BSNL offering 20GB data at Rs 50 is a Fake News!!

While some people irrationally fell for the bait, it seems that the hard-to-believe news was a hoax.

Mumbai: Over the past week, rumour mills have brewed up some fresh new gossip involving a lucrative offer BSNL is launching for its customer-base. The new offer, according to social media posts, will entitle BSNL users to a whopping 20GB of free data at just Rs 50.
While some people irrationally fell for the bait, it seems that the hard-to-believe news was a hoax.
According to numerous media reports, some people even went on to say that the offer was an initiative under one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s campaigns, ‘Digital India’.
While the initial offer was hard to digest, another section of netizens suggesting that the low-cost 20GB data pack could be shared among five friends was even weirder.
However, the news was soon put to rest by several media reports confirming the offer as a hoax. Sources from BSNL also said that no official declaration had been given by the company and it has no intentions of rolling out such a plan.
While the move could have been a huge crowd-puller for BSNL, the company is currently gliding along well and does not need to roll out such dicey offers.
Source:- Deccanchronicle

According to TIMES OF INDIA :-

Before you ditch your operator to lineup for a BSNL sim card, be warned that there is no such offer like 20GB 3G data for Rs 50 by the state-owned telecom operator. While BSNL is yet to release an official statement, sources confirmed that there is no such offer for consumers.

"BSNL has not officially declared any offer like 20GB 3G data for Rs 50 and neither does the company intends to do so," he said.

A couple of days back several websites reported that BSNL has introduced a new 3G data offer in which prepaid customers will get 20GB data for just Rs 50. The offer sounded too good to be true and started to trend online.

The move from BSNL could have stunned its competitors, and helped attract new subscribers at large, but it is not the case.

The company has said that it has added an average 22 lakh new connections every month in January-March of 2015-16 on the back of rationalisation in tariff rates.

The company, which has announced a slew of measures like free incoming across the country, 80% reduction in call rates for pre-paid customers and the like, plans to intensify its efforts for better network coverage and sharpen focus on customer satisfaction.

Tech to Double Wi-Fi speed, Team led by Indian-origin Researcher

The team, led by Associate Professor Harish Krishnaswamy, developed the technology that needs only one antenna.

New York: Researchers, led by an Indian-origin engineer in US, have developed a novel technology that can double Wi-Fi speeds with a single antenna, a breakthrough that could revolutionise the field of telecommunications.
This is the first time researchers from Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science have integrated a non-reciprocal circulator and a full-duplex radio on a nanoscale silicon chip.
The team, led by Associate Professor Harish Krishnaswamy, developed the technology that needs only one antenna, thus enabling an even smaller overall system.
"This technology could revolutionise the field of telecommunications," said Krishnaswamy, director of the Columbia High-Speed and Mm-wave IC (CoSMIC) Lab.
"Our circulator is the first to be put on a silicon chip, and we get literally orders of magnitude better performance than prior work," said Krishnaswamy.
"Full-duplex communications, where the transmitter and the receiver operate at the same time and at the same frequency, has become a critical research area and now we have shown that WiFi capacity can be doubled on a nanoscale silicon chip with a single antenna. This has enormous implications for devices like smartphones and tablets," he said

Krishnaswamys group has been working on silicon radio chips for full duplex communications for several years and became particularly interested in the role of the circulator, a component that enables full-duplex communications where the transmitter and the receiver share the same antenna.
In order to do this, the circulator has to "break" Lorentz Reciprocity, a fundamental physical characteristic of most electronic structures that requires electromagnetic waves travel in the same manner in forward and reverse directions.
"We wanted to create a simple and efficient way, using conventional materials, to break Lorentz Reciprocity and build a low-cost nanoscale circulator that would fit on a chip," said PhD student Negar Reiskarimian, who developed the circulator.
The traditional way of breaking Lorentz Reciprocity and building radio-frequency circulators has been to use magnetic materials such as ferrites, which lose reciprocity when an external magnetic field is applied.
But these materials are not compatible with silicon chip technology, and ferrite circulators are bulky and expensive.
Krishnaswamy and his team were able to design a highly miniaturised circulator that uses switches to rotate the signal across a set of capacitors to emulate the non-reciprocal "twist" of the signal that is seen in ferrite materials.
Aside from the circulator, they also built a prototype of their full-duplex system - a silicon IC that included both their circulator and an echo-cancelling receiver.
The research was published in the journal Nature Communications.
Source: Deccanchronicle

