Google Open Source Code for Wi-Fi Calling

Open-source operating systems like Android, provides developers the golden opportunity of ripping them apart from their fundamental code and rebuilding it according to their own needs and ends. A little while ago, Google, the search giant, launched Android-5.1.1_r5, the latest version of AOSP. What is the real treat is, in the latest version can be found the code which supports Wi-Fi-calling. But, don't get all pumped up. What may appear shiny from outside, might just end up being a fizz. Here we explain you why.

First of all, NOT all mobile carriers are offering Wi-Fi calling. Except T-Mobile and Sprint in the US and EE in the UK and a couple of others in other countries, most of the mobile carriers don't provide the facility of Wi-Fi calling to its customers. Further, the carriers are themselves required to support this feature. The main purpose that this code might be able to serve is for the developers, as they would get to implement it on unofficial software. It is important to note that the code is primarily devised for Nexus 6 but luckily, it can also be implemented on other AOSP based ROMs and stock. So, the phone preference really doesn't play a major hurdle.

What is getting people the most excited is the fact that they might be able to port Wi-Fi calling to devices likes Nexus 4 and Nexus 5, which officially don't support it. This is where the developers are facing the toughest challenge of their lives. Transferring Wi-Fi functionality to smartphones for which it wasn't initially designed possess a huge task for the developers as it involves modifications to the kernels, radios and at other deep software levels. On the top of it, with these modifications comes the potential risk of bricking the device on which the Wi-Fi functionality is being transferred.

So, if you think, you can do something interesting with the code, then access the code right here!

Get, set and Code!

Flipkart Launches Online Business Campaign To Educate Sellers

Shopping as an activity has now majorly become an online business. You can rarely see people going out especially to a mall or nearby market to buy clothes, groceries or electrical products anymore. All they do is log on to the various ecommerce sites and browse through and buy the things they're looking for. What makes this online shopping thing more exciting, is all the discounts, offers and return policies they have on offer.

In order to encourage more and more sellers to go the online way, Flipkart, the online giant, has launched a nationwide campaign 'Apne Sapne Jee Kar Dekho'. The campaign educates entrepreneurs/manufacturers/Small and Medium enterprises (SMEs) about all the advantages that they would have, if they agree on getting their businesses up on Flipkart's platform.

All the new sellers coming in through the campaign, will be treated with fast-track registrations to the ecommerce platform. Additionally, they will also be provided with various other facilities like product shoots, training about the platform's usage and payments trends and dedicated pick-ups.

The campaign is said to be live in 15 key cities of the country, for a period of 45 days. According to Flipkart, "Targeted at both the metros and non-metros, this campaign focuses to give sellers a more holistic view of ecommerce and encourage them to be a part of this growing ecosystem." It further added, "With a nationwide reach, online is fast becoming an added channel that a lot of offline sellers are adopting."

The ecommerce giant aims to have 1,00,000 sellers in its seller portfolio by the end of this year and expects the campaign to act as a catalyst in helping it achieve that.

According to Flipkart chief business officer Ankit Nagori, "Over the last few years, our efforts have been on creating a robust ecosystem that encourages sellers to grow their businesses on the Flipkart marketplace." He further added, "With the launch of this campaign, we want to educate sellers and help them understand the dynamics of taking their business online. In 2015, our focus is to make the Flipkart selling experience more exciting, seamless and beneficial for sellers."

Flipkart is currently India's largest online marketplace with over 30,000 sellers and 4.5 crore registered customers.

IIT-Guwahati Student Develops An App To Set Reminders On Other's Phone

With our mind preoccupied by various tensions 24*7, we end up missing out on some of the most important events and parts of our lives. It could be anything from a monthly health checkup appointment to a particular important class test. We all have had the jitters of waking up someday to something important that we have forgotten. Well, those jittery morning are now days of the past because a new app called Remind'em will make sure that you don't miss out on any important event of your life ever in the future.

With Remind'em app, you can setup a reminder in other's phone, and remind him/her moving away from traditional methods like Email/SMS/Whatsapp etc. which usually gets skipped from the user's mind as and when they are supposed to remember, or users end up setting up a self reminder.

The Android reminder app is unique in the sense that it lets its users set a reminder in someone else's phone. Not only this, the app also allows the users to customise the reminder according to a particular time and location.



Remind'em supports time based reminders and location based reminders. And not just this, it also have subscriptions . Subscribe to your favorite topics & utilities and you receive updates of all the buzz that goes on. Few of the things you can fo with Remind'em app are:

• Setup time based alarm, reminder, todo task in your friends phone and get rid of SMS/Email based reminder ignorance.


• Going for a trip? Wake up all your friends by setting up alarms in their phones.




• Forgetting getting groceries? Setup a location based reminder in your husbands phone which will remind him as soon as he reaches near the store.




• Frustrated with setting up reminder of your own for someone else tasks? Ask them to setup a todo task reminder in your device and get rid of the process of setting up reminders.

The app is a welcome change from all the other traditional ways of Setting a reminder like Email/SMS/Whatsapp etc. or setting up a self-reminder.

This Hyderabad based wonder app has been made by two final year IIT Guwahati students, Jatin Bajaj and Vivek Bhargavunder under the guidance of an Industry experienced professionals.

According to the founders, the problem of reminding others to do a particular task at a specific time is valid for everybody across the globe. Hence, Remind'em will serve as a great utility app for all kinds of age groups.

So, if you have a lazy friend, an unhealthy uncle or anything important in general that absolutely can't be forgotten, Remind'em is the app that you need to download right now.

5 Things Every Startup Must Know About SEBI's New Rules For IPO

Thinking of starting a startup in India? Well, you seem to have chosen the right time and the right place. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), India's stock market regulator, recently announced that startups are all set to have a separate trading platform for listing. This step can be seen as as part of the various measures taken by SEBI in order to encourage entrepreneurs and startups to list their companies in India rather than in markets abroad.

