General Electric has introduced a micro-holographic disc that can store up to 500GB of data today, aimed at the archive industry and users with massive movie and music collections

The company knows the market for the disc is small now, but believes it can eventually be used in standalone players, just like DVDs and Blu-rays are now. DVDs can hold up to 8.5GB and BD-50 can hold up to 50GB.

 

Micro-holographic discs can store so much data because the store information in three dimensions, rather than just having the info written on the surface of the disc.

 

The hardware and formats are so similar to current optical storage technology that the micro-holographic players will enable consumers to play back their CDs, DVDs and Blu-Ray Discs"

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Hyderabad-based game development company FXLabs Studios have come together to foster game development in India.

AMD is a global provider of processing solutions in computing, graphics and consumer electronic markets at the same time, FXLabs Studios is a Hyderabad-based game development company.

FXLabs will deploy AMD's latest ATI FirePro series of workstation graphics technology for the development of upcoming games. At the same time, AMD will provide the technology expertise of its graphics engineers.

FXLabs would deploy the latest ATI FirePro series of workstation graphics technology for the development of its upcoming games and provide test base consisting of AMD Radeon series of consumer graphics processors.

Sashi Reddi, founder and chief executive of FXLabs, said in a press conference, "We will be using the AMD technology in our forthcoming Bollywood movie-based games."

"After our Ghajini game, there is lot of interest shown by Bollywood studios," he added. Ghajini, the first 3D PC game based on the recently released film, was the biggest selling game in the country.

AMD senior director of professional graphics Janet Matsuda said, "AMD eyeing a market share of 30 per cent in India against 10 per cent now."

"The company is working to establish its footprint in engineering, animation, financial services, medical services and CAD segments," she added.

It will be crazy if we can set our own picture as background for the gtalk chat window.This can be done with a small application 

 ' my theme ' which i had found while surfing.

+ Download the application from here.

+Install the application and navigate through start -> all programs -> dash -> my theme -> click change background.

+ Choose your favorite picture from the window.

+ Exit and reopen the gtalk.Go to settings -> appearance -> from drop down menu, select my theme and click ok.
DONE .. !! Open a chat window and you can see the background picture for it.

You can insert amazing emoticons in the gtalk (see in pic) . The shortcuts for these emoticons can be seen here :
start -> all programs -> dash -> my theme -> click Help

Friends .. share your experiences in the comments .. njoi ..

I have collected the following list of world’s mobile careers from fatwallet.com. This provides an eazy way to send SMS (text messages) as email, free of charge for the sender.

I do not endorse this list and I have no means to test whether this works or not. Use this list at your own risk! The SMS receiver may be charged by their mobile career! Do not send the bill to me!

 

T-Mobile (USA): phonenumber@tmomail.net
Virgin Mobile (USA): phonenumber@vmobl.com
Cingular (USA): phonenumber@cingularme.com
Sprint (USA): phonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Verizon (USA): phonenumber@vtext.com
Nextel (USA): phonenumber@messaging.nextel.com
Alltel - number@message.alltel.com.
Ameritech (ACSWireless) - number@paging.acswireless.com
Arch Wireless - http://www.arch.com/message/ (assumes blank PIN)
AT&T Wireless - number@mobile.att.net
BeeLine GSM - number@sms.beemail.ru
Bell Mobility Canada - Enter your phone number, including the “1″ prefix. number@txt.bellmobility.ca
BellSouth Mobility - number@blsdcs.net
Blue Sky Frog - number@blueskyfrog.com
Cellular South - number@csouth1.com
CellularOne (Dobson) - number@mobile.celloneusa.com
Centennial Wireless - http://www.centennialcom.com
cingular - number@mobile.mycingular.com
cingular IM Plus/Bellsouth IPS - Enter 8 digit PIN or user name. Goes to @imcingular.com
cingular IM Plus/Bellsouth IPS Cellphones - Enter phone number. Goes to @mobile.mycingular.com
Dutchtone/Orange-NL - number@sms.orange.nl
Edge Wireless - number@sms.edgewireless.com
Fido Canada - number@fido.ca
Golden Telecom - number@sms.goldentele.com
Idea Cellular - number@ideacellular.net
J-Phone - number@jp-t.ne.jp
Kyivstar - number@sms.kyivstar.net
LMT - number@smsmail.lmt.lv
Manitoba Telecom Systems - number@text.mtsmobility.com
Meteor - number@sms.mymeteor.ie
Metrocall Pager - number@page.metrocall.com
Mobilfone - number@page.mobilfone.com
NBTel - number@wirefree.informe.ca
Netcom - number@sms.netcom.no
Nextel - Goes to 10digits@messaging.nextel.com
NPI Wireless - number@npiwireless.com
NTELOS - 10digits@pcs.ntelos.com
O2 (formerly BTCellnet) - Enter O2 username - must be enabled first at http://www.o2.co.uk. Goes to username@o2.co.uk
O2 M-mail (formerly BTCellnet) - Enter phone number, omitting intial zero - must be enabled first by sending an SMS saying “ON” to phone number “212″. Goes to +44[number]@mmail.co.uk
Optus - number@optusmobile.com.au
Pacific Bell cingular - number @mobile.mycingular.com
Pagenet - number@pagenet.net
PCS Rogers AT&T Wireless - number@pcs.rogers.com
Powertel - number@ptel.net
PSC Wireless - number@sms.pscel.com
Qualcomm - username@pager.qualcomm.com
Qwest - number@qwestmp.com
Skytel (Alphanumeric) - 7-digitpin@skytel.com
Smarts GSM - http://www.samara-gsm.ru/scripts/smsgate.exe
Sprint PCS - number@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Sprint PCS (Short Mail) - number@messaging.sprintpcs.com
SunCom - number@tms.suncom.com
SureWest Communications - number@mobile.surewest.com
T-Mobile Austria - Enter your number starting with 43676. Email will be sent to number@sms.t-mobile.at
T-Mobile Germany - number@T-D1-SMS.de
T-Mobile Netherlands - Send “EMAIL ON” to 555 from your phone, then enter your number starting with 316. Email will be sent to number@gin.nl
T-Mobile USA - number@tmomail.net
Telefonica Movistar - number@movistar.net
Telus Mobility - 10digits@msg.telus.com
uBoot - Enter your username as the phone number. See http://www.uboot.com for more details
UMC - number@sms.umc.com.ua
US Cellular - Enter a 10 digit USCC Phone Number. Messages are sent via http://uscc.textmsg.com/scripts/send.idc and only contain the message field
Verizon Wireless - number@vtext.com
Verizon Wireless (formerly Airtouch) - Enter your phone number. Messages are sent to number@airtouchpaging.com. This is ONLY for former AirTouch customers.
Verizon Wireless (myairmail.com) - number@myairmail.com
Vessotel - roumer@pager.irkutsk.ru
Virgin Mobile UK - number@vxtras.com
Virgin Mobile USA - number@vmobl.com
Weblink Wireless - number@airmessage.net
WyndTell - username/number@wyndtell.com

