EXCLUSIVE: Users ditching WhatsApp shows Indians care about privacy, says Signal s Brian Acton
In an exclusive interview with India Today Tech, Signal s Brian Acton talks about platform s rise in the last few days, Indian users reaction to WhatsApp s updated policy and plans for future.
Manas Tiwari | January 18, 2021 | Updated 18:46 IST
Acton said that it is great to see Indian users taking such a strong stand in favor of data privacy.
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Signal to come up with India-specific features.
Signal to focus on becoming self-sustaining.
Data privacy is of the utmost importance to users and this is why more of them will be switching to Signal from WhatsApp, believes Brian Acton, Executive Chairman of Signal Foundation. The platform has seen a massive surge in number of users over the past couple of weeks with WhatsApp another platform co-founded by Acton announced its updated policy. In an exclusive interview with India Today Tech, Acton said that it is great to see Indian
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Realme CEO Madhav Sheth EXCLUSIVE: We aim to acquire 15mn AIoT users, open around 500 smart stores in 2021
In an exclusive interview with India Today Tech,Madhav Sheth - Vice President, realme and Chief Executive Officer, realme India & Europe, talks about company s plans for 2021.
Manas Tiwari | December 23, 2020 | Updated 17:56 IST
The Chinese tech maker aims to launch over 100 AIoT products in India in 2021 and acquire 15 million users.
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Realme to open 300 to 500 smart stores in India.
Realme hopes to acquire 15 million AIoT users.
Realme has emerged as one of the market disruptors in the smartphone category and now aims to continue its good run in India by expanding the AIoT portfolio over the next 12 months. The Chinese tech maker aims to launch over 100 AIoT products in India in 2021 and acquire 15 million users, Madhav Sheth - Vice President, realme and Chief Executive Officer, realme India & Europe told India Today Tech, in an exclusive interview.
Man denies to marry unless he gets Mi 10T Pro, Xiaomi offers him for free News Published: December 22, 2020 5:48 PM IST
Imagine someone is getting married and suddenly he is not ready for the wedding because he wants something so bad that he can compromise on his big day for it. That’s exactly what happened with a Mi Fan who goes by the name Kamal Ahamad. He took to Twitter a few days ago posted that he would get married only if he gets the Mi 10T Pro. Also Read - MIUI 12 update based on Android 11 coming to these Xiaomi, Redmi, Poco phones: Check the list
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Man tweets he won t marry unless he has Mi 10T Pro, Xiaomi gives him one for free
Xiaomi just made sure this man gets married soon. Here s how.
Sushant Talwar | December 21, 2020 | Updated 20:08 IST
Mi fans promises to not get married until he gets the Mi 10T Pro.
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Xiaomi has given away a free Mi10T Pro to a Mi fan.
The fan had pledged not to marry until he got his hands on the Mi 10T Pro.
Xiaomi s Manu Kumar Jain also responded to his tweet.
How many times have you had nosy relatives quiz you, Beta, shaadi kab kar rahe ho? Don t answer that. Also, we re guessing you ve run out of appropriate (read: polite) responses to get out of that situation. Well, now you can take a cue from this Mi fan, who basically crossed his heart and pledged that he will not get married until he lays his hands on the Mi 10T Pro. And guess what, the company gave him one.
Google has said that the services were disrupted because of storage quota issue.
After 45 minutes, all Google services came back online.
Google suffered a global outage on Monday evening, causing inconvenience to people who use services such as Gmail, YouTube, Drive among others. The sudden disruption baffled most people, including Google that took some time to figure out what went wrong with its several services. Finally, Google has an answer. Google says the outage was caused by an internal storage quota issue , which is not as simple as it sounds.
In a statement, a Google spokesperson told India Today Tech that its services experience what is an authentication system outage for about 45 minutes due to the said internal storage quota issue. To simplify this, the Google spokesperson explained, the internal tools that the company uses to allocate sufficient storage to each service that handles authentication did not work as expected. After the storage limit was exhausted, the s