Israel will begin allowing people to bring Apple iPads into the country starting on Sunday, two weeks after customs began confiscating the tablet computers for fear they would interfere with other wireless devices. “Following the completion of intensive technical scrutiny, Israel Minister of Communications Moshe Kakhlon approved the import of (the) iPad to Israel,” the Communications Ministry said in a statement. The ministry had banned importation of the touchscreen devices saying they did not meet European standards, adopted by Israel, for wireless use of communications frequencies.
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Israel Lifts Ban on Imports of Apple iPad
April 26th, 2010 
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No Comments »Marty Cooper, The Alexander Graham Bell Of The Mobile Phone Points To The Future
April 24th, 2010 admin Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone finally proved successful on March 10, 1876 , when the first complete sentence was transmitted: “Watson, come here; I want you.” Almost 100 years later, looking like an updated version of Maxwell Smart’s shoe phone, Marty Cooper, the inventor of the cell phone made his first call using the device, on April 3, 1973 from the penthouse suite of the New York Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan. Clunky by today’s standards, he used the first Motorola DynaTAC prototype and talked to his rival, Dr. J
Posted in Tech News Tags: chicago, country, kansas, motorola, People, seattle, Skin, technology, united-states No Comments »Finally a Law to Tackle Mounting e-waste in India
April 22nd, 2010 admin India is finally set to have a law which can tackle head on the mounting problem of electronic waste dumped in the country. “The provisions of the new law could be such as could effectively monitor the trade in electronic waste and reduce illegal imports,” Ravi Agarwal, director of Toxics Link, said in an interview.
Posted in Tech News Tags: brazil, china, country, government, indian, infrastructure, malaysia, south-korea, toxics, toxics-link, vietnam No Comments »Intex Launches Dual SIM QWERTY Phone
April 21st, 2010 admin After launching water resistant and long battery phones, Intex has now launched the country’s first ultra-affordable Dual SIM, QWERTY mobile phone at Rs. 2,200. The Dual SIM handset (GSM +GSM) features GPRS, WAP,a 1.8″ screen, audio/video player, equalizers, wireless FM radio, mobile tracker and black list – an in-built feature to block 10 callers of your choice
Posted in Tech News Tags: choice, country, during-power, english, handy-gizmo, launching-water, long-battery, mobile-phone, mobile-tracker, phone-supports, torch-light, video-player, wap No Comments »Facebook? Twitter? Microsoft Tops Social Media Use
April 20th, 2010 admin Twitter and Facebook are the bane of many bosses, but a new survey has found that employees at Microsoft Corp are the most social media-savvy in the world. The survey, the first by sales and marketing contact database NetProspex, ranked the top 50 companies based on their social network membership, frequency of social media posts on Twitter and other blogs, and the friendliness or connectedness of a sample of employees for each organisation. The NetProspex Social Index was determined after an analysis of more than 100,000 business executives from the Fortune 1000 companies in the first quarter of 2010.
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