Karur: Parents and enraged people laid a siege on the Panchayat Union Middle School, Vayalur, near Kulithalai, on Monday alleging that a teacher took voyeuristic photographs of schoolgirls on his cellphone. According to a section of the public, some of the girls complained to their parents that the teacher, K Paramanandam, took their photos on his mobile phone. The parents demanded that the authorities initiate action against the teacher and...
01:43 PM, Sep 11, 2012
New York: T-Mobile USA, the only "Big 4" phone company that doesn't sell the iPhone, now wants to snag used ones from AT&T. Starting Wednesday, when Apple is expected to reveal a new iPhone model, T-Mobile will start advertising that AT&T iPhone owners who are out of contract can switch to T-Mobile. "We expect that consumers will start trading in older devices," said Harry Thomas, T-Mobile's director of marketing. "For...
10:24 AM, Sep 11, 2012
New Delhi: Telecom subscriber base fell to 944.81 million in July from 965.52 million a month ago, the first ever decline in the country. The subscriber base report for the month of July released by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) shows that overall telecom user base of the country dropped by 20.71 million subscribers over June. "This is the first time we have seen decline in overall subscriber base,"...
05:09 PM, Sep 09, 2012
New Delhi: Telecom regulator TRAI has asked telecom companies to de-activate the international calling facility in pre-paid numbers and restore it only after a subscriber gives his explicit consent to avail this facility. "Inform all pre-paid subscribers having ISD facility, through SMS, within 10 days of the date of issue of this direction, that ISD facility of the subscribers shall be discontinued after sixty days," Telecom Regulatory Authority of India...
11:14 AM, Sep 09, 2012
New Delhi: Telecom regulator TRAI has asked telecom companies to de-activate the international calling facility in pre-paid numbers and restore it only after a subscriber gives his explicit consent to avail this facility. "Inform all pre-paid subscribers having ISD facility, through SMS, within 10 days of the date of issue of this direction, that ISD facility of the subscribers shall be discontinued after sixty days," Telecom Regulatory Authority of India...
01:20 AM, Sep 09, 2012
Tokyo: Japan's Sony Corp said hackers have accessed the email addresses and names of as many as 400 of its mobile unit's customers in China and Taiwan held on servers owned by a third-party vendor. No credit card information was compromised in the attack, which hacking group NullCrew claimed in tweets to have perpetrated. Sony does not yet know the source of the attack, company spokesman George Boyd said in...
02:23 PM, Sep 06, 2012
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has hiked the value added tax (VAT) by 0.5 per cent, a move which will make ACs, refrigerators and other such goods costlier. The decision was taken at the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday and would be applicable after issusance of the notification on Wednesday, official sources said. As per the decision, in addition to 12.5 per cent VAT, which is imposed on certain items, additional...
01:00 PM, Sep 05, 2012
New Delhi: Karbonn Mobiles has announced its flagship mobile device " the Karbonn Smart A18 - which runs Android 4.0 'Ice Cream Sandwich' OS. The smartphone is powered by a 1 GHz processor and comes packed with a 1500 mAh Battery. The phone is priced at Rs 12,990, however the e-commerce site Flipkart is selling it for Rs 9,790. It is a dual SIM phone where SIM 1 supports 3G...
04:32 PM, Sep 03, 2012
New Delhi: As per guidelines that were made effective only recently, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has asked service providers to not provide mobile connections exceeding 3 months to foreign tourists in the country. The guidelines further instruct service providers that while issuing a SIM card to a foreign tourist, the latter's passport with a valid visa ought to be considered as the proof. This move by the government, evaluated...
12:46 PM, Sep 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Press Information Bureau (PIB) has launched a mobile version of its website to help cellphone users seamlessly access information on the move. "The URL of the mobile website is pib.gov.in/mobile. Mobile users who want the full functionality and display of the regular website can access it through the URL pib.gov.in," a PIB official said. The new site has been customised to display latest press releases on the...
