Tag Archives: Apps

Gmail is about to get dynamic. Alphabet’s Google on Tuesday plans to demonstrate a software programming system that would enable emails to feature continuously updating information and greater interactivity. Users could see automatically updated flight information in a booking confirmation email. They could fill out surveys without leaving a message or review close-up shots of…

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WhatsApp has reportedly started testing out its UPI-based payments feature in India. The new feature, available for select WhatsApp beta users on iOS and Android, enables users to send and receive money using the Indian government’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) standard. This feature is said to be available on WhatsApp version 2.18.21 for iOS, and…

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A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is the need of the hour if you want to hide your identity on the Internet. But in a fresh discovery, a security researcher has found that users opting Hotspot Shield, which claims to have over 500 million users worldwide, are at risk as the VPN client is disclosing their…

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With 36 million paid subscribers, Apple Music is set to overtake its rival Spotify music streaming services in the US with a growth rate of five percent a month versus Spotify’s two percent. “Apple’s streaming-music service, introduced in June 2015, has been adding subscribers in the US more rapidly than its older Swedish rival,” The Wall Street Journal reported late on…

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The last month saw several software-related announcements. Apple released the new iOS 11 and a follow-up update soon after. Google is expected to launch the new Pixel smartphones on 4 October with the new Android Oreo OS. For gaming fans, EA Sports has released the FIFA 18 and 2K Inc has come up with MyNBA…

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Most default keyboards are designed for basic typing. Some offer the option to adjust the size of keys or word predictions so you can type faster. The emojis available on them are also limited and basic. For users who are more active on social media or messenger apps, these keyboards are a bit out of…

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Increasingly, we are seeing web applications that are developed using a single page architecture, where the entire application is loaded into the browser as JavaScript and then all interactions with the server are carried out using HTTP based APIs that return JSON documents. Often, these applications will require some level of user-restricted interactions, e.g. for…

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