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Around the world, people are compelled to be content with their 5-megapixel camera phones, which seem to be the best camera phones the market can offer. It won’t be too long before the 5-MP phones are eclipsed by this new Samsung technology. Samsung unveiled their new 8.5mm 8-megapixel camera phone module. The new camera module features Low Light Trio for shooting at dark places, “smile recognition” instead of the old face recognition which means the picture will only be taken when smiles of all the faces are recognized, an “eye flicker” recognition which would prevent a picture from being taken when you have your eyes closed. If and when this Samsung technology is fully-developed, it could mean the revolution of high-megapixel cameras for ultra-slip phones, but we’ll just have to wait and see.

Bangalore, March 14 Soon mobile phones would replace the physical airline ticket. Passengers would just be required to flash their mobile phone and gain access to the terminal building and speedily finish boarding procedures thereafter. For the airports, it would mean efficient boarding and handling more number of passengers.

Siemens Airport Systems Laboratory in Bangalore is working out a technology which would replace the physical boarding pass.

“This is different from the facility being offered by some travel portals and airlines currently. When you book a ticket, the airline sends you information like PNR number, etc as an SMS. This still means that you need to show it at the airline counter and take a print out. However, this new technology works just like Web check-in, where you can check-in, select your seat through the mobile phone and then you receive a 2D Bar Code which would replace the boarding pass. You could flash it at the airports where a reader validates it and so wherever required passenger will use this bar code,” Mr Ravi Shankar, Head of Aviation Systems, Siemens Information Systems Ltd, told Business Line.

Cost-efficient

This technology comes under International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) ‘Simplifying the Business’ programme, he added. In terms of cost too, Siemens said that it would not be much as in terms of physical systems only few bar code readers would need to be installed. The company was unable to give a firm estimate now as it is still someway to go. The company plans to run a pilot project with the same in India by early next year in the new Hyderabad or Delhi airports. According to Mr Shankar, Delhi airport looks more probable in the wake of forthcoming Commonwealth Games.

“We still need to finalise a carrier for this technology as it would require a GSM operator. Some infrastructure issues also need to be worked out like reader for the mobile phones at the airports and a server somewhere,” he said.

Deadline

With the events like Commonwealth Games there would be a requirement for efficient boarding and handling more passengers which the company sees as a good opportunity to implement such a technology. IATA has already set June 1, 2008 as the deadline for ‘100 per cent electronic ticketing’. The industry will save over $3 billion annually through the same, according to the organisation.

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an emerging leader in digital video software,announced a series of major enhancements to its acclaimed consumer service, www.FixMyMovie.com. Users can now experience one-step sharing of videos from mobile phones via MMS or email, as well as free enhancement and iPhone(R) conversion.

Videos sent to FixMyMovie are automatically enhanced up to 4x their resolution, with poor lighting conditions automatically fixed, bringing dark videos back to life. In addition, low frame-rate videos are stabilized and smoothed, and videos are converted to high-bitrate H.264 for the best possible quality.

Newly-added features allow anyone with a mobile phone to automatically send movies directly from their phone to upload@fixmymovie.com — no account on FixMyMovie.com is required. Once received, videos are automatically enhanced, and a link to the video is sent back via email or SMS. Registered users can then send the videos where they want — a single click to YouTube(R), or embed the video on MySpace(R) pages, blogs, and individual websites, or send a link to the newly-enhanced videos to any email address.

Once registered with FixMyMovie.com, new videos sent from phone or email go automatically to a personal gallery on the site, where they can be easily shared. If a user hasn’t registered, the service will create an account and email back details — ideal for first-time mobile users seeking to easily try out the service with a minimum of typing.

www.FixMyMovie.com also prepares high-resolution versions of videos for a variety of devices. This includes a high-resolution iPod(R)/iPhone(R)/AppleTV(TM) compatible version and a Microsoft(R) Windows Media(R) version of the file. Lastly, users can now grab high-resolution JPEG pictures from any video — just pause your video in FixMyMovie and hit the ‘capture’ button. The service creates a JPEG of that moment in time that surpasses the resolution of the original video. This is a great new way to get high-res photos from your videos

1. code:    *2767*JAVA#     -this code provides a Java Reset.

2. code:   *2767*MEDIA#   -this code will delete All Sounds and Pics and other media on the phone
   

Check out the tutorial here : http://www.crankup.net/?p=141

A little hack found on the forums on about how to access the net from a pc using a mobile with Airtel prepaid card. Enjoy!
Raw Materials: PC/Laptop and necessary connectivity tools ,ie.,
Serial/USB cable OR Infrared Device OR Bluetooth dongle to connect the mobile to the computer.

1) Activate Airtel Live! ( It’s FREE so no probs)

2)Create TWO Airtel GPRS data accounts (yep TWO) and select the
FIRST as the active profile.

3) Connect your mobile to the PC (or Laptop) and install the driver for
your mobile’s modem.

4) Create a new dial-up connection using the NEW CONNECTION
WIZARD as follows

Connecting Device : Your mobile’s modem
ISP Name : Airtel (or anything you like)
Phone Number : *99***2#
Username and Password : blank

5) Configure your browser and download manager to use the proxy
100.1.200.99 and port 8080.( My advice is to use Opera since you
can browse both wap and regular websites)

6) Connect to the dial-up account. You will be connected at 115.2
kbps (but remember, that is a bad joke).

7) Pick up your mobile and try to access any site. You will get “Access
Denied…”(except for Airtel Live!). IT DOES NOT MATTER.
Keep the mobile down.

8 ) On the PC ( or Laptop) open your browser, enter any address ,
press ENTER and…….WAIT

9) After a few seconds the page will start to load and you have the
WHOLE internet at your disposal.
10) Thank the one who gave you this hack!

Today i am sharing top five tips for iPhone that will increase you productivity using your iphone.

1. Use your iPhone as a storage device - use your iphone to store music and videos.

2. Get a bigger keyboard for Web browsing - rotate your iPhone horizontally before tapping the address bar, the Safari window will switch to horizontal mode.

3. Make a call from Safari - Just tap the number; iPhone will dial it for you.

4. Another way to scroll through Contacts - hold your finger on the alphabetical list and then slide up and down.

5. Free up your memory space. - iPhone offers to delete videos after you have watching them.

And click here to get 22 other hot iPhone tips from computer world

This is the first time that Sony Ericsson has not used the Symbian operating system, in which it is a shareholder

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