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The second 4G phone by carrier Sprint, the Samsung Epic, is all set to release in U.S. on August 31. The Android run phone will be available at $250 after a rebate of $100.

Let us have a quick look at the phone specs. The Samsung Epic comes with a 4 inch AMOLED touchscreen and a slide-out keyboard. It has two cameras- a 5MP with auto focus and LED flash and a front facing VGA camera. Running on Android 2.1 OS, the phone packs in a 1GHz Hummingbird processor.

In addition to that, the Epic has the latest version of Samsung's TouchWiz skin and is preloaded with Swype and Qik apps. The phone can act as 3G/4G hotspot and incorporates Samsung's AllShare and Social Hub features. It has a six-axis motion sensor and a 16 GB microSD card is included.
The Epic weighs 155 grams and is 124.8 X 64.6 X 14.2 mm in size. It has a standard removable 1500 mAh Lithium battery and a memory of 1GB ROM and 512MB RAM. The connectivity options include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, microUSB, and a 3.5 mm jack.

Sprint earlier released the world's first 4G phone, the HTC EVO 4G. Sprint now has two 4G phones under its belt. However, competitors Verizon and AT&T are also gearing up and likely to roll out 4G services from next year.

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Technology giant Apple Inc. is reportedly planning to release a mini iPad this December, a media report said Wednesday.

Details of a smaller version of the iPad were leaked in a Chinese newspaper that had also correctly predicted the specifications of the iPad months before its release.

Apple intends to launch the smaller iPad this December in time for the Christmas shopping season, Sky News reported citing sources.

The rumoured version is predicted to be 200 grams lighter than the standard iPad, which was released in April this year.

A report in the Economic Daily News said Taiwanese companies have won contracts to make components smaller than those used on the current iPads.

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Sony Ericsson has spread a delectable offering of six new phones for the Indian markets, which comprise of the Xperia X8, Cedar, Aspen and Walkman phones- Yendo, Spiro and Zylo.

Speaking on the launch, Anurag Kontu, Marketing Head-India, Sony Ericsson said, "With the launch of the new portfolio, we continue to offer an amalgamation of communication and entertainment by fusing together best quality touchscreen experience, premium imaging and music features, and great connectivity options across price segments."

Yendo is the first full touch walkman phone with four corner touch UI and is capable of beating the music pulse of its users. The device comes in a range of vibrant colors like, black, blue, green, orange, pink, purple, red, silver, yellow and white. In order to help users access their favorite songs quickly, the phone comes with touch walkman player, touch TrackID and PlayNow features. The Cedar is an attempt from Sony to propagate the GreenHeart commitment. Keeping in line with it, the handset features various green credentials such as recycled plastics, a low power consumption charger, an e-manual, waterborne paint and compact packaging.

The Xperia X8 is the latest addition to Sony's 2010 Xperia line-up, which takes the best from the Xperia X10 and the mini version. The phone has a display screen size of 3 inch and 3.2MP camera. It comes with an internal memory of 128 MB and can be extended up to 16GB using a microSD card.

Connectivity options of the Xperia X8 include Bluetooth 2.1, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, USB port and a 3.5mm audio jack. The phone runs on Android 1.6 (Donut) and is soon expected to be updated to Android 2.2. Other features include FM radio, VGA video recording at 30fps, music player, TrackID music recognition, and Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, and Facebook app. It packs in a standard Li-Po 1200 mAh battery.

The new range of the phones will be available in the markets in few weeks time. However, there has been no announcement about the pricing of the phones.

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The Government of India told Research In Motion (RIM) the makers of BlackBerry to install its server in India for tracking its messenger (BBM) and BlackeBerry Enterprise mail service (BES) or close its messenger and mail services.

The Govt of India has given August 31st, 2010 deadline to RIM to come up with a solution to address India’s security concerns. Earlier RIM had offered to provide information on a deferred basis, but that was not acceptable to the security agencies and Home Ministry.The security agencies said that they needed real time information, not the deferred one.

The Indian security agencies cannot gain access to heavily encrypted corporate email sent on a Black-Berry handset as a result the Home Ministry rejected the RIM’s proposal, saying it was detrimental to country’s security. ###

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The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has reject the proposal to move the mobile number from 10 digits to 11 digits and proposed that the existing 10-digit numbering scheme should be continued to avoid inconvenience to the customers that would accompany any move to shift to an 11 digit numbering scheme.

