by Hansraj Agrawal | Sep 15, 2022 | Technology
Samsung is set to announce massive price cuts on some of its premium Galaxy series smartphones during the upcoming festive season sales.
Galaxy S21 FE 5G and Galaxy S20 FE 5G will get biggest price cuts, sources told IANS.
Galaxy S21 FE 5G (Rs 49,999) will be available on Flipkart between Rs 32,000-Rs 35,000.
Galaxy S20 FE 5G (Rs 40,000) will retail on Amazon at its best-ever price between Rs 27,000-Rs 30,000, the sources added.
Samsung India will also unveil other deals during the Great India Festival on Amazon and Big Billion Days on Flipkart, set to start next week.
The company will announce festive offers on Galaxy S22+ and S22, Galaxy Z Fold3 and Flip3 as well as its entire range of Galaxy M and F series of smartphones.
Galaxy S21 FE 5G comes with triple camera, 6.4-inch FHD+ Dynamic AMOLED display, 120Hz refresh rate and a powerful processor.
Galaxy S20 FE 5G, with Snapdragon 865, comes with flagship features like 120Hz refresh rate, 30x space zoom and a 4500mAh battery with wireless charging.
Samsung received a record one lakh pre-booking orders for its newly-launched Galaxy Z Flip4 and Galaxy Z Fold4 foldable smartphones in India till September 1.
Samsung led the broader smartphone market with 22 per cent value market share in the first six months of the year.
–IANS
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by Hansraj Agrawal | Sep 15, 2022 | Technology
Tech giant Microsoft has created a sample app for teams that allow people to sign documents during remote meetings.
According to Windows Central, the application lets users add a document to a meeting for attendees to sign, such as a purchase agreement, invoice, or NDA.
The sample app was made by Teams Ecosystem Engineering as a proof of concept aimed at independent software vendors (ISVs) or other customers implementing it.
The entire project is available and documented on GitHub, which should help organisations that would like to use it within meetings, the report said.
The app allows users to add a document to a meeting to be reviewed or signed by attendees. It supports Teams single-sign-on (SSO) for authentication.
The report mentioned that it also supports sharing content during a meeting stage, adaptive cards, and the Teams people picker.
Microsoft noted that the app could be adapted to work with other scenarios that require signing off, such as reviewing and approving code or working together on a document.
The sample app is currently available for desktop clients of Teams. Mobile and web support is on the way, though Microsoft did not specify when in its Tech Community post announcing the feature, the report said.
Currently, the app only works with users from the same organisation or tenant. Guest and anonymous user support are also on the way, it added.
–IANS
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by Hansraj Agrawal | Sep 15, 2022 | Technology
The US Senate Homeland Security Committee grilled executives from Meta, TikTok, YouTube and Twitter over privacy and moderation failures on their respective platforms in recent years, saying that they “keep avoiding sharing really very important information with us”.
TikTok COO Vanessa Pappas, Twitter General Manager of Consumer and Revenue, Jay Sullivan, Meta Chief Product Officer Chris Cox and YouTube Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan testified before the panel late on Wednesday.
“I’ll be honest, I’m frustrated that all of you (who) have a prominent seat at the table when these business decisions are made were not more prepared to speak to specifics about your product development process, even when you are specifically asked if you would bring specific numbers to us today,” lamented committee Chair Senator Gary Peters.
TikTok COO Pappas testified for the first time before lawmakers.
According to TechCrunch, the hearing explored the platforms’ impact on national security and also grilled them on domestic extremism and misinformation to Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) and China.
Senator Alex Padilla questioned Meta’s Cox about the safety efforts outside of the English language.
“In your testimony you state that you have over 40,000 people working on trust and safety issues. How many of those people focus on non English language content and how many of them focus on non US users?” Padilla asked.
Cox didn’t provide an answer.
Twitter’s Sullivan also declined to specifically deny accusations that the company “willfully misrepresented” information given to the US FTC. Twitter is engaged in a little legal battle with Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
“I can tell you, Twitter disputes the allegations,” Sullivan said.
TikTok also refused to agree that the company sends user data to China, including ByteDance employees.
Senator Josh Hawley also asked Pappas about the company’s ties with the Chinese government.
