Vivaldi Address Bar Auto Complete Issue: How to Solve

Vivaldi is my new lovable web browser. But it's a quite new and hence some issues are there, while it's being very customized you can tackle the situation easily. 

For the uninitiated readers, Vivaldi Browser was planned by ex-Opera employee and is intended to fill the gap between Opera v12 and Opera v15+. It runs on Blink/Chromium engine - which also runs Chrome and Opera latest. 

Opera is still doing good, and now it is owned by a Chinese consortium, and updates regularly. But I am more inclined to Vivaldi these days.

Issue: Vivaldi showing suggestions, and it's completing .com or remaining part, so for eg, as you see in the picture, I typed flipkart and Vivaldi adds .com  and when I push Enter button on keyboard it goes into flipkart.com, but I wanted to search flipkart on Google. The issue is with Auto Complete.

Road to 5G: 4G/4.9G/5G Modems

I am seperating the 5G modem story from the original blog post - Gigabit LTE - Global Progress and India's approach to 5G. 

Early Gigabit-LTE supported modems

Qualcomm has X16 LTE modem which supports Gigabit LTE. At present Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chipset has this modem. A lot of present day flagships like Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+, Sony XZ Premium, HTC U11, Motorola Z2 Force Edition, Xiaomi Mix 2, Xiaomi Mi 6, Essential’s One, OnePlus 5, OPPO Find 9 are capable of 1Gbps LTE speed. 

Qualcomm has another modem - X20 LTE modem which is technically advanced in few ways - support for 5x carrier aggregation (5x20MHz), increased number of usable spatial streams from 10 to 12, 10nm LPE processing. X20 will show its power in Snapdragon 845 chipsets which will be used by many flagships of 2018. 

[Press Release] Alstom Completes first all-electric “Make-In-India” locomotive from Madhepura; Won Contracts worth €75 million

10 March 2018 - Alstom announced the completion of its first all-electric locomotive from its state-of-the-art locomotive facility at Madhepura in the State of Bihar [1], on schedule. In line with the Government’s and Indian Railways’ target towards 100% electrification and towards sustainable mobility, these new locomotives will not only bring down operating costs for the Railways but will significantly cut down greenhouse gas emissions as well.

This first locomotive is part of a €3.5 billion order comprising 800 electric double-section locomotives signed in 2015 which contributes to the Ministry of Railways’ public-private partnership programme to modernise the country’s rail infrastructure. This agreement remains the largest Foreign Direct Investment in the railways sector to date and has a strategic role in creating a multiplier effect on the economy. This contract is also one of the biggest contracts in the history of Alstom.

“Our operations in India are paramount to our business globally and we continue to stay committed todeveloping India’s infrastructure needs, improving the quality of services to citizens and investing in the nation’s economy,” said Henri-Poupart Lafarge, Chairman and CEO, Alstom.

JetScreen Offers in-Flight Entertainment on Jet Airways

India is yet to allow in-flight internet, but that does not stop you to enjoy contents while you're on board.

While you are at 30000 feet of height on Jet Airways, you can can access to Jet Screen facilities. What is Jet Screen? It is an web based approach to serve Jet customers with contents which they can watch onboard during the flight.

JetScreen does not offer internet, or it can not be accessed over an app (may be in future). Web based UI helps the passengers to access JetScreen on their mobile phone very easily.

Jet Screen signal beams via 2.4G and 5G spectrum.

Bata Shoe Stores Offer Free WiFi to its Customers

Offering wifi to the customers is not new to attract more crowd. But earlier it was done mostly by restaurants and cafes.

On my recent visit to Bangalore, I found every a Bata store (sells shoes mainly) is offering free Wifi to its customers.

I found this one, near Forum Mall. I didn't use it, so can't review it.

Videocon Telecom's Facebook Page Turned into Videocon Wallcam

Do you ever wonder what happens to the telecom company's facebook when they shut down the store?

I had an idea. And that was found today, though screenshot was taken long back in 30-11-2017. 

Dhoot Group backed Videocon Telecom, a subsidiary of Quadrant Televentures stopped its mobile services in the last telecom circle - Punjab w.e.f. February 15th, 2017. However till this day their website is still running at http://www.videocontelecom.com/   

Back in July 2017 Videocon Telecom ventured into one of the fastest growing Security and Surveillance market by launching a new brand - Videocon Wallcam (website: https://videoconwallcam.com/) 

After the launch Videocon did not create a new facebook page of Wallcam, instead they revised the page of previous Videocon Telecom - as you can see in the screenshot. 

Wallcam fb page: https://www.facebook.com/VideoconWallcam/ [update below]

At the launch event Arvind Bali, CEO, Videocon Telecom says,

‘The current video surveillance market of approx Rs 3650 Cr is 55% of the overall Rs 6600 Cr security & surveillance market and is projected to grow at a CAGR of 26% and reach Rs 9150 Cr by 2021, which is 2.5 times the current market size. The growth will be driven by households,including small commercial establishment(Shops& offices) segments and the key success factor for market expansion will be affordability, ease of use (plug n play), and quality.This is where Videocon as a brand has its expertise in.We are all set to enter this market in a big way and capitalize on brand acceptability, manufacturing capabilities, R&D, distribution strength and reach.”

“Why ‘WallCam’, there is a very interesting background behind this. The term CCTV is a technical lingo and stands for Closed circuit television, while what we are selling is surveillance cameras. There is no product name to identify the category with, and this is where our marketing team came up with this interesting thought of a brand name which could represent the product category, something similar to Handycam for mini-camcorders, and Walkman for mini music players. Our objective is to make our brand ‘Wallcam’ a synonymous to CCTV cameras.”

I am not going deep on the security and video surveillance market, because that's beyond discussion here. 

Update : 4th September 2018

I found this: 

Now the page is located at https://www.facebook.com/OzoneWallcam/ and they did all kind of delinking with Videocon branding. Even their 'about us' says: 

Established in 1999, Ozone has a global presence spinning across 15 countries with 4 R&D centres across Israel, Korea, China and India and 4 state-of-the-art factories in India & China. Ozone WallCam is a professional security & surveillance equipment and solution provider having its own R&D, manufacturing, sales & service setup. At Ozone WallCam we 'Make in India' and specialise in providing world class security and surveillance solutions for various industries and customer segments.

Our product & solution portfolio in the video surveillance domain includes IP, AHD and Wireless Cameras (incl. 4G enabled cameras), NVR (Network Video recorders), DVR (Digital Video Recorders), Video door phones, Automatic License plate reader, Mobile vehicle surveillance solution, Video Analytics etc. We also specialise in other security products including access control solutions, sensors, alarms and connected devices for IoT based solutions.

With the help of our worldwide technology partners, R&D and design centres, we have built the capability and technology to address the security and surveillance needs across various customer segments including large Enterprises, Government and Retail. Having worked on numerous projects, we have gained unmatched business and technical expertise by offering customised and integrated industry specific solutions.

Innovation and quality are the ethos of the Ozone brand, and we are committed to it. All our products go through stringent quality control tests and are CE, FCC, RoHS and ISO complaint.

We are your One Stop Shop for End-to-End security and surveillance requirements.

So it seems that Videocon has sold this venture to other company, Ozone. Their previous website videoconwallcam.com redirects to ozonewallcam.com.