Last year Indian government approved a standard symbol for Indian Rupee. After few months, Unicode Consortium assigned a unicode to that symbol so that it can easily come to the keyboards. Finally Microsoft has release an update to type Indian Rupee symbol in Windows using normal available fonts.
Now a days RBI (Reserve Bank of India) is asking PayPal to follow so many guidelines to keep an eye on the payment activities and money flow. Because of that, PayPal is issuing so many restrictions and limitations on PayPal India users. Here is a list of alteratives of PayPal for users in India.
You can’t keep money as a balance in your existing PayPal account, you can’t take money more than $500 per transaction from any buyer and for services, money transferred in your account should be withdrawn to back account in 7 days of transaction confirmation….. These and many more new restrictions and limitations are coming on PayPal from 1’st March 2011 for Indian users in order to follow the guidelines from Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
When rumors are at peak about iPad 2 which is expected to hit the US market by April 2011, India is seeing official launch of iPad. It took 1 year to iPad to come to India, but it was available thru merchants like eBay and so many Indians are already having that. Here is the price and reason to buy iPad in India from official outlets.
Few days ago, Samsung and Google released Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” phone Google Nexus S. This is a the first Android phone shipping with version 2.3 i.e. Gingerbread. If you are planning to purchase this phone in India, then there are few places from where you can buy this phone without any problem.
Idea’s Sirji (Abhishek Bachchan) is already promoting MNP (Mobile Number Portability) on TV Ads and it is confirmed by DoT as well that finally MNP is coming in India on 25’th November 2010. Initially MNP will start from Haryana where 8 mobile operators are currently providing services. At least finally DoT is starting rolling out the most awaited feature in mobile industry i.e. MNP in India.
Tata Telecom Services announced that they will bring 3G services from this Diwali. FYI, Diwali is on 5’th Nov 2010. In fact they started telecasting their advertisement for 3G services. After BSNL and MTNL, Tata is the first private company who announced 3G services rollout time.
As now Nokia is allowing the pre-order for N8 smartphone, we thought to get what is inside this most shouted phone from Nokia. And we found that this most awaited phone from Nokia is having some unique and exclusive features.
In past few months, Indian mobile and Smartphone market has seen huge growth. As 3G auction is complete and it is expected that other mobile carriers like Airtel, Vodafone, Reliance will start 3G service by end of this year. For now BSNL and MTNL has started 3G service in many locations throughout the country. If you are interested in watching Indian TV channels like Times Now, NDTV24x7, Aaj Tak, Sony, Start TV, Zoom, MTV, 9XM or sports channels like ESPN, Start Sports etc then here is the list of services where you can purchase package to watch these and many more channels on mobile devices using 3G, GPRS, EDGE or Wi-Fi.
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