Vodafone launches East STD bonus pack for Tamil Nadu prepaid customers

Vodafone has released East STD bonus pack for its prepaid customers in Chennai and Tamil Nadu. This offers lets you call your friends and relative in the Eastern parts of India at cheaper call rates.
In the East STD bonus pack, you could make land-line or mobile phone calls to states like West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Orissa, from your Vodafone prepaid connection at 30paise/minute.
This pack costs Rs 28 with the validity of 30 days, and it could be activated by dialing *121*28# from your Vodafone prepaid connection.

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Nuance launches Dragon Remote Microphone app for iPhone and iPad

Nuance Communications has launched Dragon Remote Microphone app, that lets you control your PC applications using your iPhone or iPad as a microphone. To use this app you need to install Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11.5 on your PC and both the PC, and the iPhone or iPad must be connected to the same Wi-Fi network.Just launch the Dragon Naturally Speaking application on your PC and add 'dictation source to current user profile' from the profiles menu and select Dragon Remote Microphone App. You need to install Bonjour for windows that lets your device to find your computer automatically.
Here is a short demo of the Dragon Remote Mic app from their YouTube channel:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R5FEgyWtWA
After launching the Dragon Remote Mic app, select your PC, and the active Dragon remote profile would be displayed, if you have already installed Bonjour. You could also enter your PC details such as PC's name, IP address and port number manually, by clicking the gears icon on the bottom and selecting the manual entry.
After selecting your profile just click the button to speak into your iPhone's or iPad's Mic, to control your PC applications. Download Dragon Remote Microphone app from the Apple iTunes store for iPhone and iPad that runs iOS 4.3 and later for free.

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Microsoft launches Answers website in BETA

Consumers worldwide now have another way of seeking help from peers. Microsoft has today launched Microsoft Answers BETA: http://answers.microsoft.com/windows for providing community support for Windows Vista. If you have an issue or want to learn a few things about Windows Vista, this may be your destination.

Microsoft Answers Website is:

· A rich, interactive community self-help experience moderated by Windows Vista support engineers.

· One place for consumers to quickly and easily find Windows Vista support content from Microsoft and the community.

· A site built with consumers in mind—from content to tone to aesthetic.

Till The landscape for Windows community support has been dominated by 3rd party communities e.g. neowin, winsupersite.

If you are in India, there is an option that you may want to explore. The community at www.merawindows.com has been active for more than 2 years and has an impressive base of over 6000 users. The forums are extremely active there and the latest news is shared by community from all over India.

Check Microsoft Answers and let us know what you think about it!

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Microsoft India launches Online Services

Cloud based services have been in focus for a few years now. From FREE online email services (e.g. hotmail, gmail) to paid online services (e.g. Google Apps, Office Online, Yahoo Premium emails), the adoption of these services has been steadily rising. The safety of these applications have been questioned (as exposed by recent Twitter docs leak)..

While Microsoft had launched its service in US way back, it has now launched these services in India. These services follow the initial launch of Hosted Exchange and Hosted Dynamics. These pay as you go/ subscription based services are meant for companies who want to avoid internally maintaining these basic IT services.

The service is being launched as Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite. This suite includes Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Office Live Meeting and Microsoft Office Communications Online.

Exchange Online provides email, calendaring and contact management. Sharepoint Online is a collaboration suite for managing content and workflows. Office Live Meeting is a online conference solution to host real-time meetings, training session and events. Office Communications Online provides Instant messaging and presence awareness to facilitate rapid connections between people.

Currently, the Productivity Online Standard Suite (that includes all the above) is priced at USD 180/ per user per month. Individual applications can also be bought individually. The service is providing FREE trails right now. The commercial launch will be in Oct 09.

Google the other player in this space provides the service at USD 50/ per user per year. However, this doesn’t include any conferencing facilities.

The service details can be accessed at: http://www.microsoft.com/india/onlineservices 

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