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Intel Corp., the world’s biggest chipmaker, reported a 25 percent increase in second-quarter profit after demand grew worldwide for personal-computer processors. Net income climbed to $1.6 billion, sales gained 9.1 percent to $9.47 billion.Chief Financial Officer Stacy Smith said he’s seeing strong demand globally and hasn’t felt any impact from a slowing U.S. economy. The outlook signals that technology may be holding up better than housing and financial markets. Intel also expects shipments of more-profitable laptop processors to overtake those of desktop-computer chips for the first time this year. This is a very important milestone.

Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini sped up the introduction of new products last year, helping the company win market share from Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel’s only remaining competitor in computer processors. Otellini, is now focusing on returning to double-digit sales growth by expanding outside the PC chip market.

Intel, whose results serve as a bellwether for computer demand, ushered in earnings season for U.S. technology companies. Microsoft Corp., International Business Machines Corp., Google Inc. and AMD will report results on July 17. So far this year, Intel shares have fallen 22 percent, compared with a 15 percent decline in the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index. Computer disk-drive maker Seagate Technology also reported results on Tuesday: its quarterly profit fell 70 percent amid an inventory overhang, and its shares fell 9 percent. Programmable chipmaker Altera Corp said its second-quarter profit rose on stronger sales, higher gross margin and lower costs. Its shares rose 7.5 percent.

Shipments of notebook processors rose about 5 percent from the first quarter, Intel released an updated design of its best- selling Centrino notebook chips yesterday to fuel demand this quarter.

The Intel division that makes memory chips and other semiconductors had an operating loss of $706 million last quarter on sales of $300 million. The memory business formed a joint venture to produce so- called Nand flash memory with Micron Technology Inc. The operation is suffering from a glut of the products, which store data in mobile devices such as Apple Inc.’s iPhone. Prices of flash chips fell as much as 20 percent in June. Intel expects price declines to continue for the rest of this year. Otellini also is trying to win sales in the mobile-device market with a new chip called Atom. It’s designed to power future smart phones such as the iPhone and Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry.

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The government has made it mandatory for all broadcasters — representing about 350-plus television channels that are currently allowed to be beamed on cable and direct-to-home (DTH) platforms — to share their feed with Headend-In-The-Sky (HITS), IPTV and Mobile TV, the new cable distribution platforms that have emerged recently.

This is going to be a bonanza for the customers as they will now have the option of watching television programs through a multitude of platforms. The governments decision is expected to make possible the entry of many more players into the Indian market. With Dish and TataSky already locked in a head on battle for increasing their subscriptions, this decision by the government is going to take the already fierce competition one step ahead with the arrival of newer players. All these new technologies will eventually lead to a vastly superior viewing experience and reduced cost of service for the consumers. The arrival of DTH brought salvation to many a consumer, who had to earlier dance to the whims of their local cable walas. With the entry of corporates into this market the consumers have witnessed an overall improvement in the quality of service.

The decision was a shot in the arm for the Dish TV owner Essel group whose HITS venture was locked in a dispute with broadcasters like STAR, SONY for sharing their channels with HITS. This move will also make Subhash Chandra-promoted Essel Group the pioneer of private DTH (Dish TV) and HITS. Dish TV is the first private DTH company in the country launched in late 2004, while WWIL an Essel subsidiary will become the first cable company to have launched HITS starting July-end.

Similarly, operators of IPTV (Bharti, Reliance Communications and MTNL) or Mobile TV (Doordarshan) can now demand from the broadcasters any channel they want, even in the trial-phase, till an overall policy for all the new platforms comes out, an industry source said. The government is yet to bring out its policy on HITS, IPTV and Mobile TV.

Headend in the Sky (HITS) is a new cable distribution platform that is similar in its technology with DTH. But unlike DTH, where the television signals reach the end consumers directly via satellite, in HITS, the cable operator receives the channels via a satellite multiplex service and then pushes them to the consumers through a set-top box. At a traditional cable television headend, multitudes of satellite dishes and antennas are used to grab cable stations from dozens of communication satellites. In contrast, HITS combines cable stations into multiplex signals on just a few satellites; cable television companies can then pull in hundreds of channels at the local headend with relatively little equipment; the HITS feed effectively replaces the more complex traditional headend operations.

Mobile TV involves bringing TV services to the mobile phones. It combines the services of a mobile phone with television content. Mobile TV over cellular networks allows viewers to enjoy personalized, interactive TV with content specifically adapted to the mobile medium. In addition to mobility, mobile TV delivers a variety of services including video-on-demand, traditional and live TV programs. Another exciting opportunity for users is Mobile TV pod casts, where content is delivered to a user’s mobile on demand or by subscriptions. Stored locally on the handset, this content can then be viewed even when there’s no network connection. And a service provider can schedule the delivery to “off-peak” hours, for example during the night.

IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) is a system where a digital television service is delivered using Internet Protocol over a network infrastructure, which may include delivery by a broadband connection. For residential users, IPTV is often provided in conjunction with Video on Demand and may be bundled with Internet services such as Web access and VoIP. The commercial bundling of IPTV, VoIP and Internet access is referred to as “Triple Play” service (adding mobility is called “Quadruple Play”).

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Cell phones and PDAs are now become the integral part of our life. Before buying to any Cell phone or PDA devices these can be deciding factors while choosing your favorite Cell phone or PDA.

