Twitter Updates for 2009-09-25

• #Nasa about #Chandrayaan – water discovery etc. on moon – thanking #ISRO. Live at #TimesNow and #CNNIBN. #India #
• @vasudevg ref: http://bit.ly/106m8o Popularity comes at the cost of "viruses" or "downtime" #
• Forrester analyst: #Google Gmail's availability is pretty much on par with other hosted services like in-house #Microsoft Exchange. #
• 99.9% uptime = 08:45:57 downtime per year #
• water on moon: what's in it for you and me @ CNN IBN, now #
• oops, CNN IBN quickly shifted from water on moon to HIV vaccine #
• As said in the article: as if IE has less active(X) plugins RT: @vasudevg Microsoft bashes Google's Chrome-in-IE plan- http://bit.ly/sjx9y #

Microsoft launched a ringtone for Indians

Following is the link to the MP3 file of the ringtone:

condom-a-cappella

I must admit that the post title is just meant to be catchy. The ringtone was launched, day before, by a campaign funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Bill Gates is ex CEO and founder of Microsoft. That’s the one and only connection with Microsoft

http://www.condomcondom.org/ is the website of this campaign. The ringtone can be downloaded from this site too.

The website is meant for Indian masses and aims to create awareness about HIV and AIDS, But note that the website is Flash based and slow to download. Most people in India use slow (slower than broadband) Internet connections, many are on dialups and Flash is not installed by default. Could have been a normal, fast loading, HTML site.

Nevertheless the ringtone idea seems to be a killer idea to spread awareness and kill the condom taboo. The mobile penetration is ever increasing in India. People esp. youngsters always want to do something new with their mobile – which includes setting up an interesting new ringtone.