Google’s ultra-fast broadband service i.e. Google Fiber will be soon deploy in Gladstone, Missouri.

After the Google has announced the fiber roll out in the upcoming days, as a result of which tiny towns like Shawnee, Kansas will get this new facilities. Austin, Texas, and Provo, Utah were the new added towns in the growing list of fiber-started communities happened in the past few months.

But as per Gladstone is concern that fiber is not available yet. The City Council voted up in getting this new technology from fiber.But Google claims “it will still be some time” before Gladstone is hooked into Fiber.

Recent sources has confirmed that DoT has asked Tata Teleservices to vacate the additional CDMA spectrum in the different circles across India except Delhi & Mumbai with the other telco operators.

DoT sources has stated that the Telco body may request TTL to surrender its one 1.25  MHz of CDMA spectrum in all respected service areas except Mumbai & Delhi without any such reason.

The reason behind the steps taken by DoT to ask the operators to give up their additional spectrum is mainly because government has impose one time access fee for the airwaves holding beyond the limit that was assigned to it for resuming the wireless network services.

The company will not surrender the extra spectrum as per DoT demanded, the company will wait for the final results of the petition held up before  Kolkata High Court and Bombay High Court. As a result of which ”DoT would be bound to restore forthwith the surrendered spectrum in the event DoT actions are held invalid”.

120 days time frame has been asked by the company before surrendering its CDMA spectrum & re-organise its network, since the DoT may ask the company to impose one time spectrum fee.

Rs. 1,155 crore is the one-time spectrum fee imposed on TTSL’s CDMA license.

Already the company has paid 63 crore rs as an installment fee for holding up the additional license in Delhi & Mumbai circle as a protests to the Government.

Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Latvian, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, and Swedish were some of the new 16 languages added by the Google for its Android Based Camera Supported Handsets.

Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish were some of the languages supported by the camera input apps.

French, Spanish, German, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic were the name of some fifty languages already added by Google in its offline translation segment. Chinese, Japanese, and Korean were the languages where vertical text translation was allowed through device camera. For download this offline language translation packs, users must click Offline languages section in the app menu.

A free language translation service offered only bu Google under Google Translate between 65 different languages.voice, handwriting, and camera and also enables them to listen to translations spoken aloud via input text from users through Android Translate app.

By 2016 cloud-based back-end services will be geared up for the mobile application development phase which will contribute as much as 40 percent as mentioned by Gartner in Mobile Application Strategies and Architecture” report.

mobile back-end as a service is the market related term for cloud services which helps to provide back end support to different types of mobile applications like  user management, data storage, push notifications and social network integration.

A new 100 Gigabit-per-second (100G) submarine cable system has been deployed by Alcatel-Lucent where Reliance Jio Infocomm has signed an agreement where consortium comprises of Vodafone Group, Dialog Axiata, Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (Etisalat),Omantel and Telekom Malaysia.

Barka (Oman), Fujairah (United Arab Emirates), Mumbai and Chennai (India), Ratmalana (Sri Lanka), Penang (Malaysia) and Singapore were the name of the six countries where Bay of Bengal Gateway (BBG) cable system is providing in & out connectivity by maintaining robustness and reliability of the system.

2014 is the year planned to start the operation commercial basis.Middle East, the Indian sub-continent and the Far East will face the continued growth of new applications & services by maintaining  an ultra high design capacity.

“BBG, the first system to be lit as 100G on day-1 will be a step change in capacity on this important route.  The bandwidth, resilience and traffic routing of the BBG configuration, and Alcatel-Lucent’s capabilities and track record, give us the confidence that this system will be able to address the fast-evolving expectations of our customers in line with their demands. .” commented by Chairman of the BBG Interim Procurement Group,Edward West.

“We are pleased to deliver to the BBG consortium state-of–the-art technology and solutions that will help them flexibly and reliably manage bandwidth expansion on-demand. As a leader in advanced coherent technology, Alcatel-Lucent’s 100G technology and advances in its branching unit set a new benchmark for the supply of fully robust high capacity systems with a clear upgrade path to higher speeds,” quoted by  Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks,President Philippe Dumont.