Size and Weight : Cell phones and PDA’s are meant for mobile users and they must fit into your pocket. Business users need a full keyboard otherwise most users need a device that is small and fit into their hands.

Performance: If you are using your Cell phone or PDA for downloading and running application the you need a phone that had a good processing power. Performance is key factor in PDA’s because they run multiple applications. Phones come with 500Mhz processor are good enough for most mobile applications.

Operating System: Currently Windows Mobile and Symbian are the most widely available operating system in mobile devices, apart from these two operating system different manufacturers using different operating system and their are some proprietary mobile operating systems are also present in the market. The cost of Mobile phone is also depends upon’s the  type of operating system like Microsoft charge $12 to $14 for per mobile while Symbian charge only $4 to $6 per mobile phone.

Connectivity: A mobile device capable of connecting other devices or computers using Bluetooth and WiFi is good for sharing and synchronizing mobile device with other devices. Bluetooth or WiFi can also be used to connect to Internet. Bluetooth is widely used protocol not only for connecting devices as well as accessories. WiFi is not popular as compare to Bluetooth, WiFi can be used to stream audio and video files. WiFi is very useful when you don’t have GPRS connection at that your WiFi enabled devices can surf you internet in WiFi zone.

Input: Touch screen may not be as useful as keyboard. When it comes to playing games keyboard gives better experience as compare to touch screen mobile phones. While buying a keyboard enabled mobile phone make sure that all keyboard buttons have right feel.

Batteries: Battery with larger capacity is always good for mobile phones because it will keep your mobile phone powered for longer period of time. You can also look for batteries that can be charged through USB devices. Also check the battery claimed life and battery talk time.

Memory: Most mobile phones gives support for additional memory support. SD is the most cheapest and widely available kind of memory. Some mobile phone manufactures only support their own proprietary type of memory. These memory can be costlier then SD memory.

Signal Quality: Mobile phone should have a good reception because mobile phones are used for making and receiving phone calls. Check the phone signal performance inside a building as well as in outdoors. very few people check the signal quality of mobile phones.

There can be some other points also consider before buying the Mobile phone.

• Camera.

• GPS

• Sound Quality

• Design and Style

• Audio Playback, FM Support and Music Support

• Third Part software support

• Warranty

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Microsoft keeps improving Live search and this time they come with some more new features introduced in Live Search for Windows Mobile. Live Search for Windows Mobile includes Weather, Web search, Increased Traffic coverage, Bluetooth headset support, Map a contact, Delete a recent location.

Weather: Now Windows Mobiles users can view the weather conditions on their Windows Mobile using the Windows Live Search. Windows Live search for mobile also gives you the 4 days forecast.

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India’s wait for the popular touch-screen gadget, iPhone, would be over before the year-end. Although the phone is available in gray market for quite a time, but it is not officially launched in India. Till now the preferred way to grab an iPhone in India was to get someone to bring it from USA . But such phones had to be unlocked by selected software’s available online. Unlocking the Apple iPhone without losing call quality has been a matter of hot debate since the time of its global launch. But, the wait for officially available IPhone, seems to end now, after the announcement made on May 06, 2008.

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Now can send receive text messages on your computer via? using the Nokia Text Messenger. Nokia Text Messenger is a small utility software from Nokia Corp. Nokia Text Messenger comes in two different sizes. If you want to place the application in your Windows Sidebar, you can opt for Nokia Text Messenger in a smaller size. The sidebar gadget lets you view three text messages at a time.

If you want Nokia Text Messenger in a slightly larger size, you can have it floating freely on your desktop. In this case, text messages can be browsed in groups of five.

Before using Nokia Text Messenger make sure that? you have windows vista computer,Nokia PC Suite version 6.85 or later installed and work on all Nokia devices compatible with PC Suite

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Nokia has introduces the successor of it’s N95 smart phone that is N96. N96 has 16GB of internal flash memory and 8GB of expandable memory. This means you have 40 hours of video or you can store around 12000 mp3 songs. N96 captures video at 30frames per second result in a very good video quality. N96 also have a 5 MP digital camera with Carl Zeiss optics.N96 helps user’s to upload photos to photo sharing sites like flickr.

N96 has the Nokia’s Assisted GPS application.N96 also has the Nokia’s latest map 2.0

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Today Internet giant yahoo Inc. announced that it’s mobile services will be available on Google Phones and other mobile platforms. These mobile services allow yahoo to reach millions of customers. Yahoo is also to show mini web-sites on it’s web-site, these mini web-sites are from the eBay, MySpace and many other companies. These mini web-sites will be called as Wodgets.

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Now you can receive mobile calls on air. Air France announced that people traveling on international flights can receive and call mobile call using their “Mobile onAir” system. Passengers traveling via Airbus 380 operating European routes can now send and receive SMS and MMS messages also they can send and receive emails via their mobile phones. Soon passengers will be able to make mobile phone calls using “Mobile onAir” service.

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Today Nokia has launched it’s  new mobile phone “6110″.Nokia 6110 has SatNav functionality via a built-in GPS unit.

The new 6110 Navigator is an interesting proposition from Nokia: it sports all the features you’d expect from an N-Series phone, but in a mid-range “mass-market” offering.

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