Instant messaging service Yahoo Messenger shut down on Tuesday after a 20-year run. The iconic messaging application from late 90s struggled to keep up with WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. “We know we have many loyal fans who have used Yahoo Messenger since its beginning as one of the first chat[Read More…]
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WhatsApp rumours kill 32 year old Google techie
Karnataka :A 32-year-old software engineer was beaten to death and four others including a Qatar national were seriously injured over WhatsApp rumours of a child kidnapping in Karnataka’s Bidar. The police said that it all started after the man from Qatar was seen distributing chocolates to local children. The police have[Read More…]
Govt seeks to tap WhatsApp texts of the citizens, says SC
New Delhi: In response to the I&B ministry’ decision to set up a social media hub to monitor online data the Supreme Court said the government wanting to tap citizens’ WhatsApp messages is “like creating a surveillance state”. The top court has sought the government’s response in the matter within[Read More…]
WhatsApp’s ‘Forwarded’ feature: identifies message as ‘Forwarded’ or originally written by sender
Amid the spate of fake news crises around the globe, WhatsApp has moved a step further towards resolving the issue by launching a new feature as ‘Forwarded’, which will identify whether a certain message has been forwarded or created by the sender. Any forwarded message will have a small ‘Forwarded’[Read More…]
CPI-M targets PM Modi for keeping quiet over increasing cases of mob violence
Blaming failure at the political level for increasing cases of mob violence, the CPI-M has said that communal and sectarian fault lines which have opened up in our society lead to dehumanising and anarchic violence. The unconscionable and brutal violence emanating from the child lifting scare reveals deep social pathologies,[Read More…]
WhatsApp concerned about fake messages circulation, announced to fund research in the case
Due to increasing number of reported killings, lead by rapid and wide spread of misinformation across the country through WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging service said it would fund research to find out why misinformation spreads on the platform like wildfire in India. WhatAapp, which has over 200 million monthly active[Read More…]
Lynchings on rise, Government warns WhatsApp against misuse of its platform
NEW DELHI: The government has asked WhatsApp to take immediate action to end the menace of spreading messages that impact the country’s law and order situation and ensure that the platform is not used for such malicious activities, an official statement said here on Tuesday. “Instances of lynching of innocent people[Read More…]
WhatsApp’s ‘one-way’ broadcast mode for group chats is here
San Francisco: Aiming to take on encrypted messaging platform Telegram, WhatsApp has released a new feature for its groups which is essentially a one-way broadcast communication stream. Today, we’re launching a new group setting where only admins are able to send messages to a group. One way people use groups[Read More…]
Reliance JioPhones likely to get WhatsApp soon
San Francisco: Reliance JioPhones, which run on KaiOS, a Linux-based light mobile Operating System (OS), may soon get WhatsApp. According to Wabetainfo.com, a fan site that tests new WhatsApp features early, as of February 2018 KaiOS Technologies have acquired many new partners, including Facebook that also owns the popular messaging[Read More…]
WhatsApp to soon show ‘Forwarded Message’ for spam posts
New Delhi: In a move to stop mass-level spam circulation on its platform, WhatsApp is reportedly working on a feature that will show “Forwarded Message” if the spam post has been forwarded from another group or from one of the members in the same chat group. “Forwarded Message” will appear[Read More…]
2 held for circulating inflammatory posts on WhatsApp in Kasganj
Lucknow: Two persons circulating inflammatory videos and communal messages on social media were arrested in Uttar Pradesh’s Kasganj district on Tuesday, police said. Identified as Ram Singh and Ajay Gupta, one of them is the admin of a WhatsApp group on which inflammatory posts were being circulated, in an apparent bid[Read More…]
‘WhatsApp Business’ now available on Android in India
New Delhi: To help businesses communicate better with their customers in India, WhatsApp has officially rolled out “WhatsApp Business” — a free-to-download Android app for small businesses — in the country. The new app, available on Google Play Store, will make it easier for companies to connect with customers, and more[Read More…]
