New Delhi to be the first Free WiFi enabled railway station in India

New Delhi railway station is all set to be the first Wi-Fi enabled station in India, free WiFi will be accessible to passengers on all 16 platforms of the station.

The system is expected to be
operational in about 3 to 4 months it will cost around Rs 80 lakh and a Mumbai based company is being given the task to make the station WiFi enabled.

New Delhi railway station handles about 300 trains and approx five lakh passengers a day.

Railways has already made Howrah Rajdhani trains Wi-Fi enabled.

They are also mounting Tablets on walls at certain places in the station to benefit the passengers.
The tablets will be equipped to disseminate information about the train position, expected arrival time and other relevant data required by the passenger.

Handwriting translation comes to web version of Google Translate

Google Translate gets a new feature : Handwriting translation, it was available to android users for about 2 years has finally come to the website version.

The feature currently supports 45 languages,including the Asian languages.

Each time you draw a line on the whiteboard, Google’s algorithm suggests the character it thinks you’re most likely attempting to draw.

Often you only have to draw half of a
symbol to see it suggested, and a single click will add it to your message for translation.

Although the smartphone app is more handy compared to the web version since it gives quick access it still is a welcome change.

A new Cricket Game is coming

It has been more than 4 years since a Cricket video game has been released, the last being
International Cricket 2010 which was released by Codemasters for XBox 360 and PS3 and it wasn't
released for PC, for PC it was Ashes Cricket 2009 which didn't sale well.
Now two new Cricket Games are about to be released Ashes Cricket 2013 developed by Trickstar Games and published by 505 games and we have Big Ant Studios' Cricket 14.

Cricket 14 features a dynamic lighting where the sun incrementally moves, shadows.dynamically change and has cloud effects, Stamina, fatigue, injuries, form, previous innings will also play a influential part in game progress,
it will also allow to coach/manage a team.

Cricket 14 is the first cricket game with a full career mode , a built in player creator and the first with
the ability to save games in progress online, it also has DRS.
It will be available for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3, the
release date hasn't been announced but it is
expected later this year.

By going by the word its seem to be a really good
game, being a Cricket fan myself i will be eagerly waiting for it.

Big Ant has released a preview of the game which
you can watch here

Google launches Apple's Game Center competitor

Google launched Apple's Game Center competitor Google Play Games, it offers a list of recommended games
based on what's featured and what's popular
among you and your social circles.

Play Games is free from the Google Play store
and, once downloaded, you will find a game
controller icon on your device.

Google Play Games allows you to compare scores
with friends connected through Google+ and
public leaderboards.

Asphalt 8 Airborne, Riptide GP2
and Prince of Persia The Shadow and the Flame
are among the first few games which will offer full support for Play Games.

Grab it here

Wikipedia Zero now available in India to Aircel customers

Aircel and the Wikimedia Foundation yesterday launched Wikipedia Zero to offer
Wikipedia on mobile phones without any data charges to Aircel customers.

The service which was available to people of 16 countries now has an astonishing 470 million subscribers in Africa, Eastern Europe, Far East and India.

Hindi Wikipedia, has 22.1 % of page views globally from mobile, compared to 17.3% for ALL other languages.
Aircel customers will be able to access versions
of Wikipedia in English, Hindi, Tamil,
and 17 other Indic languages free of
cost.

Aircel may be the first Indian Telecom to offer this service but its not an exclusive deal and other companies may partner with Wikipedia and give its users the service.