LeEco launches world’s first driverless concept supercar

The global internet and technology conglomerate, LeEco stunned the world with break-through launches and disruptive announcements which are all set to redefine the technology world.
LeEco showcased its Supercar LeSEE along with FF, the world’s first driverless concept supercar.
LeSEE concept car encompasses a unique ‘internet design’, with a large and flamboyant LED screen. This concept car mainly takes on the idea of ‘inter-connection’; not only does it have fully-automatic driving functions, it can also learn on its own, with facial recognition, emotion recognition, system recognition and path recognition.
LeEco’s founder Jia Yueting with Le Supercar’s co-founder, the global deputy president Ding Lei, revealed the first model of the concept car, LeSEE, and showed the automated driving capabilities of the super car.
At the event, LeEco also gave a sneak-peak to the audience to its concept car. Besides the electric car that holds the concept of LeEco’s intelligent shared transportation ecosystem, LeEco will also announce on the auto show in Beijing a partner in the major domestic automotive industry, as well as the world’s first AI research center with both automotive factory units and an internet company in USA’s Silicon Valley — the ‘FF& Le Future’ Research Center.
All three newly launched Superphones flaunt a metal unibody design, thin bezels on the front and a fingerprint scanner for added security. A closer look at the specifications –
LeEco Le 2 flaunts a 5.5-inch full HD (1080p) display and is powered by MediaTek’s Helio X20 tri-cluster deca-core processor paired with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of onboard storage. It is equipped with a 16-megapixel rear camera of aperture f/2.0 with PDAF and LED flash, and an 8-megapixel camera up front. Armed with a 3,000mAh battery with fast charging support, the device also includes connectivity options such as Wi-Fi 802.11ac, 4G LTE and VoLTE among others.

LeEco Le 2 Pro is similar to the Le 2 in appearance, with most of the changes under the hood. It is powered by MediaTek’s Helio X25 deca-core chipset paired with 4GB of RAM and 32GB and 64GB internal storage variants. Le 2 Pro comes with a resolution of 21-megapxiel in the rear camera and has a front-facing 8-megapixel unit. Connectivity options and the battery capacity are similar as Le 2.
LeEco Le Max 2 comes with a 5.7-inch QHD display running at a resolution of 2560×1440 pixels. At the heart of the smartphone is Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 quad-core processor paired with 6GB of RAM and 64GB of onboard storage. The Superphone comes equipped with a 3,100mAh battery with Quick Charge 3.0 feature and connectivity options such as Wi-Fi 802.11ac, 4G LTE, VoLTE and GPS among others.

The Superphones run on Android 6.0 Marshmallow OS wrapped under LeEco’s customized EUI 5.5.
Further, LeEco also launched the fourth generation Super TVs, Super 4 X50 Pro, Super 4 X50 and Super 4 X50 CSL.

All three products all are 50 inches, 9.9 mm ultra-slim metal bodies, with the latest and most powerful smart TV flagship chip Mstar6A938, massive 3GB RAM+16/32 GB eMMC5.1 high speed flash drive, and support MEMC dynamic image processing technology, as well as HDR technology.
Super 4 X50 Pro, Super 4 X50 and Super 4 X50 CSL are loaded with the latest EUI5.8 TV — Springer operating system. This system allows for the management of various desktops and realizes stream of consciousness interactions, giving the user whatever the user wants. It fully realizes the ability to turn into a desktop all the apps; videos, sports, games, shopping, music, etc. all the contents are a part of the desktop, and can be run according to the audience, giving different groups of people a custom desktop content. Le Super TV is the true eco TV, with supreme configurations and performances, it can satisfy the best experiences during its lifetime and operational needs.
Super 4 X50 Pro will lead the way for big-screen TVs into the “age of double 3 (3GB+32GB)”, HDR+MEMC+double 3 (3GB+32GB) configuration will start big screen performance aesthetics
At the event LeEco also released the world’s first Ecological UI system, an upgrade to the EUI--EUI5. With this, LeEco achieved a historical 9-channel direct stream allowing the user to watch 9 games at the same time. More than that, it can also support watching one game, but with 9 different camera angles!
Source:- Deccanchronicle