Google has considered India as a major market for its products and services. In line with that, the tech giant has started holding an event annually in India, especially focused on the country. This event is called the Google for India event, and the fifth iteration of the event just went down in the books. In this event, the tech giant announced a bunch of interesting updates, products and services.... Read More
Many people re-use breached, unsafe credentials for sensitive financial, government and email accounts, putting their account at risk of hijacking by cybercriminals, according to tech giant Google. In a recent blog post, Google said hijackers routinely attempt to sign in to sites across the web with credentials exposed by third-party breaches. If netizens use strong, unique passwords for all their accounts, this risk disappears, it said, as reported by PTI.... Read More
In the Indian e-commerce industry, Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart have been arch-rivals. While Flipkart holds the top spot when it comes to the Indian e-commerce scene, Amazon is not far behind. There are some areas where Amazon strays ahead of Flipkart owing to its Prime service. To compete with which Flipkart had recently introduced its Flipkart Plus Premium services. However, these services did not offer video streaming or anything related,... Read More
Facebook has admitted a design flaw in its Messenger Kids Service that exposed thousands of children on group chats with unauthorised users. According to a report in The Verge on Tuesday, the design flaw "allowed users to sidestep that protection through the group chat system, thereby letting children enter group chats with unapproved strangers". The social networking platform introduced Messenger Kids in 2017 and is aimed at kids under 13... Read More
A few months ago, we reported that Netflix is testing a cheaper mobile-only plan of Rs 250 that allows users to view content only on mobile phones and one-screen at a time. However, the video streaming giant was actually testing the cheaper mobile-only in some countries and India is one of them. Netflix has now confirmed that it's going to launch the Rs 250 mobile-only plan in India to drive... Read More
Call it a sureshot Snapchat redesign fiasco in the making. The new Twitter look on desktop left users baffled on Tuesday who yelled at the micro-blogging platform for unnecessary trying to bring mobile experience to a desktop. The new look, gradually being rolled out globally which has reached India, has even removed the profile with photo option on the top left -- a must for any social media platform to... Read More
As part of what looks like an app-meltdown phase after Google and Facebook apps, Apple's iCloud services suffered a major outage that troubled users, especially in the US, signing into their accounts. The outage on Thursday evening affected almost all of Apple's iCloud and other services, but while other services were back up and running earlier, iCloud's Calendars, Contacts and Reminders remained affected for a longer time, 9To5Mac website reported.... Read More
Google has made it easier to buy things online using its Chrome browser. Now, when you're signed into Chrome on your laptop, you'll be able to use payment methods previously saved to your Google Account to fill in checkout forms. You can use this feature without having to turn on "Chrome sync". The feature takes advantage of Google Pay, which has been recently expanding to more sites across the web.... Read More
Millions of users worldwide, including in India, were left clueless on Wednesday evening when Facebook and its family of apps including WhatsApp and photo-sharing platform Instagram entered a global outage. People took to Twitter to share their experiences. Facebook officially took to Twitter stating that the servers are experiencing some users and a fix will be rolled out soon. The issue persisted for nearly 12 hours from the outage time.... Read More
In a new innovative step, the Mukesh Ambani led telecom operator Reliance Jio has introduced an indigenous digital literacy initiative in India. The initiative known as the name of ‘Digital Udaan’ will help the first-time internet users in gaining useful knowledge for adequately utilising the potential of the internet. Currently, Reliance Jio boasts of having more than 300 million subscribers in India, many of whom are first-time internet users. As... Read More
Samsung will introduce more Internet of Things (IoT) or connected appliances that can be controlled through devices such as smartphones in India when the market is ready and has 5G connectivity, a top company executive said on Tuesday. In India, the company has already introduced IOT devices in the form of smart washing machines as well as refrigerators. "We are working for a better IOT experience for potential consumers globally.... Read More
Unlike Netflix's content quantity, Apple has indicated that its Apple TV+ service would only focus more on a handful of top-tier shows. According to Eddy Cue, Apple's Senior Vice President of Internet software and services, Apple would not create the most number of shows, but create the best of them, Engadget reported on Monday. Eddy did not think that Netflix's emphasis on quantity was bad, but he said it was... Read More
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