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Good news for those who wish to get more facility to their favorite e-wallets like Paytm etc., you can book train tickets through Paytm soon. Indian Railways is partnering with e-wallets players such as Airtel Money, Paytm and Jio Money to offer train tickets to the masses across the country.

The move clearly indicates how extent the e-wallets are going to play a crucial role in the paperless financial transactions in the coming future.

Indian Railways will gain additional income for each ticket the e-wallet player book in the form of commission. Now all these players are providing taxi, bus, movie ticket booking services to the customers. If Indian Railways finalizes the proposals we can book unreserved train tickets also through the platform.

There are lot of malpractices happening in train ticket bookings through travel agents. Once the booking facility is available on mobile wallets, the companies must take proper measures to prevent fraud and offer smooth ticket booking experience to the end users.

Not only train tickets soon we can expect more services available on the mobile wallets and small merchants also planning to get POS (point of sale) devices from wallet companies for the paperless transactions.

A new malware named as Fortinet Android Malware steals your Bank data. The latest malware surfaced for Android platform misleads us as the Flash Player application. Once you installed the app on your Android device it gathers the username, passwords from 94 popular banking applications around the world.

The application lists as “Fortinet” in the Android application drawer. If the user launches the app, it displays a fake Google Play message requesting the user to grant permissions to run the malware with administrative rights.

The app silently runs in the background and now onwards when you opens any banking application, it overlay a fake login screen. You believe that you are entering the credentials into the original application. But your credentials will be sent to the attacker.

Not only the banking applications, but the Fortinet malware also targeting social media applications like Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter, etc. When you opened those apps, the malware overlays a payment screen where it demands money to use the social networks.

The malware can steal the SMS One Time Passwords (OTP) to complete the fraudulent transactions. So beware of the fake apps available on the Google Play Store and the third-party app stores with the name of Flash Player.

A new technology called WiGig that provides higher WiFi speeds is coming soon for the smartphones and laptops. Till now even the WiFi signal is strong, and we are near to the wireless router we are getting a limited amount of bandwidth through the WiFi chips embedded in our smartphones and laptops.

With the latest WiGig technology, we can get the double speed of the data compared to what we are getting right now. Wi-Fi Alliance started certifying various gadgets like smartphones, wireless routers, laptops and other gadgets which support the latest WiGig standard.

Everything seems great, but there is a significant limitation with the WiGig technology. it can provide higher speeds only up to 10 meters distance from the WiFi router. That means you must be in the same room where WiFi router is located to get higher speeds.

Even though the range is the major drawback for the latest WiFi technology, it will be more comfortable for those who have higher bandwidth requirement for 4K video streaming and VR content. The devices which support WiGig comes with 802.11ad standard. If you find the term on any wireless device, that means it supports the latest WiGig technology.

Railtel in association with Google providing free WiFi access to the passengers at selected Indian Railway stations. 

But shocking news is most of the passengers browsing adult sites through the free WiFi service . Patna is one of the such misused Railway station.

Keeping this in mind Railway authorities blocked adult websites at Patna Railway station. Initially they selected few popular adult sites and blocked access to them. Time to time they are planning to add more sites to the blocked list. 

Indian Govt. as the part of the Digital India initiative bringing internet connectivity to the masses through various means. But people need to utilize the services in a matured and productive way.

Earlier we already came across few incidents where adult content is broadcasted in public at TVs equipment in bus stands, billboards etc. The administrative staff must follow strict guidelines and monitoring mechanism on what type of content is playing at public places .