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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.

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

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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The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week may see the first mobile phone to incorporate Google’s open-source Android platform

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Fancy creating your own mobile phone, built to your specifications? Then head over to zzzPhone, a firm that lets you customize your handset just as you like it,when ordering.

When ordering a mobile phone from zzzPhone, you choose a base model and colour, then pick what components you like, and their specifications. You can add functionalities such as a high-resolution 7-megapixel camera sensor, GPS features, or additional storage of up to 4GB to your phone, in the same way Dell sells its computers.

US-based zzzPhone said it uses the same “high quality components as major brands Motorola, Nokia, Palm, and Samsung; these unlocked, tri-band mobile phones deliver features that exceed those offered on the ultra-popular Nokia N95 and Apple iPhone, at less than half the price.”

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Don’t charge your mobile the whole night and don’t keep it near by. And never, ever answer a cell phone while it is being recharged.

A few weeks ago, a person was recharging his cell phone at home. Just at that time a call Came in and he answered it with the instrument still connected to the outlet. After a few seconds electricity flowed into the cell phone unrestrained and the young man was thrown to the ground with a heavy thud. His parents rushed to the room only to find him unconscious, with a weak heartbeat and burnt fingers

Never use the cell phone while it is hooked to the electrical outlet!

ANZ will be the first bank in Australia to launch a browser based mobile phone banking service , which is expected to launch soon( By Middle of the February )

ANZ will offer two services. One is TXT Banking, which uses SMS to deliver a customer’s account balances and view the last five transactions. The more sophisticated service is M-Banking, which enables customers to use their mobile phones to transfer money between their accounts or to other bank accounts in Australia.

TXT Banking can be used on any phone, but M-Banking requires a device that can install Java applications and has GPRS internet access. On its website, ANZ lists 76 phones compatible with M-Banking.After installing the application and activating their mobile accounts, users of M-Banking can view account balances and past transactions or transfer money to an account at another bank.

Mobile banking transactions are protected using SSL encryption, which is the same technology used to secure many transactions on the internetRead More…

When SMS was introduced at the beginning of the 90ies in Europe, it was basicly free. There were SMS gateways all over the Internet. But then the carriers were recognizing the marketing potential of SMS, and slowly the prices per single message were rising until they reached 49 ct (in Germany at the end of the 90ies). Only when parents were stunned by the SMS cost of their children, protests started to mount, and then the diverse regulation offices in the different countries were trying to limit SMS prices, so there were actual plans which included for example 1000 short messages per month.

A standard SMS message contains up to 140 bytes (1120 bits) of data - this takes care of the 160 characters allowed in your text message. This might not make sense at first, until you realize that SMS uses 7 - not 8 - bit characters - leaving you with 128 possible character values instead of the normal 256. So 1120bits/7bits = 160 characters.

So our total message length is about a tenth of a kilobyte (.13671875 Kbytes). In terms that the iPod generation would understand - if you had an iPod with a tenth of a kilobyte you could fit 1/4000th of a song on it. I assume here and for the rest of this article that 1 song = 4 Megabytes.

If you divide 140 (the total number of bytes available to you) by 20 (the cost per message), you find that you are paying 1 cent for every 7 bytes of data. This leaves you with a cost of $1,497.97 for the 1024Kbytes contained in a single megabyte. iPod users: It would cost you $5,991.88 to transfer - not even to buy - a single song via SMS.

I found this article give us more insight about the play behind this SMS business, Read More…

Throw your digital camera, and buy a Samsung G600 phone which offers a 5 mega pixel camera. It is a slim slide model with wide and big screen, bluetooth and micro SD. It delivers 262K color with 2.3-inch TFT QVGA display and standard USB port. This model will available in India soon, and the price is not yet known here.

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See, how bluetooth technology helped him to walk into life again…

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