TELEPHONE CONNECTIONS IN INDIA REACHES 550MILLION

INDIA NO:2 IN WIRELESS CONNECTIONSBY THIS NEW YEAR,INDIA WILL BE THE SECOND LARGEST GROUP OF MOBILE PHONE USERS NEXT TO CHINA.
overall,telephone connections(fixedline+mobiles) in India will be 550million by this new year.
when considering wireless connections in India, one needs to keep in mind the advent of a multi-SIM card regime in the country.

SMALLEST DESKTOP PC

DELL LAUNCHES SMALLEST PCDell has launched Optiplex 780 USFF , which is the smallest system to use primarily desktop components. The computer is 9.4 by 9.4 inches and only uses a 2.5-inch hard drive, and uses desktop processors up to a 3.33GHz Core 2 Duo, according to electronista.

The OptiPlex 780 comes as a minitower, a desktop, a small form factor and an USFF(ultra small form factor). There is a range of features for you to choose from, with Dell lining up hard drive, memory and connectivity options. The system has been enabled to support two displays. wirelessconnectivity

is another option.

Besides the newer design, the Optiplex 380 has been given a low-profile update that adds a new chipset with support for more processors up to the Core 2 Quad. A base configuration starts at $624 and comes with a 2.2GHz Celeron, 1GB of DDR3 RAM, a 160GB hard drive while it runs Windows 7 and Intel GMA 4500 video but also three years of on-site help. Actual pricing remains the same at the existing $329 to $349 range depending on the choice of a desktop, mini tower or small form factor box.
Source:siliconIndia.com

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START YOUR PC WITHIN 7 SECONDS

New Google software will start up a computer as fast as a television, according to Google, as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for computers that do their work on the Web. "From the time you press boot you want it to be like a TV: You turn it on and you should be on the Web using your applications," said Sundar Pichai, Vice-President of Product Management for Google's Chrome OS. According to Pichai, those computers running Chrome OS will be able to start in less than seven seconds. Netbooks running Chrome OS will only be able to run Web applications and the user's data will automatically be stored on the Web in the so-called cloud of Internet servers, Google executives said at an event at the company's Mountain View, California headquarters on Thursday.

"It's basically a Web browsing machine," said Altimeter Group Analyst, Charlene Li. Google said that the software will initially be available by the holiday season of 2010 on low-cost netbooks that use memory chips to store data instead of slower hard drives, the current standard.

Google gave the world the first peek at its Chrome OS four months after declaring its intention of developing the PC's main software, a move that pits it directly against Microsoft and Apple. True to Google's Internet-pedigree, the Chrome OS resembles a Web browser more than it does a traditional computer operating system like Microsoft Windows, matching Google's ambition to drive people to the Web, where they can see Google ads. With Chrome, Google is seeking to challenge the dominance of Microsoft's Windows, which runs on nine out of 10 personal computers.

Google said it is giving away the software for free, similar to its Android smartphone software, with the idea that improving the Web experience will ultimately benefit its Internet search advertising business, which generated roughly $22 billion in revenue in 2008.

SOURCE: siliconindia.com

SONY ERICSSON SATIO

Sony Ericsson unveils Satio

The Sony Ericsson Satio is a 3.5-inch full touchscreen phone with 12.1 mega pixel camera, intuitive touch focus, Xenon flash and face and smile detection.It will run Symbian S60 5th edition OS . It’s 12.1-megapixel Camera will also feature touch focus and the gesture control.It also sports 3G,WiFi,Bluetooth,USB port,MP3 player,FM radio,…and lots of other features like wide screen with 16,777,216 color TFT touchscreen and
360x640 pixel ,Accelerometer for screen auto rotate, FM radio with RDS,microSD card slot (up to 16GB) and so...

The Satio has been priced at Rs. 35,950 - which is on par with the prices of Nokia N97 and the Omnia HD(samsung).

THEIR PAL

PIRATED WINDOWS 7

Pirated Windows 7 generates $100,000 in India(source:siliconindia.com)

About 50,000 pirated DVDs of Microsoft Windows 7 are estimated to have been sold here since the official launch on Oct 22, generating unaccounted business of around Rs.50 lakh (nearly $100,000).

The reason for the allure of the pirated versions: These cost Rs.50-Rs.250 in Naza Market in Hazratganj here, drawing buyers from not only the rest of Uttar Pradesh and neighbouring states like Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Uttarakhand but also Nepal and Bangladesh.

"This is the biggest market in the region," said a shopkeeper in Hazratganj, claiming at least 50,000 DVDs of the pirated Windows 7 have been sold since hitting the local markets within 24 hours of the official launch, fetching sellers about Rs.50 lakh so far.

The legal version of the new operating system launched by Microsoft Corp costs between $150-$300 (Rs.7,500-Rs.15,000) in the international markets. The company, however, tagged its prices 20 percent below international rates in India, where it is available in the Rs.6,000-Rs.11,000 range through official channels.

Despite the discounted company rates, buyers are opting for the pirated version.