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Airtel's New 4G Data Offer, Over 80 Percent Android Devices at Risk, and More: Your 360 Daily

Airtel's New 4G Data Offer, Over 80 Percent Android Devices at Risk, and More: Your 360 Daily 66371j

By Ravi Sharma | Updated: 19 October 2016 21:19 IST

Highlights

Airtel has extended its 4G data offer to all new 4G smartphones
Microsoft says its speech recognition is now as good as humans
Samsung India will refund customers for Note 7 units purchased abroad

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Here's your daily dose of the top news in the technology landscape, from Airtel's new 4G offer to 80 percent Android devices still being vulnerable to a dated malware, and Samsung India's refunds for Galaxy Note 7 customers, without ever launching the device in the country. 19323a

Airtel offers 10GB 4G data at Rs. 259 to all s
only available to Samsung Galaxy J series smartphones. 1GB data will be credited immediately to the 's , and the other 9GB data needs to be taken through the MyAirtel app.

Samsung India confirms Galaxy Note 7 units bought overseas eligible for refund
Samsung India has confirmed that South Korea over the handset's failure.

Now you can book Ola and Uber cabs directly from Google Search
Internet s in India can now book directly from Google Search on their smartphones. On request for specific information such as "Uber to Bangalore airport" or "Ola to Bangalore airport", Google will direct the s to select the service, and will automatically open the respective app to book the ride, all in one tap.

Microsoft says its speech recognition system has achieved ‘human parity’
reached 'human parity', meaning that the system can recognise words from a conversation as well as humans would do. This term essentially implies that the rate of errors made by the recognition system is now at par with the error rate of humans while performing a similar task.

Over 80 percent of Android s still at risk
Ghost Push, the malware that had Google's mobile operating system, according a new report by Chinese antivirus firm Cheetah Mobile. The study says that the malware is infecting 10,000 new devices a day even now, and over 50 percent of the affected devices are from India. All devices running Android versions before Marshmallow are vulnerable, leaving over 80 percent of Android s at risk.

Telecom operators fined Rs. 10.8 crores for violating mobile radiation norms
The government has Department of Telecom tested 3.19 lakh base station and found 205 of them were non-compliant to radiation rules.

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