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at 9:02 pm 2

New Whatsapp Tricks 2019

1. Upload before, then add text:

Do you also want to upload the photo first and then only add text to the text? Whatsapp allows you to just add text before sending it. The text line is not only suitable for emojiis but also for text.

2. Mark messages:

Everyone knows the situation: You have agreed to go with friends, but the address of the case where you meet each other, is not written below. Good dumb, but you are not the second time Whatsapp allows you to flag some messages so that you can easily get them back.

How: On iOS, keep a message for long time or double-tap it and tap on the star icon to highlight it. To search it again, just tap the name of the chat and tap Starred Messages to see all the messages you highlighted.

Hold Android in the message for a long time, and then click on the star icon at the top of the screen. If you want to find your post with Star, tap the icon with three points in the top right corner and go to "Starred Messages". You can also view conversation references by tapping on the arrow next to the message (iOS) when you tap the message yourself (Android).

3. Call through Whatsapp:

Whatsapp is more than just a standard messenger: You can also use it to call. How: With the top or bottom of the app (depending on the iPhone or Android), click the 'Calls' tab and then click on the person you want to call. If your data signal is weak, then the quality will be affected.

4. Appointment Shortcut:

You can also schedule appointments using whatsapp. You will not forget any appointments now through a simple shortcut. How: This tip is currently only working on iPhone devices When a Whitspace mentions the date in the message, it is automatically highlighted and highlighted in blue color. Just tap it and you get an opportunity to make an event immediately on that date in your calendar. This function can also identify words as "today" and "tomorrow".

5. Whatsapp on your laptop:

Do you still use whatsapp on your phone? Through Web.whatsapp.com, you can use WhatsApp through your WhatsApp or laptop. How to: Visit web.whatsapp.com in the computer's web browser, launch the app on your phone and scan the QR code displayed via the Whatsapp web / desktop option in the settings. Bus!

6. Data Saving:

Calling via WhatsApp is very convenient, but it uses a lot of data. However, something has to be done. How: In the Data and Storage Usage (Data usage on Android) menu, you can enable a setting called "less data usage", which, as you already know, the data used when making a phone call Reduces the amount of So useful.

7. Whatsapp Groups Rank:

If there is a group chat that you use more often than other groups, then you can make sure that it is always at the top of the list. How to: In the main menu, find the group you want to lock and drag it to the right side on iOS; On Android you press it for a long time and then click the pin icon at the top. In this way, you do not have to browse through a whole series of WhatsApp groups to find just one group.

8. Use quote:

Will know from the beginning: Use quotes. Convenient functions, especially if many topics are passed in a chat. How to: Swipe only on the message you want to answer on iOS. On your Android device, click on the message that you want to use as a quote and hold it down until the text line changes color. Then click on 'Answer'. In both cases, the quoted message text is displayed in an example above the text entry box.

9. Put a note on "unread":

Do you forget to respond to your messages? By marking them as "unanswered", you actually know which messages you have left. How: In iOS you swipe one of your chats to the right (as you do it to pin them) so that a blue dot appears next to it. The next time you open the message, it disappears or you can repeat the process of undoing it. The Android user can get it by pressing a chat for a long time and then selecting "Mark as unread" in the top right menu.

10. Hide preview:

Theoretically, all messages on whatsapp are private - but not when you keep the phone on the table and a new message appears. However, there is a way to disable the preview of the message so that the message should only show that you have received a message without showing its content. How to: Go to settings, then disable "Previews" and "Preview / Preview".

11. Whatsapp for less active:

If you did not open the Whatsapp screen, you can reply to the incoming messages by dragging the toolbar down, selecting a message, and answering it. You can quickly reply to a message by swiping the notification bar, selecting the relevant message, and tapping your answer. But there is a quick way: How to: Go to Settings> Notification> Pop-up Notification and choose from four different options. You can change this setting for both personal messages and group messages. Unfortunately, this feature is not available in iOS yet.

12. Send attachment:

If you do not have time to send an email to your colleague, even if he wants to share a PDF file, then send it via WhatsApp. How to: Tap + Symbol (you will see a paper clip in Android)> Document> Select your desired cloud storage service and then the file itself.

13. Ultimate Whitspace Skills:

Time to talk about your chat skills? Display parts of your message in bold, display part of italic or stroke? there is no problem. To do this, follow these instructions:

Adventure:
Put "*" in the beginning of the word or sentence that you want to display in bold. Use the asterisks again to end the sentence.
Italic:
At the beginning of that word or phrase, place the "_" (underscore), which you want to represent. End the sentence with the same underscore.
Cancel:
Place '~' in the beginning of the word or phrase that you want to present. With the same sign (~), turn off the sentence again.

14. Delete message:

This is only annoying when you (very late) find out that the message that came to your mother for your girlfriend came to your mother. Whatsapp though is your friend and you can only delete the message. Do this within seven minutes or else it will not really work. Disadvantages: Your conversation partner sees that you've deleted a message. So think a good excuse before time. How to: Click on the message you want to delete and select the option of the delete from the popup menu. Then choose which one to remove it.

15. Use Gif:

Are you keen on boring emoji? Then use a poison to please the conversation. How to: In iOS, click the + icon and choose Photos and Video Library. Displays your movie rolls. In the lower left corner you see an option for gif files. Click on it and you can start browsing. On Android, the option is hidden in the same way and is next to the Emoji keyboard. Click on the emoji you can use to open the list of emoji, and under the yellow faces section you will see the option to switch to gif images.

