AT&T disputed with FCC on Merger

AT&T Inc. struggled for months with U.S. regulators to support its $39 billion possession of T-Mobile USA.

Nowadays the AT&T huge is squabbling with the government over whether it can leave the future agreement. AT&T General Counsel Wayne Watts said in the declaration, 

 
"We have every right to withdraw our merger from the FCC, and the FCC has no right to stop us, any suggestion the agency might do otherwise would be an abuse of procedure which we would immediately challenge in court."

AT&T's merger plan has faced rising challenges, as well as a Justice Department suit to block the deal and similar lawsuits from seven state attorneys general and from rivals Sprint Nextel Corp. and C Spire Wireless. The carrier needs approval from both the Justice Department, which will judge it on antitrust grounds, and the FCC, which evaluate whether amalgamations are in the best interests of the public.

AT&T is hoping to get Justice Department clearance for the merger which would hurl it to the biggest U.S. carrier by subscribers either through the trial scheduled to begin in February or an out of court decision.

AT&T also said Thursday it will receive a charge in this year's final quarter for $4 billion, a sum it may be obligated T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom AG if the merger fails to go through. That works out to $3 billion in fragment fees and $1 billion in expected book spectrum value.

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Katrina Kaif is Most Dangerous Indian Celebrity, McAfee

According to a statement for Internet Security Company McAfee, Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif's forename has appeared on top amongst the most dangerous celeb linked keywords in the Indian cyber break that description computer to spiteful software. 

Deepika Padukone and Kareena Kapoor captured after that two marks after Katrina Kaif.

The group researched throughout popular cultures and famous people including sportsmen, actors and politicians across the net to disclose the Most Dangerous Indian Celebrity.

The Senior Director of McAfee India, Venkatasubrahmanyam Krishnapur stated on report that in a celebrity crazy country such as India, cyber criminals find it very lucrative to use the names of popular figures as keywords to lure people to websites with malicious software.

Venkatasubrahmanyam Krishnapur said,” This year's study found movie stars top the most dangerous list, while sports stars and politicians are among the safest.”

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Black Berry Aptitude Test in India

Blackberry is going to organize this contest for management and engineering colleges, and the contestants shall use Blackberry smart phones to be able to reply the questions of the test. It will be a mixture of skill and presence of mind that will be able to win the competition for them. Just naked that there is going to be an open Aptitude Test organized by Black Berry, in India. This is going to be as a piece of the promotional policies of the company. 

Aim of the company is to give students something useful to do with their phones, which they usually use for whiling away time and connecting with friends. As many as 300 students are probable to be a part of the event and shall compete for becoming the best among the batch.

                  Hitesh Shah Director-commercial relationship India revealed,” We are looking at the way a student can utilize time for productive work on mobile phones. We have decided to give students Aptitude Competition for Excellence applications free so that they can use time to prepare for competitive exams.”


The achievement of the Blackberry will be measured according to the likes and dislikes, and participation by nation.

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Facebook has supposedly stated over 2 lakh hack

Facebook has supposedly stated over 2 lakh hack in Bangalore. The social networking company Facebook made the statement subsequent to porn, pictures of intense violence and faked photos of celebrities such as Justin Bieber in sexual situations had teeming the profiles of some Facebook users.

Users were tricked into pasting malware into their browsers, which in turn resulted in the sharing of offensive content, Facebook said. 

  

According to a news story in Mid Day, Two lakh Facebook users in Bangalore had their accounts hacked and web links to their morphed pornographic pictures sent as feeds to friends and family. There are around 50 posts on Facebook stating that the users are quitting the social networking site forever after being embarrassed before friends and family.



The cyber crime responsibility too is reported to have received calls and complaints concerning the bunch hacking.

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BSNL special make to offer FTTH connections

The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has put for itself a goal of giving 600 to 700 Fibers to the home connections in Krishna district through special constrains. Only 11 customers had subscribed to FTTH in the district, but the number of subscribers would be improved in a special oblige. 

The FTTH permitted clients to make use of HD TV, 3D TV, VoD and IPTV integrated with internet, phone line with just one connection. High data speed of up to 1 GB per second could be provided to FTTH subscribers, but the payment for that category of service would be Rs.33, 000 per month. 

  

BSNL capacity of the new exchange at Lotus Landmark was 1,000 landlines, but it could be increased to 2,000 later. Small microwave tower will also be raised at Lotus Landmark to improve the mobile connectivity.

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Report: 121 million Internet users by December 2011 in India

Through growing affordability of Computers and Internet access, India is all position to have 121 million internet users by December 2011. According to the annual I Cube Report jointly published by IAMAI and IMRB, India's internet population is expected to grow to 121 million users by December 2011 from 100 million in September this year. Out of 121 million, 97 million are likely to be active Internet users, who entree Internet at least once in a month.

