The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) Karnataka circle today launched the handset bundle in GSM segment.

The handset bundle was the “cheapest in its segment and was sure to give stiff competition in the market. Karnataka circle became the first circle in the country to do so” according to the BSNL Chief General Manager T.S. Kuppuswamy.

The bundle has been developed with technical assistance of Digibee Microsystems and the handsets are SIM locked and BSNL network locked.

The subscriber will get an initial validity of 7 days with Rs.10 initial free talk time. The free talk time comes in Rs.100 per month with every monthly re-charge of a minimum of Rs. 100 per month for fifteen months from the date of activation. The product which is available in both pre-paid and post paid variants has been launched with a package of Rs. 1458 for colour handset with a free talk time of Rs. 1500. Activation is free of cost. The handset has been put together with indigenous components and software and will have FM radio thrown in with the package.

Bharti Airtel and Tata Group-owned VSNL has decided to enhance the connectivity between India and Europe to lay a high capacity fiber-optic submarine cable between India and France via Middle East. This is a consortium of nine global telecom companies.

The consortium includes nine telecom companies of Bharti Airtel (India), Etisalat (UAE), France Telecom (France), Ogero (Lebanon), PTCL (Pakistan), STC (Saudi Arabia), TE (Egypt), TIS Sparkle (Italy) and VSNL (India). The companies forming the I-ME-WE consortium signed a formal ‘construction and maintenance agreement’ in Rome on Wednesday. The cable that is to be laid, will then be known as the I-ME-WE (India, Middle East, Western Europe) cable

This fiber cable will transfer the data at a very high speed of 3.84 Terabits (almost 4×1024 Giga Bits) it will give a big boost data transfer activity. And will definitely meet the growing requirement of the country. This cable will cover a distance of 14000Km and is likely to be available for service by late 2009

‘TVS LAUNCHES A SISTER FOR NANO CAR’ this is the news making rounds over the automobile market. Everyone is waiting for the launch of Tata Nano, in the mean time TVS show cased its three wheel vehicle with four seats which looks like a hybrid formed from car and auto(Bajaj). Looks very bad, first thing, it has no doors and it is impossible to manage in Indian city roads pollution without the doors. The manufacturer and designer should have think about it before making it. Anyhow, I don’t think it to be the sister for Tata Nano, but it can be considered as some ancestor for Tata Nano, but noway as a sister for Tata Nano. I was able to get some shot of that, have a look over that. Not Impressive!!

India Land Tech Park is the first project of India Land And Properties Ltd. The Park is coming up at Ambattur Industrial Estate on a 10-acre plot. The 2.4 Million sq.ft state-of-the-art IT Park deploys next generation technology with major emphasis on sophistication and energy efficiency. The park complies with the Green Building specification of US Green Building Council and is on course to obtain Gold rating. The Park offers unmatched user comfort, maximum energy efficiency along with the highest levels of security.

Green Building Initiatives :

• Registered with US Green Building Council for LEED Certification
• Energy efficiency using latest eco-friendly technique / equipments
• Use of renewable energy
• Efficient use of water by recycling and Zero discharge except for landscaping water
• Effective control using integrated building management system
• Provision of rain water harvesting
• Inter locking pavers for rain water percolation
• Improved indoor air quality for human safety and comfort
• State-of-the-art-waste water treatment cum recycling
• Eco-friendly landscaping design
• Auto-flush systems in toilets for water conservation
• Common area lighting management

See to the image gallery below and get excited. First time in chennai, this clearly puts Chennai on India’s IT map.

Exterior North West :

Exterior South West :

North West Perspective :

Restaurant :

Auditorium:

Atrium Perspective :

Club floor facilities :

Cafeteria :

Lobby Bar :

Sun Network launched Sun Direct, DTH service, few months ago which resulted in agitation from local cable operators from all over Tamil Nadu. Doing with this matter, Tamil Nadu Government promised to launch Arasu Cable vision. Government officials reported that cable connections all over tamil nadu will be undertaken by government itself by acting as a MSO(Multi system operator). But now Central government delays to take give a license to ACV, making it to act as a MSO and so ACV has already post-ponded for another three months. In the mean time, it is said that if ACV fails to get the status as MSO then the government will support Hathway by giving the tender to them, allowing to continue their service all over Chennai. In present, Hathway has only 10% of the chennai cable tv customers while remaining 90% of the traffic is controlled by Sun network owned SCV(Sumangali Cable Vision).

