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Google Brings In Offline Mode For Chrome On Android

22Jun By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Google Brings In Offline Mode For Chrome On Android

The biggest search engine Google has announced the introduction of Google Chrome offline mode for the Android users. The company had launched Chrome with the idea of "everyone, everywhere" and now with this new feature, it is becoming stronger. Further, Google stated that the users who are signed into their account on Chrome can also access admissible content on the basis of their browser history. This downloaded content can then be accessed and will be available at any point in time, even without internet connection. "Today, we're introducing another way for Chrome on Android users in India, along with more than 100 countries including Nigeria, Indonesia, and Brazil, to surf the web with Chrome on Android devices - even without a constant internet connection. When you're connected to ...

Airtel TV Crosses 50 Million Downloads on Android: Extends Free Subscription

7Jun By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Airtel TV Crosses 50 Million Downloads on Android: Extends Free Subscription

India’s popular Delhi-based telecom company Bharti Airtel has publicized that its Android app called Airtel TV has crossed the milestone of 50 million (5 crores) downloads on the Google Play Store. To acknowledge this success, the company has announced that it will be offering a free subscription to the Airtel mobile customers till 31 December 2018. Earlier, Airtel provided free subscription on Airtel TV app to its customers only till June, but now the time period has been extended till the end of this year. The free subscription will be offered to each and every Airtel prepaid and postpaid user. "We are thrilled at achieving this milestone and being able to scale up the app so rapidly. This is a strong endorsement from our users and a result of our unrelenting focus on delivering a wo...

Google Launches an Indian Q&A App Neighbourly

1Jun By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Google Launches an Indian Q&A App Neighbourly

The American technology company Google is lately focusing on India quite a lot. The technology giant has just instigated an all-new Q&A app in beta known as 'Neighbourly' (targeted at neighborhood communities) which will resolve the queries related to places and events in your community. The Android application will enable the users to ask questions to their neighbors through text or by voice and find well-grounded and admissible answers. The people can share local expert skill or knowledge, and keep updates from the neighborhood.In a blog, Caesar Sengupta, VP of Next Billion Users Team, said, "People nearby often have the exact information you need, but they are too busy these days to stop and chat on the street or in the park. And group chats keep getting bigger and noisier - and oft...

Avast: Android Devices Ship with Pre-Installed Malware “Cosiloon”

27May By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

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Avast: Android Devices Ship with Pre-Installed Malware “Cosiloon”

World's Major cybersecurity company Avast has reported the presence of pre-installed malware in thousands of Android devices including those from manufacturers like ZTE, Archos and myPhone globally including in India. Dubbed as "Cosiloon", is an adware that creates an overlay to display an advertisement over a webpage within the user's browser, as per a report prepared by Avast Threat Labs. In its offical statement , Avast said, Thousands of users are affected and in the past month alone, Avast Threat Labs has seen the latest version of the adware on around 18,000 devices belonging to Avast users located in more than 100 countries, including Russia, Italy, Germany, India, Mexico, the UK as well as some users in the US. The adware which was first identified by Dr Web, a Russian IT s...

This App from IIT Experts will keep your Stress at Bay!

7May By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

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This App from IIT Experts will keep your Stress at Bay!

Experts from India's premier institute IIT Kharagpur have come up with a free mobile application that will help users manage and counter stress. Dhyanadroid- the app has been derived from words "Dhyan" meaning meditation and "android" as it is designed for smartphone users. The app has been created with two variants and will be officially launched in the coming month on 10 June. Android users will be able to download it from Google play store while iPhone users will find it on AppStore for free. Say Goodbye to Depression with Dhyanadroid According to the developers, the app has been interactively designed to help users fight depression and gain a better emotional control. It works on two methodologies: Self Evaluation and Instructive Meditation. One can check their stress using the...

WhatsApp Bug ALERT: This might freeze your phone!

7May By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

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WhatsApp Bug ALERT: This might freeze your phone!

WhatsApp is one of the most successful messaging platforms today that has a whopping 1.5 billion monthly users base of active users in the world. While the instant messaging service is often riddled with scams, a new forwarded message is doing the rounds of WhatsApp which claims to hang the app for some time. The latest spam message starts from "black dot" and ends at "don't touch here." The message reads, "If you touch the black point then your WhatsApp will hang." The black dot within the message seems to be the culprit which will freeze your phone or either make the app unresponsive once you touch it. This is not a hoax as many WhatsApp users, particularly on Android, have reported of the app crashing after they tap on the black dot. Black Dot-Is it the Real Culprit? Whil...