The study said, "A 100 million internet users are considered a critical landmark for the country. With this internet use in India is expected to enter a critical period of growth with the possibility of becoming the largest internet using country in the world in this decade."

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Google offers free websites & domain for SMBs

The search huge Google is offering free Top Level Domain registration and website hosting services to all small and medium businesses in India to launch a website. The hosting services will be provided by US based Web Host Gator. The company will also offer free maintain in generating, hosting and managing the website for a period of one year without any price through its fee free call centers.

All that a business would need to take his business online is address, phone number and TAN / CIN or PAN as confirmation. As for design, there are 90 ready made design templates for a small and medium business to pick beginning. After a year, website owners will have the alternative to renovate their domain name and hosting on a remunerated basis or withdraw the service. Underneath the proposal, all contributor businesses will also get free email addresses through Google Apps and a free Google Ad Words coupon worth $51 to get started with promoting their site on Google's marketing system. 

Managing Director of Google India,"Rajan Anandan, "Out of eight million small and medium enterprises in India, only 100,000 have a website of decent quality, We aim to get 500,000 businesses online over the next three years by offering a quick, easy and free tool to set up and host a website, it would take just 15 minutes to get online with a .in domain name.”

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Microsoft working out on online Chat Service Skype

Wall Street is warming up to Microsoft Corporations $8.5 billion purchase of online Chat Service Skype.

After opening upset at the price more than double its likely public appraisal investors think Microsoft made a smart move buying advanced communications technology it can put into its products along with a all set base of users. But there are still concerns the world's biggest software company with a patchy record on pleasing consumers and making purchasing job can really pull it off.

Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Washington, and Skype's US base in Silicon Valley are buzzing as the two companies start the process of working together. Skype chief Tony Bates has been in Redmond with his team for much of the past two weeks, after the deal closed.

Most expect Skype video chat and messaging will begin to appear soon on Xbox game consoles, Windows phones and Windows Live messenger, and shortly as an expansion to its Lync messaging and video chat service for businesses.

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Porsche Design BlackBerry P’9981 unveiled

A BlackBerry smartphone featuring a unique design and Porsche brand will be making its debut on October 27 in the event held at Burj Khaleefa, Dubai. It is called the BlackBerry P9981 and is a special edition device. 

Features:

• The screen is described as being a "crystal clear touchscreen display".
• The device has a 1.2GHz processor
• The handset's front part is made of stainless steel (keypad included), while the back is completely covered with leather.
• As for the software, like mentioned that is customized, but it is based off of BlackBerry 7 OS.
• Other features include 5 megapixel camera, 8GB of internal storage and a microSD card slot with support for cards of up to 32GB in size,

                   On to the price, rumours are hinting that Porsche Design BlackBerry P 9981 will be available in Porsche Design Stores before the end of this year for about $2000.

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Black Berry undergoes Outage

The manufacturer of Black Berry phones says it's looking into an undisclosed concern touching customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Internet access and Black Berry's trendy messenger service came into view to be affected.

Research in Motion Ltd. said in a message on Twitter,” Some users in EMEA are experiencing issues; we’re investigating, and we apologies for any inconvenience."

T-Mobile UK said in post online that there was an ``Issue with sending and receiving via the Black Berry Messenger service as well as using Black Berry Internet services.''

It said that it and Research in Motion are staring into the theme.

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AT&T is working with Apple for 4G Phone

AT&T is working with Apple to update the network indicator for AT&T's iPhone 4S to read  4G . This will happen with an iOS release from Apple. Since iPhone 4S is an HSPA+ device, our customers will get 4G speeds from day one. Only AT&T has this unique network advantage. AT&T is currently trying to get its LTE network off the ground.

While many carriers do some fast talking when it comes to their network designations, AT&T is likely to face more scrutiny than others, since it is likely that AT&T- iPhone 4S customers will be confused by the 4G designation when they do not have access to LTE.

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How to automatically Redirect a Blogger Blog to another URL

Tutorial:   Add Auto Redirect To Blogger    

• Go To Blogger —->Template——>Edit HTML——->Proceed

• CTRL + F To Find <head>

•  Copy And Paste the Following Code Directly Below / Under <head> 

<meta content='5;url=<span style="color: #0000ff;"></span> 2.<span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>http://www.Your-URL.com/&;lt;/strong></span></span> 3.<span style="font-size: medium;">'http-equiv='refresh'/> 


Note:- 

1. Replace http://www.Your-URL.com/ In Blue With The URL You Want To Forward To.

2. The Number 5 In Red Sets The Amount Of Seconds Before The User Is Redirected Change This To Suit.

       Save your template and your blog will now redirect after the time you set.