Giving a two pronged strategy, TRAI has recommended that India should migrate to an “Integrated Numbering Scheme” for Fixed (land line) and Mobile services by 31st December, 2011.

In other words both fixed line and mobile phones will have a 10-digit number. This would make available enough numbers to cater to expansion of existing services and introduction of new services for the next 30-40 years. This integrated numbering will also facilitate extension of number portability to fixed lines.Till the integrated scheme is implemented the dialling of intra-circle calls from fixed lines to mobile will be with ‘0’ prefixed.

This would enable exploitation of spare capacity available in the sublevels of existing Short Distance Charging Area (SDCA) codes, to the extent of about one billion numbers without affecting any telephone number or STD code.

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Huawei Technologies launched four new hadsets out of which two are android devices, U8300 and U8500 and these phones will be available to consumers from August 1,2010. These phones will be priced between Rs. 7,000 and Rs. 10,000.

The new set of handsets-Android and Hangout, use advanced chipset solutions from Qualcomm, the innovator of 3G technology.


Aimed at the youth market, U8300 is a QWERTY Android phone, equipped with social networking tools such as Facebook and Twitter along with a 3.2 mega pixel camera. U8500 is an all touchscreen phone equipped with Wi-Fi and high-speed downlink packet access, an enhanced third generation protocol for mobile telephone data transmission.

The Hangout series includes a full range of stylish and feature-rich devices on GSM, CDMA and UMTS technologies and targets mid and higher segment of consumers. Aimed at young professionals, U9130 and C5600 models would cost between Rs.3,000 and Rs.5,000.

"With the Indian telecom industry growing at the rate of 20 million subscribers each month, and poised to reach 1 billion by 2015, Huawei sees traction in the Indian telecom device segment," said Victor Xu, chief marketing officer, Huawei Device.

The company also disclosed the launch of its Rs.8,000 smartphone during Diwali.

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It appears that mobile phone makers are shifting focus to the rural people in a big way and are coming up with innovations custom made for the masses. Vodafone has come up with a new solar powered handset called the VF 247. The phone is priced at an affordable rate of Rs. 1,500, keeping in mind the target audience which mostly is the rural mass, and will be available across India from next month.

The VF 247 has the option of being charged in direct sunlight. The Sun Boost technology installed in the phone ensures that the phone is charged in a room, under normal daylight. The phone packs in a color screen, a torch light and FM radio among its specs. The device needs eight hours of direct sunlight to be fully charged.

Marten Pieters, MD and CEO, Vodafone Essar said of the product, "Vodafone's solar powered phone is launched for people residing in areas where electric supply is unstable, so that consumers can rely on solar charging to remain connected. This launch is likely to enable more people in rural India to go mobile and thus increase penetration from the current 20 percent. We will continue to invest to uplift the quality of telecom services and products in India."The rural areas of India face the trouble of regular power cuts. In such a scenario, charging your mobile phone becomes less of an option and more a luxury. This is where the solar powered phones can play a pivotal part.

However, the concept of solar powered phone is not new. Let us jog your memory to last year when Samsung came up with Guru E 1107, the world's first solar powered phone. The phone was priced at Rs. 2,799 and came with features like FM radio, MP3 ringtones, embedded games and torchlight.

If this trend catches up and more players join the race, the amalgamation of technology and renewable resources would definitely brighten the future.

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In an attempt to boost its newly launched Mobile Phones in Indian market, leading handset player Nokia announced the launch of its Easy EMI scheme for prospective customers to buy Nokia handset and accessories in three equal monthly installments (EMI) without any extra cost or at zero percent interest.

Nokia introduces a hassle-free way of buying new Nokia mobile phones. If you are a customer with any of bank like Citibank, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank or Standard Chartered credit card, you can buy any Nokia phone in the price range of Rs.7,000 to Rs.35,000 with an easy payment divided into three small and easy installments without any extra cost.

According to the Nokia’s announcement the scheme will be available through over 176 Nokia Priority Partners (NPPs) across eight cities Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Chennai, Ahmadabad and Chandigarh. Chennai, Ahmadabad and Chandigarh.

