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Lovely! WhatsApp message to wrong number got this man hitched

London: Love is beautiful… Perhaps a little more so when someone finds it without putting much of an effort. But can it blossom even from an innocent WhatsApp message sent to a wrong number? Michael Evangelou from Colliers Wood in south London would say ‘yes’. Evangelou, 44, sent a message, which read “Girls Trip”, to […]

  • Wednesday, 07 July 2021
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WhatsApp not to share British users' data with Facebook

London: WhatsApp has signed a public commitment with Britain’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) not to share users’ personal data with Facebook until data protection concerns are addressed. Facebook-owned WhatsApp signed an “undertaking” wherein they have given a public commitment not to share personal data with Facebook until they can do so in compliance with the upcoming […]

  • Wednesday, 07 July 2021
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CBI busts Whatsapp-based global child porn racket

New Delhi: The CBI on Thursday registered a case and booked five persons on charges of uploading and circulating child pornography through a Whatsapp group that had 119 members from both India and abroad. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) busted the racket involved in what they called a “global crime” on the basis of […]

  • Wednesday, 07 July 2021
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WhatsApp testing 'demote' feature for group admins

San Francisco: WhatsApp is reportedly testing a new button in group chats that will allow one administrator to “demote” other administrators, without first deleting them from the group and then adding again as normal participants. Right now, when an administrator wants to remove a fellow administrator from the post, it is required to first directly […]

  • Wednesday, 07 July 2021
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WhatsApp stops working on these smartphones

San Francisco: Facebook-owned mobile messaging app WhatsApp has stopped working on smartphones that support ‘BlackBerry OS’, ‘BlackBerry 10’, ‘Windows Phone 8.0’ and older platforms in the New Year. “These platforms don’t offer the kind of capabilities we need to expand our app’s features in the future,” a spokesperson wrote in a support note on the company’s […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
WhatsApp crashed, restored as India welcomed 2018

London: Users in India and other parts of the world went into a frenzy after WhatsApp went down puncturing their plans to wish their friends a “prosperous 2018” at the stroke of midnight. It was restored in two hours. At midnight, a large spike was seen in the number of reports that the messaging service […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
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WhatsApp to stop working on Blackberry 10 OS from Dec 31

San Francisco: Facebook-owned mobile messaging app WhatsApp will stop working on a number of platforms from December 31, the company has confirmed. The messaging app will drop support for ‘BlackBerry OS’, ‘BlackBerry 10’, ‘Windows Phone 8.0’ and older platforms, from December 31, 2017, according to an express.co.uk report published on Monday. “We will no longer […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
WhatsApp brings new features for group admin

San Francisco: Facebook-owned WhatsApp is likely to give group administrators more powers where they will be able to restrict all other members from sending text messages, photographs, videos, GIFs, documents or voice messages in case the admin thinks so. According to WABetaInfo, a fan site that tests new WhatsApp features early, the popular mobile messaging […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
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WhatsApp goes down leaving users in a tizzy

New Delhi: WhatsApp users across the world, including in India, today experienced problems sending messages or unable to log into the mobile app. According to an Independent website DownDetector, 60 per cent of customers were having issues connected to Facebook-owned WhatsApp. “A further 25 per cent report issues receiving messages and 14 per cent are struggling […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
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WhatsApp fake version found on Google Play Store

London: A fake and possibly malicious version of WhatsApp has been found lurking on the Google Play Store as “Update WhatsApp Messenger” with developer name as ‘WhatsApp Inc*’. The app has been downloaded up to 5,000 times on the Play Store. There is another version under the same name which has a million downloads. The original […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
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WhatsApp's 'Delete for Everyone' feature rolled out

San Francisco: WhatsApp has launched its most awaited feature ‘Delete for Everyone’ that allows its users to withdraw their messages in case they sent a message to a wrong person or message in a group. You can only delete messages for everyone for up to seven minutes after sending. “Once seven minutes have passed, there […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
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WhatsApp provides group voice calls in latest update

San Francisco: WhatsApp has provided group voice calls facility in its latest beta version of Android. “The 2.17.70 iOS update has very hidden references to group calls! Before it was an internal news, now it’s all confirmed,” WaBetaInfo, a popular website that tests new WhatsApp features early, tweeted on Sunday. “There are a lot of […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
WhatsApp empowers women, kids with 'Live Location' feature

San Francisco: In a move that will help women and kids connect with their families and friends as they travel, Facebook-owned WhatsApp has introduced ‘Live Location’ feature. The feature that allows people to share location in real-time with family or friends. The end-to-end encrypted feature lets people control who they share with and for how […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
WhatsApp for Android beta version brings major updates

San Francisco: The newest Beta version of WhatsApp for Android has several updates, including a smaller app size and a feature that would notify the contacts when you change your number, a media report said. According to technology website Teknepolis, the latest package 2.17.375 takes up less space when downloading and installing. The decrease — […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
WhatsApp flaw lets hackers know when you fall asleep

San Francisco: Your Whatsapp online status can help hackers figure out who you are talking to and when you go to sleep owing to a flaw in the micro-blogging platform, a software engineer has claimed. After discovering the flaw in WhatsApp, Rob Heaton — who has made similar security-related findings in the past — exploited the […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
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