BSNL reduces monthly charges for Home Unlimited Dataone Broadband Plans

BSNL has reduced charges for Home Unlimited Dataone Broadband plans. And in addition to that it also introduced two unlimited plans with 512 kbps speed. Home 900 & Home 900 PLUS now has become Home 750 & Home 750 PLUS. As the name of the plan indicates, charges are reduced from Rs.900 to Rs.750. Here is the new tariff table:

Note:
For Home Plan UL 750 Plus & UL 1350 Plus: Telephone fixed monthly charges per month- Nil, Free Calls- Nil,  MCU charges per Pulse @ Rs. 1/- shall be applicable. The calls shall be charged as per pulse rate of BSNl Bfone General Plan. Security Deposit and Installation charges as applicable for Local/STD/ISD shall be taken from new customers.

For Home Plan UL 750 & UL 1350 : Fixed monthly Charges for telephone, Free Calls & MCU charges per pulse shall be as per existing plan of the customer.

For details on other tariff plans http://www.bsnl.co.in/service/dataone_tariff.htm

For Existing Customers:

Existing customers has to do nothing! Peacefully browse internet at home. Tariff for esisting Home 900 & Home 900 PLUS customers will be automatically changed to Home 750 & Home 750 PLUS respectively applicable from the month of April.

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Google has released Google talk labs edition with lot of new features. The most awaited group chat is implemented in this labs edition. Group chat was implemented on gmail web chat app few months ago, but it’s desktop application was lacking this feature. Following are new features found on Google talk labs edition:

• Group chat, have conferences in Gtalk desktop labs edition. I used to log in to Yahoo! for this feature before.
• Notification from other Google services orkut & calendar.
• Tabbed chatting, no hassle of new chat window, chat with different friends in different tabs.

There are also few things which I don’t like in this new client:

• Installation is different from previous client, is pretty similar to Yahoo! messenger. First downloads a 300kb installer, upon executing that will download other required files to install application. This installer may not work at office, because they might be blocking the port through which installer tries to connect to server.
• One more much awaited feature “Invisible Mode” is not yet implemented.
• Copying of text from chat window is not possible! This looks really annoying for me.

You can get Google Talk labs edition here. This is the labs edition, you can click on “Feedback” button present at bottom of application to send your feedback about the application & to improve next Google talk release.

Airtel has launched internet portal airtellive.com for it’s user base. The portal is built in association with Google using Google Personalized Home Pages.  This portal is made for Airtel Broadband users. Users can get simple yet powerful applications for free. Applications & services includes email, documents, presentations, spreadsheets…etc.  Portal is co-branded by Airtel & Google. Airtel also partnered with shaadi.com, 24×7 Guru.com & Naukri.com to provide exclusive offers to it’s users on portal.

Above is the radio created for Tech Bangalore. You can listen to all posts made on Tech Bangalore. Text to speech conversion looks pretty good. You can listen to all blogs which are having RSS feeds. You can listen to any blogs in simple two steps:

1. Goto http://blogbard.com
2. In the search box enter blog URL

That’s it! it automatically detects feed of that blog & creates a flash radio out of it. Embed HTML will be provided in a text box, copy & paste it in your blog. Now your visitors will be able to listen to your Radio, oh! I mean blog.

BlogBard also has features to read your subscriptions in Google Reader & Bloglines. Just login to thes services in BlogBard & it does the rest!

It made a very positive impact on my mind at the first look itself. What an interface, looks really great & simple. Coming to service, it apparently looks to me as combination of smsgupshup & twitter! Tagg.in claims itself as SMS group messaging system as well as micro blogging platform. But they are not simply telling like that.

Firstly registration is very easy, you have to fill only three feilds, email, password & verification code (are you human?). You can activate your mobile phone later, but updates via SMS is what looks great. Registration process can also be completed via SMSs. So you need not to have internet to use this service, just remember SMS short codes & their number. Tagg.in uses local number 99801 99801 so you will be less charged by service provider to update via SMS.

After simple registration process, you can create your own group termed as TAGGtivity. Updates to group can be sent using web interface or SMSs. Your followers can follow your updates in either medium. You can subscribe to other popular groups like CricScores, BrkgNews, SportsNews, JokesGuru…etc to get free updates.

Cons:

• You cannot add your friends mobile numbers to your group, they have to sign up or have to send a message from their mobile to follow your updates. SMSGupShup has a feature where you can add mobile numbers of your friends to your group & start sending messages straight away.
• Updates can be made via only two mediums, SMS & web. I still love twitter because it provides lot of ways to update. May be they are going to add these features in final release, this is still in alpha.
• Lack of badges to display your updates on your blogs or web pages.

