Another way to carry your worries wherever you go.
VMware’s mission to bring virtualization to the mobile market gained a major supporter last week when Samsung pledged to use VMware software to build business-friendly smartphones and tablets.
But a more ambitious project known as Horizon Mobile will let Android phones use virtual machine technology to run a second instance of Android, in much the same way virtualization works on servers and desktops. The user essentially has two completely separate phones running on one device, and can switch from the personal one to the corporate one by clicking a “work phone” icon. VMware believes this will appeal to IT departments by isolating an employee’s work environment from his or her personal environment, while giving IT a Web-based management console to control what the employee may do on the work portion of the phone.
At the same time, the two environments won’t be much of a hassle for users. For example, phone calls will be received no matter what user profile is active. Although virtual machines on desktops and servers don’t necessarily run as well as a purely physical machine, VMware and its partners say the performance impact will be “minimal” and that Horizon Mobile will work on both single- and dual-core processors.
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The hacker who succeeded in hacking AT&T’s iphones and Sony Play station3 has been hired by Facebook.
Hire a Thief to catch a Thief?
‘ A 17-year-old New Jersey student has unlocked Apple’s previously AT&T-exclusive iPhone, the AP reports, potentially opening the floodgates for users who want to use the vaunted handset with other carriers. Teen hacker George Hotz used a complex combination of software alterations—and hardware soldering—to let his phone onto T-Mobile‘s network.’
Turn off push e-mail. No doubt about it, forcing your iPhone to check for new mail every 15 minutes–especially if you have multiple accounts–will kill your battery in a hurry. It can kill your productivity, too. Tell friends and co-workers that if they need to reach you urgently, send a text.
Turn off location services. A lot of apps tap the phone’s GPS when they don’t really need to. Head to Settings, Location Services, and disable the feature for the apps that can live without a location check. (I’m looking at you, Angry Birds!)
Turn off notifications. While you’re in the Settings app, tap Notifications and turn off all unnecessary sounds, alerts, and Home Screen badges. As Pogue points out, the apps that use these features have to monitor your iPhone–and that uses up juice.
Manually terminate background apps.Apple says background apps aren’t technically “running” unless they’re front and center, meaning they shouldn’t be drawing any power. Pogue’s Genius says otherwise, and that you should manually shut down all background apps. I disagree, as I think the hassle of constantly monitoring and terminating apps isn’t worth the battery boost you might get. (Pogue cites a friend’s dramatic improvement in battery life after following all four of these tips, but I think turning off push e-mail made all the difference.)
Lower the screen brightness. Nothing sucks up juice like the screen. If your brightness setting is cranked to maximum, knock it down to 50 percent. You won’t like this at first, but I guarantee after an hour you won’t even notice the difference. You will, however, get longer battery life.
Keep it out of your pocket. The hotter your iPhone gets, the faster the battery will die. And you know what’s in your pocket? Body heat. If you can, let the phone ride shotgun in your purse or briefcase, or keep it clipped to your belt.
Tehelka exposed the shenanigans of Maran and Maran has come out with a defense ‘ there was no loss to the government during his tenure as Union telecom minister, Maran said he was not even a minister when Astroinvested in Sun TV Network. “I own no shares or interest in Sun TV Network,” .
He is said to have issued notice to Tehelka, which is nothing but legal non sense with no substance and facts.
Watch.
Same argument as that of Raja .
Is Ananda Krishnan a front for Maran?
Facts seem to speak differently.
According to sources, the CBI has now trained its guns on a strikingly similar deal — though the quantum is almost four times that of the Balwa-Kalaignar transaction — between Sun TV Group, owned by the family of Union Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran, and Malaysian business conglomerate Maxis Group and owner of 74 percent direct equity in Aircel Group, the country’s seventh biggest telecom operator….
In November 2006, then Telecom Minister Maran granted 14 (UASL) for Aircel. The licence, along with the startup 2G spectrum, was awarded at the same price at which later Raja gave away 2G licenses to Swan, Unitech and a host of other players in 2008 — Aircel paid Rs 1,399 crore for 14 telecom circles, the price was arrived at through an auction process in 2001 when the telecom industry was in its nascent stage.
