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Make Free International Calls for a Month with Skype

The @Skype team has just tweeted an offer that is too good to ignore.

Skype to Skype calls have always been free but you can now also use Skype to make free and unlimited voice calls to mobile phones and landlines for 30 days. In addition to phone calls, you can also have video calls with a group of 3-10 friends during the same offer period.

To get started, use this special link to sign-in to your Skype account, enter your credit card or PayPal details (you won’t be charged) and complete the sign-up process. Once your Skype Premium service is activated, you can cancel your recurring subscription immediately while the premium services will continue to work for the entire 30-day period.

The fine print says that you can make free calls to landlines and mobile phones in Canada, Guam, Hong Kong S.A.R., Puerto Rico, Singapore, Thailand and United States.

The countries where you can call landline numbers for free include Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom and Venezuela.

Online Voting System for Gujarat Assembly Election 2012

                                Greater Participation for Stronger Democracy

Three Steps for Online Voting:

1. Register as e-Voter

2. Activate Online Voting Account

3. Cast Vote Online – On Voting Day

                                        Step 1: Register as e-Voter

1. Visit: https://www.onlinevotinggujarat.gov.in

2. Provide required details such as Name, Address, Age, Mobile
No., Email Address, select whether option 1 (for voting from
residence) or option 2 (for voting from e-Polling Booth).

3. Visit by SEC officials for verification of voter’s credentials
and signature on printed form.

Step 2: Activate Online Voting Account

1. Click on the Activation Link and login using username
& password provided in the e-mail.

2. Change your password and activate account.

3. For Option 1 e-Voters, make sure you use
residence PC/Laptop for account activation.

Step 3: Cast Vote online - On Voting Day

1. Option 1 e-Voters will have to use PC/Laptop at residence,
Option 2 e-Voters will have to visit e-Polling Booth.

2. Login to https://www.onlinevotinggujarat.gov.in

3. View Ballot Paper.

4. Select and Confirm Candidate(s).

5. Option 1 e-Voters, will have to enter SMS code as received
on mobile. This is not valid for Option 2 e-Voters.

6. Receipt of successful vote cast will be displayed.

Registration Process
Before starting registration make sure that Java is installed on your PC. If it is not Installed click on the like to install Java -Click Here

1. Open http://www.onlinevotinggujarat.gov.in in your browser.

2. Fill the From Carefully and Enter Data Correct. (Note:Fields marked with * are mandatory. )

3. Enter all details in the respective text fields, and click I Accept

3. The Online Voter Registration Token Number page appears with token number and
notification. (note the token number for future reference).

4. Identify your User Name and Activation Link from the Activation Mail sent to you by SEC.

5. Open Activation link and change your password.

6. You are now successful activation of your Online Voting Account. Account
Activation confirmation SMS will be sent to your registered mobile number.

Cast Vote online - On Voting Day

7. Option 1 e-Voters will have to use PC/Laptop at residence,
Option 2 e-Voters will have to visit e-Polling Booth.

8. Login to https://www.onlinevotinggujarat.gov.in

9. View Ballot Paper.

10. Select and Confirm Candidate(s).

11. Option 1 e-Voters, will have to enter SMS code as received
on mobile. This is not valid for Option 2 e-Voters.

12. Receipt of successful vote cast will be displayed.

NOW WHAT'S THINKING GO AND REGISTER FOR YOUR E-VOTING

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by. kirtan

Fedora 15 released with many new features

Fedora 15 operating system's final and stable version is released and available for download. Fedora 15 is powered by linux kernel 2.6.38. It includes dynamic firewall, firefox 4, new full text search tool and double entry accounting system.

Highlights of Fedora 15:

Linux kernel 2.6.38.6;
Btrfs filesystem;
GNOME 3 desktop environment;
Indic typing booster;
Better crash reporting;
Redesigned SELinux troubleshooter;
Gnome Shell user interface;
GTK+ 3.0;
Xorg Server 1.10;
Deja Dup backup software;
LibreOffice 3.3 open source office suite;
Mozilla Firefox 4.0 web browser;
BoxGrinder appliance (virtual machines) builder;
Ledger, double-entry accounting system;
Higher compression in live images;
recoll, full-text search tool;
Dynamic firewall;
IcedTea Java plugin;
RPM 4.9;
Python 3.2;
Rails 3.0.3;
OCaml 3.12;
FreeIPA 2.0;
Maven 3;
GNU Debugger (GDB) 7.3;
GCC 4.6;
Sugar .92 environment;
eCryptfs support in authconfig;
LZMA comperssion for Live images;
Power Management improvements;
Retrace server;
Robotics suite.

