Finally Nokia entered into Indian Dual SIM handset Market and I think at-last it got the fact why homegrown brands such as Micromax, Spice, Karbonn and Zen are becoming popular & a threat to it’s secure market.

Yesterday in New Delhi, Nokia Displayed & launched two new dual-SIM (GSM+GSM) mobile phone handsets Nokia C1 and Nokia C2, both at very low price with rich features.

Vodafone launched VF 247 a eco-friendly solar powered mobile phone for India to capitalize Indian rural mobile market. VF 247 charges by itself, by exposure to ambient light. Sun Boost, the special inbuilt hardware and software ensures that the phone charges also in a room, under normal daylight.

There are several more reasons why you should mobilize your blog, making your site mobile friendly means reaching secondary traffic source (mobile) which is increasing day by day,there’s no doubt that more people are spending more time on the web via a mobile device of some sort.

On July15th Indian cabinet officially announced Indian Rupee Symbol and currently the symbol is not unicoded, which means it may take some time that symbol to appear on Keyboards, until then you can use below Free and Simple method to type Indian Rupee Symbol on your documents.

Today Indian Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni announced or released the  pictures of official symbol  of Indian currency Rupee, With this India will join an elite group of countries like the US dollar, euro, which have a distinct currency symbol.

The Rupee symbol design includes both Devnagiri ‘Ra’ and the Roman capital ‘R’ and has two parallel lines running at the top, which symbolise the equal to sign.

Facebook Launched a new free Mobile Friendly service called “Facebook Zero”, after shutting down Facebook lite and it claims that this new service is faster than all it’s other Facebook versions. This new service aims at  mobile phones with limited bandwidth Internet connections and allows the mobile users to browse facebook for free on their mobile without paying any data charges.

We saw Bollywood and Tollywood stars and cricket stars in Twitter, now this is the first time a government organisation of India on Twitter. India Post one of the World’s largest postal network got this credit by joining social networking site Twitter.

If you want  to get Twitter users updates on your mobile, then twitter itself providing  a hassle free  way to get  updates on your mobile without need of  any mobile applications, all you need to do is just send SMS and follow the updates. Also Twitter does not charge for this service.

Today for my email account  team360@in.com, I received two emails from this domain “netpnb.co.in” with a subject “PNB- Your e-mail address has been successfully updated” and asked for my net banking details, stating that some one has changed my email account attached to PNB Bank and they sent  attached a email reset form and asked to use that one.

Immediately I thought someone comprised my net bank account, but my inner sense told me to read that email clearly, so I went to known the origin of email and found that it is from fraudulent domain netpnb.co.in, but actually the real domain of Punjab National Bank for net Banking is Netpnb.com and another funny thing I noticed is, there is a lot of typos in that email. I read it some where that this is one of the identification of phishing emails.

Two months back(Jan 12 2010)  when Google threatened to quit china, M K Narayanan the National security adviser of India also said that they noticed intrusions in to the National security council  and other government departments were spoted on Dec 15 2009 by hackers from Chinese land.

Immediately the red dragon nodded it head to left to right and said  “Hacking in whatever form is prohibited by law in China.” Further it asked for solid proof about this issue.Well Indian government remained mum on the issue (yeah they call it as patience) and as usual days passed on, now our  foreign minister S M Krishna went to china (Apr 5,2010)  to develop relations with the two headed dragon.

While rest of the  mobile world is waiting for iPhone 4G, finally iPhone 3GS the sucessor of iphone 3G will be launched in India via Bharti Airtel.

Airtel today announced that they will launch Phone 3GS in India on March 26, 2010.The device will be available in two models iPhone 3GS 16 GB and iPhone 32 GB. The 16 GB model will cost Rs. 35,500, while the 32GB will cost RS 41,500(OMG) and there is no change in the cost of older 8GB 3G version(RS 29,500).

Andhra people call it as Ugadi, Kannadigas call Yugaadi/Ugadi and its also celebrated in Maharashtra as Gudi Padwa! To me, it’s a Telugu New Year.