Skype in 2014 introduced its Skype Qik video messaging app to take on rival services such as WeChat orSnapchat. However, the Microsoft-owned VoIP service has now decided to shutter its app. The company will be completely taking the Qik app off-the-grid by March 24. The company says that shutting down Skype Qik video messaging app should not be much of ... Read More »
WhatsApp for years has been releasing new version of the app via its website as well as signed APK files before the release hits the Google Play store. This allowed WhatsApp to make required changes as well as fix bugs, if any, in the app ahead of a broader availability. One of the biggest disadvantages of the process was the ... Read More »
In its bid to save children from online sexual abuse, France’s national police has urged parents to stop posting photos of their children on Facebook and other social media platforms. According to the technology website The Verge, such images can put privacy and security of the kids in danger and, if shared widely, such photos can reach sexual predators. France’s ... Read More »
Officials with the nonprofit Simon Wiesenthal Center praised Twitter Inc on Monday for increasing efforts to thwart Islamic State’s use of its platform for recruitment and propaganda. The centre’s Digital Terrorism and Hate Project gave Twitter a grade of “B” in a report card of social networking companies’ efforts to fight online activity by militant groups such as IS. “We ... Read More »
Renowned cosmologist Stephen Hawking entered the universe of Chinese social media with a big bang on Tuesday, with his first post to the country’s Twitter-like Weibo service garnering him more than a million followers the same day. In less than five hours Hawking flew past Apple chief Tim Cook, who has around 820,000 fans after a nearly a year online. ... Read More »
You are here, that means you are looking forward to try out some new apps on your phone, obviously you weren’t able to pick one from the app/android store itself, the top grossing list is just way too long, you want someone to tell you, that hey, go for this one it’s good. Here we are, with a number of ... Read More »
Image Credit: Lumen Photos / Shutterstock Historically, mature private companies relied on “growth” or late-stage venture firms for their last round, or rounds, before filing for IPO. That ecosystem has been disrupted over the last few years as large public market focused investors entered the space. But just as the big money players flooded into the market, current economics are ... Read More »
A file photo of a computer lab at IIIT Hyderabad. Photo: Mint Hyderabad: Computer science focused educational research institute International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT)-Hyderabad is starting a new accelerator focused on technologies such as artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, augmented reality and virtual reality. These technologies, incidentally, are focused around research areas of the premier educational institute. ... Read More »
Mirror’s Edge Catalyst releases in May, and one of its developers took to Twitter to answer some questions. The answers covered the upcoming game’s multiplayer, parkour, and gadgets, among other things. Design director Erik Odeldahl took over the EA UK Twitter account this morning. When asked about the multiplayer, he said there is “a new social play element” that will ... Read More »
Popular social media platform Twitter will collaborate with Election Commission of India in its awareness campaign on striving for 100 percent voting for the May 16 Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Rajesh Lakhoni held discussions with Raheel Khursheed, Head, News, Politics and Government at Twitter India in Chennai. Later, speaking to reporters, Khurhseed said ... Read More »
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