Saturday, April 7, 2007

Recently I had stumbled across a useful website, which gives more than 9800 fonts, all in various shapes and forms, and that too without seeking a single penny from your wallet.
Enter www.creamundo.com.
This site is a pure joy for the designers and calligraphy writers, who see pictures in letters. Although I am not one of those kinds, but still I had enjoyed my stay at this site and also downloaded a few of them.
You can type your own text on this site and see how does it actually look like in your chosen font. See the results of the text "Manish Garg is a nice guy"
One drawback however is that the site is poorly crafted and there is only one page on which the entire information is given. There is no toolbar or navigation bar.

Friday, April 6, 2007

Recent Telecom News

Economic Times
Trai won't allow spectrum sharing
Telecom regulator Trai, in its upcoming recommendations on infrastructure
sharing, will not allow mobile service providers to share the spectrum
allocated to them, although the move will make operations more economical. More

The Hindu
Hutch, Airtel face penalty
The Department of Telecom is all set to impose a penalty on Hutchison Essar
for violating the national numbering plan by offering `Talk On' services. More

Economic Times
SC imposes Rs 1-cr fine on Reliance Tele
The Supreme Court on Thursday imposed a fine of Rs 1 crore on Reliance
Telecom Ltd , which after the division between the Ambani brothers has gone
to Anil and has since been incorporated into Reliance Communications, for
laying optical fibre cables in the Madhav National Park More

Business Standard
Trai rules out mandatory sharing of infrastructure
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is understood to have ruled
out mandatory sharing of infrastructure among mobile operators and has
instead proposed allowing active networks like antennae, feeder, cables and
transmission equipment to be shared among them. More

Economic Times
SC stays Trai notices on mobile operators plea
Private GSM operators today got a reprieve from Supreme Court, which has
stayed regulator TRAI's notices asking them to refund excess charges levied
from customers on calls made to the networks of PSU telecom firms like BSNL
and MTNL. More

Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Recent Telecom News

The Hindu
Vodafone-Hutch deal: Decision likely at next FIPB meeting
The Department of Telecommunications on Tuesday said that a decision on
Vodafone's proposal to acquire Hutchison Telecom International Ltd's stake
in cellular company Hutchison Essar, was expected in the next meeting of the
Foreign Investment Promotion Board. More

The Economic Times
Intl bandwidth reselling may not cut price
Telecom regulator Trai's move to allow the entry of resellers in the
international bandwidth segment is unlikely to lead to price cuts. More

Business Standard
BSNL to offer recharge facility via SMS
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), the major service provider of cellular
mobile telecom services in the country, is to introduce multi-pronged
methods to recharge or renew the talk time coupons for their pre-paid mobile
customers.Talking to reporters here, L Kannan, general manager (mobile
services). More

Business Standard
Bharti Airtel in pact with VRC, NEDFi for CSR
The North Eastern Development Finance Corporation (NEDFi), Bharti Airtel and
Vocational Rehabilitation Centre (VRC), have jointly taken an initiative to
create livelihood opportunities for the disabled and handicap. More

Guidelines for proper subscriber verification released


In order to comply with the requirements of the DoT and also address the concerns of national security agencies, COAI and AUSPI have come together on a common platform and set up the Apex Advisory Council for Telecom in India (ACT) to oversee and ensure that the proper subscriber verification process is followed before any new mobile connection is activated.
The Apex Advisory Council for Telecom in India (ACT), has laid down certain procedures and criteria for the new subscriber activation. It is mandatory for all Points of Sales, to follow the same. The mailer made available to all Points of Sales, providing full details of the procedures to be followed for new activation is given below

