OpenBTS

It takes Billions of rupees to run a telecom network, be it GSM, CDMA or third generation technology and beyond. Recently Nepal telecom had floated a global tender where chinese vendors ZTE and Huawei vied for the 10 Million GSM & compatible network project which costs around 20 billion, decision yet to come. With such huge sum of money required, licensing and frequency sum apart, it is almost impossible even for a business tycoon to make it real. Fig 1: OpenBTs logo I had heard of open source, open platform, open interface...

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Oscar 2012 Predictions

Now that this years oscar nominations are out and my prediction for the golden globe were almost perfect, I am enthralled to omen the 84th Academy Award winners. Martin Scorsese 3D debut "Hugo" leads the nominations with 11 nods including Best picture, Best Director and some technical categories, where as the Monochrome,Silent "The Artist" takes the second spot with 10 nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor competing in the same category with family drama "The Descendants" -another favorite among the movie...

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WAR HORSE REVIEW

1: WAR HORSE POSTER I really wanted to watch "War Horse" when i first discovered it in the Best picture-drama nominations in Golden Globe without knowing it to be Steven Spielberg's production cum direction work. And now when I have watched it, I find there are many stories to tell revolving around a war. War horse is just a story about an English horse "Joey" and the love he gets from many people during world war I, like English Captain Nicholls, German Soldier Gunther, French girl Emilie, but mainly with English boy "Albert" who...

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Golden Globe 2012 predictions

Big three this Golden Globe Though I have not watched all the movies nominated in the 69th Annual Global Globe Awards, whose picks help sort out key contender for the Oscars. It will be a good guessing game in predicting who will turn out to be the winner. Silent movie "The artist" seems to be the most talked about movie, picking six nominations in all big ones."The help" and "The Descendants" are tied for second place with five nominations each, both competing for best drama. Remember Golden Globe dissects the...

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Loot Movie Review

LOOT 1: CCTV shot during Bank Robbery. Loot is a story of five local thugs, challenged by the deficiency of  money,  which makes  them  get involved in criminal  activities. Haku kaale, the master planner gather these four people (local drug supplier khatri, bouncer/gambler Naren, lover pandey and outrageously comic Gople) to work out for a  bank  roberry, just five months before the actual day. It is unfair to write if  the hard works (months of planning, "Dimaag" works by haaku and the actual...

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