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Zenith launches new range of laptops
The highlight of the range is ICT (Indian Condition Testing), which certifies the laptops for India work environment
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BSNL places 5mn GSM lines order
New Delhi (PTI): Concerned over delays in enhancing GSM capacity due to tender controversy last year, state-owned BSNL has placed an order with the existing vendors Nortel and Motorola for adding five million lines in the Southern region.
“We have decided to place the order with the existing vendors for immediate requirement… Meanwhile, we are coming out with a tender for the Southern zone for adding 25 million GSM lines,” Kuldeep Goyal, Chairman and Managing Director of BSNL said.
The value of immediate order for the Southern zone is close to Rs 800 crore and the quantity to be supplied by the two American vendors would be in equal ratio.
Source :- The Hindu News
Apple iPhone targets RIM with corporate e-mail
California (Reuters) - Apple Inc said on Thursday its iPhone soon will support corporate e-mail, targeting a new market and challenging the dominance of Research In Motion Ltd’s popular Blackberry devices.
Apple also said it will roll out tools for developers to create software for the iPhone, news that was accompanied by a pledge from legendary venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers to set up a $100 million “iFund” to back iPhone software start-ups.
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Mobile Asia 08: Samsung Phones
At “Mobile Asia 2008″, Samsung announced the launch of a range of mobile handsets spanning the multimedia, business, lifestyle, and other popular segments. The company also showcased its flagship Soul, Serenata, and Armani models in the lifestyle segment.
Under the multimedia segment, Samsung had the SGH-i450, which seeks to give users a mobile theatre experience and 3D surround sound powered by ICE power amplifiers by Bang & Olufsen. This dual-slider features a music wheel for storing, accessing, and juggling music. Based on Symbian S60 OS, the phone allows third-party application hosting and other benefits like document reader/editor and e-mailing. Priced at Rs 15,000, this EDGE-enabled phone has a 2.4-inch LCD screen and an internal memory of 40 GB.
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Robots to replace animals in toxic chemical tests
U.S. regulators have announced plans to reduce the number of animals used to test the safety of everyday chemicals. Instead of using animals such as rats and mice, scientists will screen suspected toxic chemicals in everything from pesticides to household cleaners using cell cultures and computer models.
Safety of chemicals
More than 3.1 million experiments in the U.K. were carried out on animals in 2006. Of these more than 420,000 were done to test the safety of chemicals.
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Intel memory chip prices drop double projection: CEO
(Reuters) - Intel Corp Chief Executive Paul Otellini said on Wednesday the company has seen price erosion for certain memory chips in the first quarter that is nearly twice what it had predicted.
Otellini said Intel’s forecast for price erosion from the fourth quarter to the first quarter in NAND flash memory chips was 27 percent. The actual figure it observed is 53 percent.
The result of that pricing erosion was a “substantially lower product margin” and higher inventory write-downs.
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IBM, allies offer Microsoft-free PCs for E.Europe
HANOVER, Germany (Reuters) - IBM has teamed up with partners in Austria and Poland to offer Microsoft-free personal computers for the eastern European market, IBM said in a statement on Tuesday.
International Business Machines Corp said it was offering the PCs based on the open-source Linux operating system together with Red Hat software distributor VDEL of Austria and Polish distributor and services firm LX Polska in response to demand from Russian IT chiefs.
The PCs will include IBM’s Lotus Symphony software based on the Open Document Format, a rival format to Microsoft’s Office Open XML document format, which the latter is trying to get adopted as an ISO internationally approved standard.
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Ten by Orange Launches Mobile Easy Web with Opera Mini
Opera Software , a vendor of Web browsing products, has announced that Ten by Orange has launched its unlimited mobile Internet service, Easy Web, powered by Opera Mini.
Using Opera’s compression technology to process and compress Web pages by up to 90 percent before sending them to mobile phones, the Easy Web service is billed as letting Ten by Orange customers access the full Web, surf sites, mobile blog and social network on the go. Easy Web, powered by Opera Mini, will be made available on theHTC Touch, Samsung SGH-F330 and fifteen other handsets in France.
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New Nokia Phones Debut at CeBit 08
At the ongoing CeBit 2008 in Hanover in Germany, Nokia has introduced the Nokia 6650 and the Nokia 6124 Classic; a case of old wine in a new bottle (old model numbers with ‘Classic’ thrown in) or simply superstition on the part of the Finnish phone maker.
Ironically, a Nokia 6650 was launched at the CeBit 2003; one of the first 3G phones on the market. Nevertheless, the “new” Nokia 6650 (teamed-up with carrier T-Mobile) is a clamshell with wireless connectivity and multimedia features.
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