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Hike Messenger Launched Video Calling Feature

26Oct By AnkitaNo Comments

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Hike Messenger Launched Video Calling Feature

India’s home grown messaging platform, Hike Messenger, has launched video calling feature on its app. Video calling, the beta of which was rolled out in September this year to a select set of less than a hundred thousand, will now begin to roll out to the entire userbase starting with Android users this week. Live Caller Preview is another interesting aspect of video calling on Hike. This allows the user to see a live video preview of the caller before answering the call. Hike video calling is available immediately on Android. If users updated their Hike Messenger in September this year, video calling would have automatically been enabled for them and will now be accessible. The iOS version will be launch soon. On this occasion, Kavin Bharti Mittal, Founder and CEO, Hike Messenger...

Apple Says Initial Quantities of iPhone 7 Plus Sold Out

15Sep By reutersNo Comments

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Apple Says Initial Quantities of iPhone 7 Plus Sold Out

Initial quantities of the iPhone 7 Plus have sold out globally as Apple Inc prepares to roll out its new gadget in stores, the company said Wednesday. Supplies of the larger size of Apple's new phone have been exhausted in all shades, and the smaller iPhone 7 has also sold out in the new jet black color, the company said. Customers who enter Apple Stores Friday, when the gadgets hit shelves, will not be able to purchase the sold-out phones on site, but they can continue to place orders for their desired models online, Apple said. "We sincerely appreciate our customers' patience as we work hard to get the new iPhone into the hands of everyone who wants one as quickly as possible," Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller said in a statement. Apple launched the new phones at a San Francisc...

Yes Bank Launches Digital Wallet ‘Yes Pay’ Across Android, iOS Platforms

30Aug By AdityaNo Comments

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Yes Bank Launches Digital Wallet ‘Yes Pay’ Across Android, iOS Platforms

India's fifth largest private sector bank Yes Bank has announced the launch of 'Yes Pay', a digital wallet across Android and iOS mobile platforms. As a new development in the realm of digital payments, Yes Pay is also built as a Facebook app. The fact that the wallet can be accessed through Facebook without any additional registration, Yes Pay has now empowered all social media and Smartphone users to be money-wise. Apart from mobile recharge and bill payment which are the key offerings for most digital wallets in India, Yes Pay also features functionalities that allow both 'users' and 'non users' to send and receive money. "Our wallet does not require that both the transacting parties be registered on the wallet. That brings to fore immense possibilities. Think of a businessman wh...

24Aug By AnkitaNo Comments

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Godaddy Launched App For Real Time Domain Bidding

USA based GoDaddy Inc , which operates the worlds largest domain name aftermarket, today announced the launch of its first mobile app for domain investors in India. The GoDaddy Investor app, launching on iOS and Android, will allow investors to watch and bid on domains at auction and stay on top of their current bids all from their mobile device. After market domain auctions are time-sensitive and highly competitive, and its critical that investors are able to easily participate at any time and from anywhere, not just from their computers. GoDaddy Investor app offers several additional features not previously available. After downloading the app, domain investors are able to monitor a watch list of active expiry domain auctions in real time, as well as view their bidding history. Inves...

Apple Started Bounty Bug Program For Developers

7Aug By AnkitaNo Comments

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Apple Started Bounty Bug Program For Developers

Apple Inc said it plans to offer rewards of up to $200,000 (£152,433) to researchers who find critical security bugs in its products, joining dozens of firms that already offer payments for help uncovering flaws in their products. Such rewards are already offered by dozens of firms, including Facebook Inc, Google, Microsoft Corp, Tesla Motors Inc and Yahoo Inc. The program will initially be limited to about two dozen researchers who Apple will invite to help identify hard-to-uncover security bugs in five specific categories. Those researchers have been chosen from the group of experts who have previously helped Apple identify bugs, but have not been compensated for that work, the company said. The most lucrative category, which offers rewards of up to $200,000, is for bugs in Apple's ...

IBM, Apple Unveiled First Global Development Platform in India

5Aug By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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IBM, Apple Unveiled First Global Development Platform in India

IBM today unveiled a new enterprise mobility platform IBM MobileFirst for iOS Garage in India and plans to open satellite centres in many other countries including Brazil, China and Romania. IBM MobileFirst is a platform for building mobile apps for the enterprise. The Garage is dedicated to enable clients to complete digital mobility projects as quickly as possible and will tap into the worlds largest concentration of Swift developers, IBM design and iOS device expertise and consulting services, Mahmoud Naghshineh, GM, Apple partnership, IBM, told reporters. "It will serve as a global development hub for iOS apps and work with existing design locations in Atlanta, Chicago, Cupertino and Toronto," he said. IBM also plans to open satellite centres in Brazil, Romania and many oth...

