Chinese electronics and software company Xiaomi revealed the launch of internet services, Mi Music and Mi Video in India on 3rd May 2018. Xiaomi has also tied up with Hungama for Mi Music. The partnership will result in more than 10 million tracks to users for free. The app has support for 13 Indian languages, including Bengali and Hindi.
Indian state-owned telecommunications company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has just announced two new tariff plans. This can be seen as a move to give tough competition to companies like Jio and Airtel. The new BSNL tariff plans are priced at Rs. 319 and Rs. 99 respectively.
Social networking platform Facebook will soon be setting us up for dates. The California-based company announced at its annual F8 developer conference on 1st May 2018 that it will be adding a dating feature to its app. Facebook dating feature hasn’t come as a surprise to us, as the company seems to be expanding every day, and with the introduction of dating apps everywhere, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg seems to be placing his bet in a not so new territory.
Post Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica incident, reports regarding a Twitter data leak have surfaced everywhere and has been confirmed to be true. The microblogging platform sold data access to Global Science Research (GSR), owned by Aleksandr Kogan. Kogan was the Cambridge University academic who created a personality quiz on social networking site Facebook. He used to it gain access to information later used by Cambridge Analytica. Information regarding millions of Facebook users was obtained. The information was provided to a political consulting firm, SCL Group. It was provided without any consent from users.
Facebook has been facing a lot of complaints and issues regarding its data privacy rules. The new data privacy rules coming into force next month has led to Facebook-owned messaging platform WhatsApp raising minimum age requirement from 13 years to 16 years in Europe.
On 24th April 2018, Swedish company Spotify revealed that there will be a major expansion. Spotify will offer free service on a wider scale. The company has taken this move to boost its ambition to make music streaming even bigger across the world.
For regular Google Chrome users, the most common source of irritation and frustration is when a video suddenly pops up and auto-plays. We have all been in that immensely irritating situation when we reach the mute option is a jiffy. We know its irritating, and now finally Google has fixed the issue. The tech giant has released Chrome 66 – a new update– which now mutes the auto-playing videos by default.
