When someone promises 4G speed reaching up to 135Mbps, in an internet-scarce country like India, the market can only go crazy. And so it did after September 5, when Reliance made the Jio SIM available to public under Welcome Offer. The situation has changed in the last one month. Numbers by Ookla, the company behind world's most popular speed test app, show that the Jio speed is down significantly compared to how it was earlier. Although, don't count out Jio yet. The same report by Ookla also says that despite its imperfections Jio is actually a big deal and has changed the 4G market in India

Ookla has recently released a report based on speed tests done in India since the launch of Reliance Jio. The report shows an exponential increase in 4G users across India. Since these numbers are based on people using Ookla's Speedtest app the real number should be higher. According to Reliance Jio, it has registered over 1.6 crore customers in Welcome Offer, which doesn't include users who registered before September 5.

India grabs Jio with both hands

A graphic presentation by Ookla shows a continuous increase in 4G speed tests in first nine months of 2016. These tests are conducted across all the networks providing 4G services. In January, only 97,630 people used the app to test 4G speed. In August the number was 2,742,413, and took a massive jump to 8, 214,512 in September 2016, the month when Reliance Jio became more widely available.

The metrics company has also presented a graph showing, first a gradual increase in 4G speed tests and then a sudden jump in September. The following graph shows Reliance Jio users in the blue colour and rest of the 4G users with purple colour.

By August 16, the number of people testing 4G speed stands at somewhere around 8 million across

country. Out of these 8 million people are shown to be using Reliance Jio. Then in the next one month, on Sept 16, the number of Reliance Jio tester jumps to over 21 million, which is about 5 million more than the officially recorded number of Welcome Offer users.

But what about the promised speed?

As we have seen, and continue to do so, queues of people outside Reliance Digital store, the popularity of Jio was never in doubt, what is up for question is the speed promised by Reliance Jio.

Users have continuously moaned and groaned about the falling speed but now since we have the numbers released by Ookla, we can confirm their groans are not fake. The struggle is real.

The data released by Ookla shows that mean download speeds for 4G capable phones dropped 23 per cent month-over-month. In September alone the mean download speed has fallen from 11.31 Mbps to 8.77 Mbps.

It should be noted that while the mean download speed is still 8.77Mbps, according to Ookla, it doesn't mean most users are getting the speed. In our experience we have registered speed as low as 0.5Mbps and also as high as 25Mbps. Reliance Jio users have also complained of abysmal speed on the network.
Good speed or not Reliance Jio has definitely managed to make its mark not just in India but globally as well. The 4G surge has been so powerful that the global data has also been affected. Take a look at this graphs.






























The graph shows that global 4G test stayed at around 10 million throughout the year and from Aug

16 to Sept 16 the company recorded a jump to more than 20 million tests on 4G LTE networks.


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In what can only be seen as a rise in hacking incidents in the country, personal data of nearly 1 crore consumers might have been stolen from Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation’s (IRCTC) servers.
According to a TOI report, the hacking incident could lead to miscreants forging documents with the stolen data. “Somebody can create forged documents on the basis of the stolen data,” a senior Railways official was quoted as saying. IRCTC’s e-ticketing website sees nearly lakhs of transactions daily with consumers even filling up details like Pan Card numbers on the site.
“The data is a valuable asset and can be sold to corp

orations who may use it for targeting potential consumers,” a source working at IRCTC was quoted as saying. He added that the Maharashtra government has been alerted. The IRCTC public relations officer said that the police is yet to share the data with them, after which they would look into the matter and issue a detailed statement. “IG Maharashtra police cyber cell has informed IRCTC about Data theft from its website but the details of the said data are still to be shared with IRCTC. IRCTC will be issuing a detailed press note later today,” he said.

Xiaomi recently announced their latest products that include a tablet running on Windows 10. The Mi Pad 2 supports with a large 6,190mAh battery which supports 5V/2A fast charging via USB Type-C port.























Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 Specifications:
◾Processor: Intel Atom Quad-core X5-Z8500, 2.24GHz
◾RAM: 2GB dual-channel LPDDR3 RAM
◾Internal Storage: 64GB
◾Display: 7.9-inch IPS display | 2048 x 1536 resolution, 326PPI
◾Camera: 8MP f/2.0 primary camera | 5MP front camera
◾Battery: 6190mAh battery with 5V/2A fast charging
◾Dimensions: 200.4 x 132.6 x 6.95mm
◾Weight: 322 grams
◾Windows 10

This upcoming tablet will be available in two colors: dark grey or champagne gold. The 16GB version of this tablet will cost $156 and 64GB will cost $203. and will go on sale in late December in mainland China.

I’m a big fan of cheap phones, an obsession that’s been well documented. I’ve tried the Moto G, Nexus 5, and OnePlus One, and have loved them all. I’m completely convinced that a great smartphone and an expensive smartphone are not mutually exclusive. The new $250 OnePlus X is proof.

