Indian Railways online booking system and its challanges

  By Choto Cheeta | August 5, 2012 - 8:26 pm | ,
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Since the launch of online ticket booking facility of Indian Railways via its IRCTC service, the service gradually took off with India’s expanding domestic internet infrastructure. However railways are not been able to keep pace with the rapid growth in internet traffic towards their service.

A report from railways suggest that on average 35 to 37 lakhs booking fails every month with many users reporting money been deducted by IRCTC without completing the booking process with various reasons. Most common reason for booking failure is operation timing out, largely due to over loaded servers of IRCTC.

Pradeep Kundu, spokesman for the IRCTC said “At one point in time, we used to receive eight to nine lakh concurrent hits during peak hour”. He also blamed poor internet connectivity of users end along with Banking payment getway faults in explanation of payment deduction without successful booking.

Indian Railways had previously upgraded their server infrastructure however it seems that didn’t help much and while Puja / Dashera vacations are approaching, one can only expect to see more problems for users trying to book their tickets online

Uninor telecom service is out of order since 12.30 PM IST

  By Choto Cheeta | August 4, 2012 - 4:47 pm |
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The day after TRAI and DoT announced the new license fee rates for 2G spectrum in India, it seems the worst effected telecom company, the Uninor has halted / shuts down its service without any notification to its employee or to its customers.

Its still not confirmed, all Uninor customers from across India is unable to access the telecom service.

Uninor is out of service and Uninor mobile phones are not accessing the network as from August 04, 2012 12PM IST.

Notably, the cancelled license for their 2G operation was valid till September 07, 2012 but company sources did expressed their desire to sell of their hardware and network assets well before to attempt and recover the portion of their lost Investment.

Unfair to most of the customers since none of them are given the chance to utilize the MNP feature to shift to other operators. It would be inresting to see if TRAI can inter-vain and help users to retain their stopped Uninor numbers.

Update (22:00 IST)

Its been 10 hours since Uninor outage started, only roumors are circulating for the fate of so many million subscribers. No official words are out yet for the reason of outage or fate of the company.

Their website http://uninor.in is also out of order since the crisis started, not even their customer relationship “Uninor” stores are able to provide any information on the situation.

Call center numbers are unreachable and words are contradictory from the customer care or relationship management stores called Uninor Store. They them self seems to be in complete dark about the cause of this massive national wide service outage.

Update (00.30 AM August 05, 2012)

Almost after 12 hours since the initial crisis with Uninor network started, it seems the users are now able to access Uninor network in their phones but no out going or incoming calls and SMS is possible with message of network congestion.

The call center numbers are not reachable due to the same reason and their official website is still down hence no official explanation on the reason for this 12 hours of horror on the day when two parental owner companies, Unitech and Telnor, is locked into a legal battle for the future of their child Uninor.

The oultlook.com – an ads free web based email from Microsoft

  By Choto Cheeta | August 2, 2012 - 3:02 pm |
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The Birth of Homail

Its been 16 years since Sabeer Bhatia transformed web communication with his innovative idea of HotMail.com to free users from computer based way of accessing emails to more device free web based native access to the service with web based email via Hotmail service.

The idea was an instant hit drawing more than 8.5million users world wide promoting a $400 million deal from Microsoft to acquire the service to offered it under the Microsoft umbrella.

Since then, many more players had made it into the play ground and arrival of Google’s Gmail service has left many other providers scouting for ways to keep their profit margin high with proper user response and satisfaction.

Arrival of Gmail

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UEFA Euro cup 2012 group match fixture and schedule as per Indian time

  By Choto Cheeta | June 4, 2012 - 1:16 pm |
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After IPL, the next biggest sporting action for millions of Indians are the football fever and just to kick it in high gear, the 2012 UEFA Euro cup 2012 is about to start. Following are the essential information all fans are looking for.

The time table consists the group matches and then Quarter / Semi and Final matches.

The group and team order of UEFA Euro cup 2012

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Android versions and its market share

  By Choto Cheeta | June 4, 2012 - 12:12 am |
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It’s been 4 months since Google has launched it’s latest version of Android mobile operating system, the android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich !!

However as per google’s own data, although many device manufacturers are offering upgrade to their existing devices by default and more and more 4.0 based cheapest ever devices like tablet and phones coming into the market, but still, surprisingly it’s android 2.3 or the Gingerbread is what having the most market share.

With android 5.0 on its way in next six month, one can only guess that Gingerbread may be turning into the success story of Windows XP as per market share is concerned !!

Know your PC in details – The Belarc Advisor

  By Choto Cheeta | June 3, 2012 - 9:53 pm | , ,
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One nifty little freeware is Belarc Advisor. It gives you a detailed and in depth look into your PC both hardware and software, including security settings and network setup.

It’s a freeware, give it a try if you have some free time to kill and desire to learn more about your PC. It supports Windows XP / Vista / 7 (x64 / x86)

http://www.belarc.com

Sony becomes first to offer gesture control in mainstream notebook

  By Choto Cheeta | June 3, 2012 - 7:46 pm | ,
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Presently at sale in European countries, Sony becomes the first PC vendor to offer Microsoft Kinnect like gesture control as UI in their main stream notebook PCs.

Starting with Sony VAIO E Series, users are able to take advantage of gesture control to work with UI of the device via one 1.3MP front facing camera.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YylqCz1-L5o

Its cool to play with since you can control your PC with simply swing of your hand or such. How ever because of lack of software supporting the gesture UI, the application of the technology seems to be limited with few handful of software like Windows Media Center / PowerDVD / Microsoft Office Power Point and Internet Explorer 9.