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Nepal Telecom (NT) on Wednesday started sales of EVDO RUIM cards by bundling them with USB dongles in Mechi and Koshi zones.The RUIM cards provide access to NT’s Sky Pro service. It said they would go on sale in Seti and Mahakali zones from Thursday.Customers buying the package get a RUIM card, USB dongle and 5 GB data service with a validity…

Nepal Telecom (NT) is working aggressively to expand its IP-CDMA technology-based third generation (3G) data service “EVDO” across the country. The company has started distribution of RUIM cards, promoting the service with brand name “Sky Pro”. RUIM card allows customers to avail voice and data service up to 3.1 Mbps. The old CDMA technology of NT…

WiMax broadband internet service will be available to the general public from Wednesday, said Nepal Telecom (NT). The telecom giant decided on Sunday to start providing the high-speed wireless internet service to households and individual customers.Presently, WiMax broadband is available only to corporate customers in 49 districts. NT said that…

Nepal Telecom (NT) is making final preparations for the distribution of IP-CDMA mobile lines boasting high-speed wireless data service across the country. The state-owned telecom operator will soon distribute 300,000 mobile lines in the first phase.The planned mobile line distribution is a part of NT’s 2 million mobile lines project based on…

Sony’s PlayStation 4 is likely to be launched by NovemberIt’s now official. Sony’s PlayStation 4 is coming later this year. Gamers should expect a firm date to be announced around June, and be able to get their hands on the console by around November.When the purported images of the controller started turning up on the Internet over the last…

The government is gearing up to devise a roadmap for the migration of Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) into IPv6, the next negation of IP address. With the increased use of IP addresses, the exiting IPv4 version is almost exhausted, requiring each country of the world to migrate to IPv6.IPv4 is the current protocol used by devices, including…

The new crop of BlackBerry smartphones has finally arrived after a lengthy delay that allowed other mobile devices and operating systems made by Apple, Google and Samsung to build commanding leads in a market that is redefining society and technology.BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. unveiled its long-awaited line-up of revamped…

Intel’s Haswell line of processors is set to be launched at its own special conference in the run up to the Computex Taipei 2013 show. DigiTimes reports that sources from PC players “noted that the new CPUs will appear on June 2 and related PC products will be showcased at Computex, hosted from June 4-8”. The new line of Haswell chips are…

We’re in a strange place with next-gen consoles form Sony and Microsoft. Neither has acknowledged that they are building them, and yet we hear more and more about these practically confirmed systems every day.Now, we’ve even gotten non-commital details from CEO Kaz Hirai himself, talking to the Times. He suggests that Sony is going to let…

Call it the ultimate in high art: Using a well-timed laser, NASA scientists have beamed a picture of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, to a powerful spacecraft orbiting the moon, marking a first in laser communication.The laser signal, fired from an installation in Maryland, beamed the Mona Lisa to the moon to be received 240,000…