Shankar Subramanian, Head Retail, Nokia India stated, “Mobile customers today are far more evolved in their aspiration, expectation and usage of a mobile handset. This trend is visible across segments from entry to the high end. Our insight shows that many customers don’t end up buying their preferred handset model as it tends to be marginally above their pre decided budget, making upfront payment difficult. Our easy EMI scheme at 0% interest addresses that challenge and will allow customers to actually buy the handset they desire.”

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Network and spectrum are pretty expensive things. Huge costs go in deploying networks. An operator who is ready to incur costs expects good return on investment.

But the costs are so huge that it takes years for an operator to look at profits. Also they cannot charge heavily for service because they have incurred huge costs. So there is a trade off between what we expect and what we get.

Typically, voice networks are pretty much controlled. Each voice call is given a radio channel and if all the channels in a certain area are occupied user starts feeling the congestion. This was one of the challenges with the voice network that service providers used to face or still facing. Now with data coming in, that challenges have increased many folds.

Data is a best effort service. That is at a given point of time, a user doing data from his mobile may consume more than one channel. Since spectrum is limited, networks easily get choked up. Thanks to 3G, since voice calls are on one radio technology and data on other, at least my voice calls are safe. Why are unlimited plans a distant dream? Its simple economics! More you give, more they ask. It has been result of many research’s that 5-10% of subscribers that use unlimited plans consume 70-80% of network bandwidth. This certainly is not fair. Assume that in a give region there is geek sitting and consuming all the bandwidth, doesn’t our insanity levels go high? AT&T had burnt its hands with unlimited plans. First the networks are congested, next subscribers are not happy and the result no unlimited plans. Even if the plans are advertised “unlimited”, they are not “truly” unlimited.

The wide variety of mobiles that are available in the market is also adds up to the network congestion. The mobiles should be carefully designed not to burden the network with signaling. With so many applications running on mobile devices the connections are always up and resources are continuously consumed. This is for the exact reason why IPhone developers where give crash course by AT&T.

It’s nobody’s business to tell subscriber how to use what is given to him. But its time users get smart and start utilizing the resources efficiently. Instead of burning the networks with downloading movies on mobile phone why not switch over to wifi? Just a thought!

More to follow! Stay tuned.

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Sony BRAVIA has been declared as the market leader in the Flat Panel Display sales by market research company GFK Nielsen India. In May 2010, Sony BRAVIA grabbed 32 percent of the market share.

It is reported that the company sold more than 35 thousand units in the month of May. This was more than the sum of the LCD and Plasma TV units sold by any of its other competitors in that month.


Sony BRAVIA has recorded a substantial growth in its market share from 24.3 percent in January to 32 percent in May.
Masaru Tamagawa, Managing Director, Sony India, said, "Indian consumers trust and recognize Sony's relentless commitment towards quality and unparalleled customer service. Our sincere endeavor would be to maintain this leadership position in its true sense in upcoming months."

Sony BRAVIA is the most sold LCD brand in the 22 inch, 32 inch and 40 inch and above segment, clearly indicating its strong appeal across different customer segments. These three segments together contribute more than 75 percent of all LCD TV units sold in India.

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Onida has come up with a range of Movie TVs, the first of its kind in India, that include USB 2.0 which allows users to watch movies, photographs and listen to music directly from the USB port. The Movie TV range includes the models - ONIDA 21 Ace 300 USB, ONIDA 21 CARBON 300 USB, ONIDA 21 ARIA 350 USB and ONIDA 21 Thunder 1200 USB. The ONIDA 21 Ace 300 USB is available in markets at a price of Rs. 9190.

There are many features in the Movie TV range like USB Playback, Music Mode, Surround Sound, ZAP or Timer Return, Digital Eye, Wrap Sound Technology. The Music Mode allows user to hear music without the picture being on. The Timer Return helps the user to skip ads while watching the TV. The Wrap Sound Technology comes with hidden speakers that enable wide range sound to spread across.

Anand Ramadurai, GM, Marketing, ONIDA, said, "The expected growth rate of CTVs is positive and on a rise even with the end of the Football World Cup 2010. While the LCD prices have been dropping consistently over the last 18 months or so, the Ultra Slims TVs are growing fastest in the CTV space. We are expecting to almost double our contribution from this range in the current fiscal year."

