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Whatsapp Going UPI Route To Launch P2P Payments In India

April 5, 2017 0 Annkur

UPI has taken the payments industry in India by storm. UPI has generated a lot of momentum within a few months, partly thanks to BHIM App that is promoted by PM Narendra Modi. The Ken today reports that WhatsApp is preparing…

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Chrome no longer a battery hogger it used to be?

November 3, 2016 0 Sharma Karan

Battery life is one aspect we constantly keep in mind especially when one is on the go. You have loads of work to do, but you can foresee the battery betraying you big time. So using a power efficient browser…

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WhatsApp Brings Video Calling on Beta Release

May 16, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

WhatsApp has been planning to bring about several new features on board and Video Calling was a big part of the plans. It looks like that the feature is being rolled out in a closed group now. You will need to…

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Official Reddit App is Available for Android and iOS

April 8, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

If you are a regular on Reddit, then you must have noticed that till recently, there was no proper one official app for the Social Networking site. There are several very interesting third party clients out there, the likes of…

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Google Hangouts Will Use Peer to Peer Connection To Improve Quality of Hangouts Calls

February 6, 2016 0 Arpit Verma

If you have been using Google’s Hangouts application, chances that you are frustrated by the poor audio quality of the connection are really high. Despite Hangouts coming on pretty much every Android phone, off late, not many people go ahead…

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Seven Months after Android release, WhatsApp Web meets iOS

August 20, 2015 0 Nishant Shah

WhatsApp just released an update that every iOS user has been waiting for. They’ve added the “WhatsApp Web” feature for all the iPhone users who waited for 7 long months. This means the users will be able to sync their…

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Instagram Introduces Search Feature For Web-Version

July 23, 2015 0 Akanksha Lakra

Popular photo sharing app has made an important upgrade for the web users. Before 2013, Instagram was an app-only platform. The year 2013 marked the launch of a full-feed experience for web users. Through the years, they have made many intricate…

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Google Play Launches ‘Free App of the Week’

June 15, 2015 0 Trupti Gupta

Google Play along with the launch of various other applications and updates has now started a new section as the host of its first ‘Free App of the Week’ promotion. Google Play isn’t the first one to offer such a…

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Instagram’s New Layout To Be Launched This Week

June 10, 2015 0 Trupti Gupta

With the help of the cleaner and smoother web interface, Instagram will be now changing the user-desktop experience. The application have been working on its layout not only for the desktop but the mobile version as well. The update is…

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Facebook’s Payment Feature Now Launches In New York

May 28, 2015 0 Trupti Gupta

Facebook has been working on a lot on updates and trying to keep itself as fresh as possible. The company earlier introduced new payment features in Facebook Messenger, which is now getting launched in New York. This feature lets friends…

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Instagram to Send ‘Hightlights’ Through Emails

May 25, 2015 0 Trupti Gupta

Instagram has been active since 4 and a half years and is not very young anymore, it doesn’t want users to slip away from its application. After Twitter bought a completely new start-up to power re-engagement by emailing the best…

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Zomato To Enter Indian Food Delivery Space: Competes With Foodpanda & TinyOwl

February 13, 2015 0 Pranav Prateek

Do you use Tinyowl or FoodPanda regularly? Then this news is for you guys. Starting from March, there will be a new player in town. The online restaurant search and discovery platform, Zomato is all set to roll out its…

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Hike Introduces Free Voice Calling Feature Before WhatsApp

January 27, 2015 0 Criselle Lobo

Hike, the Indian instant messenger has introduced free voice calling feature on 26th Jan. The feature lets you call other hike users over the Internet. The update is not done On-Air and one needs to update the app in order to…

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How To Use WhatsApp In Your Desktop Browser

January 22, 2015 0 Ronak

WhatsApp was previously in news for the controversial ‘Read Reciepts‘ but it silently also rolled out a feature which lets you turn it off. Here comes another news from WhatsApp which will make you smile – WhatsApp is now available…

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Test Driving Wynk: Airtel’s Response To Gaana & Saavn

December 30, 2014 0 Riya

What strikes you first when I ask you to name your go-to music-listening app: Spotify? Er… Gaana? Saavn? Dhingana? With majority of smartphone users having a monthly internet data connection, the number of subscribers to music streaming apps is on the rise and…

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Airtel’s Rift With NetNeutrality In India

December 30, 2014 0 Riya

Net Neutrality means keeping the Internet unbiased and open to all. No Telecom operators can command a authority to differentiate the data based on its website, its use, its time, its users etc. If a user buys an Internet package,…

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Turn Read Receipts Off On WhatsApp

December 26, 2014 0 Riya

In the start of November, WhatsApp had silently rolled out a ‘read’ feature which made WhatsApp the talk of the town. In this feature, the 2 ticks which you used to notify that a message has got delivered would turn blue if…

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Vizcall: The App Which Tells You The Purpose Of A Call

December 24, 2014 0 Riya

If you look back there are tonnes of apps which we did not know about and now form a integral part of our mobile experience. Apps like WhatsApp, Truecaller, and tonnes of Google apps, to name some few. We have found out one…

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WhatsApp To Launch For Desktop: Buckles Up Among Competitors

December 15, 2014 0 Riya

There is no denying the fact that WhatsApp is the most dominant messenger among the other messaging apps when it comes to carrying out daily conversations. But what it lacked so far was a desktop client through which one need not…

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SKYPE QIK – As Simple As Texting?

