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HIGHLIGHTS Both SD and HD channels are said to be available in the pack Jio Broadcast app will likely be rebranded to Jio Home TV This is not expected to be Jio's upcoming DTH service           Jio Home TV, if rumours are to be believed, is set to be the telecom giant's next big project that will reportedly offer a fresh change in the Indian Direct-to-Home (DTH) space. According to a report, Jio Home TV will offer SD (Standard Definition) channels for a monthly price of Rs. 200 and SD + HD (High Definition) channels for Rs. 400 per month. This is believed to be based on Enhanced Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (eMBMS) and is not the yet-to-be-launched  Jio  DTH service. As per a report by TelecomTalk, the Mukesh Ambani-back company is planning to soon launch its new Jio Home TV service that is said to be a modified version of the Jio Broadcast app, which was recently being tested for streaming HD content on select devic

By Bloomberg SoftBank Group, Flipkart’s largest shareholder, may prefer a sale to Amazon in part because of its success in cracking open the ecommerce business, one of the people said.             Walmart looks likely to take the next round in the battle for India’s retail market over rival  Amazon .com. Flipkart  Online Services, India’s leading  e-commerce  company, is leaning toward selling a controlling stake to the Bentonville, Arkansas-based company, rather than Amazon, because of the greater certainty in such a deal, according to people familiar with the matter. Both US companies are bidding for a controlling stake in Flipkart at a valuation of about $20 billion, said the people, asking not to be identified because the matter is private. Flipkart’s board recently met to discuss the competing proposals and thinks Walmart could close a deal more quickly and smoothly, the people said. Walmart faces fewer regulatory hurdles because it has

Airtel  has launched a new recharge pack with 82-day validity and 2GB of daily data allocation for prepaid users. This new Airtel pack comes as rivals  Jio  and BSNLlaunched their IPL 2018-focused plans to help users stream matches online for the duration of the tournament. While not branded as an IPL 2018 special pack, the new recharge comes with higher daily data caps compared to the other prepaid plans the company offers.  With its Rs. 499 recharge, Airtel is offering bundled local and STD calls, free roaming, and 100 SMSes per day, along with 2GB data each day. This amounts to 164GB of 4G/ 3G data provided to users for the entire validity period, at a per GB cost of roughly Rs. 3. The bundled calls are limited to 300 minutes per day and 1,000 minutes a week, and are charged at 30 paisa per minute after that. In comparison, Airtel Rs. 448 prepaid pack provides 1.4GB data per day for 82 days, amounting to 114.8GB data. Similarly, the Rs. 509 recharge offers 1.4GB d

When you’re emailing the file to various recipients, Access Checker will now also show you the names or email addresses that don’t currently have access to the file Google is introducing an updated Access Checker, a feature which lets you easily share a Drive file with someone, whether it’s two colleagues or a team of 30. The feature alerts you when you send an email, calendar invite, or another type of note that includes a Drive file, and will ask you if you want to change permission settings if the recipient doesn’t yet have access. When you’re emailing the file to various recipients, Access Checker will now also show you the names or email addresses that don’t currently have access to the file. Additionally, it also now supports files in a Team Drive, and will also anticipate who needs access to a file and default to sharing the file with those specific recipients only. If you’re a G Suite admin, you can control sharing options available to your users. Image: Google

WhatsApp users on iPhones need to update the app to v2.18.40 for the new features WhatsApp for iPhone has improved the voice messaging feature The iPhone update is available for devices running iOS 7.0 and higher The app recently received a new Change Number feature on Android beta