11:11 AM, Sep 03, 2012
London: Mobile phones are actually filthier than toilet seats because they are never cleaned even after being handled by different people, thus swarming with germs, say researchers. Tests showed that up to 10 times the amount of pathogens which cause nausea and stomach upsets were present on a mobile phone than a toilet seat. Charles Gerba, professor of microbiology at the University of Arizona, said during his ongoing experiments he...
04:01 PM, Sep 02, 2012
Mumbai: A 43-year-old woman professor at a city college has become the latest victim of the Nigerian fraud, losing around Rs 11.50 lakh to cheats who sent her an email stating she had won $8,50,000 under an ICC World Cup Mobile Lucky Draw. The city cyber cell said that they had been sensitising people about the email trick popularly called Nigerian fraud, but the greed was making people fall prey...
05:12 PM, Aug 28, 2012
Jaipur: After girls in a village in Uttar Pradesh were banned from using mobile phones about a month ago, now a village panchayat in Rajasthan has prohibited minor girls from carrying mobiles and has directed them to cover their heads when going out of home. The village council has also ordered minor boys not to play music on their mobile phones. The restrictions have been imposed in Kishorpura village near...
12:04 AM, Aug 26, 2012
San Jose: Apple Inc scored a sweeping legal victory over Samsung on Friday as a US jury found the Korean company had copied critical features of the hugely popular iPhone and iPad and awarded the US company $1.051 billion in damages. The verdict, which came much sooner than expected, could lead to an outright ban on sales of key Samsung products and will likely solidify Apple's dominance of the exploding...
04:54 AM, Aug 25, 2012
New Delhi: After checking the use of SMSes to prevent spreading of rumours which had led to mass exodus of northeastern people from certain states, the government on Thursday increased the number of SMSes to 20 per day with immediate effect. According to a notification issued by the Ministry of Communication, it has been decided to revise the permissible limit of "bulk SMS/MMS to 20 in place of five with...
07:24 PM, Aug 23, 2012
Savonlinna: A Finnish teenager won a mobile phone throwing contest on Saturday by hurling his old Nokia phone 101.46 meters. The annual contest is one of many offbeat events such as wife-carrying that are held in the summer when normally reserved Finns like to celebrate the warmer weather with silliness and outdoor sport. Ere Karjalainen, who beat around 50 contestants, including some who had travelled from England and India, said...
03:30 PM, Aug 22, 2012
Vancouver: While the frequency of Canadians using their smartphones, tablets and e-readers remains stable, the average time they use them has declined, a study showed. The study led by Ipsos Reid about the mobile market in Canada, involving 2,000 adults, may suggest a potential shift in usage patterns of digital devices, reported Xinhua. It shows that the mobile device usage have stabilised over time. On average, Canadians reported using their...
03:12 PM, Aug 21, 2012
New Delhi: Restriction on SMS to five per day is not only causing problems for millions of mobile phone users but may also leading to loss of 7-8 per cent revenue of telecom operators for the month, operators' association COAI has said. The government had banned bulk SMSes and MMSes for 15 days across the country from August 18 to check spread of rumours which has led to exodus of...
11:12 PM, Aug 20, 2012
Islamabad: Cellular services were on Sunday night suspended in four major Pakistani cities, including Lahore and Karachi, to prevent terrorist attacks using bombs triggered with mobile phones, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said. Millions of people in Lahore, Multan, Karachi and Quetta were unable to use their mobile phones from 8 pm as cellular operators suspended all services in most parts of these cities on the directions of the Interior Ministry....
01:42 AM, Aug 20, 2012
New Delhi: Vice Chief of Army staff Lt Gen SK Singh on Sunday visited the spot where an armyman has climbed a 200 ft high mobile tower alleging harassment by his seniors and tried to persuade him to come down. Singh spoke to K Muthu, who is attached with Engineers Regiment, on phone for over 30 minutes, army officials said. Muthu, however, was not ready to believe that it was...
08:17 AM, Aug 19, 2012