Here are five things you must know about SEBI's new rules:

1. A startup is no longer required to be profitable in order to get listed on the stock exchange. According to the earlier rules, a startup was required to be profitable for at least a period of three years in order to get listed. Industry insiders are considering this as the most important change in the recent steps taken by SEBI.




2. Disclosure norms - Under the new rules, the earlier stringent disclosure norms have now been slightly relaxed. This can act as a real breather for startups and entrepreneurs that weren't so happy and comfortable about revealing everything about their startup right away. Also, the earlier rules also required dedicated teams in order to meet the regulatory requirements. Managing and affording such a team was a little difficult for startups at their nascent stages.




3. Exit Policy for Venture Capitals and Angel Investors - What could be seen as big relief for Venture Capitals and Angel Investors, under the new rules, they will be now be able to exit much easier than before. According to industry experts, this rule should have been implemented 3-5 years ago but it's better late than never, we guess.




4. If at least a quarter of a startup's pre-issued capital is held by qualified institutional buyers - like venture capital, private equity firms or non-banking financial companies, then, under the new rules, startups operating in the areas such as as biotech, information technology and analytics are now eligible to get listed on the Institutional Trading Platform of exchanges. Startups not belonging to the tech sector, can also get list on the platform but they would be required to have half of their pre-issue capital being held by Qualified Institutional buyers.
   



5. Minimum Locking Period of Founders' Shares - What could be seen as welcome change for entrepreneurs, the new rules dictate that the Startup founders' shares will now be locked in for a minimum period of six months only, instead of the earlier period of three years. This would provide the founders more incentive to get their companies listed.


With a total count of 3,100 startups, India is currently ranked fifth in the world after the United States, the European Union, Canada and China.

According to SEBI chairman UK Sinha, "They (startups) felt the regulatory regime in this country was not favourable for listing in India. So we have made very special provisions for such startup companies."

These new changes are expected to go live from January 1, 2016.

Pune-Based BhojanShala Is Yet Another Food-Tech Startup But With Subscription Model

The subscription model is like a boon for this fast paced generation. We just need to start it once and then sit back, forget and enjoy forever. While, until a few years ago, you might have had your newspaper, cable and other utilities on subscription basis, what might come as a surprise to you, you can now even order food on subscription basis. Sounds impossible? Well, making this unique thing possible is a Pune based startup called Bhojanshala.in- The Online Meal Store.

Designed with an aim of getting people rid of the daily hassle of "What do we have to eat today?" or "Aaj kya khana hai?", this Online Meal Store lets you order your favourite meals from nearby eateries, on Daily & Weekly/ Monthly package basis, and that too at extremely pocket friendly prices.

The startup's unique subscription model where one can buy meals on Daily & Weekly/Monthly packages basis is the one thing that sets the them apart from the flood of companies/startups operating in their domain. One can also opt for regional meal packages as well, such as Maharashtrian, Rajasthani, Gujarati and Punjabi meals.

Founded by Engineering graduates Nikhil Jaroli and Aniket Anandani, Bhojanshala.in is a completely Bootstrapped startup for now. Its subscription model can be availed on Cash on Delivery basis and there are lots of regional cuisines variety of eateries to choose from.

Mumbai-Based PlanetSuperHeroes Is Probably India's Biggest E-Tailer For Authentic Super-Heroes Merchandise

Has owning a miniature of your favourite superhero character always been your dream? Well, this dream can now see the daylight and become a reality with a super company from Mumbai called Planet Superheroes totally understanding your hero mania and becoming a superhero in their own way for all those superhero fanatics out there.

Founded in the year 2013, the startup boasts of being the country's only online website dedicated to authentic Superhero & Comic Character Merchandise. With Planet Superheroes, the founders have an aim of disrupting the nascent but exploding character merchandising space in India.

It's a little absurd to note that even though India has a multi-billion dollar entertainment business, we still don't have enough players catering to the Indian's merchandise need. This is what triggered the founders, Jaineel Aga, Sumit Shah and Karan Rai, to come up with Planet Superheroes.



The Mumbai headquartered company is just not another e-commerce merchandising company on the block. Planet superheroes is different from others in its domain as it is the only one offering 100% authenticity proof Superhero and Comic Merchandise products across hundred categories. According to them, they are like a proverbial "Candy Shop" for any Superhero Candy.

With the popularity of shows and movies like The Avengers and Game of Thrones etc. growing at an exponential rate in India, the demand for there merchandising has also increased manifolds.

The currently bootstrapped startup is now looking on raising an angel round in order to pursue the future goals for the startup.

Planet superheroes future plans includes introducing cartoons from the 90s like Johnny Bravo T-Shirts & Dexter Hoodies, Bar Accessories themed around "Duff Beer" from the Simpsons etc. that have great Nostalgic Value attached to them. Further, the startup also has plans of launching its native platform and app soon.

So, if you're also a superhero fanatic, then this is the "it" place to be.

5 Ways To Market Your Startup With No Budget

Most of the entrepreneurs while starting up are a little short on the money aspect. They try to save as much money as possible by cutting down on unwanted expenses. During this, most entrepreneurs make the mistake of pulling out the funds from the marketing aspect of their startup. Let's assume that you have an excellent quality product/ service on offer but what is the use of having such a high quality product when you're unable to make it reach its target audience? Hence, to bail out those startups contemplating on dumping their marketing money on other aspects of the startup, we at www.indianweb2.com have made a list of five awesome ways to marketing your startup with minimum budget.

1.Make your website your tool -

Your startup's website is the destination for all your advertising and marketing effort. Your website is the place where you want people to land up in order to get more information about the company and product and services you have on offer. Having a well designed website where the visitors are able to engage with your services can help you transform those visitors into real customers. Make sure you have a comment box where people are able to voice their experiences, suggestions as it adds more credibility to your startup.

