Pandora adds Comedy; Users Everywhere just Laugh

     Pandora, the extremely popular online music streaming service, has recently added comedy tracks to it's library of millions of songs.

Comedy Tracks on Pandora

     The service analyzed music and artists, and was able to give users more music similar to any music track. With this new update, Pandora now analyzes comedians by their style, and will give you more comedy tracks similar to that style. 

     This could be a very good decision for Pandora, as it brings them slightly further away from just music, and closer to something which you could actually use to find new comedians and 

     Also, although you wouldn't think that this would launch with many titles, I had no problem finding everything I wanted. Best of all, all this is %100 free. Can't beat that.

View the Official Press Release.

iOS 5 will support Over-the-Air Firmware Update

It is expected that Apple will release future updates of iOS 5.0 via Over-the-Air for all their iOS devices. This is not new to other competitors.
Rather than full downloads, it make sense for Apple to update small sizes or patches.
Otherwise, the mobile network will certainly be congested with iOS updates traffic.
This is what has been reported to me recently by one of the local mobile telco - the traffic that congest their spectrum mainly came from Windows Updates!
What do you think? Will this be a great feature that you have been waiting for? What happen if your network is as fast as a “turtle”?

The Rumored iPhone 5 Photos and Video!

These iPhone 5 photos are being designed by designers around the world.
Pick your choice!
I wished for the first photo below.

iOS 5 Most Wanted Features

Here’s what you have been waiting for! iOS Most wanted features..
Apple might raise curtains off iOS 5.0 at its yearly developer conference WWDC 2011, and if sources are to be believed, Apple is going to bring the next cycle of iOS along with the iPhone 5.
Apple would be unveiling the iOS 5 around spring, alongside iPhone 5 in summer. The word is that there would be some heavy changes coming to MobileMe, showing more love for the cloud.

• Better Folders
• Wireless Syncing
• Android-style Lock Screen
• Revamped Notifications
• Music Sharing/Streaming
• Improved Multitasking
• New Auto Correct System
• Improved Airprint
• Beefed-Up Game Center
• Better Hotspot (More devices)
• Cloud Services (Free MobileMe)
• iPhone Mail mirrors the iPad
• Gesture support
• Android Style Lock
• Adobe Flash!

Meanwhile, OS X Lion is likely to also include various cloud-based functionality, further bridging the gap between the Apple’s iOS mobile range and its Mac lines.
What’s your own wish list?

The Great Indian Tele’con’ story

 

The corruption and con-stories related to Telecom sector in India is not just related to the higher levels and during the time of license and spectrum allocation… It is everywhere in the system right from the business practices to customer service, to sundry services offered by hole-in-the-wall business, and including the customer themselves… the 3 recent experiences that make me say so…

Con story #1: I've been trying to get my enterprise email service activated on my blackberry. It has been about 1.5 years of futile exercise of follow-up with the Vodafone and Matrix customer services… Long discussions on the phone, boot – reboot, change password, set password, etc has been of no use… Now-a-days the customer service people when contacted over email/social media are asking me to call them… rather than other way round… the end result after such long wait and innumerable follow-ups I still do not have my enterprise email service active

Con story #2: My Blackberry (Storm) display was having a problem for past few days… It used go blank sometimes and sometimes the display is scattered and pixilated…I took the phone to a shop with a large Blackberry signage outside and showed him my phone.. The shop owner takes a look at the phone display (which was working fine at that point of time) and says that touch-screen display needs to be changed. No explanation on what the problem was, neither did he ever mention of checking the current phone display and then give his feedback… just a plain simple solution – change the display. I did not get the display changed… I left the shop thinking since the display was working fine at that instance, let me keep going for some more time… Since then (which is more than 1 week now)..the display is working fine

Con story #3: My phone is networked locked to the service provider Vodafone. .. Since the service provider has been unable to get my basic enterprise service activated…and since the number portability is active in India… I decided to get my BB phone unlocked. I check out with the service provider and they mentioned that they do not unlock the phones…and hence I checked out with some mobile phone shop keepers if they could help… Most of them mentioned that it would take couple of days and about 2K INR to get the phone unlocked… Since I did not want to leave my phone with them for 2 days, I decided to check out the solution myself… I found a website that mentioned that it cost about 800 INR and they would email the code immediately…in case the code is not accepted, they would even refund the monies… I paid the monies and tried the code they sent… and of course, the phone got unlocked – now, I'm contemplating to change my service provider…

