‘Gift a broadband’ with BSNL! No charges for first month! No installation charges!

BSNL Bangalore is offering a scheme for celebrating Christmas & New year called ‘Gift a Broadband…’. You can just walk in to any BSNL customer service center & purchase a Greeting Card enclosed with gift voucher to avail a new broadband connection. This greeting card costs you just Rs.100.  Following are the benefits user who applies for new broadband gets using this scheme:

• Free Broadband Starter Plan (Rs.250) for a month
• No rental on modem for a month (Rs.80)
• No installation charges (Rs.250)

So total value is Rs.580 & you are paying only Rs.100. This scheme is valid only till 31st Jan 2010 & user has to apply for broadband within that date.

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Nokia is doing an interesting consumer initiative in Bangalore wherein they are inviting consumers to their store. They will have some of the app developers giving a demo on apps like Newshunt , Touch games and they will also host a few fun quizzes/games. Anyone attending will win a Nokia Music voucher and there will be exciting prizes announced through a lucky dip at the store.

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Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) 2009 is happening in Bangalore from 22nd to 24th of this month. ESC 2009 is India’s largest conference & expo on embedded systems. Following is the excerpt from the event official website:

This year with – New Sessions, New Tracks, New Opportunities, you have a choice between full and half-day tutorials, as well as 75-minute sessions in Programmable logic, Datacom/Telecom, Real-Time Kernels, Developing for ARM, Linux and Open-Source Software, Multi-core and Multi-threaded Processing and more.

Attendees will hear and get theirs queries answered from embedded engineering Veterans such as R.C. Cofer, Ben Harding, Rob O’Shana, Niall Cooling, Serge Plangol, Praveen Goyal, Jagdish Bisawa, and many more at technical classes.

There are different packages available for registration, you can choose one. Or you can also go for an All Access package if you are more serious about the event. ESC is also giving away 250 Engineers Survival Kit for 250 pre registered visitors who turn up at the event. With Engineers Survival Kit you can get free access to following:

• Access to Industry sponsored Technical sessions

• Access to Keynote addresses

• Platform to explore new ideas

• Peer-to-peer networking

• Opportunity to get your queries resolved by experts

• Meet the Design Team

• Access to Exhibition floor from July 22 -24   (Wednesday – Friday)

So, hurry up to register for the event & avail early bird offer for conference or get a Engineer Survival Kit to have access to expo. More details about the event on ESC Official Website

BSNL Bangalore announced discounts on monthly charges for EVDO & NIC cards for existing Broadband users paying more than Rs.499 every month. Monthly charge for EVDO connection for normal customers is Rs.550, but it is just Rs.300 under this offer. Similarly monthly charges for NIC card connection is Rs.250 & discounted price is Rs.150. These discounts are applicable for one year & after that period you will have to pay the normal charges. You need to also keep your existing broadband connection & should be paying atleast Rs.499 to be eligible for this offer. In case if you discontinue your Broadband connection in between, you have to pay the normal charges. So, basically these are addon plans for BSNL Broadband users to enable mobility.

BSNL EVDO connection seem to be pretty good with city wide coverage & providing speeds upto 2.4 Mbps. As per the experienced users you can get 2mbps speed when you are close to the tower & around 1mbps when bit far away from tower. The big plus of EVDO plan from BSNL is, it’s unlimited!

For more details about these discounted plans check these docs from BSNL Bangalore website: EVDO Plan, NIC Card Plan. For more details on EVDO cards, coverage & help queries you can check out my friend GigaCore’s blog & forum bsnlevdoclub.com.

Though I started photo blogging long back, not shared it with anyone. www.bangalorepix.com is the photo blog I started long back. Photos posted at Bangalore Pix are live pictures. I posts them from phone itself once I take them. I am using Flickr’s post to blog feature which creates unique email ID to post pictures. Sending pictures to that ID will not only posts it to Flickr, but also specified blog. I am also using twitterfeed to post tweets about the new photo entry to Twitter.

The Big Idea:

The big idea behind this photo blog will come into picture in long run. There are drastic changes happening in Bangalore due to Bangalore Metro & few road widening projects. As I keep posting pictures of different streets, popular places of Bangalore, in few years you can see how the place was looking before & now. And that’s keep continuing! I have taken this as my lifetime project & keep posting till my end! It will be a great experience to look back at old pictures taken years ago.

Right now I am using Nokia E66 to post the pictures, but picture quality is not so good since it has 3.2 MP camera. It will be great if somebody sponsors a good camera phone (Nokia? Sony Erricson? Samsung?)

Proto.in, India?s popular Start Up event is coming back again with 5th edition. Proto.in 5th edition is announced to happen in Bangalore in Jan 09. Though clear dates & venue are not mentioned yet. Nomination for the even is open till December 15th, so go ahead & nominate yourself.

Links: Proto.in , Proto.in Blog

Update: Nomination seem to be still open, register yourself.

