2008 welcomes you...

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Mitafest'08...

MIT - Chennai Presents MITAFEST 2008...

It's Gonna Rock With Chennai 20 - 20 pleasure too...

MIT Culturals and Symposiums ...

MIT- All Departments...
Symposium - Mitafest'08
Date : March 20 to 23rd

Venue :
MIT, Chrompet, Chennai...
Department : All Departments...
log on to http://www.mitafest08.com/

ECE Department National Symposium....at CEG,Chennai...

Vision is the national level technical symposium conducted by the ECE Association of the Department of ECE, College of engineering, Guindy. Vision is one of the most prestigious events in the Anna University calendar and has provided the right platform for the upcoming Engineering whizzes to realize their full potential. Vision has been the pinnacle of excellence through the years, reaching out to all the enthusiastic and talented students from various colleges from across the country. Vision ’08 will include two days of ExhiVision, the project display contest and a series of workshops on the evolving trends in Electronics and Communication conducted over a period of two days, which will be followed by two days of exciting technical events interspersed with non technical and fun events.


TECH SYMPOSIUM...

CEG -ECE Department...
Symposium - Vision'08
Date : March 12 ,13,14,15-2008.

Venue :
College of Engineering ,Guindy (CEG), Chennai...
Department : All Departments
log on to http://www.vision08.org.in

Abacus'08

Abacus 2k8 was a successful event...


TECH SYMPOSIUM...

CEG - CSE Department...
Symposium - aBacus'08
Date : March 7 and 8-2008.

Venue :
CEG, Chennai...
Department : All Departments
log on to http://www.abacus2k8.org

Cry - Do Live For Them...

Cry - Do Live For Them...

60 million children still don't get primary education (a right guaranteed by our constitution, no less). With the involvement of concerned people like you has educated 2,29,464 more children in 2006-07. Be involved and the children won't stay out of school for long.

How to stay involved: Volunteer your time. Talk to as many friends, family or colleagues about child rights, prompt them to do something as well. Donate Online All donations to CRY are 50% tax exempt under sec 80G. You can choose to avail 100% tax exemption under sec 35AC or 80GGA MAIL cryinfo.blr@crymail.org or SMS 'CRY' to 55050

Log on to : http://www.cry.org/lp/CIOLMailer/CIOLCRYEDMFeb2008.html

DAKSH-THE TECH FEST...

Daksh - The Tech Fest...






TECH SYMPOSIUM...

SASTRA - All Department...
Symposium - Daksh'08
Date : March 23,24,25-2008.

Venue :
Sastra University, Thanjavur...
Department : All Departments
log on to http://www.daksh.sastra.edu/

IT and CSE Department Symposium...It's MIT - Samhita...

Samhita 2k8

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Samhita is the annual technical fest of the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University. It is going to be hosted by Information Technology Association (ITA) on February 23. The Information Technology and Computer Science students of ITA believe that the event falls in line with our endeavors to encourage students to come out of their cocoon to taste an experience of what it is to be a part of current industrial trends, and contribute to its growth with their own ideas and exploits.

Over the years, the quiet but immensely talent-filled campus of Madras Institute of Technology has been churning out diligent and technically sound engineers who's contribution has been instrumental in various fields of the industry. Being one of the four constituent colleges of Anna University, it has retained its own image that portrays through its staff & students, a wonderful fusion of measured composure and creative zeal.

The fest hosts a wide range of events – from paper presentations to programming contest, debugging to technical and general quizzes, and of course gaming. Each year a considerable number of budding engineers flocks to the campus and engage their minds to fight it out. So it's that time of the year again, when bright-bulbs and innovative participants come down to Madras Institute of Technology for another Samhita that promises to be a trésor trouvé of information, edutainment and innovation.

Samhita urges you to open up your horizons and think differently to live up to its ethos that has always been to celebrate technology. It offers you a platform to prove your mettle and drive your grey cells to the extreme. So whether you are an algo geek, a quiz freak, or even a gaming crank, Samhita urges you to bring your keen minds, astute wit, and thirst for victory. You'll certainly need them. We won't say any more now, it would spoil the surprise. Be here to experience it!

IT and CSE DEPARTMENT SYMPOSIUM...

MIT- IT and CSE Department...
Symposium - Samhita'08
Date : February 23rd

Venue :
MIT, Chrompet, Chennai...
Department : IT and CSE
log on to http://www.samhita.org/

Love - a virus???

