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Apeksha Telecom Institutional Training for Engineering Colleges

Apeksha Telecom offers Institutional Telecom training to pre-final/ final year students of engineering colleges. 

It is a job-oriented Telecom training program with 100% placement, inside the college campus.  It is basically designed for students who aspire to build a successful career in telecom.

In the first month, conceptual training regarding 5G, 4G-LTE, 3G-UMTS, 2G-GSM will be delivered to the students. 

 In the second month, the students will learn how to operate various Telecom tools and software like XCal, GenX-Probe, MapInfo etc.

In the last month of training, students have to come down to Apeksha Campus for placement and On-Job Training.

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WHATSAPP’S  ‘DELETE FOR EVERYONE’ FEATURE COMING SOON

WhatsApp has eventually rolled out its much awaited feature ‘Delete for Everyone’ which allows over one billion users to unsend their messages in case they sent those to a wrong person or a group or if the message you sent contains a mistake.

You can only utilize this feature up to seven minutes after sending. If seven minutes have passed, there is no key to delete messages for everyone and your message is there to stay.

‘Delete for Everyone’ lets you unsend messages, making them completely disappear from a chat. Message will be hidden from both yourself and the other people in the conversation, as its name suggest i.e. ‘delete for everyone’. Although, both you recipient of the message need to be using the latest version of WhatsApp for Android, iPhone or Windows Phone.

WhatsApp was working on this feature nearly for a year.

Messages that you successfully delete for everyone will be replaced with “This message was deleted” in your recipients’ conversions. Likewise, if you find “This message was deleted” in a chat, then it means that the sender deleted their message for everyone.

You will be notified if Delete for Everyone hasn’t worked. This feature work on all types of messages, including text, images, videos, GIFs and  documents.

If you wish to delete a message or messages, you only need to tap and hold the message and choose Delete from the menu. Also, select more messages if you wish to delete multiple messages at once and finally tap “Delete for Everyone”.  

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Samsung’s Bixby 2.0 to be launched soon

Samsung will unveil the second edition of south Korean technology, its voice-powered digital assistant ‘Bixby’ next year which will work on various devices, encompassing refrigerators and televisions.

This will assist the worldwide smartphone leader further vitalize its position against companies like Google, Apple, and amazon which also have virtual assistants- Google Assistant, Siri and Alexa, respectively.

Samsung will launch Bixby 2.0 in 2018, it would be designed to be available on any and all devices, this means having the intelligence of Bixby will act as the control hub of device ecosystem, encompassing mobile phones, TVs and refrigerators. It would have one work on one platform command structure.

Named after a bridge in California, Samsung had launched bixby in May this year worldwide on its premium smartphones like Galaxy Note 8, Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+. Samsung would extend bixby to other Samsung phones also. However, models on which bixby will be extended to, are not yet revealed.

Samsung will also develop the local language command in the second phase. Self-sustainable ecosystem is essential because that is the only way to strengthen user’s growing personal need.

India is a great market for Samsung for mobile phones and consumer electronics. The organisation has managed its leadership position in the dynamic Indian smartphone market.

In the customer durables domain, Samsung is a leading brand in TV panels, frost-free refrigerators and microwaves. It had recently launched an Internet of Things-enabled washing machine.

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SAMSUNG SMARTPHONES WILL ENCOMPASS ANDROID OREO UPGRADE BY EARLY 2018

The initial Samsung smartphones to have Android Oreo update will be the Galaxy Note 8 and the Galaxy S8 duo.

Android customers have nearly gotten used to not getting OS updates but things have been reshaping over the past year. Many smartphones are at present in the process or confirmed to have the latest Android Oreo upgrade by the end of 2017. Nevertheless, Samsung’s flagship smartphones, the Galaxy Note 8 and the Galaxy S8 duo will run Android Nougat at least till early 2018. Google hafd declared its latest mobile OS, Android Oreo in August.

This information is from a Samsung Turkey news portal developed initially by XDA Developers. Samsung has started working on the pilot version of Android Oreo, the organisation will launch the stable version by early 2018. However, Samsung hasn’t specified which smartphone would get the update first; it’s quite obvious that the Galaxy Note 8 and Galaxy S8 duo would be primarily in line.

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MOTO X4 PRICE IN INDIA CONFIRMED TO BE RS. 23999

A recent disclosure has alleged Moto X4 India pricing before the official launch. Lenevo has been going side to side on the launch of Moto X4 in India. The organisation formerly scheduled the release for early October though delayed it due to unknown resons. Now, the smartphone has been planned to release on November 13.