Most of the times we goto Google for searching answers for our questions. There are also websites like Yahoo Answers, Answer.com etc, where you can post your question & other users can answer questions to gain points. But SnappyFingers is quite different, it indexes all FAQs in the web. This makes easy for user to find answers rather asking at Yahoo Answer & wait to get reply.

SnappyFingers is a Question and Answer search engine. It crawls and indexes FAQs spread across the Internet, and provides search results in a easy to view Question/Answer format. It can be used for finding answers & also will be useful for conducting research.The site is in beta, and has a database of 3 million questions. Snappyfingers claims that their crawlers are working hard, and planning to increase the number of questions aggressively in the coming months.

I myself tried many questions on Snappyfingers & amazed with the results I got. It could be really helpful in many cases. Though Google is powerful enough to find anything on net, sometimes it fails to give right answers. The way SnappyFinger works is quite different from Google & you get answers in almost first five results. Looking forward for more good search results when it comes out of beta.

originally written by the100rabh

Barcamp Bangalore 7 is announced to be on 13-14 Sept 2008. Its an event where there are no spectators, only participants.

Barcamps turn around the notion of a formal conference by eliminating the distinction between speakers and delegates. Everyone is a participant, and is equally welcome to propose a discussion, speak up or add to on a topic they are familiar with. Barcamps are organized and evangelized largely through the web by a community driven, collective organizational process using a wiki as a tool. A Barcamp consists of sessions proposed and scheduled each day by attendees, mostly on-site and “on the fly”, typically using white boards or paper taped to the wall. While Barcamps are loosely structured, there are rules. All attendees are encouraged to present, facilitate or contribute to a session. Everyone is also asked to share information and experiences of the event, both live and after the event, via blogging, photo sharing, social bookmarking, wiki-ing, and IRC.

You can register a.k.a. participate using the following options

1. Take a session or discussion – http://barcampbangalore.org/wiki/BCB7_Sessions
2. Suggest a talk you would like to hear. – http://barcampbangalore.org/wiki/BCB7_Talk_Ideas
3. Give a Demo of your product – http://barcampbangalore.org/wiki/BCB7_Demos
4. Volunteer – http://barcampbangalore.org/wiki/BCB7_Volunteers

More on Barcamps at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp

Bomb blasts rock Bangalore – is the old news now. When I heard it first time, instead of going to any news site I went to twitter. My colleagues were searching for this on news channels, but they were unable to get latest updates. Sooner they all surrounded me to see latest updates on twitter. Even I started updating to twitter on whatever I know.

Within few minutes of blast news, Laxman (@Scorpion032) created a twitter bot which automatically gets tweets with Bangalore & re-tweets it. But the idea didn’t continued to work because of too many updates containing Bangalore. Arun Ram (@arunram) started a twitter ID for those who wants to update they are safe & unable to use their mobile phones. In another few minutes bangalore has become top keyword on summize (now search.twitter.com).

Tons os tweets about Bangalore started pouring in & http://search.twitter.com/search?q=bangalore responded well to show real time updates about Bangalore Blast. @Mukund started updating details about Bangalore Blasts which were really interesting. Twitter has become great medium of communication in these critical conditions.

Try http://search.twitter.com for latest updates on anything you want. If you still not on Twitter, sign up at www.twitter.com. If you like you can follow my updates on twitter at http://twitter.com/hnprashanth

Kickstart.in is organizing a full day conference for entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs on Sunday, the 15th of June ?08 at IIM Bangeluru.

KickStart is a not-for-profit initiative aimed at promoting entrepreneurship. Driven by the popularity and success of Barcamps and Mobile Mondays in Bangeluru where some of the founding members of KickStart have been involved with, KickStart has been founded to support entrepreneurs and promote entrepreneurship.

A lot of entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs want to learn from others who have been there and done that. This conference is called ?Special Startup Saturday?, after ?Startup Saturday?, a monthly event for entrepreneurs held on the second Saturday of every month.

Special Startup Saturday has been designed with an array of talks and workshops on specific topics which entrepreneurs want to learn about. A number of seasoned entrepreneurs and experts on entrepreneurship have come forward to address these issues. The conference also features an interactive session on writing a business plan.

A list of talks and schedule for the event follows:
Session 1 – Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship
Session 2 – Idea Validation
Session 3 – Business Plan – Basics
Session 4 – Technology and IPR
Session 5 – Product Management and Marketing
Session 6 – Legal aspects of setting up your own company
Session 7 – Selling + How to talk to a VC
Session 8 – Panel Discussion

For further details, please contact-

1. Amit Singh, Kickstart.in – +91 98863 14456 email : amit@kickstart.in
2. Tarun Bansal, Kickstart.in +91 93410 41776 email : tarun.tarunbansal@gmail.com
3. Anand Prakash Jangid +91 98454 67835 email : anandjangid@gmail.com
4. Kunalkant Sen + 91 92410 09423 email : kunalkantsen@gmail.com
5. Rajeev Kumar +91 98861 94776 email : raja.rajeevkumar@gmail.com

There is no Registration Fee. The schedule, agenda and registration details can be found at www.startupsaturday.in