2.Make sure you're easily discoverable on the net -

There are a plethora of free listing websites and local directories where you can register and list your startups absolutely free of cost. Make sure you have your presence on sites like Yahoo local, Yelp, Bing and other such sites.

3.Social Media is the way -

Everyone knows how important is social media presence nowadays but just having an account on these networks won't solve the purpose. Make sure that your profile is interesting and updated regularly. Having consistency across various platforms will also help your purpose.

4.Mail List-

While message marketing might have seen the door, email marketing is still one of the hottest and widest used tool for marketing. This helps you in making a direct connect with your customers.

5.Offer Freebies -

Everybody loves sales, discounts and offers. Make sure you offer these time to time in order to get more visibility amongst your target base.

These 5 Young Indian Innovators Made India Proud By Winning The UNESCO Airbus Competition

While most youngsters of their age are busy figuring out what to do in life, five young men from India which includes two students of Indian Institute of Science (IIS) are taking the world by storm with their innovation. The five team member called Team Multifun have made India and their institute proud by winning this year’s Unesco-Airbus ‘Fly Your Ideas’ global student competition by inventing the world’s first airplane that is capable of generating its own power by making use of the vibration action of its wings.

Team Multifun comprise of five young Indians - Shashank, Dhamotharan, Mohit, Sathiskumar and Ajith are studying at universities in India, the Netherlands, the USA and the UK

The team mentored by Prof. Dineshkumar Harursampath, made use of piezoelectric fibres to achieve this feat. The fibres gather electrical charges from the smallest movements during a journey on a flight, thereby storing the energy generated in the plane's battery panels. Along with the Unesco-Airbus ‘Fly Your Ideas’ global student competition title, the team also won a cash prize of 30,000 Euros that came with it.



The 'Fly Your Ideas' global student competition is an event that takes place every two years and encourages young minds to invent something with ideas central to sustainable aviation. A list of themes is sent out to participating teams by the competition organisers each year and this year’s themes included energy, efficiency, affordable growth, traffic growth, passenger experience and community friendliness. Team Multifun's winning innovation was based on the efficiency theme.

“There is a natural vibration that exists in every aircraft when it flies, during which energy is generated,” said team leader Satish Kumar from Delft University of Technology in a statement given to a national daily. He further added, "At present the energy goes wasted. We intend to harvest the energy from the vibrations which will be sufficient enough to power in-flight operations like lightening and in-flight entertainment."

HelpMePapa Is An Interactive Platform To Search & Hire Best Lawyers In India

There are various junctures in life where we end up getting ourselves in trouble and need some sound legal advice to rescue us from the same. Notably, over 17 Lakh new cases filed every month in India and sadly there are no legal "brands" across the country, unlike hospitals and moreover, organized national consumer legal firms are rare to find.

HelpmePAPA.com, a New Delhi based startup, is here to provide its customers with just that. Why depend on your friend's sister's friend recommended lawyer when you can yourself find the best lawyer according to your needs and that too minus all the searching trouble.

HelpmePAPA.com is an extremely easy to use interactive online platform that makes the task of funding and hiring the best Lawyers in any city/court in India a cakewalk. At HelpmePAPA. Com, they believe, that everyone deserves access to first-rate, professional legal advice from the best Lawyers out there.

With HelpMePapa, one can search and select the lawyer based on his/her need – search by Specialization, City or Court Name; Choose and Book the way you would like to consult with the selected Lawyer – Email/Phone/Meeting/Video Call/Your Home or Office. HelpMePapa, then facilitate the consultation with your selected Lawyer, the way you want it.

The startup has been founded by Rohan Mahajan, a Law graduate from Law Faculty (DU) having 14 years experience in BTL marketing across APAC. According to him, his company's mission is to disassociate the negative experience image attached with the legal procedures in India and make it a remarkable one for every Indian citizen. They plan to do this by making legal services cost-effective, on-demand and high quality for every need.

The online platform boosts of having handpicked some of the best legal experts in India across criminal defence, property dispute, family issues, corporate law, IPR & several other areas of expertise. Its user base comprises of more than 3 Crore people searching for legal advice at Google each month and about 17 lakh people who file cases in Indian Courts every month. The Lawyers listed on the platform have practice across 22 cities, and 150 courts across the country.

According to Mahajan, the one thing that makes HelpmePAPA.com different from others is that unlike any of its competitors they are highly curated and believe in providing its customers with 100% quality.

With an aim of becoming the starting point of everyone's legal journey in India, the startup is looking forward to associating with 1000+ lawyers across top 30 cities of the country by August end. They also plan to have At least 50 legal experts per metro; 10 per non-metro; 2 per small town. So, next time you get into any kind of legal trouble, you know where to head straight to.

The platform is currently on a lookout for funding to the amount of INR 2 Crores to scale up its operations. Funds are majorly required for Website Enhancement & Maintenance, hiring additional teammates, Marketing & SEO and Operational Expenses.

Bangalore-Based SalesBabu Offering Low Cost CRM On Clouds

A Bangalore based startup pioneering in providing software solutions on the cloud has become one of the fastest growing Indian company in a short duration of time. SalesBabu Business Solutions Pvt Ltd. is a 2008 established IT startup catering to customers all around the globe.

SalesBabu CRM aims to provide the companies with an easy to use interface for managing their company's sales leads and opportunities. The Bangalore headquartered company has some powerful sales process management tools on the offer that have been devised to automate the client's sales workflow and insightful graphs so as to keep the management timely informed.

On-Demand CRM is getting popular and organizations are talking advantage of cloud solutions, especially in SME, segments which are emerging markets for CRM. However, where, other existing CRM sfotwares were tuned more towards the Western market working style; SalesBabu has come up with CRM solution which is highly Flexible & Robust and can fit to all sizes.