Now, a recent disclosure apparently drops a hint around the pricing of the Moto X4 in India. According to discloser image, the Moto X4 with model number XT1900-2 will come with a price tag of 23,999. Asecond disclosed image alleged to be from the settings page disclosed dual-SIM support for the Moto X4.

To remind, the Moto X4 was primary revealed at IFA 2017. One of the greatest highlight of the smartphone is that it specifies both Google assistance and Amazon Alexa as voice-based intelligent assistants.

The handset showcases a metal unibody design and have a fingerprint scanner under the home button at the front. It also come up with a USB Type-C port and 3.5 mm  audio jack that are found on thw bottom of the handset.

Coming to features, the moto X4 works on Android 7.1 Nougat and supports a single-SIM slot(Nano). Although, we can assume that the Indian variant will support dual-SIM cards. It specifies a 5.2-inch full-HD LTPS IPS display with 424ppi pixel density and corning Gorilla Glass protection.

It is powered by 2.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 630 octa-core SoC along with 3GB RAM. There’s a dual rear camera setup which encompass on 12-mega pixel dual autofocus sensor with f/2.0 aperture and 1.4-micron pixels, and another 8-megapixel Ultra-wide angle sensor. The front camera packs a 10-megapixel selfie sensor with flash support. It is backed by a #000 mAh battery with support for fast charging.

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MICROMAX COLLABORATES WITH VODAFONE RELEASES BHARAT2 ULTRA 4G PHONE AT AN EFFICIENT PRICE OF RS. 999.

Micromax came together with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) to introduce Bharat1 earlier this month. The organization now makes the cheapest 4G smartphone in India, as said by the organization itself, called the, Bharat2 Ultra at an efficient price of Rs 999. The 4G smartphone will be serviceable in India in first week of November.

With the lauch of Bharat2 Ultra, Micromax is probably targeting at attaining back its long lost position and grow into one of the top five smartphone producing companies in this segment.

Micromax introduces the Bharat2 Utra at an efficient price of Rs. 999 in collaboration with Vodafone India. With this launch of Bharat2 Ultra, Micromax and Vodafone has imposed nearly the same strategy as Airtel as Karbon did with the newly introduced Karbonn A40 Indian 4G phone.

Foremostly, the customers will require to buy the Bharat2 Ultra at Rs. 2899. But then, under a lot of conditions, similar to the Karbonn A40 Indian and also Jiophone. The organization will latterly refund the amount of Rs. 1999 over a period of 3 years. This is the way it works.

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WHATSAPP GROUP AUDIO AND VIDEO CALLS COMING UP

Whatsapp is assumed to shortly add up group video and audio calling specification to its platform. The specification could be moved out early next year.

WhatsApp Group calling is coming up, confirming by the code marked in the latest beta version for  the iphone App. Although group voice calling for WhatsApp is fairly confirmed due to numerous references, there is only one acknowledgement of group video calls for the platform. However it will be a valuable addition to the App, that has been enhancing a lot of features this year for its more than 1billion users. Nevertheless, it is not still clear when WhatsApp will follow the features.

As per WABetaInfo, that reports on coming up specification of WhatsApp, the WhatsApp v2.17.70 beta for iPhone update has code references to group calls. The 2.17.70 Ios update has covered references to group calls. Previously it was an intrinsic news, but now its confirmed.

It was before reported that Facebook-owned messaging App was accomplishing group voice calls and could launch the specification next year. Facebook at present has a similar specification on messenger.

WhatsApp 2.17.70 sends a request to the server to know if the user you are trying to call is in another group call.

According to WABetaInfo, the messaging App is also testing the unsend the delete for everyone features.

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ONEPLUS 5T IS AROUND THE CORNER

OnePlus alleged anticipated that the OnePlus 5 wasn’t popular. Therefore it is willing to launch an update OnePlus 5T shortly. This was hinted by Carl Pie, OnePlus co-founder in a tweet. His tweet almost confirmed that the OnePlus 5T is coming up.

OnePlus 5 is out of stock nearly throughout the land except markets like India and china. For instance, in Europ,e which is a major market for OnePlus, the phone is not anymore in shops. This seemingly is taking place because OnePlus is now gearing up to introduce the OnePlus 5T.

The OnePlus 5T will be introduced in November. The global commencement and India commencement are likely to be simultaneous, but there is nothing confirmed about it. If it all there is a delay, await the OnePlus 5T to launch in December.

