Amazon India goes Live as Junglee !

Amazon India has gone live as Junglee.com .

Junglee means ‘of the jungle’. We appreciate how overwhelming it can be to navigate the jungle of products, brands, sellers, shipping options, and payment methods, and make informed purchase decisions. Our team is relentlessly focused on organizing selection and buying options to make it simple for you to navigate this jungle and shop anything using our service. We feel the name reflects our passion to deliver on this ambitious goal.

Here are some details from ‘About Us’ page.

What is Junglee?

Junglee is an online shopping service by Amazon which enables customers to find and discover products from online and offline retailers in India and from Amazon.com. Junglee organizes massive selection and multiple buying options from hundreds of sellers, and leverages Amazon’s proven technologies and millions of customer reviews to help customers make smart purchase decisions.

Customers can discover over 1.2 crore products and 14,000 brands, and purchase items directly from hundreds of retailers including Homeshop18, UniverCell, Hidesign, Gitanjali, The Bombay Store, Fabindia, Bata India Limited, Dabur Uveda, Microsoft India Store, Reebok, and Amazon.com. Customers can buy products online by following the link to the seller’s website or find a seller’s physical store if they would rather purchase the product in person or call the seller and place an order by phone.

Can I buy products on Junglee?

You cannot buy directly from Junglee. Junglee puts you in touch with sellers by directing you to their websites, displaying their customer service phone numbers and providing their physical store locations to help you buy the products directly from sellers.

Which sellers list products on Junglee today?

Currently, hundreds of online and offline Indian sellers, and Amazon.com list their products on Junglee. We add more sellers and selection every day so that customers can find anything using our service.

You can also follow Junglee on Facebook and Twitter.

Microsoft launches ‘Putting People First’ ads as users are concerned about Google’s Privacy Policy changes!

Microsoft is placing a series of ads in major newspapers offering the award winning alternatives to Google’s various services. As with the recent announcement of Google regarding Major changes to its soon to be implemented Privacy Policy, many of its users are feeling frustrated, concerned as Google is making some unpopular changes.

The changes Google announced make it harder, not easier, for people to stay in control of their own information. We take a different approach – we work to keep you safe and secure online, to give you control over your data, and to offer you the choice of saving your information on your hard drive, in the cloud, or on both.

And thus Microsoft is reminding the people about its award winning alternatives -

• Hotmail: Join the hundreds of millions of people who enjoy not worrying about the content of their private e-mails being used to serve ads.
• Bing: The search engine that gives you great experiences using the whole Web.
• Office 365: The award-winning online collaboration solution for businesses who don’t want their documents and mail used to benefit advertisers.
• Internet Explorer: The world’s most popular browser, now with Tracking Protection, offering controls over your privacy as you browse.

And to remind people, Microsoft is putting ads in the newspaper as below -

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(Source: Gone Google? Got Concerns? We Have Alternatives)

Here I’m providing some links for further reading -

Gmail vs Hotmail: Why Hotmail is better than Gmail

[video] How is SkyDrive better than Google Docs ?

Check out this video - Gmail Man Parody Goes Viral (VIDEO) “Your email is your business. Google makes it theirs”

Microsoft Blasts Google Chrome For 'Stealing' Your Privacy (VIDEO)

ABBYY FineReader 11- Fast and Accurate OCR, Now simplifies e-book creation too !

“Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a technology that enables conversion of images, received from scanner or digital camera, and PDFs to editable and searchable text documents ready for editing, quoting, search, and archiving.”

ABBYY FineReader 11 OCR software with lots of cool features creates editable, searchable files and e-books from scans, PDFs and digital photographs.This version takes the productivity to a new level with a significant enhancement in OCR performance, including a new black-and-white mode that increases document processing speed. This also supports creation of electronic books in the most popular formats. 

Some of the new features of ABBYY FineReader 11 are -

OCR Speed Boost and Powerful Productivity tools - ABBYY FineReader 11 delivers an overall increase of processing speed. FineReader 11 performance can be further boosted by its dedicated processing modes:

• Black & White Processing Mode – Normally for documents as newspaper, books etc where color is not needed, this mode results upto 45 percent faster processing with high accuracy.
• Enhanced Fast Processing Mode - Provides up to 70 percent faster recognition as compared to the default processing mode. This option is perfectly suited for projects where speed is critical, such as creating searchable PDF archives.

Creation of e-books made simpler-

One of the new features I liked was creation of e-books made simpler and support for popular formats like ePub. You even have an option to send the converted text directly to the user’s Amazon Kindle account.

More accurate – Speed is not the only criteria, even with speed enhancements, FineReader 11 provides more accurate reconstruction of the document’s original formatting, including table of contents, headers and footers and other attributes commonly found in multipage documents. The new version delivers significant improvements in the detection of vertical headers, as well as margin notes, diagrams, tables, and styles, minimizing the effort typically required for manual correction.

In addition to Microsoft Word documents, ABBYY FineReader 11 now accurately re-creates headers, footers, page numbering and table of contents across all pages in resulting OpenOffice.org Writer (ODT) files. When saving to PDF, the application intelligently identifies and reproduces the document’s content outline bookmarks with live links for better navigating and reading.