Founded in 2008 by Mr. Shashi Saurav, SalesBabu CRM is a very modern, web-based application that helps companies manage their leads and customers. Its smooth, easy-to-use interface and powerful process management tools, makes using SalesBabu a worthwhile experience.

According to Saurav, the thing that sets SalesBabu apart from his competitors is their security management feature. Every piece of information is managed by the company's cloud server without any confusion. Further, SalesBabu's selling prices are very competitive & more reasonable than any of the companies currently in the market.

With SalesBabu, Saurav aims to build a place where SME comes and find their business software as per their needs.

So, if you're looking for someone to manage all your business functions like lead management, contact management, account management, activity management under one pipeline, then log on to www.salesbabu.com right away.

MyCollegeAdda Is New P2P Marketplace For Every College-Goers In India

We all must have had that one friend (in my case, almost all ) in college who was always low on budget. He or she became the reason for all the cancelled plans for outstation trips, weekend nights-outs and weekly movie plans.

Being in college is tough. You have a limited budget and the desire to do unlimited fun from that limited resources. In order to help such college students all around the world enjoy their college life to the fullest without thinking much about the price tag that it came at; a Noida based startup is solving this problem of college students where they need to reach out to middleman to buy/sell used books, electronics, furniture and rent an apartment/PGs. This is costly, inconvenient and untrustworthy.

The startup called MyCollegeAdda.com is an online platform that solves the money woes of students by promoting collaborative consumption among them. In order to make sure that the platform is able to benefit as many students as possible, extra effort has been made to make the website easily accessible on mobile, laptop and the student friendly tablet.

From PGs to books to Carpool available for to and fro trips to college, used-books, notes, Furniture and Electronics anything and everything can be bought on this platform. The interesting thing about this platform is that only students are allowed to post advertisements on the website. This means once a buyer has narrowed in on a product, he/she can meet me the seller in the campus itself and complete the transaction. The platform not only helps the students save money and time but also helps them understand the meaning of sharing and saving the environment. Not only this, it will also help students expand their social network within the campus. Thus proving to be a win-win situation for them.



The one thing that makes mycollegeadda.com different from other such ventures in the market is the fact that it is a peer to peer marketplace addressing the needs of the educated youth of the society. It helps the buyer students save money and seller students make money by eliminating the middlemen from the the process. Further, the platform also provides the consumers the convenience of seeing the product before locking in the final deal. This is made possible as the transactions happen within the campus or a place within the vicinity of the campus. Since the buyer and seller are from within the same campus, the satisfaction and trust factor is already given.

The startup which is currently looking for seed funding, has been founded by two engineering graduates, Prashul Agrawal and Vedansh Agrawal. While Prashul has more than seven years of experience as a technology consultant, Vedansh is a fresh graduate from U.P. Technical University.

So, if you're a college student or know anyone who is, tell them to check out www.mycollegeadda.com right now and start living their college life without any budget constraints.

Weird Tech: Microsoft Aims To Use Drone Technology To Catch Mosquitos & Predict Diseases Outbreaks

Software giant Microsoft is all set to lend a helping hand to the Healthcare industry. The company has found a unique and little wierd way to combine technology with health in its new project called Project Premonition. With this new Microsoft Research project aims to use autonomous drones, cutting-edge molecular biology and advanced cloud-based data analytics to detect early signs that potentially harmful diseases are spreading.

The new project will see genomics, autonomous drones and cloud computing, all coming together in a mission to neutralise the disease epidemics right at its source.

With this new project, Microsoft aims to make use of drone technology to gain access to inhospitable areas in order to analyse and assess the genetic data of misquotes and predict the possibility of a disease outbreak.

Researchers are hopefully that the project will go entirely live in another five years but the path is not all that rosy. Firstly, legal permissions need to be taken from the aviation Authority and secondly, the researchers will have to figure out to way to ensure that the drones function autonomously.

When successful, the technology will be able to predict the emerging epidemics and create a cloud-based database of emerging diseases such as the recent Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Ebola.

More than one million people all around the world fall victim to misquotes borne diseases every year. While Malaria affects about 500 million people every year, dengue affects another 100 million.

[caption id="attachment_99802" align="aligncenter" width="700"] An early prototype of the mosquito trap devloped by Microsoft Research wing.[/caption]

The project will involve using traps in order to lure in mosquitoes while making sure that other species of the insect are not collected.

These traps will then be placed over areas. The usage of drones over personal human collection for traps will ensure that even remote areas where the humans can't reach that easily are also covered. The data collected will then be saved in a cloud-based system, which the epidemiologists will then use to predict the likelihood of outbreaks of infectious diseases.

The project could prove to work as breakthrough in tracking and predicting other emerging diseases whose pathogens are previously unknown. Since pathogens are known to take shelter in animals, who are also the primary source of blood for the misquotes, the new project hopes to analyse the misquotes genes in order to identify any emerging infections diseases.

Before You Raise Funding, Wait Until Your Startup Is Profitable

A while back, we had shared an article bursting the myth that one doesn't needs an investor in order to declare his or her startup a success. Today, we take the dialogue forward from there and will try to enlighten you about the right time to raise money for your startup, if at all you consider it's important to do so.

Consider that you have an awesome idea in place and have successfully transformed that idea into action by starting your own company. Now, instead of scouting for investors right away in your childhood phase, you wait until your startup is already profitable. Yes, you read it right. The idea might seem crazy at first that why would you need to raise money if you're already profitable, Well, let me explain that to you.

1. When you're profitable, your startup will raise money at a much higher valuation than it would have in its initial stages. - The logic behind this is very simple. When you have proven and successful concept, idea in the market, the investors aren't taking that much a huge risk as they take in investing in an early stage startup. You have already proved the potential of your startup and know how much your gem of a idea is worth. Further, you have already proved that you're not just a good orator but an equally good businessman with good business acumen.




