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A phone environment October 13, 2008

Don’t forget to unplug your charger once chargers once the battery is full. the phone battery is full. Infl uence your Apart from educating the consumers neighbor to do the same. And if the chain the group will have to examine the current continues then it will save enough electricity recycling strategy and will increase the to light up a thousands homes. So states Nokia as they unveiled a new industry group that aims to make mobile phones more environmentally friendly. This group is a joint effort of Motorola, France Telecom, Vodafone Group, TeliaSonera, and others. It is created as part of a European Commission project aimed at uniting members of different industries to work on reducing the environmental impact of their products. As a part of the program this group will impart education to their phone users on how to use their cell phones in an environmentally friendly way. The group will also conduct research on the different ways to do this. They will display reminders on the phone to unplug the number of used phones that are returned for recycling. The new recycling strategy that the group will come up with will have an incentive structure, which the group feels will increase the recycle rate. The program also includes a reduction in the use of hazardous material, used to manufacture phones. For example Nokia decided to stop using any components in its phones that contain a certain type of environmentally harmful chemical fl ame retardant. Hemali Gandhi Environmental organizations including World Wildlife Fund, the Finnish Environmental Institute, the European Consumers’ Organization and the UK’s Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs are also part of the new initiative.

Get your Office free October 7, 2008

Microsoft is now mulling over plans to offer its application Microsoft Works for free. It has up until now steered clear of this area but with the recent increase in freely available software it has decided to jump on the bandwagon. The application is a basic suite of business software that often comes preloaded on inexpensive consumer PCs. So far plans include a number of options to woo entry-level users; so says Alan Yates, general manager of Microsoft Information Worker Business Strategy. This application package will have email client, a calendar, a word processor, spreadsheets and a web browser. The application also has a library of creative presentations like projects and will allow you to edit digital photographs. If you want to do some research for school or even for personal interests the application assists you with updated information. The company is putting in a lot of plans to get ‘Works’ to work out for them so that they can give fair competition to Google’s online free applications. To keep it free Microsoft is planning to pull in advertisements and display them on the platform of this application. Alternatively, they are planning to make it subscription-based. Currently, the application is distributed to users at a price of $50. They are already experimenting with Offi ce Live, an application for small businesses, which will enanle them to create e-mail accounts, web sites and collaborate on projects. However, they are bit worried on how to position this application. They fear that Works might hamper the revenue that the company currently earns from the licenses of Offi ce and Windows

The mobile vendor September 13, 2008

If you thought only canned coke could tumble down a vending machine, think again. Motorola has come up with their “Instantmoto”, a vending machine for cell phone handsets. These machines work like automated selling machines. In terms of size they are three times the regular vending machines and house 12 different types of models and 18 accessories. Instantmoto, works on the principles of robotics and has a robotic arm.A spokesperson Juan Campbell said that this is going to be the future of convenience purchasing, a new concept of purchase from the house of Motorola. * As a buyer, you do not need to wait in a store to get the attention of one of the sales persons. You can select the model of your choice and use your credit card to buy it. You can make a choice between anything from mid-range to high-end models including the Razr and the Q and you need not worry about the service. You can purchase any model and then decide on which service provider’s service you’ll be using. If you are starting a new service then you can go online and sign up with any package of any service providers, which includes T-Mobile, Verizon and Cingular. You generally need a dedicated handset for the stated service. But these service providers have loosened their strategy to promote Instantmoto, so even if your handset is not a dedicated one you’d still be able to sign up with their services. All you need to do is pick a phone style using the touch screen and make your payment. Motorola started this pilot program which it will expand in the future should it turn out to be successful. Currently one such machine is installed at one of the shopping malls in Chicago.

The new Digital era June 13, 2008

Most of us still remember the rotating logo we saw on our televisions a few years ago. It’s been a while that we have graduated from six to nine pm broadcasting to 24×7 cable broadcasting. Soon you will shift from the cable operator’s controlled program distribution to satellite TV, where you will get to choose your own channels with DVD quality image, CD quality sound clarity and a whole lot more. Many already have.The world has been familiar with satellite TV for a long time now but it took a while for it to arrive in India. The reason was slow penetration of the television, lack of proper infrastructure and lack of proper technical know-how.

However, the situation has changed now. Currently, there are 110 million TV viewers in our country out of which 67 million subscribe to cable TV and 43 million still receive terrestrial broadcast. Besides, now we even have better hardware like plasma screens and dish antennas that can digital signals. Also, today’s viewers are more demanding in terms of picture and sound quality. They can differentiate between CD and DVD quality images, radio and CD quality audio. Considering all these factors, the launch of satellite TV services couldn’t have come at a more perfect time. To avail the satellite TV broadcast service, I you need to install a personal dish antenna and a set-top box, both of which are offered by the service provider. After that adjust the antenna to match the broadcast frequency offered by the service provider and the entertainment content will be streamed to your TV. The dish receives the signal sent from the service provider and HEpasses it to the set-top box. The box has a computer chip, which first decodes the signal and displays the content on your TV screen.

In India, Tata Sky and Dish TV are two of the service providers currently offering this service. You can contact the service provider and place your preferred list of channels to view them.There are plenty of benefits-you get up to 160 channels although you pay the same amount as you are paying now. You can choose your language from a channel which offers multilingual broadcasting- you can make a choice between Hindi and English while watching Cartoon Network as it broadcasts in both languages.

Satellite TV services also offer a bundle of interactive games. You can shift from TV viewing to gaming and play games with just the remote.

Interactivity is one of the key features offered by satellite TV. For example, if you are a Tata Sky subscriber, you can watch Star News, Aaj Tak and NDTV India-all on a single screen in four separate grids. All you need to do is select a grid to watch a particular channel.

As Tata Sky service is a joint venture between Tata and the Star network, you can view Star News similarly. In four grids you can watch ‘Current News’, ‘Top Stories’, ‘Headlines’ and ‘Features’, all broadcast by Star News. Out of these four grids, the ‘Current News’ is Live and the others are 30 minutes behind schedule.

Tata Sky has collaborated with ESPN to offer an interactive sports experience as well. Named Active Sports’, this service will allow you to watch a live match, highlights and a virtual screen at the same time.