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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…
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…
The Department of Telecom is expected to issue the notice for upcoming spectrum auction this week that will have timelines and rules to bid for airwaves. The Union Cabinet approved a proposal for the auction of 2,251.25 Megahertz (MHz) of spectrum worth Rs 3.92 lakh crore at the base price on December 17, 2020. The 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…
Bharti Global and UK government on Friday said their joint venture OneWeb a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communications operator launched 36 satellites from the Vostochny cosmodrome in Russia. This takes the total in-orbit constellation to 110 satellites, part of OneWeb’s 648 LEO satellite fleet that will deliver high-speed, low-latency global connectivity, a company release Read More…
In its maiden attempt to retrieve materials from an extra-terrestrial body Zhang Kejian, head of the CNSA, declared the Chang’e-5 China mission a success. China’s Chang’e-5 probe successfully touched down on Earth in the early hours of Thursday, bringing home the first samples of the moon in over 40 years. The spacecraft landed Read More…
Surprising the netizens, YouTube and Gmail witnessed a mega outage on December 14. The users of the two popular websites also could not access them anymore. “Something went wrong…,” said the webpage when the users in India and many other countries across the world tried to access the video streaming service. “We Read More…