 

 

You would have already used Google Indic Transliteration or Transliteration Bots. Now Google has launched Google Indic Language Transliteration feature in Gmail compose window, which enables you to select Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada or Telugu from the compose box menu and start type in English.

When you compose a new mail in Gmail, you should now see an icon with an Indic character. This feature is enabled by default for Gmail users in India. If you do not see this function enabled by default, you will need to go the "Settings" page and enable this option in the "Language" section.

 

When you click the Indian languages icon, you can type words the way they sound in English and Gmail will automatically convert the word to its Indian local language equivalent. You can select the language of your choice from the drop-down list next to the icon.

Google already supports this feature in ourkut, where you can Scrap Your Orkut Friends in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kananda & Hindi

SMS GupShup is a free group messaging service to connect with your friends by webaroo. Using SMS GupShup is easy. GupShup provides both the website and the SMS interface for managing the SMS Group. Currently GupShup allows only one SMS group per mobile phone. GupShup supports only the Indian mobile phones, including Reliance Mobile.

To receive clean SMS jokes daily, send JOIN MARKETBITS to 567673434

You can create the group, manage it and send SMS to the group members - all from within your mobile phone using SMS (text messaging).

To create your own group, send CREATE GROUPNAME to 567673434.
Now that you have the group created, add your friends' mobile numbers to the group by inviting them.
Send INVITE number1, number2 to 567673434.
New members can subscribe to a public group by sending JOIN GROUPNAME.
If someone want to unsubscribe, send LEAVE GROUPNAME.
To recommend a group to your friends, SHARE GROUPNAME number, separate phone numbers with spaces.
Send DND to temporarily stop receiving messages, and DND OFF to cancel the DND.
Use MUTE GROUPNAME duration to suspend receiving messages for the duration.

SMS GupShup also provides the web interface for working with your group. You don't need to have any SMS minutes for that! You can create a group (public or private), invite your friends by giving their mobile numbers or email addresses. Your friends will receive a welcome message. You can search for groups, and join the groups online.

SMS GupShup also supports Google Talk for message broadcasting. You just need to activate this functionality at the website and start sending SMS messages right from the Google Talk chat window. Visit the help topics

Only the group owner can post messages to the group, like broadcaster. Group members can just receive updates from the owner. Group owner can also unsubscribe a user from the group. Currently only one group can be created per mobile number. The web design is not as usable as you expect from a web 2.0 company. I have seen the website going down many times, for immediate fixes. And sometime I have seen phone numbers of the anonymous subscribers to the list. Hope GupShup would have fixed such bugs by now. Still, being an Indian startup, this is great service!

GupShup prefer your message length to 100 and maximum up to 140. The rest is used for advertising. With pure SMS advertising (m-ads), I am not sure how profitable the service is going to be. For the last one week usage, I have not seen any real good ads which somebody would have paid for it. This being a group messaging, one messages and the ads reach many people. Anyway, all the best for GupShup.

We have created a group, serviced by the Marketcalls admins. The group name is MarketBits . To receive clean SMS Marketbits daily, send JOIN MARKETBITS to 567673434. The messages to this group are sent from Google Talk. We are now writing an piece of program using Google Talk API to read the SMS jokes from the Marketbits.in database and sent to the GupShup's Google chat id, which will automatically get distributed to the Marketbits members.