–IANS
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by Hansraj Agrawal | Sep 15, 2022 | Technology
With an aim to make it more user-friendly, Google has reportedly introduced a new feature that will show reviews on the Play Store based on the type of device a person is using.
The update, promised to occur in “early 2022” in August 2021, now has arrived as Google prepares to introduce its own tablet and wearable, reports The Verge.
In the reviews section of the Play Store, there is now a notice to let you know that ratings are “verified,a and that you are being shown feedback from people using the same type of device as you, the report said.
This feature is becoming increasingly important as Android apps spread to even more form factors; someone using Google’s upcoming Pixel Tablet will experience an app very differently than someone running it on a Chromebook.
“Early next year we will further update ratings to reflect the device type users are browsing Play on, whether it’s: tablets and foldables, Chrome OS, Wear, or Auto,” the company had said in a blogpost last year.
“This will give users a better impression of the experience that they can expect for the device they’re using,” it added.
The tech giant had mentioned that ratings help people decide which apps to download and they are taken into consideration for featuring and placement on Play Store.
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by Hansraj Agrawal | Sep 15, 2022 | Technology
Instagram on Thursday rolled out supervision tools in India to help parents be more involved in their teenage children’s experience on the image-sharing platform.
Instagram launched Parental Supervision Controls and Family Centre, where parents and guardians can access resources about social media, in the US in March this year.
Meta, the company that owns Instagram and Facebook, said it is working with experts, parents, guardians and young people in India to understand needs. “The safety of our community is of paramount importance to us at Meta. Our intention is to strike the right balance for young people’s desire for some autonomy when using Instagram, but also allows for supervision in a way that supports conversations between parents and young people when it is helpful,” said Natasha Jog, head, public policy, Instagram, Facebook India (Meta).
The supervision tools allow parents and guardians to manage the time their young people spend on Instagram, view accounts followed, and the accounts that follow them. The tools will notify parents and guardians when their young people report someone.
Meta will work with Kidsstoppress.com, a discovery platform for Indian parents. “Having a safe and enriching online experience is one of the top concerns parents continually have. We’re glad Instagram is rolling out these supervision tools in India, and we’re looking forward to partnering with them, so the parenting community in India is aware and equipped with these tools, and can initiate a conversation with their teen on it,” said Mansi Zaveri, founder & CEO of Kidsstoppress.com.
On Instagram, parents and guardians can send invitations to their young people to initiate Supervision Tools. The Family Centre, which is available in English and Hindi, includes an education hub where parents and guardians can access resources from experts and review helpful articles, videos and tips on topics like how to talk to young people about social media. Parents can also watch video tutorials on how to use the new Supervision Tools to get the most out of the platform.
Meta will work with Yuvaa, a youth media and insights company, to drive awareness about these resources. “Young people today want to speak about their online experiences, but have apprehensions while doing so with their parents, because the generation gap for the Gen Zs has unfortunately become a communication gap,” said Nikhil Taneja, co-founder and CEO of Yuvaa.
The Family Centre includes resources such ‘Dealing with Exam Stress’ guide; an LGBTQ guide on being safe online; and a guide to ‘Buidling Health Digital Habits’.
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by Hansraj Agrawal | Sep 15, 2022 | Technology
Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Meta is starting to test Community Chats for Facebook Groups inside the Messenger app.
According to GSM Arena, it’s probably easiest to think of Community Chats as Meta’s own interpretation of Discord. These will be available for Facebook Groups, and users will be able to join and partake from Facebook Messenger.
To quote the horse’s mouth, “with Community Chats, people can connect with their communities in real time around the topics they care about on both Facebook and Messenger via text, audio, and video. The experience seamlessly blends Messenger and Facebook Groups”.
This gives a more immediate vibe and “admins can now start a conversation about a topic and get in-the-moment responses instead of waiting for people to comment on a post”.
The person who creates the Community Chat can organize it into categories, so group members are easily able to find what’s most interesting to them. As an admin, users can start a chat for group members around a specific topic, an event chat for an outing or a meetup, a view-only broadcast chat to announce group-wide updates, and an admin-only chat to collaborate with other admins and moderators.
Users can also make audio channels, and participants then have the option to enable video once they’re in the audio channel.
As heavily implied so far, Community Chats are only accessible to members of a group. Facebook is providing a variety of moderation tools to ensure that the experience isn’t bad, as per GSM Arena.
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