New Delhi | Meta-owned WhatsApp on Friday introduced new features for group voice calls, like muting and messaging participants along with banner notifications while in a group call. Now, when someone new joins a group voice call and is offscreen, you will see a banner notification saying, “X joined the call”. “This way, you will know […]
Category: Gadgets
Cabinet approves auction of 5G Spectrum
New Delhi | The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the Telecom department’s proposal to conduct a spectrum auction through which spectrum will be assigned to the successful bidders for providing 5G services to public and enterprises. A total of 72097.85 MHz of spectrum with a validity period of 20 years will be put to auction to […]
What to expect at Apple’s WWDC 2022 keynote
San Francisco | As the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2022 is approaching, reports say that tech giant Apple’s operating systems are expected to be the centerpiece of the keynote. According to TechCrunch, users are certainly going to hear the latest on iOS, iPadOS, macOS and watchOS, as well as some wildcards like tvOS at WWDC, […]
You may soon exit WhatsApp groups silently
San Francisco | In a bid to make the messaging platform more user friendly, Meta-owned WhatsApp is likely working on a new feature that will allow users to silently exit groups. In a screenshot, it is shown that when users want to exit a WhatsApp group, other people will not be notified in the chat. Only […]
Musk puts $44 bn Twitter deal ‘on hold’ over fake user accounts
San Francisco/New Delhi | In a stunning post, Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Friday said that he has put the $44 billion Twitter deal temporarily on hold till he gets to know how many fake or spam accounts are present on the micro-blogging platform. “Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts […]
True wireless earbuds manufacturing in India reaches 14% in 1 year
New Delhi | As Indian brands dominated the true wireless earbuds (TWS) market once again, local production of these devices reached 14% in the January-March quarter (Q1) with 113 per cent (on-quarter) growth, a new report showed on Thursday. The domestic production of TWS products was almost negligible in Q1 last year, reports Counterpoint Research. “There […]
WhatsApp to soon roll out new features
San Francisco | With an aim to make the messaging platform more user friendly, Meta-owned WhatsApp has announced that it is rolling out new features, including emoji reactions, bigger files and groups. The company said that it is slowly rolling out the ability to add up to 512 people to a group, which, till now, allowed […]
Elon Musk buys Twitter for $44bn, company to go private
San Francisco | Tesla CEO Elon Musk finally caught an elusive Twitter bird for $44 billion, as the company’s board decided to give in to his takeover bid with his “best and final” offer. Twitter announced late on Monday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an entity wholly owned by […]
WhatsApp rolling out these new features in coming weeks
New Delhi | Meta-owned WhatsApp has announced to add emoji reactions directing in its chat app, allow up to 32 people in a single group voice call and increase file sharing to support files up to 2GB, up from the current sharing size of 100MB. WhatsApp will first allow users to react with six key emoji […]
WhatsApp gets NPCI nod to extend payments service to 100 mn Indian users
New Delhi | In a major flip to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to make deeper inroads into the Indian digital payments ecosystem, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has approved an additional 60 million users on unified payments interface (UPI) for WhatsApp. With this approval, WhatsApp will now be able to expand the service to […]