Myntra’s ‘End of Reason Sale’ Clocks 2 Million Product Orders on Day 1

3Jul By NitishNo Comments

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Myntra’s ‘End of Reason Sale’ Clocks 2 Million Product Orders on Day 1

India's biggest fashion shopping sale, the fourth edition of Myntra's 'End of Reason sale', clocked over two million item orders placed by end of day one of the two-day weekend sale. In the run up to the opening of the sale at 12 am on Saturday, around Rs. 700 crore worth of products were added to the EORS wish list (A special feature offered for EORS-4). The wish list was offered for the first time for short listing of items to go on sale. Also, the Myntra App was ranked number one on iOS in India across all categories. Myntra and EORS were among the top searched items on Google and Twitter, with search trends higher than Amazon, during the same period. "The fourth edition of EORS has received phenomenal response so far. On the first day of the sale, we have seen installation of...

Only 3% Mobile App Users in India Spend Money on In-App Purchases

1Jul By AdityaNo Comments

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Only 3% Mobile App Users in India Spend Money on In-App Purchases

Just about 3.1 per cent of mobile app users in India spend money on in-app purchases compared to 5.2 per cent globally, according to a new report. However, Indian users spend almost as much as global average for in-app buys. "Only 5.2 per cent of users spend money on in-app purchases globally and in India it is 3.1 per cent. The average paying user however spends USD 9.60 in monthly transactions per app with purchase activity globally -- and USD 8.78 in India," said the State of In-App Spending report by AppsFlyer, a mobile marketing attribution analytics company. The report based on In-app Purchase (IAP) behaviors of more than 100 million mobile app users across over 1,000 apps - found that, overall, Asian users spend 40 per cent more on in-app purchases than the rest of the world wh...

2Jun By AdityaNo Comments

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Now ‘ConfirmTkt Alternates’ Will Help Waitlisted Passengers to Get Confirmed Tickets

India's train PNR predictor ConfirmTkt.com has launched a new product 'ConfirmTkt Alternates' to help the waitlisted train passengers to get confirmed tickets by unlocking all the hidden and other best available travel options. Available on Android as well as Apple iOS, the app takes into consideration the delay in the train arrivals and departures while suggesting alternates. "Sometimes no quota can get you confirmed tickets for a train journey. So we have built algorithms. We call it as ConfirmTkt Alternates. We all use these techniques to get to our destination, but we end up wasting a lot of time. Our new feature solves that problem," said Co-founder and COO of ConfirmTkt, Sripad Vaidya. "ConfirmTkt Alternates is a simple solution for the complex problem which eliminat...

White House Declines To Support Encryption Legislation – Sources

7Apr By reutersNo Comments

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White House Declines To Support Encryption Legislation – Sources

The White House is declining to offer public support for draft legislation that would empower judges to require technology companies such as Apple Inc to help law enforcement crack encrypted data, sources familiar with the discussions said. The decision all but assures that the years-long political impasse over encryption will continue even in the wake of the high-profile effort by the Department of Justice to force Apple to break into an iPhone used by a gunman in last December's shootings in San Bernardino, California. President Obama suggested in remarks last month that he had come around to the view that law enforcement agencies needed to have a way to gain access to encrypted information on smartphones. But the administration remains deeply divided on the issue, the sources s...

The Story Behind Siri and The Man Who Made Her

3Apr By NitishNo Comments

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The Story Behind Siri and The Man Who Made Her

“If I were to anthropomorphize Siri, I would imagine that it would think of me somewhat like a father: someone who wants the best for them, who teaches them, who is occasionally demanding, annoying, or embarrassing, but who loves them and is proud when they do well.” A pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Adam Cheyer has spent most of his life living by what he calls “Verbally Stated Goals” — that is, continuously striving to do and achieve more each year. As a child, he dreamed of becoming a magician and, in many ways, he did just that: in 2008, as inventor, computer scientist, engineer, and entrepreneur, he co-created the world’s first intelligent personal assistant, Siri, with Dag Kittlaus and Tom Gruber. Siri, Inc. was a technology company borne out of SRI International, a nonpro...

WhatsApp Extend Group Users Limit From 100 Users to 256 Users

5Feb By PriyankaNo Comments

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WhatsApp Extend Group Users Limit From 100 Users to 256 Users

Facebook Owned messenger App WhatsApp has silently updated its Android version group limit of users which includes now 256 users. Earlier the group user limit was 100 users per group. iOS users have also received an update that brings the same functionality, with version 2.12.13 of the app. It is worth mentioning that the new group limit is only visible on Android and iOS for now. However, it should reach Windows Phone, BlackBerry, and other platforms soon. WhatsApp last month got rid of its $1 (approximately Rs. 68) annual subscription fee. Until now,WhatsApp asked some users to pay an annual fee for using the app after the first year of use - though as many of us experienced, most users were not asked to pay after a year, and instead were given extensions each year. I...