ABBYY FineReader 11 offers an improved, flexible user interface that helps users achieve faster results when working with documents:

• Document Splitting : When split, documents can be processed simultaneously in separate FineReader windows for better quality of the results
• New Style Editor : Allows users to view, change or merge the text styles across an entire document
• Enhanced Image Editor :
• Intuitive PDF Conversion Options : Provides 3 pre-defined modes for PDF saving — Maximum Quality, Compact Size and Balanced

So these were the some of the highlights of the new features in ABBYY FineReader11 Professional Ed. I have been using it since some time and I’m happy with its speed and accuracy.

There’s also ABBYY FineReader 11 Corporate Edition which also has been enhanced and provides-

•   Enhanced Hot Folder and Scheduling -

“Performing automated batch processing from “watched” folders (mailbox, local or network folders) the application can now flexibly schedule document conversion routines initiating the processes with pre-defined intervals (every minute, day, week or month).”

• Removal of Sensitive Information -

Allows users to blackout and remove sensitive information in supported output documents. Confidential information can be removed and replaced with blackout bar

• ABBYY Business Card Reader -

A time-saving application that allows users of ABBYY FineReader 11 Corporate Edition to quickly and accurately convert scanned business cards and save the extracted data in vCard format or directly to Microsoft Outlook contacts.

These are some of the well thought out enhancements to the Corporate Ed.

ABBYY Fine Reader also installs another very useful tool ABBYY Screenshot Reader. They had some promotional offer to get this Screenshot Reader for Free, about which I had posted earlier, the offer is still on there to grab.

For more information and to try ABBYY FineReader 11, Please check - http://finereader.abbyy.com/

[video] How is SkyDrive better than Google Docs ?

If you are a Google Docs user, try the SkyDrive and Office! They are designed for each other. I’m sure you’ll switch to SkyDrive! Check out this video to see how three students use SkyDrive and Office to work together on a great group paper.

Learn more here :

 Working Together and Sharing for School made easy !

SkyDrive and Office: 7 tips for full-powered collaboration in the cloud across PCs and Macs

Hotmail providing Free Hotmail Plus codes to upgrade to Hotmail Plus !

As you know Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2012 is going on in Vegas (10-13 Jan, 2012) and huge rush of visitors is happening to visit various Exhibitors booths. And the exhibitors are also providing goodies for the visitors at CES. Hotmail is also providing lots of cool prizes for CES visitors. And for those who can not make it to CES, Hotmail is providing 12 month Hotmail Plus codes to upgrade your Hotmail account to Hotmail Plus.  (In short Hotmail Plus provides even more out of Hotmail – Apart from all the cool Free Hotmail features, it provides extras like more storage, no account expiration and no ads in Hotmail or SkyDrive. Hotmail Plus comes for $19.95 / year.)

So Hotmail is providing codes to upgrade your Hotmail account to Hotmail Plus during the CES. So how to get this code?

Just follow https://twitter.com/hotmail Hotmail on twitter as they will be tweeting these codes. Actually it has already started and will continue today also, 13th is the last day at CES.(Pacific time).

Please note, these are one-time use codes,So if someone activates it before you do, the code will fail for you.The first one to activate it, gets Hotmail Plus.So be alert and keep looking for the tweet on the last day at CES. Here’s a small tip, make sure you are logged into Hotmail account as you enter these codes into page you are taken to provided by the tweet.

And remember these are all one-time use code so whoever enters it first will upgrade to Hotmail Plus else you’ll get this message -

Get ready and watch for the tweets on the last day 13th of the CES (Pacific Time) as Hotmail Team has promised to provide more codes on the last day also. Try and get lucky to have an Hotmail Plus account for FREE!

IE6 usage drops below 1% in US – Microsoft celebrates with a Cake !

IE6 usage in the US has now officially dropped below 1%! Its time to celebrate and what better way to celebrate than… of course a Cake !! as the IE team is known for.

IE tam has thanked the community and its IE6 Countdown partners for the support. As you know  IE6 Countdown site was launched last March to help accelerate the process. And now United States has joined the ranks of Austria, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway in dropping below 1% usage of IE6.

IE team also appealed “So as we kick off 2012, we call on the rest of the world – make it your new year’s resolution to end IE6 and move to a modern browser like IE8 or IE9.”

Additional details and resources on how to achieve this at IE6Countdown.com.

(Source:The US Says Goodbye to IE6)

Ubislate7- the upgraded ver of Aakash tablet to be renamed as Ubislate7+

The upgraded version of Aakash tablet is renamed as Ubislate7+. Earlier it was called Ubislate7. Also the Aakash which was SoldOut is being named as Ubislate7 now.

The makers of these Tablets should plan all these earlier else confusion will be created. I think they want to completely separate the commercial version and what Students are getting at Subsidizes rates. So I think all commercial versions to be in the UbiSlate series.

Anyways those who had ordered Online the Aakash (Now Ubislate7) Tablets are getting the mails and can look for exclusive offers.

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