The telecom licences to Aircel were awarded after about two years of ‘unwarranted’ delay on the part of the DoT headed by Maran at the time. Aircel’s applications for new circles were pending since Maran’s takeover as minister for communications and IT in May 2004. According to the report prepared by the one-man committee of Justice (retired) Shivraj Patil constituted to examine the appropriateness of procedures followed by DoT in issuing licences during the period 2001-2009, the DoT kept raising ‘irrelevant’, ‘vague’ and ‘unwarranted’ queries about different aspects related to Aircel and kept the applications pending (Patil submitted his report to present Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal on 31 January)….
It was only after March 2006, when Malaysian business tycoon T Ananda Krishnan, whose parents were Sri Lankan Tamils, bought 74 percent stake in Aircel, that its file gained momentum. Until then the company was owned by C Sivasankaran, the chairman of Siva Group (earlier known as Sterling Infotech Group). Krishnan paid Rs 3,390.82 crore for 74 percent equity in Aircel. Today, Aircel is the seven biggest telecom operator in the country with its net worth valued in the range of $7.5-$8 billion…
Six months after Ananda Krishnan’s takeover of Aircel, the ministry granted Aircel the much-vaunted licences in 14 cash-rich circles. This took Aircel from a small regional player to a pan-India operator. If the CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General) valuation of 2G licences is taken as a yardstick, the value of Aircel licences cleared by Maran would amount to approximately Rs 22,000 crore. But Aircel paid just Rs 1,399 crore…
And in a curious coincidence, in February 2007, four months after the licences were granted to Aircel, Ananda Krishnan through one of his group companies, South Asia Entertainment Holding Ltd (SAEHL) invested $150 million (roughly Rs 600 crore) in a phased manner in Sun Direct TV Pvt Ltd by acquiring 20 percent equity in the company owned and run by Dayanidhi’s brother Kalanidhi and his wife Kaveri Maran. The equity investment was cleared by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs…
Almost simultaneously, the Maran family was allotted about 12.6 crore additional equity shares in Sun Direct TV to maintain their total equity at 80 percent. But unlike the staggering rate at which the Maxis Group picked up the Sun Direct shares, the allotment to the Marans was made at par value of Rs 10 per share without charging any premium…
Maran’s Note( confidential)
Between February 2008 and July 2009, the Maxis Group invested Rs 100 crore more in another Maran family-owned company named South Asia FM Ltd which owns Sun FM radio network. Maxis Group subsidiary South Asia Multimedia Technologies Limited (SAMT) invested Rs 50 crore in equity of South Asia FM Ltd and Rs 43.9 crore in preference shares of SAFL.
The million-dollar question is, do Maxis- Sun TV and Maxis-Sun FM deals qualify as quid pro quo on similar lines as the Rs 200 crore Balwa-Kalaignar deal? Both the deals materialised soon after the respective telecom companies were granted the UAS licences and with it the precious 2G spectrum. And in both the cases it’s the companies owned by the extended Karunanidhi family that benefited…
Sivasankaran Arm-twisted into selling Aircel to malaysia-based Maxis group? So was C Sivasankaran, the chairman of Siva Group (erstwhile known as Sterling Infotech Group), a $3 billion conglomerate with interests in realty, telecom, shipping, energy and software, harassed by Maran? Was he pressurised into selling his telecom company, Aircel Ltd, to Malaysian billionaire Ananda Krishnan? Sivasankaran got $800 million for selling his company to Maxis. At the time of the sale, Aircel was operating in only nine circles while its applications for seven circles were lying in limbo. Also, it is reliably known that Aircel wanted to apply for more circles but didn’t do so simply because their old applications were still lying in abeyance. If Aircel was sold after these licences were granted, the company’s net worth would have increased and thus Sivasankaran could have got more money from the sale. Today, Aircel is a pan- India operator, thanks to the 14 licences given by Maran, and is valued in the range of $7.5-$8 billion…
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