Simple steps to know your Uber ratings by the drivers

The driver rating is easily available once you book the cab but ever wondered what could be your ratings as rated by the drivers. Uber has an option where you can request them to send your average ratings. Just follow these steps to get an email from Uber about your ratings.

• Go to your Uber app
• Move to the profile section located at the top left 
• Select help in the menu
• Inside it choose help
• Click "I'd like to know my rating"
• Agree "know my rating"
• Shortly you will receive an email of the report 
  

TRAI updates new roaming tariffs effective from July 1

Outgoing local call charges : capped at Rs. 1.00 per minute from Rs. 1.40 earlier
Outgoing STD charges : capped to Rs. 1.50 from Rs.2.40 per minute earlier.

Incoming call : capped from Rs. 1.75 per minute to 75 paise per minute.

Outgoing local SMS : Rs. 1.00, Outgoing STD SMS : Rs. 1.50.
Incoming SMS : free

Free roaming which ensures no additional roaming charges has not been favoured as of now. The sole reason for this is that the loss in roaming revenue will be passed on to the customers irrespective of their roaming status. TRAI has decided as of now, the roaming charges has to be applied only to the roamers either as a fixed subscription or with a cap of above charges.

S4 is finally here!!!

Samsung has finally unveiled much awaited new smartphone Galaxy S4, and has taken the war of smartphones to another level. The rival competitors might have started feeling tremors. Galaxy S4 has  2,600 mah battery, octo core processor & with out of the box Android jellybean 4.2.2 OS, it offers the most unique features.

• 5 inch full HD super AMOLED display has adapt display feature, where display of screen adjusts itself depending on what you are viewing. Playing game, checking mail or viewing video- adjustment of the screen provides greater comfort for user.
• Supports Global LTE roaming
• Smart scroll- senses your wrist movement along with where your eyes are looking on the screen and scrolls the webpage up or down depending on the movement.
• Air Gesture –Without touching the phone, just by waving your hand above the screen, its possible to flip between pages, photos, songs.
• Smart pause- Playing video will pause when you take your eyes away from the screen and resume playing when you look back to the screen.
• Air view- Just by hovering your finger, without touching the phone, now it’s possible to see glimpses of photo album or mail.
• It adds business cards or contacts directly from picture and automatically save the information to contacts.
• IR Blaster enables to control your television by acting as remote.
• Dual Camera- Galaxy S4 has 13 megapixel rear and 2 megapixel front camera. And both cameras can work simultaneously.
• Samsung Galaxy S4 Knox – allows you to keep your professional stuff separated from personal one.
• Eraser shot – scans the image and removes unnecessary content in the image. Its possible to remove blurry people from photo.
• S Translator - translates any text on the phone , that may be SMS, email, or webpage. It can translate from voice into text and vice versa.
• S health software tracks your fitness, eating, heart rate etc. It has in-built pedometer.
• Group play - enables s4 handsets to join private network and share music, photos, documents when they are close to one another.
  But it lacks few features as expected by many, like flexible/bending display Samsung youm, high speed wireless connections(802.11). Technology analyst Jeff Kagan stated “The Samsung Galaxy S4 is very good, but looks like an evolution to the S3, not a revolution," And yes.. thirst for the new continues as always and will be never ending.

WhatsApp's mind wobbling stats

New Year's Eve had made WhatsApp break one of the records; of course it is its own. The total number of messages reached a whooping 18 billion on that day. 11 billion outgoing and 7 billion incoming messages.
Concerns regarding the safety
Ever wondered how much safe is the messages sent over WhatsApp? Nobody knows exactly the answer for this. There have been many security issues particularly of hacking. But people are not yet ready to buy that argument and the above numbers are the indication of that.
Monetization or taking over : death recipe ?
WhatsApp has been in the radar list of Facebook and likes because of the above numbers. But all that is there are about rumors. What would happen if the whats app want to monetize this huge communication? Billions; instead of turning into trillions may plummet into millions.

error:status unavailable : Whatsapp shutting down hoax messages never tend to end

Here is the recent hoax message circulating on the whatsapp about its shutdown and it was supported by the "error:status unavailable" message on all the status. May be the server was down for some hours and the hoax message was a hit among the forwards.

The message goes like this(See the funny reply at the end)

Whatsapp is shutting down on 28th jan   Message from Jim Balsamic (CEO of Whatsapp) we have had an over usage of user names on whatsapp Messenger. We are requesting all users to forward this message to their entire contact list. If you do not forward this message, we will take it as your account is invalid and it will be deleted within the next 48 hours. Please DO NOT ignore this message or whatsapp will no longer recognise your activation. If you wish to re-activate your account after it has been deleted, a charge of 25.00 will be added to your monthly bill. We are also aware of the issue involving the pictures updates not showing. We are working diligently at fixing this problem and it will be up and running as soon as possible. Thank you for your cooperation from the Whatsapp team..:)

FINAL WARNING!
If your WhatsApp status is error:status unavailable then you are not frequent user and by 5:00pm C.A.T WhatsApp will start charging you. To become a frequent user send this message to 10 people who receive it..





