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According to Reuters report , Chinese smartphone brands increased their market share in India in 2020, a year marked by deadly border clashes between the Asian neighbours and backlash against Chinese firms in India, research firm Counterpoint said on Wednesday. Chinese brands commanded 75% of India’s smartphone market last year, up from 71% in 2019 Read More…
A technical problem resulted in configuration change at the back-end forced some Facebook users to log out of their accounts unexpectedly, according to the social network. The problem started on Friday and went on till Saturday for Facebook users, before it got resolved. “On January 22, a configuration change caused some people to Read More…
Signal is a cross-platform centralized encrypted messaging service developed by the Signal Foundation and Signal Messenger. It uses the Internet to send one-to-one and group messages, which can include files, voice notes, images and videos. It can also be used to make one-to-one and group voice and video calls and the Android version Read More…
India is WhatsApp’s largest user base, with over 400 million users. India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has asked WhatsApp to withdraw its new privacy policy, It also said the Facebook-owned messaging platform’s proposed changes “make invasive and precise inferences about users”. WhatsApp been to clarify issues related to its “privacy Read More…
Under fire over its recent privacy policy update, Facebook-owned messenger app WhatsApp on Friday announced that it has postponed its planned privacy update, which will give users more time to review the policy and accept the terms of the app. The decision to postpone the privacy update has been taken due to “misinformation causing Read More…
Google has removed few lending apps aimed at consumers in India from Play Store in an attempt to safeguard users, it said in a blog post on Thursday. “We have reviewed hundreds of personal loan apps in India, based on flags submitted by users and government agencies,” Suzanne Frey, Vice President, Product, Android Security Read More…
A few days after rolling out their new privacy policy for WhatApp, the Facebook-owned messaging service put out full-page ads in leading English dailies such as the Hindu, Indian Express, The Telegraph, Deccan Herald and the Times of India titled “WhatsApp respects and protects your privacy”. WhatsApp metadata means information on which numbers were Read More…
To recall, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in October said that the company is working hard to merge Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp so that they can start to function a little bit more like one connected interoperable system. In a bid to allow cross-messaging among its family of apps, Facebook has reportedly started merging Instagram Read More…
At least 27 cases have been registered following at least three suicides over a month. But, the Central Crime Branch police have registered one case based on a complaint by one Ganesan of Vengaivasal and four more similar complaints have been forwarded to CCB from Adyar police districts. Each district might have registered cases separately, Read More…
As per the report in the Wall Street Journal, Facebook discussed banning Bajrang Dal and termed it a dangerous organisation but did not go ahead taking action considering both anger it could evince from Ruling ( BJP) establishments and also safety of the employees. Former Congress president and MP Rahul took to Twitter as he Read More…
