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Amazon Brings In Fire TV Stick 4K in India at Rs 5,999

4Oct By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Amazon Brings In Fire TV Stick 4K in India at Rs 5,999

Amazon has launched its new Fire TV Stick 4K which is an upgraded version of its streaming media stick along with a new Alexa-powered voice remote. The new device is priced at Rs 5,999 in India. It features a quad-core 1.7GHz processor. Along with this, the device comes with support for 4K content, Dolby Vision and HDR10+ for an improved and better picture quality. Parag Gupta, Head – Product & Marketing of Amazon India stated that the Fire Stick 4K is 80% faster than its predecessor Fire TV stick that was introduced in India in April last year. "It (Fire Stick 4K) is a complete 4K solution our customers are looking for, all within a compact stick form factor. The team invented an entirely new antenna technology and combined that with a powerful 802.11ac Wi-Fi to optimize for ...

Digital Payments Giant Paytm Rolls Out Spam-Proof SMS Inbox

2Oct By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Digital Payments Giant Paytm Rolls Out Spam-Proof SMS Inbox

Digital Payments major Paytm has reportedly launched spam-proof SMS Inbox as a part of the Paytm Inbox. This feature uses proprietary Machine Learning (ML) methods and regulations to divide messages into personal, transactional and promotional categories. As stated by the company, the app will categorize the messages locally on the device. This would be done only after the users give their straightforward consent to avail this service. When the user avails the service, the app informs the users about the various classifications of the SMS categories and their utility value. Along with this, the users can also choose to delete messages, re-classify SMS and mark SMS as read/unread. Deepak Abbot, Senior Vice President of Paytm said, “We have witnessed a huge discomfort by mobile phone ...

Facebook Reports Security Breach Affecting 50 Million Users

1Oct By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Facebook Reports Security Breach Affecting 50 Million Users

Facebook is again in the news headlined these days, where it reported a security breach that affected 50 million accounts. The hack occurred on September 25, when Facebook’s engineering team discovered a security breach. This breach enabled unknown attackers to take over 50 million user accounts, and another 40 million were vulnerable to the attack. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that the company did not know who was behind this attack. Also, he claimed that he did not have any information whether any of the accounts that were hacked were misused. Attackers reportedly stole Facebook access tokens through its “view as” feature. The “view as” feature allows the users to see how their own profile looks like to the other users. Also, Brian Acton, the co-founder of WhatsApp, menti...

You Can now Pay For Your Uber Rides Via Google Pay

28Sep By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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You Can now Pay For Your Uber Rides Via Google Pay

Google’s digital payments platform Google Pay has partnered with Uber to let users pay for their Uber rides easily and seamlessly in India. Initially, the company has an offer in which users can also avail up to Rs. 1,000 when they use Google Pay for 10 Uber rides. This may toughen the competition for other payment platforms such as Paytm, PhonePe among others. Google has also announced that more than 22 million people in India are already using Google Pay on a monthly basis and over 1.2 million small businesses in India are using it to enable mobile payments. To make the use of Google Pay for your Uber rides, the users need to add Google Pay as a payment method on the Uber app. To do this, they need to go to the Payment section after tapping the hamburger icon from the top-left corn...

Google Celebrates its 20th Birthday with a Special Doodle

27Sep By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Google Celebrates its 20th Birthday with a Special Doodle

World’s largest and most popular search engine Google has completed 20 years of its existence that have fully changed the lives of people all over the world. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students. The company has been growing rapidly since its establishment and has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions, and partnerships beyond Google's core search engine. Google is the most valuable brand in the world as of 2017 and continues to be as important in 2018 as well. Today, the technology giant is celebrating its 20th birthday with a special doodle on its platform. It comprises a 1.37-minute-long video which ‘takes a stroll down memory lane by exploring popular searches all over the world throughout the last two decades.’ ...

Twitter Set to Ban Dehumanizing Language on its Platform

26Sep By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Twitter Set to Ban Dehumanizing Language on its Platform

The social media major Twitter has announced to further update its "hateful conduct" policy to include content that "dehumanizes others". This will be based on their membership in an identifiable group, even when the material does not include a direct target. Twitter is one of the most popular micro-blogging platforms in the world has a huge user base. The company has been developing and building a new policy to address dehumanizing language that makes someone less than human. "Some of this content falls within our hateful conduct policy (which prohibits the promotion of violence against or direct attacks or threats against other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, religious affiliation, age, disability or serious disease). "But there ar...