Love is a Virus, say security experts

According to MicroWorld Technologies, emails pointing to IP addresses hosting Storm Trojan are sent out in big numbers since the early hours of Tuesday. MUMBAI, INDIA: Valentine's day is here. Love is in the air. But be cautious when you find some lovey-dovey messages in your mail box, for a new round of attack is on from the Storm Worm authors. According to advanced Security Solution provider MicroWorld Technologies, emails pointing to IP addresses hosting Storm Trojan are sent out in big numbers since the early hours of Tuesday. The subject lines of the mails are all love and valentine related. Some samples are: "Love Rose", "Rockin' Valentine" and "Just You". Inside the mail, the same lines are repeated followed by an IP address. Clicking on the link opens up a new page. Some really cute valentine images are displayed in random order which include pictures of lovely cupids, two interlocking hearts, a love chart, a chubby piggy wooing his mate and a heart that just got recovered from a series of breakups! But things are not all that rosy like in these pictures, as you are prompted to download a file named Valentine.exe, the mask for the Storm variant 'Zhelatin.ve'. On clicking it, like any another Storm Worm, Zhelatin.ve opens up a to and fro communication channel with its creators that allows them to control the compromised computer and relay malware laden messages and Spam. "There are so many people out there who believe that their prince in shining armor or the charming Cinderella of their fantasy land will come alive from nowhere in the second week of February. And there's no harm in it unless you want to click on every love message appearing in your mail box. The problem is there's a tendency among people to lower their levels of discretion during occasions like this and Virus writers have been successfully exploiting this human vulnerability year after year," says Govind Rammurthy, CEO of MicroWorld Technologies. ©CIOL Bureau

Networks Under Collision...

India Works to Resume Internet Services



No political issue here. The RAM in our parlance is Random Access Memory.

Bandwidth providers shifted India's Internet traffic to cables under the Pacific Ocean on Friday and said that by day's end they expected service to be back to about 80 percent of its speed before two cables were cut beneath the Mediterranean Sea.

The disruptions cost India half its bandwidth, leaving the country's lucrative outsourcing industry struggling with Internet slowdowns and outages.

The situation improved Friday as international bandwidth providers shifted their Internet traffic to the Pacific route, significantly upgrading India's Web access, said Rajesh Chharia, president of Internet Service Providers Association of India.

Many companies said their Internet access had already gotten better.

"We've been getting and sending emails normally. Compared to yesterday connectivity is certainly improved," said Praveen Mathur of Streit India Advisory Services Pvt. Ltd., an investment consulting firm based in New Delhi that has clients in the United States and Canada.

The Mediterranean Sea cables, which lie north of the Egyptian port of Alexandria, snapped Wednesday as the work day was ending in India.

Workers will not know for sure what caused the cuts until they are able to get repair ships and divers to the area, though there was speculation a ship's anchor was to blame.

The impact was not immediately apparent in India, but it was in Middle Eastern countries.

India's communications and information technology ministry issued a statement late Thursday saying underwater fiber optic cables usually take 15 days to repair, but they expected they'd be fixed in 10 days.

The Internet disruption raised questions about the system's vulnerability. A Gulf analyst called it a "wake-up call," while one in London cautioned that no one, including the West, was immune to such disruptions.

Google-wary Gates wants Yahoo for $44 billion...

Google-wary Gates wants Yahoo for $44 billion

Microsoft looks to take on rivals in online search and advertising; Yahoo says it’s evaluating bid

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 1: In a bold move to counter Google’s online pre-eminence, Microsoft said on Friday that it had made an unsolicited offer to buy Yahoo for about $44.6 billion in a mix of cash and stock.

If consummated, the deal would re-draw the competitive landscape in Internet consumer services, where both Microsoft and Yahoo have struggled to compete with Google. The offer of $31 a share represents a 62 per cent premium over Yahoo’s closing stock price of $19.18 on Thursday. It would be Microsoft’s largest acquisition ever.

Microsoft said the combination of the two companies would create efficiencies that would save approximately $1 billion annually. The software giant also said that it has an integration plan to include employees of both companies and intends to offer incentives to retain Yahoo employees.

Steven A Ballmer, the Microsoft chief executive, said that he called his Yahoo counterpart, Jerry Yang, on Thursday night to tell him that Microsoft intended to bid on the company, and that they had a substantive discussion. “I wouldn’t call it a courtesy call,” he said in an interview.

Ballmer said he had decided to pursue a takeover because friendly deal negotiations would most likely be protracted and would probably become public. “These things are hard to keep quiet in the best of times,” he said. He said his conversation with Yang was constructive, but suggested that a deal may not come easily.

