IF YOU’RE PAYING attention this morning, you’ll notice something new in your Twitter app for iOS. Instead of seeing a link every time someone you follow starts a broadcast on Periscope, you’ll see that broadcast, live, right in your timeline. Soon, you’ll see it in Twitter’s apps for other platforms too. In Twitter’s quest to…
Chris Cox, chief product officer, Facebook leads the social networking giants product management, design and marketing functions globally. One of the earlier employees of the 12 year-old Facebook, Cox, 33, joined in 2005 and helped build the initial versions of key Facebook features including News Feed. Cox reports to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and this…
Reliance Jio Infocomm is slated to acquire 80 million 4G customers in the next two years, with more than half expected to switch over from India’s top three carriers, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular, brokerage CLSA said Tuesday. The anticipated 4G boom will lead to a trebling of data revenue to Rs 80,300…
Apple has unveiled a new ‘night mode’ for iOS devices designed to help owners sleep. The new ‘night shift’ mode was unveiled as part of a beta version of iOS9.3, the firm’s next update. Other improvements include a new education mode for teachers, and updated news and health apps. ‘Many studies have shown that exposure…
GROUPS of school and college students in Delhi and NCR along with other tier- I cities are on the radar of security agencies for using stolen data of international credit cards to buy latest gadgets and reselling them to their friends at half the cost. “ While investigating a credit card fraud from a leading…
In its aggressive campaign for Free Basics, couched in simplistic developmental language, Facebook underestimated the political sophistication of the Indian public. It must be regretting it now. The social networking service’s reportedly Rs. 100-crore campaign, through double full-page newspaper advertisements, billboards and television, appears simply to have congealed public opinion against Free Basics. Everyone seems…
The National Youth Summit, ‘EVOKE-2016’, commenced at Chandigarh University here today.Speakers at the event included Hamirpur MP and secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India Anurag Thakur, Chandigarh SSP Sukhchain Singh Gill and New York-based fashion designer Sanjana Jon.Talking on the topic, ‘Social Media Dialogue- The Roadmap from Chaos to Consensus’, Thakur…
Persatuan Kesedaran Komuniti Selangor (Empower) has raised concerns over the authorities’ plans to monitor instant messaging app, WhatsApp. In a press statement, its president, Janarthani Arumugam said it was worrying that Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar mentioned WhatsApp as one of the social media platforms to be monitored due to its abuse by some…
The green light on Pushpa Kaushik’s modem hasn’t come on for the past three months. When she first got internet access in her home a year ago, all the people of Lalpur, a small village in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, used to come to her house to use her computer. Some needed to check their…
Taslima Nasreen, a Bangladeshi author who lives in exile in India, today rooted for absolute freedom of speech for writers even if it led to hurting the sentiments of certain people or groups. I think that we should have our freedom of expression even if that might offend some people. If we do not open…