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December 2017 HIGHLIGHTS Wi-Fi Dabba is a Bengaluru based network of Wi-Fi hotspots Rates go from Rs. 2 for 100MB to Rs. 20 for 1GB It's started running pilot projects in Tier-III cities At its core, Wifi Dabba an affordable wireless Internet network that's now available in most parts of Bengaluru. It launched its services around the same time as Reliance Jio, and while the 4G network promised users data at just Rs. 50 per gigabyte, Wifi Dabba offered 1GB at just Rs. 20. Of course, that's not a fair comparison, because Wifi Dabba isn't a cellular network - instead it's a collection of Wi-Fi hotspots spread around the city. A better comparison might be with broadband providers, and in Bengaluru, Airtel offers 100GB at Rs. 999 - or Rs. 9.99 per GB. What makes Wifi Dabba interesting though, is that you can actually pay just Rs. 2 to get online - and use it all over the city. "To get more and more people online, the price point is ver...

December 2017 HIGHLIGHTS PS Plus membership cards for India are now available At the moment only three month subscriptions are available It is priced at Rs. 1,899 PlayStation Plus (PS Plus) is Sony’s service that allows for online multiplayer, cloud saves, and access to games each month for a fee. Since the PlayStation Store’s India launch back in 2010, one of the biggest pain points has been that Sony hasn’t fully supported every payment method available, to the extent where not all debit and credit cards work on the PS Store in India. This meant using PS Plus in India was painful for many. Not any more. Specialist games store Games The Shop has listed the PS Plus three month membership card for Rs. 1,899. Compared to buying it digitally, you’re paying Rs. 30 more, which isn’t too much considering you don’t have to worry about your credit or debit card working on the PS Store or not. It's also available on Amazon India via...

  08 December  HIGHLIGHTS Games The Shop has started trade-ins and pre-owned games It's currently limited to a single outlet for now The number of games you can trade-in will expand soon Specialist Indian games store chain Games The Shop has started buying and selling used games. After CEX, it is the only brick and mortar retailer to allow customers to trade games in for store credit. At the moment six games can be traded in and for the PS4 only. These are Assassin’s Creed Origins, Call of Duty: World War 2, FIFA 18, Need for Speed Payback, GTA V, and WWE 2K18. The company plans to add other PS4 games soon, though it hasn’t said which ones exactly. The choice of games is interesting as it mimics some of the most popular titles in the country right now and are easily available new. In the past, the likes of Game4u and Landmark relied on trade-ins to make up for the shortfall in titles that wer...

08 December 2017 HIGHLIGHTS iPhone X is discounted at Rs. 84,000Xiaomi Mi A1 is priced at Rs. 12,999 during the Flipkart salePixel 2 64GB is available with a discounted price of Rs. 49,999 The ongoing Flipkart Big Shopping Days sale has brought new deals and discounts to a handful of flagship smartphone models. The Flipkart saleincludes some eye-catching deals on Apple iPhone X, Xiaomi Mi A1, Google Pixel 2, and others. Also, the online marketplace is giving away an additional 10 percent discount with SBI credit card (up to Rs. 1,600 on a minimum cart value of Rs. 4,999). The Flipkart sale is also offering exchange discounts, buyback guarantees, no-cost EMIs, among others to make the listing even attractive. We have this time chosen the best Flipkart sale offers on mobile devices that you can pick today. It is worth noting here that the sale will last till Saturday, December 9. iPhone X 64GB The iPhone X 64GB has a Rs. 5,000 discount for SBI credit card u...

   06 December 2017 HIGHLIGHTS Airtel offered 1.5GB data per day with Rs. 349 pack till nowWith Rs. 549 recharge, subscribers used to get 2.5GB per dayBoth plans will come with free outgoing calls on roaming as well now Airtel has quietly raised the data limit for its Rs. 349 and Rs. 549 plans, signifying that the tariff war between Jio and the incumbents won’t be letting up anytime soon. The revised Airtel plans now offer 500MB more data per day to consumers, along with other freebies. With this update to the plans, the operator is now in a better position to compete with the corresponding Jio plans in terms of data allocation. While Vodafone and Idea are yet to update their own plans with similar daily data limit, it won’t be long before they revise their respective plans as well, if the trends seen in the past few months are anything to go by. The Rs. 349 Airtel plan was launched in September and origi...

06 December 2017 HIGHLIGHTS Featured Snippets in Google Search will now show more related searchesKnowledge Panels also add screening quiz for PTSDGoogle Search to show related topics on back to back searches Google has upgraded its Featured Snippets to offer more images and related searches based on topics you type. The existing Knowledge Panels in Google Search have also been updated for better discovery, apart from getting a clinically validated screening quiz for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PSTD) in the US. The latest developments emerge amid the ongoing improvements to Google Search to stamp out fake news. Among the list of new changes, Google is expanding Featured Snippets by adding additional images and related searches to help you catch all the major information available on a topic you search. The upgrade will also let you discover new things related to your interest. Similar to Featured Snippets, Google is making Knowledge Panels on Search ap...

  Photo Credit: Jonathan Prime/Netflix Cristin Milloti in a still from Black Mirror season 4 episode "USS Callister" HIGHLIGHTS Black Mirror season 4 has a total of six episodesWe've already seen teaser trailers for all of themCharlie Brooker is the sole writer on most episodes Black Mirror season 4 will be out December 29, Netflix has announced. The news comes on the back of a week-long marketing campaign that gave fans teaser trailers for all six new episodes – primarily written by creator Charlie Brooker himself – without any mention of when the series would return. Well, now we know. This is the second season on Netflix following the company's acquisition of the programme in 2015, which had remained a cult hit during its years on British broadcaster Channel 4. Black Mirror's move to Netflix gave it access to a larger budget, resulting in six new episodes last year, nearly doubling the then-count of seven from two seasons and a Christmas s...

   05 December 2017 Photo Credit: Weibo HIGHLIGHTS 2018 models of the Samsung Galaxy A-Series are highly anticipatedSamsung Galaxy A5 (2018), Galaxy A7 (2018) have leaked beforeNow, photos of the Samsung Galaxy A8+ (2018) have emerged Samsung appears to be planning to completely revamp the design and launch strategy for its Galaxy A-Series smartphones. While the Samsung Galaxy A7 (2018) and Galaxy A5 (2018) have already appeared in several leaks, a fresh leak now points to the Galaxy A8+ (2018) sporting an Infinity Display as well - first seen in the Samsung Galaxy S8 earlier this year. As per a couple of images leaked on Weibo, the Samsung Galaxy A8+ (2018) appears to sport an Infinity Display, however, the one obviously can't tell from the leaked image if it bears the more conventional 18:9 aspect ratio, or Samsung's 18.5:9 ratio that's seen on the Samsung Galaxy S8, Galaxy S8+, and Galaxy Note 8. Previous rumours however, have indicated the use of the...

HIGHLIGHTS Google Tez was launched back in September Google revealed that Tez has processed 140 transactions since launch Tez accounted for 70 percent of transactions on BHIM UPI in Oct-Nov Google had a lot of statistics to share at its Google for India event held in New Delhi on Tuesday. Among these, were details about Google Tez. Caesar Sengupta, VP of Product Management and lead for the Next Billion Users initiative at Google, shared that Google Tez will pass 12 million active users in India within the next couple of days. This number represents a big jump over the last figures shared by Google, when CEO Sundar Pichai had revealed during the company's earnings call that the app had over 7.5 million users in 5 weeks since its launch in September. Sengupta also revealed that Google include the fact the app has processed 140 million transactions since launch - seeing a 4x growth in average transaction size so far, indicating a growth in user trust. Accor...