US-based software engineer and former Google techie Aditi Kamal is the brain behind Baba Ramdev-promoted swadeshi messaging app Kimbho. The 32-year-old, who was a team leader at Google Hangouts, has also worked at Yahoo Mail and Oracle. “After working in the US for over a decade, I wanted to design an application for my country,” said Kamal, an MSc in computer science from the University of Southern California. “I decided […]
We are entitled to our opinions, not our facts. Sadly, since the horrific Kathua gang-rape has unravelled, vile opinions have been masquerading as ‘facts’ to change the narrative. As usual, the battle has reached social media where WhatsApp and other mediums are being used to fuel conspiracy theories which seek to somehow justify the rape-murder or give it a different angle. Here are two different sets of WhatsApp rumours that […]
As Facebook chases business and enterprise customers for its popular instant messaging and voice calling app WhatsApp, Microsoft may have just beaten the social juggernaut to the punch. On Wednesday at an event in New Delhi, the Skype-owner launched Kaizala, a messaging app designed to ‘get work done’ that has already garnered interest from several state governments and businesses in India. A messaging app in 2017 ought to do more […]
WhatsApp just keeps on growing, adding new features and users all the time. The prospect of sending texts and making calls for free has tempted a whopping 800 million people onto the Facebook-owned app at last count. If you’re one of them, chances are there are a few elements of the app that still seem bewildering or annoying – the good news is many of them can be fixed if […]
WhatsApp, the most popular instant messaging service used worldwide, has started rolling out the voice calling feature to its users. The company is rolling out the new feature in phases, and it appears some will have to wait longer than others. You can click to visit this blog that explains all about it in detail. Here are the answers to all your questions about WhatsApp’s voice calling feature. What is […]
A good samaritan found the ticket at Parel station, shared details on his Whatsapp groups and located the student within hours. A Higher Secondary student had all but missed her exam on Monday but for a good samaritan and technology. Just two days before her exam, Sheetal Gothi, a Commerce student of Hinduja College, lost her hall ticket somewhere near the Lower Parel station. A man passing by the station […]
WhatsApp is currently experiencing an outage. Users around the world are reporting that they haven’t been able to send messages for about two hours, and WhatsApp just confirmed this problems with a tweet stating “sorry we currently experiencing server issues. we hope to be back up and recovered shortly.” sorry we currently experiencing server issues. we hope to be back up and recovered shortly. — WhatsApp Status (@wa_status) February 22, […]
Sequoia Capital took a victory lap Wednesday after Facebook Inc.’s $19 billion deal for WhatsApp. The venture-capital firm, which invested $8 million in the smartphone-messaging app in 2011, stands to reap a huge return on that investment following Wednesday’s deal.Facebooks said it will pay $19bn in cash and stock to acquire WhatsApp, a deal that further emphasizes the social network’s mobile push. In a blog post, Jim Goetz, a partner […]
