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communicaiton 2017.pmd 93 29-03-2017, 20:03 C O M M U N I C A T I O N S Longest running online quiz INTERNET Rajeev Kondapalli (b Jan 19, 1976) of Secunderabad, Telangana has been posting ‘Biz Quizzard’, an online weekly quiz on business every Sunday since March 21, 2004. He has compiled and uploaded 634 such quizzes as of May 22, 2016. The questions are posted on his blog, Largest programming contest www.bizquizzard.blogspot.in. (educational institutes) Tata Consultancy Services organised season IV of its flagship coding competition, CodeVita 2015, open to students across the country and 45,861 teams from various colleges participated in the Longest-running online column on taxation first round of the online challenge which was Vijay K Kumar, Editor-in-Chief conducted from August 7-8, 2015. Over 2 lakh of taxindiaonline.com has submissions were received from the students in been publishing a column the 24-hr time challenge. Around 2,500 teams ‘Daily Dose of Taxation were shortlisted for Round 2. The finale was an with Vijay Kumar’ on his offline event, in which 15 teams met at TCS website, except on Hyderabad Campus on March 1, 2016. The weekends, without a programmers worked on Java, C, C++, C#, break since Dec 1, 2004. He Python, PHP, Ruby, Julia and Perl languages for the had completed 2,879 such first round of the event. columns by June 30, 2016. Largest programming contest (corporate) TechGig, operated by Times Business Solutions, organised Code Gladiators 2016, a programming contest open to individuals and companies across the country and received 54,573 unique online submissions from the registered users out of which 24,432 were in C or C++ language and 16,815 in Java. The first round was sub-divided into company participant and open participants competing in separate groups. Around 978 participants were shortlisted for the second round of the online contest and 133 participants met for the on ground finale at the Radisson Blu hotel, Noida on May 27, 2016. The programmers worked on Java, C, C++, C#, VB.net, Java Script, Python, Perl, Ruby and PHP languages. Longest computer security workshop Spyry Technologies, Bengaluru in association with Potti Sriramulu Chalavadi Mallikharjuna Rao College of Engineering and Technology, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh organised a workshop on ethical hacking and cyber security. The workshop which was conducted in the college auditorium at Kothapeta, Vijayawada lasted for 50 hr 10 mins from Feb 25-27, 2016. Prameel Arjun KVN (primary speaker), Bharath Kumar Gayam and Chaluvadi SS Santosh of Spyry Technologies were the speakers for the workshop and taught the interested students various aspects of keeping their computer and data safe. LIMCA BOOK OF RECORDS 2017 9 4 communicaiton 2017.pmd 94 29-03-2017, 20:03 C O M M U N I C A T I O N S Low cost satellite spectrum monitoring system ISMES Jalna, has developed a very low cost satellite spectrum monitoring and e- system under the project Orbit Spectrum to monitor spectrum usage by various service providers, both private and public, providing satellite-based services. To ensure that optimum work was achieved in limited funds, a low cost satellite dish antenna, which is manually controlled was created in-house and named ‘Small Wonder’ because it is only 2.4 m in size. It officially became functional on April 19, 2013. It is capable of monitoring 10 different types of satellite services operating in C and Ku bands. A database called Sajag was launched on June 27, 2014 which preserves all monitoring data and details of the spectrum assigned to various players. This system has made it easy for officials to make note of any violations. The entire project costs only Rs 2.59 lakh with Rs 20,000 spent on the dish Small Wonder and Rs 15,000 on the database Sajag. The project was developed under the leadership of Ajay Singhal and Onkarnath of the Indian Radio Regulatory Services (IRRS). The International Satellite Monitoring Earth Station was set up in 1992-93 in Jalna, Maharashtra under the Ministry of Communication to ensure that Indian satellites face no interference from foreign satellites and is currently headed by Ajay Singhal of the IRRS. Most interviews on website Devang Vibhakar founder of SpeakBindas.com has conducted and published 329 interviews online as of March 7, 2016. These include audio, video and online interviews of people from different walks of life. Over the years he has also interviewed WR: Fastest 100 m sprint on QWOP flash record holders game too. All the interviews are Roshan Ramchandran (b Jan 8, 1990) completed available on his website www.speakbindas.com, a 100 m sprint in the flash game QWOP in 51 operational since