Twitter adding an option to ‘mute’ people
Twitter is introducing a way to silence noisy people you follow but aren’t quite ready to unfollow.The option, called “mute,” lets you hide the tweets and activity of selected accounts from your timeline. Muting someone won’t, however, stop the person from being able to interact with your tweets — be it favoriting, replying or retweeting. The fact that they are doing so just won’t show up in your timeline.To mute someone, click on the “more” link on individual tweets, then click “mute @username.” Muting can also be done from someone’s profile page by tapping the gear icon and selecting “mute @username.”This can be a convenient way to temporarily muffle people who, for example, are live tweeting an event or opining on a topic that you don’t much care about. Muting…
Our own payment gateway ‘RuPay’ is launched
India launched its own payment gateway 'RuPay', It`s equivalent of Visa and Mastercard, which will work on ATMs and merchant outlets and help in reducing cash transactions. President Pranab Mukherjee unveiled the indigenous card at a function in Rashtrapati Bhavan. Dedicating it to the nation, Mukherjee said India is one of the few countries in the world to have its own card payment gateway. RuPay, a new card payment scheme launched by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), has been conceived to fulfill RBI’s vision to offer a domestic, open-loop, multilateral system which will allow all Indian banks and financial institutions in India to participate in electronic payments. “RuPay”, the word itself has a sense of nationality in it. “RuPay” is the coinage of two terms Rupee and Payment.…
Microsoft Internet Explorer fix
Microsoft has said users of its Windows XP operating system will also get the security update it has issued to fix a flaw in the Internet Explorer browser. It issued the update on Thursday to fix a bug that let hackers gain access and user rights to computers. Microsoft ended support for Windows XP earlier this month, ceasing to issue bug fixes or security updates for it. But the firm said it decided to make an exception as the flaw was discovered just days after the support ended. Even though Windows XP is no longer supported by Microsoft and is past the time we normally provide security updates, we've decided to provide an update for all versions of Windows XP, Adrienne Hall, general manager of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft, said…
Snapchat Introduces Two New Features
The past few years have been a roller coaster for Snapchat, the ephemeral photo-messaging service. Since it started in 2011, the company has made headlines for turning down billions from potential buyers and luring heavyweight talent from Facebook, Google, and Amazon, facing criticism over gaping security vulnerabilities, and finding itself in a legal battle over ownership of the company’s original concept.And now the founders are hoping to transform the company’s product into something more sleek and sophisticated, a primary hub for mobile messaging. On Thursday, Snapchat began introducing a new version of its application and its features via — what else? — a Snapchat message the company sent to its users.“The goal has always been to move beyond messaging,” Evan Spiegel, one of the company’s founders, said in an interview in New York on Tuesday. “We’re trying…
Facebook Ads will show on third-party mobile Apps
Facebook is to start serving ads to third-party mobile apps via a new advertising network.It announced the move at the start of its F8 developers conference, which is being held in San Francisco.The decision to launch the Audience Network has the potential to disrupt the ad sector thanks to the depth of knowledge the firm has about its users.But one company watcher said the social network would need to be wary of privacy concerns."Facebook will have to make sure from the outset that it sets some stringent guidelines as to exactly the type of data that it shares with advertisers," Lara O'Reilly, senior reporter at MarketingWeek magazine, told the BBC.Facebook suggested it would deliver better click-through rates than its rivals because it had a better chance of delivering "relevant and…
Nokia CEO “Rajeev Suri”
APART from having taken over at the helm of two iconic bluechip tech firms, both of which are now past their prime, newly-named Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri and Microsoft chief Satya Nadella have more in common — both were just a year apart at the Manipal Institute of Technology near Mangalore in Karnataka.Both Suri and Nadella taught by the same faculty and both were students of electronics and communications — Nadella graduated in 1988 while Suri was in the 1989 batch.Suri, 46, will start in his new role on May 1, Nokia said on Tuesday. Having been picked as the head of its networks division to spearhead the company’s future and revive growth after selling its mobile phone business to Microsoft Corp., 149-year-old Nokia is intensifying its focus on wireless-network equipment…
“Heartbleed” bug uncovering cyber-criminals
The Heartbleed bug has turned cyber criminals from attackers into victims as researchers use it to grab material from chatrooms where they trade data. Discovered in early April, Heartbleed lets attackers steal data from computers using vulnerable versions of some widely used security programs. Now it has given anti-malware researchers access to forums that would otherwise be very hard to penetrate. The news comes as others warn that the bug will be a threat for many years. French anti-malware researcher Steven K told the BBC: "The potential of this vulnerability affecting black-hat services (where hackers use their skills for criminal ends) is just enormous." Heartbleed had put many such forums in a "critical" position, he said, leaving them vulnerable to attack using tools that exploit the bug. Source: BBcNews