Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday assured the central paramilitary personnel that he will personally check every month that any complaint registered by them on an app launched by his ministry is speedily addressed. The minister was speaking as he joined the jawans of the the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), posted in the inhospitable terrain...
May 21, 2017Social networking giant Facebook and Noida-based start-up accelerator TLabs have partnered to strengthen the mobile start-up ecosystem in India. As part of this partnership, the two companies will co-host multiple events for solving start-ups' issues around user experience, analytics, app installs and monetisation. "Partnering with TLabs is a progressive decision towards creating an empowered start-up...
March 14, 2017Scientists have developed a new app that can allow railway passengers to measure ride comfort using their smartphones, and record vibration data from a running train to detect track faults and indicate which sections are in need of maintenance. Information collected by the app would give railway companies instant feedback from passengers about bumps, bangs...
February 13, 2017A new mobile application (App) for ensuring safety, particularly of women, was launched in Chandigarh on the eve of National Girl Child Day on January 24 even as the Tricity (Chandigarh, Mohali, and Panchkula) have recently witnessed a spate of rapes. The developers of the App Kahan Ho Aap (Where are you?) claim that it is...
January 23, 2017A new mobile application for ensuring safety, particularly of women, was launched in Chandigarh on the eve of National Girl Child Day on January 24 even as the Tricity (Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula) have witnessed a spate of rapes in the last one month. The developers of the application ‘Kahan Ho Aap’ claim that it is the...
January 23, 2017A new mobile application for ensuring safety, particularly of women, was launched in Chandigarh on the eve of National Girl Child Day on January 24 even as the Tricity (Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula) have witnessed a spate of rapes in the last one month. The developers of the application ‘Kahan Ho Aap’ claim that it is the...
January 23, 2017As Snapchat sets for an initial public offering (IPO) that may value the messaging platform at as much as $25 billion, the photo and video sharing app is set to roll out major changes in its app, media reports said. According to a report in Tech Crunch on Friday, Snapchat just made it easier to...
January 13, 2017Twitter will update the existing short-form video hosting app Vine to a pared-down Vine Camera despite the service being shut down. “In January, we are transitioning the Vine app to a pared-down Vine Camera. With this camera app you will still be able to make six-second looping videos, and either post them directly to Twitter...
December 19, 2016A new artificial intelligence (AI) toolkit ‘iCOP’ has been designed to identify child sexual abuse content online that can lead police to catch the abusers, researchers report. According to the study published in the journal Digital Investigation, the ‘iCOP’ toolkit automatically identifies new or previously unknown child sexual abuse media using AI. “With iCOP, we...
December 4, 2016