January 31st, 2008
Annoyed that a friend did not reply to your scrap today? Or maybe someone special to you did not come to chat today. Well you are not the only one as large parts of India, Asia and the Middle East are suffering the same fate as yours.
Well this is because two undersea cables have been reportedly snapped by the anchor of a ship near the Egyptian coast. The ship anchoring around the Egypt’s Alexandria coast has snapped the cables belonging to Sea-Me-We and Indian-owned FLAG. The attempts to repair the cables have also been hampered by the rough weather and sea.
Rajesh Chharia, president of Internet Service Providers’ Association, said that it will take at least around two weeks of time to get the situation sorted out. In the mean time the companies will have to reroute the traffic onto the cables on the Pacific or else they just have to accept their inability for the moment till the connections are restored. He also indicated that some amount of limited connectivity might be retrieved shortly.
But this wont be enough as TeleGeography has said that the incident has reduced the connection capabilities by around 75% in the mid-east. In the mean time, in India the worst affected are the companies connecting to the US and Europe as the connections has been almost completely wiped out. Although the BPOs claim that they were not much impacted by the cut. Noticeably the BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange) was in no way affected as they are connected via VPN.
Although the situation looks grim chances are that you can still use the internet, well only if you can do with that low speed connectivity.
PS: I’m getting a really weird feeling writing this article on the net though; just wondering if people will be to see this!!! HELLO ANYONE THERE…. Maybe you can drop us a comment below and make your presence felt.
UPDATE:
Now there has been 2 more instances of damaged undersea cables. Taking the toll to 4 withing a week. Read here
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January 31st, 2008
Jimmy spoke about himself and gave a history and brief introduction about Wikipedia, Wikipedia in India and his concentration in the present day &lsquoWikia&rsquo. He spoke about Wikia Search in detail during the interview (see video). He gave interesting fact like there are over 200,000 articles in English on Wikipedia, but still that is not even ¼ of all the articles on the site. And Wikipedia in Indian languages.
Read the full article on Jimmy Wales
here
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January 30th, 2008
We have seen several companies following iPhone with full screen touch displays. Now even Nokia has a admirer in Japan as it seems. The Softbank 922SH smartphone has a design largely inspired by the Nokia E90 communicator. But there is more to it, the amazing colours that it offers and that super smart antenna!
Features:
- 3.5" LCD ASV display (480 x 854 resolution)
- 1Seg Digital TV Tuner
- 2.1MP Camera (I know, could have been better)
- microSDHC card support
- Bluetooth, HSPDA
- Wt. 132gms
See the entire picture gallery here
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January 29th, 2008
OnlyGizmos Exclusive:
The most awaited lecture of the TechFest’08 was the lecture by Mr. Jimmy Wales (Founder Wikipedia). Before the lecture started a trophy was presented to the best performing college of the TechFest. Jimmy Wales arrived just an hour before the lecture in the IIT campus. Even with that minimum amount of time, he was all ready for the presentation. What didn’t come to us as a surprise was the long (really long) Q for the lecture (seemed even longer than the Q for Technoholix)
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