Oct 10
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Tata Teleservices and Fly Mobile have launched a new dual sim handset CG588.
The phone comes with Qwerty keypad with with five-way scroll, and sports a 5.8-cm 262K color TFT display screen. It boasts of embedded social connectivity, mail service and on-the-fly access to social networking sites and a 1.3-Mega Pixel Camera and videoplayer with recording capabilities.
A 1500 mAH battery promises a 300 hours of stand-by time, up to 8 hours hours of talk-time on CDMA and GSM networks. It also features a MP3 audio player, FM radio, 3.5-mm universal audio jack and an expandable memory up to 4 GB.
The phone supports WAP & Bluetooth and a CDMA USB modem, which allows CG588 to be connected to a PC for Internet browsing
The phone is priced at Rs 4,795.
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Leading producer Udhayanidhi Stalin and his Red Giant Movies are planning to release their forthcoming Manmathan Ambu in a big way.
The film has Kamal Haasan, Madhavan and Trisha in the lead and is directed by KS Ravikumar.
Manmathan Ambu is slated for a Christmas release on December 17 and is likely to release in over 1000 screens worldwide in Tamil and Telugu.
Following the stupendous success of Rajinikanth’s Enthiran in the overseas market, the Kamal Haasan film too will take a fantastic opening.
Kamal’s last big fantasy entertainer Dasavatharam took an extraordinary opening worldwide. Kamal, after Rajini is the second hottest star in the overseas market. Added to that Maddy too is popular abroad, and the marketing men see a huge potential in the film.
The buzz is that a Mumbai based corporate has shown an interest in dubbing the film to Hindi and taking it to a larger audiences.
A leading Mumbai based trade analyst says: “I feel there is a potential in marketing Manmathan Ambu as a pan Indian movie. Kamal Hassan is known and respected in the Hindi belt while Maddy and Trisha too have appeared in Bollywood movies.”
Subra Suresh was sworn as the 13th director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) by John Holdren, President Obama’s science advisor. The ceremony took place in the Secretary of War Ceremonial Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C. Suresh was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September 30, 2010, for a six-year term.
Suresh, 54, served as dean of the engineering school and as Vannevar Bush Professor of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. A mechanical engineer who later became interested in materials science and biology, Suresh has done pioneering work studying the biomechanics of blood cells under the influence of diseases such as malaria.
From 2000 to 2006, Suresh served as the head of the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He joined MIT in 1993 as the R.P. Simmons Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and held joint faculty appointments in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Biological Engineering, as well as the Division of Health Sciences and Technology.
Suresh holds a bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, a master’s degree from Iowa State University, and earned his ScD from MIT in 1981.
Suresh was nominated by President Obama to become the new NSF director on June 8. He replaces Arden L. Bement, Jr., who led the agency from 2004 until he resigned in May of this year.
NSF’s budget for 2010 is $6.9 billion. The agency’s budget request for 2011 is $7.4 billion, an 8-percent increase over 2010, which supports the President’s goal of increasing the nation’s total public and private investment in research and development to at least 3 percent of the gross domestic product.
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Indian mobile handsets company Micromax launched a touch screen smartphone, modu T, in partnership with Israel-based modu Limited .
The 3.5G modu T was awarded the Guinness World Record for being the lightest touch phone in the world.
Priced at Rs.12,000, the 2.2-inch touch screen phone will be available in the market with pre-bundled 2GB memory card from Oct 22.
The phone comes with two “fy” devices, jackets, which when connected, add new features to the phone. The “camerafy” jacket converts the phone into a camera with a 5 megapixel resolution and LED flash. Alternatively, you can also “sportfy” your modu T phone and turn it into your exercise companion.
modu is a modular phone, which operates on Qualcomm’s Brew operating system, offers a variety of applications such as YouTube, Google Search, Twitter, Facebook Flickr, TuneWiki, eBuddy and Snaptu.
Vikas Jain, business director said Micromax is also looking forward to launch tablets in the market.
The company has also filed a draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) with securities and exchange board of India for an initial public offering (IPO)
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