Mercury launches USB 3G dongle with WiFi hotspot feature

It supports speeds up to 7.2 Mbps at home and works with any PC, laptop or any device that is WiFi enabled.

Kobian, a player in computer peripherals and tablets, has announced the launch of two new USB 3G dongles under its Mercury brand. Out of the two, one can be used as a WiFi router that can provide WiFi connectivity to six other devices, while the other is a simple universal dongle which is compatible with all telecom providers.
Priced at Rs 2,999, the Mercury 3G dongle router is one of the cheapest in the market. Currently operators like Tata Docomo, Vodafone and Airtel are also offering such routers in the range of Rs 3,500 to Rs 5,000. The other Mercury USB dongle is priced at Rs 1,899.
A WiFI hotspot dongle creates a WiFi network around it, which can be used to connect any WiFi enabled device to internet. Its main benefit is that you can use just one connection to access internet from multiple devices.

Mercury USB Dongle cum Router supports speeds up to 7.2 Mbps at home. It works with any PC, laptop or any device that is WiFi enabled.
Usually, all the USB 3G dongles with or without router functionality have 7.2 Mbps HSDPA download and 5.6 Mbps HSUPA upload speeds. They support GSM with full band of 850/900/1800/1900 MHz and with network standards of IEEE 802.1 b/g/n at an operating frequency of 2.4 GHz. These have an USB interface and draw the power from the tablet, laptop or smartphone to which they are connected.
Sushmita Das, country manager, India, Kobian said, "Internet connectivity is necessity of life and requirement at office, colleges and homes. We bring ease and affordability to this basic need today. The dongle router allows home connectivity for all WiFi enabled devices."
Both the products come with a warranty period of 1 year.

Facts About Bill Gates

1. Bill Gates earns US$250 every SECOND, that's about US$20 Million a DAY and US$7.8 Billion a YEAR!

2. If he drops a thousand dollar, he won't even bother to pick it up bcoz the 4 seconds he picks it, he would've already earned it back.

3. The US national debt is about 5.62 trillion, if Bill Gates were to pay the debt by himself; he will finish it in less then 10 years.

4. He can donate US$15 to everyone on earth but still be left with US$5 Million for his pocket money.

5. Michael Jordan is the highest paid athlete in US. If he doesn't drink and eat, and keeps up his annual income i.e. US$30 Million, he'll have to wait for 277 years to become as rich as Bill Gates is now.

6. If Bill Gates was a country, he would be the 37th richest country on earth.

7. If you change all of Bill Gate's money to US$1 notes, you can make a road from earth to moon, 14 times back and forth. But you have to make that road non-stop for 1,400 years, and use a total of 713 BOEING 747 planes to transport all the money.

8. Bill Gates is 40 this year. If we assume that he will live for another 35 years, he has to spend US$6.78 Million per day to finish all his money before he can go to heaven.

Last but not the least: If Microsoft Windows' users can claim US$1 for every time their computers hang because of Microsoft Windows, Bill Gates will be bankrupt in 3 years !!!!!!! !!!!

Samsung Galaxy Skin Specification,Info & Price

Samsung Galaxy skins The particularity of this project is the latest generation represented by the use of special materials that make the terminal fully flexible and thin as a sheet of paper. The concept, called Samsung Galaxy skins, can fold into two or four parts as needed or being used as a video projector.

For the rest of the specifications, the designer of the concept was limited to a classic setup: 4-inch Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 800 × 480 pixels, 8 megapixel camera (like Samsung Galaxy SII future iPhone or 5) and the possibility of realizing high resolution video at 720 pixels. Finally, with regard to the operating system, Heyon You opted for a futuristic version of Android, maybe, who knows that Google is already working.

So, we’ve seen dual-core processors in phones, Massive screen sizes that are too big to fit in your pocket and we’ve even explored the third dimension with phones like the Optimus 3D and Evo 3D. Where do we go from here? How about flexible displays then. Samsung showed off their concept phone, called the ‘Skin’ in South Korea in June and earlier, at CES 2011. The phone uses a special flexible AMOLED screen instead of glass that uses a plastic polyimide substrate. Due to this, the display is flexible enough to bend around a cylinder measuring just an inch in diameter

According to various sources, Samsung has confirmed that they will be putting this into production as the large scale manufacturing of these flexible AMOLED displays will begin in Q2 of 2012. If all goes as planned, we can expect the phone to hit the shelves by the end of 2012. The final product may not look exactly like the one in the picture, but at least it will be the next step in mobile evolution.