Yahoo said in a news release on Friday that its board would evaluate Microsoft’s bid “carefully and promptly in the context of Yahoo’s strategic plans.”

In a letter to Yahoo’s board, Ballmer wrote that the two companies discussed a possible merger, as well as other ways to work together, in late 2006 and 2007. Ballmer said that in February 2007, Yahoo decided to end the merger discussions because its board was confident in the company’s “potential upside.”

“A year has gone by, and the competitive situation has not improved,” Ballmer wrote. As a result, he said, “while a commercial partnership may have made sense at one time, Microsoft believes that the only alternative now is the combination of Microsoft and Yahoo that we are proposing.”

Ballmer met several times in late 2006 and 2007 with Terry S Semel, then Yahoo’s chief executive, people involved in the talks said. While the talks — originally focused on the prospect of a merger or a joint venture — were initially constructive and appeared to move forward, they quickly broke down, these people said.

After a series of secret meetings between both sides in hotels around California and elsewhere, Semel and Yahoo’s board decided against progressing with the talks, betting that its stock would turn around as it introduced a new advertising system called Panama, these people said. Yang, in particular, was adamantly against selling the company to Microsoft and championed the view of remaining independent, they added.

Ballmer constantly consulted with Bill Gates, the Microsoft chairman, about the progress of the negotiations, people close to the company said, and when the talks collapsed, he decided to wait to see the fate of Yahoo’s stock price. As the stock continued to fall, they said, Microsoft’s management became emboldened and began internal meeting in late 2007 about the prospect of making a hostile bid.

Despite their heavy investments in online services, both Yahoo and Microsoft have watched Google extend its dominance over Internet search and the lucrative online advertising business that goes along with it. In recent months, Yahoo has struggled to develop a plan to turn around the company under Yang, its co-founder, who was appointed chief executive amid growing shareholder dissatisfaction last June.

Yahoo investors, however, remain skeptical. The company’s shares have slumped, and the closing price on Thursday was 44 per cent below its 52-week high. In pre-market trading Friday, Yahoo’s shares were up 50 per cent, to almost $29. Microsoft’s shares were down about 4 per cent, and Google’s shares were down 6 per cent.

Microsoft, like Yahoo, has faced an uphill battle against Google. The company invested heavily to build its own search engine and advertising technology. Last year, it spent $6 billion to acquire the online advertising specialist aQuantive. Microsoft’s online services unit has been growing, but remains unprofitable.

Meanwhile, Google’s share of the search market and of the overall online advertising business has continued to grow.

Announcing its quarterly earnings earlier this week, Yahoo said it would cut 1,000 jobs in an effort to re-focus the company and reduce spending, and issued an outlook for 2008 that disappointed investors.

The timing of Microsoft’s bid could allow the company to mount a proxy contest for control of Yahoo’s board should it try to dismiss the offer. Microsoft has discussed the prospect of mounting such a campaign, people close to the company said, and has until March 13 to propose a slate.

In his letter to Yahoo’s board, Ballmer wrote, “Depending on the nature of your response, Microsoft reserves the right to pursue all necessary steps to ensure that Yahoo’s shareholders are provided with the opportunity to realise the value inherent in our proposal.”

• Why would Microsoft make an unsolicited offer of $44.6 bn for Yahoo?

Because Microsoft’s logic has always been Innovate or Buy. It makes sense to team up against a competitor —Google is the Goliath that looms over online search and advertising markets.

A merger has been discussed several times in the past though Yahoo was then confident of turning its results around — however, it has continued to slump vis-a-vis Google. Microsoft’s online “Live” ventures remain unprofitable.

• So is Google worried?

Well, going by the fact that the announcement raised Yahoo’s share price by 60 per cent and Google fell 8 per cent, the combination might finally be some real competition in a Google-dominated online world. Online advertising, which offers most bang for the buck with the advantages of contextualising and targeting viewers, is a space that Google effortlessly dominates. The combination of Yahoo’s online expertise and loyal users, and Microsoft’s offline muscle could affect that.

• If the deal goes through, how will it impact the internet service landscape?

Paradoxically, the real impact will be a constriction of choices for the internet user rather than expansion. It will hit other search engines like Ask.com, and make it harder for new entrants. Microsoft realises that more and more software is now delivered via the Web, and it is trying to aggressively ramp up its online presence. — Amulya Gopalakrishnan

Can Microsoft-Yahoo Combo Topple Google?

