NEW DELHI — Telecom operator Bharti Airtel on Wednesday said it has surpassed 1 million customers on 5G network within 30 days of its commercial launch even while the network is being built. Earlier, Airtel had announced phase wise roll-out of its 5G services in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Siliguri, Nagpur and Varanasi. The […]
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All 5G phones except iPhone to work on Airtel network from mid-Nov: CEO
NEW DELHI — All 5G enabled smartphones, except Apple’s iPhones, will start supporting Airtel 5G services by the middle of this month, a senior Bharti Airtel official said. During the company’s earnings call, Bharti Airtel Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Gopal Vittal said Apple will release the software update in the first week of […]
Twitter will charge $8 per month for blue tick, announces Elon Musk
SAN FRANCISCO — New Twitter head Elon Musk said Tuesday the site will charge a monthly fee of $8 to users who want a coveted blue tick by their name in a plan he says will solve the site’s bot and troll problems while creating a new revenue stream for the company. The announcement comes […]
Twitter bans over 54K accounts in India for promoting sexual content, terror
NEW DELHI — Twitter banned 52,141 accounts in India for promoting child sexual exploitation, non-consensual nudity and allied content between August 26 and September 25. The micro-blogging platform, now owned by Elon Musk, also took down 1,982 accounts for promoting terrorism on its platform in the country. Twitter, in its monthly report in compliance with […]
Twitter to have its own content moderation council: Elon Musk
NEW DELHI — Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Saturday that Twitter will have its own content moderation council to make important moderation decisions on the platform. The new Twitter owner said that no major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes. “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with […]
Musk is now Twitter boss, fires Indian-origin CEO Agrawal, other top execs
SAN FRANCISCO — Tesla CEO Elon Musk has finally taken over as Twitter boss and his first job was to reportedly fire Indian-origin CEO Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, the company’s policy chief Vijaya Gadde and others. According to a CNBC report citing sources on Friday, Agrawal and Segal have left the company’s […]
WhatsApp resumes after over an hour of disruption
NEW DELHI — Popular messaging app WhatsApp faced a global outage from the UK to India, with users being not able to send and receive text and video messages for more than an hour. The services were restored for some users after the unexplained disruption that last over an hour. The resumption of service was […]
WhatsApp faces global outage, including India
NEW DELHI — Meta-owned WhatsApp is currently facing a global outage, including in India, as multiple users reported that they cannot access the messaging service or get a single tick even for delivered messages. According to Down Detector, over 85 per cent of people reported problems while messaging, 11 per cent while using the app, […]
Meta partners with ICC for T20 World Cup highlights on Reels
NEW DELHI — Tech giant Meta on Friday announced that it has partnered with the International Cricket Council (ICC) to show users the best moments from the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup being held in Australia on Reels. The company said that fans will be able to access match highlights and in-play clips as well […]
Instagram brings new age verification test to Indian users
NEW DELHI — Meta-owned Instagram has brought its new test for users to verify their age via an original ID or video selfie to India, amid growing worries that kids are using fake dates of birth to create profiles on social media platforms. If someone attempts to edit their date of birth on Instagram from […]