Yes. That phone pictured above is $250, no contracts. If you want to get even more fancy, there’s a porcelain option for $350. It looks great, too:

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In person, the design feels a little iPhone 5-ish with the camera placement and the flat edges and Sony Xperia Z-like with the glass backpanel. But OnePlus says the move away from positioning the camera in the center was simply an issue of sensor space within the phone itself, and the edges actually have 7 notches that go around the device so its a little more textured that just straight aluminum.
As for the back, the glass actually bubbles up from the sides instead of just a flat pane straight across like an Xperia phone. OnePlus founder Carl Pei told us that the inspiration for the backplate came from the convex meniscus of an overflowing glass of water. Long story short, it’s what the iPhone display does but it’s on the back.
The porcelain version is slightly different. Instead of a curved edge, there’s a sharper angle that slopes toward the bezel, but from a distance you can barely tell the difference. The only unfortunate inheritance from using glass and porcelain is the X quickly becomes a fingerprint nightmare, so if you have OCD polishing tendencies, maybe avoid this guy—or keep a cloth handy.

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With a great-looking design, the OnePlus X carries that same head-scratching, “how the hell is this possible” feeling as the original One, but the best way to think of it is a actually a combination of the original OnePlus One and the new(er) OnePlus 2, all encased in glass or porcelain.
There were a few corners cut to reach that price with the biggest one being the processor. With Qualcomm nearing the release of the 820, the silicon most likely in all the best phones for 2016, the OnePlus X trends in the opposite direction and packs in a Snapdragon 801, the same processor used in 2014’s OnePlus One.
OnePlus founder Carl Pei says he’s confident with the processor, mentioning that it was basically “the chip that built OnePlus” in the first place and can still outclass the 400 and 600 series usually found in sub-$300 phones. But if you want your phone to be more future proof, you might think differently.
The OnePlus X also takes a few things from the latest OnePlus flagship, including the hardware button on the right that can quickly set notifications to all, priority, or none. It also runs Oxygen OS, the OnePlus homegrown Android mod that debuted on the OnePlus 2, but with one an added feature—an FM radio.
The OS is still based on Lollipop, but Pei says a Marshmallow build is coming and that many features, like Doze and Quick Settings customization, is already available on Oxygen OS albeit OnePlus’ own implementation.

But there are a few new things OnePlus is trying out this time around—and not just the crazy porcelain idea. The OnePlus X is the first phone from the company to use a 5-inch, full HD AMOLED display. To take advantage of AMOLED’s energy-saving powers, OnePlus added a lot of blacks to the UI to not only match the already dark exterior but also keep those pixels turned off and not burning through your battery.
The X will be for sale starting November 5, with the porcelain version coming later as a limited release (only 10,000 phones worldwide). For the first month, OnePlus will use the old invite system as they ramp up production, but after a month, they’ll begin periods of direct sales as well.
The OnePlus X is shockingly good looking, especially in the context of how much it costs. It successfully walks that often perilous line between cheap-looking and overly gaudy when phones try to reach both the fashion-conscious and the budget-conscious.
But the eternal question still lingers. Were too many performance corners cut in sacrifice to price? We’ll know much more once we get our hands on one.


Porcelain (left) and Onyx

OnePlus X Specs

• OS: Oxygen OS 5.1 based on Android 5.1
• CPU: Snapdragon 801 processor
• Screen: 5-inch 1920x1080 AMOLED (441 PPI)
• RAM: 3GB
• Storage: 16GB + MicroSD up to 128GB
• Camera: 13 megapixel rear (f/2.2 and 1080p video) / 8 megapixel front
• Battery: 2,525 mAh
• Dimensions: 5.51 x 2.72 x 0.27 inches
• Weight: 4.86 ounces (5.64 w/ ceramic)
• Colors: Onyx and Ceramic
• Price and Availability: $250 - $350 (depending on material); Available November 5
• Extra Notes: SIM tray can use nano SIM and microsSD or a microSIM, no USB Type-C

BSNL introduced a minimum broadband speed of 2 mega bit per second (Mbps) offer today was found to be cheting there customers...


our first reports says that after exceeding a small fup(1gb) it will pop up a webpage to upgrade your connection.

if you deny the offer you can go back in using the old 512kbps plan and if you wish to upgrade then it may cost you some cash

it appears that the upgrade for 20 gb will cost you around Rs.500 .The payment will be settled in the next bill.

so be careful before starting to putt all those things in your download queue to action 

Ever since the early days of its conception, Facebook has revolutionized the way we interact with information — one of the most important being the way we categorize it: with "likes," "comments" and "shares." There is one emotion, however — manufactured in large quantities on social media networks like Facebook — that's hard to neatly wrap up: empathy.

"I think people have asked about the dislike button for many years," Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said in a Q&A at Facebook's headquarters. "Today is a special day because today is the day I can say we're working on it and shipping it."

The shift comes after a very palpable limitations to the way people interact with news on Facebook — "what they really want is the ability to express empathy. Not every moment is a good moment," says Zuckerberg.

