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Mobile radio listeners have a new channel for entertainment through Visual Radio with four companies — Hutch, Radio Mirchi, Nokia and HP — on Tuesday announcing the rolling out of the service in India.

Visual radio allows listeners to tune in to local FM radio via the receiver on their Nokia devices while simultaneously receiving interactive information and graphics that are synchronised with radio broadcast through cellular network onto the screen of the handset.

Listeners can enjoy engaging and content, participate in radio station promotions, poll, contensts and interact with radio jockeys and special guests. Radio Mirchi becomes the first FM radio station to offer this interactive content.

Visual radio handsets were already available in the country with applications but Hutch is the first mobile service provider to offer this, Hutch marketing head Naveen Chopra said.

Nokia’s Visual Radio handsets are available within the price range of Rs 6,000-Rs 25,000 and and as per service charges, Chopra said in case of post-paid connections, there will be no rental for GPRS connections. Only usage charges, including the downloading charges, will apply. The normal charges for downloading are 10 paise per 10 kb of data.

A GPRS-enabled handset is a must for visual radio.

Ack:- DNA India

One 26/7 clinched the biggest deal in contemporary art business, and the next 26/7 almost marred it. This 26/7, the deal is soaring high again.

A meeting on July 26, 2004, had resulted in the Rs100 crore-in-exchange-of-100 paintings deal between businessman Guru Swarup Srivastava and artist MF Husain. But the same day next year, it was almost washed away in the deluge.

Srivastava is on a real high despite the master painter having failed to meet the deadline for delivering 100 paintings—September 2005.

Happy that the artist was painting at his own pace, Srivastava told DNA, “The cost of each painting has already jumped four times. Many buyers from Europe and America have contacted us. We have kept the reserved price of each painting to Rs4.5 crore.�

College students, and all citizens of Mumbai!

Wear white on July 26th. If you wear uniform, or you don’t own anything white wear a white band ! White for peace and a memorial to the dead.

Colleges and citizens organisations of all hues and sectors have united to urge that we observe July 26, the first anniversary of the floods in which 447 Mumbaikars lost their lives, as a day on which to say” Salaam Mumbai“. We want every citizen to WEAR WHITE on July 26, to work, to go anywhere, in memory of those who lost heir lives in the blasts as well and to express……….

All income earners, including the salaried and the self-employed, will soon have to fork out more tax. The Centre has finally relented on the long-standing demand from states to enhance the ceiling for tax on professions from the current level of Rs 2,500 to Rs 7,500 per year.

The tax on professions, trades, callings and employments, is a tax that the Constitution assigns to state governments/local bodies. Article 276 puts the ceiling on the tax at Rs 2,500.

The Constitution has been amended in the past to raise the tax level to bring it to the present level. Many states have been demanding that the Article should be amended again to hike the tax level to Rs 7,500 a year.

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As a mark of respect for the victims of the Mumbai blasts, President APJ Abdul Kalam will lead the country in observing a two-minute silence at 6:24 pm (IST) today from Mahim Railway Station.

Be sure to be part of it

At 6.24 pm, 270 sirens installed across Mumbai by the Civil Defence Corps will go off as an alert for the two minute silence.

At 6.25 pm, Mumbai will observe a two minute silence to pay homage to the victims of the seven blasts.

Ack:- DNA India

Infosys Technologies on Wednesday posted a street-thumping 49.2% rise in first-quarter profit at Rs 794 crore and 45.6% jump in revenues at Rs 3,015 crore on increased orders from its existing customers and depreciation of rupee against major currencies.

The Bangalore-based firm raised its guidance by 10% to project a revenue growth of 40.7% for the entire fiscal of about Rs 13,400 crore.

In April, Infosys had projected its revenues would grow at 30.7% to touch Rs 12,446 crore by March 2007.

The Nasdaq-listed Infosys had posted net profit of Rs 523 crores on revenues of Rs 1967 crores between April and June 2005. Profits grew 19% sequentially over the first quarter, while analysts expected a 10% growth to earn Rs 707 crore.