Jio crosses 50 million mark in 83 days

Mukesh Ambani-promoted Reliance Jio has crossed the 50 million subscriber mark in less than three months after its full-fledged 4G services launch to emerge as the largest broadband operator in the country.

According to sources, Jio -- setting a new record -- has acquired 1,000 customers per minute (since September 05) and 6 lakh per day.

"Jio continues to be the fastest growing company in the world and has crossed 50 million subscribers in record 83 days," sources pointed out. Airtel reached the same milestone of notching 50 million subscribers in 12 years, Vodafone and Idea took 13 years each.

The subscriber base of Jio has already reached one fifth that of Bharti Airtel, which had 262.67 million mobile subscribers in October. According to the latest data by cellular association COAI, Vodafone had 201.90 million subscribers and Idea Cellular 180.25 million users.

"Beating industry estimates, the company has signed up an average of 6 lakh subscribers a day, which is a globally unprecedented feat for any customer-facing company including the likes of Whatsapp, Facebook and Skype," the source pointed out.

It is aggressively competing with players such as Bharti Airtel and Vodafone and is offering users data services free till December 31, 2016, if they buy Jio connection by December 03, 2016.

From January 01, 2017 the data services will become chargeable with rates starting at Rs 19 a day for occasional data users, Rs 149 a month for low data users and Rs 4,999 a month for heavy data subscribers. Jio has promised to keep voice and roaming services, free for life.

Google's My Activity site knows everything about you

It's no secret that Google knows a lot about you, but most of the users don't know how much is a lot. Google's making it easier for you to know with its My Activity website. With My Activity website Google's is giving you an option to check and control how much information you send over to the Google database.

My Activity site shows everything that Google is keeping a track of. To keep it short, it's everything that you do on your Android phone and any browser where you have logged in with a Google account.

The activity website looks more like a timeline of everything that you do everyday, day after day. The page stores logs of when you used your phone to do what at a specific time or what were you doing at a specific time on your web browser.

In simpler words, the page shows you when you were using WhatsApp and when you opened your phone's camera. Before you worry, no, it doesn't have any more information than that. And this log is also exclusively available to the account owner, so no one else without a password can go through the list.

The website shows all the activities in a time-based bundled form, however, you can see it is a long list of everything as well.This bar helps you to know how much you use your Android phone, YouTube, Chrome, or any other Google service.

Micromax to launch new Canvas phone with 3GB RAM

Micromax has been busy launching slurry of phones off-late. The company literally 'reinvented' itself recently and now hones an all-new promotional tag-line, one that involves "nuts, guts and glory". Clearly, change is in the air and people are loving it, if the company is to be gone by. In a bid to offer its consumers more options, Micromax is set to launch one more handset on May 16.

"We will launch a new range in the Canvas series, on May 16," a source close to the company told Online. "The smartphone under this range will be priced at under Rs 9,000," the source added.

Although details about this new smartphone from Micromax are scarce as of the moment, sources have told us that it would likely come with a 5.5-inch screen and an octa-core processor inside. This phone would further have 3 gigs of RAM.

Micromax recently launched the Canvas 6 and Canvas 6 Pro in India.

IRNSS will take some time

Common man in India has to wait for some more time to use the "Indian GPS" as the Indian navigation system has to be formally declared operational after checking and cross-checking, industry officials said. They also said government mandating the use of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) will act as a booster for the domestic manufacturing of satellite signal receivers as a part of the Make in India initiative.

India on last month put into orbit its seventh navigation satellite - IRNSS-1G - and joined a select group of space-faring nations with their own satellite navigation system. Simply put, the IRNSS is similar to the global positioning system (GPS) of the US, Glonass of Russia, and Galileo of Europe as well as China's Beidou.

According to India Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the applications of IRNSS are: terrestrial, aerial and marine navigation, vehicle tracking and fleet management, terrestrial navigation for hikers and travelers, disaster management, integration with mobile phones, mapping and geodetic data capture and visual and voice navigation for drivers.

"The Indian system provides positional accuracy of 10 metres. For civilian usage to bloom and the cost to come down, more manufacturers have to start making the navigation signal receivers. That will happen once the IRNSS is formally declared operational.

Are you crazy about posting selfies?

Are you a self-obsessed person and love to click selfies? Korean researchers have found that narcissist are more likely to show selfie-posting behaviour on social networking sites such as Facebook as well as evince great interest in the feedback they receive
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A narcissistic personality is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for admiration and a lack of empathy for others.

"Across all social media technologies, narcissists (as compared to non-narcissists) tend to engage in more self-enhancement strategies in hopes of gaining admiration," said Brenda K. Wiederhold from Virtual Reality Medical Institute, Brussels, Belgium.

According to researchers, the involvement in comments received to their own selfies and their interest in other people's selfies did not; however mean that they were more likely to provide feedback.

Individuals with a higher degree of narcissism have a more favourable attitude towards the act of posting selfies, said Jung-Ah Lee and Yongjun Sung from Korea University found

Wiederhold added. "However, since narcissism does not completely explain selfie posting, future studies are needed to uncover additional psychological or social factors that influence selfie posting behaviour," .

Google brings game streaming to India with YouTube gaming

YouTube's new gaming app which was launched last year has finally arrived in India. The YouTube gaming app for was launched back in August 2015 in UK and the US for Apple's iOS and Google's own Android platforms. In addition to the mobile apps, the service is also available on the main YouTube website.

"Today, we're making the YouTube Gaming mobile app available on Android and iOS in India. YouTube Gaming is an app that keeps you connected to the games, players, and culture that matter to you, with videos, live streams, and the biggest community of gamers on the web-all in one place," says Ines Cha, Head of YouTube Gaming Content & Partnerships, Asia Pacific in a blogpost.

YouTube Gaming is a platform that is set to take on Amazon's Twitch service which allows users to stream their gameplay online. Using YouTube gaming users can broadcast their gameplay sessions online.

On YouTube gaming there are more than 25,000 dedicated pages for games like Zelda and Asteroids. These pages have the best videos and live streams for all these games.

Sony's new RX10 III comes with 24-600mm zoom lens

Japanese company Sony has announced the successor to the RX10 II flagship superzoom camera, aka the RX10 III at a price of $1,500 (roughly Rs.99,457.50). The main highlight of the RX10 III is its brand new super-telephoto lens that boasts of 25x optical zoom (24-600mm) which is three times more than the 24-200mm lens on the outgoing RX10 II.

The RX10 III boasts of a 20.1-megapixel, 1-inch type stacked sensor with a variable f2.4-4 aperture aided by optical image stabilisation that is capable of compensating for 4.5 stops of exposure, according to Sony. You also get Sony's proprietary SteadyShot electronic image stabilisation. Powered by a Bionz X processor, the RX10 III has an ISO range of 64-12,800 and can do 4K videos at 30 or 24 frames per second. It can also shoot 1080p slow motion video at 960 frames per second as well as slow-motion videos at 240, 480 and 960fps.A 14-fps burst mode is also present.

"The Sony RX10 III works well for wide-angle landscapes, close-up sports shots, and any situation that calls for a high-performing camera with an advanced zoom," according to the company.

The RX10 III includes a 2.35-million-dot resolution OLED viewfinder and a 3-inch LCD screen on the rear. Connectivity options include: NFC and Wi-Fi. The Sony RX10 III will be available for buy starting from May in the US and Canada.