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Motorola Milestone XT720 is recently launched in India. The Motorola Milestone XT720 is a 3G phone with high end capabilities.

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New Delhi. More than 480 million subscribers of mobile telephony services will have 11-digit number from January 1.

The subscribers will have to prefix 9 to the existing 10-digit number. For example, a number 9xxxxxxxxx will become 99xxxxxxxxx.

The Department of telecommunications (DoT) issued a notice to all telecom service providers on Tuesday, informing the change in the plan.

source: www.hindustantimes.com

Orange jelly that looks wibble woobly can save lives too. British researchers have come up with a “bullet-busting” jelly that will save the lives of lakhs of soldiers by substantially reinforcing their helmets.
Britain’s ministry of defence has awarded £100,000 to a small company that has developed a special substance that hardens immediately on impact, reports the Telegraph.

Danny Boyle, 52, was born into a middleclass Irish family. He grew up in Northern England, and perhaps it is because he contemplated priesthood as a vocation in his youth that he now has this inexorably calm demeanour that refuses to be ruffled by accusations of poverty porn. Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan has even called him a saint. The selfdeprecatory Brit in Boyle laughs off the praise. “My mother would have loved it if I had been a saint, but I’m far from it. I’m a very real guy,’’ he says.

New Delhi: The outrage in Parliament over the upcoming auction in New York of Mahatma Gandhi’s spectacles and other personal belongings is ironic. For, the same Parliament that’s indignant now about the Mahatma’s belongings being auctioned off, showed remarkable apathy while allowing an absurd piece of law that has made bringing back anything of ‘‘historical interest’’ to the country frustratingly difficult.

In the backdrop of mobile phones having Indian SIM cards and UAE’s Thuraya satellite phone used by Pakistani terrorists during Mumbai attack last week, the home ministry on Wednesday asked the department of telecommunication (DoT) to quickly devise a mechanism of a “strict consumer verification” exercise and formulate a comprehensive policy on “monitoring and intercepting” sat phones.

Hate charging your cellphone every now and then? Well, a self-powering handset that never needs to be charged is on the anvil — thanks to the efforts of a researcher who has developed a new technology that could make self-powered devices a reality.

The self-powering cellhone won’t require its battery to be charged because it would convert sound waves produced by the user into the energy it needs to keep running.