Vodafone does public service

This is the first of it's kind in thrissur. Usually all India telecom providers are misers partly due to their very low tariffs forced by TRAI (telecom regulatory authority of india). But Vodafone it seems has taken the first step in providing convenience to the public. This charging dock has been spotted at Kalyan Apparels, Thrissur.

Vodafone and HTC Magic pull out a new trick

Vodafone the " world's leading mobile telecommunications company" has pulled out a new trick from its HTC Magic - in the form of a Butterfly!

But what caught the attention of Panda Security researchers was that this was no ordinary butterfly. It was a Mariposa Butterfly. And No, they weren't stunned because they had come across a new specimen of butterflies either. This one was encountered in a security scan and turned out to be W32.Pilleuz, a botkit.

"Once infected you can see the malware 'phoning home' to receive further instructions, probably to steal all of the user's credentials and send them to the malware writer," said Bustamante from Panda Security.

Since most software comes bundled these days, these guys decided to pack in a Confiker and a Lineage password stealing malware as well. Given on the right is the infection stats of the Mariposa bot kit from Symantec, and as you can see India leads with a 42% infected rate.

Panda Security is planning to acquire more HTC Magic handsets to verify whether this is an isolated case or part of a greater evil plan.

Courtesy ComputerWeekly and Symantec Corp.

The Making of Zoozoo - Vodafone's mascots ?

If you've been watching the Indian Premier League games, you'd have already met Zoozoo - Vodafone's new Mascots. They are the cutest things yet to appear on advertising and I love their pretty antics. Shown below is the making of a Zoozoo episode:

iPhone coming to india?!

Vodafone's just got a tiny, minor, insignificant announcement to make this morning: it's signed with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten markets, including Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy (so much for Telecom Italia), India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey. Expect the phone later this year -- that's all we know for now. Score one (or ten?) for Voda.

So Vodafone's bringing the iPhone to India huh? first they should try to give us a better service. Especially the service in Kerala sucks! When the Hutch pug was around thing were way better..and I really loved that dog...:(

Courtesy Engadget