2. You won't have to give up that much control - You can still remain the king of your kingdom and negotiate terms and conditions for the deal as this is not something that your startup is in a desperate need of. This time, you're not the one in a lower position begging for investing and have the liberty to accept or reject the offer if you don't find it suitable according to your startup's potential. As your company is a proven success, it puts you in a stronger bargaining position providing you with various opportunities like monitoring the number of board seats in your company etc.




3. Provides you with buffer for future expansion - Life is living in the moment , certainly, it is, but when it comes to business, having a future plan in place is always preferable. When in initial stages, startups have a tendency to overspend on certain aspects like testing certain products or services etc. But now that your business is already established, you can think about your startup's future and plan accordingly. With your business already established, you can use the investor's money in expanding the business. It can be a new product/ service or a new location. You will have the money and time to think about it all.

I hope the above points cleared your initial doubts about our advice and you will consider it for your future endeavors.

Taj Mahal & Other Tourist Spots To Get Wi-Fi Facility Soon

Internet has now become a way of life and no one understands this better than our very own selfie addict Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. In a step to make all major tourist destinations of India more attractive, the Government of India is all set to make these tourist Spots fully Wi-Fi as a part of the Modi Sarkar's (government's)Digital India initiative.

Taj Mahal, Sarnath, Bodh Gaya are some of the tourist places that are being considered for the Wi-Fi Facility.

According to Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad's statement to a leading daily, Taj Mahal, Sarnath, Bodh Gaya are some of the places that will get a Wi-Fi facility soon. We have already started providing free Wi-Fi service at Varanasi ghats. The government has also started the facility of providing e-visa to tourists."

India currently provides the facility of e-tourist visas to 76 countries but the government is keen on extending this facility to about 150 countries by the end of this financial year.
The information ministry is also working on a new policy that would develop tier II and III cities as IT hubs.

According to Prasad, the ecommerce sector has huge scope in India.

"E-commerce is a big opportunity and we are roping in the Department of Posts to deliver goods to small towns and villages. Postal department has become a reliable partner for big e-commerce companies to deliver their goods," said Prasad.

In order to take the IT revolution to smaller towns, We are setting up call centres and BPOs at small towns and creating 48,000 jobs in the first phase.

Under Modi's $18 billion Digital India initiative, the government plans to lay government plans to lay 7,00,000km (434,960 miles) of broadband cable connecting 2,50,000 village clusters in the period of next three years and has plans of constructing some 100 new "Smart Cities" by the year 2020.

We are connecting 2.5 lakh village panchayats with broadband and opening common service centres at remote locations to provide services and government facilities at the doorsteps of citizens," he said.

This comes as a.welcome change for the rural areas of India as according to a g a report by McKinsey and Co.report, Rural population of the.country is the largest non-Internet user population globally, with about 1.1 billion remaining offline.

#MakeInIndia: Apple To Manufacture iPhones In Maharashtra Soon

Narendra Modi and his delegation seemed to have hit a jackpot during their recent tri-country visit to China, South Korea and Mongolia. We are all well aware of our Prime Minister's much ambitious pet project 'Make in India' and now it seems our PM has been able to woo the most amazing smartphone manufacturer to make its magnificent piece called the iPhone in our very own country, India.

If all goes well, Maharashtra would soon become the hub to dish out 'Made in India' iPhone pieces.

According to a report published in the DNA, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who was also a part of Modi's delegation on the tri-country visit, visited China's Foxconn’s manufacturing facility in the Henan province. Fadnavis later revealed that the state government is in talks with the iPhone manufacturer to set up a manufacturing plant in Maharashtra as well.

Fadnavis seems very enthusiastic about the project and sees it as a great employment opportunity for youngsters of the state and country.

A possible site for this huge investment project could either be Aurangabad or Pune.

Fadnavis also recently spoke about strengthening of ties between Chinese and Maharashtra provinces at the ‘Forum of Leaders of Regions of India and China'. He even took to popular social networking site, Twitter to thank Modi and China's Premier Li for making province to province connect a reality.

Our country is rapidly urbanising, so our PM has unveiled his vision of making smart cities. India’s most urbanised state, Maharashtra has much to contribute to it and thus would welcome Chinese expertise and investment in this sector,” said Fadnavis at the Forum.

He further added, "I would look forward to more Chinese investments in Maharashtra in future. ”

Next on Fadnavis agenda is a special visit to the province of Qingdao in order to learn from Chinese infrastructure development in coastal area.

China is one of the most significant investor in the state of Maharashtra. The country has invested upto $350 million till date in the state.

How To Sell The Internet of Things To Consumers

We, the humans, have the quality of getting hooked on to new things like the new iPhone, a new Lady Gaga Single, pretty easily nowadays but when it comes to Internet of Things, many of us still have our doubts intact about the technology.

According to a recently released survey conducted by YouGov of 1,181 United States adults, this scene is slowly changing. According to the survey, consumers might not be that optimistic about the technology right now but they see huge future prospects. According to it, thirty-one percent of the people surveyed are affirmative that a "fully connected smart home" will be a reality by the end of next year, while sixty percent believe it is achievable within the next five years.

So, the scene might be changing for IoT but this change seems to be happening at a very slow pace. In order to give this slow vehicle some push, we at IndianWeb2 have come up with a few tips that can help all you IoT companies out there better the consumers fondness and acceptability of the product.

Money Matters -

Whenever we go to buy something in the market, most of us have the price tag part of the product at our priority. And, when it comes to IoT, this becomes even more important. Consumers nowadays are already hooked on to super-expensive tablets, smartphones and wearables, and they find it difficult to spend thousands of rupees more on home appliances just because they can be connected to the Internet. In order to make the IoT devices more acceptable to the consumers, the companies might have to consider making the price point a little warmer to the middle class consumers.