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In an endeavorer to provide relevant and accurate information on agriculture and educational services direct to the Mobile Phone users in rural and semi-urban India, World’s leading mobile phone maker Nokia join hands with Tata Docomo, the GSM mobile service brand of Tata Teleservices to offer Nokia Ovi Life Tools.

Nokia India today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Tata Docomo to offer Ovi Life Tools specifically created for the emerging markets to plug information gaps in the areas of agriculture, education and entertainment.

Tata Docomo and Nokia combine would provide access to Nokia Life Tool service which will be available via SMS, USSD, GPRS and STK, wherein, the SMS can be availed through a short code 55555. Nokia Life Tools includes three main services, namely Agriculture Services, Education Services and Entertainment Services. The Nokia Life Tools Agriculture service is available in two options a basic plan, which features daily weather updates and relevant agriculture-related news, as well as advice and tips, for only Rs 30/month.

While a premium plan provides weather, news, advice and tips along with the closest market prices for three crops a subscriber chooses, and which costs Rs 60/month. Nokia Life Tools supports 11 Indian languages of Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya and English.

Speaking on the new initiative,Mr.V Ramnath, Director, Operator Accounts, Nokia India said “We are confident that the agreement will strengthen the network and help the rural and semi-urban community by providing relevant and accurate decision critical information to subscribers. For this service to scale and benefit larger section of users, it is important to have partners like Tata Docomo who share Nokia’s vision of empowering people with the right tools.

Mr.Gurinder Singh Sandhu, Head Marketing, Tata Docomo stated Both agriculture and educational services on mobile are life assisting services which will act as powerful enablers in helping people earn their living.

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MediaTek today announced that it has joined the Open Handset Alliance.

Open Handset Alliance is a partnership of more than 71 global mobile industry leaders aimed to accelerate innovation and offer consumers a richer and connected mobile experience.

Building on the success in delivering feature-rich multimedia experiences on various mobile platforms, MediaTek enables cost-effective Android -based smart phones by delivering high-quality; full system solutions that further reduce the barrier to entry for broader world-wide penetration of smartphone products that serve the growing appetite for connected devices.

Jeffrey Ju, GM of MediaTek Wireless Communication Business Unit for Smartphone quoted as an OHA member, MediaTek strives to provide device makers and partners with multimedia-rich chipset solutions, efficient services and experienced technical teams that differentiate our Android based solutions.

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Aircel one of the leading GSM Mobile service operator in India, has taken an Innovative Initiative as part of its social responsibility to reach out to the people during heavy rains and help them sail to their destination.

As part of this Initiative Aircel has put up a boat on a hoarding at strategic places where there is water logging and excessive flooding during the rains, thereby causing a lot of chaos and inconvenience to the commuters and pedestrians who get stranded for hours in anticipation for help to come by.

In an endeavor to reach out to all and make a difference in hard times, Aircel has come out with a dinghy-boat tied to a hoarding and when rains hit hard the rope can be easily cut and the boat is swung into action by the volunteers of Aircel to help ferry the stranded citizens safely from one point to the other. This Initiative has been carried out in Delhi – Minto Bridge; Pune – Deccan; Hyderabad – Hi-Tech City Subway; Bangalore – Koramangala; Cochin – Vytila; Chennai – Madipakkam & Velachery; Mumbai – Andheri Subway & Milan Subway; Kolkata – Park Circus; UP West – Agra-MG Road; Assam – Guwahati- T.C. Point; Orrissa – Bhubaneswar- Laxmi Sagar; Bihar – Patna-Dak Bangla and UP East – Lucknow-Sikandrbagh.

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Busy at work? Have time constraints? Can’t get access to Internet? Here comes a quick-fix solution-Hi Buddy!

India’s first voice based social networking platform introduced by India times, where you can meet and greet your friends and family. It’s really hassle free, just dial 58888199 and keep going places!

Introduce yourself to a world of full entertainment. Just dial 58888199 and get hooked to the unique features of Hi Buddy.Laugh out loud while listening to funny jokes, let the cook in you experiment with the recipes provided at Hi Buddy, listen to latest Bollywood gossips, get unique dating tips, comment on your friend’s status message, surround yourself with friends by adding them to your profile. Listen to the updates and comments of your friends, just dial 58888199. Comment on their status through Hi Buddy. Stay connected to your friends through voice networking by using Hi Buddy. It’s an all-in-one handy facility on voice which keeps you updated all the time. Connect to Hi Buddy and rock your world by connecting with like intellects!!