November 17, 2014 0 Sharma Karan

Qik was founded by Ramu Sunkara, Bhaskar Roy and Nikolay Abkairov in 2007. Qik had two primary offerings a mobile based live video sharing web site and a two-way video conferencing application that allowed users to stream live video from their…

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WhatsApp New Feature Informs You When Your Messages Are Read

November 6, 2014 0 Criselle Lobo

WhatsApp which recently crossed a 70 million mark of active users in India has a new update! WhatsApp which shows you two ticks if your message is delivered to the recipient, now turns them into blue if the person has read…

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Truedialer: The New Smart Dialer?

October 31, 2014 0 Criselle Lobo

Truecaller, the online Caller ID for our phones has now launched a new app named Truedialer. It claims to be a smart dialer for your smart phone. The app is available for free on Android and Windows Phone. A user…

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In Disaster? Check in on Facebook via Safety Check

October 17, 2014 0 Criselle Lobo

Facebook has launched a new tool called “Safety Check” which claims to help its users to notify their friends and family that they are safe during or after natural disasters. Facebook’s tool, will be available worldwide to its 1.32 billion…

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The Battle Of The Mobile Messengers: WhatsApp Crosses 400 Million Active Users

December 20, 2013 0 Rahul S

So, a few hours ago, WhatsApp put up a blog post announcing that the service now has crossed 400 million active users. That is quite a number for a company that only has 50 employees. To put things into perspective,…

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Hike Messenger Launches Version For Older BlackBerry Devices

December 3, 2013 0 Harshit

India based messenger service Hike has just announced that they have launched a version of their app for BlackBerry devices running the older version of BlackBerry OS. The app launched back in December 2012 managed to rake in 5M users…

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Cross Platform Messaging Client Line Hits 300 Million Users Worldwide

November 26, 2013 0 Harshit

Messaging application Line earlier today issued a press release claiming that the service has gone past 300 million users. Now that surely is an impressive number any way you look at it. Line, along with WeChat and WhatsApp are amongst…

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Meet SteamOS: Valve’s Latest Attempt at Living Room Gaming

September 24, 2013 0 Harshit

Gaming software company Valve has just announced their latest project: an operating system based around gaming in the living room called SteamOS. The OS itself is going to be free to download for consumers as well as free to license…

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BBM for Android: First look! (Video and Screenshots)

September 22, 2013 0 Krishnan

Since there has been no official update about BBM for Android on the Google Play Store, we have managed to grab hold of the BBM APK file from the internet unofficially. Now, the impatient bunch that we are, we went…

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BBM launched for iOS in New Zealand and other countries; Android users still waiting!

September 21, 2013 0 Krishnan

People all around the world are eagerly waiting for the availability of  BBM for Android and iOS as announced by BlackBerry. It was announced that BBM for Android will be available on Google Play for free from 21st of September…

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WhatsApp Goes Free on iOS; Gets iCloud Chat History Backup

July 17, 2013 0 Rahul S

WhatsApp – the popular cross platfrom messsaging client has just announced the release of a new version of the software for iOS devices. The new update apart from adding a host of new features also marks the transition of the…

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ANS Navigator For iPhone Adds India Local Guide

July 9, 2013 0 Rahul S

If you are in India and are looking for a new navigation software for your iPhone – apart from the usual ones, you might want to check out the ANS Navigator. The App which recently added localized Indian guides has…

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This Week In Apps – 001

May 4, 2013 0 Harshit

The daily trickle of apps bogging you down? Worried you might get left behind in the lightning fast world of mobile apps? Wondering who might be so kind as to separate the wheat from the chaff for you on a…

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Facebook Home and the HTC First Officially Launched; Present Nirvana for Facebook Fans

April 5, 2013 0 Harshit

As repeatedly leaked, Facebook just launched its new launcher for Android devices, Facebook Home, accompanied by the first device to run it out of the box, the aptly named HTC First. As expected, there is a very deep integration with…

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Twitter for Android Updated with an almost but not quite Holo UI

April 4, 2013 0 Harshit

Twitter just updated its Android app to v4.0 and refined its UI to be more in line with Android’s Holo guidelines. Twitter’s old application was quite archaic, featuring menu buttons and non-swipeable tabs. This version corrects some of those flaws…

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SmartAds: An Indiegogo Project that Proposes to Give you Money for watching Ads

March 7, 2013 0 Harshit

Mobile ads are a necessary evil. All of us want to get rid of them, but also realize that app developers wouldn’t make much money without them. To make watching ads on your phone a little more tolerable, SmartAds, an…

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No Instagram For BlackBerry 10: Reports

February 22, 2013 0 Rahul S

One problem if you are a budding mobile Operating System no matter how awesome you are is the problem of getting all those popular, essential apps to the platform. This will become increasingly difficult if you plan to survive in…

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Valentines Day Special: Top 3 Android Apps for Couples

February 13, 2013 0 Riya

Valentine Day is here and I see a lot of applications for couples being launched. A few days back I saw an article on TechCrunch where a boy tries to win back ex-girlfriend on Valentine’s Day by building her an…

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Opera To Debut New Browser For iOS, Android Platfroms In February

January 19, 2013 0 Rahul S

Opera has been in the browser business for ages now. Although popular, they haven’t been able to make a huge mark when it comes to the desktop market where a relative newcomer like Google Chrome has managed to do pretty…

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Apple Launches the MacBook Pro with 13 inch Retina Display Starting Rs. 1,14,900 in India

October 24, 2012 0 Tassavur

After other lines of Apple’s notebook were renewed a few months back, it was a matter of time before the MacBook Pro received an upgrade. And upgraded it was, in style with the stunning Retina display, all fast flash storage…

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Dead Trigger Free – It is not about Android, It is the user profile!

July 24, 2012 0 Tassavur

Dead Trigger in a Facebook statement revealed that piracy on Android was unbelievably high, thus prompting them to make the game free (from earlier price of $0.99) Dead Trigger App continues to cost $0.99 on iOS. It is popular enough app with…