Unable to topple Google Inc. on its own, Microsoft Corp. is trying to force crippled rival Yahoo Inc. into a shotgun marriage, with a wager worth nearly $42 billion that the two companies together will have a better chance of tackling the Internet search leader.

Microsoft's audacious attempt to buy Yahoo, spelled out in an unsolicited offer announced Friday, shows just how much Google threatens the world's largest software maker's grip on how people interact with computers.

For Yahoo, the bid represents another painful reminder of how missed opportunities and mismanagement combined to open the door for Google to supplant it as the Internet's main gateway, decimating its stock price in the process.

Microsoft is trying to avoid a similar fate at Google's hands as more people access services and computer programs online instead of relying on packaged software applications.

Although Microsoft remains the world's most valuable technology company, its position will become more precarious unless it can cultivate a more loyal Internet audience and generate more online ad revenue to subsidize the free services taken for granted on the Internet.

Microsoft executives did not indicate Friday exactly what they would do with Yahoo's brand if their bid, now valued at $42 billion, is accepted. But analysts expect the combined companies to preserve many of their separate free services, like instant-messaging and email programs.

A more likely medium-term change is that some of Microsoft's Web content could fade away or get added to Yahoo, which has a vast collection of news and features aggregated from other providers.

Microsoft's web properties, including its Yahoo-like MSN portal, aren't exactly slouches: they rank third, trailing only Yahoo and Google, in total visitors. But while Yahoo still is profitable, Microsoft's online services are a consistent money loser. The MSN search engine is a laggard, even with recent efforts to soup it up under Microsoft's online umbrella it calls 'Live'.

Having Yahoo in its tent could give Microsoft a rationalization for abandoning its unprofitable online elements. "I think MSN folds into Yahoo," said Ian Campbell, CEO of Nucleus Research. "It would be foolish to keep that separate."

Perhaps the biggest change Microsoft and Yahoo could achieve together would be creating a better way to combine the web and desktop computing – not to mention cell phones, TVs, cars and any other gadgets that might someday plug into the Internet.

Consumers who access the Web on cell phones and handheld computers might be the first to find something new as a result of a Microsoft-Yahoo combination. Devices that run Microsoft's Windows Mobile OS could be better integrated with Yahoo content and possibly yield new services, like social networking functions.

New ideas will be key to compete with Google's web presence. After all, people don't 'Microsoft' or 'Yahoo' anything. Microsoft in particular tends to be tolerated more than loved. Google is also leading development of an alternative cellphone OS it calls Android.

Eventually, a teamed-up Yahoo and Microsoft might be able to rethink the PC desktop – where Windows still runs 90 percent of the world's PCs – so that Internet data such as stock prices, sports scores and weather are automatically baked in.

Microsoft might also use Yahoo's online strengths to galvanize web-based versions of some of its powerful desktop software applications, like Word and Excel.

Open-source rivals and Google are threatening to bite into Microsoft's lucrative Office software franchise with free versions of those kinds of 'productivity' software. Microsoft is developing web-based versions of its own, but slowly.

Now Yahoo could be the face through which Microsoft offers those online applications. Perhaps one day a Microsoft-fueled package of 'Yahoo Apps' will go up against 'Google Apps'.

Even with these possibilities, analyst David Mitchell Smith, a vice president at Gartner Inc., believes the biggest change from a Microsoft-Yahoo deal probably will be the one most web surfers don't notice. That will come as the companies try to broaden their ability to deliver ads all over the Internet, wherever it reaches.

It's necessary because being the most popular online destination (as Yahoo already is) is no longer enough. The explosion of blogs, video sites and other user-generated content has made Internet travels more wide-ranging. As a result, the biggest Internet companies now need their ad networks to reach far beyond their home portals.

Google has clearly mastered that, while Microsoft and Yahoo have not.

ANNA UNIVERSITY Techfest - KURUKSHETRA 2K8...

Anna Universuty SYMPOSIUM...
CEG...Symposium - kurukshetra2k8
Date : Jan 22-25th, 2008
Venue :CEG, Guindy - Chennai...
Department : Techfest...
Logon to http://www.kurukshetra.org.in/

Web Innovation Designer Contest 2007

Welcome to the Web Innovation Designer Contest 2007 being jointly presented to you by National Institute of Design (NID), Microsoft Corporation and Trade Fairs & Conferences International (TFCI).

