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BoxTV Partners With Sony And Disney For Providing Entertainment Content In India

by Ritij Khurana • February 25, 2013

BoxTV, the video streaming service has just announced their content agreements with the Sony Pictures Television and Disney UTV to provide the users of their service with some premium titles. BoxTV’s service lets you stream blockbuster movies, TV shows, short films and documentaries to your devices through a web browser. The application is India-centric and has been made keeping the average Indian in mind. Its being said that BoxTV is the NetFlix of India.

BoxTV is now available for public access. BoxTV has on offer around 17,000 hours of media content with top movie titles available being Spider-Man, Pirates of the Caribbean, Men In Black, Shaw Brothers, Prince of Persia, The Sixth Sense, Resident Evil and the daily show buffs are not left behind as well with the availability of 5,000 hours of TV content which includes popular titles likes Lost, Grey’s Anatomy, Hannah Montana, Desperate Housewives and Scrubs. And this is not all. Regional media content Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati, Malayalam, Bhojpuri and Bengali is up for grabs as well.

BoxTV has inked down a partnership with India mediahouses as well which include has UTV Motion Pictures, Shemaroo Entertainment Rajshri Entertainment and Everymedia Technologies for providing BoxTV with Bollywood and Regional media content. These partnerships are in addition to the main partnerships of the folks back at BoxTV with Sony Pictures Television, Disney UTV and Celestial Entertainment for poviding the users with their does of Hollywood entertainment.

Vodafone Brings In All-In-One VAS Card

by Rohit Khurana • February 19, 2013

Recently, Vodafone launched an All in one VAS card for its Delhi-NCR pre-paid subscribers just for Rs.29. This card would help customers subscribe any eight value added notifications and alerts through just one card. Being priced at such a low price this card helps in availing number of alerts like Stock, Astrology, Games, Sports, Movies , Did You Know (trivia pack), and Mehfil-e-Timepass. The card once activated will be valid for a month. These VAS cars will be available at retail outlets and after purchase, the subscribers will just require to dial *121*4* recharge code# to activate the service. Additionally, all buyers will receive a buy one cappuccino and get another one free offer at all Barista outlets.

Samsung Galaxy Note II “Incredible Art Piece” Gets Over 3,30,000 Entries

by Rohit Khurana • January 8, 2013

Few weeks back we brought to you a report on Samsung Galaxy Note II “Incredible Art Piece” World Record Breaking Attempt. In just a matter of weeks, the number have crossed whooping 3,30,000 which is much greater than the previous record held in UK with 201,958 contributions. As per the current status, it seems that this attempt will soon be awarded the new World record when the screening process by Guinness Book will be completed.

Google Installing More Servers In Asia, Will Speed Up YouTube, Gmail And Other Google

by Ritij Khurana • January 4, 2013

If you’ve hated the fact that the YouTube videos took a lot of time to load and the buffering is something you’ve despised, all that is set to change. Now you do not need to buy higher speed plans from your ISPs and can instead suffice very well with your current broadband plan. Google is all set to increase the speed of its services in India by 30 percent which comes as a result of the company’s data-centers in Asia going operational this year.

What this means to you is that YouTube videos will load faster than before and you shall have Google return your queries at a much faster rate. “Internet connectivity speed in India is not very high. These data centers will be crucial to this market due to its proximity,” said Lalitesh Katragadda, country head, India Products at Google. Google has been working on its data centers in Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong with the Singapore facility expected to start portioning in early 2013.

Aircel 4G LTE Services Launch Plan In India Confirmed– Details

by Rohit Khurana • January 2, 2013

Aircel plans to shortly bring in TDD-LTE alias 4G services as Operator informed The Mobile Indian. Although none of these speakers clarified anything on date of release but as they informed that the Company has been completing the work at a fast speed to launch the services as soon as possible. Previously Aircel announced to launch 4G services on TDD-LTE network in the last trimester of 2012 from Chennai but due to some reasons could not meet the deadlines timely.

Zync Launches Range Of Dual SIM Mobile Phones Starting Rs. 1399

by Ritij Khurana • December 31, 2012

When every mobile brand is busy launching budget tablets and phablets, Zync has decided to foray into a very important segment as far as Indian mobile market is concerned. The cheap dual-sim market is where the Zync Global Private Limited has now its eyes set on. After launching their budget phablets and tablets and their success, Zync looks to repeat the success in this volume segment.

“This is the first time we have entered the mobile phone category. With the mobile segment growing by leaps and bounds and recording sales of around 200 million units in 2012, we felt this was the right time to expand our horizon and enter a new territory. With the launch of these six new cell phones, we aim to bring a powerful and dependable device with great features at a very affordable price point,” this is what Amul Mittal, the co-founder of Zync global had to say at the launch.

Indian Indigenous Operating System For High Cyber Security

by Ritij Khurana • December 31, 2012

Finally, the Indian Government has woken up from the slumber of relying on other operating systems and being exploited by them and has decided to build its own operating system which we believe is quite the news. Firstly, we were quite startled at this bit of information but later on when the official words came in, the shock turned into a believable fact and in turn it became a matter worthy of an applause.

The Indian Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) is developing an “Indian Operating System”, that is what we’ve heard and this is being done to strengthen the cyber-security aspect. The Direct General of DRDO , VK Saraswat has stated that India is too much dependent on foreign nation softwares such as the Windows platform which can be easily exploited. He disclosed this at the Navigation and Communication (NAVCOM) conference.