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Video conferencing platform Zoom has released an enhanced and encrypted version of the application in order to ensure protection and privacy of personal information, country's federal cyber security said on Monday, asking users to update its latest version. "The latest version 5.0 of Zoom has been released which supports AES 256-bit GCM encryption of meeting data and greater resistance to tampering," said a latest CERT-In advisory, accessed by PTI. Other security improvements include changing the minimum default password length to six characters for meetings, webinars and cloud recordings and giving the capability to admins to disable sharing on cloud recordings and setting their expiration times, said the national technology arm to combat cyber attacks and guarding of the Indian cyber space. The latest addition of security features in the platform, whose usage spiked due to the nationwide lockdown, is believed to have been carried out in view of security-related advisories issued … [Read more...] about Zoom releases updated version of app with latest encryption

From its Silicon Valley-like campus near Mumbai, Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Jio telecom carrier is emerging as a winner from changes in the way Indian consumers plug into a digital economy made more urgent by the coronavirus pandemic. For Indian shoppers who prefer to order online, it is launching a grocery ordering service with Facebook Inc's popular WhatsApp messaging. For Bollywood fans who would prefer to avoid a crowded theater, it is readying same-day-release on the Jio platform. Those plans had been in the making for months, but the pandemic has given them a shot in the arm. India's 10-week lockdown has also led to a surge in demand for data, boosting Jio's phone and broadband offerings. And, over the past six weeks, the digital business of Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd, known as Jio Platforms, raised a striking $10 billion from global investors. The investments, including $5.7 billion from Facebook and money from private equity firms Silver Lake, Vista Equity … [Read more...] about Amid pandemic, investors bet on Reliance Jio and its giant-killer playbook

Online education platform Coursera has announced that college and university students can study online and get certificates for free. Current undergraduate, graduate, or recently graduated students with a verified school email can sign up to get free access to over 3,800 courses, 150 guided projects, 400 specialisations, and 11 Professional Certificates. Students can enroll for free until July 31 without any credit card requirement. Once enrolled, they will have to complete the course by September 30, 2020. After September 30, students will continue to have free access to Guided Projects. Coursera’s Guided Project develops job-relevant skills like data analysis with Plotly and Python, app development in Android Studio with Java, and social media marketing with Canva. “With an interactive experience, students can learn a new skill in under two hours with step-by-step guidance from a subject matter expert,” said Shravan Goli, chief product officer, Coursera. When it … [Read more...] about Coursera offers free certificate courses to college students in India

A report by PhoneArena claims that setting this particular wallpaper can cause the smartphone to ‘soft-brick’, meaning it will have trouble booting up and will keep on crashing. It says that not only Samsung smartphones, but other Android handsets were also under risk of crashing. As to why this is happening, one theory says that since the image comes with a larger colour space than the everyday pictures, it causes an array out of bounds exception, thus crashing the UI when it is set as a wallpaper. As per the report, users who got their phones to boot in safe mode were able to remove the picture as their wallpaper. Otherwise, once the system starts malfunctioning, there are high chances that you may have to reset your handset, which will wipe out all the data. So, until a fix arrives, it would be better for Android users to give a wide berth to the trouble-causing wallpaper. In another tweet, IceUniverse mentioned: “Samsung has received feedback on this type of bug … [Read more...] about Wallpaper causing Android smartphones to crash: Report

Global smartphone sales has seen a decline of 20.2% in the first quarter of 2020, as per the latest report by Gartner. The report suggests that the combined effect of lockdown and economic uncertainty has led to a decline in the demand of smartphones worldwide as “consumers stopped spending on nonessential products during the first quarter.” The global smartphone market was led by Samsung, as per the report, which claims that the South Korean tech giant has a 18.5% market share at the end of the quarter. This was followed by Chinese telecom giant Huawei that captured a 14.2% market share, however, witnessed a 27.3% decline year-over-year making it the worst performing in the top five global smartphone vendors in the first quarter of 2020. “Huawei will have a challenging year. It has developed the Huawei Mobile Service (HMS) ecosystem, but with the lack of popular Google apps and Google Play store, Huawei is unlikely to attract new smartphone buyers in international … [Read more...] about Worldwide smartphone sales declined by 20%, claims Gartner