This exciting and thrilling Contest is being held under the aegis of the upcoming Web Innovation 2007 Conference & Expo - scheduled to be held in Bangalore from December 18-19, 2007, click http://www.webinnovation.in/contest/

Web Innovation Designer Contest 2007 will offer the perfect platform for you to unleash your creative instincts and get immediate recognition. This Contest is exclusively created for those who are involved in disciplines such as Design & Development, Media & Advertising, ICT, Software Development et al. Your design outputs have an inherent capacity to make a profound impact on the new Web landscape and might earn you the kind of exposure that you have been looking out for all this while.

Right to enter the Contest is open to all types of Professionals as well as Students and with no participation fees being charged. Contestants will need to use Microsoft® Silverlight™ 1.0 and Microsoft® Expression® Studio to aid them in their designated projects. Visit http://www.webinnovation.in/contest/ to know more about this rewarding Contest and to download the Contest Form.

Remember, the last date for filing your nominations is December 10, 2007. So, RUSH your entries to avoid that last minute disappointment.

Questions?
Call Manoj on +91 80 4115 6662 write to manoj@tfci.com See you at Web Innovation Design Contest 2007 and wish you the very best.

Warm regards and best of luck


Bal Tarakad
President & CEO
TFCI

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National Institute of Design, NID as it is popularly known in India, is internationally acclaimed as one of the foremost multidisciplinary institutions in the field of design education. It has more then four decades of distinguished service in design education, design training and design practice behind it. Today it is known for its wide variety of programmes offered in both under graduate and post graduate levels, the exacting standards of education and the high levels of professional competence of the graduates from this institution. Education at NID aims to create design professionals of excellence to help meet India’s design needs, and to train design trainers for other design and design-related institutions. Design at NID is very closely linked to the context of use and the user, the design method taught here is unique to this institution and has been perfected and refined over years of practice. NID's graduates have made a mark in key sectors of commerce, industry and social development by taking role of catalysts and through thought leadership.

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About MSN India
MSN India is the preferred online destination for Indians across the globe. In keeping with its motto, to make the web more useful everyday- MSN India helps people stay in touch with family, friends and colleagues, gather information and organize the Web around what's important to them. MSN India continues to offer award-winning E-mail functionality, customizable access to the best of online content like news, lifestyle, sports and popular sites like travel, entertainment etc. MSN India started operations in September 2000 and is located on the Web at http://www.in.msn.com

About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software-any time, any place and on any device. Microsoft has been in India since 1990 and employs over 4000 people across its offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Calcutta, Chennai, Hyderabad and Pune.

ENTRY CATEGORIES:

a. STUDENTS

b. PROFESSIONALS & ORGANIZATIONS

CATEGORIES:

• User interface Design
• Animation
• Digital Advertisement
• Web Design
• Video

VERTICALS FOR CONTESTANTS TO CHOOSE FROM:

• Travel
• Matrimony
• Finance Management
• Social Networking
• Jobs
• Hotel Booking
• Classifieds
• eCommerce
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3G Finally Makes Its Way to Indian Shores...

Steering India towards a new level of wireless telephony, the government on Monday announced immediate release of spectrum for 'third generation' (3G) mobile services and allowed users to switch operators while retaining the cell phone numbers.

"The government has decided to release 3G spectrum in 2.1 GHz band with immediate effect," Communications Minister A Raja told reporters in New Delhi.

Number portability, which would allow users to change their service provider while keeping the numbers, will be introduced in the four metropolitan cities at the earliest.


Department of Telecommunications Secretary D S Mathur said about 30 MHz spectrum can be released to accommodate three players in the first phase.

Asked whether only existing 2G players will be allowed to offer 3G services, Raja said, "No. I want healthy competition; I want all the players to bid for it. As far as foreign players are concerned, they will be allowed subject to security clearances by Ministry of Home Affairs.

"The 3G licenses will be granted through a controlled, simultaneous ascending e-auction, by a specialized agency to ensure transparency in selection process," the minister said.

3G services will give users a better multimedia experience, with faster data transfer rates. At present, cellular operators offer only 2G services.

Although he did not give any time frame for introduction of number portability, Raja said he would try to implement it in the four metros by this year-end.

A meeting will be held with existing operators to seek their cooperation.

On 3G spectrum, he said besides the initial one-time charge, it has been decided that the successful bidder will pay additional spectrum charge of 0.5 per cent of the total adjusted gross revenue as recurring annual fee. This additional revenue share is proposed to be doubled to on one per cent of AGR after 3 years from the date of spectrum assignment.

Reliance Communications Gets GSM Approval

Reliance Communications Gets GSM Approval.............


