Nokia has launched a range of services called as Nokia Life Tools currently for India only, which includes Agriculture, Education and Entertainment related services designed specially for the consumers in small towns and rural areas of India as one of top emerging mobile markets. Nokia Life Tools is an icon-led, graphically rich mobile application which provides timely and relevant information customized to the user’s location and personal preferences directly on their mobile phones. It has capability to display two different languages simultaneously on the same screen, thereby enhancing usability. In Agriculture info segment, the app is one of a kind in India that provide information on weather, agriculture tips & techniques, as well as market prices to improve productivity and earnings for people in agriculture business or niche profession. In Educational segment the app provide national examination results delivered straight to mobile phones along with quizzes, coaching, advice and tips for students and learners. In Entertainment Nokia Life tools provide exciting and personal entertainment services such as latest news, music, astrology and cricket scores. Moreover, the service is independent of any complex settings/ configurations to have access to GPRS on their mobile phones, but whence the Nokia life Tools application is activated ,the customer can ...

A new video that got viral in just one day is a video shot of protest in Iran, where a man has shot in head and gruesomely killed and people around are busy taking pictures/ videos with their mobile phones. This disturbing video has already got over 1k visits in just few hours of its posting on Youtube. Viewer discretion is advised before viewing the video: Above all, what fall short in this video is humanity and compassion that you wont find in anyone this video even who is taking this video and probably posted it on Youtube. If seen carefully, the dieing man seems to be taking breath earlier and vomiting out blood, even than no body cares of healing him or dropping to hospital. Via Citizentube

Dhingana, a social networking portal around musical entertainment has added a Community IM within its portal similar to facebook, visible at bottom. This feature will allow users to chat in real time with their friends on Dhingana. Apparently, its a first Indian social platform to launch the community IM feature in first week of May in partnership with Meebo. Apart from chatting with other users on Dhingana, the Community IM feature also allows users to chat with all their friends from a variety of other networks like Yahoo!, Gmail, AOL, Facebook, Twitter, Hotmail etc. Users can also share music albums, songs, playlists, videos with their friends with just 2 clicks using the nice built in "share" feature. Meebo with its Community IM! Meebo is partnering with leading online communities such as Piczo, Flixter and yaari.com to deliver free, integrated, Web-based instant messaging (IM) to users. Meebo Community IM is designed to facilitate live interaction and real-time conversations between members of online communities such as social media, gaming, and blog networks. Although when I tried it personally over Firefox/ Vista, I had problem in signing in and status shows as offline. I believe though that its quite good mixture of IM along with music, ...

If you have been making and maintaining your profiles around social networking sites in India, than you can not deny that people are more interested these days in networking sites which have professional bent and career oriented rather than throwing just chatting words and scraps. In India more and more Professional Networking sites are coming in and not from just small scale start-ups but big brands too such as Times of India Group and Info Edge (company behind 99acres.com, naukri.com). Here are few top Indian based Professional Networking sites that are making quite good impression over Indian audience. Brijj.com is online professional network from same company who is behind 99acres.com and Naukri.com, the networking site launched in August 2007 and still in beta, has now gradually emerging as choice of people's own pro-networking site. PeerPower.com is another big brand supported Pro-networking community portal and little different to other networking portals in its peer portal. The portal is flagship of Time Business Online Pvt. Ltd. and its too in beta mode earlier it was in closed beta users mode. SiliconIndia - It is one most rapidly growing professional networking although carry more of a news aggregating site's features and traits. The home page consist of ...

Google has Introduced Page Speed, an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them. Google Page speed is very much in analogy of Yahoo's YSlow a similar Firefox/Firebug plugin which analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages, although google come late with such thing nevertheless Google's Page Speed provide bit more in-depth analysis than YSlow. Page Speed performs several tests on a site's web server configuration and front-end code. These tests are based on a set of best practices known to enhance web page performance. Webmasters who run Page Speed on their pages get a set of scores for each page, as well as helpful suggestions on how to improve its performance. Page Speed add-on also displays a timeline of network, cache and Javascript timeline event and events are displayed along the timeline and one can also record activities and collect complete call graphs for any single web page.

Now you can add Bollywood music and play latest songs in right into your Gmail and can even listen to latest releases, see public playlist or create your own and share. You can get this all by adding an Bollywood based OpenSocial app in Gmail setting developer by Dhinagana. One can add this application to any Gmail account and can listen to top songs from all music genres right from your Gmail account.Discover new music everyday & maintain your musical history and can also search for songs, albums, movies by year, actor, director, song name etc. Dhingana has already made an Orkut application on same Bollywood content in an opensocial development event at Google's headquarters in Mountain View and had even got award for same. To add the application in any Gmail account one has to enable one of the plugin of Gmail's recently introduced Labs feature called as - "Add any gadget by URL" plugin, after enabling this any one can get this app by adding this URL of widget app - http://www.dhingana.com/gmail, after adding this Dhingana widget can be seen in left just above invite a friend block of Gmail dashboard. The same has also been launched as iGoogle Gadget by Dhingana, ...

Microsoft today now revealed its buzzing search engine Bing's next offshoot - Bing Travel, it has flight and hotel search, airfare price predictions, travel news and community, travel deals, and more. Added to this, starting today itself, people searching on Bing search engine for hotels in a given city will get Bing Travel Instant Answers included directly in their search results, featuring the Rate Indicator, let them choose hotels etc. Moreover, from now onwards Microsoft acquired Farecast, previously farecast.live.com and MSN Travel will be entertained through Bing travel only. Farecast has been named one of Time Magazine’s “50 Coolest Websites” in 2006. In recent Press note Microsof mentioned some of Bing Travel’s key features such as - Price predictor, Rate indicator, comparison flight & hotel search and more. Bing Travel uses Farecast technology to analyze more than 175 billion airfare observations and predict whether the price of a flight is going up or down. It offers people a recommendation of “Buy Now” or “Wait,” including a confidence level and expected price increase or decrease over the next seven days. Bing travel will also be twittering at twitter as 'Fareologists' at Bing Travel to twit about airfare and hotel deals, industry trends, and travel news.

Microsoft has launched new interesting new control system for the Xbox 360 console, at E3 in Los Angeles called - Project Natal. The concept is very much in resemblance to Microsoft Future vision that the sofware giant had earlier given demo of. The new gaming & gaming experience is actually controller free gaming system that is fully hands-free control system and use face recognition and motion sensors. In Microsoft owns word it says; A revolutionary new way to play: no controller required. See a ball? Kick it, hit it, trap it or catch it. If you know how to move your hands, shake your hips or speak you and your friends can jump into the fun - the only experience needed is life experience. At demonstration, Microsoft Game Studios Creative Director Darren Bennett demonstrates painting with Xbox Project Natal, video below: During the demonstration of the project at Los Angeles, British developer Peter Molyneux showed how this game controller Natal could not only recognize faces, it could recognize facial expressions to determine what mood a player was in and react accordingly. The project natal is still in its early stage and development is under going along with the content such as more games ...