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

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 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

One of the major plus point of Gmail was its interface compare to contemporary hotmail service. The interface appeared also ads free, neat and clean and super fast compared to Hotmail where most of the user pane was blocked with ads and banners. Gmail was also an instant hit since by that time users were more into a neat and clean user experience.

Gmail transformed the word FREE in web market, where they offered services free of charged which most of the operators where offering with premium fee. Most common feature which shifted all emails to Gmail was its way of utilizing the user pane. Almost ads free and fast loading, which was only available with premium fee in other operators like Hotmail.

The next big shift given by Google was the amount of storage, 2GB to start with and now almost 10GB of it.

Counter Measure of MS with Live Services

Microsoft was not left behind, it kept on matching the Google’s feature like increasing storage and then later introducing new email inbox layout under Windows Live Mail Services, however the gmail still felt faster and cleaner than Live Mail.

Fall of Hotmail and Dawn of Outlook.com

Everything which has a beginning must have an end

16 years after its arrival, Microsoft is now looking to pull the plug out of Hotmail brand and to replace it and its Live Mail, it has launched Outlook.com

A design and layout having potential to rival GMail with its basic advantage points like

• Completely ads free and simple to use layout.
• Fast loading
• Ability to use older IDs from Hotmail / Live Mail / MSN or anyother Microsoft ID with it.
• Social network facebook, twitter integration

Worth trying

Since you can use the service with your older IDs of any Microsoft services like Hotmail / MSN / Live, its worth giving a try. I am sure you will like it.

For those who wants a new address, hurry, being a new domain, your choice of user name would be available with a nice extension of Outlook.com

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

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Ukraine	Germany	Croatia	Denmark
Poland	Italy	Greece	France
Spain	England	Portugal	Czech Republic
Netherlands	Russia	Sweden	Ireland

The UEFA Euro 2012 match schedule / fixture / date and time table as per Indian Standard Time (IST)

GAME	TIME	DATE	DAY	GROUP
Poland vs Greece	09:30 PM	08/06/2012	Fri	A
Russia vs Czech	12:15 AM	09/06/2012	Sat	A
Netherlands vs Denmark	09:30 PM	09/06/2012	Sat	B
Germany vs Portugal	12:15 AM	10/06/2012	Sun	B
Spain vs Italy	09:30 PM	10/06/2012	Sun	C
Ireland vs Croatia	12:15 AM	11/06/2012	Mon	C
France vs England	09:30 PM	11/06/2012	Mon	D
Ukraine vs Sweden	12:15 AM	12/06/2012	Tue	D
Greece vs Czech	09:30 PM	12/06/2012	Tue	A
Poland vs Russia	12:15 AM	13/06/2012	Wed	A
Denmark vs Portugal	09:30 PM	13/06/2012	Wed	B
Netherlands vs Germany	12:15 AM	14/06/2012	Thu	B
Italy vs Croatia	09:30 PM	14/06/2012	Thu	C
Spain vs Ireland	12:15 AM	15/06/2012	Fri	C
Sweden vs England	09:30 PM	15/06/2012	Fri	D
Ukraine vs France	12:15 AM	16/06/2012	Sat	D
Czech vs Poland	12:15 AM	17/06/2012	Sun	A
Greece vs Russia	12:15 AM	17/06/2012	Sun	A
Portugal vs Netherlands	12:15 AM	18/06/2012	Mon	B
Denmark vs Germany	12:15 AM	18/06/2012	Mon	B
Croatia vs Spain	12:15 AM	19/06/2012	Tue	C
Italy vs Ireland	12:15 AM	19/06/2012	Tue	C
England vs Ukraine	12:15 AM	20/06/2012	Wed	D
Sweden vs France	12:15 AM	20/06/2012	Wed	D

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 !!

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

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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.

The legendary carmageddon game is about to make its debut in mobile world via iOS and android devices. The makers of the game has announced that they will distribute the game for free for first 24 hours of its release.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKjEfS0IRT8

Dont forget to download the game as it was hell of a fun to drive mad squashing people around the street and destroying other cars with wild driving styles.

Microsoft have made the download for Windows 2012 Release Candidate available for General Public. Below is the direct download link for Windows 2012 RC1 x64

Windows Server 2012 / Windows 8 Server -> Download

You may register with Microsoft to obtain additional resources and documentation.

When we used to hit the Turn off button in start menu of Windows XP, it used to present us with a optional screen to chose between actions like Turn off the PC, or to reboot or stand by mode.

How ever with Windows 7, Microsoft is done with the second tire system of shutdown verification and presents you single click operation where you click the shutdown button in Windows 7 to turn off the computer without second verification like what used to be with Windows XP.

What it actually did, is it increased the number of accidental shutdown a lot. Where some user mistakenly clicks the “shut down” button available right in start menu.

How to prevent accidental shutdown ?

One of the easiest method is to remove the shut down button from the main menu and put it in the sub menu beside it.

Right click on start / task bar and click properties from the menu.

From Taskbar and start menu properties, go to the start menu tab to select a suitable option to replace the shutdown button with the available options of power button action.

Now if you click on start, you may find “Lock” or the what ever option you have chosen has replaced the shutdown button and placed the shutdown button in sub menu to prevent you accidentally clicking shutdown.