Yup! you saw that right, BSNL & MTNL to offer 2MBps broadband connectivity for free by 2009. This move may land other telecom providers in big trouble. They are going in the same way as in US where you get wireless broadband internet free for residents. The government of India plans to achieve free broadband connectivity at a speed of 2 MB per second across the country, with a similar goal.
Bharti Airtel after attaining a strong foothold in the Broadband Market is now all set to jump into the Television Broadcasting Industry with IPTV.
MTNL(Mahanagr Telephone Nigam Limited) has already launched IPTV long back but its not kicking up because of very few channels being available. Its well known that traditional cable vendors are being removed from the NCR(National Capital Region) and set top boxes are being made mandatory or you can go for DTH(Direct to Home Services). These rules have already been implemented in Mumbai and South Delhi and soon this will be implemented in whole NCR.
The upcoming E3 event will have only 32 participants compared to 400 participants last year. The complete list of participants revealed by Entertainment Software Association are as follows
Midway, Namco Bandai Games, NCSoft, Nintendo, Sega, Sony Computer Entertainment, Sony Online Entertainment, Square Enix, Take-Two Interactive, THQ, Ubisoft, Vivendi Games, and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, 1C Company, Activision, Akella, Atari, Atlus, Capcom, Codemasters, Crave Entertainment, Disney Interactive Studios, Eidos, Electronic Arts, Konami, LucasArts, Majesco, Microsoft, Foundation 9 Entertainment, id Software, Logitech and Nyko Technologies.
The E3 event will be held in Santa Monica this July from 11th-13th.
After Toshiba celebrated their 100,000 HD DVD player sales last week, this week Sony celebrated their one million Blu-ray movie sales & achieved this goal in less than a year. Blu-ray accounts for over 70 million sales of high definition movies that were sold in the 1st quarter of 2007 as published by Home Media Research. With many companies backing either of them & few others supporting both, people still wonder who’s gonna win this war.
We all know that the potential of Asia’s Technology future is bright. Even Bill Gates the owner of the software giant, Microsoft agrees to this saying that the future technology breakthroughs will increasingly form Asia.
Bill Gates commented this at the end of a visit to China during which he had announced several new ventures, which includes $3 package for government-subsidized student computers.
Gates said that Americans were expecting a lot from Asia with great leaps especially in computers and other technology citing the example of the region’s strong showing in engineering and other sciences.
Google renamed its shopping portal to ‘Google Product Search’, not only that it has also added few features. The reason for this is that Froogle was losing traffic steadily for last few months & almost down by 2.7 million unique visitors from Dec 2006.
Froogle was launched in 2002 with merger of Frugal & Google (thus Froogle). Google Product Search will now dawn a new user interface to buy with checkout & will show results in a organized way.
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