Security comes first -

According to the survey, twenty-five percent of the 1,181 respondents had the cybersecurity of the smart home as their primary concern. The concern is almost similar to the that emerged during the early days of online banking. People were perplexed whether it's safe or not but the banks made sure they address this concern and nowadays online banking is used by almost everyone. The seed that gave birth to this security concern was the incident that occurred last year. Last summer, a website provided links to the live footage of more than 73,000 Internet connected security cameras. If the IoT companies want the consumers to adapt to this technology sooner, they will have to address the security concerns attached to it first.

Longevity matters more than simplicity -

According to the survey, 82 percent of the adults weren't worried about the complexity of these devices. What part concerned them was their life, their longevity. They don't want to spend thousands and thousands of money on something that will go obsolete in sometime. They don't want the IoT market to follow the footsteps of the Smartphone market where the new launches go obsolete every time there's a software upgrade.

Energy Efficient -

About 27 percent of the respondents had improving energy efficiency as their most sought after objective of adopting the smart home technology. This was followed by home security at a close second and home entertainment and media at the third position.

A study report, based on over 2,000 consumer surveys in the U.S. predicts that the Internet of Things is inevitable, with nearly two-thirds of consumers planning to buy an in-home IoT device in the next five years. However, as one might expect, the consumers polled displayed a lack of awareness of the term “Internet of Things.” A massive 87% hadn’t heard of the term 'IoT' or 'Internet of Things'.

Serial-Entrepreneur-Led 'GetFixr' Helping People Get Verified Local Skilled Labors

We are a country of 121 crore people. Still, whenever we need to hire some labour for doing some odd jobs at our house, we have to go through a string of contacts in order to find them. Even if we are lucky enough to find some, the money part always become a part of debate. In order to bail out the common man from this almost frequently occurring situation and provide the labour community with a streamlined income depending on their skills, a Chandigarh based startup has come up with an excellent solution.

The startup called GetFiXR Media aims to organise the currently unorganised skilled labour sector. The young startup, established in February 2015, plans to do this by creating a centralised system for finding quick, local, verified and community rated tradesmen from the comfort of our own homes with the help of Web and mobile applications as an Android App and iOS app



Whether you need a Carpenter, Mason, Plumber, Electrician or Painter, this unique startup provides the customers with verified data from previous customer's feedback and creates an ecosystem for customers and tradesmen in order to end the customers long search for a skilled and quality labour.

According to GetFiXR, the one thing that sets them apart from others in the market is the fact that they are neither a service booking system, nor a business listing service working for one group or contractor only.

The startup acts as a platform that connects the two ends of the equation, namely, the customers and the tradesmen. Any tradesmen who wishes to find quality work by providing quality work can list himself/herself on GetFiXR. The consumers, on the other hand, aren't required to remember any new password or username as they can login into GetFiXR by using any of their favorite social networking sites.

The startup which hasn't received any external funding yet is the brainchild of two people, Kulbir Singh and Narinder Bansal. Both Singh and Bansal have more than a decade of experience in the Technology sector. Kulbir hss been a part of 5 Tech startups in the past(namely DesignersX, Fantoo & Foodeus) while Co-Founder Mr Narinder Bansal, have 19 years of experience in IT & Pharma, and had launched other Tech Startups in the past.

The startup which was initially only operational in Chandigarh and Tricity areas, is now also available to the Delhi NCR area such as Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Ghaziabad, Mohali and Zirar. The startup's future plans includes expanding to all the major metropolitans of the country by the end of this year. By 2016, they want to have their presence all over India. The platform can currently be accessed through their Mobile Web App, Web App and Android App.

10 Reasons To Launch A 'Startup' After College Instead Of Finding A Job

You are fresh out of college and waiting for the perfect job opportunity to knock at your door. Wait a minute. Did I just say wait? Why wait, when you can create your own opportunity and put that hard earned degree to your own use rather than investing in someone else’s company? Taking a road less taken is a big risk but I think, it's a risk worth taking.

Here are 10 amazing reasons that we at www.indianweb2.com have put together to help you see the perks of being the king of your own Kingdom rather than being a slave at someone else's.

1. You know yourself - First and foremost, you know your potential. You know how to get things done at your pace and your own satisfaction level. Why labour for someone who won't appreciate it? In your own company, you will get to work at your self- defined pace and with no fear of getting fired every day.




2. It won't feel like work - About 75 percent of the Indian population is stuck in a job that they don't love. They're doing it just for the good money and the fear of the unknown. But, that won't be the case with you. You will get up every morning with a big smile on your face and fire in your stomach because your work won't be something that you have to do but something that you love doing. When work meets passion, it doesn't feel like work anymore.




3. You will do smart work - At a regular job, since it's not our company, most of the people don't put in their 100 percent potential. But, since this is your company and your money at stake, you will learn the art of working hard and working smart at the same time.




4. You're a bubbling with ideas - When you're in your 20s, you're bubbling with fresh and crazy ideas that no one older than you can even think about. You have all the passion and vigour to work on that crazy idea and make a beautiful product out of it.




5. You will start appreciating your work - The moment your company makes that first profit, you will understand the meaning and importance of working day and night for something. You will start valuing your each day, each minute because you know that your one moment of procrastination can cost your company a lot of money.



6. You don't have anything to lose - Since you're fresh out of college, you don't have a lot of responsibility riding on you. This is the time to get selfish, the time to do something which you might not be able to do ten years down the line with a family responsibility and EMI payments to make every month.




7. You will polish your networking skills - Since its your own company, you will get the opportunity to talk to investors, to vendors and seek out different people's help for different tasks. You will master the art of talking and making connections. In a regular job, your job profile might not include this and you might miss out on developing these skills.




8. You have youth and the energy that comes with it on your side- Don't wait up to get your business started, that day might never come. We humans have a tendency of settling down when we start feeling too comfortable. Start right away. You don't have a family to look after or house or car mortgages to pay. This is the time to take risk and go for it.