If you give at least 5 seconds and add a clear message at the top of the blog there should be no trouble.

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Nokia crafts the N9, Mee Go phone

Nokia has ongoing freight the N9, its leading and former smartphone based on the Mee Go operating system. Mee Go is one of the operating systems Nokia absolute to disown in February when it declared plans to custom Microsoft's Windows Phone as its key operating system for smartphones. 

Windows Phone Nokia N9 has no physical buttons and in its place relies on the 3.9-inch AMOLED touch screen for steering. The N9 user interface has three home views applications, events and live applications. Users will be capable to download applications from Nokia Ovi Store. Users will be able to find a mixture of entertainment, productivity, news, social network applications and games, including Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, Facebook, Last.fm and Mail for Exchange. But Nokia doesn't need to put a quantity on in what way many applications will be available. The N9 is compatible with Qt, a cross-platform application and user interface framework, which Nokia also uses on its Symbian based smartphones.

The phone can access the Internet using HSDPA (High-Speed Download Packet Access) at 14.4MBPS or Wi-Fi. Other features include A-GPS, an 8-megapixel camera that can shoot video at 720p, and an HTML5 compatible browser, according to Nokia. The N9 weighs 135 grams and is 12.1 millimeters thick. 

The valued retail price is US $650 for the version with 16GB of storage The prices are before applicable taxes or any possible subsidies.

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BSNL Launches Special Apps Store

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd has launched its exact own applications store termed the BSNL Apps Store. The store will be exist to all BSNL mobile 2G & 3G customers having GPRS facility through India and will deal a collection of new than 4,500 apps. BSNL customers will now be able to purchase and download applications for use on their handsets and will have a choice across 25 kinds which will include entertainment, news, finance, horoscope, sports, games, themes and services amongst others. India specific apps have also been delivered.

According to BSNL, the browsing and downloading of application will be as per subscribers’ data plan and they will be charged for the content only when they download a certain application on their handset. Browsing will be charged distinctly and download charges will be applicable only when subscribers download a particular application on their handset. The charges contrast by application and these charges are displayed before the content is actually downloaded.  

Once subscribed, users can withdraw their subscription through SMS, by going to My Purchases link on BSNL Apps Store or calling BSNL customer care. BSNL has now joined the alliance of the likes of Android and Apple.  

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Facebook news feed overhaul aspects blame

Facebook today moved out an innovative style of its news feed, which breakdowns up top stores and current posts into discrete pillars and adds a new ticker like column with live updates from friends. It's an effort by the social network to further rival Twitter's existent while messages and updates. 

Changes have pinched a movement of complaints as people took to social networks including Facebook to through their anger, with many complaining about the confusion and slip-up of all the added feeds. Others were irritated by the abrupt change. 

 

The hash tag # New Facebook is amid the top trending subjects on Twitter, and the reactions have been honestly bad. Facebook users were probing for a dislike button to prompt their bother with the social network's overhauled update feedstuffs.

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TRAI bound 100 SMS per day SIM from Sept.27

The Telephone Authority of India Ltd, TRAI has fixed the limit of Short Messaging Service to 100 SMS per day per SIM in demand to control the telemarketing companies’ undesirable advertising calls and messages. The innovative set limit will boost inedible from 27th September 2011. TRAI that was trying hard to restriction the harassing calls and marketing messages since last few years but continuously being unsuccessful despite implementing the Do Not Disturb Service has now frame a way of setting the limit on short messaging services.  

The cover on SMS service will certainly prevent the telemarketing companies to send the annoying unpackaged SMS that root frustration and blocking to the common man. This result will not upset the communication between the close relations. The business messages, the coding message, and other educational messages from banks, coverage corporations and other service sectors would not come under this limit. TRAI has also fixed to the telecom companies to not to send any message or call beyond 9:00 p.m. to 9:00 a.m. whether the subscribers are registered with DND or not. Those who are registered with DND under fully blocked group will get no promotional messages. Though, DND subscribers are allowed to receive SMS from opted categories according to their choice like banks, finance, real estates, educations, health, consumer goods, automobiles, communication and entertainment, tourism and leisure etc. 

On the opposing, this change of TRAI will also disturb the pocket of common users who use more message service than call specially teens. The motive behind it you can get infinite message per day in the recharge of up to maximum Rs.100 per month. These moves will certainly pannier the pocket of users particularly at the time of festivals when most the consumers use SMS service to wish their friends and relatives. Now, the consumers will have to select some precedence numbers to whom they want to send messages. You will need to call the lasting. But, the smart phone users like blackberry and high end user who use internet service will persist artless from it as they can use the benefit facility of their cells.

