One of the largest social media platforms and texting applications, WhatsApp recently updated its ‘Terms and Conditions’ for the use of the app, and people are angry about it. In a nutshell, users have until February 8 to accept the terms and conditions, or else they can say goodbye to the app. The particular thing in the new terms and conditions everyone is mad about is ‘sharing of WhatsApp data’... Read More
Facebook has removed the ‘Like’ button from public pages on the platform. The social media giant's focus is on the ‘followers’ of a page instead of ‘likes’. Now users will be able to see the number of people a page is following and the number of followers it has. Facebook in a blog post said that they have made the recent changes to their pages for enabling public figures, businesses,... Read More
Prasar Bharati, India’s public service broadcaster recorded over a billion digital views and over six billion digital watch minutes, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said in a release on Sunday. The ministry highlighted that the digital channels of the public service broadcaster recorded over 100% growth in 2020. The growth is said to have been recorded across both the divisions of Prasar Bharati namely Doordarshan, the television broadcasting service... Read More
FAU-G (Fearless and United Guards) now has an official release date. Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar and the game maker nCore Games announced the game would be released in India on January 26 aka on Republic Day. FAU-G is an action game set at India's northern border with the soldiers protecting the country from hostile invaders. Announced right after PUBG Mobile's ban in India, FAU-G's initial release date was set for... Read More
Telegram has started rolling out a new update with voice chats support and SD card storage for Android devices. It is worth noting that this is the 12th update which the social media giant has released this year. To enhance the quality and experience of group chats, Telegram will now allow users to voice chat. There is a stark difference between audio messages and voice chat. While you have... Read More
A couple of weeks back, Twitter announced that it would be resuming its profile verification process with new updated policies. Now the social media giant has announced that its new profile verification policies will come into effect from January 20, 2021. For the unaware, Twitter ran a survey asking people on what they think the profile verification policy should look like. More than 22,000 responses were submitted to the company,... Read More
WhatsApp has been working on bringing voice calling support to its Web/Desktop clients for a while now. And it seems to be finally happening. Few WhatsApp users have spotted voice and video call icons on the Web, and WABetaInfo says it is part of the WhatsApp Beta Calls. This essentially means the feature will be rolled to all the users very soon. Ever since it launched, WhatsApp Web has been... Read More
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has cleared the confusion regarding PUBG Mobile's relaunch in India. In response to multiple RTI applications filed by MediaNama, the ministry said it did not grant any permission for PUBG Mobile India. The ban on PUBG Mobile was imposed by the MeitY back in September this year and the servers were taken down on October 30. However, last month, PUBG Corporation stated it... Read More
WhatsApp is all set to foray into India's finance, commerce, social welfare and education sectors. The instant messaging platform is all set to roll out health insurance and micro-pension products in the country through partnerships with financial services players. At the Facebook Fuel for India 2020 event, WhatsApp India Head, Abhijit Bose said the company would partner with SBI General to launch a 'sachet-health insurance cover' and HDFC Pension to... Read More
Microsoft today announced the arrival of Microsoft 365 for Mac apps that run natively on the new MacBooks with Apple Silicon M1 processor. Microsoft's flagship Office apps- Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote will now run faster and take full advantage of the performance improvements brought by M1 processor on the new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro 13-inch and Mac mini. Microsoft also confirmed the apps are now 'universal' which means... Read More
Facebook-owned WhatsApp has started rolling out a new feature called 'WhatsApp Carts' aimed at the businesses. WhatsApp Carts allows the business accounts to create catalogues of multiple products which will enable the users to shop various items at one go. WhatsApp says it is quickly becoming a store counter to discuss products and coordinate sales. This is the reason behind launching the WhatsApp Carts feature for WhatsApp Business accounts. With... Read More
Lionsgate Play has officially launched for the Indian market. It is worth noting that this over the top (OTT) content platform was silently added to the Google Play Store in India. Lionsgate Play will offer users original content in addition to movies and shows from other production houses. Lionsgate is a huge production house in itself. It has brought movies such as The Hunger Games, John Wick, and more for... Read More
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where are the plans?no details , whats new whats changed?
Vi should decrease the tariff somewhere near to Jio's. So it can grab users from Airtel and Jio.
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