9. You make your own schedule - Since its your company, you get the luxury of making your own schedule. No need to report at 9 AM sharp or lose your daily wage. You're the king of this Kingdom. Come at whatever time you want and leave at whatever time you feel.




10. You will become smarter than ever - When you start your own company, you have to look after a lot of responsibilities. You will become a salesman, a marketer, an accountant, a receptionist and a whole lot of other profiles till you have the money to afford to hire people for these profiles.

You will understand the nuances of all these profiles and end up becoming smarter and knowledgeable than ever.

Chandigarh-Based Startup Develops A Print-on-Demand (POD) Self Publishing Platformo

Have you been nurturing a dream of becoming a world famous published author but the only thing holding you back is the lack of knowledge about the whole publishing process or as we say in our language the whole 'tanta-shanta' involved in the process? Well, worry no more because your childhood dream of having your book on Amazon. com next to your favorite author's book is all set to come true.

How, you may ask. Well, the answer is a-year-old Chandigarh based publishing startup called White Falcon Publishing.

This one year old startup has built a one of its kind Print-On-Demand self publishing platform for publishing books. The platform is appropriately named Self-Publish.

Print on Demand (POD), as the name suggests, is about printing things only when there is a demand; instead of keeping an inventory.

The platform aims to assist newbie authors in publishing their books for global distribution online. The startup has collaborations with a huge network of globally diverse Print-On-Demand providers and book distributor. It is through its this demographically diverse network that the startup is able to make its customers books available for sale in various countries like Japan, USA, Australia, New Zealand, UK and Canada etc.

Author is provided an account on the print-on-demand platform (platform.self-publish.in), where he/she can monitor the book sales and royalties accumulated.

What makes the startup different from others in the market is the fact that they aim to provide its author customers with the best of services at the best of price available in the market. It makes available a wide range of plans for the customer to choose from and even allows them to custom design it in cases they don't need a particular feature of a already available plan.

The startup has achieved the feat of publishing more than 110 titles in less than a year since its establishment.

The brains behind the self-funded startup is a Symbiosis, Pune educated Navsangeet Kaur. She has earlier worked as a Senior Associate in the Procurement & Contracting Department of 4G team at Reliance Industries, Mumbai, India.

The startup's Print-on-Demand Self Publishing Platform is a brand new model for book publishing. In this model, the author also doubles up as the publisher of the book. He/she can avail various professional services for making the manuscript print-ready. Once the work is published through the platform, the books are listed on online channels for sale worldwide. Books are then printed as and when the orders are placed on these channels . Hence, neither the author nor the publisher has to take a big risk by making a big investment in bulk printing of books. Books published through the POD platform of White Falcon Publishing never go out-of-print and have higher royalty.

The platform also provides the authors the facility to view live sales/royalty reports through the POD platform, hence giving them a complete transparency about the whole process. So, what are you waiting for? Take out your pens and put on your thinking caps right away.

India To Be One Of The First Countries To Use Drones For E-Commerce Deliveries

From next year onwards there won't be just birds in your skies. You might even get to witness small aircrafts flying over your head everyday delivering clothes, gadgets etc. at your doorstep. What's even better is the fact that we might finally get to beat the United States at something.

The Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), which is the aviation regulator in India, has initiated the process of drafting guidelines for the civil use of drones. The guidelines are expected to be completed in a period of next few months and ecommerce companies in India might be able to make use of these drones for delivery by the start of next year.

For those who don't know, drones are small aircraft systems that are remotely controlled and unmanned. Earlier we reported that Flkipkart is in talks with DGCA to use flying drones For delivering packages to its customers in rural areas.

"The DGCA has restricted the use of drones in India at present, but at the same time it has initiated the process of framing the guidelines for operations,” said a civil aviation ministry official in a statement to a leading newspaper.

The restriction is not only in India but the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has also till date not issued any standards or recommendations for the use of drones for civil purposes. In 2014, the DGCA had issued a public notice restricting the use of drones for civil purposes in India.

Whenever the guidelines are finalised and passed, India will become one of the first countries to allow use of drones for civil purposes. The DGCA official are currently considering all the safety concerns involved with the use of technology.

However, the use of drones is still allowed in filmmaking, where drones are used to take shots from a height of 200 to 400 feet.

Last year, US ecommerce giant Amazon was expected to start doing delivery trials using drones during the busy festive season of 2014 but the plan was dropped last minute as the regulations didn't permit such operations.

Last year, the use of drones came into centre-stage when a Mumbai based restaurant delivered a half a kilogram pizza in Lower Parel by making use of drones.

What took the entire country by surprise was the fact that the total time taken by the drone to deliver and comeback to the restaurant was less than 30 minutes, which is what a delivery boy typically takes.

A country which is currently ahead of India in use of drones is China. The country has already started the trials in February and is currently delivering packets of up to 340 grams.

US ecommerce giant Amazon had showcased its drones and drone delivery process among much fanfare, long back in 2013. But, the US Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) hasn't yet given a go-ahead for widespread delivery using drones. The ecommerce giant's repeated efforts to convince FAA haven't been able to generate any concrete results so far.

[Top Image - Flickr - Info Security Solution]

8 Things A VC Looks For A Seed Round Funding

If you're a startup who was or is still on a look out for a seed investment, you would know how difficult it is to charm those investors and seal the deal. While some investors look for one quality, others prefer something else entirely. It’s like a surprise test which you know will take place but have no clue about the syllabus. In such cases, the best you can do is to prepare yourself completely for whatever litmus test might be coming your way.

In order to help you and your startup top the class and get that seed funding, we bring to you a list of eight things that a VC can look for before a seed investment and for whom you should prepare your startup beforehand.

1. Charming Personalities- This is basically the first test that your startup is going to face. If the Venture Capital doesn't feel comfortable with the person that they're interacting with, they won't take the deal forward. In most cases, this person is the founder of the startup. As the VC is going to work with the startup for a long period of seven or more years, hence the chemistry and compatibility between a VC and founders of the startup is a very important factor for the VC before sealing the investment deal.