Zuckerberg is weary of the Reddit model, where upvotes get a post more attention while downvotes do the opposite. The whole idea of the upcoming "dislike" button is to let users express feelings other than simply "liking."

There is no word on when this feature will go live. All Zuckerberg offers is that "it's surprisingly complicated to make an interaction that will be simple."

Yu Televentures Pvt. Ltd, a subsidiary of Micromax Informatics Ltd, has plans to sell about half-a-million (5 lakh) of its newly launched Yunique smart phones by Diwali this year.

“We want to become number one online brand of smart phones in India with our new launch targeted at the youth in the age group of 15 to 25 years by offering them the most affordable 4G LTE phone with best of the features in the price range”, Yu Televentures Chief Operating Officer Amarinder S. Dhaliwal said here on Thursday.

The company that came into existence in December last had already sold about one million smart phones through its previous three brands of YUREKA, YUREKA PLUS AND YUPHORIA, Mr. Dhaliwal claimed adding that the Yu was the first and only mobile brand in the country that had pioneered onsite doorstep service in 283 cities. “We believe that service is a big differentiator. We are providing handset replacement for in-warranty customers and customer service on doorstep to out-of-warranty customers”, he stated.

"With the launch of the YUNIQUE, Yu Televentures was introducing over 825 authorised service centres across 600 cities, where the customers could walk-in for software support, drop their handsets, if had any problem and get replacement at their doorstep”, Mr. Dhaliwal said adding that the service would be extended to all Yu devices soon.

About the new launch, General Manager (Devices) Saurabh Sharma explained that the smart phone would come with 4.7-inch HD-IPS display with new version of gorilla screen, 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 , 1.2 GHz quad core processor, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB ROM, 8 MP rear/2MP front cameras and 2000 mAh battery. The YUNIQUE phone is priced at Rs. 4,999 and is exclusively available on Snapdeal.

Registrations for the first flash sale scheduled on September 15 began on September 8, Mr. Dhaliwal stated.

Who would you trust to determine history's most creative at? A room full of seasoned critics? Rutgers University researchers think a machine can do the job.

They've developed a computer vision algorithm that ranks the creativity of art based on how similar it is to earlier works in terms of everything from color and texture to the presence of familiar objects.

 The code treats art history as a network -- groundbreaking pieces are connected to later derivatives, and seemingly unique content may have a link to something produced in the distant past.

So what are the top picks? In many ways, they match what you'd expect.

 Edvard Munch's iconic The Scream is considered exceptionally creative, as are Goya's Christ Crucified and Monet's Haystacks at Chailly at Sunrise.

 At the same time, though, the algorithm knocks classics like Auguste Rodin's scuplture Danaid or Albrecht Durer's portrait of his mother.

 However, it's important to remember that the software is looking for originality, not whether or not artwork is good.

 Although the algorithm could easily apply to books and other artistic formats, it's going to take considerably longer before computers develop a critical eye.

Twitter        has      been overhauling   Direct    Messages over the past several months,



 and today it's announcing an enormous change:

 plans to lift the classic 140-character limit. Starting in July, DMs will seemingly be able to run as long as you'd like, turning it into much more of a typical instant message and group chat service.
The limit stays for normal tweets


It's a sensible movie — the 140-character limit was always more of a nuisance in DMs, since they're private and not meant to be the same type of quick info bite as a tweet. It'll also be a huge help to companies that run customer service on Twitter. Twitter has already made it easier for companies to do that by giving them the option to let anyone initiate a DM, and now they'll be able to send long messages back and forth, rather than being arbitrarily restricted.


Twitter traditionalists don't have to worry much: "You may be wondering what this means for the public side of Twitter," writes Sachin Agarwal, Twitter's DM product manager. "Nothing! Tweets will continue to be the 140 characters they are today."

There's no specific date on the change beyond "July." That should still give you enough time to prepare yourself.

Gionee’s global product launch event in Beijing made official two of the more highly anticipated phones of late.

 The Elife E8 comes with flagship specs and focuses on photography, while the Marathon M5 aims to impress with battery life.

 Gionee also launched the Gionee Wallet mobile wallet system in collaboration with WeBank. In an emailed statement, Arvind R. Vohra, Country (India) CEO & MD of Gionee Smartphones, said "Both M3 & E7 have seen massive success in the Indian market and with the announcement of the power packed M5 and next gen E8 we are sure that the Indian smartphone market will experience the future technology today," tipping a launch in India in the near future. The company at the launch of the Gionee Elife S7 in India had indicated the same.

my thoughts regarding this release is a bit uncertain , we are seeing smartphones getting cheaper and cheaper  every day,at this time people are less likely to buy a chines  flagship. what were gionee thinking while launching these beast? well  one thing is for sure this is not ment for markets like india.

well what do you think , will you buy a 40,000(or 30,000) rs smartphone that's made in china and does not have any service centers

see the detailed spec and report here

what do yo think about these smartphones? do comment.....