The outlook is going to be similar to that of the OnePlus 5, with almost identical rounded edges and metal body.

Tking into account that this is a T update, related to how the OnePlus 3T was updated modification of the OnePlus 3, the hardware of the OnePlus 5 and OnePlus 5T will be similar.

Unlike the 5.5-inch screen in OnePlus 5, the coming flagship OnePlus 5T is likely to come with a 6-inch display with 18:9 aspect ratio. The enhancement in the screen size may also assist OnePlus put a larger battery in the phone.  

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Before installing apps, Google Play will allow you to try them

Google proclaimed several new updates for the Google Play and new specifications in play console. Most attracting update introduced by the organisation is the possibility of Google instant apps in the Play store. The company has also introduced ‘Try It Now’ button by which user can test run the app before installing it on the device.

Google has declared that it is minimising the transaction fee to 15% rather than 30%. This transaction fee criteria will be implemented from January 1, 2018.

Google has assimilated the instant apps with a Try It  Now button on store listings. User can single tap on it and can experience the app without having to install it first. This update protects one from the long task of installing and uninstalling the app.

Google has also announced the updated Editor’s choice on store listing which is now live in 17 countries. It unveils the highest quality apps and games liked by Google editors.

Google is also designing to add two new browse destinations – New and Premium.

Google has improved the Play Store not just for consumers but also by adding developers-facing characteristics. Initially, it has included five new Android vitals and enhanced the device coverage to assist user confront issues relating to battery consumption, crashed, and render time. The company is also upgrading the pre-launch reports and permitting it for all the developers. Google will now undoubtedly install and test run the app whenever a developer connects the alpha or Beta APK files.

The report will tell about crashes, display issues, security vulnerabilities, and now performance problems encountered.

Google is also initiating a policy to prohibit apps which regularly show issues like crashing, freezing, or any other abnormality in functioning on majority of devices.

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INTEL COLLABORATES WITH FACEBOOK FOR NERVANA NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSORS

Intel reveals that it is working on a super-fast chip created particularly for artificial intelligence.

Intel collaboration with Facebook and other internet titanics investing deliverately in artificial intelligence to design the first in what will be a family of “Nervana Neural Network Processors” adapted to the needs of the emerging technology. It is just the emergence of a transformation. Artificial intelligence is going to be equivalent to what the internet was in 1990s.

Chips created for artificial intelligence need to precisely handle huge amounts of data and sensor input in real time.

Cloud services have been a forcing house for artificial intelligence innovation, therefore intel has collaborated with facebook and other organisations in that domain to put up a chip tailor to meet those needs.

Nervana Neural Network Processors is the first member, intel has planned a whole family for this.

These new chips will allow new classes of artificial intelligence applications, which will assist in transformation of social media, health care, weather forecasting and automobiles, among others.

Nervana Neural Network Processor has been in the works for nearly three years, and this is expected to start shipping soon.

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Qualcomm reveals its Snapdragon 636

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 636 is a mid-range mobile processor. This SoC supports enhanced gaming, advanced photography and further improved display technology support. Over the Snapdragon 630 Mobile Plateform Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 636 boasts long battery life and fast LTE speeds for smartphones and tablet.

 Qualcomm said it had attained a 5G connection on a 5G modem chipset for mobile devices. Qualcomm also displayed its first 5G smartphone reference design for testing and optimisation of 5G technology.

 Qualcomm radiated a 5G data connection on Snapdragon X50 provided gigabit speeds and a data connection in the 28 GHz mmWave radio frequency band. The reference design of Qualcomm 5G smartphone showcased that Qualcomm Technologies is driving 5G NR in mobile devices to enhance mobile broadband experiences for consumers around the world.

 The company also enhanced of its SDR051 mmWave RF transceiver integrated circuit, which was answer to the success of the demonstration. The Snapdragon X50 5G NR modem family is awited to show up in 5G smartphones and networks in the first half of 2019.

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Sixfold Hike in International Call Termination Rates..

Cellular operators association of India, COAI has recommended a sharp hike in international call termination rate to Rs. 350 a minute instead of 53 paise per minute at present. The TRAI(Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) is presently in the midst of reviewing these charges, paid by foreign carriers for terminating international calls in India.

COAI Director General Rajan Mathews said, “ Today, there is a 20:1 imbalance between incoming and outgoing international calls. In order to adjust the imbalance, you need to go to Rs. 3.50 on a weighted average basis, to correct the arbitrage” to PTI.

