Big Bazaar ‘Sabse Saste 3 Din’ Jan 24-26 2015.

Future Group has pronounced the mega provide of Large Bazaar’s Republic Day Sale ‘Sabse Saste 3 Din’ from January 24, 2015 to January 26 2015.

People can avail these lucrative offers on all stores of big bazaar and food bazaar all over India.

Vodafone 3G Data pack overwritten

My Vodafone 3G pack had 80 mb balance & i was reaching expiry date. So, i decided to recharge the pack and it will add this balance in new activated pack.

After 3G data pack recharge, my existing balance got overwritten. Bad :(

.... And I got this SMS:

"Your previous internet pack has been overwritten by the new internet pack. Dial *111# to check balance."

Is Xiaomi secretly sending data to Chinese servers?

There is lots of News that Xiaomi secretly sending data to Chinese servers or this phone so cheap because its design for data hacking.

This issue raised higher concerns across many countries, proactively in India, Singapore and Taiwan. The Indian Air Force (IAF) — among the largest in the world — warned its employees and their belongings that their private information was being shipped over to servers in China, and asked them to avoid using Xiaomi smartphones due to security risk.

In a blogpost, Hugo Barra from Xiaomi denied all the allegations made by F-Secure.

“MIUI does not secretly upload photos and text messages. MIUI requests public data from Xiaomi servers from time to time. These include data such as preset greeting messages (thousands of jokes, holiday greetings and poems) in the Messaging app and MIUI OTA update notifications, i.e. all non-personal data that does not infringe on user privacy.” Barra said.

What you should do ?

• Don't use Mi Cloud: Mi Cloud enables users to back up and manage personal information in the cloud, as well as sync to other devices.  This includes contacts, notes, text messages and photos.Mi Cloud is turned off by default. Make sure you don't use this service.
• Turn off User Experience Program: Mi phones have "User Experience Programs" setting which send anonymous data usage to Mi servers. Make sure you turn off this service.

Redmi 1S - Turn off - User Experience Program

Read More: http://thehackernews.com/2014/10/xiaomi-data-breach-hacker.html

http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/27486/security/xiaomi-handset-usersdata.html

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/technology/story/we-do-not-spy-for-china-xiaomi/1/374865.html

Hugo Barra Answers the Privacy Issues on Redmi Note & Mi Cloud - http://en.miui.com/thread-31252-1-1.html

Update: 
Today, i have enabled the "Log" function in Wifi router through which i accessed the Internet on my Redmi 1S mobile. Here is what i found in log file:



31 Dec 2014 - ALLOW: api.chat.xiaomi.net
31 Dec 2014 - ALLOW: a0.app.xiaomi.net

31 Dec 2014 - ALLOW: hmma.baidu.com

31 Dec 2014 - ALLOW: f3.mi-stat.gslb.mi-idc.com

31 Dec 2014 - ALLOW: resolver.gslb.mi-idc.com

31 Dec 2014 - ALLOW: update.miui.com

31 Dec 2014 - ALLOW: tracking.miui.com

Book Local Train ticket from Mobile - UTS Booking System

Now Mumbaikars can book unreserved suburban tickets through a their Android based mobile.

• Passenger can purchase only current date tickets only. Advance date booking is not allowed.
• Passengers can book maximum 4 tickets in Second class and 1 ticket in First class.
• This system is launched at Dadar station only. It will be implemented at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Kurla, Thane and Kalyan soon and thereafter in phased manner at other stations.

How the system works?

• Search "UTS" in Google Play (for Android) or Windows Store (for windows phone) and download the application.
  
  
  
  
  
• Register yourself by entering mobile number, you will get password by SMS.
• User ID is your your mobile number.
• Go to Dadar station (for now) and recharge the R- Wallet through nominated UTS booking counters only (soon recharge can also be done using https://utsonmobile.indianrail.gov.in). Recharge can be done minimum for Rs 100/- and in multiple of Rs 100/- and maximum upto Rs 5000/-.
• After booking through R-wallet, passenger will get confirmation message with ticket information along-with unique booking ID.
• Passenger can print their ticket through ATVM kiosk at source station with unique booking ID.
• Passengers can cancel their journey ticket as per rules through mobile if ticket is not printed and refund is credited to their R-wallet. Once ticket is printed then cancellation can be done at UTS counters only. Cancellation charges applicable as per rules.
• On closure of R-wallet amount will be refunded on UTS counter.