Shake it for deals!

Being an Airtel postpaid and broadband customer for a long time now, I am absolutely excited about the new avatar of "My Airtel" App that is released now. In the era of mobile phones, it makes a lot of sense for having a good App that simplifies the tasks we do regularly. Since I have been using this App for some time, here are some key features that I benefit from this App in my day to day life!

Prior to having this App, few things needed specific workarounds. First of all handling payment due date reminders. I hate to miss payment deadlines and pay my dues with fines. So I have specifically set up monthly reminders in my Google Calendar to remind me of my landline and mobile bill payments. On the specific due date, I would promptly receive an email and SMS alert reminding me of my payment deadline. Now I don't need such workarounds anymore! "My Airtel" App does the job for me. With its push notifications, it promptly reminds me of my payment schedules, allowing me to pay my dues properly on time. No more missing schedules or paying fines! Such a handy little thing!

Paying mobile bills used to be such a key thing in my pre-travel checklist, especially when I know, I will not have access to a computer to clear my dues. After downloading this App, I don't have that tension anymore! With PCI-DSS certified gateway, this App guarantees safe, secure and faster mode of handling bill payments directly from the App instead of having to find a computer to access Airtel website and initiate the payments. In fact accessing the App is totally free of charge compared to accessing the web-based payment site that still accounts towards the data usage! Additionally with the new "I want to" feature, I have my frequently used features personalized and have it quickly available to me anytime I want to access them. Really serves the purpose of using an App and saves a lot of time in doing repetitive things!

Another cool feature I quite use is the real time bill tracking. Being a postpaid user, having a check on the bill is absolutely necessary. Earlier I had to go to the website every time to check my bills. Things are absolutely easy now with all my bill related information, past payment history, and data usage information accessible right from my pocket. These are the things I check the most and go to the website for. Now with information being accessible right from the mobile, it saves a lot of back and forth trips to the web site!

The new App also seems to offer a host of exciting deals specifically to the App users from time to time, by simply shaking the phone with the App window. This is definitely encouraging and a good reason for anybody to continue using the App! Though there are lot of deals presently for customers using prepaid network services, I hope things will extend for postpaid customers too in the future!!

So when things are made to make our life simple, why not? Did you download the App yet? :)

What the buzz?

The legendary Indian Cricketer Kapil Dev made a lot of news around Indian Cricket League but after his resigning from ICL in 2012, he kept it really low and there was absolutely no news from him. But as they say one cannot hide the sun with the palm, the star is back with a bang!! He recently joined the micro-blogging site Twitter and from then on he is making huge waves among people with a coded announcement about a new league which he terms '#EkNayiLeague'! The topic has been trending on Twitter of late with everyone trying to make guesses about what this league could be!! Of course, coming directly from the champ, curiosity among people is very much expected! Interestingly enough, there is also a website that has been launched for this campaign and is offering a prize money of one lakh for those guessing about it correctly! Now that's a lot of money and a lot of buzzing!!


From the videos posted on the website, Kapil seems to point out very clearly that it is not something to be played with the heart but with one's mind! It clearly indicates this is something to do with the intellect of the person and not playing blindly based on passion alone. Generally in any sport, one has to play with a lot of passion for winning it. But the way he clearly indicates to top people like Dhoni, Sania and Kapil, he clearly intends it takes a lot beyond passion but talent using one's mind to emerge as a winner in this league! Thinking of options, one such could be playing with money perhaps? Where people don't just go by their blind instincts or passion but really use their mind and invest a lot of time to understand things before investing. That way I think this league could be something to do with stock trading or playing with cash tools or investments!

It would be interesting if it is anything to do with trading like I guessed because this would be the first time there is a public call for playing with financial instruments. Not many are into stock trading or risk investments. Even people who earn a lot just resort to saving their money silently instead of getting into trading for its associated risks. But I am sure people would be interested if tricks of the trade are taught to people before getting on the ground to play.

And again since Kapil has involved victorious people from different platforms in his videos, it gives a sort of clue that this game is not involving a specific group of people but is going to be diversified with people from different platforms competing against each other using their knowledge in the field! Whatever be the case whether it is going to be a real-time financial quiz or playing with the real money to win more, it is definitely interesting and one of a kind to throw positive light on the trading market. After all, it is who risks more always wins more! What do you think about all this? :)