Google Pay Debuts on Web, Reaches Desktop and iOS

4May By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

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Google Pay Debuts on Web, Reaches Desktop and iOS

Google Pay, the combined payments system launched by world's largest tech giant Google, is now being rolled out on the web for desktop and iOS devices. While it is already available on Chrome and Android, the new update will make it work for other browsers too such as Firefox and Safari. Google pay faces sharp competition from Apple Pay and Samsung Pay as its ace rivals. At the time of launch, Google had hinted the debut of the unified payment platform on all its product, including Chrome. But now several months after launch, Google is finally bringing "Buy with Google Pay" buttons to other desktop browsers and iOS as well. Google Pay Brings Platform Independence With the latest change, Google Pay will be expanding its scope. There is an added functionality that will sync card details...

Amazon Launches a “Lite” Web Browser App for India

18Apr By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

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Amazon Launches a “Lite” Web Browser App for India

E-commerce giant, Amazon has come up with a lite web browser app for India to attract emerging markets which is claimed to be "lighter than competition". Called "Internet: fast, lite and private", the app has been specifically designed to consume less space on devices and comes under 2 MB in size. The app is visible at Google play store but currently downloadable only in selected smartphone brands in India. The app will offer a private user experience without seeking additional permissions or collect private data like other browsers. Moreover, it also offers inbuilt news and updates on the home page with a private data tab that does not track user's history at the end of a user session. The app is compatible for download for devices running on Android 5.0 Marshmallow and above. Th...

HQ Trivia Will Be Available On Android This New Year’s Eve

28Dec By RishabhNo Comments

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HQ Trivia Will Be Available On Android This New Year’s Eve

Have you heard about HQ Trivia app? Yes, the world popular quiz show app that was available only for iPhone users. Despite of its availability only on a single platform, it has attracted quite a number of users. This Christmas, it even crossed 730,000 players. HQ Trivia is an online trivia game show which offers prizes(money) to the users who make it to the end by answering all the 12 questions correct. Those who make it to the last, the prize money is distributed amongst them. HQ Trivia had been planning from quite some time to make a debut on Android platform, but has only released the beta version to a small subset of users. "Android update: we’re in limited beta as of Christmas Day & are working quickly on patches, so we can continue to roll it out to more testers througho...

Google Offers Bug Bounty To Clean Up Mobile Apps

20Oct By reutersNo Comments

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Google Offers Bug Bounty To Clean Up Mobile Apps

Google is offering security experts a bounty to identify Android app flaws as the Alphabet Inc unit seeks to wipe out bugs from its Google Play store. Each flaw will score at least $1,000 under the programme announced on Thursday to back up automated checks that have failed to block malware and other problems that security experts say infect the 8-year-old app store far more than Apple Inc’s rival App Store. Google will partner with HackerOne, a bug bounty programme management website, to target a list of apps and flaws such as those that allow a hacker to redirect a user to a phishing website or infect a gadget with a virus. Software scans cannot match a person’s ability to discover “a truly creative hack,” Vineet Buch, director of product management for Google Play Apps and Game...

Google Bringing its Voice Based Digital Assistant to iPhone To Challenge Siri

18May By reutersNo Comments

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Google Bringing its Voice Based Digital Assistant to iPhone To Challenge Siri

Alphabet's Google is bringing its digital assistant to Apple's iPhone, making a play for the higher end of the smartphone market and challenging Apple's Siri feature on its own devices. The announcement heralds a step by Google, whose Android operating system runs on the majority of the world's smartphones, to get a foothold on Apple's phones, which have smaller market share but are used by people who tend to spend more on technology. It comes as Google, Apple and Amazon.com are competing to establish dominance in the voice-powered digital assistant segment, which many in the industry believe will supplant keyboards and touch screens as a primary way that users interact with technology. Speaking at an annual developer conference in Mountain View, California, Google Chief Executive S...

25Apr By RishabhNo Comments

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Indian Space Agency ISRO Develops “Solar Calculator” Android App

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) today said its Ahmedabad-based Space Applications Centre has developed an android app for computing the solar energy potential of a place. Developed at the behest of the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, the app is considered to be a "very useful" tool for installation of photovoltaic (PV) solar panels that is used for tapping solar energy, it said. The ISRO said the app provides monthly and yearly solar potential and the minimum and the maximum temperatures at any location. It also displays the location of a place on the satellite image as well as the days length there during different periods in a year. According to the ISRO, features of the app include providing of solar energy potential at any given location, the requ...