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iPhone app for GMAT preparations launched

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Now GMAT test takers can prepare for the exam using actual questions from past exams directly from their iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. The “Official GMAT” app, which costs USD 4.99(Rs 225), was launched today by Graduate Management Admission Council, makers of the GMAT exam.

The application features a Game Center, which allows you to scoreboard your practice-exam results and instantly compare them with other “Official GMAT” users. It also has hundreds of official test questions and full answer explanations from the makers of the GMAT exam.

There is also a question timer to let users practice to get a feel of real exam.

There are two modes of operations, Exam and Practice. The Exam mode allows you to focus on individual questions and take practice papers when you want. It also has an exam date “countdown” reminder, which lets you know about the exam date.

Performance tracking centre lets you track your performance on each “mini-exam” you take, so you can see your improvement. It also tracks your guesses (this is important because your score can suffer if you leave questions blank on the GMAT, which is given in a computer-adaptive format).

You can also get more 250 additional questions if you pay USD 9.99 extra (Rs 450). The application has been integrated with social media sites such as the official GMAT blog, Twitter and Facebook .

Users can register on mba.com directly from the app in order to compare schools, explore financing options, register for the GMAT and find other prep materials.

Vodafone rolls out 3G services in Kolkata

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Vodafone Essar Ltd has rolled out its services in Kolkata.

With internet speeds upto 21.1 Mbps, Vodafone 3G users can enjoy a host of services like video calling, fast internet, and mobile TV.

Speaking on the occasion, Sridhar Rao, chief executive officer, Vodafone Essar East limited, said, “There are numerous avenues for the consumer to have faster access to entertainment, better fulfillment of their information needs and a smarter way to communicate, while on the go. We expect a strong uptake and high demand for these 3G Services and we welcome all our subscribers to faster, smarter, better world of Vodafone 3G.”

After activating 3G services, the subscriber can avail video calling at Rs 3/min. Customers can also enjoy live TV with a subscription pack at Rs 150 monthly or Rs 7 daily. Usage charges of 10p/10KB or as per Vodafone Live plan will be applicable. Mobile services will be made available to the customers through a 3G stick.

Mobile internet plans, which offer 100 of free data usage, start from Rs 100 for postpaid and Rs 103 for prepaid subscribers. The mobile internet plan allows the user to use the handset as a to connect with PC or laptop.

The Mobile Broadband plans starts from Rs 650 and goes up to Rs 1,250 where customers can get data usage of 1GB and 5GB respectively.

Vodafone customers will be charged at 10p per 10 post the free benefit for mobile internet, broadband and integrated plan data usage. For the integrated plan, the customers will also have to pay 50 paisa/min and 50 paisa/SMS respectively post the free benefit for voice and SMS.

Vodafone’s 3G Services will also power the new Mifi device, which can provide portable access to 5 to 10 devices, at one time. This technology will also provide a mobile broadband service for its customers, primarily providing PC and laptop connectivity. Faster means access to high definition video, games and much more are now possible in 3G coverage.

For more information you can visit the Vodafone India’s website.

Idea announces new prepaid plans for J&K

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Idea Cellular has announced a range of new prepaid plans and value added services for the Jammu and Kashmir region.

Launching the new initiative, Anish Roy, chief operating officer (Punjab, J&K and Himachal Pradesh), Idea Cellular, said, “We are pleased to bring these prepaid offers, they are not only good value for money options but also provide many VAS benefits to our subscribers. Apart from offering affordable call rates, they also have options of free SMS’ and GPRS; thus helping us break through a large segment of users in the region”.

Among the new offers include plans for its prepaid subscribers and new customers ranging from Rs 35 to Rs 73 with validity up to a year. Through these vouchers, an Idea subscriber can make local and STD calls at 40 paisa/minute.

Also, in the ‘More Than Full Bonanza’, a customer gets Rs 99 talk time on a Rs 90 recharge and Rs 328 talk-time on Rs 298 recharge.

The teleco has also introduced new and internet packs offering up to 3GB of internet usage absolutely free. These come with a day to a month long validity, and range between Rs 5 to Rs 97.

Customers now have the option to select services like dialer tone, big radio, astro world, sports pack, comedy junction, Idea music portal and others. ISD packs with reduced call rates for making international calls have been introduced.

Buy iPhone4 from Aircel and get your money back

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Aircel, a service provider in the country, has announced that it will launch the Apple iPhone 4 in India on May 27. The iPhone 4 has a price tag of Rs 34,500 for 16 model, and Rs 40,900 for 32GB model.

Aircel postpaid customers can avail up to 100 per cent of the value of the iPhone4 as talktime and data spread over a time period of 24 months.

Under the Advantage Money Back Plan, Aircel is offering up to 50 per cent of the value of the handset to its postpaid customers. While, Premium Money Back plan offers up to 100 per cent money back over a two year period. Both these plans are available for 16 and 32 GB iPhone versions.

The money back will be given in the form of talktime package discount ranging from Rs 720 to Rs 1710 as per the plan selected. Users will get up to 1 GB free 3G data (depending on the plan) also and after consuming the free 3G data, the users will automatically be switched to 2G data for which they will be charged 10 paisa per KB. The calling plans are simple with both local and national call tariffs priced at 1paisa /second.

