WiMAX currently being tested in Kathmandu by Nepal Telecom

Nepal Telecom is currently testing WiMAX Base stations in Kathmandu, which is tentatively scheduled for launch this Dashain or tihar. They have already tested 10 Base Stations inside Kathmandu and going to install/operate 40 more Base Stations in the Valley. AirSpan, a US based Vendor is providing the Wimax solution to Nepal Telecom for the whole of Nepal and currently involved in fast roll out of Base Stations in Kathmandu.  It is found from the test that a single Base Station can provide coverage up to 1 km with a speed of at...

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Nepal's first 3D movie shooting completed, enters post production.

First 3D movie being made in Nepal named 'Vigilante' has recently entered studio for post production, completing its shooting in different locations of Nuwakot and Kathmandu. Dipendra K Khanal who stormed the box office with Sex psychology movie Chapali Height, is the producer/director of the movie. It is known that the overall budget of the movie will be 1 crore of which 20 lakhs is for the 3D camera alone. Director Dipendra K Khanal and Actress Priyanka Karki of Vigilante According to Khanal, the movie portrays urban...

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Soundgarden to Release 'King Animal' on Nov. 13

Soundgarden will release "King Animal," the veteran rock band's sixth studio album and first in over 16 years, on Nov. 13. The set's first single, "Been Away Too Long," hits digital retailers on Sept. 27. Since reuniting in 2010, the Seattle group has issued retrospective album "Telephantasm" and live release "Live on I-5." In June, they hit No. 4 on the Rock Songs chart with "Live to Rise," a hard-driving rocker written for "The Avengers" soundtrack that has sold 90,000 downloads, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Chris Cornell, Matt Cameron, Ben...

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Samsung Galaxy S4 to be unveiled in Feb 2013.

Samsung is planning to launch its high end smartphone of the Galaxy series- Galaxy S4 or S IV at Mobile World Congress MWC 2013, Barcelona. Different media reports the news quoting an Official from Samsung as published in The Korea times on Sunday. This will be the launch of an smartphone in nine months for Samsung Electronics after this years May release of Galaxy S III- the record breaking Smartphone for this year.  Samsung Galaxy S III launched May 2012 Samsung's new flagship rumor was heard immediately after the iPhone 5 launch but now...

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Comparison of iPhone 5, Nokia Lumia 920 and Samsung Galaxy S3.

The latest smartphone to hit the shelves is Apple's iPhone 5 launched last Wednesday in San Francisco, with 4 inch integrated display, LTE support, iOS 6 and nano SIM. The iPhone 5 launch was just one week after the release of Nokia new flagship phone, Lumia 920 with 4.5 inch display, Wireless Charging, 8 MP pure view Camera, Windows phone 8 OS and Qualcomm Dual Core Processor. Though both devices are yet to hit the market, here is a comparison of iPhone 5, Nokia Lumia 920 with 2012's best selling (till now) smartphone Samsung Galaxy S3.  iPhone...

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Mobile Broadband in Nepal

It was an internet revolution when ADSL was introduced in Nepal by Nepal Telecom on Baishak 17,2065, with such unlimited plan price and ease of usage with the land line phone, ADSL got popular and the demand was enormous which made NT upgrade their system from 40K subscribers to 150k and distribute all around the country. Today the demand got shifted from fixed broadband to mobile broadband with the increase use of smartphones and the prompt availability of information from just a click in the smartphone/tab. Recent survey...

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Apple launches iPhone 5 just now. Here are the specifications.

Apple launches iPhone 5 in an event being held in San Francisco. Tim crook, the CEO of the giant company showed off the device with some major features and then leaves it to other for more of the features. Much of the features comes as speculated and leaked in the internet, and the most notable thing is that they are downsizing every component to make it the thinnest and lightest smartphone yet having bigger display than its predecessor. And as LTE is proudly there in the iPhone 5, we have to wait and see how Samsung is going to react with...

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Ram Raja, the first republic leader who had met with Che Guevara died today.

Ram Raja Prasad Singh, the first republican leader of Nepal who envisaged our nation without Kingship, passes away today during treatment in teaching hospital. Whole nation was being shutdown by Student wings of political parties for the recent hikes in petroleum products by the Government when he died in the morning today, and the student unions later called off their strike due to his death. Ram Raja Prasad Singh, the legendary leader was well known for his involvement in bombings near Royal palace and several government offices including...

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Samsung, HTC await LTE in iPhone 5: Rumor

Enough of Nokia blog posts and their disappointing camera focused new Lumia (920 and 820) launch, I am now eyeing on the September 12 Apple iPhone 5 launching event and probably the whole world will be watching the new iPhone that always outsold its previous model. Though the rumors say this new Apple smartphone presumably called iPhone 5 will be the best selling smartphone of all time, but there are some hurdles with the current rivalry of the patent warfare between Samsung and Apple. As Apple won 1 Billion USD over Samsung for some copyrights...

