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Eloping Girls – Vanitha Blames Mobiles Phones

Kenney Jacob — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:01:29 +0000

Vanitha is back with another emotional and touchy story, this time its eloping girls and the blame goes to mobiles phones. Looks like Vanitha is pissed at mobile phone companies, for not advertising in it. I cant think of any other logical reason as to why Manorama and Vanitha is doing so much of propaganda against mobile phones.

This time also the pattern is the same. Touching stories, emotional words, and scary interpretations. According to them the flesh trade in India is worth 43,000 Crores an year. I didnt know that all the pimps were submitting their annual business report to Vanitha.

The most disgusting thing is that they are blaming mobile phones for girls eloping from their homes. According to them – “Everything starts from a missed call”. How about rewriting the book of genesis ?

Other women’s magazine are also copying the Vanitha style. Latest GrahaLakhsmi says that children are getting away from their parents and are having a secret world of their own. They also have many stories to support their arguments. Looks like they also mastered the art.

There is nothing to fear more than the fear itself. And Manorama is using the fear of unknown or fear of something that has happened like one in a million for making a buck – Domestic Avalanche

Other Nonsense from Vanitha and Malayala Manorama

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Why Should You Subscribe to My Blog

Kenney Jacob — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:30:07 +0000

This post is inspired from the latest post by Meghna, a Young Blogging Genius.

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Manorama Strikes Again with Kinky Bluetooth Stories

Kenney Jacob — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:22:42 +0000

Malayala Manorama, the most popular Malayalam Daily is back with another bluetooth story. This time its even more disgusting and technically incorrect.

Now before I go into the details of the article, I just want to make a point. Internet and Mobile Phone are not bad technologies. People might misuse it, its a fact. But people are also misusing the print medium. PlayBoy, Penthhouse, Debonair etc are pure examples of the print medium being misused. I didnt see Manorama or any other print medium protesting with captions like “blue print” just like they try to brand bluetooth as “Blue Truth”.

Take a look at their logo.

I must admire their graphics guy. A mouse moving over the outline image of a women. Perfect. Why not try and publish this in your own publication “The Man”.

Now the kinky stories about internet and mobile phones follow. Just look at the care given to the details. A movie script writer if sees this will come and join Manorama to learn this art. And we must not forget that these are experts who can write Kargil war descriptions, and sexy spy stories sitting in their cabins in Kottayam Manorama office.

This is what I call psuedo porn. Also take a look at the title. Brilliant…. right ? Poor Bluetooth.

Looks like someone has subscribed to the FSI blog.

Nice name “Diana” and the blame goes to the internet (firewalled )

Prisoner of bluetooth ?

There is a mention about the Manorama Vision Sting operation Camera team in the article, who once setout to prove that girls cant travel freely in buses and after 10PM.

So much for the emotional kinky bullshit. Let come to the technical aspects of the report. Read the following.

This is total nonsense. This is technical bullshit. But I wanted to be 100% sure, so I asked my friend Ajeesh to take a look at it and comment. He has been working on bluetooth for the last 3 years. And this is what he commented about the article.

I just went through the article. Most of the tech info in this article are false.I really dont think that some one can access your cell phone using their mobile bluetooth(i dont believe) and even i dont think that there is some device available to hack the bluetooth communication.

The simplest bluetooth connection is using Obex Push profile, and in this case also, client should accept the connection, otherwise we cant access client device.

In this article they are saying about bluetooth file transfer, which is possible only if both the devices are paired.

In file transfer, both connection uses a shared link and the link has a particular link key and link policy. Only those devices can know the link key and connection took place after providing a 16 digit pin number. Even bluetooth works using frequency hoping mechanism.

I didnt even heard about such a bullshit before. I downloaded some software which can be installed on mobile phones. They said that using this software we can hack into other mobile phones.. I tried it in my mobile phone.. no luck..

So we can conclude that around 99% of the tech information in this article is fake.. I think manorama has some allergic problem with new technologies like bluetooth, camera phones etc. Some people might be misusing it, no one can stop it. But bluetooth is a secure mechanism. To hack bluetooth, they surely need its developers help.. !!!

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Kerala Police – On Top of Technology or Stupidity

Kenney Jacob — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:50:26 +0000

The news report claims that the HiTech Crime Enquiry Cell of Kerala Police has technology to trace all the mobile phones and devices through which a video has propagated by analysing the video. I wonder what sort of technology allows to trace all of that. Being a Bluetooth expert myself, I have no idea how to achieve this.

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Malayala Manoramas Stinking Journalism

Kenney Jacob — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:02:58 +0000

The Vanitha article about “Mobile phones and Blue Truth”, that contains so called real stories, provoked me to write my previous post

http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2008/04/25/vanitha-internet-and-the-mobile-phone/

Thanks to the readers for pointing out some examples of stinking journalism that the Malayala Manorama group does.

The first one, their sting operation in which they send some girls to provoke men and collect evidence that all men are molesting women in buses and and at night. The girls had some bad experience from a bus depot at night, and they generalised that we are all sex predators.

The same Malayala Manorama group publishes a magazine “The Man”, which deals with topics like Threesome, Erotic Love, India’s hottest bikini girls and lots and lots of pictures of semi nude girls. They publish “The Man” at one hand and on the other they write about women being used as a commodity.

