Hi all,
    There’s this revolutionary new service named mGinger available for Indians, or anybody on the Indian subcontinent, with a mobile phone. It might be made global later on… Whats the service? To keep it short and simple, you get paid to mobile…

    Thats right! You get paid to use your mobile!

    How does it work? You sign up at mGinger with your usual personal details, and mobile phone number. mGinger sends you SMSes from sponsors, which you read. For every SMS you read, you get paid. You can select your interests so as to restrict the advert SMSes to only of topics of your interest!

    Handy eh? Its been causing a WAVE of media attention all around India! They say that you get paid 20 Paise per SMS. i.e. 0.2 Rupees. Which is… Well… 41 Rupees make a dollar, so, $0.005 USD.  Yeah, half a penny. Half a penny per SMS.

    And you make 10 Paise per SMS read by your referrals, and so on. So, the typical teen/youth thinks “I can read 100s of SMSes per day! I can sure earn thousands!”

    Small problem. Theres a maximum limit of 10 SMSes per day. Thats the maximum. So you may receive from 0 to 10 SMSes per day. Imagine that you receive 10 SMSes per day, still, you make only Rp 2 per day! Which is like only Rs 60 ($1.5) per month! That is, IF YOU GET 10 SMSes per day!

    Honestly, why waste your time? Thousands have already signed up! Are they nuts?

    No, this post was NOT to encourage users to use mGinger. It was an honest to goodness review of the service. I’ve signed up for a day now, and I havn’t got a single sponsored SMS yet! At this rate, I’ll be stuck at something like a dollar (Rs 40) at the end of the year!

    Think twice before you sign up! Why waste your personal details, for something so little and measly? I can’t believe that the media has been rooting for this absolutely stupid service! I believe that this is all a scam. It proves how much India has to learn from the web! I do hope that people open their eyes before jumping in the next time!

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Hi all,
    I came across an article at The Marketing Pilgrim, written by David Vogelpohl, titled “Tin Foil Hat Alert: Is Google Indexing Your DNA?“.

    The article talks critically about Google’s acquisition of 23andme, a privately owned DNA sequencing enterprise. In other words, a website working towards Google’s aim. And they’re taking the Mickey off Google because a co-founder of 23andme is Anne Wojcicki, Sergey Brin’s wife.

    They also talk about Google prying into our private lives. Actually, they’ve got it all wrong.

    Google’s aim is simple. Sequence every part of the Human 46 chromosomal DNA and find out which part deals with what, and make it available on the internet for searching. By doing this, Google allows people to compare their DNA’s with the Google database for diseases or other disorders, thereby making DNA scanning free of cost, and easy to do. It also allows information inherited traits, ancestry and genealogy.

    No one’s asking you to submit your DNA on the internet. No body is forcing you to give your DNA. Its in no way NECESSARY to check your DNA with the Google databases.

    23andMe along with Google can make milestones in the biotechnology world! Here, David is making implications to Google’s involving in a bad guy scenario like in Michael Crichton’s book, Next, doing biogenetical crimes. Yeesh! Fiction is Fiction buddy!

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Hello all,
    As I was researching some material for my previous post on Moser Baer, I did the usual Googling for Moser Baer, and to my complete astonishment, I got this Malware warning from Google when I clicked on the displayed search result.

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    The search result on clicking, redirected me to this warning page, instead of the Moser Baer website.

    So I read a bit up on such warnings and I found an explanation for the warning on a Google Web Search Help Center page. To my further surprise, the page said -

We want our users to feel safe when they search the web, and we’re continuously working to identify dangerous sites and increase protection for our users. This warning message appears with search results that we’ve identified as sites that may install malicious software on your computer.

    You HAVE to be kidding me! Or is this another outdated April’s Day prank? One of the leaders in Optic Disks in the world, and the pioneer in HD DVD disc manufacturing, has malware on their corporate website?!!

    Well, I trust Google to a certain extreme, thus I sat down and went through every bit of code in the Moser Baer website. Nope. No malicious scripts. No unsolicited codes. No malware. No spyware. Not even ads!

    What is Google playing at? Does this mean that the feel good programmes by Google need a little more in depth viewing and manual touch?

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Hi all,
    Indian Television reports that Moser Baer India has made a breakthrough in technology development in next generation optical media formats. The company, along with recently acquired OM&T, the former R&D subsidiary of Philips, has developed what it says is the world’s first high speed 8x Blu-ray disc (BDR).

    The BDR market worldwide is witnessing development in the 1x-4x recording speeds discs. Moser Baer, with its innovative technology, demonstrated new benchmarks in 1x-8x discs. This is the first of its kind in the world, is supposed to be yet another milestone for optical data reading, and the BDR revolution in India.

    End users can now have a faster media that can record a 2-hour transmission equivalent of HD (High Definition) quality data in less than 15 minutes. The next generation formats have a capacity ranging from 15 GB to 50 GB and offer more than five to ten times the data storage capacity of standard DVD media. These next generation formats offer an ideal solution for reliable business backup, including medical and government imaging, photography, videography, as well as high definition video recording.

    Moser baer VP R&D and engineering Giriraj Nyati says, “This is a significant landmark for us. We are very proud that an Indian Company has once again set global benchmarks in the optical media market. Our intensive in-house R&D focus coupled with the capabilities of OM&T will ensure that we continue to set new global benchmarks for the industry. This is inline with our strategy of transforming Moser Baer from a technology recipient into a technology developer and innovator.”

    We can expect to witness blazing fast high definition movies very soon…

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