Indian telecom major Bharti Airtel has partnered Singapore-based software applications developer U2opia Mobile to launch an application for mobile phones that will allow users to access Facebook on all kind of handsets without paying data connectivity charges. Airtel customers can update their Facebook status through this USSD service free of cost whereas Re 1 per day will be applicable for accessing the full-feature application. Airtel users can dial *325# and *fbk# for non-qwerty mobile handsets to access the app.
U2opia is using Unstructured Supplementary Data (USSD) technology which is used by telecom players to send alerts to their users informing them about their balance at the end of call or for sending miss call alerts. "It is like SMS and hence, the load on the network is negligible. We have built some commands through which a user can receive alerts on activity happening on his wall as well post an update,” Sumesh Menon, co-founder and CEO, U2Opia Mobile has said.

"In the Indian market scenario, where the penetration of smart phones is relatively low and the use of internet on mobiles is primarily limited to key cities, many users are excluded from accessing their Facebook accounts via mobile phones. We look forward to bringing millions of Facebook users in India closer to their love for social networking by allowing them to access it anytime, anywhere on their Airtel-powered mobile phones," Joshi added " Shireesh Joshi, director, marketing, mobile services, Airtel has said.
“At Facebook, we are always exploring ways to enable people to easily connect and share with friends on Facebook wherever they are, whenever they want. This innovative USSD-based Facebook access service that will be offered by Airtel is another affordable and easy way for people to stay connected with their friends and family through Facebook," ,” Henri Moissinac, head, Mobile Business, Facebook had said.

Acronis Nonstop Backup^™

This must have feature has been expanded to support Acronis Secure Zone^®, enabling you to recover on the fly, wherever you are, to any point in time, from a secure partition on your hard drive, even if your operating system has failed. (Note: requires working hard disk drive).

Graphical User Interface

A redesign of our user-friendly interface includes new features like Drag and Drop for faster navigation, Wizards and One-Click configuration tools to select the best backup and restore options for your needs.

Predefined backup schemes

Acronis True Image Home offers you predefined backup schemes designed for specific user needs - from a disk space-efficient scheme suitable for users with limited backup storage capabilities to a scheme for those users who need higher security for their data and system. The program offers different backup schemes for disk and file type backups. You just select a scheme and the program automatically manages your backups. In addition, you can create a custom backup scheme which will exactly suit your needs.

Full Windows 7 Integration

Discover how well Acronis^® True Image^™ Home 2011 and Windows^® 7 work together to best protect your PC. Enhancements include Acronis integration within the Backup and Restore section of the Windows 7 Control Panel; the ability to view and restore previous file or volume versions from the Context menu; backup and restore of Windows libraries; and the ability to launch Acronis^® True Image^™ Home 2011 backups.

Time Explorer

You'll find this only with Acronis: an easy way to view and manage your backup files from a single screen. Annotate backup comments and review screenshots that show the state of the desktop at the moment of the backup.

USB 3.0 support

Acronis True Image Home supports the new USB 3.0 standard. If your motherboard can work with USB 3.0 hard disk drives, you can use the high data transfer speed offered by the new standard to make your backups run much faster.

Core Features

Disk Imaging

Backup the entire system on the fly with our patented disk imaging technology. It ensures the recovery of your operating system and applications without reinstalling any software.

File Backup

Back up individual files, folders or file categories.

Acronis Secure Zone^®

Secure partition that allows you to store a disk backup on your system drive. Recover on the fly, wherever you are, even if your operating system has failed.

Set&Forget^™

Configure just once and Acronis software performs the backups automatically from that point on.

Exclude files and folders

Back up only the data you want in order to save disk space.

Acronis^® Startup Recovery Manager

Boot and restore a system after a failure. Start the recovery process simply by selecting the F11 key, even if your operating system has failed.

Reserve Backup Copy

Store multiple copies of the backup in another pre-defined location in a pre-selected format.

Virtual Hard Disk Support

Convert Acronis' backup images (.tib) into virtual hard disk files(.vhd) and vice versa, providing compatibility for Microsoft Windows 7 backup.

Privacy tools

Thorough system cleaning and reliable data destruction of files, partitions, or volumes.

Acronis Online Backup capability

Optional Acronis online storage services are available to automatically backup valuable data or files over the internet to a secure location.

Dynamic Disks and GPT Support

Is available with Acronis True Image Home 2011 Plus Pack

Incremental and differential backups

Acronis^® True Image^™ Home 2011 gives you alternatives to performing full backups every time by offering incremental and differential backups. Both capture changes only and save disk space with Acronis^® data compression.

Try&Decide^®

Safe environment for risk-free testing of new software or visiting websites with potentially dangerous content.

Clone Disk

Copy your entire Hard Drive and replace it with a new one without reinstalling operating systems and applications, saving hours of effort.

Smart Scheduling

Run backups automatically at preset or elapsed time, when the user is idle, on user logon/logout, on system startup/shutdown, or in coordination with other events.

