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Thanks to Milind for reminding me about the Macworld 2007 : Steve jobs keynote . I was on engadget from last 2 hours tracking their every announcement waiting for something cool. And they did it ! The iPhone ! Trust me , its going to be a bigger hit than the iPod.

This marvelous thin piece is a 11.6 millimeter device 3.5-inch wide touchscreen display with multi-touch support and a proximity sensor to turn off the sensor when it’s close to your face, 2 megapixel cam, 4GB or 8 GB of storage, Bluetooth with EDR and A2DP, WiFi that automatically engages when in range, and quadband GSM radio with EDGE, RUNS OS X, Apple quotes 5 hours of battery life for talk or video, with a full 16 hours in music mode.

Just one button ! You think it works with a stylus ? No need baby .. fingers will do !!

How much ?? 8 GB will cost 599 USD . Apple will launch it by June 07 in US. Europe in the 4th quarter of this year, Asia in 2008 .

P.S : You won’t probably believe but few days ago I actually wished Apple releases a phone !

Yup! Thats right, after a long search I finally ended up on this great piece of art from Apple ! My MacBook Pro, my baby ! I love it . You can’t possibly find anything to hate in it. Everything is just so cool.
I do think its a bit heavy for its size but who cares when it offers such a wonderful configuration.


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The recent Petrol/Diesel price hike is hitting hard on Indian commuters, India’s first carpooling website has become a big hit with them. Indimoto.com which was launched this April is helping hundeds of commuters in forming carpools across the country. Most of the Ads on are being posted by commuters from high traffic cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and banglore. The Carpools are indeed a good alternative to private transport. By forming capools commuters can share a vehicle and travel together, thereby saving fuel and vehicle maintanance costs. A car owner who drove alone to work can share his/her car with one - three people travelling on the same route and easily resuce the fuel expense by 50-75% with everyone sharing the fuel costs.
On Indiamoto commuters can post their own carpool ads in the carpool section or search for the ads listed according to city, area abd pin code thereby getting sharp and accurate results for free .There is also a privacy option where users can hide their personal information and manage responses to their carpool ads via the online mailbox itself.
Carpools also contribute greatly to the environmental preservation since lesser vehicle on the road means less air pollution and traffic congestion.

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Guess what ? Its not the only one . Jyoti Kalra from Mumbai Environmental Social Organization (www.mesn.org, a registered NGO) highlighted me of their new intiative called KOOLPOOL, an organized and secure Car-pooling via SMS, is an attempt at facilitating car-pooling in Mumbai and other large metro cities of the country.

Our efforts have been appreciated by many key people, including PCRA and Ministry of Urban Development, and large number of corporates are keen to be a part of this social initiative. Informal car-pooling must be taking place even now. But our sms based system
allows all the members to share the database and hence one doesn’t have to restrict oneself only to your neighbors or office colleagues. It is an ambitious concept but it can certainly work as the oil prices and congestion on urban roads are increasing at an alarming rate.

The Pentagon has released the 9/11 videos. Download before it get’s deleted . You can also see the videos at CNN.com.

Video 1 | Video 2

This is what Mukesh Ambani bought for 5.25 crores
What is a Maybach?
A Maybach is a high-end, ultra-luxury sedan. It can hold up to four passengers in regal splendor. Prices range from $300,000 to $400,000.
Maybach comes in two models — the Maybach 57 and the Maybach 62. The 57 is 5.7 meters long, and the 62 is 6.2 meters long, hence the model names. The two models are very nearly identical except for the length. The extra length of the 62 is used to increase the rear seat leg room.
The Maybach 62 also offers several options unavailable in the 57. For example, the 62 has fully reclining rear seats because it has extra leg room available in the rear to accommodate them.

Lost your MMC card ? Don’t worry SIM will do .MobileBurn Reports, French (Soon the world) Orange users can enjoy the power 500 MB SIM card. That is around 8000 times the normal ones. It is going to be launched by world popular Orange & card-based solutions provider Oberthur Card Systems.

The long time stalwart of the GSM mobile industry, the SIM card, is set to get an overhaul by European operator Orange and card-based solutions provider Oberthur Card Systems.

The new SIM (subscriber identity module) card, initially only available in France with the LG U8210 mobile phone, will contain 512MB of storage space, about 8000 times the current standard of 64KB. This increase in storage space can be used to store not only text messages and phone numbers, but also media files, games, and applications.

While specifics are not yet available, Orange has said that the new SIM card will be compatible with DRM solutions, allowing users to transfer licenses for purchased music to other handsets simply by moving the card over to the new handset.

The new SIM card, inventively called MegaSIM, is based on a platform produced by M-Systems, a flash storage developer that works with small form factor technologies.