I feel it still lacks in features when compared with it’s competitor. Let’s wait and see what features they are going to bring in final release.

Microsoft is providing 5GB of space to store your files online. As the above picture illustrates, you can save files for yourself, share files with friends & also share on world wide web. It provides three level of access control for your files.

Private: Store files which are only accessible to you. This could be used to store files which are private & should not be accessible to anyone else.

Shared: Share files only with your friends, but they need to have an MSN or Hotmail account. Other than your friends can’t access these files.

Public: Upload files to public folder to make it available to everyone. After uploading files you can share link with anyone & they can download the file. If you have a web page or blog & want to provide a download to your visitors, it also provides attractive badges to insert in your web pages. Clicking on it, user can download that file.

Users who already have MSN or Hotmail account can straightaway start using it by logging in. If you don’t have one, you can sign up for a free account. Sign up or login to Skydrive at http://skydrive.live.com/

As my Twitter network is growing, I’m discovering interesting new people. Aalaap Ghag is one of them, who is also the founder of a new online service called LinkBunch.

You might have heard or used TinyURL which shortens lengthy URLs into smaller ones, which can be used in places where space is a constraint. LinkBunch is a step ahead - it lets you create a single, small URL out of multiple links. The LinkBunch link is easy to remember and share, due to its short length.

Some Web 2.0 services have limited amount of characters that you can input. In Twitter the limit is 140 characters per tweet. If you wanted to share multiple links services like Twitter, you will run out of space. LinkBunch can be very useful in this case.

LinkBunch is still in Beta and the full set of features is not yet implemented. As I discussed with Aalaap, user accounts will be integrated into this service. With an account, a user can manage bunches created by him. Managing includes adding links, removing links, editing links in a current bunch, deleting old bunches if not required. User need not to go through sign up process, as this service will be OpenID enabled.

I have created a bunch with URLs of my blogs and social networking profiles, this is an example LinkBunch: http://linkbun.ch/4ma

To create your own Link Bunch go to linkbun.ch

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It happens a lot of time at office, somebody asks me any document or e-book, I reply them confidently “Yeah! I have that”. Then looks into e-book folder of my office computer, “Oh! shit, they are on my home PC”. Now it doesn’t happens, as I have synced all e-books & important documents with Sugar Sync.

Sugar Sync syncs your files across computers (PC & also Mac), phone & accessible via secured web interface. Sign up at Sugar Sync & install sugar sync client on computer which you want to sync files. Select & add files to sync & Sugar Sync syncs all your files in background. It takes very less bandwidth of your internet connection & syncs files to Sugar Sync server. If you make any modifications to these files, those modifications will be automatically synced. So you will be having latest revision of your files across computers. Sugar Sync also provides a web interface to access your synced files. It creates a custom URL like yourname.sugarsync.com to access your files from any computer around the world which has internet connection. The web interface is secured like your banking login page & you will need to login with your username & password to access files. Files from your phone can also be synced & also access synced files on the go on phone!

Invite Only:

Sugar Sync in currently in beta phase & invite only. You will need a invite from Sugar Sync’s existing member to have a shot. Currently I have only 7 invites with me, so first seven visitors can make use of this invite at https://www.sugarsync.com/entercode?code=IWPAJX. I have sent a mail to Sugar Sync support to provide more invites, will update if they provide. Please do share invites in comment section after signing up.

Reply from SugarSync:

Hello Prashanth,

Thank you very much for your interest in SugarSync! Due to the fact that we’re so close to our production launch, we are unable to extend additional invitations to any new sites.

We sincerely appreciate the request and will keep you in mind as we begin rolling out SugarSync more broadly.

Thanks again,

Sean
Sr. Manager, Customer Support

So you will need to wait for few days to get invite.

For those who don’t know about Skype, It’s a VOIP client/messenger. Skype is used to talk to friends all over world, many times it is also used for corporate meetings/conferences. You can get Skype for free at www.skype.com.

Callgraph got my notice at DevCamp Bangalore, a developer un-conference. Callgraph integrates into Skype & records all calls automatically. Callgraph can record calls of Skype, Skype In, Skype Out & store them in mp3 format. Recorded calls can be tagged for your convenience & you can search for recorded calls using tags. Callgraph allows you to configure it as per your requirement including changing location to store calls, enable/disable notifications, enable/disable automatic call recording…..etc.

Callgraph is absolutely FREE works on Windows XP & recently released to Vista also. Download Callgraph at www.callgraph.in, Happy Calling