CAP ON BULK SMS REMOVED

All my Indian readers, here is a good news for you. This news had to be on this blog as I myself was tracking it for days. Since 15 days, the ban on bulk SMS in India had brought communication to a standstill for many SMS enthusiasts who took to this cheap and reliable medium of communication.




So, the good news is that the cap on bulk SMS has been lifted by govt.

Being a little informative, I would mention that the cap had been introduced to check the flow of rumors and inflammatory content related to ethnic violence that led to exodus of people from north-eastern parts of the country. For full details, link to my previous post:
http://www.techtuned.blogspot.in/2012/08/trai-imposes-5-sms-per-day-sms-limit-in.html

So guyz, happy texting and KEEP TUNING

SAMSUNG TO PAY $1Bn FOR PATENT INFRINGEMENT TO APPLE

After almost an year of filing a lawsuit against Samsung for patent infringement, and Samsung doing the same has come to a milestone with apple triumphant against its biggest rival in smartphone market. Samsung has been ordered to pay $1Bn ($1.05Bn to be precise) to the tech giant Apple for illegally using some of the Apple creations in their devices.



It all began in April 2011 when Apple filed a lawsuit against the South Korean company for patent infringement seeking $2.5bn. Samsung fired back with another lawsuit seeking $399 million.

Verdict came in favor of Apple ,however, the tech giant could only get half of the amount it was seeking.

Apple is also seeking to demand ban on 17 Samsung handsets including Samsung galaxy S2. However, this would not affect Samsung sales as most of the handsets in demanded list are old.

On the other hand, Samsung is gearing up to re-appeal as take the case as far as Supreme Court and possibly seek to overturn the verdict.

The verdict can benefit other manufacturers using Windows phone but comes as a setback for android devices and could affect their sales.
"I think this will force a reset on Android products as they are re-engineered to get around Apple's patents," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the tech consultancy Enderle Group.

Is the verdict fair or not is a question whose answer would vary from person to person.

Do comment about your views on the verdict and KEEP TUNING.

DOSBOX - RUN THE GOOD OLD DOS APPS

The greatest hitch i suffered after switching from Windows XP was that old dos apps wont run. But i still had to use the ancient TURBO C++ for school projects. So, a friend's advice introduced this app called DOSBOX to me.

Q. What is this DOSBOX thing??
This is an x86 emulator which would help you to run old dos apps. This means that it provides dos apps an environment in which they can run on most of the modern systems with variety of operating systems.

Q. Is it GUI or CUI??
The interface is a character user interface. It is operated on command line arguments.

Q. How much does the emulator cost??
The emulator is absolutely free.

Q. Is the emulator versatile??
The emulator can emulate a variety of graphics and sound hardware and thus can run most of the apps
you encounter.

Q. Is it available for platforms other than windows??
The emulator is available for a variety of OS like mac, linux, solaris, debian etc.

Q. Where can i download it??
Downlaod it here
 
Below is a screenshot of dosbox:

A little google search would help you figure out how to operate dosbox. You can put up your queries in comments.

So guyz, emulate the good old dos apps and KEEP TUNING.

SMS CAP RAISED TO 20 SMS PER DAY

For all Indian SMS freaks, here is some good news. Government on Thursday, i.e. , 23rd August increased the SMS cap to 20 which had been initially set to 5.

The SMS cap was introduced by government on August 18 in response to some groups spreading bulk messages promoting hate about North Eastern States.

The SMS cap brought great resentment among people who were left no cheap alternative to communicate and were not offered any compensation on SMS booster packs. Government decided to raise the limit to counter this resentment as well as reduce loss to telecom operators.

The government has also banned 300 websites and popular micro-blogging website TWITTER is also in soup.

 KEEP TUNING for more updates.

CHECK YOUR GOOGLE PAGERANK

PageRank is a link analysis algorithm, named after Larry Page and used by Google. Google PageRank assigns a numerical rating to each site on a scale of 10. It is an important measure of your site's popularity and reputation.

http://www.techtuned.blogspot.in established just a month ago has itself got a pagerank 0. Google.com has assigned itself a 9 on this scale. Even if you have got a rank 1, you have established quite a website.

Rank updates are random and unpredictable. Only Google knows.



To check your pagerank,
1. Go to PRchecking Tool
2. Type you website Url in the textbox.
3. Click check PR, enter the security code in the page that follows and you are done.

You can also add the tool to your website by copying the code in ADD FREE PAGE RANK CHECK TOOL TO YOUR WEBSITE section to your website's code.

Don't get disheartened if your website has got a 0 PageRank. If your site has got some loyal visitors, then no need to bother about the PageRank.. Just keep on updating your website with fresh content. PageRank would automatically improve with time.

Do comment about your website's PageRank and KEEP TUNING.