24Sep By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Happy 10th Birthday Android!

World is contracting with the growth of mobile phone technology with the number of mobile phone users increasing day by day. Starting with simple regular devices which were used just for making phone calls, mobile phones have entirely changed our lives and have become a vital part of it. Now, they are not only used for making calls, but also have innumerable uses and can be used as a Camera , Music player, Tablet PC, T.V. , Web browser etc. With this technology growth, new and updated software and operating systems are required which led to the birth of ‘Android’. Starting from black and white phones to recent smartphones or mini computers, mobile OS has come far away. Today, the most popular and used operating system that has captured the smartphone market is Android that was launched...

Facebook Set to Launch its Own Video Chat Device

24Sep By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Facebook Set to Launch its Own Video Chat Device

The social media giant Facebook is reportedly ready to make an announcement regarding its own video chat device called Portal next week with an aim to take on Amazon's smart home devices. With this new launch, the company will give a fight to Amazon's Echo Show. It will be available in two variants where the larger variant could be priced at around $400, while a smaller variant could go for around $300. However, it will have connection with Amazon's Alexa voice assistant and let users watch videos, play music, see cooking recipes, and much more. The report said that Facebook had originally planned to announce Portal at its annual F8 developer conference in May "But the company's scandals, including the Cambridge Analytica data breach and the bombshell revelation that Russia used t...

Google Pay Updates its Privacy Policy Soon After Paytm’s Complaint

22Sep By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Google Pay Updates its Privacy Policy Soon After Paytm’s Complaint

Google has reportedly updated the privacy policy of its Indian digital payments application Google Pay, days after the homegrown rival Paytm complained that the tech giant's platform allowed disclosure of customer data for advertising and other purposes. In a letter to the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), Paytm complained that Google Pay's privacy policy amounted to "clear disregard for a consumer's need for privacy". Google Pay's privacy policy had stated that it could "collect, store, use and/or disclose" personal data and "any communications made through Google Pay". Further, Google stated that it had updated its privacy policy and dropped the word "disclose" from its privacy clause. Also, it stated that the changes were made to make it easier for customers to unders...

Google Pay Crosses 25 Million Monthly Active Users in India

19Sep By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Google Pay Crosses 25 Million Monthly Active Users in India

The digital payments platform that was recently rebranded from Tez to Google Pay by the technology giant Google has crossed the milestone of 25 million monthly active users who have in total carried out about 860 million transactions over the past year. Recalling the progressive one year since the launch of Google’s payment offering in India, Caesar Sengupta who is the vice president for payments in the company stated that the app has seen widespread adoption from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu to Mandvi in Gujarat and Dimapur in Nagaland. “You are using Google Pay for your bills, your rent, the chaiwallah, the plumber and even your bus rides,” Sengupta said. Google claimed about 1.2 million businesses in India have adopted its payment platform as their preferred mode of payment. Google Pa...

Apple Finally Rolls Out the iOS 12 Software Update

18Sep By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Apple Finally Rolls Out the iOS 12 Software Update

With the launch of the new Apple devices, the company also announced the launch of its new software update called the iOS 12. And the final version of the new update has been released. This update is all about making your phone work better and also there are a group of fresh features. Currently, the update is being rolled out and is available both over-the-air in the Settings app, and by plugging your device into iTunes for a wired update. The new update that is iOS 12 is compatible with any device that can run iOS 11 that includes the iPhone 5s and later, the iPad mini 2 and later, the iPad Air and later as well as the most recent iPod touch. However, the company advised the users to first backup their device. To update your software, you should go to the Settings app. Go to the ‘Se...

14Sep By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Instagram to Launch a New Feature to Prevent Substance Abuse

Photo and video sharing social platform Instagram that is owned by Facebook is launching a new "prompt feature" that would pop-up if the users try to find substance abuse related recovery and treatment services. This would even happen if they try to purchase drugs illegally on the platform using certain hashtags such as "opioid". It has been reported by the company that the users make use of hashtags to find addiction support and communities as well as illegal drugs. This is an attempt to encourage people who are indulging in or fighting against addiction of drugs. The prompt comes with three options to choose from -- "get support", "see posts anyway", and "cancel". With this move, the company is introducing a new pop-up feature which aims at solving the platform's drug issues, even ...