Airtel seems to have withdrawn their plan to charge for VoIP calls.
The plan was announced to charge for calls over apps like skype,viber but there were lots of negative feedback for the plan. Later there was involvement from TRAI(Telecom Regulatory Authority of India), which would be issuing guidelines on such services.
After discussion between TRAI and Airtel it was concluded that VoIP plans should not be introduced as of now.
Relying just on profiles of people didn't help the company generate a good review of the year for the people of Facebook. People's resemblance with their online identity is not always 100% correct. Everyone has a different sort of identity online compared to their real identity.
What went wrong with Year In Review:
For some users data captured from profile wasn't as relaxing as it was expected, for a user, review focused on image of his daughter with colorful background who died earlier this year.Also the caption "Its been a great year" is not going well with everyone. Web design consultant and writer Eric Meyer wrote in a blog that preview featured photo of his daughter with clip art of figures enjoying festivities.
In another incident some pics didn't remind people of good times of the year.
Posted to Twitter with the note “My friend’s house burned down”. (via @neurodruid)
Facebook later apologized for such "YEAR IN REVIEW" posts. We expect that changes will be done so that app focuses on reminding on awesomeness of year.
Xiaomi sold 1 million phones in India in less than an year
Xiaomi entered India this year and has accomplished a milestone by selling a million phones.Company's boss for India tweeted thanks for love and support to the customers.
Xiaomi has been working with Flipkart- one of the biggest retailers for selling products exclusively.
Smartphones launched in India so far include the Mi 3, the Redmi 1S and the Redmi Note.
Xiaomi has also faced lawsuit by Ericsson where court banned sale of phones, later phones running on Qualcomm processors were allowed to be sold and ones running MediaTek were still in question.
Competition is getting tougher as more and more companies are trying to capture growing market.
Latest Redmi Note 4G model which is expected to be launched soon is running on Qualcomm MSM8928 Snapdragon 400 (Specifications).
Here is the review of the phone from The Phone Guy :
HTC working on expanding range of products by releasing new entry level 4G models in Q1-2015.
Company is expecting shipments to grow in coming year- Jack Tong(President HTC North Asia).
There is push towards selling more on the internet with online sales and company will focus on entry level models to increase sales for mobiles designed for online selling.
Also HTC RE Camera sales is expected to grow and around 20,000 units are expected to be sold by end of this year.
Internet sales account for 2 digit percentage of total sales. Similar technique has been used by China's Xiaomi which is now standing as 3rd largest smartphone vendor.
Group of Hackers created network problems for XBox Live and PlayStation platforms
Some suggest that Distributed Denial of Service-DDoS (Flooding target with traffic) attack resulted in the network issues.
One of the website claims to have interviewed core member of Lizard Squad and was told that it was for laughs and also for manufacturers to upgrade security.
Network Provider airtel will start charging for VoIP calls over its 2G/3G network. Calls made overs apps like: Skype,Viber,Hangouts and other apps are covered in this. Also the plan for VoIP will be separate and won't be covered in existing data packs. The statement might be post effect of announcement of WhatsApp being in process of introducing VoIP calls. The recent plan is for Rs.75 for 75 MB.: Airtel : "The Rs 75 package will allow customers to make between 200 and 250 minutes of calling" Source-1 | Source-2
Facebook is testing feature that will be showing ads on completion of video, based on whether user will replay the video or will be playing the video in another page.
Currently feature is in very limited trial phase, since approach is entirely apposite to what users experience in other websites like youtube, behavior of user is closely captured. Source-1 | Source-2