ACT Mailer download
Press Release download

Recent Telecom News

The Hindu Business Line April 04
Aircel Group loses top executives
The Aircel Group has lost two of its top management executives who have put in their papers recently. When contacted by Business Line, company officials confirmed that the Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Mr Jagdish Kini; and Chief Financial Officer, Mr Ganapathy Subramanian, had resigned. More...
The Hindu Business Line April 04
Pune's wireless project targets municipal schools
Bypassing Bangalore and Hyderabad (preferred IT destinations), has become the first wireless city in the country with the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), Microsense and Intel Technology Pvt Ltd joining hands to commercially roll out the first phase of the 802.16d Wi-Fi and WiMax network in the city. More...
The Hindu Business Line April 04
The `option' issue unlikely to trip the Hutch deal
It is a labyrinthine structure that characterises the Hutch deal, now hanging fire at the FIPB (Foreign Investment Promotion Board). To decode the deal, Business Line interacts with Mr George Vivek Durai of IndoJuris Law Offices, Bangalore (http://techlawindia.com). More...
The Hindu Business Line April 04
MTNL floats Rs 210-cr broadband tender
State-owned Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd has floated a Rs 210-crore tender for buying equipment for offering broadband services in Delhi and Mumbai. More...
The Economics Times April 04
Vodafone tells HTIL after equity row
Vodafone Plc will execute the Hutchison Essar (HEL) deal only when all the ambiguities surrounding the telco’s shareholding structure are cleared. More...

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Download and play a few brain-teasers

Brain Games


soukoban - enlarge picture Soukoban (144 KB) is a classic brain game for all ages. The objective is to push given cubes to a certain position in a warehouse.

PocoMan - enlarge picture PocoMan (1045 KB) is another brain game like Soukoban with a bit more complicated mazes.

Triogical - enlarge picture Triogical (4156 KB) is a free (freeware), puzzle-type game. Collect all Klondikes by using 3 robots - pusher, grabber and zapper (99 maps).

atomic - enlarge picture Atomic (198 KB) - move atoms in a maze to create a molecule and all that in a time limit.

oslik - enlarge picture OslĂ­k (113 KB) - get the yellow square out through the bottom edge (tease your mind).

fifteen - enlarge picture Fifteen (17 KB) - Sam Loyd's (famous puzzle maker) well-known fifteen.

IQ Tests


iq test 1 - enlarge picture IQ test 1 (243 KB) - this test has two objectives: showing the features of Macromedia Flash and evaluating intelligence (only an estimation). 27 static and animated graphical questions are targeted at logical sequences, analogies, memory, comprehencing principles etc. I stress again, the questions are mainly for mental stimulation, and not for a real PhD certified score. More serious tests are on the links to IQ tests page.

iq test 2 - enlarge picture IQ test 2 (248 KB) - this second part offers 27 harder questions in the field of cryptoanalysis and logistics.

iq test 3 - enlarge picture IQ test 3 (222 KB) - the last part is about numerical and picture sequences. Reults of these three tests are not 100% accurate. Although they can be close to truth.

Monday, April 2, 2007

Recent Telecom News


The Hindu April 03
BSNL to activate SIM cards after verification
HYDERABAD: The BSNL Excel pre-paid SIM cards are being sold in inactivated status since April 1 and will be activated only after the subscribers submit filled-in application forms along with supporting documents to the franchisee or departmental customer service centres. More...

The Indian Express April 03
10,000 SIM cards are disabled after fake ID scare in J&K
SRINAGAR, APRIL 2: Rattled by the discovery that militants had obtained cellphone SIM cards by faking identities of securitymen, telecom companies have temporarily barred services of over 10,000 subscribers in Kashmir and launched a massive re-verification exercise. More...

The Hindu April 03
BSNL seeks to fix glitch in recharging
CHENNAI: BSNL has finally taken note of the complaints of its pre-paid subscribers in south India, who were unable to recharge their phones during last week. More...
The Hindu April 03
BSNL phone exchange upgrade in last lap
CHENNAI : BSNL Chennai Telephones is into the last lap of upgrading its battery of exchanges across the city. More...

The Tribune April 03
38,000 BSNL mobile phones lose ring
Ambala, April 2 The mobile phones of around 38,000 BSNL subscribers of the Haryana circle have temporarily been disconnected. More...

The Tribune April 03
Airtel ISD tariffs
Bharti Airtel today announced up to 11 per cent reduction in its ISD tariffs. Calls made to the USA, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Zealand and Europe will cost Rs 6.40 per minute from Rs 7.20 per minute. More...

Business Standard April 03
DGCA may allow in-flight mobile use
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) may soon allow domestic airlines to permit passengers to use mobile phones and access mail on PDAs while air-borne. More...

 
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