Getting used to the service is very easy. All that you have to do is to call 58888199 and subscribe to the service. Once you have done so you will be directed to your own default profile. You can then make changes to your profile and add the correct name and mobile number of your friend on this website.

Bas… Fir kya…! After your friends have approved your requests you’re through to an amazing world where you can share, adapt and explore your passion and talent with them and carve out a separate niche for yourself amongst your peers.

That’s not all you can also subscribe to various channels and receive daily alerts on the latest gossip in the entertainment industry, hep and chic dating tips to woo your partner, the latest info about the swanky bikes and cars, yummy food recipes & all.

Currently the service is available with only Reliance mobile network, but Indiatimes says it will soon be available on many more networks, Indiatimes also added that this innovative move comes as people across the Internet are bored with age old social networking sites like twitter, facebook, orkut etc and with such new innovative voice based networking people can stay connected with a refreshing new experience.

SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR – CALL UP 58888199 ABH

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Tata trueroots is an International Calling Service from Tata Communications launched on 2008.

Trueroots allows residents of US and Canada to make calls abroad in cheaper rates using their Calling Service.

Why trueroots is making news?

An Impressive Video of 90 second promoting trueroots was released in the year 2008 with the Name “True Roots- Why do we do This?” . This Advertisement Tries to cover ” The Indians in 90 seconds” in a very Unique and touching way.

This 90 second Video has become a Mega Hit in such a way that people often enjoy the video for 90 seconds and at the end surprisingly asks “What’s trueroots, By the way?” The Video begins with a lady bargaining to buy something in shop , Yes Indian Women are known for Bargaining, and many of you accept this Universal fact! We Fight to save even a single Cent.

WE FIGHT TO SAVE A FEW CENTS
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And How about having a dinner, meeting all your old friends together. The Best part is at the end ”Who pays the Bill?” It’s all about pride when it comes to paying a Large Bill in front of All :)

WE FIGHT TO PAY A BIG BILL
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“Just a Minute, I’ll get back to you” Heard of this?… Yes For Us, Everything takes a Minute.. we often ask excuses quoting “I’ll do this work, just a Minute” even it takes hours to complete the same.. We, the Indians are Promising :)

EVERYTHING TAKES ONLY ONE MINUTE

Coming to the Food Part, Indians always tend to Store the Plastic which the food was served with… let it be, a Fruit Jam Box, Hotel Parcels, Water bottles..We find hard to discard anything which looks beautiful.Plastics are most used by us using plastic to cover our TV remotes, mobile phones, and laminating every card with plastic.Let it be Driving License, Exam Hall Ticket .We preserve the things with Utter Most Care WE STORE EVERYTHING THAT IS PLASTIC

Indians are God Fearing.. We have millions of Gods.. we do lots of Poojas… and when it comes to Game.. we all know only one Game “Cricket”.. Yes “Cricket”.. We take Cricket seriously, ufh Very Seriously! The Love for Cricket by every Indian “Cricket is our Religion, Sachin is our God”!

WE TAKE CRICKET VERY SERIOUSLY

How about watching movies? We Laugh, Sob, go very emotional and we easily get Inspired watching movies, We are all Film Buffs watch lots of movies.Our Celebrities does something on Big Screens, we always tend to do the same let it be a Crime or Love! It Reflects on Us for Sure..

WE TAKE MOVIES EVEN MORE SERIOUSLY

Talking about baking food, we use Pressure Cookers a lot, everything has to be nicely cooked, we add so much of Masalas takes at most care in making food delicious. We add lots and lots of Spice even after serving the food..

WE HAVE TO HAVE PRESSURE COOKERS

How can an Indian forget the Giant Masala Dosa which takes more area than a Plate! (In This Video, the man uses fork to eat it..US effect :) )

THERE IS MORE SPICE THAN FOOD
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This 90 Second Video Finally Concludes with a Person who just looks like a fresher seeking for a job and who agrees to everything and even agrees for which he should not… We say everything in our own way we say YES in NO way and NO in YES way We shake our Heads for both YES and NO’s :)

WE SAY YES AND NO LIKE THIS.

After All Indians WE are How many of you accept that Characters in Video reflects our Culture and Behavior? and How many of you Criticize? We are looking for your Honest Comments!