I'm sure each one of us has a tele-con story to tell…

 

Santosh

The Great Indian Tele’con’ story

 

The corruption and con-stories related to Telecom sector in India is not just related to the higher levels and during the time of license and spectrum allocation… It is everywhere in the system right from the business practices to customer service, to sundry services offered by hole-in-the-wall business, and including the customer themselves… the 3 recent experiences that make me say so…

Con story #1: I've been trying to get my enterprise email service activated on my blackberry. It has been about 1.5 years of futile exercise of follow-up with the Vodafone and Matrix customer services… Long discussions on the phone, boot – reboot, change password, set password, etc has been of no use… Now-a-days the customer service people when contacted over email/social media are asking me to call them… rather than other way round… the end result after such long wait and innumerable follow-ups I still do not have my enterprise email service active

Con story #2: My Blackberry (Storm) display was having a problem for past few days… It used go blank sometimes and sometimes the display is scattered and pixilated…I took the phone to a shop with a large Blackberry signage outside and showed him my phone.. The shop owner takes a look at the phone display (which was working fine at that point of time) and says that touch-screen display needs to be changed. No explanation on what the problem was, neither did he ever mention of checking the current phone display and then give his feedback… just a plain simple solution – change the display. I did not get the display changed… I left the shop thinking since the display was working fine at that instance, let me keep going for some more time… Since then (which is more than 1 week now)..the display is working fine

Con story #3: My phone is networked locked to the service provider Vodafone. .. Since the service provider has been unable to get my basic enterprise service activated…and since the number portability is active in India… I decided to get my BB phone unlocked. I check out with the service provider and they mentioned that they do not unlock the phones…and hence I checked out with some mobile phone shop keepers if they could help… Most of them mentioned that it would take couple of days and about 2K INR to get the phone unlocked… Since I did not want to leave my phone with them for 2 days, I decided to check out the solution myself… I found a website that mentioned that it cost about 800 INR and they would email the code immediately…in case the code is not accepted, they would even refund the monies… I paid the monies and tried the code they sent… and of course, the phone got unlocked – now, I'm contemplating to change my service provider…

I'm sure each one of us has a tele-con story to tell…

 

Santosh

The Great Indian Tele’con’ story

 

The corruption and con-stories related to Telecom sector in India is not just related to the higher levels and during the time of license and spectrum allocation… It is everywhere in the system right from the business practices to customer service, to sundry services offered by hole-in-the-wall business, and including the customer themselves… the 3 recent experiences that make me say so…

Con story #1: I've been trying to get my enterprise email service activated on my blackberry. It has been about 1.5 years of futile exercise of follow-up with the Vodafone and Matrix customer services… Long discussions on the phone, boot – reboot, change password, set password, etc has been of no use… Now-a-days the customer service people when contacted over email/social media are asking me to call them… rather than other way round… the end result after such long wait and innumerable follow-ups I still do not have my enterprise email service active

Con story #2: My Blackberry (Storm) display was having a problem for past few days… It used go blank sometimes and sometimes the display is scattered and pixilated…I took the phone to a shop with a large Blackberry signage outside and showed him my phone.. The shop owner takes a look at the phone display (which was working fine at that point of time) and says that touch-screen display needs to be changed. No explanation on what the problem was, neither did he ever mention of checking the current phone display and then give his feedback… just a plain simple solution – change the display. I did not get the display changed… I left the shop thinking since the display was working fine at that instance, let me keep going for some more time… Since then (which is more than 1 week now)..the display is working fine

Con story #3: My phone is networked locked to the service provider Vodafone. .. Since the service provider has been unable to get my basic enterprise service activated…and since the number portability is active in India… I decided to get my BB phone unlocked. I check out with the service provider and they mentioned that they do not unlock the phones…and hence I checked out with some mobile phone shop keepers if they could help… Most of them mentioned that it would take couple of days and about 2K INR to get the phone unlocked… Since I did not want to leave my phone with them for 2 days, I decided to check out the solution myself… I found a website that mentioned that it cost about 800 INR and they would email the code immediately…in case the code is not accepted, they would even refund the monies… I paid the monies and tried the code they sent… and of course, the phone got unlocked – now, I'm contemplating to change my service provider…

I'm sure each one of us has a tele-con story to tell…

 

Santosh