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Mobile handset prices will become more expensive as Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today announced one percent hike in the Central Excise duty for 130 items, including phones. Come April 1 and central excise duty on mobile phones will be raised from the current four per cent to five per cent. "The increase in central excise duty is detrimental as it will make mobile phones more expensive and provide impetus to the grey/un-branded market," Nokia India VP and MD D Shivakumar said. According to business research and consulting firm Frost & Sullivan, the overall budget may be positive, but no tax incentives to the telecom industry remains an area of concern. "The Budget 2011 covered too little on telecom, while this is one of the fastest growing sectors. (There were) no significant steps on the spectrum related issues," said the company Program Manager(ICT Practice - South Asia and Middle East) Parminder Kaur Saini. Telecom equipment manufacturer...

The main impetus of the budget is to improve the growth rate and get it to 9 percent in the near term and to a double digit rate in the medium to longer term. The other two areas of focus are Infrastructure development especially in Rural India and Improving Governance by shoring up Systems and bringing stricter control on institutions. Key points of the budget: The government is very keen on ensuring that inflation is curbed and food security is ensured for all citizens. Food items: Since inefficient distribution has been found to be the culprit for the sky rocketing of food prices, the FM has proposed to focus on reducing Production and Distributions bottlenecks. Food, vegetables, Meat etc will show an easing of prices in the medium term future. Education: A higher allotment of funds in the form of over 24% hike as compared to last year for the Education Sector. Income tax: More modernization of the taxation system is being mooted. A new form called "SUGAM...

Google has announced a major algorithmic change to its search engine, subtle in nature and perhaps unnoticeable to many users, but one that should dramatically improve the quality of Google’s search results. With this move, Google is targeting content farms – a common name for low quality sites whose main goal is to attract search traffic by piling up (mostly) useless content, usually by either producing large amounts of low-quality text or by copying it from websites with original content. Google does not go into details of the change which should impact 11.8% of Google’s queries (currently only in the US, with plans to roll it out elsewhere over time), but it does say that it will affect the ranking of many sites on the web. “This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites—sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful. At the same time, it will provide better rankings for high-quality sites—sites wi...

When Snake is alive, Snake eats Ants. When Snake is dead, Ants eat Snake. Time can turn at any time. Don't neglect anyone in your life....... Never make the same mistake twice, There are so many new ones, Try a different one each day. A good way to change someone's attitude is to change your own. Because, the same sun that melts butter, also hardens clay! Life is as we think, so think beautifully. Life is just like a sea, we are moving without an end. Nothing stays with us, what remain are just the memories of some people who touched us as Waves. Whenever you want to know how rich you are? Never count your currency, just try to Drop a Tear and count how many hands reach out to WIPE that- that is true richness. Heart tells the eyes: see less, because you see and I suffer lot. Eyes replied, feel less because you feel and I cry a lot. Never change your originality for the sake of others, Because no one can play your role better than you. So be yourself,...

Espnstar is offering free CWC live streaming online. If you are working and worrying about CWC matches ... here is the solution. Just hit espnstar.com/cwclive where you can watch worldcup matches online. Its live streaming. So sit back in Office just relax and open the website and enjoy the match and pray for India success. CHAK DE INDIA ....

Facebook‘s all-new design for displaying photos now appears to be rolling out to quite a few users. It features larger images, a lightbox-type UI and other features that put Facebook in even more competition with Flickr on the casual and social photography front. We got wind of these new Facebook Photos features some months ago around the end of September. And while some users have had this feature for a while, we were beginning to wonder why Facebook was delaying a general roll-out. However, Facebook did confirm yesterday that the new photo viewer was on its way to all users soon; and tonight, we’re seeing this new interface from several accounts. One major benefit, from Facebook’s perspective, is that users will be able to browse through many photos in the lightbox layer without disrupting the underlying page and “losing their place.” Other features include hi-res photos, photo-download links and bulk tagging options. In fact, as we noted last fall, many of these feature up...

hmm ... I just saw changes in Facebook pages. Tabs from FB Pages disappeared and all tabs are moved to sidebar. But still suggest to friends option not showing up. Presently they are showing and asking us to check the new interface, but march 31 2011 all pages will get new interface. hmmm all the best guyz ...

