Microsoft’s Office 365 service has represented great value for Office users for several years. However, in March 2020, the company announced some changes to the service, including a new name. As of April 21, 2020, Office 365 will be known as Microsoft 365. Let’s take a look at what Microsoft 365 offers, including new tools
A hacker has compromised the credentials of nearly 2.3 crore users of online children’s game Webkinz World, according to a report. The game was launched back in April 2005 and was once popular amongst kids, thanks to its gameplay that revolves around stuffed animals. The anonymous hacker has said to have posted the database of
Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger have gotten together again, this time to fight the spread of coronavirus pandemic in the United States. They have launched a website to show live data on the rate of spread of COVID-19 from one person to another. Their website RT.live uses data from The COVID Tracking Project,
Zoom gained a huge traction in a short span of time as several people are working from home due to the coronavirus outbreak. The video conference app pulled in more than 200 million daily active users last month — significantly up from a maximum of 10 million users previously. However, despite its skyrocketing growth, Zoom
At a time like this when half the world is under a lockdown due to a pandemic, launching any new product, especially tech, can be very challenging. While many companies are postponing launches and events, a few such as OnePlus and Apple seem to be chugging along just fine. Apple recently announced the iPhone SE
Motorola is reportedly working on a new series of smartphones that are expected to come out by the end of the second quarter of 2020. The development was previously highlighted by a known tipster who claimed that the new phones will be called Motorola One Fusion and One Fusion+. Now, another report has backed the
A series of tweets from an anonymous Twitter account has allegedly leaked details about future products that are still being worked on by Apple, including claims of an ARM-based 12-inch MacBook and an Apple game controller. The recent collection of Twitter-based rumors and leaks surrounding Apple’s products that were found to be highly accurate
Facebook is all set to launch a new app called Facebook Gaming today, which as the name suggests, will be about grabbing a piece of the booming gaming industry pie. The app, as per a report, will primarily cater to watching live streams or starting one, a field that is dominated by Twitch and also
With plunging occupancy rates due to COVID-19 lockdown, hotel chain and room aggregator Oyo said on Monday it is taking a series of measures to support asset owners in different regions of the country. A total of Rs. 24 crore discounts have been offered to over 3,000 Oyo partners to lessening the burden of payments
Alphabet’s Google said on Friday it will waive for the next five months the small fee it charges news publishers to decide which ads to show on their online properties. News publishers, especially the print media, have struggled as many advertisers pulled their marketing budgets to rein in costs because of economic uncertainty related to
Falsehood spreads so quickly through social media and the internet at large that avoiding it can seem impossible. How can you distinguish truth from fiction? Let’s look at how to avoid fake news, as well as how you can avoid spreading fake news yourself. With some critical thinking and resources, you can help keep this
As is typical of a new product launch, on early Friday morning, Apple took its online storefront down in preparation of what is expected to be an onslaught of preorders for the new 2020 iPhone SE. Apple’s second-generation iPhone SE packs modern internals into an iPhone 8 chassis. Like during the iPhone 11 and
Mobile phones, televisions, refrigerators, laptops, and stationary items will be allowed to be sold through e-commerce platforms like Amazon, Flipkart, and Snapdeal from April 20 during the lockdown, officials said on Thursday. The clarification from a senior home ministry official came a day after Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla issued revised guidelines for the extended
A virtual concert packed with A-listers — from The Rolling Stones to Taylor Swift to Billie Eilish — entertained fans around the world with a show celebrating health workers, as billions shelter at home due to coronavirus. Lizzo, Jennifer Lopez, Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney and LL Cool J also joined in the Lady Gaga-curated online
Phishing operations target Apple customers, an Apple Watch found in a stolen car, and other news from the Apple crime blotter. The Lincoln Road Apple Store in Miami Beach The latest in an occasional AppleInsider feature, looking at the world of Apple-related crime: No Apple Store break-ins reported during first month of closures With
The government on Sunday prohibited the sale of non-essential items through e-commerce platforms during the ongoing lockdown, four days after allowing such companies to sell mobile phones, televisions, laptops, refrigerators, and ready-made garments. Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla issued an order excluding the non-essential items from sale by the e-commerce companies from the consolidated revised
WhatsApp is working on the ability to allow more users to participate in a group call. The current limit is set at four participants but WhatsApp’s latest Android beta suggests that the limit may be increased in the future. As people all over the world practice social distancing to stop the spread of coronavirus, apps
Apps to help contain the spread of the novel coronavirus should not collect user location data, the European Commission said on Thursday, as Apple and Google weighed whether to work with virus apps that use location tracking. The EU executive’s recommendation came as part of a unified European approach for using technology to combat COVID-19
OnePlus 8 Pro price in India has been revealed, alongside the prices for the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus Bullets Wireless Z headphones. The prices are much lower than the prices of the smartphones and headphones in the US. What’s also worth noting is that the company has launched a brand new variant of the OnePlus
One of the best tools we have to slow the spread of the coronavirus is, as you have no doubt heard by now, contact tracing. But what exactly is contact tracing, who does it and how, and do you need to worry about it? In short, contact tracing helps prevent the spread of a virus
Making the chief operating officer (COO) of firms such as Amazon and Flipkart responsible for strict implementation of social distancing and sanitisation norms and staff compulsorily downloading the Aarogya Setu app are among the measures proposed in the draft Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for e-commerce operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the government allowing e-commerce
An updated 4.7-inch iPhone SE, Apple and Google team up to develop contact tracing technology to reduce the spread of COVID-19, and our hosts go in-depth on more of their favorite Mac utilities. Apple’s 2020 iPhone SE, contact tracing, and more Mac utilities Starting at just $399, Apple has released its anticipated successor to
Forget the calendar invite. Just jump into a conversation. That’s the idea powering a fresh batch of social startups poised to take advantage of our cleared schedules amidst quarantine. But they could also change the way we work and socialize long after COVID-19 by bringing the free-flowing, ad-hoc communication of parties and open office plans
Netflix has increased the amount of money in its coronavirus emergency relief fund by $50 million, bringing the total for displaced production workers to $150 million, a company spokeswoman said on Friday. Film and TV production has been shut down around the world as people shelter at home to help slow the spread of the
Facebook has promised to do more to stop the spread of misinformation about COVID-19 WhatsApp Limits Forwarding to Fight Misinformation WhatsApp has introduced new limits on message forwarding in an attempt to stop the spread of misinformation about COVID-19. Read More . Because, despite its previous efforts, people are still sharing absolute nonsense about the
HP has expanded its portfolio and launched the HP ZBook Studio and HP ZBook Create laptops. It has also refreshed its HP Envy 15 and HP Envy 13 laptops with new processors and GPU options. HP ZBook Create and HP ZBook Studio come with Nvidia GeForce and Quadro GPUs up to RTX options, and offers
The American Civil Liberties Union has raised concerns over the Bluetooth-based contact tracing tool that Apple and Google are collaborating on, citing that the move could invade user’s privacy—if it even works at all. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), has released a statement on the joint COVID-19 contact-tracing collaboration between Apple and Google.
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads in 2019 and $120 billion in consumer spending in 2019, according to App Annie’s “State
Airtel and Vodafone Idea have extended low income subscribers’ prepaid pack validity to May 3. This is due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis that has resulted in the entire nation practising social distancing. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), on the other hand, has extended validity for its subscribers till May 5. The telecom operators have
Twitter will not be able to reveal surveillance requests it received from the US government after a federal judge accepted government arguments that this was likely to harm national security after a near six-year long legal battle. The social media company had sued the US Department of Justice in 2014 to be allowed to reveal, as part