In its new Insider Preview Build for Windows 10, Microsoft is working on a feature as part of its "Your Phone" software that would display notifications received on Android smartphones on PC screens. Launched in 2018, "Your Phone" is an app for Windows 10 that allowed users to see recent photos taken on a Android phone directly on a Windows 10 PC and to send SMS messages from a computer.... Read More
Google is now allowing Assistant on Android and iOS devices to read out stories in English to people in India, US, UK, Canada and Australia. The available stories range from tales about Blaze and the Monster Machines to more classic bedtime stories like Sleeping Beauty and Little Red Riding Hood. This is in addition to other story features like "read along", which automatically plays sound effects as you read from... Read More
The popular instant messaging giant WhatsApp has been thinking about safety features lately. After introducing a lot of features which increase the functionality inside the application and offer some exciting things to the users, WhatsApp has now turned its eye to the significant problem its platform is facing, that is fake news. The problem is so widespread that WhatsApp has been involved in discussion with the government of India to... Read More
Photo-messaging app Snapchat added four million new users in the first quarter of 2019, registering revenue of $320 million -- up 39% (year-over-year) -- thus beating the Wall Street estimates. Snapchat's daily active users (DAUs) were 190 million -- up two per cent from 186 million in the previous quarter but down from 191 million in Q1 2018. "In the first quarter we delivered strong results across our business with... Read More
WhatsApp is working on a plethora of new features to offer an enhanced user experience. A new report coming from Independent UK states that the Facebook-owned messaging app will soon deny users from capturing a screenshot of individual chats. Instagram already has a feature similar to this one as it notifies a user whenever someone captures a screenshot of the direct messages screen. But WhatsApp is all set to block... Read More
Telecom regulator Trai hopes to finalise, by May-end its views on whether Over-The-Top (OTT) services like Whatsapp and Skype should be brought under the regulatory regime, an issue on which it has kept an "open mind" and studied global best practices and European model, a top official said. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Chairman R S Sharma told PTI that the regulator has also studied the European Electronic Communications... Read More
PUBG Mobile recently rolled out a major update in the form of 0.12.0 update to both Android and iOS users. While the update brought a slew of new features including the Darkest Night Zombie mode, it also brought a weird bug which several users are facing; The bug exactly is plane disappears, and even after jumping from the plane, players will remain in the air for a while. However, Tencent... Read More
Facebook-owned photo-messaging app Instagram is testing a new feature that would let users co-watch on-platform video content with friends while being able to see their reactions on the video via the phone cameras. The option would start with a split-screen view, where users would be able to apply face filters and other visual tools to their personal camera feeds, Social Media Today reported on Thursday. "Instagram's co-watching media picker is... Read More
Now that the tough times in the data tariff segment are almost over, there seems to be a new battle in the making for the telecom operators in the content segment. Every telco is on the task of improving their content offerings for the subscribers. The operators are forging new content partnerships with giants and launching new apps or features on their already existing OTT platforms. Now Reliance Jio has... Read More
With the content game heating up in the DTH and telecom industry, operators are heavily investing and coming up with their own solutions to lure customers. Telecom operators are aggressively partnering with OTT players to bundle content inside their apps, but DTH service providers are trying to bring original shows to the users. Dish TV is the largest DTH service provider in the country, but the operator did not have... Read More
As part of the efforts to make its platform appear less toxic, Twitter is planning to give people an option to hide replies to their tweets, thereby giving users more control over the nature of conversation they would like to have on the platform. "Starting in June, we'll be experimenting with ways to give people more control over their conversations by giving them an option to hide replies to their... Read More
Bharti Airtel, the former leading telecom service provider, has introduced a curated election section in its Airtel TV app so that the app users can stay updated with all the news related to the ongoing Lok Sabha elections in the country. Notably, Reliance Jio and Vodafone also introduced such curated section inside their TV apps to keep their users updated all the time. Airtel TV users can find a special... Read More
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