Samsung Galaxy Skin smartphone features and Specifications :

Netowork:
3.5G (GSM/ GPRS/ EDGE) : 850/ 900/ 1800/ 1900 MHz
4G (HSDPA 7.2Mbps, HSUPA 5.76Mbps) : 900/ 1900/ 2100 MHz

Display :
4.0″ WVGA SUPER AMOLED (800×480) Flexible Type

Video:
HD(720p @ 30pfs) Video playing & recording Codec: mpeg4, H.264, H263, H263Sorenson,
Divx HD/ XviD, VC-1 Format: 3gp (mp4) WMV (asf), AVI(divx), MKV, FLV

Value-added Featured:
Integrated Messaging “Social Hub”Android market for more application and contents A-GPS Augmented reality with layer Browser 1GHz Application Processor SMS/ MMS/ Email/ Video Messaging/ Exchange ActiveSync.

Sensor :
Accelerometer, Digital compass, Proximity, Light Offline & No SIM Mode, Voice Command, RSS Reader, Widget, Smart Security

OS:
Android.Flexy

Camera:
8.0 Mega Pixel + VGA Telephony Camera, Auto Focus, Self shot, Action Shot, Panorama Shot, Stop Motion, Smile Shot, Add me

Audio:
MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, OGG, AMR-N8, AMR-W8, WAV, MID, AC3, IMY, FLAC, XMF

Connectivity:
Bluetooth technology v 3.0 USB V 2.0 (High Speed) Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/h

Memory:
32GB/ 16GBSize: 221 x 67 x 8 mm

Battery:
1500mAh

Linkedin hacked; 6.46 million Passwords Leaked Online

A user on a Russian forum has claimed to have downloaded 6.46 million user hashed passwords from LinkedIn.

It looks as though some of the weaker passwords — around 300,000 of them — may have been cracked already. Other users have been seen reaching out to fellow hackers in an apparent bid to seek help in cracking the encryption.

Finnish security firm CERT-FI is warning that the hackers may have access to user email addresses also, though they appear encrypted and unreadable.

A source said they had searched and discovered their password in the cache. It has been reported that the passwords were encrypted using the SHA-1 algorithm — which is known for its flaws — but unless a password is weak, it may take a while to decrypt the remaining cache.

LinkedIn has more than 150 million users worldwide. This apparent hack could affect less than 10 percent of its user base, but it will strike a damaging blow to the ‘professional’ social network’s reputation.

It is advised users change their passwords as a precautionary measure.

Hands on Fonetab Android tablet

It has SIM slot for voice calling and is priced at Rs 6,999.

A couple of days back, Delhi based company Go Tech launched two tablets - Fonetab and Funtab Fusion. We have already carried the first hand review of the Fusion tablet.

Now, here is first experience of Fonetab which has a SIM slot that makes voice calling from the tablet possible.

Google to release Siri rival?

Google is expected to announce its own voice-controlled assistant for Android on June 27th. With Google's vast language resources this new rival has huge potential.

Google, the company behind Android, is expected to release its own voice assistance capability for Android at this week's I/O conference.
While Android already has, though slightly limited, a voice assistant in the form of Android Voice Actions system, this new product which has been code-named Majel is expected to be a significant one.
Google to release Siri rival

HTC on Saturday hinted at a possible Siri rival through its Twitter and Facebook page, Samsung already has something called S-Voice recently released on the Samsung Galaxy SIII, even LG week revealed Quick Voice, a personal voice-control assistant which features natural-language processing technology, to let its smartphone users search, write emails and so on-with built-in support for interactivity with 11 apps at its start, though right now it's confined to Korea. Even our home grown Micromax has rolled out something called AISHA.
While Siri on iPhone is by far most praised voice assistance service, if Google manages to use its resources well, this new product will have fabulous capabilities. Google has capabilities in almost all the spoken language in the world and a deep understanding of them thanks to its Translation engines and ample research that has already gone behind this capability.
But then knowing a language and using that knowledge to devise a new application are two entirely different things. But given Google's track record in creating technologies, we are very hopeful of a well made and useful application that can potentially be a game changer especially given the fact that it will bring voice activation tech to the masses as Android phones are much cheaper than that of iPhone.

Airtel's 4G launch plans in Delhi, Mumbai

Competition commission has asked Qualcomm to file fresh application after Airtel bought 49 per cent stake in its broadband wireless venture.

