Aircel to hit Indian markets

Aircel has launched its services in 23 circles in India.

Malaysian based Maxis group is investing its money in Aircel (its vehicle here). Maxis has plans of launching it 3G services in India. Its a good plan to first get hold into the market and then expand.

Today, the TV advertisements, Newspaper ads are full of Aircel. This clearly shows how much importance they are giving to publicity.

Maxis will bid in the 3G autions as they see lot of potential in Indian 3G market. Aircel has launched its plans in Delhi with very cheap rates.

Aircel has very cheap calling plans and will surely make other providers to lower their call rates. Apart from rates, Aircel also offers many other features. We will soon cover a post talking about various calling plans and rates offered by Aircel.

Google blocks popular iPhone SMS app

Google will block an iPhone application that harnesses its Google Talk chat program to provide a free text-message service after too many users flocked to download it. The Infinite SMS app, which cost 99 cents and let users send unlimited text messages from an iPod or iPhone, quickly became one of the 10 most-downloaded apps in the iPhone Store after its release last month, developer Inner Fence said in a statement on its Web site.

But the company stopped sales of the app on Monday after Google notified it that the program would be blocked, Inner Fence said.

"Google has claimed no grievance with Infinite SMS other than its success. Their given reason for the block isn’t abuse or wrongdoing; it’s that we brought too many users (and thus too much cost) to an experimental service," Inner Fence said.

The company said it built the application using an open protocol made available by Google for just such a purpose. "We never could have guessed that the two of us would write an app too big for Google," the company's founders said.

Google said it would continue to offer free SMS through Google Talk, but it will block Infinite SMS and other non-Google clients that use the service to deliver text messages starting on Wednesday.

"Infinite SMS is a third party app that has been using Google technology to provide free SMS to users, while we were paying for the cost of the text messages," a Google spokesman said via e-mail.

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Indian Stock market is bouncing each day, with rates rising and falling. If you have invested in stocks then it become quite necessary to keep an update on your stock prices. Its equally important to be aware of all stock tips and updates. At this fast moving time, its also very difficult for people to remain connected to their PC for keeping stock updates.

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Skype has finally released SILK

Skype VOIP has slowly popping out from their shell and opening up their propietary audio codecs to the entire VOIP industry. Skype has been known to keep their award winning audio codecs private. We all know that Skype has some great in house audio codecs which can deliver great sound quality at much lower bandwidth usage but it wasnt readily available for third party integration.

Skype has finally released SILK, a New Skype-designed and developed default audio codec for all Skype-to-Skype calls. SILK is currently used in the latest version of Skype. If you don't have latest skype version, I strongly suggest you download one, its way better than older version and has superior audio quality.

Skype claims that with SILK, a super wideband audio codec it redefines the entire VOIP market by giving the best audio quality on VOIP calls with almost 50% less bandwidth usage.

What did they achieve with SILK codec:

-improved audio bandwidth going from 8 kHz to 12 kHz, meaning that a SILK conversation sounds like you are in the same room as the person you are speaking with. SILK can go upto 24 Khz.
-provides real-time bandwidth scalability to deal with degraded network conditions

-balancing codec optimization between voice, music and background noise, each of which can have an impact on the overall user experience.

-delivering a robust solution that delivers a more consistent audio experience, regardless of network conditions and an individual user’s voice signature

Skype is now expecting that industry and third party application developers will adopt SILK as a standard in wideband audio. SiLK is available for FREE. It would be interesting to see SILK adoption with Trixbox, Asterix and the likes with wideband hitting the entire VOIP world.

Nokia Looking for 3G

Nokia and Verizon will surprisingly get to work together on a new touchscreen device that will run on the upcoming 4G LTE network. Experience is the best teacher more often than not, and after seeing both parties' financial books hurt by AT&T's successful exclusive deal with the iPhone, both Nokia and Verizon hope to lead the charge where next generation wireless technology is concerned in an exclusive partnership. We have no idea on what this phone will be or look like, but it is encouraging to see the Finnish cell phone manufacturer do its best to stay ahead of the curve. A clear departure from the way Nokia does things as they normally don't tie themselves down to just one carrier, but extraordinary times calls for extraordinary measures.

Nymgo offering cheap calling packages allover

Nymgo, a UK voip provider was launched last year only and with such amazing cheap calling packages it gained too much publicity and users have increased to great extent.

Nymgo offers unlimited calling packages and Pay as you go plan.(cheap calls to India under pay as you go plan).

However, the world package offered by Nymgo is remained undiscussed on many voip blogs.

In Nymgo World package, by paying just $14.99 you get 10000 minutes of talktime to landlines in following countries.

Countries list
Austria
Italy
Belgium
Netherlands
Canada (Landline and mobile)
Norway
Denmark
Portugal
France
Russia
Germany
Spain
Greece
Sweden
Hungary
Switzerland
Ireland
UK
USA (Landline and mobile)

I guess this package is also very good for people who run a international business matching the need to call various countries under one plan. We have already discussed about using Nymgo Pc to Phone calling service as well as making voip Phone to Phone calls using SIP.

The effective rate under this plan comes to just .14 cents per minutes (hey its 1.49 cents its 0.149 cents .