Prepaid Mobile users can get details by categorize.

In transparency for the prepaid mobile services, TRAI has issued a new directive to all mobile phone operators making it mandatory to provide accurate updates regarding all the calls made and data downloads- each time voice and data services are consumed by a user.

According to a press release issued by TRAI in that context, the telecom operator has said, ‘To ensure that a prepaid consumer is aware of the charges made on his last call or data usage, the service providers have been mandated to inform the consumer, through SMS, about the deduction from his account – after every call made or after every data usage session. This information will include the duration of the call or usage, the charges deducted, balance available, quantum of data usage. The consumer can also get details of his tariff plan, available balance in his account and details of any Value Added Service activated on his telephone number at any time from the service provider, free of charge.’

With this step, prepaid users can have an account of all the charges that have been levied on them by their telecom operator. That's not all. TRAI has also asked the telecom operators to ensure that ‘a prepaid consumer get their itemized usage of his account, the service providers have been mandated to provide the same within 30 days to the consumer on request and at a reasonable cost not exceeding Rs 50.’

The telecom regulator has also talked about providing colour coding to the vouchers for making them easily identifiable. TRAI has decided that, To promote further transparency and easy identification by consumers, a distinct colour band has been mandated to be provided on the reverse of the each voucher. The Plan Voucher will have a red colour band, the Top Up Voucher a green colour band and the Special Tariff Voucher a yellow colour band.

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Toshiba launched world's Thinnest Tablet.

Toshiba launched, what it calls the world's thinnest tablet at the CES. Toshiba The Excite X10 is just 7.7mm, around 0.9mm thinner is now the world’s thinnest 10-inch tablet, measuring in at just .3 inches thick and weighing just 1.2 lbs. But don’t forget that the iPad 3 is presumably just around the corner (along with quite a few Android slates this week), so anything can change than the previous thinnest tablet in the world, which is the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.

The 25.7-cm (10.1-inch) device comes with a capacitive touch screen with a 1280 x 800 pixel resolution. The tablet is powered by 1.2 GHz dual core TI OMAP4 processor and runs on Android 3.2 Honeycomb. Other specs of the tablet include 1GB of RAM, upto 64GB internal storage, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, microHDMI, microUSB, 5 megapixel rear camera, 2 megapixel front camera and memory expandable via microSD card.

However, one cannot say much about the 3G capabilities of the device as there are chances that the two versions of the Excite could be launched. The device will be launched initially in the US market at $529 (approx Rs 27,936) for the 16GB model and $599 (approx Rs 31,635) for the 32GB model.

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Your name will be a part of web domain from 12th Jan 2012.

The ICANN)(Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) which decides who gets to manage .com, .net and other domains to the right of the period in a URL, plans to begin accepting applications this week for a hugely expanded number of Web domain options.

For instance, you can apply for a domain name after yourself or your company. Like .Vishal if your name is Vishal or .Coke.

At present there are about 22 types of top-level domains (TLDs) such as .com or .gov; and country codes such as .in for India and .uk for the United Kingdom.

Reportedly, anyone will be able register any web address suffix for USD 185,000 (Rs 9,754,051 approx).

ICANN will start accepting applications from January 12.

You can be a part to get a biggest change in the online era. After long term of 30 years of its inception, on internet will allow users to have domain names of their choices.

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Change Logon screen in windows 7

Since Windows XP, windows login screen has been a beautiful entry point to your desktop. The background picture of Windows Login Screen is not only soothing to one’s eyes but also a status symbol among the geeks and alike. Using cool Background Pictures in Windows Login Screen was never easy, until we got Windows7.

  

Windows7 comes with pre-built functionality to change the login screen. You do not need any third-party tool filled with extremely difficult User Interface, hidden Trojans and Viruses, and cumbersome controls to change the login screen. All you need is to change an entry and Registry, create a couple of folders and most importantly, find that perfect picture that was always your dream background. Below is the method to change the Login Screen on Windows 7:

1. Press Win+R key and Type “REGEDIT” at run prompt (without quotes). Alternately, Press Start, click on Run and type.
2. Locate following registry key:

 HKey_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background.
3. Now in right-side pane, change value of OEM Background to 1 (originally it should be 0).
4. Now go to %windir%\system32\oobe.
5. Create a new folder info and another folder background backgrounds within newly created info folder.
6. Folder path should look like this %windir%\System32\oobe\info\backgrounds.
7. Now place your desired logon wallpaper within this background folder with file name as backgroundDefault.jpg. Here is an interesting thing, you can place multiple versions of pictures for different resolutions. Windows with place that picture according to the resolution of screen. You just have to mention the resolution in names.

Images Name with resolutions
   backgroundDefault.jpg
   background768×1280.jpg (0.6)
   background900×1440.jpg (0.625)
   background960×1280.jpg (0.75)
   background1024×1280.jpg (0.8)
   background1280×1024.jpg (1.25)
   background1024×768.jpg (1.33-)
   background1280×960.jpg (1.33-)
   background1600×1200.jpg (1.33-)
   background1440×900.jpg (1.6)
   background1920×1200.jpg (1.6)
   background1280×768.jpg (1.66-)
   background1360×768.jpg (1.770833-)

Please NOTE: Images must be less than 256kb in size

The backgroundDefault.jpg image is loaded and stretched-to-fit when a resolution/ratio specific background cannot be found.

8. You are all done. Restart your system to see the effect.

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