Airtel's plans to launch 4G services in Delhi and Mumbai is in trouble as the Competition Commission of India has asked Qualcomm to apply afresh for merging its four broadband subsidiaries (a subsidiary each for 4 circles that it acquired spectrum for) into Qualcomm Asia Pacific.
Airtel has recently bought 49 per cent stake in the BWA venture of Qualcomm (after it had applied with competition commission) and that is the reason why the commission wants Qualcomm to submit fresh application again.
Qualcomm secured 4G spectrums of Delhi, Mumbai, Haryana and Kerala in the auctions held in 2010. Qualcomm's BWA venture has been trouble ever since it applied for it, first with the FIBP (foreign investment promotion board) clearance, then with DoT with regards to ISP license (Internet service provider), then it was denied the spectrum and now this new clearance hurdle from Competition commission.
4G launch plans in Delhi

The commission has told Qualcomm that since Airtel bought the stake in the venture after it had applied with the commission, and Airtel being already present as telecom operator it would be important for the commission to look into how it affects competition in the sector.
The Commission, in its order, said that in its current form, the combination of Airtel and Qualcomm is likely to give rise to adverse competitions and the directed the parties in question to apply with fresh details.
Qualcomm had approached the anti-monopoly watchdog for combination of its four subsidiaries. At the time of the application, Qualcomm had 74 per cent equity share capital of each of the four subsidiaries. The balance 26 per cent equity was owned by Tulip Telecom and Global Holding Corporation. On May 29, Bharti Airtel acquired 49 per cent stake in Qualcomm's 4G business in India for Rs 923 crore.
The US based chip maker will continue to hold 51 per cent till it exits India in the next two years. Bharti will take Qualcomm's Rs 4,000-crore debt on its books when it will acquire 100 per cent stake in the venture in 2014.

Linux Kernel 3.4 released

Version 3.4 of the Linux kernel was officially rolled out Sunday, in what maintainer Linus Torvalds called a "calm" release cycle.

"Sure, I always wish for the -rc's to calm down more quickly than they ever seem to do, but I think on the whole we didn't have any big disruptive events, which is just how I like it. Let's hope the 3.5 merge window is a calm one too," he wrote in his announcement.

Such peace has not always been the norm. As recently as last year, controversies over hypervisor support roiled the Linux community, which is known for the full-throated tenor of its debates.

Some of the most important new features in Linux 3.4, according to Kernel Newbies, include substantial updates to the BTRFS file system and new support for graphics hardware from Nvidia, Intel and AMD.

New repair and data recovery tools, error handling improvements and larger metadata blocks were all added to BTRFS in Version 3.4, and support for Intel's Medfield smartphone graphics architecture, Nvidia GeForce 600 "Kepler" devices, and AMD's 7000-series Radeon cards were all included as well.

Along with those additions, a host of other features found their way into Linux 3.4, including a new application binary interface aimed at melding some of the advantages of both 32-bit and 64-bit system architectures. The Yama security module has also been added.

According to a report from Phoronix, Version 3.5 will see additional graphical support improvements. What's more, the publication noted that the process of building Linux support for Intel's forthcoming Haswell processor architecture -- due out in early 2013 -- has begun in earnest.

Reliance 4G Launch In India 2012 | Plans Rs 10/GB 4G | Reliance 4G Plans & Offers

Great news for all indian friends!!! Reliance is currently proceed for 4G technologies.Reliance is giving CDMA, GSM, and 3G service in india. And now Reliance have decide to bring 4G technology first in india among all other network providers.

So its very great news.Reliance is planning to launch tablets at as low a price as Rs 3,500 bundled with a high-speed data offering of 1 GB at Rs 10, which the ET report says is about one-tenth of the current 3G prices.Infotel was the only entity to get pan-India licence in the auction of Broadband Wireless Access spectrum conducted by the government last year, and thus RIL now is the only company to have pan-India spectrum to offer wireless broadband services on the 4G technology platform having paid Rs 13,000 crore (Rs 130 billion) for these airwaves.

Media reports also state that Reliance plans to launch broadband Data service in about 700 Indian cities in the first phase, with data speeds ranging from 50 Mbps to 100 Mbps.

It is also learnt that Reliance is in the process of appointing merchants who would supply broadband equipment based on Qualcomm's Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology so that it can roll out its wireless broadband service by the end of 2012.

Towards this end, the company is also said to be in talks with mobile tower firms to lease 26,000 towers across India for the ambitious launch.

RIL has a 95 per cent stake in Infotel Broadband Services which emerged as the sole successful bidder in all the 22 circles (pan-India) for the Broadband Wireless Access 4G Spectrum auction which was conducted by the Department of Telecom in June 2010. Global majors like Vodafone, Verizon and Telenor have deployed LTE networks in some developed markets.

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