Along with this Aircel has also announced special offer for its prepaid customers as well. Prepaid users can enjoy similar services on iPhone with a recharge ranging from Rs 599 to Rs 799.

As of now interested users can go to the Aircel website and register their details for a call back form Aircel regarding iPhone 4 and alternatively they can also visit the local Aircel store for more details.

iPhone 4 is the latest version of Apple iPhone and comes with features like Apple’s stunning Retina display, the highest display ever built into a phone and FaceTime for video calling.

With a sleek, sharp and thinner design than its predecessor, the fourth-generation model of Apple iPhone comes with a 3.5 inch screen with 640 X 960 pixel resolution.

The phone’s operating system has also been upgraded and is now called 4, which offers features like multitasking, spell check, folders and iBooks.

The phone comes in two versions (of 16GB and 32GB memory capacity), a 5 camera, up from 3 megapixel in the earlier version. The camera has an flash. It has a second camera for video calling.

For connectivity, it has WiFi, Bluetooth, HDMI and GPS. The device promises seven hours of 3G talk time, six hours of 3G browsing, 10 hours of WiFi browsing, 10 hours of video and 40 hours of music playback.

Swipe your palm to answer calls

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Imagine, you get a call when your hands are dirty, so would you answer it and get soil on your phones screen? Probably you won’t.

But how about if you can just swipe your finger on your palm to answer the call!
Not possible? It is possible, using technology already available with Kinect, which recognises movements as command for game play. Sean Gustafson, Patrick Baudisch and Christian Holz at the Hasso Plattner Institute at Potsdam University in Germany made it possible in a test.

They argue that for such a thing to happen, all you need is people who know precisely where the apps are on their physical phone and a technology that can sense where they are pressing on their hand so a computer can respond and send commands to your phone, wherever it is.

A report on the technology was published in New scientist.

To find out how well people know their modern touchscreen phones, the Potsdam trio recruited 12 volunteers from among the iPhone users they spotted in their cafeteria and tested how well they knew the position of their favoured apps without their phone.

“We found 68 per cent of iPhone users can locate the majority of their home screen apps on their hand. This means that iPhone use inadvertently prepares users for the use of an imaginary version,” says Baudisch.

Having established a reasonable chance of successfully finding an app’s position on someone’s palm, they then decided to use “depth cameras”, which are similar to those at the heart of Microsoft’s Kinect motion-sensing gaming system to detect where someone is pressing on their palm.

In their tests, the depth camera was a clunky head mounted device. “But ultimately, we envision the camera becoming so small that it integrates into clothing, such as the button of a shirt, a brooch, or a pendant. So people would not even notice if someone carries an imaginary phone,” Baudisch told New Scientist.

“We envision that users will initially use imaginary phones as a shortcut to operate the physical phones in their pockets. As users get more experienced, it might even become possible to leave the device at home and spend the day ‘all-imaginary’.”

Answering calls on the phone would still require the physical device but it would be possible to access apps and forward calls to voicemail with the imaginary version.

Gustafson is now also working out how a TV remote control could be replaced by an imaginary zapper. The team hope to present their work at a conference on user interfaces later this year.

“For quite simple interactions this is probably going to work well,” said Nick Bryan-Kinns of Queen Mary, University of London. “But for more complicated functions it’s difficult to know how you’d do it without using audio feedback from the device, telling you which function you’ve activated.”

Four-fold increase in market share for Android in one year

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Android has taken smartphone market like storm, growing its market share from mere 9 per cent in 1st quarter of 2010 to 36 per cent in the last quarter, an increase of four times.

According to Gartners latest report on worldwide smartphone sales, is the market leader followed by fast declining Symbian. RIM is another looser which lost substantial market share to Android.

Symbian, the erstwhile market leader, is losing marketshare especially after Nokia changed track and adopted Windows Phone 7 as its preferred operating system. In 2010, Symbian had 44.2 per cent market share in smartphone segment, which has now reduced to 27.4 per cent.

On the other hand, Apple’s gained market share slightly to 16.8 per cent with its super successful iPhone4.

BlackBerry maker RIM continued its slide downhill and has now only 12.9 per cent market share, down from 19.7 per cent. While its new tablet Playbook has been received well, it has failed to attract buyers despite attempts to attract non-executive young buyers.

Microsoft, which has got a big moral boost after Nokia selected Windows Phone 7 as the choice of operating system for its smartphones, has not been able to cash in on the deal so far as it prepares for onslaught once Nokia starts shipping WP7 devices.

Microsoft has 3.6 per cent market share compared to last year’s 6.8 per cent, It has announced a massive upgrade with ‘Anna’ which will bring in more than 500 changes to WP7, and hopes to change the buyers preference.

According to the Gartner report, total smartphone sales worldwide for this quarter stands at a whopping 428 million units, which means a 19 per cent year on year growth for the industry. This also means that every player sold more smartphones this quarter compared to the same quarter last year. Even Symbian which lost 17 per cent in market share managed to sell 3 million more handsets this quarter compared to 1st quarter last year.

