Olive and Airtel join hands to launch OliveSmart

Olive Telecom, in association with Aircel, has launched the first Indian HSPA+ smartphone - the OliveSmart V-S300. Powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon MSM8255 processor and Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) OS, the OliveSmart V-S300  delivers 3G experience  that will  appeal to India's youth and young professionals.

Arun Khanna, Chairman, Olive Telecom, said, "We are pleased to introduce a breakthrough convergence device which  is more than a conventional smartphone and offers cutting-edge services that will appeal to generation-Y. This device promises to be a game-changer with its rich looks and advanced features like 3G HSPA+, Android Gingerbread, Adobe Flash (10.1), DLNA, HD video and surround sound. With our sizeable R&D investments in the Olive Convergence range of mobile computing and communication devices, we are well positioned to compete with the world's leading brands."

"Qualcomm is pleased to work with Olive Telecom and Aircel to launch the first 3G HSPA+ smartphone by an Indian brand," said Kanwalinder Singh, President of Qualcomm India and South Asia and Senior Vice-President of Qualcomm.

Gurdeep Singh, COO, Aircel, said, "Aircel is delighted to enter into a Preferred Partnership with Olive, wherein Olive customers will enjoy exclusive data plans and a rich bouquet of content and value-added services. This alliance reinforces our drive to grow Smart Device penetration on our Smart Network."

The OliveSmart boasts a whole range of advanced services like Digital compass, Google Maps, Live TV and E-book reader along with other innovative features that include smooth texting, push e-mail, web browsing, wireless connectivity, multi-touch interface, social networking,3.5 mm Audio Jack,  Monster entertainment, "Feel the Music", etc.

Father of the Internet Tim Berners-Lee:

Tim Berners-Lee was the man leading the development of the World Wide Web (with help of course), the defining of HTML (hypertext markup language) used to create web pages, HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) and URLs (Universal Resource Locators). All of those developments took place between 1989 and 1991. Tim Berners-Lee is considered the primary author of HTML, assisted by his colleagues at CERN, an international scientific organization based in Geneva, Switzerland
Born in 1955 in London, England, Tim Berners-Lee's parents were both mathematicians. They both worked on the Ferranti Mark I computer. Tim Berners-Lee loved electronics from an early age. He graduated as a Physics major from Oxford University in 1976. At Oxford he built his first computer using: a soldering iron, TTL gates, an M6800 processor and an old television

Early jobs included: working on bar code technology; writing typesetting software; writing a generic macro language; working on FASTBUS system software and designing a heterogeneous remote procedure call system. In 1980, while a freelancer ar CERN, he wrote but never published his first program for storing information called "Enquire" thar forshadowed his later work on the World Wide Web.

AT&T Rolls Out Free Mobile-to-Mobile Calling

AT&T introduced a mobile calling plan Wednesday that allows unlimited free voice calls to any wireless network in the United States.
However, to be eligible for the new plan, Unlimited Mobile to Any Mobile, customers must still purchase one of five qualifying mobile voice plans that charge for mobile calls to or from a landline phone.
Calling plans range from $39.99 a month to $109.99 a month, in addition to an unlimited messaging plan for $20 a month per individual or $30 a month per family.
AT&T's free mobile calling plan is similar to that offered by Sprint Nextel, although Sprint combines unlimited calling to any mobile phone in the U.S. with unlimited texting and unlimited data for $69.99 a month, with some added data charges for certain smartphones.
Data pricing is not affected by the new AT&T program, an AT&T spokeswoman said. Also, voice calls from a mobile phone to a landline phone or a landline to a mobile phone are still charged in the traditional way, which is why there are still five calling plans that offer a set amount of minutes for a monthly fee, she said. Any minutes over the maximum are charged 45 cents per minute.
The five qualifying voice plans that are eligible for the new Mobile to Any Mobile Unlimited program start at $39.99 for the AT&T Nation 450 plan, which offers 450 minutes of calling to or from a landline phone. With $20 per month of unlimited messaging, that plan would cost $59.99.
At the upper end, the AT&T FamilyTalk Nation 2100 plan costs $109.99 a month for 2100 minutes calling to or from a landline phone, making the total $139.99 with the unlimited messaging required.
Phillip Redman, an analyst at Gartner who follows carrier billing, said the new AT&T plan is another recognition by the carriers that voice traffic is diminishing while data traffic is increasing.
As a result, the revenue from voice traffic becomes less important to carriers, who still must find a way to convert users to data and messaging plans. "This seems like a great plan to move people onto text plans and increase that revenue," he said. "Too bad there isn't an offer for business users."
Jack Gold, an analyst at J. Gold Associates noted that the new AT&T plan "certainly isn't something for nothing."
"Yes, there are strings attached," he said. Gold agrees that tying the free mobile calls to texting is a way to find revenues from the trend toward increased text messaging.
AT&T Mobility's Chief Marketing Officer, David Christopher, said the Mobile to Any Mobile plan keeps customers connected "without the hassle of watching minutes."
He said that when the new plan is combined with Rollover Minutes, a benefit that allows AT&T customers to keep their unused minutes for all domestic calls including landline numbers, "it's clear that AT&T offers the most flexibility in the industry."
Customers who already have an unlimited messaging plan must still activate Mobile to Any Mobile online at www.att.com/anymobile, which is not an active Web site until Thursday.

