Tata Sky offering free 6 months subscription

Tata Sky announced their Golden Fortnight scheme from 28th December to 10th January. According to this scheme it is offering 6 months worth of subscription free. The total cost for a Tata Sky connection within this period is Rs 3999 (Rs 2999 for the set-top box + Rs 1000 as the installation charges). So basically you are saving Rs 1800.
Tata Sky provides a total of 103 channels along with 6 interactive channels which brings the total bouquet to 109 channels. They claim to provide installation within 48 hours of booking.For further details you can contact the Tata Sky helpline at the following numbers:

From MTNL/BSNL lines:	1-860-425-6633
From other lines:	Western India: 020 - 6600 6633 Northern India: 0172 - 6600 6633 Southern & Eastern India: 040 - 6600 6633

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Free upgradation of MTNL Triband

From January 1, 2007 MTNL will upgrade existing Triband users except Night Unlimited plan users :( to speeds *upto* 2Mbps.

Though it may seem a good gesture from MTNL, it is pretty much useless. This only means that you will be able to use up your precious mb's faster. Many have fallen prey to the ploy of faster connection speeds and lower download limits. Usage charges for new users running into a few thousand of rupees is not unheard of. This gift from Triband will not make their lives any easier.

The most basic and popular Triband plan is TriB 200P which offers a download limit of 400mb. To use up this much bandwidth would take around 4 hours at previous max speed of 256kbps. Now by increasing the speed by 8 times the available download limit will get over in less than an hour. With Triband one has to be very vigilant of this.

A more appropriate New Year Gift(as the Ad in Times of India claims) would be to increase the measly monthly data download limit without any increase in the cost of the plan. I called up at their toll free number 1504 to check whether there is any change in the monthly data download limit. Sadly this isn't so.


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Sreesanth's jig to fame

Surprise, Surprise. Look who made it to Alexa's "Hot searches", our very own Sreesanth. His antics against South Africa have made him popular even on the Internet.







I went over to Google Zeitgeist and Yahoo! Buzz to see what their top searches were. Sreesanth was nowhere to be seen. In fact only "tara conner" was the common entity among Alexa, Yahoo! and Google. I also had a peek at Google Trends but they had no data for December 2006.

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Be a show stopper

This was the subject of a mail I received containing promotional message for Intel Core 2 Duo processors.It further went on to say:

We use our PCs to simultaneously check emails, chat on an instant messenger and surf the Internet, all while listening to music stored on the computer or downloading a video. This level of multi-tasking requires robust top end processor power, the kind that only the Intel® Core™ 2 processor can offer.

So if you want to multitask with reckless abandon and hate waiting hours for an application to launch, and learn more about the best processor in the world...

Since when did checking emails, chatting, surfing, listening to music or downloading a video require "robust top end processor power". In fact most of these things can be done using a single application. And I have never seen or heard of a application which take hours to launch.

The Intel publicists need to think this over. I believe this constitutes as a false and misleading advertisement.

Get free SMS updates with Google Calendar

In Google Calendar one can get notifications through SMS. To activate this feature go to Notifications in Calendar Settings. Enter your mobile number and click on Send Verification Code. Almost immediately a verification code will be sent to your mobile phone. Enter this code and then Finish setup


The list of supported carriers(in India) are as follows:

• Hucth-Mumbai
• Hutch-Delhi
• Hutch-Gujarat
• Hutchison Essar Cellular Limited
• Hutch-Kolkata
• Reliance Telecom Limited
• Spice Karnataka
• Spice Punjab

Also you can only get notifications from events in the primary calendar. As of now notifications from secondary calendar's is not supported.

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