Zoom, an American-based communications company, which was founded in 2011 with the video calls software launched in 2013, has seen its use skyrocket for the last few months due to the lockdown actions taken by...
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Huawei, Xiaomi, and BBK are preparing a Google Play Store Rival
by Francis
Chinese popular phone manufacturers Huawei, Xiaomi, and BBK Electronics’ Vivo and Oppo are preparing a unity that would threaten the supremacy of the Google Play Store on Android. The Global Developer Service Alliance (GDSA) would...
WhatsApp Faces Major Competition in Africa as MTN Releases New Instant Messaging App ‘Ayoba’ with Instagram-like Features
by Francis
Telecommunications group MTN has taken its phone company services to the next level in Africa with the release of an instant electronic messaging mobile application known as ‘Ayoba’. The main function of Ayoba is to...
825 Active Devices now use Windows 10: It’s implications for programmers
by Francis
When Windows announced in November 2017, that their Windows 10 operating system had been downloaded on to 600 million active devices it was quite a big deal. It showed an additional 100 million in less...
Google pulls Huawei’s Android license, forcing it to use the Open Source Version
by Francis
Following the U.S.A. quelling on Chinese technology firms, Google has discontinued Huawei’s android license, dealing a large blow to the enclosed phone manufacturer. A Google spokesperson said that “Google Play and it’s security protections Protect...
A real Linux kernel will be added as part of windows subsystem for Linux (WSL) in the forthcoming version of Windows 10. The time the news of bash on windows was shared by Microsoft and...
Google Adds New Option to ‘Auto-Delete’ Your Location History and Activity Data
by Francis
Google is providing you with additional management over however long you would like the technology company to retain your location history and internet activity information. Google has introduced a replacement, an easier, privacy-focused auto-delete feature...
Metadata: the story behind the data that you need to know
by ROTechnica
Metadata can be simply best described as data that that describes and provides information about other data. Meta meanwhile is a prefix that in most information technology usages and case studies means “an underlying definition or description.”...
WhatsApp adds support for Face ID/Touch ID Biometric lock on iOS
by Francis
WhatsApp has rolled out a new Face ID authentication option for iPhones that support the feature, in the latest update to the Messaging Platform (via WABetaInfo). The Facebook-owned Application has been testing the feature for iPhone...
Facebook has released a feature that allows you to delete messages from a conversation when you have sent them, as antecedently noticed in leaks. Therefore, just in case you send the incorrect message to a wrong person or create an obvious literal error, you will be ready to take away it in messenger currently. It works after you click on the...