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Nepal Cricket team upgraded to Division 3.

With fifth consecutive win in Division 4 Cricket League happening in Kuala Lumpur, Malayasia, latest wining over Denmark by 25 runs on Duckworth-lewis method (due to rain), Nepal Cricket advances to Division 3. Earlier Nepal won against Singapore, Malaysia, Tanzania, USA in the Division 4 Cricket League. Today Anil Mandal scored 113 runs out of 134 balls (84.32 SR) and second high score was from Sharad Bheswakar 27 giving a total of 240 in 50 overs. Game was stopped due to rain when Denmark was at 77/3 (25 over) and the target was shortened...

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Morgan Freeman died today or a death hoax?

Morgan Freeman was declared dead in 8th September 2012, sparking panic among fans. However, the rumor has now been proven to to be another death hoax and the actor has been reported to be alive and well.A Facebook group was established earlier this week reporting that the actor had passed away, sparking a flurry of rumors and reports spreading across the Internet. However, one angry fan wrote: "What a jerk you are for writing this. Get a life!!" Some fans have been expressing their distress at the news, although others immediately identified...

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Facebook Group strips to support UK's Prince Harry.

UK's Prince Harry may be in trouble inside the palace after the nude photos from Las Vegas were leaked in a newspaper and went wildfire in the internet but he has now around 36K supporters in a Facebook group who are stripping to salute their Prince Hero who is now serving in military operation as a Pilot in Afghanistan. Members in a Facebook group named "Support Prince Harry with a naked salute!" are uploading and tagging their naked pictures with a salute but editing/covering their "thing" with hand, gun, hats or just posing to hide...

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Nokia unveils Lumia 920 and 820 Windows 8 phone with Microsoft.

In an event dubbed "Nokia and Microsoft Press conference" on Wednesday, two new Windows 8 powered Smartphones are launched by Nokia. Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 are the two devices whose features are unveiled along with the demonstrations of various aspects of Windows 8 OS. Wireless Charging, NFC, and brightest HD screens are some of the key features included in both the device. Here is the round up of the event highlights. Nokia Lumia 920 specs:4.5 inch Curved glass display. Smartest Pureview 8 Megapixel Camera. Offline Navigation. City...

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Nokia and Microsoft Windows Phone event live blog

Nokia and Microsoft are jointly organizing an press conference to launch new Nokia Lumia phones with Windows 8. In about 15 minutes time, the event will kick off at  Wednesday 6:30 a.m PT/ 9:30 a.m ET (7:15 pm Nepali time) and the world will know if the rumor for Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 or earlier rumor about 'Phi', 'Arrow' and 'Atlas' comes true. I will be bringing the live blog of the Nokia Microsoft event, with compilation from engadget, cnet, and PCworld. Stay Tuned. Latest Updates on the top. "This is Lumia, the world's...

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Nokia to launch Lumia 920 and 820 with wireless charging: Rumors

Nokia and Microsoft is jointly having a event to launch Windows 8 powered Lumia smartphones in about 12 hours time. Rumor has it that the new Lumia lineup will be Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820, the direct successor to 900 and 800 respectively.  Nokia 920 specs: Rumor The rumored Nokia Lumia 920 will replace the Nokia Lumia 900 as the high end device. Rumored specifications include 1.5 GHz dual-core processor, 1GB RAM, 32GB internal storage, 1.3 megapixel front facing camera, and 4.5 inch HD display. There is also speculation that...

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Nokia still dominates Nepalese mobile market: Survey.

Though total world market is dominated by Samsung, Android ,Apple phones, Nokia releasing new Lumia lineups partnering with Microsoft to regain the market share, still has the highest number of users in Nepal. In a survey conducted by www.nepalitelecom.com from facebook and its website, it is found that the Finnish handset maker still has around 48 percent share of the total handset market in Nepal. That includes normal handsets to high end smartphones but the non smartphone number is pretty high as near as 65 percentage of the total...

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Government soon inviting Strategic Partner in NT

It's been years for the privatization of State owned Telecom operator Nepal Telecom and the process for Government to sell certain share to international telecom giants, in a term what people call it Strategic Partner. And It seems like NT management, Senior Government officials and even Political rulers are now convinced that the strategic partner in Nepal Telecom will help the company to compete well enough with private telecos due to instant decision making and fast roll out of projects. Government had already decided to divest at least...

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Shiris ko Phool Movie to be released soon.

There had been news and promos in the media some years back for the adaptation of popular novel "Shirish ko Phool" of the same name in a movie by a Japanese national Toshiaki Itoh. But the first premiere of the awaited movie happened yesterday at QFX, after 4 years of production. Different media persons, writers, movie actors producers were present in the show. It is also told that the movie will be soon released all over Nepal.  The movie is known to include many new actors including Ganesh Lama as Suyogbir, Sharmila Gurung as Shakambari,...

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