One-Click Protection

Create a backup strategy of the system and implement it with just one click.

Boot from Windows 7 image

Windows 7 Ultimate users can boot from a backup image (.tib file) containing a backup of their system partition. This will allow the ability to test a backed up system without actual restoration. If the operating system boots from the .tib file, then it will boot when the need arises for a system recovery.

Live Backups

Keep working right through your backup for maximum convenience.

Image Encryption with Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

Protect your backup data by encrypting with industry standard security tools: 128, 192 and 256-bit encryption.

Windows-style Interface

The new, sleek interface of this product works on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.

Acronis True Image Home Plus Pack

Optional module that includes the flexibility to restore files, applications and an operating system to dissimilar hardware as well as providing support for Dynamic Disks and Microsoft^® Windows Preinstallation Environments (WinPE).

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What is Amazon Cloud Drive?

Amazon Cloud Drive is your hard drive in the cloud. Store your music, videos, photos, and documents on Amazon's secure servers. All you need is a web browser to upload, download, and access your files from any computer. Get more details about using Cloud Drive

5 GB of free online storage

Your Cloud Drive comes with 5 GB of free storage—enough space to store up to 1000 songs. This space is yours to use as you like and you will never be charged for it.

Unlimited, secure access from any computer

Use your Amazon Cloud Drive as the go-to location for all your important files. At work, at home, during your commute or while on vacation—you'll always have access to everything you've uploaded to your Cloud Drive through your Amazon account.

Never worry about losing your files again

Store files in your Cloud Drive and never worry about losing them if your computer crashes, or is lost or stolen.

Songs purchased from Amazon MP3 are stored in your Cloud Drive for free

When you purchase songs or albums from the Amazon MP3 Store, you can now save your purchases to your Cloud Drive. All your purchases are backed up and available for you to download at any time. Even better, you can listen to your music from any web-connected computer with Amazon Cloud Player.
And the best part? When you save your Amazon MP3 Store purchases directly to your Cloud Drive, they don't take up any of your storage space and are always stored for free.

Buy an MP3 album—get 20 GB of storage free for a year

Purchase an album from the Amazon MP3 Store and we'll give you 20 GB of storage free of charge for one year from the date of your purchase. That's enough space to store up to 4000 songs. You can keep your 20 GB storage plan after the year is up or do nothing and we'll drop you down to our free 5 GB plan. Don't worry—you will never be charged for storage space unless you choose to upgrade to a paid storage plan. Learn more about the 20 GB promotion

Additional storage plans available: 20 GB to 1000 GB

Need more than 5 GB of space? They offer paid storage plans with up to 1000 GB of space. These plans are billed annually and renew automatically for your convenience.

One of important feature that Amazon cloud drive is missing is sharing file with friend, family by email. This is features is found in Dropbox.com and other online storage solutions

Orkut is planning to change the interface of Orkut.based on user feedback, They’ve worked on some simple changes to Orkut’s look and feel.They will roll these changes out gradually to all users, in approximately two weeks from now. No invitation will be required as everyone will get the update -- so if you don’t see anything right away, just sit tight and you’ll see them soon!
Orkut has done such implementation in view of Facebook. I did n't liked the recent new interafce of orkut,but this new change that Orkut is planing in week time is somewhat good. This look reminds the Facebook view

Here are some of the new enhancements that you’ll begin to see in a few weeks:

• Left navigation, to help you get to the most popular features more easily.
• A new larger profile photo, a popular request. Be sure to upload a higher resolution photo of yourself!
• New full profile view, which lets you and your friends see your info, interests, badges, testimonials and recent photos and videos.
• New fullscreen slideshow for photos.

Fade up of getting inaccurate  information on movement of trains? Not able to get correct information about timing of trains? Help is expected soon with the Railways going ahead with the Rs 110 crore satellite-based system to replace manual tracking of trains to provide its exact position on real-time basis.
The real-time train information system (RTIS) aims to provide train running information to the public through internet, SMS on mobile phones, call centres and through train indication boards at stations.
It will also give information to  passengers travelling in train through the provision of display system inside the coaches. Indian railway has already started provision of having internet in some trains.
“Efforts are on to replace the manual recording system with RTIS by connecting 8,000 trains and 8,177 stations across the country,” said a senior Railway Ministry official.
To keep track of trains, currently station masters call up the control room at the divisional headquarters every time a train passes their station.

IncrediMail 2 is a free email program that manages all your email messages, communications, contact details, and email transactions. IncrediMail is all about having fun with your email. Following are the features with incrediMail

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Make every email personal by quickly
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• Get notified of incoming emails by special animated characters (we call them Notifiers)
• Manage all your emails from different accounts (like Yahoo and Gmail) in one place
• Letter Creator is an add-on to IncrediMail that lets you create your own IncrediMail email Backgrounds and Ecards. When you download the IncrediMail email program, you automatically get a free trial version of the Letter Creator – there’s no need to download anything else in addition.