Switch voice to video calls with new feature on WhatsApp
WhatsApp has launched a feature in its beta version that will let users switch to video calls from voice calls at the touch of a button. According to a report in the Independent, if you are in the middle of a WhatsApp voice call and want to switch to a[Read More…]
WhatsApp will not work on these smartphones from December 31
Instant messaging service app WhatsApp will not work on certain BlackBerry and Windows Phone platforms from December 31, 2017, the company said. The Facebook-owned social app will discontinue functioning on Blackberry OS, Blackberry 10 and Windows Phone 8.0. Earlier Whatsapp extended its support for both the platform in June 2017.[Read More…]
Check if WhatsApp will work on your phone from Dec 31
Facebook-owned mobile messaging app WhatsApp will stop working on a number of platforms from December 31, the company has confirmed. The messaging app will drop support for ‘BlackBerry OS’, ‘BlackBerry 10’, ‘Windows Phone 8.0’ and older platforms, from December 31, 2017, according to an express.co.uk report published on Monday. “We[Read More…]
WhatsApp asked to stop sharing data with Facebook
France’s privacy watchdog has issued a formal notice to WhatsApp, asking the popular mobile messaging app to stop sharing user data with the parent company Facebook within a month. The Chair of the National Data Protection Commission (CNIL) had asked WhatsApp to provide a sample of the French users’ data[Read More…]
Watch YouTube videos right in WhatsApp while chatting
A new WhatsApp update rolled out for iOS will let users play YouTube videos right within the instant messaging app. The update will also let users navigate to another chat while you are watching the video. The information regarding the new WhatsApp update Version 2.17.81 was published on AppStore and[Read More…]
Work with Google, Yahoo!, Facebook to block offensive videos: SC to Centre
The Supreme Court asked the Government to work together with firms like Google, Yahoo!, Facebook and WhatsApp to advise list of keywords that will help curb indecent videos. The order was passed in a bid to ensure explicit videos showing rape, gang rape and child pornography are not available for[Read More…]
‘Nowadays, I am afraid to be happy’: 19-yr-old wrote on WhatsApp before committing suicide
A 19-year-old final year engineering student hanged herself to death after posting a depressing message on WhatsApp status. “Nowadays, I am afraid to be happy. I don’t know y ppl dnt want to look at me ven I’m happy in ma life (sic). Every moment in my life is gng[Read More…]
Facebook Messenger hits 1.3 billion monthly active users mark
Over 1.3 billion people around the world are now using Facebook Messenger every month, the company said. The Messenger crossed the one billion monthly active users (MAUs) mark in July 2016. “We’ve continued working hard to make Messenger the best it can be, introducing new masks, filters and reactions for[Read More…]
Online communication is overtaking face-to-face chats and that may be a good thing
Large part of discourse that has centred around critiquing technology has been insistent on one common theme: the death of face to face conversations that are fast and firmly being replaced by digital modes if communication- Skype, Whats App, emails, FaceTime and Facebook etc. Recently a picture surfaced of a[Read More…]
Having tough time buying ‘Bakra’ this Bakrid? Order it on WhatsApp!
If you are still having tough time buying sheep or goat for sacrifice on Bakrid, you don’t need to worry anymore. In fact, you can book your sacrificial animal on WhatsApp, with traders messaging you in English to hit a deal. They will even send you pictures of the ‘product’[Read More…]
WhatsApp Android beta to have Facebook-like coloured text status
WhatsApp to introduce colourful text statuses like Facebook and the feature will be part of WhatsApp beta version 2.17.291. Users who’ve enrolled into WhatsApp’s official play store beta program should get access to new colourful statuses ahead of others. As per the report, this is probably a server-side test. This[Read More…]
Objectionable content shared through WhatsApp comes to govt’s notice: Union Minister
The government on Friday informed the parliament that instances of “objectionable videos” being uploaded through mobile phones and shared through messaging app, WhatsApp have been noticed by the former. In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Union Minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the messaging app provides a feature[Read More…]