Jan 31, 2009. sec in Chintamani, Karnataka on April 10, 2013. In the racing game the players have to control the athletic character Qwop using the keys Q,W,O and P which control the calves and thighs of the character. Most news websites launched in a day India’s paper, a unit of News Network of India, launched some 500 news websites on Feb 28, 2016. All websites have identical homepage and content on global and Indian news, but each homepage also has a page for local news so that reporters from those areas can upload local circle news. However upon random check only few sites had local news updates. LIMCA BOOK OF RECORDS 2017 9 5 communicaiton 2017.pmd 95 29-03-2017, 20:03 C O M M U N I C A T I O N S Digital India Programme Since the inauguration of the rural broadband network in January 2015 the Ministry of Communication & IT is going all out to make India a digitally connected land. Under the Digital India Programme the Department of Posts which has the widest reach in the hinderlands has enabled citizens to access core banking and other postal services and 27,885 post offices are now IT enabled. The Department of Telecommunications has provided high-speed internet connectivity in 36,736 panchayats out of the estimated 2,50,000 gram panchayats in India. Simultaneously, Department of Electronics & Information Technology has established 1.66 lakh Common Services Centres in Post Offices across the country to provide e-Services in rural regions like pension and insurance policies. BSNL has commissioned 2,504 hotspots across the country including various tourist spots such as Taj Mahal, Hussain Sagar Lake, Charminar, Sarnath, Sun Temple Brihadeshwar Temple, Hampi and Khajuraho. The 1000th WiFi became operational at Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine on March 17, 2016. Note: Data from Government of India newsletter May 2016. TELECOM Most mobile apps published by a company Most mobile apps created in a day Anand Tech Media Pvt Ltd has developed and Karpagam College of Engineering under the published 2,401 mobile apps on six mobile app leadership of Dr B Nagaraj Head, Karpagam market space including Google App Store, iTunes Innovation Centre organised a mobile app and Windows App Store from January 2011 to development programme for around 2,500 Dec 2015. These downloads include game apps, engineering students of the Institute on Sept 15, learning apps for kids and engineering students, 2015. The event marked the celebration of 48th fashioned for Android, Apple and Windows Engineer’s Day on the campus and the students environment. used the tool App Inventor to create around 3,000 application in 30 mins. All were basic apps like one detailing eateries in a city or data about actors etc. WR: Fastest growing telecom network India’s telecommunications system is the second largest in the world, after China with both government and private operators offering telecom services. The country’s total telephone subscriber base grew to approximately 105.93 crore by March 31, 2016. The overall tele-density (telephones per 100 people) stood at 83.4%. Wireless and broadband Internet continued to be the driving force behind this growth in telephony with the user base reaching 33 crore in March 2016. (Note: As per Govt reports) LIMCA BOOK OF RECORDS 2017 9 6 communicaiton 2017.pmd 96 29-03-2017, 20:03 C O M M U N I C A T I O N S PRINT Longest running inland magazine Black and white Malayalam inland magazine INNU (Today) published every month from Malappuram, Kerala and edited by Manambur Rajanbabu completed its 413th issue on June 20, 2016. The postal magazine which has contributions from prominent Malayalam writers like MT Vasudevan Nair, ONV Kurup, OV Vijayan and others has been around since December 1981. It contains poems, stories and book reviews in the most comprehensive form. Few of the anniversary issues were printed in colour and since the 6th anniversary issue in 1988, the editor brings out the collection of stories and poems in a book form also. Newspapers from most countries Deepak Raghunath Sant (b Oct 5, 1953) of Nagpur, Maharashtra has the largest collection of 380 foreign newspapers from 76 countries as of June 30, 2016. It includes dailies starting with every letter of the English alphabet. He also has 3,000 Indian dailies in 20 languages. Letters to the editor–multiple records Mahesh Kapasi (b Oct 28, 1948) of Delhi, who has 15,929 letters published in 384 national and international newspapers and magazines since 1974, holds these records as of June 19, 2016: Most in a single newspaper in a year: 173 letters in Central Chronicle from Raipur, Chhattisgarh between May 1, 2014 and April 30, 2015. Most in a single daily: 813 letters in The Pioneer from Delhi since August 1, 1993.