Google SMS India 9773300000

Google is now providing a 10 digit mobile number for easy to search and serve various helpful services using mobile in a quick and economical way in India.

For e.g.: Just SMS your PNR number of railway ticket on this mobile number and instantaneously you will get your ticket's current status along with all other journey related details.

Or just send 'reliance quote' and you will get what you were looking for.

The number is 9773300000. No need to prefix 0 or +91.

Best of all, you don't pay a premium charge for any of this, just the price of a standard SMS.

Check out the various other services like cricket scores, horoscopes, facts, movies, news, flight status, local information and so on:

http://www.google.co.in/mobile/default/sms/

Google Zeitgeist 2008

Zeitgeist is German word which simply means: "spirit of the age", spirit of a specific period of history, cultural and intellectual characteristics or mood of a particular era; trend of a specific generation.

I am avid follower of Google Zeitgeist, seemingly its becoming my hobby now a days. It assist me to determine what are people looking for across the World, how an event/activity influences certain citizens of a nation and so on. Google has recently came up with its zeitgeist list of 2008. Though Barack Obama won the US election but Sarah Palin is the one leading 'Fastest Rising' section on Google Zeitgeist's global list.

Coming to India, Katrina Kaif is leading all the way in India specific list. She is appearing in every major section like Fastest Rising, Most Popular, Top searches on Mobile and leading in Top Bollywood Celebrities.

Among all the best entertaining part is Top 'how to' searches in India, Here is a snippet:
Excluding point 5, 7 and 8, I really got impressed with our Desi Bandhu's search precedences :). Reducing (1) weight along with Gaining (6) weight are our top priorities.

You can find full list here.

Rocking All the Way

Last time I featured Taare Zameen Par in this blog as I liked it very much and this time its Rock On!!. Written and Directed by Abhishek Kapoor, Music by Shankar Ehsaan Loy. In first thought lyrics are undigestible but then it flows very well with the movie and strengthens the grip. And yeah these lyrics are unbelievably written by Javed Akhtar and mostly sung by Farhan Akhtar.

Its a story of college friends, flashing between 10 yrs back where they wanted to make it big with their musical band 'Magik' and current situation where they all are somewhat settled with pseudo careers due to after effects of 10 yrs back with concealed desire and eventual fate of making it again.

It was always an experience to watch Farhan Akhtar's movie like Dil Chahta Hain and Lakshya. This time also Farhan as Adi makes an acting impact in his debut movie along with well known TV actress Prachi Desai(Sakshi). Arjun Rampal(Joe) is quite good in performing a helpless guy stuck with 360 degree situational problems. Koel Pourie(Devika) and Luke Kenny(Rob) are balancing good with their part. Purab Kohli(KD) is too good with young at heart performance. Shahana Goswami(Joe's wife) comes out with an outstanding performance throughout the movie.

The story is very predictable at each moment but still keeps an anticipating grip altogether with good performances and direction. Aashiqui's song on Garba night to collect money for instruments and Purab Kohli's jolly dance creates hilarious waves. The good things are no unwanted scenes, no dumb incidents, no exotic locales, no cleavages, no grand affairs or flamboyance which keeps it down to earth and realistic.

Beginning to end, its a Rocking movie.

P.S.: Best Part: "Do not download the music" Buy the CD.

Know Your PAN Info

Now we don't need to remember our PAN number always as Income Tax Department (आयकर िवभाग) of India come up with a very good and user friendly site which easily and quickly displays the PAN information. Click on the link below:

http://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/knowpan/knowpan.jsp

Just correctly feed your Name and DOB information and Bingo ;-).

It worked for me in one shot, Lets see if it works for you also in that way.

Google SMS in India

Now you can utilise search service of Google in India using Google SMS. Google SMS provides facility to search for certain kinds of information with Google from a mobile phone and returns results as text messages. These facilities are like local business listings, movie showtimes, weather, facts, dictionary definitions and so on. Check Google SMS homepage for a demo of the actual service.

Google SMS is currently available on the following mobile service providers in India: Aircel, Airtel, BPL, BSNL and Reliance. Also they are expanding this to other providers.

Now Check out Orkut Logo

Few days ago I mentioned about Yahoo India Logo celebrating India's 60th independence day. Now its Google's turn. Orkut(ओर्कुट) also come up with a very nice logo in tricolor of India to celebrate India's 60 years of freedom.

So it seems global portals are getting in mood of Indian tricolor.

Check out Yahoo India Logo

I just noticed a new logo on Yahoo India home page. It seems that celebration for Independence Day(15th Aug) of India started on web arena also with global web portals getting as local touch as they can. Yahoo India has created a special logo showing tricolor of Indian flag and Gandhiji's charkha(चरखा) for that two o's of Yahoo.

Swamii is here for All your Interest

Swamii is a quick and clean customizable search engine launched recently in India. Swamii gives results based on user’s query. For example type AJAX and you will get all the results from different sources like news, blogs, P2P, videos and rich media, TV and job pages which are related with AJAX.

You can save list of common searches or interested keywords and phrases and can view results anytime. They also have email alerts for the same.

So you can keep track of current event or your hobby etc. Google alerts also provide similar kind of service for search result through news and web.

I think we can expect feeds of results also some social connection very soon in Swamii like sharing interest with others.