Idea extends 3G services in Himachal

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Idea Cellular has expanded its services to four more towns of Himachal Pradesh namely Dharamshala, Mcleodganj, Mandi and Sunder Nagar.

The teleco launched 3G services on its network in Himachal Pradesh, starting with the two major towns, Shimla and Baddi, in March this year.

“Idea subscribers in Dharamshala, Mcleodganj, Mandi and Sunder Nagar will now get an opportunity to experience high-end data services such as Video Conferencing, Idea Mall Application Store, Mobile TV, Video on Demand, and high-speed Internet Browsing with ease and convenience of use,” said Anish Roy, chief operating officer, Punjab, HP and J&K, Idea Cellular, on the launch of 3G services in the state.

IdeaMall is Idea’s Application Store which offers an entire catalogue of games and applications on Web and Mobile platforms. All of Idea’s 2G and 3G subscribers using mobile handsets that support web browsing will be able to choose from more than 30,000 applications, both free and paid.

Idea’s 3G services are now available in nine circles in the country including MP, Gujarat, HP, UP West, UP East, AP, Kerala, Haryana and Maharashtra & Goa.

3G services offer the best mobile experience in downloading songs, streaming videos on YouTube, streaming audio, photo updates on Facebook, mail and other online media, movie downloads, watching mobile TV, e-mailing with attachments, blog postings, viewing photos, and Flash & Gaming.

Idea 3G users will experience speed upto 21 on 3G handsets, and higher speed on other devices depending on the device capability, the teleco has claimed.

To know more about Idea’s 3G services, and to check handset compatibility, customers can log onto www.ideacellular.com or 3G to Toll Free number 54777.

New version of MeeGo OS unveiled

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A new version of the MeeGo operating system, which was ditched by Nokia in favour of Windows Phone 7, has been released. The new version 1.2, which was launched during the MeeGo conference in San Francisco (May 23-25), is available for Nokia N900 devices and provides advanced functionality to the users or developers to get creative.

Just few days ago, Nokia has accidentally revealed its new smartphone based on the operating system.

The developer edition is not a full version upgrade for devices running on MeeGo but it will unlock the developmental mode of the Open source operating system for the developers to make changes to.

With this, experts hoping that developers will make some changes with the MeeGo in order to boost its speed. The update also may help in bringing minor but needed changes in the dialler and other basic functionalities like camera, , WiFi and GPS.

Intel’s Oak Trail tablets to be unveiled

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Tablet PCs based on Intel’s Oak Trail are likely to be displayed next week in the Computex Trade Show in Taipei.

The name of the processor, Oak Trail, is actually a code name for the Intel Atom Z670 processor designed for tablets. The ARM based processors have grabbed large market share among mobile devices.

The processor has a video decoder and graphics core, apart from the CPU. The Oak Trail processors are likely to offer longer battery life compared to earlier Atom chips.

Fujitsu was one of the earliest companies which adopted this processor and the company is now taking pre-orders for its Oak Trail tablets. The other important vendors that are coming up with Oak Trail tablets are Acer and Asus, but they do not intend to show their tablets at this event.

Acer’s Oak Trail tablet is likely to run on 3.0 and could hit the market by July. Apart from tablets running on Android 3.0 Honeycomb, Acer is also exploring alternatives like MeeGo. Another Oak Trail tablet, from Micro-Star International (better known as MSI,) is expected to arrive by the end of 2011.

Intel has been extremely supportive of the vendors launching tablets based on Oak Trail and is also generous with technical support and subsidies as well. Since the Oak Trail tablets will support Windows 7, the tablets built on this platform may be more readily adopted in the security conscious environments of the enterprise segment.

Most of the tablets on display at Computex in Taipei, however, are likely to come from lesser-known Chinese companies, and many of them will look like the iPad but the sophistication within will be missing. However, people will still be able to watch movies and browse the web &#151 which suffices for most entry level users.

ASUS may unveil tablet-smartphone hybrid device

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Taiwan-based ASUS technologies may soon launch a device that would bridge the gap between the non pocket friendly bigger tablets and smaller sized smartphones.

The company recently started a teaser campaign for the launch of the device during Computex 2011,which will start on May 31 and continue till June 4. The device has not yet been categorised in the advertisement, which asks “Is it a pad or a phone?”

After the Transformer, which is a 10.1 inch tablet, ASUS will probably not come out with another similar sized tablet. Rather, it may release a 7 inch, or smaller tablet.

The hardware configuration of this smaller tablet-smartphone is expected to be on the higher side with a 1GHz + and more RAM.

The biggest mystery is its screen size, which should be more than 4.5 inches, especially considering the fact that there are smartphones like Acer Iconia and HTC Sensation that come with displays of 4 inches.

And last but not least, it is expected to feature the latest Gingerbread 2.3.4 operating system.

The ASUS device will have features of both a smartphone and a tablet PC, while being of a size that makes it very comfortable to carry.

Apart from the advertisement, there is no official word about the device, which will be revealed during Computex 2011.

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