COAI has proclaimed that there is a need to bridge the gap between the termination rates received on international incoming calls and blended termination rate paid by Indian operators for outgoing international calls.

Rajan Mathews attempted to draw a difference between termination rate complications that came into play for domestic and international calls. Mathews added, “International interconnect rates are not as simple as domestic because there are multiple countries with their own regulatory processes and they set their own rates…also there are currently fluctuations to deal with.”

The harmonised termination charges paid by Indian operators is apporoximately Rs. 3.50 a minute for outgoing international calls differentiated to 53 paise per minute termination charge received by them on incoming international calls, COAI has declared.

Therefore, our operators are at a disadvantage because we end up giving precious foreign exchange out…the problem with international is that, Indian regulator has no control on the otherside (for outgoing call termination charges) so other side is free to charge whatever they want.

TRAI will emerge with a separate regulation on the international termination charges. This concern had formed a part of the conference paper on IUC or Interconnection Usage Charges but was chopped out for separate deliberations by the regulator.

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Samsung launches its Bixby Voice in India

Bixby Voice, Samsung virtual assistant is now accessible for customers in India. This artificial intelligence, Bixby Voice has the ability to understand indian accents.

Bixby voice facilitates the user in numerous ways.

For instance, with Bixby voice feature, we can launch any app just by saying “Open” along with the app name. Or we can say, “Take a  screenshot” to capture what’s on your screen. We can ask Bixby to take a selfie, and it will open the camera app and flip to the front camera. We can use Bixby voice to calculate simple equations, like if we ask what is 20 percent of 800, it will open calculator, input the equation, and display the solution.

Nevertheless, only the Samsung Galaxy S8, Galaxy S8 Plus ownera, Galaxy Note 8 users will be able to take advantages of the smart assistant for now.

It took months of rigorous efforts to adopt and understand the Indian dialects and contexts.

Mr. Asim Warsi, Senior Vice President, Mobile Bussiness, Samsung India in après statement said, “keeping in mind the diversity in Indian accents and our commitment to ‘Make for India’, Bixby has been optimized to understand Indian Accents.”

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How Qualcomm and Nokia is changing 5G mobile?

Qualcomm Technologies and Nokia collaborated to carry interoperability testing and over the air field try outs of 5G New Radio (NR) release-15 specification by 3GPP.

Testing and trials based on 5G New Radio (NR) technologies will enable timely network launches in 2019. Besides, it will facilitate commercialization of 5G devices and infrastructure – based on 3GPP standards.

5G mobility applications is the growing interest of the industry through out the globe. A recent survey organized by Qualcomm Technologies opened up that 48% of the respondants are willing to buy 5G smartphone when available.

This testing and trails will start in the second half of 2017. The organizations will represent 5G NR technologies to attain multi-gigabit per second data at low latencies and better reliability in an efficient manner, as compared to today’s network.

5G NR technologies will be efficient in fulfilling the increasing connectivity requirement for consumer mobile experiences like immersive virtual / augmented reality, and connected cloud computing, streaming high-fidelity video, high reliability low latency services for use cases like industrial equipment, autonomous vehicles and drones.

In testing and trials the Nokia 5G FIRST solution will be utilized, that incorporates the Nokia Air Scale base station transmitting over the 5G NR interface to the device prototype from Qualcomm Technologies.

The collaboration will also include network operators to carry 5G NR over-the-air field trails starting in 2018.

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SMART CONTRACT

Technology that can bring revolution in 21st century, forces to write on the topic "Smart Contract".

Technologies based on smart contract has very huge demand in the coming years. Majority of the people are unaware of this set of instruction called 'Smart Contract'. The aim is to help a small portion of that majority, to understand this upcoming revolution.

INTRODUCTION

Before talking about crypto currencies, blockchain and others, it has to be known that, trust has always been a synonym for money. Trust plays a very crucial role in the transaction of money or any legal work. But, sarcasmly this trust is always issued by a third party in the process of transaction. Hence this failure of system ignites people to bring on a new technology, which is based on 'Blockchain'. Blockchain is a digital public ledger in which transaction are made through cryptocurrency (virtual or digital currency) and are recorded chronologically. Under this technology, a mutual trust is established in the entire globe among people, which will not only eliminate the involvement of third party, but also reduce the fraud cases.

WHAT IS SMART CONTRACT ?

With this introduction we are now ready to understand,' What is Smart Contract' ? A global misconception shows, people assume Smart Contract as a kind of Contract or agreement. However, Smart Contracts are the set of instruction or code that stores rules for negotiating the terms of a Contract, Automatically verifies the contract and then executes the agreed terms.