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Google may aspect interdict in Pakistan

Rendering to a boom in the Economic Times, one such attempt by Pakistan smash a barricade when a Google administrator, created out of Pakistan supposedly declined to fulfill with the Federal InvestigatiIn. The stir of the terrorist attacks that bidden to deter India's economic capital, Mumbai, and to several other locations, illustrations of the internet being used to promulgate and frequency the spell have fair triplicated. Each nation, meanwhile then, has been dragging up its hits in an attempt to steal cyber offenders prosperous in every nook and crevice. 

The FIA, which is the premier investigative agency in the country, has been overdue cyber criminals in the country, since some time now, and with Google's administrator being less than co-operative, the Interpol has been called in, the report further added. Now, in what seems to be the final straw of their patience, Pakistan has issued a warning to Google, stating that its disobliging nature will only lead to its ban in the country. 

The Interior Minister of Pakistan, Rehman Malik has issued this warning.ng Agency (FIA).

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E-Cigarettes in Aiding Smokers Quit

A new study has evaluated the effectiveness of electronic cigarettes in helping smokers give up the habit. Interviews of more than 100 people who regularly used e-cigarettes revealed that nearly 78% said they had not used tobacco for a month.

The people interviewed had a record of smoking nearly 25 cigarettes a day. Most of them had attempted several times at kicking the habit before they began using e-cigarettes. Despite this, researchers caution against the use of e-cigarettes till more proof is available about its safety and effectiveness in helping people quit smoking. Instead, smokers who want to quit should employ better treatments like counseling and FDA-approved medicines as they are proven methods.

Source-
Med India

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IBM to put up 1000 times quicker PCs

Acquire set for subsequently creation computers and smart phones that are up to 1,000 times quicker than the systems you draw on nowadays. Computer manufacturer IBM is mounting skyscraper computers using gigantic sandwiches of silicon chips by joining film after coating of chips enclosed with petite mechanism collectively. 

The development, for which IBM has fasten in glue maker 3M, will build PCs and smart phones up to 1,000 times faster than the accessible ones and are expected to be available in market by 2013. The 3M currently makes heat defiant glues, epoxy resin used in the aerospace industry and sticky tapes, but the hi tech glues created for IBM could in fact be the input step towards making the next evolutionary bound in computing. The effort at strutting chips upright known as 3D packaging   has so far been misery from overheating. But, the new glues could behavior heat through a stack of compactly crowded chips and away from logic circuits that could be well done out by heat. 

Mike Bowman, marketing manager for 3M, said: "This material fits underneath computer chips when they're attached to printed circuit boards - the unique part of what we're doing is that our glue conducts heat out to the edge of the sandwich. It will spread heat more evenly through the chip. With conventional chips, with just one or two layers, but once you're stacking chips, the problem can become very severe."

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Vodafone 555 Blue Facebook phone launched today

Telecommunication overhaul contributor Vodafone Essar on Tuesday launched a new mobile phone struggling at youthful folks who can directly attach with online social network site Facebook. Vodafone 555 Blue phones has been launched in India named as the Facebook phone comes with a dedicated blue colour Facebook button as glowing. Facebook phone is probable to carry reasonable pre-paid and post-paid data plans to allow users to surf, upload pictures, update status messages and chat with their Facebook friends and brings the qualities of a Smartphone jointly with social networking functions. It is priced at Rs. 4,950. Vodafone Blue has a designated “F” button that lets users upload pictures update status at a single click.

Vodafone Blue offers unlimited access to Facebook for a year from the date of its purchase. The 555 Blue phones come with a QWERTY keypad that is at ease to use just like any BlackBerry keypad. The comfortable keypad adds to the enjoyment of staying connected. The space key is bigger than the ones found on other keypad phones. The features, QWERTY keypad and dedicated Facebook key refer to the fact that its focus is on quick and easy communication. The device includes 2-megapixel camera with LED flash ads to the excitement of staying connected round the clock.

This phone comes under the category of feature phone but nevertheless solves the purpose for the Facebook devotees. It runs on a proprietary owned OS i.e. Vodafone OS. The Vodafone 555 handset is packed with 200 MediaTek processor. It comes with 40MB of internal memory and the external memory can be expanded up to 32GB. The Vodafone 555 features opera mini browser. Sporting a 2.4" screen browsing on Vodafone 555 Blue Handset is a decent experience. The device however lacks 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity. 

At there in the small price market seems swamped with feature rich phones, in such a circumstances it will be interesting to see how Vodafone's Facebook phone performs.

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