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After a long awaiting the iPhone has arrived in India. Apple Inc.’s hugely popular 3G iPhone made its debut in India on Friday, but with a price tag of $700 pheww.That’s almost 3 times the US Price.A midnight launch in the Indian capital drew a small but enthusiastic crowd to Vodafone Essar, one of the two retail distributors in India, at the city’s Connaught Place commercial district.

India is the world’s fastest-growing wireless market and with nearly 300 million subscribers is the second-largest market for such services after China.Operators have been adding more than 8 million customers a month, but most of them are low-paying users, who use their phone just for calling and not for data and multimedia services.

“Indians tend to buy the most fancy cell phones, and the iPhone has a massive fan following everywhere,” said Pinaki Mishra, head of retail & consumer practice at Ernst & Young.

“It is seen as a status symbol, an aspirational product, so you can expect to see not just the rich, but also tech-savvy youngsters and people in small towns buying it.”

Sanjay Kapoor, Airtel‘s president for mobile services, said the company received more than 200,000 pre-bookings for the new iPhone before prices were announced.

“iPhone has been an iconic technological revelation of this year and Airtel has been at the forefront of innovation and customer delight in the Indian telecom sector,” Sanjay Kapoor, President, Bharti Airtel mobile services, said.

iPhone is embedded with all 3G features and is twice as fast as the existing mobile phones. The phone also has in-built GPS system, that facilitates as a navigation and positioning tool.

Airtel subscribers who would like to book their iphone, can click here
Vodafone subscribers who would like to book their iphone, can click here
For complete details on iPhone’s, please click here

So finally, we can look forward to see that iPhone in most of the youngsters in India juts like this person who purchased that iPhone immediately without thinking or looking at it’s feature.

What do you about this much craze of iPhone?

Yahoo! Buzz Launched on February 26, 2008 which could be only visited by some people is now open to all in beta stage.It’s a community-based news article website, much like Digg, that combines the features of social bookmarking and syndication through a user interface that allows editorial control. Users can be allowed to publish their own news stories, and link to their own or another person’s site that links to a full story of the information, therefore driving traffic to that person’s website and creating a larger market for sites that research and publish their own news articles and stories.

The big benefit for publishers is that top Buzz stories are linked from the Yahoo home page, which turns a firehose of traffic onto a story. When those stories hit the home page there’s a good chance that the linked site will have a record day in traffic. Yahoo says they’ve sent 16 million visitors to outside sites in those first two weeks, and they’ve gathered data from some of the linked partners.

• The buzz can be about anything – a great story on a major news site, an extraordinary bit from an obscure site, an intriguing video, or a fantastic blog that shouldn’t be missed.
• Instead of editors, people like you determine the top-rated stories.

How it works.

• First, we determine the most popular topics that people are searching for on Yahoo!.
• Then, we showcase the most popular stories within those topics, based on activities like voting and emailing stories to friends.
• Stories with most Buzz may be published on the Yahoo! home page – you can impact what millions will see on Yahoo!.

Yahoo isn’t the first large company to try out the Digg model. In mid 2006 AOL relaunched the Netscape portal as a Digg-like site. AOL eventually moved the service to a different domain name and renamed it Propeller. The service has about 3.8 million monthly unique visitors (Comscore), compared to about 12.5 million for Digg.

Buzz Has the Following Categories:

1. Entertainment
2. Sci/Tech
3. Politics
4. Business
5. Health
6. Images
7. Lifestyle
8. Sports
9. Travel
10. U.S News
11. Video
12. World

They Also Have A Widget which we can put on our blog or website like this:

Buzz was created as a direct competitor to Digg. Yahoo! created the service in hopes that it would drive larger traffic to their site and would give them an advantage over larger online media companies such as Google or MSN, which are Yahoo!’s largest competitors in terms of search engines that provide services and web features to its customers.

So What do you think about it?

Today Blogger Announced Some New n Interesting Updates.These Are Some updates provided from blogger buzz.

• There’s a new look for the Blogger Dashboard, which we think you’ll find more attractive and functional. If you have a ton of blogs (as we do) try out the “hide” and “show all” links to help manage the list.
• Google Gadgets in your Layouts blog can now set their height automatically (if the gadget author supports it). Read more about adding Google Gadgets to your blog.
• AdSense page elements can now optionally have image ads. We’ve found image ads have a higher click-through rate, so you might get more money if you turn them on.
• We wrote up a Features page to help you keep track of everything you can do with Blogger. Take a look and see if you’ve been missing out on something cool.
• The Flag Blog button in the Blogger navbar now pops up a window for you to tell us why you think the blog violates our terms of service. Flag Blog is always handled exclusively by human reviewers, not the automated spam locking system, so this information will better help them decide what, if any, action should be taken.

And also fixed some bugs, including:

• Fixed Moto template header overlap in IE7.
• Blocked the /feedReaderJson URL from web crawlers, to reduce 404s in Webmaster Tools.
• Increased cacheability of CSS and JavaScript throughout Blogger, for faster page loads.
• Button style and layout improvements throughout Blogger.

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New feature: Reactions

With the new Reactions feature, you can get one-click feedback from your readers. Think of it as a mini-poll for each blog post, or a flexible version of star ratings because you customize what options are available. We hope this will help your blogs get feedback from people who read your posts but don’t have enough to say to for a full comment.

To enable Reactions, log in to http://draft.blogger.com/ and go to your Layouts page. From there, click the “Edit” link for the Blog Posts gadget and then check the “Reactions” checkbox. You can edit the Reactions buttons by clicking “Edit” or clicking the buttons themselves, as shown.

You can customize the location of the Reactions within the post by dragging the preview around in the “Arrange Items” box. We’ve found that it looks best when it’s on its own line, but your mileage may vary.

You can customize the options and their label to match the theme and style of your blog.

Additional Notes

• This is a Layouts-only feature. If you’re using a Classic template you’ll need to upgrade to Layouts to add Reactions.
• The buttons should blend seamlessly with most blog backgrounds. Button backgrounds are a mostly transparent grey which should, we hope, coordinate with everything. The text and button highlight colors for the ratings are taken from the following skin variables:
  • Foreground: textcolor, textColor, mainTextColor
    
  • Highlight: linkcolor, linkColor, mainLinkColor
    
• If you have customized your blog widget’s template you may not see the reactions. You will need to either reset your blog widget’s template or copy the Reactions code from a fresh template. Search for “reactions-buttons” to find the appropriate block of code.
• A known issue: if you choose short words/phrases, it’s possible to enter enough options that the line of buttons will wrap (and not look very good). If this happens to you, you’ll need to shorten your options or reduce their number.

To Use this on a Customised Blogger Template A New Hack Have Been Posted Now.