Dearest Ms. Aarthi Sub:- Offer of love! I am very happy to inform you that I have fallen in Love with you since the 20th of October (Thursday). With reference to the meeting held between us on the 19th of Oct. at 1500hrs, I would like to present myself as a prospective lover. Our love affair would be on probation for a period of three months and depending on compatibility, would be made permanent. Of course, upon completion of probation, there will be continuous on the job training and performance appraisal schemes leading up to promotion from lover to spouse. The expenses incurred for coffee and entertainment would initially be shared equally between us. Later, based on your performance, I might take! up a larger share of the expenses. However I am broadminded enough to be taken care of, on your expense account. Request you to kindly respond within 30 days of receiving this letter, failing which, this offer would be cancelled without further notice and I shall be considering...

Google Doodle pays tribute to Thomas Alva Edison on his 164th Birthday: Remembering one of the world’s most prolific inventors! Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor, scientist, and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" (now Edison, New Jersey) by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large teamwork to the process of invention, and therefore is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,093 US patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. He is credited with numerous inventions that contributed to mass communication and, i...

Are DMK guyz gone mad or they got blind as they cant see the truth. Common @$$holes open your eyes see the truth. Mr. Raja the scamfish got arrested by CBI as they caught him guilty. did you see the speech by Karunanidhi??? That moron is explaining it as a attack on SC's and ST's from OC's. From where this cast attack came in corruption? They just wanted to reduce damage done to their party after Raja got arrested. MR Karunanidhi Stop this stupid cast games and please please co-operate with CBI and bringout all the money. If you cant help please shut your bloody mouth. And where is our PM gone?? Is he hidden somewhere??? Come out and speak Mr. Manmohan ji ... Oh you want Sonia ji permission rit .... Lolz .. you really a rocking PM we ever had. Go and take permission from Sonia and Rahul .... ITS A SHAME ON YOUR PART ... 

Global chip maker AMD launched a new chipset that offers high speed computing and better quality than its predecessors. New " Fusion " processors comes with a graphic card ( GPU ) and Microprocessor ( CPU ) on a single chip. It allows computer makers to develop new form factor for devices. "AMD Fusion will eliminate the need for consumers to choose between power and performance... This will also allow our partners to offer exciting new form factors on a robust computing platform," AMD India Managing Director and Regional VP (Sales and Marketing) Ravi Swaminathan said. Manufacturers like sony, hp, dell, lenovo, ausus are working hard to launch over 11 systems based on the new AMD fusion chipset. Till now no pricing details are available. Get more information @ The Economics Times

LG will release its first tablet, dubbed the G-Slate, in the United States in March, the company announced. Amplify’d from mashable.com LG’s First Tablet Is Coming to U.S. in March LG will release its first tablet, dubbed the G-Slate, in the United States in March, the company announced. The G-Slate will be based on Honeycomb a.k.a. Android 3.0, a special branch of Android OS designed specifically for tablet computers. It’ll have an 8.9-inch screen, a dual-core 1 GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 CPU, 32 GB of internal memory, two cameras (5 megapixels on the back and 2 megapixels on the front), LED flash and HD (1080p) video as well as stereoscopic 3D recording capability. The device will also have Wi-Fi and (on T-Mobile) HSPA+ connectivity, HDMI, a built-in gyroscope, accelerometer and adaptive lighting. The precise release date and the pricing for the G-Slate have not yet been revealed, but we expect to hear more details at the Mobile World Congress, which is held February 14 to ...

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday arrested former telecoms minister Andimuthu Raja over an alleged telecoms scam linked to awarding mobile licences, in a move that could weaken the coalition government. Amplify’d from www.moneycontrol.com Raja arrest: What was CBI doing for five months? The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday arrested former telecoms minister Andimuthu Raja over an alleged telecoms scam linked to awarding mobile licences, in a move that could weaken the coalition government. Raja's arrest comes months after the country’s apex court issued a notice on his alleged involvement in the 2G mobile spectrum scam and the opposition shut down parliament, demanding a joint inquiry into a government auditor's report that India potentially lost crores of rupees in revenue when ineligible firms were given lucrative telecoms licences cheaply in 2008. A timeline of events leading up to the arrest of A Raja Supreme Court issues notice to t...

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