choked, as only a total of 50 MHz (from 5.825 to 5.875 GHz) has been delicensed. This can result in poor quality of services.”
Explained an executive with another leading ISP, “Globally, since this is a license-exempt band, the equipment that are available on this frequency have not received any certification. Identifying the right equipment for using and launching services in this frequency can be an issue.” Additionally, the spokesperson of another ISP said that players would be able to derive maximum commercial benefits only if the government were to delicence the entire 5 GHz band, and not just the 5.8 GHz band. “Most of the equipment that is currently available can hop over the entire range of the 5 GHz band. This is because, the complete 5 GHz band has been delicenced in many countries. If Indian operators were to buy this equipment from vendors abroad, it would not be possible to restrict its usage to just 5.8 GHz frequency,” he added.
WiMAX, which is considered as an alternative to cable and DSL, for data transfer, is a standards-based broadband wireless access technology for enabling the last-mile delivery of information. WiMAX can offer fixed, nomadic, portable and mobile wireless broadband connectivity without the need for direct line-of-sight connection between a base station and a subscriber station in a typical cell radius deployment of 3 to 10 Km.
sourc: Economic Times
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