Vertex Management Solutions Pvt. Ltd. today announced the launch of iBuzz Mobiles with the introduction of five mobile devices across six states in India. With a team comprising of professionals from the mobile industry and a combined experience of over 100 years, iBuzz mobiles will be available across key states like Delhi NCR, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh.

Commenting on the launch, Mr. Sutikshan Naithani, Director & CEO Vertex Management Solutions said “ The idea for starting iBuzz came after an extensive research on the current mobile industry in India. There is a definite demand for professional mobile companies providing functionality in mobile devices at affordable prices. He Added we will be introducing 5 variants as part of our first phase and will be expanding our reach and portfolio in the coming year.”

The five models currently being launched are the i1800 (Big Buzz), i2200 (Picture Buzz), i3300 (Multi Buzz), i4400 (Music Buzz) and i4 (Slim Buzz). With the price range varying from Rs. 2200 to Rs. 4000. All phones support key features like Dual SIM capability, color screens, multi language support and music players. Other features include security measures like phone trackers, panic button, and support for popular social networking sites like Facebook,Twitter and Nimbuzz.

While most features are standard across all models, every product subcategory comes with certain key features including Dual Memory card slots in the Multi Buzz range, 30-day standby and 15 hour talk time in the Big Buzz and Picture Buzz, 40mm speaker with woofer in the Music Buzz and Java Support and opera mini browser in the Slim Buzz.

All five models of iBuzz Mobile will be hitting the market soon and will be available across leading mobile shops and retail outlets.

About iBuzz Mobile:

iBuzz mobile is a mobile brand by Vertex Management Solutions Private Limited. Vertex has been engaged in building knowledge projects and consulting assignments for various Indian and multinational companies over the last 2 years. iBuzzMobiles is a brainchild of Mr. Sutikshan Naithani and the brand aims at providing affordable functionality to consumers with state of the art technology and after sales support.

Mr. Sutikshan Naithani over the last 22 years worked on numerous FMCG brands including Samsung, Dabur and HCL Infosystems where he was responsible for establishing the distribution network for HCL Infosystems Ltd for Mobile Phones (Nokia Phones). Mr. Naithani is also the founding member of the Indian Cellular Association.

Your phone will soon be able to sniff out nuclear weapons and dirty bombs.That's correct. Phones of the near future might double-up as bomb sniffers and radioactive material detectors. This is not because existing technology is not "advanced" enough to detect radioactive stuff out on the loose. Rather, cellphones being mass produced devices will serve as an excellent platform to bring these sensors to the masses -- where no present-day sensors can go.

Previous generation sensors installed at sensitive locations had one major problem: They were sensitive to any kind of radiation. For example, a sensor was not able to detect the difference between harmless radiation from Bananas (yes, bananas) and the genuinely scary stuff that comes off of Uranuim and Plutonium. Sensors triggering false alarms were common -- for example, a patient undergoing chemotherapy would have been identified as a "potential threat". With close to 350,000 radiation therapy patients just in Europe, false alarms had become commonplace.As technology improved, so did the sensors.

Enter spectroscopic sensors. The newest kid on the block, it can determine if radiation is really harmful, thus reducing the chances of false alarms. However, there is a catch. The equipment used to detect are expensive and they can be installed only at entry and exit points of sensitve locations, which make their use restricted to commercial buildings; making them difficult to act as an effective anti-terrorism tool. China had installed many such sensors during the Beijing Olympics.

So, how will your cell phone help detect radioactive material?

Researchers at Purdue University have decided to "reinvent the wheel" and are on the lookout for cheap sensors that can be fitted inside cell phones. The project is known as "Distributed Nuclear Detection by Ubiquitous Cell Phone" and is designed to help detect "dirty" bombs and nuclear weapons by triangulating the source of the radiation. More the number of cellphones, the better the accuracy of detection. The best part is that locations where terrorists are likely to strike are cities, which also happen to have the greatest concentration of cell phones. As for the cost, it is estimated that the sensors would add less than $100 to the cost of the phone. The project is still in its infancy and for widespread deployment, an approval from the US congress would be required. The first operational system is being designed by Simon Labov, a researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in northern California and is expected to be ready within 18 months.