A portable wireless router under named W200 has been launched by Lava International India. Tata Photon (Huawei EC156) and the MTS Mblaze (AC2746 and AC2787) were some of the devices supported by this router.

Features of Lava W200

• Creates a Wi-Fi hotspot that supports up to 32 users
• 1800 mAh battery to charge
• Transmission Distance Indoors up to 30m, Outdoors up to 50m
• Supports 3G HSPA, HSPA+ and CDMA EVDO Rev A/B USB dongles
• Ethernet Support (RJ45)
• Multi User support up to 32 users on local LAN
• Plug and Play
• Working time of 4 hours and standby time of 8 hours

Recently Google has caught Facebook updating his android apps not via. Google’s Play Store. Recently Google has closed all loop holes in terms of Android apps updates without moving to the Google Play Store.

An app downloaded from Google Play may not modify, replace or update its own APK binary code using any method other than Google Play’s update mechanism,” already mentioned in Google’s Play Store terms & conditions.

As per news Facebook did not force its users to update their Android apps not via Play Store downloadable to their phone. This principle was followed via old terms & condition with Google to Facebook & any other apps will not be able to send updates through Play Store.

By tightening the policy Google is maintaining malicious content out of user’s devices especially those who are not intended to download from apps store. We are only thinking what will happen to those Android devices available in the market who will not getting access to Google’s Play Store?

Key Specifications:

5.3-inch qHD (540 x 960 pixels) IPS capacitive touchscreen display
1GHz dual-core processor
1GB RAM
4GB internal storage, can be expandable by up to 32GB
8-megapixel rear camera
1.3-megapixel front camera
Dual SIM (GSM + GSM) with Dual Standby
2,000 mAh battery
Android 4.1.1 (Jelly Bean)
150X78.6X9.7mm
188 grams

As per some study due to the decision to make the digitization permanent which help the DTH players to expand their subscriber base & by 2020 Indian DTH market will watch the revenue grow of 3 times to more than 5 billion USD.

In 2012 the Indian DTH market may have a clocked revenue of 1.5 billion USD.

Media Partners Asia a Hong-Kong based Research firm commented that”DTH industry revenues will reach USD 3.9 billion by 2017 and USD 5.3 billion by 2020. Revenue growth will be largely driven by increasing subscriber volumes.”

 32.4 million in 2012 to 63.8 million by 2017 and 76.6 million by 2020 is the estimated growth of the active subscriber base for Indian DTH Industry & all these analysis has been done by Information service provider company named as Media Partners Asia (MPA) which deals with media, communications and entertainment industries.

Most of the contents renewal from now on will be cost per subscribers as per the weather forecasts between content aggregators and DTH operators.

3.7 million is the active subscriber base added in 2012 & also has raised a gap between gross and active subscriber bases.

MPA commented “As of end-2012, the cumulative DTH active subscriber base stood at 32.4 million subscribers versus 28.7 million subscribers in 2011.”

Again in Indian DTH market, Dish TV holds 27 market share in terms of gross subscriber additions, while Videocon d2h also following the same.

Tata Sky & Airtel possess 19 percent and 18 percent market share, overall including this 4 players total 88 percent contribution.

iOS devices will soon get infiltrate from Facebook own Android based home application named as ‘Chat Heads’.

iPhone and iPad has received the latest update for Facebook Apps like Chat Heads, stickers and other UI improvements. Only one disadvantage remains that Facebook Home will be useful for Android users rather than iOS users who will get accustomed with this new apps Chat Head.

As we know there is always an issue with the restrictions of any apps in Apple based OS, but the new app Chat Head is only limited to Facebook only which was not meant to be when it was started developing this app. The basic goal of Facebook was to reach as much user’s hand so that everyone can use this unique app.

This new application from Facebook is available in market now for iOS devices, but there is one complaint that some users is getting hands into this new apps, so still in some weeks it will launch in other places.