In Smart Contract, Untrusted parties which were using a third party to transact, directly transacts with each other. Smart Contracts are stored on the Blockchain which all party have a copy of. The Smart Contract can execute agreed stored process when triggered by an Authorised/Agreed event just like traditional system.

ADVANTAGES OF SMART CONTRACTS

If any party tries to change a Contract/Transaction in the blockchain all other parties can detect and prevent it, as all the parties have a copy of it. Hence, a person involving in any kind of fraud can easily be identified. If any party fails the system continues to function with no loss of data.

DECENTRALISED SMART CONTRACTS

A person can directly deal with his customers which reduces costs and no more middle man are involved. One can trust his customers as business agreements are automatically executed and verified. The business will be resistant to single point of failure.

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How Reliance jio 4G speeds rise by 50% after  free data offers end?

Reliance Jio’s 4G speeds came up as the free data offers are over, said a blogpost by OpenSignal. OpenSignal is an organisation that specializes in wireless coverage mapping.

So far the company has ranked Airtel as the number one in 4G speeds in India and had rated Jio’s network as the slowest in the country, with average download speeds of 3.9 mbps in July 2017. But now in new blogpost, in accordance with OpenSignal  Jio’s speeds have increased by 50%.

Soon OpenSignalwill release its second state of Mobile Networks report for India. In Jio’s case, the company notes that it had topped the 4G network availability chart in their India analysis, but climb in user base came at the cost of network speed. Jio has already headed to cross 100 million users in India in just a year after its official launch.

Yet, OpenSignal indicates in their blogpost, the immense affect of free data offers was that the LTE network speeds for Jio were low. OpenSignal observes that, this has changed once the free data offers came to an end and customers were anticipated to get a recharge foe the services.

The blogpost by OpenSignal reads, “In April, most of Jio’s freebie plans ended, and customers found themselves paying for their data services. The result: Jio’s speeds have increased – not just increased, they’ve skyrocketed”.

According to the company, in January – March, the average speeds were around 4.3 Mbps, by April – June this has increased to 5.4 Mbps and for May – July period, Jio’s speeds stand at 5.8 Mbps. With the end of Jio’s free data offers on April 1 and till the end of July, the average 4G speed rised steadily, says OpenSignal’s data. The rise in speed is almost 50% (from 3.9 Mbps ti 5.8 Mbps).

The blogpost indicates the ground for the rise could also be that Jio enhanced the network to strengthen its customer base, which is huge and completely on 4G LTE. But it suggests the other ground can be that, users might have left the network after the free data offer ended and many more such reasons.

According to OpenSignal, combination of factors is accountable for the increase in speed.

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Complications faced by TRAI in new rule implementation

TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) stated that the telecom companies have asked for more time to implement the new stricter rules suggested by TRAI. They have sought more time from TRAI to address the issue of call drops.

R S Sharma , TRAI chairman, ensured that the telecom  companies have not opposed the new rules , nevertheless, implementing them on the strict deadlines has arise to be an issue for them.

TRAI has introduced new orders on August 18th, in the regulatory authorities had proposed putting a fine of up to INR 10 lakh per circle on telecom operators. Besides it had also proposed monitoring the performance of call drops on a base-station level, beforehand which was carried out on a circle level.

In the beginning, according to the TRAI orders, the rules were to be executed from October 1st, howeve , now it seems to get delayed by few weeks.

As stated by the new rules, telecom companies are confined to pat INR 1-5 lakh as penalty for withstanding to maintain the proposed call quality in a particular circle in a quarter. The penalty will be increased. The upper limit of the penalty is decided to be INR 10 lakhs in the third quarter.

TRAI revealed that starting with base-station level monitoring will emerge to be a great step ultimately. It will assist the authority to retrieve the ground level report.

Earlier, the performance was determined on circle level and inferior call qualities on 1-2 base stations did not impact the final report of a circle, which resulted in complaints for the customers, even though telecom companies conformed proper reports.

As stated by TRAI orders, the customers will be requested for their feedback to the companies a chance to deal with the issues before the penalty comes into the picture.

To submit the feedback about the call quality by the users, TRAI  has launched an app for the smartphones. Besides, the authority is planning to collect information through push messages from the users who do not use a smartphone yet.

In their response, telecom companies have claimed that the operator is not solely responsible for call drops and some other factors, including the number of users on the network, their location and handset issues should also be taken into consideration.