Offer[Fraud] Game :

Few days back SCV started to distribute their STBs(Set top box) at a price of Rs. 500 + Rs. 400 for smart card. In the mean time, Hathway started to distribute their STB at a free of cost including smart card and charging Rs. 100 + Rs. 5 per pay channels as a monthly charges. In reply to this now SCV also started to distribute the STBs for free of cost. Fraud game starts now, SCV ads are not clear to the customers like Hathway ad. Customers rushed to the local cable operators and realized later that SCV STBs is not free of cost that they are demanding Rs. 400 as a deposit amount, which is refundable(warning : Don’t get scammed!!!). This game was started in the middle of the last year between DMK and Maran brothers, and it continues still in various directions in various means. Anyhow, I hereby request the people of Tamil Nadu to be very careful regarding these cable issue, don’t be in hurry while getting STBs. If your area doesn’t have an Hathway distribution, don’t get disappointed, sources say that they are expanding they’re network, Hathway might reach your area anytime. Most of the cable operators are ready to switch to Hathway from SCV(SCAM Cable Vision). In present Hathway is available to areas like Velachery, K.K.Nagar, etc., and the official sources from Hathway said that it would reach Kodambakkam, Vadapalani, Saligramam and Virugambakkam within a month of time. In the mean time Tata SKY, dth service provider, has slashed their rates pricing at Rs. 2500 including installation charges. I’m repeating, don’t be in hurry while selecting between the service. Keep checking to my blog to get the updates on the Greater Chennai Cable Game.

There was a one hour interview on CNBC with Warren Buffet, the second richest man who has donated $31 billion (85% of his fortune) to charity.Here are some very interesting aspects of his life:

1) He bought his first share at age 11 and he now regrets that he started too late!

2) He bought a small farm at age 14 with savings from delivering newspapers.

3) He still lives in the same small 3 bedroom house in mid-town Omaha, that he bought after he got married 50 years ago. He says that he has everything he needs in that house. His house does not have a wall or a fence.

4) He drives his own car everywhere and does not have a driver or security people around him.

5) He never travels by private jet, although he owns the world’s largest private jet company.

6) His company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns 63 companies. He writes only one letter each year to the CEOs of these companies, giving them goals for the year. He never holds meetings or calls them on a regular basis.

7) He has given his CEO’s only two rules.

Rule number 1: Do not lose any of your share holder’s money.

Rule number 2: Do not forget rule number 1.

He does not socialize with the high society crowd. His past time after he gets home is to make himself some pop corn and watch television.

9) Bill Gates, the world’s richest man met him for the first time only 5 years ago. Bill Gates did not think he had anything in common with Warren Buffet. So he had scheduled his meeting only for half hour. But when Gates met him, the meeting lasted for ten hours and Bill Gates became a devotee of Warren Buffet.

10) Warren Buffet does not carry a cell phone, nor has a computer on his desk.

11) His advice to young people: Stay away from credit cards and invest in yourself.

The hard disk industry giant stated that the new hard drives offer up a blend of capability, performance and dependability for a broad variety of enterprise plus desktop PC applications.The newly launched hard drives feature 7,200-rpm spin speeds, average seek times of 8.5ms, caches up to 32MB and many others.The company said that these hard drives bundle 1TB of records on 4 discs to offer operating temperatures and low power consumption that helps in extending drive’s life time.The 1TB Barracuda 7200.11 is available at an MSRP of INR 16,000.

SOMA Networks announced yesterday that it has been selected by BSNL, India’s state-owned telecommunications company, to deploy a Mobile WiMAX network spanning three of India’s telecom circles. Based on an infrastructure to be supplied by SOMA Networks, over the next three years the network will provide broadband data and voice services to a service area reaching over 200 million people. For BSNL, this project represents a key milestone to realizing the Indian government’s “Vision 2010” plan which aims to reduce the digital divide in India.

Here is the quick preview of the the most awaited car for this year, Tata’s One Lakh car.

1. Tata said the 624 cc, 33 HP petrol engine meets Bharat Stage-III emission norms and can also meet the Euro 4 norms.

2. Nano will also have a 30-litre fuel tank and four-speed manual gearshift. The car will come with air conditioning, but will have no power steering.

3. The car comes with front disk and rear drum brakes. The company claims mileage of 20 kmpl in city and 26 kmpl on highway.

4. Car is eight per cent smaller bumper to bumper, than the Maruti 800 but at the same time 21 per cent larger in its interiors and can sit up to four people.

5. The car has passed the full-frontal crash and the side impact crash.

6. The car will be available in many variants, which will include one standard version and two deluxe versions with AC.

7. The new model, using re-engineered plastics and modern adhesives

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Yesterday, while coming from my college in the college bus, my friend Poojith said that the fuel prices are likely to gear up. He said that the petrol price to hike up by 4 INR and diesel price to get gear up by 2 INR, following the price hike up in international market reaching 100 USD per barrel. The UPA government was thinking of increasing the fuel price for past six months, but not done so, because of the elections in various parts of the country it went impossible. But, now after the post-election in Gujarat, the UPA government has decided to increase the fuel price by this January.