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BSNL Revised ‘Pay Per Second Plan’ for Prepaid Subscribers

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 12:45 AM PDT

After huge public outcry, Pan India 3G mobile service operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) finally revised its “Pay Per Second” plan with uniform 1p/sec for all outgoing calls to any network across India from BSNL Mobile.

Earlier in the Pay Per Second Plan (STV-45), there was 1.2p/Sec for outgoing call charges to other network and 1p/Sec for calls with in BSNL network. The New tariff will be applicable with the SMS based STV-49 which provide uniform 1p/sec tariff, valid for 365 days from the date of recharge.

To activate the New ‘Pay Per Second Plan” BSNL Prepaid Customer has to send a SMS ACT 1S on 53733.Under this scheme Rs.49 will be deducted from customer’s balance talk time and new PPS Plan will be activated.

BSNL’s New PPS plan in Detail :

Facebook Introduces One Mobile Site for All Phones

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 11:28 PM PDT

More than 250 Millions of people use Facebook Mobile Apps or Mobile site everyday to keep up with friends, upload photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people in their network.

To serve better user experience, FaceBook rolled out a major upgrade to its Mobile site m.facebook.com that delivers the best possible mobile Web experience no matter what device you're using.

Lee Byron, Interactive Information Designer at Facebook stated "With the new m.facebook.com, users with high-end touch devices will see a rich touch-friendly interface; for users with feature phones, the site will look and work great,”

Earilier, Facebook has multiple versions of its mobile site, touch.facebook.com for touch devices, and m.facebook.com for less feature-rich mobile devices. The mobile web for touch device which adapts on the device hardware capabilities like a phone with no GPS will not see the Places Check-in feature. Feature phone users will see a scaled-down version of the mobile site, with an interface adapted for their screens.

With the new m.facebook.com, users with high-end touch devices will see a rich touch-friendly interface; for users with feature phones, the site will look and work great.

Every device uses the same framework. This way we can move even faster and build new features just once for every mobile device. It also means that everyone can access the same features, whether writing messages or checking into Places. There will no longer be a difference between m.facebook.com and touch.facebook.com, we'll automatically serve you the best version of the site for your device.

The new site is powered by a UI framework based on XHP, Javelin, and WURFL, a detailed database mapping user agents to device capabilities. This enables us to very precisely target experiences and features to thousands of different devices. The 0.facebook.com site also uses the same codebase as m.facebook.com.

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