What is LUMOS

What is LUMOS?

We have faced this question a lot of time on campus, so here is a detailed idea.
LUMOS is the name of the magazine started by The OPEN Initiative, consisting of students across the campus. The magazine dedicates it self to showcasing the variety and uniqueness.

The OPEN Initiative plans to extend LUMOS as a social network, to bridge the communication gap faced by individuals and special interest groups.

This is achieved in three stages. The first is to network all students and faculty of gat and help them work more productively on the decision making front and getting instant feedback.

The second stage consists of connecting the special interests groups with groups of other colleges enabling a huge amount of information sharing and networking.

The third stage consists of the implementation of the AI, since the launch the social network collects a lot of information about users and their behavior anonymously and continually tries to make itself suit the user making itself better day by day.

All this on a simple platform at no cost is the vision of The OPEN Initiative. And added support to selected ideas or concepts will be given by IT VIRTUOSO both in terms of finance and human resource.

--LUMOS

Confirmation SMS's sent

The confirmation SMS to all GATian's who are interested to join LUMOS has been sent, if you have not recieved the SMS even after you have sent the email please resend your SMS.

There has been a small error in the SMS that has been sent you will recieve the logins on SEP 2 WEDNESDAY and not on AUGUST. The error is regretted.

The official blog for LUMOS is : http://gatlumos.blogspot.com/

-- LUMOS

The logo design is almost over.

The logo design as you can see below has almost been sketched out and all resources are being put into making a 3d perspective of it, here is a basic single color theme of the logo. The students on top the flames are not easily identified, may be we need to use a different color or variation. suggestions invited.

Privileged preview ID's

You can expect your PPID's in your inbox by monday evening.

-- Hemanth G
- Sent Via Nokia E90

Lumos@GAT Delayed

To all who were waiting to get logins to lumos today, we have run into some issues on our server, you will get the logins on your email id by monday noon.
Attachment includes the note and its objects

-- Hemanth G
- Sent Via Nokia E90

GPRS comparision in Bangalore

I have been using GPRS on my phones since past 2-3 yrs and you have to really appreciate the way the services have grown here in Bangalore but there is much left to be desired. So here i present a comparison of the most popular service providers and also my experiences using them.

AIRCEL:

The most hyped Pocket Internet service of aircel, is a really dismal and hopeless service in Bangalore the bandwidth is very low compared to AIRTEL and also the connection is never constant even though the network reception is good in your area, a simple traceroute command reveals that all the traffic is routed through a proxy server located in Hyderabad.


They offer two connection plans


1) 3 days -> 14 INR


2) 30 days -> 98 INR

WARNING:

Here a day is with reference to 00Hrs unlike Airtel where a day means 24Hrs. and there is no message when u have gone back to data plan and the first time it cost me very dearly.


And also the service cannot directly or automatically activated, you have to find the nearest Aircel recharge center and recharge for the above mentioned amount, which is pathetic.

BSNL:

BSNL has a few good services up its sleeve like Blackberry services(PUSH EMAIL), and its GPRS, but the speed leaves much to be desired for even though the speed is constant, But if you are a postpaid customer then you may have better offers here.

The GPRS activation is a pain in BSNL as it requires you to submit a letter and wait for them to activate it, it would have been better if it were ON DEMAND.

AIRTEL:

The king of them all The MOBILE OFFICE service is really excellent and gives you complete bandwidth of the GPRS and really good connection(sometimes better than its Network reception!!!).


They offer two connection plans


1)24Hrs -> 20 INR


2)7*24Hrs -> 99 INR




The best thing though is that you can activate the service anytime just send a message and its done and there is also a message sent to you when the service time is up and you are migrated to the DATA PLAN.




This is the best service i have used till date and trust me for my usage its pretty matched both on the iPhone and E90 Communicator, the features i use include GPS, PUSH EMAIL, Browsing, Active Downloading.

VERDICT:

AIRTEL is the best among the available services in Bangalore, May be because it also has a pretty good Broadband service at its backbone.

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