Toshiba tonight upgraded its onboard flash memory with a new, 32GB module destined for smaller portable devices. The storage combines eight 4GB NAND flash chips built using a smaller 43 nanometer manufacturing process and makes a single package, fitting twice as much capacity into a similar space as before. The design also builds in its own controller to manage its data traffic and would let device makers drop the new package in without reengineering their hardware.The combined storage is explicitly intended for cellphones, portable media players, video cameras, and other devices where a large amount of storage is necessary in one package. Toshiba doesn't name individual customers, but is a key supplier of Apple and through the design would enable a 32GB iPhone as well as a 64GB iPod touch. Toshiba also produces its own electronics, including Gigabeat media players, and frequently sells its memory for competitors and manufacturers of MMC and SD cards.

The Japan-based company will start offering samples of the enhanced memory to its clients in September and will start producing the design in bulk quantities during the fall. Release dates for products based on Toshiba's components will vary by the company but have historically started in the quarter following mass production.

CNet says that Dell has dropped some hints that it is working on a Smartphone for those of us that are addicted to gadgets. They found an article in which Michael Dell drops some hints in his interview with Om Malik of GigaOm.Dell said, "We are certainly looking at the whole smartphone category, but I wouldn't expect anything anytime soon." When Malik pressed him about their interest in either the Symbian or Android OS for such a device, he spilled a few more beans and said, "We're not ready to publicly disclose our plans there...we're kind of working on that".

I’ll take Michael Dell at his word. They have nothing coming soon. While Cnet may be holding their breath, with so many really great smartphones out right now I won’t be holding mine. How about you?

Samsung’s SGH-P960 TV cell phone is due to hit Europe next month and, apart from serving as a traditional slider type cell phone (see specifications below) its most notable feature is its ability to offer TV on the go courtesy of its DVB-H TV broadcast receiver and support of European DVB-CBMS and OMA-BCAST mobile TV standards – making it the first slider type cell phone to offer mobile TV in Europe.As a result of its mobile TV capabilities, one of the main visual characteristics of Samsung’s SGH-P960 is the rotating, back mounted antenna which stores neatly when not required but, apart from this somewhat obvious addition, there is little to tell this handset apart from none DVB-H TV devices apart from a TV-out port and the addition of a shortcut key allowing one touch access to DVB-H broadcasts.Measuring in at a mere 102 x 53 x 16.5mm, the SGH-P960 sports a 256K colour 2.6” QVGA 240 x 320 resolution TFT screen, offers high speed data transfer courtesy of HSDPA 3G connectivity and comes with integrated 3 megapixel 2048×1536 resolution camera and, naturally, Bluetooth, as well as an inbuilt FM tuner complete with RDS and MP3 player – a handy backup should you find that receivable DVB-H TV broadcasts are a little thin on the ground (which, depending on where you live in Europe, we suspect that you probably will).
Samsung SGH-P960 3G DVB-H TV Cell Phone Full Specifications:

* 2G Network GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900
* 3G Network HSDPA 2100
* Size Dimensions 102 x 53 x 16.5 mm
* Display Type TFT, 256K colours
* Size 240 x 320 pixels, 2.6 inches
* Ringtones Type Polyphonic, MP3
* Customization Download
* Vibration Yes
* Memory Phonebook Yes
* Call records 30 dialed, 30 received, 30 missed calls
* Card slot microSD (TransFlash)
* Data GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
* 3G HSDPA
* Bluetooth Yes, v2.0
* Infrared port No
* USB Yes, v2.0
* Features Messaging SMS, MMS, Email
* Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML
* Games Yes
* Camera 3 MP, 2048×1536 pixels, video
* DVB-H TV broadcast receiver
* TV out
* FM radio with RDS
* Java MIDP 2.0
* MP3/AAC/AAC player
* T9
* Document viewer
* Organiser
* Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion (No endurance details available)

Samsung’s SGH-P960 3G DVB-H TV cell phone is due to be rolled out across Europe next month (April 08) though, at the time of writing, we are unable to pin down unit pricing.