Samsung today has officially announced the launch of its second 'Phablet' - Galaxy Note II. The launch event took place in Hyderabad with Imtiaz Ali (Film Director). The device is priced at Rs. 39,990/. --------------------------- "My mind is not mature enough to handle the complex patterns in classical music yet. Hope I will be able to decipher that before I am too old." --------------------------- Phone numbers registered on the TRAI's NCPR portal are now identified with a crossed-out red phone icon in Impel CRM. This will immediately identify to the user that this number is in the TRAI NCPR portal and therefore should not be called. --------------------------- The network provides three levels of sharing for posts: public, friends, and anonymous. Anonymous posts are public too, but without your name. Apart from this, it has a designated Diary section, and diary posts can be open, shared with friends, or private. --------------------------- To start with, the platform is being positioned as a solution which will help e-commerce companies to acquire customers in a smarter way by assembling banners in real-time and serving them to a re-targeted audience. --------------------------- So if unfortunately you are the first one amongst the users to get into the congestion, you can just report the situation back. The traffic reporters operating from the Traffic Control Room will validate the situation, check the reason behind it and let every user know about it. --------------------------- The top 10 items and office trends that are becoming rare and could even disappear in the next five years are tape recorders (79 %), fax machines (71 %), The rolodex (58 %), standard working hours (57 %), desk phones (35 %), desktop computers (34 %), --------------------------- Imagine spending a day with a dabbawala in Mumbai experiencing his life, or a day learning how to drift cars with a professional or lets take it a notch higher, imagine taking a private fencing lesson with an instructor. --------------------------- At present, banks charge a fee of Rs 5 and Rs 2.50 for online fund transfer up to Rs 1 lakh and Rs 10,000 respectively. However, charges for funds transfer (NEFT) exceeding Rs 1 lakh and upto Rs 2 lakh would remain Rs 15 and Rs 25 for transfers above Rs 2 lakh. --------------------------- Siddappa G Hullajogi, a farmer who never went to school, uses a self-designed and self-installed water mill to generate electricity that lights up his modest dwelling in Somapura village in Gadag district of Karnataka. --------------------------- Here goes the daily Newsreel, our daily roundup on the other news we thought we should share: India is expected to attract investment of $ 42 bn in engineering R&D by 2020, read complete story here. Sounds great for country with very less amount spent on Research and Development. Government restrictions on the Internet have ... --------------------------- Bangalore based in-site search startup Unbxd, which demoed at Upluggd last year, has received Series A funding from the Indian Angel Network. Post investment Manav Garg, an IAN member is joining the company as a board member, the company announced today. The funds were raised nearly six months ago to scale up operations. --------------------------- Sony India announced the launch of its latest smartphone Xperia tipo in India on Wednesday. The phone is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and comes with the latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system with expandable storage of up to 32GB including additional 50GB free storage. --------------------------- The Indian government which recently mustered enough courage to go against its allies and introduce policy reforms in its $ 450 bn retail sector, is now trying to make tax rules easier for the $ 70 bn information technology industry. --------------------------- HCL has partnered with ibibo to bundle the iBrowser in its Android tablet range. After this partnership, ibibo's iBrowser would be pre-installed on all future tablets from HCL including the HCL ME U1 and HCL ME Y2 range, the company said. --------------------------- MapmyIndia has launched "Don't Panic," a new full-featured maps and GPS navigation app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users in India. The move comes less than a week after thousands of iPhone users in India got wild with Apple when they discovered that the new map application on their devices were next to useless. --------------------------- | | More to read:
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