Saturday, October 21, 2006

Your mobile to have two sim cards

China-based Yulong plans to launch its dual mode phones in India through a telecom partner

The long wait is over for Indian mobile subscribers who wanted two active sim-cards in a single mobile phone
China-based mobile manufacturing company, Yulong Computer Telecommunication Scientific Co., Limited is planning to launch its dual-mode smart phone in India within a short time. Yulong is a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Wireless Technologies Limited, and the first company to introduce dual-mode smart phone in the world.


In an exclusive interaction, Ricky Xu, Overseas Sales Account Manager of Yulong, said that his company is planning to market its products in the Indian market this year.

“We are looking for a partner in India who can market our product. As no mobile manufacturer offer this dual-mode phone in India. We are aggressively looking for a partner who has good knowledge about the Indian telecom market,” Xu said.

The special feature of the handset is that a subscriber can simultaneously operate two active sim cards in the same phone. He said that the handset screen would display two connections and network of both the sim cards.

“It would be like two phones in a single handset. One can have all the features while using two separate handsets for two connections,” Xu said.

The handset range comes both with dual mode GSM+GSM and CDMA+GSM. He said that the handsets launched last year in China received enthusiastic response from the subscribers.

Denying any interference while having both GSM and CDMA connections in a single phone, Xu said that there are two chips installed in the phone, which helps both the signals to be carried out without interference.
The handset model CoolPAD 728 (CDMA+GSM) is priced at USD 500 and CoolPAD 288 (CDMA+GSM) is USD 240. However, there is also another model CoolPAD 728G2 (GSM+GSM). Both these models have mega pixel cameras and business applications.


Xu said that they have already sold 1,80,000 units of CoolPAD 728 and 50,000 units of CoolPAD 288 since its launch.

Speaking about bundling with mobile service providers in India, Xu said that they are planning for this business strategy but is not hopeful with this strategy, as no two service providers would come together in a single platform to offer their service through a single handset.
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Saturday, October 14, 2006

Microsoft previews 2007 office system

BANGALORE: Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd today previewed the next generation of software to drive greater business performance, the 2007 Office System.


A Microsoft statement said that this advanced productivity tool will empower information workers to deliver significant capabilities in four key areas: simplified communication and collaboration; better content protection and management: improved business insight through easier access to information and reduced security risks and deployment costs.


Additionally, the results oriented and intuitive user interface will redefine desktop user experience allowing information workers to get better results, faster and easier, the statement said.


Microsoft will showcase some of these enterprise applications in Bangalore on Oct 10, 2006. The applications include product development life cycle solution (PDLC) from Sonata , financial reporting system from Tata Consultancy Services and DITL claims management specialist (CMS) from Wipro.

Speaking at the preview, Chris Capossela, corporate vice president, Microsoft Business Division Product Management Group, said, “Multiple workplace trends like one world of business, transparent organization and always on, always connected, work environment is transforming the global business landscape giving rise to the ‘New world of work’.”

The 2007 Office System is a comprehensive and integrated system, which includes programs, servers, services and solutions designed to work together to help address a broad array of business problems. By redefining the desktop experience and delivering a single platform for business intelligence, collaboration, enterprise content management (ECM), enterprise project management (EPM) and enterprise search capabilities, the 2007 Office system opens new possibilities for people productivity and partner marketplace growth.

Among the path breaking features of the 2007 system are the all new user interface; SmartArt Graphics; New quick file formatting capabilities, Office XML formats; Live preview capabilities all set to help individuals work faster and better.

The 2007 Office System is currently in Beta 2 version and Microsoft wants to make it available to businesses towards end-2006, with broad general availability in early 2007.
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Saturday, October 07, 2006

Live TV on mobiles coming soon

Mobile users will no longer have to wait for the 3G spectrum to watch live television on their handsets. The use of high compression technology will allow telecom operators to stream live video by year-end.

If you are always on the move and never find time to catch your favourite TV show or keep up with the news, there's reason to cheer. Bharti Telesoft, a subsidiary of Bharti Enterprises, has tied up with the UK based media distribution solution provider Vimio, to enable live TV to be streamed on mobile phones in India.

Vimio's technology enables live TV to be streamed to mobile phones over GPRS, EDGE and 3G technologies. The partners have started implementing the necessary infrastructure. This technology is on trial on the Airtel network and will be ready commercial launch in 4-6 months. Bharti Telesoft is even open to tie-ups with other operators.

“What we are looking at is allowing live video broadcasts on the current network of GPRS and Edge on the current bandwidth of 2.75 G network,” says CEO, Bharti Telesoft, Sanjiv Mittal.

But the service will not come cheap. Currently, for every rupee a customer spends on viewing downloaded television clips on a mobile phone, 30% goes to the channel and 70% to the telecom operator. Bharti Telesoft expects the customer base for this niche service to touch 50,000 to 100,00 in the first year of operation.
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Sunday, October 01, 2006

Microsoft Windows XP Media Center

NEW DELHI: Now Indian television viewers can watch their favourite programmes at their convenience.

Viewers will no longer require rushing from office to catch up with the Indo-Pak cricket match.
With the launch of the Electronic Programming Guide (EPG) in the Microsoft Windows XP Media Center, viewers can now have a comprehensive on-screen list of what are the programmes or movies scheduled for 15 days. The EPG allows the viewer to find, choose and view programmes according to his convenience. The entire programme is controlled by a remote.

Rishi Srivastava, director, Windows Client Business Group said that with this service the consumer is able to record his favourite programme if he misses it during the live telecast. The programme would be stored in the hard disk of the computer, which can be viewed later.
“It will cover over 80 English, Hindi and 35 regional language channels that meets up to 90 per cent of the country's viewership. In most countries it's a paid subscription but in India it is free for all those who have a Windows XP Media Center PC, through which it automatically downloads and is updated every time you connect the Internet,” Srivastava said.

It also combines the functionality of a PC, TV, Radio, DVD Player and Media Player and serves home entertainment hub. Srivastava said that Microsoft is the first company to bring an integrated PC platform to the market, which also proves the facility to pause Live TV.

Launched nine months ago, Microsoft Windows XP Media Center, the company has sold 80,000 PCs till date. “After we have added this new feature in to our PC, we are expecting good response from the consumers. It is highly affordable. Today the starting price of the Media Center PC starts from Rs. 30,000 from all leading vendors such as HP, HCL, Sahara, Zenith,” he added.
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