fring nominated @ The Crunchies ‘07: We Decide … Lets Vote!!
fring has made it through to the final nominations and now its the turn of us fringsters to help it reach up the ladder to claim the Crunchies 2007 Award for “Best mobile start-up”. What makes this award different from the rest is that the internet community (Thats YOU!) is invited to choose who wins.
“The 2007 Crunchies is the first annual competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year.
Voting ends Thursday, 10 Jan’08, so vote for fring today!!! I already did 
fring Welcomes Yahoo!™ & AOL’s AIM®
By popular demand from our fringsters, we’ve just added Yahoo!™ and AOL’s AIM® IM services.
This means fring now supports Skype, Google Talk, MSN, ICQ, Twitter, Yahoo and AOL’s AIM. It also means that there is no better way of staying in touch with all your online buddies than with fring on your mobile!
We’ve enabled Yahoo!™ and AIM® on our servers, so all you need to do is go to Options -> Settings -> Select Services Yahoo!™ or AIM® and add your login details.
NOTE: Yahoo! & AIM are currently only available for Symbian and UIQ handsets; voice calls are not yet enabled.
fring now supports Nokia N81, N82, N95 8GB handsets; WISPr & History for UIQ
Earlier we brought you WISPr for Symbian handsets. And as promised WISPr support for UIQ handsets; so here it is - WISPr for UIQ handsets has arrived.
If you still do not know what WISPr is click here. Else activate WISPr or fring auto-roaming (if you are already auto-roaming), just go to options –> settings –> connection manager –> search for WLAN. Choose a Wi-Fi network and enter your credentials. fring auto-roam is now supported on Symbian 9.x and UIQ handsets so download the latest version of fring and enjoy fringing freedom.
This update also carries support for few more handsets. fring welcomes Nokia N81, N82 and N95 8GB (the hotties) to the fring party.
The phone list on the download page hasn’t been updated as yet but you can choose any other symbian 9 handset (N95 for example) and you’ll get the right version. Also fring users with Symbian 9.x handsets will be pleased to know that fring has been working hard to sort out bugs & have released V3.24.16. So wait no more, rush to our downloads & get the latest version of fring.
And the Joiku 2007 Prime Quality Award goes to … fring!!
Joiku an internet based community focusing on high quality, free mobile software for any mobile device awarded fring the Prime Quality Award for the year 2007. The base criterion for the award includes premium quality software in terms of user ratings, ease of use, feature richness, and market demand in terms of Joiku.com user downloads.
That said I take this opportunity to congratulate & thank all the fringsters for making this happen. 
IBM POWER6 in India
IBM has launched the World’s Fastest Computer Processor, the POWER6 chip in India. This move by the company will make available their System p570 and bladeCenter JS22 servers in the country. These server systems and powered by the POWER6 chip which features virtualization capabilities, and is the latest addition to IBM’s ‘Project Big Green’. The chip is said to be power efficient and run at cooler temperatures. The POWER6 is 2X that of POWER5 running at 4.7GHz. IBM says that the POWER6 is a much better solution as it not only provides twice the power but also just consumes half the power as compared to its previous offering. Many companies and MNCs are looking forward to acquiring the servers powered by the POWER6 which will further expand the company’s dealings in India.
E-Ink Display in Watches
Remember the year old Motorola MotoFone F3. It was a cheap phone and used E-Ink for its display. I had used the phone and realized that it was just a matter of time before we seen multiple uses of this brilliant technology. So here it is, watches with E-Ink display. For now E-Ink has been developed for white and black displays. This restricts its use in many other gadgets. The moment E-Ink in color is completely developed we will see its gradual acceptance, as it’s cheap and eco-friendly.
Tryphone: Online Virtual Handsets
Tryphone is a solution to provide end-consumers to try out a phone online instead of wasting valuable time at a store, especially with a sales person driving you crazy to buy a handset. Tryphone offers virtual fully interactive handsets to try out. You can learn of the how the device works and even try out the many applications and services a handset has to offer from the comfort of your PC. Though this won’t give you a physical feel of the handset, it will sure do well to clear your doubts of how easy or sophisticated the phone is to use. At the moment there are few phones to get your hands on, four to be precise. Click tryphone to try-it-out.
“NDTV Active” A Mobile Channel
NDTV is all set to launch its Mobile Channel NDTV Active in the coming weeks. The channel will let mobile users stay in touch with the latest happenings and various NDTV shows. It will offer updates on sports, business, entertainment, ‘real-time’ video updates, cricket scores, etc. In order to provide this service NDTV has collaborated with July Systems, a mobile solutions developer in media and entertainment. The channel will be available over most of the Indian mobile operators.
Nokia N82 Launched
A couple of days back saw the launch of the latest and the most feature rich offering from the Nokia stable, the N82. The phone pronounces itself “photographer” with its 5 megapixel Carl Zeiss lens camera and Xenon flash assistance. As a navigator the N82 has a powerful Assisted-GPS (A-GPS) and comes pre-installed with Nokia Maps to navigate the globe. It has Wi-Fi and all the other multimedia goodies seen in the N-Series. This powerful N-Series phone is available in stores for around Rs.28,000 and comes bundled with a 2GB microSD card.
Windows Live for India Updated
Microsoft has updated their Windows Live for India providing with the latest the Live Services have to offer. The Windows Live interface features the Aero look to compliment the offline Microsoft product VISTA. The Windows Live Services include Live Hotmail, Live Messenger, Live Spaces, and Live Writer. Added to that list are new tools Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Live Events to the service. Also added to the service is a security feature Windows Live OneCare Family Safety, which helps parents prevent their children from inappropriate online content. You can download the Windows Live Service on your Windows Vista or Windows XP system from http://get.live.com.
