Bangalore Introduces Free Wi-Fi For Public

Bangalore is yet to get a lot more in this era it seems. For the first time in India, the IT capital Bangalore is going to fulfill our "dream come true wish" i.e. free Wifi for public. The service is named as ‘Namma Wifi’ (meaning Our Wi-Fi).

The services will be available from the happening places such as M G Road, Brigade Road and four other locations in the city of Bangalore. Public are allowed to access free wireless Internet connectivity starting this Friday effectively. The place near Metro station on M.G. Road will be the first in the list. 

In the last budget Chief Minister Siddaramaiah promised to introduce the service freely. The service will be there at the Traffic and Transmit Management Centres (TTMCs) at Shanthinagar, Yeshwanthpur and Koramangala, besides CMH Road in Indiranagar.

How do you access the Wi-Fi?

Follow the below mentioned procedure to access free Namma Wi-Fi. 

1. You have to switch on its Wi-Fi service in their device.

2. You will be prompted with Wi-Fi options with Namma Wi-Fi.

3. Click on “Namma Wifi” page prompted and it will open in web browser.

4. Now enter the mobile number and the passkey sent to you via SMS

5. Once you enter password  you will be connected t Wi-Fi.

Limitations : 

1. You can browse the net free for 30 minutes in 24 hours. 

2. You can get internet speeds of about 512 kbps. 

3. You are restricted to access certain websites.

Similar to internet on Airport terminals, ‘Namma Wifi’ will work on the similar concept.

Government Tie up Service :

Department of IT, Government of Karnataka has tied up with a private internet service provider D-VoiS to start this venture.

Expanding the service other than Bangalore ?

Yes, Government has plan to provide similar service in Mysore, Mangalore, Hubli-Dharwad and some other towns in north Karnataka in the coming months respectively.

The man behind the concept :

The famous technocrat T V Mohandas Pai of the Manipal Global Education, Karnataka Information and Communication Technology Group (KIG-2020) has initiated this project of giving free Wi-Fi in the city. He also added that KIG wants to offer IT capital of India some free Wi-Fi zones.

It is expected from an IT city to offer such kind of free service for public. Lets hope to get the service in other cities also.

Google Acquires Bangalore Based Impermium For $9 Million

Its not been a fortnight when a Bangalore based firm ‘Little Eye Labs’ was acquired by Facebook. Now its time for Google to acquire another Bangalore based tech company Imperium for $9 Million. Imperium is a three year old start-up, founded by Vish Ramarao, Naveen Jamal and Mark Risher, having offices in Bangalore and California, focused on building security products for websites. They previously worked in Yahoo!, Vish Ramarao and Mark Risher handle operation in California whereas Naveen Jamal is Bangalore based and handles operations in Bangalore.

Mark Risher, the CEO and Co-Founder of Impermium,  says in a blog post, “When we founded Impermium three years ago, our mission was to help rid the web of spam, fraud, and abuse. As sites gain in popularity, criminals and miscreants are never far behind, and Impermium has worked hard to defend some of the largest and fastest-growing sites,” he added, “By joining Google, our team will merge with some of the best abuse fighters in the world. With our combined talents we’ll be able to further our mission and help make the Internet a safer place. We’re excited about the possibilities.”

Bradley Horowitz, vice president of product for Google+ posted for Impermium on Google+ as follows:

Impermium is currently serving more than 300,000 clients all over the world, including big names like Tumblr, Pinterest, CNN, ESPN, Typepad and Washington Post etc. Lets hope this year would help Indian startups to grow in global market.

Facebook Acquires Little Eye Labs

Facebook is acquiring Indian start-up Little Eye Labs for its app-building. Announced in the social network regarding acquiring the Bangalore-based company for $15 million. This is the first time the social network has purchased a firm from India.

Little Eye Labs website revealed that it offers a “performance analysis and monitoring tools that can help identify and fix performance problems” in Android apps. Little Eye Labs was founded just one year ago.

As per the Little eye Labs website blog post it is found that “Today, we’re very excited to announce that Facebook is acquiring our company. With this acquisition, Little Eye Labs will join forces with Facebook to take its mobile development to the next level. The entire Little Eye Labs team will move to Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California. From there, we’ll be able to leverage Facebook’s world-class infrastructure and help improve performance of their already awesome apps. For us, this is an opportunity to make an impact on the more than 1 billion people who use Facebook.”

Little Eye will send its current customers information via e-mail on the firm’s plan to offer a free version of its program until June 30 this year.

Note : Existing customers who haven't got this information can contact Little Eye at  support@littleeye.co.