New Delhi: A whopping 16 million accounts of Indian influencers on Facebook-owned Instagram are fake, revealed a new study, suggesting such people are artificially boosting “vanity metrics” that marketers often use while selecting influencers, including followers and engagement. The research by Swedish e-commerce start-up A Good Company and data analytics firm HypeAuditor jointly assessed 1.84 […]
Beijing: Chinese smartphone giant Huawei’s next flagship — the Mate 30 Pro — is likely to come with nearly 90-degree curve and an OLED display expected to be at least 6.71 inches wide. “Now, curved sides on a smartphone isn’t anything new, but these new leaks seem to show a radical change in design with […]
San Francisco/New Delhi: Third-party contractors working for Google are recording and secretly listening to your bedroom conversations via Google Assistant on smartphones, home speakers and security cameras, a new report has claimed, stressing that such recordings raise serious questions about privacy of users. According to Belgian broadcaster VRT NWS, users’ conversations with Google Home speakers […]
San Francisco: Apple has disabled its Walkie Talkie Watch app after discovering a vulnerability that could have allowed a person to listen to other users’ iPhones sans their consent. The app on Apple Watch essentially allows two users who have accepted an invite from one another to receive audio chats via a “push to talk” interface. […]
New Delhi: With India pressing for traceability of WhatsApp messages to check the spread of fake news, a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras on Wednesday stressed that the issue can be easily resolved without diluting end-to-end encryption and affecting the privacy of users. “If WhatsApp says it is not technically possible to show […]
New Delhi: OnePlus 7 Pro has got a new software update — OxygenOS 9.5.9 — that brings improvements in its camera, touch sensibility among others. The company says that the new update would improve the photo quality of the 48-megapixel JPG images in the Pro Mode, and the auto-focus is now faster than before. The […]
Mumbai: Swedish music streaming app Spotify on Tuesday launched a “Lite” version of its app for the Indian market that is just 10MB in size and helps people control listen songs while controlling data and storage on low-end Android smartphones and in areas with poor Internet connectivity. With Spotify Lite, users in India would be able […]
New Delhi: Despite being pulled by the law enforecement agencies and experts for vitiating the digital atmosphere in the country, Chinese short video-making app TikTok has seen a phenomenal rise in the Indian market owing to a strong local network and giving marketers a platform to reach users in small cities. According to global market research […]
New Delhi: Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram were back in action on Thursday morning after affecting millions of users across its platforms globally, including in India. Some users, however, still reported failed messaging and image download issues. Users in India had night-long problems in sending photos, videos and voice messages on WhatsApp. Only the text messages […]
New Delhi: Millions of users worldwide, including in India, were left clueless on Wednesday evening when Facebook and its family of apps including WhatsApp and photo-sharing platform Instagra entered a global outage. People took to Twitter to share their experiences. “Everyone moves to twitter when instagram, facebook, and whatsapp get down, including me!” tweeted one […]