Steve Jobs

Name: Steven Paul Jobs
Position: Co-Founder & CEO, Apple Computer | Co-Founder & CEO, Pixar
Born: February 1955
Parents: Steve was adopted as an infant by Paul and Clara Jobs. Paul Jobs was a machinist for a company that manufactured lasers and Clara Jobs was an accountant; both are deceased.
Siblings: Steve has a biological, younger sister Mona Simpson, whom he tracked down and now has a close relationship with.
Education: Graduated from Homestead High School, Los Altos, Calif. in 1972. Attended Reed College in Portland, Ore.; dropped out of the baccalaureate program after one semester.
Family: Wife: Laurene Powell. They met at Stanford University while he was speaking at a class. They married in 1991. Both are vegetarians. Daughter Lisa was born when Jobs was 23 (Jobs didn't marry her mother). Lisa lived with Jobs as a teen. He has three children with wife Laurene.
Residence: English style red-brick home in Palo Alto, Calif. built in 1930s. Valued between $3 million to $5 million. Sparsely decorated.
Appearance: Slender; wears jeans, usually with a black turtleneck and running shoes.
What's he like: People say he is a high-strung workaholic, motivates others with his enthusiasm, has a "reality distortion field," passionate about technology, a micromanager, arrogant and intolerant; can exude a Zen-like calm.
Heroes: Dave Packard, Bob Noyce, late co-founder of Intel, and Andy Grove and singer Bob Dylan.
Friends: Jerry Brown, former governor of California. Lawrence J. Ellison, billionaire software entrepreneur and chairman of Oracle. Sister and novelist Mona Simpson.
Net Worth: More than $1.2 Billion.
Honors & Awards: National Technology Medal from President Reagan in 1985, before founding NeXT. Jefferson Award for Public Service in 1987. Entrepreneur of the Decade by Inc. magazine in 1989.

Chrome Extensions “Capture music while surfing”!!

Want to download your favorite tracks while surfing through music sites? Well here’s an option for all chrome users to download their all time favorite music tracks using “ExtensionFM” the new add-on from google chrome.The ExtensionFM or the ExFM is the latest and simple addon from google that helps you capture your favorite audio tracks and add them to your playlist.
This extension once installed will require you to register yourselves using an account option that helps to keep the library through the sessions. There is also an option of attaching a profile named Last.fm that enables scrolling through tracks that have already been heard.
This new extension allows music to be accessed from almost anywhere without having to worry about downloading it.   All the songs that have been added to the playlist can be shared with your friends on  Facebook,Twitter,Tumblr and LastFM.
If you have no clue from where to begin you can access the facebook fan page on Facebook ExtensionFM which updates a bunch of music sites from where you can add songs to your playlist.

Android 2.4 ready for April ?

A rumour traced to be originated from ViewSonic (via pocket-lint), claims their upcoming product ViewPad 4 will run Android 2.4. According to this rumour Android 2.4 will be an updated version of Gingerbread designed to run on dual core chipsets and has the functionality to run Honeycomb apps.Few days before it was rumoured that Android code named as Ice Cream is set to incorporate Honeycomb features. And now Ice Cream is for Android 3.1. As android products from different manufacturers are flooding the gadget markets, rumours and expectations are becoming trending topics all over the web.
Pocket-lint states that ViewSonic has exclusively reported this news and ViewPad 4 will be launched in April. So we could get Android 2.4 before that. Let’s wait for the coming days to discover the fire for this smoke.
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Sabeer Bhatia

Pioneer of web-based e-mail

Sabeer Bhatia has done the unconventional ever since he decided to study abroad at the age of 19; two years into undergraduate education at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, he qualified for a transfer scholarship at Caltech, considered to be the world's most competitive scholarship. After graduating from Caltech in 1989, he pursued an MS in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.

At the age of 27, Bhatia was no longer interested in working for others, and together with Smith, began chasing what many people in Silicon Valley deemed a “crazy idea” – a free e-mail service. They raised about $300,000 for their venture - Hotmail. Within a year, Hotmail had one million subscribers. So revolutionary was it that Microsoft bought it for $400 million after 18 months.

Did you know?

* He was rejected by 20 venture capitalists before Draper Fisher Juvetson bought his idea.

* The original spelling was HoTMaiL

Award

TR100 by the MIT, given to 100 young innovators who are expected to have the greatest impact on technology.

Qualifications

BTech, BITS Pilani

BSc(Honours) California Institute of Technology, US

MS Electrical Engineering (Stanford)