There was a news report in their channel and it said “Bluetooth, the poison tooth”. They were describing bluetooth as technology to transfer blue films. There are millions of people who trust these publications and its really sad to see them giving such idiotic reports.

The same group once described all private buses that run to Bangalore as a place enjoy with your girl friend, where you have one nights total freedom, without having to worry about anyone.

They are successful in their mission. A friend of mine from cochin told me that her mom took away her mobile after reading the Vanitha article. Mom also commented – “Will give you your mobile when you get married”.

Every technology that can be used, can be misused. Not just the internet and the mobile phone, the print media also. And the best example of paper being misused is Vanitha and the Malayala Manorama.

After having said all this, Id like to congratulate every parent who still trusts their children with internet and mobile phones. Your kids will defenitly value your trust and it will give the confidence they need to live in this world.Similar Posts:

Vanitha Magazine, Internet and the Mobile phone

Kenney Jacob — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:21:39 +0000

I recently read a long feature about the harm caused by mobile phones in “Vanitha Magazine“, a local womens magazine which is very popular. The main argument was that students are using mobile phone to view and share porn. The article is written in such a manner that no parent will dare to buy a mobile phone for his son or daughter.

This is not the first time that Vanitha magazine is writing against mobile phones. A few years back, it was the cable TV and then the internet and now mobile phones. I know many families who decided no to buy a computer or take an internet connection just because of some stupid article in Vanitha or the newspapers.

All the features that came in Vanitha about the internet or the mobile phone had many touching stories in them, supposed to be true, where some boys are using mobile phones to share porn, or some kid who lost interest in studies because of the internet.

Some schools and colleges have banned mobile phones. I still dont A college student is expected to be the responsible head of a family after a few years. If we cant trust him/her with a mobile phone, how are we going to trust him/her with a family.

We all make mistakes. Its very true that the internet and mobile phones can be misused. We can misuse cable TV, anyone watched MTV grind or the FTV ? Why are we not banning cable TV ? Id say its double standards cos we all want to watch the silly serials where every husband has a secret affair and all the young girls are roaming around with other boys.

Vanitha dont have the moral right to speak about the harm caused by phones or the internet, cos they are the part of a Malayala Manorama group, which owns another “M” publication which publishes all sorts of tingling stories. Just take a look at the drawings in those magazines and you will understand what I am saying.

Why dont they review the effects of such stories and drawings on the youth in Kerala, rather than fighting a war against the technologies that are feeding millions and have changed the world so much.

Read my other posts related to Vanitha and Malayala Manorama

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Wibree Demo by CSR

Kenney Jacob — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:46:53 +0000

Wibree, now known as Ultra Low Power Bluetooth saw its first working demo today. CSR, the chip manufacturer successfully demonstrated data transfer between 2 dual mode bluetooth chips. The venue was a medical conference in Luxembourg.

The chips will be commercially available from this year itself. I hope to see a lot of cell phones are wrist watches with wibree technology in the market. This would pave way to a whole new set of products are services.

Wibree is 50 times faster than Bluetooth and because of that reason itself, the power consumption drops. Also the protocol has been stripped down of unnecessary overheads and tailor made to transfer short bursts of data. A single cell battery is expected to give a wibree product a running time of 10 years.Similar Posts:

Events 2.0, MobShare Style.

Kenney Jacob — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:16:39 +0000

Mobme is a complete web 2.0 company and our products and services follow the philosophy of user participation and enhanced end user experience. Now here is another product from us that makes events go 2.0.

The product, still unnamed can be installed on a PC or a laptop with a bluetooth dongle or built in bluetooth device. Once installed mobile users near the PC or laptop can send in pictures via bluetooth this software and after screening the image will appear on the projector screen.

If a college event uses this software, the audience can also participate by sending in pictures taken live at the event or pictures that are relevant to the event to be shown on the projector. Now thats really Events 2.0.

This is one usage scenario and users are free to come up with more ideas. After using the software, please report bugs. New feature requests are also welcome.

This software requires the latest version of .NET Framework. Install it before you install the software.

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BarCamp Kerala V 2.0

Kenney Jacob — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:30:57 +0000

The first Barcamp in Kerala was a great success with 70+ attendees. There were 9 really good sessions.

Mobshare Opensocial app by Kenney Jacob (thats me)
Simple game development in Ruby by Vishnu Gopal
Bluetooth Home Automation Demo by Harikrishanan
Introduction to Asterisk by Bipin
Introduction to QT by Dhaneesh and Dev
Computer Memory Based on Bacteriorhodopsin by Jidhu
Open Network Project by Linoy
Android by Renjith
PHP Wiz by Sreekanth

The next one is also being planned. Check out the wiki page.

http://barcamp.org/BarCampKerala2

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BlueZone Launched in Barista, Cochin

Kenney Jacob — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 09:51:38 +0000

We launched the first bluezone in India at Barista, Cochin. The Zone features a Bluetooth enabled kiosk which will allow a mobile user to download free mobile wallpapers, ringtones, applications and games. Similar kiosks will be launched in all major malls an coffee shops across India. Go and check out the kiosk at Barista, BayPride mall, Cochin.

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