JAI HO!

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In order to arrest the closure of its franchisee-owned cyber cafes owing to increased costs, city-based internet services company Sify Technologies Saturday launched 'Sify mylife' that enables a cyber cafe owner to increase his revenue.

"The 'Sify mylife' platform enables a cyber cafe owner to increase his revenue -- online and off-line. The cafe owner can earn by offering online services -- ticket booking, payment of utility bills, education courses and other services offered by us," chairman and managing director of the company, Raju Vegesna, told reporters here.

The cyber cafes can also earn by being a test centre for corporates holding online recruitment tests; providing wall space for advertisers by being part of Sify Ad Campaign programme.
"With increasing real estate and labour costs internet cafes cannot survive being just a browsing centre. There is a whole lot of revenue opportunities from online services," added Natesh Mani, president (Consumer Infrastructure Business Access Media).

He said there are around 160,000 cyber cafes in India and 37 percent of India's internet access happens from there.

For a cyber cafe to be part of 'Sify mylife' programme, it can either get a broadband connection from Sify Technologies or buy a modem like equipment costing Rs.9,999 from it.

"We source the equipment from China. It has one year warranty and Sify Technologies takes care of after sales service," Mani told IANS.

According to him, Sify Technologies' 1,200 cyber cafes and its retail broadband customers will automatically be part of 'Sify mylife'.

"The discounts and commissions on services availed are available only for the cyber cafes and not for retail customers.

"We may roll out reward points for our retail broadband subscribers at a latter date," Mani added.

Sify Technologies has around 100,000 retail broadband subscribers and the average revenue per user (ARPU) is around Rs.500.

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Innoz Technologies has partnered with movie review portal ReviewGang.com to bring movie review,critics and ratings onto the mobile via SMSGYAN,the SMS driven answer machine.

In addition to critic reviews registered GYAN users can also post their reviews and ratings.These reviews are used to calculate a consolidated critic rating and user rating. Trusted users (editors) provide reviews which are of high quality.

Users can use the service by sending an Sms GYAN MOVIE MOVIENAME to 56161. Eg: GYAN MOVIE RAAVAN to 56161.

SMSGYAN claims to answer around 20k queries each day reaching at an impressive userbase of 1 million + all over India.Sms GYAN HELP to 56161 for list of keywords.

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The CNBC AWAAZ Consumer Awards have just concluded in Mumbai with the the Hon. Finance Minister Mr. Pranab Mukherjee attending the event to present the awards to the most deserving candidates from a number of consumer brands based on the exhaustive surveys carries out across 21 cities.

The torch bearers for these awards in the telecom sector were Airtel, Nokia and BSNL.

Airtel was awarded the best brand in the mobile sector. The award reflects their perseverance in being at the top of the market in providing top mobile service and being the market leader in terms of subscribers.

The consumers chose to award Nokia the top spot amongst mobile manufacturers in India. With its enormous range of mobiles and sustained credibility over years has made it the choice of the consumers.  The state run BSNL managed to beat other broadband providers to be the most preferred service provider in the broadband category. This just gives it the much needed boost to continue keeping the services top notch.

The Winners of the CNBC AWAAZ Consumer Awards 2010

Telecom
1	Brand of Cellular Service Provider	Airtel
2	Brand of Mobile Handset	Nokia
3	Brand of Broadband	BSNL

The Finance Minister said, “I am very happy to be here today in Mumbai for the presentation of the CNBC Consumer Awards.The awardees must be given their share of credit for the fast paced and robust economic recovery that Indian economy exhibited in 2009 – 10. By recognizing and awarding those who have excelled in adverse conditions, we not only acknowledge their exemplary accomplishments, but also inspire the younger generation to follow suit. This is one of the effective ways of cultivating and perpetuating excellence. And with such a spirit of excellence, we may be able to realize the dream of a developed India sooner. I once again congratulate the award winners. ”

Further, Mr. Sanjay Pugalia, Editor in Chief, CNBC AWAAZ said, “CNBC AWAAZ was launched 5 years ago with the aim of democratization of wealth and investor protection, investor education and consumer empowerment. These are the four pillars that our channel stands on. In the past four years the business channel viewership has quadrupled and CNBC AWAAZ has been a catalyst in that.”

Check out the Event Pics

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