Even as Reliance Communications (RCOM) received formal approval from the government to launch GSM technology of mobile phone services in India, existing GSM players are up in arms to oppose the move.



"Reliance Communications Limited has received requisite approvals from the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to offer GSM services on a nationwide basis under its existing Unified Access Services Licences," the Anil Ambani-promoted company said in a statement to the National Stock Exchange (NSE).

Opposing the move, the Cellular Operators association of India (COAI), a leading GSM industry body in a letter to the DoT secretary D.S. Mathur said: "It may first be pointed out that crossover is not permissible under the present policy and license regime has been recognized by both DoT as well as TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India)".

"Without prejudice to our submissions that such crossover/dual allocation of spectrum cannot and should not be permitted, it is submitted that even if the same were to be allowed, it can only be done through change in both policy as well as license as also after following due process of law," COAI added.

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Aap Ka Suroor, Guru nominated for Bollywood music award...

Aap Ka Suroor, Guru nominated for Bollywood music award...









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Adobe Targets India's Education Sector...

Adobe Targets India's Education Sector

Less than satisfactory response to its products on a standalone basis from domestic educational institutions has prompted Adobe India to draw up new marketing strategies.

As part of this new initiative, the company has announced new site licensing and pricing packages for schools and universities.

For schools the company has a package called K12 (kindergarten to 12th grade). Under this scheme a school can install Adobe's software products – used for visual designing, web development and video production – in 500 of its computers, including the teacher's home computers, for a one-time fee.

According to country sales manager Sandeep Mehrotra, the cost depends on the kind of suite of software packages a school opts for.

For Indian universities the company's package is called Term Site Licence, which is valid for 12 months. The cost includes software upgrades that happen during that period.

According to Mehrotra, the company will initially target schools affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and other high-profile private schools, totaling about 100,000 institutions.

He said the company will conduct promotional events and contact the schools directly as part of its marketing strategy. Schools having fewer than 500 computers can buy the company's products on individual basis and not as a suite available under the new scheme.

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LG India Unveils Pearl Black LCD TVs

LG India Unveils Pearl Black LCD TVs

LG Electronics India (LGEIL) today announced the launch of its Pearl Black LCD TV range, the first in its 'Design Art' series. Available in 32-inch and 42-inch sizes, the new products have a glossy piano black finish, a ring-shaped stand, and a wave-inspired bezel design. Available in red and black, the ring is a unique feature that is both utilitarian and stylish.According to Moon B Shin, President, South West Asia, LGE & MD LGEIL: "LG’s Pearl Black LCDs offer the world’s best technology in a compact and sleek tempting design. Superb brightness, true-to-life images and fine detailing enable the LCD TVs to offer a truly memorable viewing experience. The effort that's been put into designing the unique stand demonstrates LG’s commitment and passion for design innovation."

The Pearl Black series offers a great viewing experience with LG’s exclusive XD Engine, enhanced 10,000:1 contrast ratio and 5ms response time, which create deeper blacks and provide a fuller range of colors. It also incorporates LG’s Intelligent Eye technology to optimize brightness and contrast according to ambient light, guarding against eye fatigue.

LG’s proprietary Simple Link technology allows greater control of other compatible equipment such as DVD players and home theater systems. Also incorporated into the LB9 series are LG’s dimple speakers, which create a complete movie experience by providing dynamic and powerful sound through minimized airflow turbulence, without disrupting the TV’s sleek aesthetics.

The Pearl Black LCD TVs are available in 32-inch and 42-inch screen sizes at Rs 59,000 and Rs 98,000 respectively.

HP Launches Snapfish in India...

HP Launches Snapfish India
















Snapfish, HP’s web photo service, has finally made its way to India as www.snapfish.co.in. With around 40 million members in 15 countries, around a quarter billion pictures are added to Snapfish every month.

For those who aren’t familiar with Snapfish, the service offers affordable, professionally developed digital camera photo prints, free online sharing and unlimited photo storage, as well as free photo editing utilities.

The biggest draw, however, is that you can get your pictures professionally printed in various sizes and delivered straight to your doorstep, while you sit comfortably at your PC. Moreover, you can get your favorite pictures printed on T-shirts, coffee mugs, calendars, greeting cards, posters, and other gift items.

Prices start from Rs. 2.95 for a 4x6 photo print and go up to Rs. 399 for a printed t-shirt.

For registration and more information, head to www.snapfish.co.in

Sonu Nigam Rocks...

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Chakde India...