2. Clear Knowledge about your product or service - An investor needs to be fully convinced that the money he/she is going to invest in your idea is going to reap him profits in the longer run, only then will he be ready to take the risk and invest the huge sum that he is investing. The startup should be very clear about the USP that their product has to offer over others and what value that USP will be to the end customers.



3. Promising traction metrics - The startup needs to be prepared with a working prototype or a Minimum Viable Product of the solution being offered by them. They should also do a market research and present the statistics to the VC to show the need of their product or service in the market.



4. The Team - Considering a startup still has to find a foothold in the market and workout its business, a good team with the right skills and attitude is the prime requirement. A VC looking to invest in a startup will always examine if the team has the right skills, knowledge and unity to execute the brilliant idea in place.



5. A plan - The startup needs to have a clear long term plan in place. It is important to remember that the seed investment round is the first step towards a string of investment rounds that will hopefully follow. Founders need to be well prepared to project their ambitions for their startup with this round of financing. They should also be able to clearly communicate their exit plan to the VCs.



6. Market Plan - The startup needs to have a well-structured and a well thought-out market plan in place before going for the big presentation with the VCs. An action plan complete with the business model, scalability of the product etc. should be devised beforehand.



7. The Market Size - The ultimate goal for everyone in the business is to gain profits and build a successful company. If the market available for the product or service you are offering isn't big enough to achieve that objective, then making an investment in your startup may not feel viable to the Venture Capital.



8. Different is the key - The product or service being offered by the startup needs to be substantially different from its counterparts available in the industry. It means, it should have a USP which makes it different from others and makes it stand out in the crowd. Further, these distinctive qualities should be sustainable from the future point of view so that the startup can earn considerable profits off them.

Does Every Startup Need An Investor?

Today, we www.indianweb2.com would like to break the biggest myth prevalent in the startup world.

The myth is that every startup needs an external funding to function and become successful. By reading several news reports on the various funding rounds happening throughout the year, we start believing that in order to start a business, we would be required to have external funding but this in fact is not the fact.

There are many startups in the business that are doing exceptionally well without having any investors. In fact, if you decide to bootstrap and build your business without any external funding, you might be able to enjoy some of the following points.

1. You are the king- You will enjoy the full ownership of your startup without any external nose pocking. You will remain the king of your kingdom.




2. Self-reliance- You learn the important lesson of being self-reliant in life. You start learning new things, new ways to handle tough decisions as that's the only way out available to you.




3. More time - You will have more time to spend on ideating your startup rather than selling the idea to every other investor available to your access. Finding investors and funding can prove to be a long and gruesome process and this sometimes gets in the way of the startup's growth.



4. Finance guru - Being on your own, you learn to manage what amount needs to be spent on which thing. You learn the way to manage with whatever little capital you have as you don't have any other option to fall back on.




5. Good relations - You will be able to maintain good internal relations without any outside intervention.

Instead of all the above reasons, some startups still might decide to enter the funding world. Some of the advantages of having an investor aside the obvious money inflow, is as follows:-

1. Contacts - Along with money, they also come loaded with lots and lots of business contacts which can help take your business from Kanyakumari to Kashmir.




2. Experience- The experience and the knowledge that they come with is something which can't be measured in terms of money. They can provide some very insightful words of wisdom on the functioning of the big world of startup.

Now that we have discussed the advantages of being on your own and the advantages of having an external investor, I'm also obligated to discuss the reasons that one might choose to go for funding. Well, according to me, there can be only one good reason for go for that funding and that is, if you really need that large amount of money to grow your business and carry out your startup's daily functioning.

So, if you have been contemplating over a startup idea for quite a long time but didn't know where to fetch that external investor from, I hope that we have helped in breaking that myth bubble and we would soon get to witness the launch of your dream startup.

[Top Image Credits - Justin Scott @Flickr]

Google Launches 'Nanodegree', A 6-12 Months Course For Android Developers

Among all the various treats that Google announced at its recently held at its Google I/O 2015 conference in San Francisco, this one takes the cake for Android Developers.

What could turn out to be a real learning opportunity for all the Android enthusiasts out there, Google, the tech giant, has partnered with Udacity to provide a six-course Android development nanodegree.

Google's aim here is to help developers learn the nuances of writing applications for the search giant's mobile operating system upto the point that they could potentially be hired by the company in the near future. Hence, the course is meant for advanced developers to horne their skills and get placed at Google.

Similar to Udacity's other degree programs, students will be able to access the videos for the Android nanodegree absolutely free of cost. They will only be required to pay a sum of $200 per month if they want to get a certificate for the degree and get help from the teaching assistants.

The student developers will be required to finish six courses and a number of projects in order to pass their program and get their degree.

The focus of the nanodegree program is to provide as much as practical knowledge regarding the field's working and concepts to the developers.

The whole program structure has been set to be completed in a period of six to nine months. While the start of the program is set, the students can finish their projects and six courses in as much as time they want, at their own pace.



In order to show it seriousness towards the whole project, the search giant has invited some fifty students to Mountain View for a three day summit by the end of 2015. The three day summit would in all its probability include a hackathon and meetings with the hiring engineers. This proves that the search giant has set plans of hiring some of the developers enrolled in the course.

In addition to all this, the search giant has also locked in a deal with the Egypt government to localise the six Android courses under nanodegree into Modern Standard Arabic. This means, for the first time in the history of Udacity, the content of the six courses would be adapted to one specific region.

The company would also provide 2000 scholarships to Egypt students and organise job fairs and sessions for them. Google considers Egypt as a great stepping stone in providing education and jobs to the students in the Arabic speaking region as it believes by providing students with alternative options, it will be able to reduce the number of wars in the area.