Rediff get it wrong badly this time by headline Stating >

Weeks Best:Sorrow of bihar strikes again. Rediff is feeling it weeks best where as whole nation is appealing for help......shame on you rediff.

Wake up before you face the consequences........

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After the Flopshow of iPhone3G from Trio(Vodafone-Apple-Airtel) another one has already lined up to face the similar consiquences - Idea partners Nokia for N96 said to be rival of iPhone3G which is supposed to be launched in September.

This time the flop show will not be due to pricing but because of the service provider which has the poor networks throughout india .
I think these phone manufacturers have gone mad about launching their phone with a particular service provider which inturn is affecting the sales in India market......hey guys this is not U.S Indian customer wants freedom to use any service provider and the mind set cannot be changed. Nokia should learn a lesson from iPhone3G flop show that ultimately end customer is the one who gives you profits or makes you cry for it..... Best of luck for the launch.


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Spokesperson of leading mobile communications should get it rite when he says - iPhone is a premium segment phone (In the US, it was one of the most hyped gadget in history. Within a week of its launch in June 2007, a phenomenal 5.25 lakh sets had been sold to eager buyers who had queued up at stores across the country for hours, even days)-TOI....oops you got it wrong Airtel...

If Apple Inc. thought of this price (Rs 31000 for 8GB-iPhone & Rs 36100 for 16GB) with its country partners - Vodafone & Airtel before launching it then they should have thought about it once more.

Two days after the launch neither of both the companies aren't happy about the launch as iPhones sales figures show it off.

I would like to ask the X guy who priced iPhone for India....that whole world knows iPhone 8GB Sells for Rs.8000(199$) two years contract but the X guy forgot that it sells for 499 $ (unlocked version) without any contract in U.S. If we go by the 499$ price still would have been under Rs.25000

Vodafone & Airtel must get their numbers correct before its too late to capture the market.

How can both of these major players in communication world got it worse by over pricing the phone still knowing the fact that indian customers know the price of the phone for which it sells in U.S

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High price and lack of high-end 3G services seem to have dampened Apple’s iPhone launch party in India. Only a few buyers turned up at midnight launches done by both the operators across eight cities in India.

The snazzy gizmo failed to draw crowds to the stores of Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Essar in sharp contrast to the international markets where iPhone lovers had queued up the whole night to buy the handset.

The mood was subdued at the midnight launch of iPhone at Mumbai’s Infiniti Mall with Friday being a working day. The stage was set for a grand launch, complete with confetti and cheerleaders, but at the stroke of midnight, there were just 10 people who actually bought the high-end device.

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Over 10 million of people download Firefox 3.0 in just two days. Mozilla’s impressive effort to keep its servers alive it paid off and the launch of Firefox 3.0 is the most commented subject of the week, and not only in the tech world.

Firefox was officially born in November 2004, as the project of Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross. In fact they began working an a new Internet browser since 2002 and initially Firefox was known as Phoenix.

However, due to the trademark problems with the Phoenix Corporation, the browser was renamed in 2004 as Mozilla Firebird. The new name did not last long because of the opposition from the community behind Firebird database and in February 2004 Mozilla’s browser has become officially known as Mozilla Firefox.

Firefox was born in a period when Internet Explorer was the undisputed leader of the market and its declared goal from the beginning was to offer a better, speedier and more secure alternative to Microsoft’s king of the Internet.

Many have thought that Firefox didn’t stand a chance in face of Microsoft’ heavyweight browser, but year after year and version after version, Firefox fought back, bringing new things, new enhancements, proving the power of the open source.

Of course, in May 2008, right before the released of Firefox 3.0, Mozilla’s browser has reached only 18,1 percent of the browser market, but let’s not forget that it had build its share by competing against one of the biggest software company.

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Microsoft researchers are currently investigating reports of targeted attacks that can be exploited through Microsoft Word, including Word 2007, using a buffer overflow error in the Jet Database Engine.

The code execution vulnerability is caused by a buffer overrun in the Microsoft Jet Database, or msjet40.dll. Security researchers say that the vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker who successfully enticed a user to open a malicious Word file constructed to load the specially-crafted database file using msjet40.dll.

A successful exploit would allow an attacker to gain the same privileges as the local user. In a Web-based exploit, an attacker could host a malicious Web site, including compromised Web sites and sites that accept user-provided content, with a specially-crafted Word file that exploited the vulnerability.

While users could not be forced to visit the malicious Web sites, an attacker could persuade them to visit the malware hosting sites by clicking on a malicious link embedded in an e-mail or IM message.

Accounts with reduced user rights could be less affected than users with elevated administrative privileges, security researchers say.

Customers using Microsoft Word 2000 Service Pack 3, Word 2002 Service Pack 3, Word 2003 Service Pack 2, Word 2003 Service Pack 3, Word 2007 and Word 2007 Service Pack 1 on Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 are vulnerable to the potential attacks.

However, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2, Windows Vista and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 are protected from attack due to the fact that they include a version of the Jet Database Engine that does not contain the flaw.

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Steve Jobs is using Apple Software Update to slip his Safari browser onto Windows machines. And Mozilla CEO John Lilly is peeved.

Presumably, Lilly is peeved because Safari browsers on Windows machines would eat into the market share of Mozilla's very own Firefox browser. But Lilly says he's peeved for different reasons. He says he's peeved because Steve Jobs' little Software Update trick undermines the security of the entire internet.

"What Apple is doing now with their Apple Software Update on Windows is wrong," Lilly writes on his personal blog. "It undermines the trust relationship great companies have with their customers, and that’s bad - not just for Apple, but for the security of the whole Web."

Steve Jobs and company unveiled Safari 3.1 on Tuesday, and to celebrate, they began offering the new browser to Windows users via Apple Software Update - that clever little tool that alerts you to new Apple software with a nothing-less-than-conspicuous pop-up window.

On Windows machines, Apple Software Update is automatically installed alongside iTunes and Quicktime. So you can bet that Safari has been offered to many millions of folks over the past week.

"Safari for Windows is the fastest and easiest-to-use web browser for the PC," reads the pop-up window that pops up on Windows PCs. "It displays web pages faster than any other browser and is filled with innovative features - all delivered in an efficient and elegant user interface."

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Google is pressing the US government to allow the unlicensed frequencies of TV "white space" to be used for wi-fi.

The firm has written an open letter to regulators saying the US spectrum was a "once in a lifetime opportunity".

White space is unused blocks of frequencies in-between channels broadcast on analogue airwaves.

"The vast majority of viable spectrum in this country simply goes unused, or else is grossly underutilised," wrote Google's Richard Whitt in the letter.

"Unlike other natural resources, there is no benefit to allowing this spectrum to lie fallow," he added.

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During a press event in Mumbai, Palm has made announcement about the launching of its ‘Centro’ smartphone in the Indian market.

Targeting youth, the light and fresh looking Palm ‘Centro’ Smartphone weighs just 124 grams and comes with a number of outstanding features.

While launching ‘Centro’ in India, Palm’s Regional Director (Asia pacific) Olivier Rozay stated, “We launched the first model in last September. This was targeted at the business class. The latest one, Centro, aims to catch up the younger generation. With these two and others in the coming days, we hope to be doing a good business in India.”

Together with modish look, the ‘Centro’ has voice, text, email, Web, contact and calendar potentialities. With its QWERTY keyboard, the new mobile phone also has a touch screen as an alternate input option.

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Windows Vista SP1 Is having a tough time getting into the Ivy League.

University of Pennsylvania tech staffers are advising faculty and students not to upgrade their computers to the new service pack forMicrosoft Vista operating system.

The school's Information Systems & Computing department said it will support Vista SP1 on new systems where it's preinstalled, but added that it "strongly recommends that all other users adopt a 'wait and see' attitude," according to a newly published department bulletin.

Penn's ISC department advised "continuing to use previous versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista until after the initial bugs in SP1 are identified and fixed."

Vista SP1 users have reported numerous glitches since the operating system became widely available on Tuesday.

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Sony announced that the next software update for its gaming console, PlayStation 3, will add Blu-ray Disc (BD) Profile 2.0 capabilities, turning the game console into the world's first Blu-ray player to support the new format enhancements. The new firmware, 2.20, is scheduled to be released later this month

Thanks to the BD-Live, PS3 owners will be able to experience interactive features when playing enabled Blu-ray discs, such as downloadable video content, ringtones, games, and more. Besides BD-Live, the new update, which is labeled as 2.20 will add other new features such as the ability to copy photo and music playlists from PS3 to PSP.

"With these regular firmware updates and future-proofed technology, SCEA is making the 10-year life cycle of PS3 possible," Scott A. Steinberg, VP of product marketing for Sony Computer Entertainment America, said in a statement.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is releasing April 8 two movie titles that will include exclusive downloadable content through BD-Live. The titles are Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and The 6th Day.

Sony turned to Microsoft for a possible Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 360, reports said earlier this month. Everyone is curious to know how this collaboration would materialize in terms of prices, as Sony has kept a pretty high price tag on its Blu-ray players so far.

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Apple on Tuesday released version 3.1 of its Safari Web browser for both Windows and Mac. The incremental update does little in the way of introducing new features, although the company is using it to usher in the next generation of Web standards.

Safari 3.1 is the first browser to support some of the features of HTML 5, the new standard that was released in January. That update to the base coding of the Web includes new video and audio tags, which allow for built-in support of media without proprietary technology.

Offline storage is another part of HTML 5 also supported in Safari 3.1. By caching a portion of a Web page, developers would be able to make their sites load faster by not needing to re-download portions that haven't been changed.

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