A funny reply to all the irritating forwarders

In an hour the whatsapp aircraft will be flying over India to censor all active whatsapp users. You must stand on your terrace in a pink Chaddi and wave a purple polka dotted flag at the plane while doing the macarena. After doing this your whatsapp service will be restored. If you do not broadcast this message an alien will come down and slap you with a fish.It works. This is for all the retards who think sending a message would turn your icon blue or red and you'll be a permenent user.😝

Forward to those who irritated u all😂

H symbol in mobile stands for HSDPA

HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) is a 3G enhancement is a new mobile data protocol and is sometimes referred to as a 3.5G.HSDPA speeds can reach 3.6 Mbps downstream and 348 Kbps upstream. HSDPA-plus provids much more faster speed.

See : Difference between 3G and HSDPA

Difference between 3G and HSDPA

3G - 3rd Generation of Telecommunication Standards; is a standard of cellular connectivity which allows for speeds of minimum 2Mb/s.

HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) is a 3G enhancement is a new mobile data protocol and is sometimes referred to as a 3.5G.HSDPA speeds can reach 3.6 Mbps downstream and 348 Kbps upstream. HSDPA-plus provids much more faster speed.(7.2Mbps)

World record for fastest SMS typed...

Text : "The razor toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pyogocentrus are the most ferocious fresh water fishes in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human."
Time :37.28 seconds
Set by : Sonja Kristiansen form Norway

The day the Apple got an egg on it's face

Apple was at the receiving end today, when it's flagship stores in Beijing got hurled by eggs by the angry customers. People qued up from early morning to buy the IPhone 4s from the apple store. But due to the crowd turning awfully wrong, the store shut down. But this action resulted in egging of the brand apple.

Samsung topples Nokia's top position in India

The Korean mobile manufacturer, Samsung with its wide variety of smartphones and lower end handsets has finally toppled Nokia in India from its top position. Samsung's volume market share in November stood at nearly 38%, and value share at 35.2% according to market research firm GfK. The figures beat the nokia in terms of both value and volume.Nokia has to be worried a lot about this trend because it was the company that boasted of the volumes topp slot for years. The aggressive marketing of Samsung coupled with wide range of selection has shown results for Samsung.

Total blackout of all commercial promotions : Indian mobile network consumers

If you dont want sms from any kind of commercial promoters then follow the below mentioned action
SMS 'START 0' to 1909

Samsung ditched in German court

Apple has won the patent infringement case against Samsung in a German court. The court has ruled that samsung has violated patent rights and imposed a ban on sale of certain samsung tablets and smartphones.

September 27th Do Not Call alternative will be launched ...

National Customer Preference Registry - NCPR the alternative which was floated by TRAI - Telephone Regulatory Authority of India to Do-Not-Call service will be finally working from September 27th. This means consumers who were fed up pf unsolicited marketing calls can now have a huge sigh of relief as the government has amended the laws required for such a service.

Kyunki Har Ek Friend Zaroori Hotha Hai - Airtel Ringtone download link

Kyunki Har Ek Friend Zaroori Hotha Hai - Airtel Ringtone download link

Here is the link

http://www.zedge.net/ringtones/1333366/airtel-hfz-ringtone/

HTC Evo 3D - Video

HTC Evo 3D offers 3D in mobile without any Glasses. Interesting isn't it ? Lets have a look at the official video.

Google catches Motorola : The furious game of smartphone is on

Google has brought the Motorola Mobility for an all cash deal of 12.5 billion $. This is going to be a master move by google in the smartphone field. Android OS, which is widely used by smartphones which competes with Apple has been developed by Google. But google was not into the manufacturing until now in a big way. But with the motorola acquisition the Google is all set to roll out the smartphones with android. And the advantages of software and hardware coming out of the same company is huge and Google will be definitely looking forward to utilise the opportunity to encash on this deal

The Gulp - The animation and the 12 Mega Pixel Nokia N8 - Awesome

This superbly shot stop-motion animated short that was filmed over an incredible 11,000-square-foot expanse of beach at Pendine Beach in South Wales.

The Video



The Making

Second largest company in the world - Apple

With $363.25 billion in its reserves, Apple is the second largest company on the planet after American oil giant Exxon Mobil.

At last vodafone can afford 3g in Karnataka

Vodafone and other operators like airtel, idea has announced 3g sharing agreement. This paves way for vodafone to provide 3g in circles where it has not won the bid for 3g license like Karnataka.

http://www.ndtv.com/article/technology/vodafone-announces-3g-sharing-pact-with-airtel-and-idea-119304

Why Apple can outperform android even with low hardware specifications

Apple develops its own software and hardware. The software is always in tune with the hardware, which helps Apple derive more performance from lesser hardware, on the other hand the android phones uses the android os which is an universal os built with no hardware specificity. This is the reason why the 1Ghz dual core Nvidia Tegra powered smartphones performs a bit lower compared to iphone4.