16. Send a private message from a Whatsap Group:

During group chat, another participant sends a private message as soon as possible? Extremely convenient! How to: Hold a message from a conversation partner, with which you want to start a private conversation for a long time and select the "Message xfdfd" option. This will open the previous chat, or if you have not chatted privately before, load a new chat screen.

17. WhatsApp Optimized:

Give your chat some more bling-bling? Then change the background of your chat conversations. This is only what you see, your conversation partners are not paid attention. How to: Go to Settings> Chat> Chat Background on iOS and just choose what you want to show as background. In Android, click the three dots> Settings> Chat and Calls> Default Background. With this ultimate option you can also change the background for personal chat.
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at 11:16 am 0

Google Home speakers outsold Amazon’s Echo line for the first time last quarter

Over 3.1 million Google Home speakers were sold during the first quarter of 2018, beating Amazon’s 2.5 million Echo devices for first time since the two companies began competing in the smart speaker market.

It’s worth remembering Amazon has outsold Google in the smart speaker market every quarter, since at least the beginning 2017, according to Canalys. Amazon remains the overall market leader, though Google is quickly catching up.

Looking at the bigger picture of Google, Amazon, and Apple — now the big three in the smart speaker market — a total of 4.1 million speakers were sold in the US during the same time period, the most in the world. It turns out China and South Korea are second and third in the global market, with 1.8 million and 730,000 units in smart speaker sales, respectively.

This article written by: theverge.com
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at 11:12 am 0

Apple will start reporting government requests to remove apps from the App Store

Apple issued one of its bi-annual transparency reports today, and apart from the usual numbers on account take down requests, the company issued a statement saying that it’ll soon start reporting government requests to take down apps from the App Store. These requests will relate to alleged legal and / or policy provision violations, Apple says.

These numbers will tell us just how often governments are trying to block access to certain apps, and how many of those orders are actually obeyed. Google doesn’t yet report these numbers specifically for the Play Store. I’d be interested to know why the requests were filed and what apps were affected, but Apple hasn’t said if it’ll call apps out by name.

As for take down requests over the last year, governments around the world sent requests for information on 29,718 devices. Data was provided in 79 percent of cases. This number could be encouraging, actually, if you consider that Apple verified each of these requests from a legal standpoint and determined that an overwhelming majority were within law enforcement’s legal rights. Governments also requested information on 3,358 Apple accounts, and data was provided in 82 percent of cases.

This article written by: theverge.com
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at 11:09 am 0

Facebook standardizes Workplace pricing, boosts cost for larger deployments


Facebook has changed the pricing for its Workplace enterprise social network, a move that will result in price increases for some new customers.
Workplace was officially launched at the end of 2016, following a lengthy, 18-month beta trial with large enterprises such as Royal Bank of Scotland. The platform is now used by more than 30,000 organizations worldwide and has recently won over some large customers, including Walmart and Virgin Atlantic, where it is accessed by 7,000 staff.

Workplace has two payments tiers: a free Standard version (launched in April 2017), and the paid-for Premium tier, which offers additional features for larger businesses such as admin controls and third party integrations. Up to now, the Workplace Premium tier was based on a staggered pricing model, with organizations paying less for larger deployments of the software. Customers were previously charged $3 per active user for the first 1,000 active users; $2 per active user for the next 9,000 active users; and finally $1 for each additional active user.
Beginning today, Workplace Premium will charge $3 per active user regardless of the size of the deployment.

“Organizations have told us they want a straightforward pricing structure,” a Facebook spokesperson said. “We believe today's update keeps Workplace pricing fair, simple and predictable.”
While the changes will simplify the pricing structure, it means that larger deployments over 1,000 active users will cost more. As an example, a customer rolling out Workplace to 12,000 staff would have paid $23,000 under the old pricing model; the same size deployment will now cost $36,000 per month. For a company with 5,000 staffers, the cost would have totaled $11,000 per month previously and will be $15,000 a month as of now.

The changes only affect new customers: existing Workplace customers will retain pricing as per the terms of their current agreement. Non-profit organizations and staff of educational institutions will still be able to access Workplace Premium for free.
Workplace is primarily an enterprise social networking tool rather than a group chat application in the style of Slack or Microsoft’s Teams, but it is considered a competitor in the hotly-contested team collaboration software market. While it is difficult to make direct price comparisons with Slack due to the different functionality of the two tools, Workplace remains the cheaper option, despite today’s changes to its pricing structure.

Slack also operates a freemium model, with a basic version of its software offered at no cost. Its Standard tier costs $6.67 per active user per month when billed on an annual basis (month-to-month is more expensive), while Slack Plus costs $12.50 per active user per month on an annual basis.
Microsoft’s own enterprise social network platform, Yammer, and its group chat tool, Teams, are both bundled in with its Office365 subscriptions. Yammer had been available as a standalone product for $3 per user up until January 2017.

In recent months, Facebook has added new features and partnerships for  Workplace, including its Workplace Chat desktop app, which offers screen-sharing and instant group video calls. It also expanded the list of third-party integrations, adding Salesforce’s document collaboration platform, Quip, in November, making it easier to access share Quip files from within Workplace. And a partnership with cloud storage firm Box was announced October.


This story, "Facebook standardizes Workplace pricing, boosts cost for larger deployments" was originally published by Computerworld.
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at 12:30 pm 0

A Google employee who wrote a controversial memo about workplace diversity has been fired, the BBC can confirm.

The controversial memo broke the firm’s code of conduct, Google’s chief executive Sundar Pichai said on Monday in an email to employees.
The memo, shared widely at the weekend, suggested there were fewer women at Google due to biological differences.
Mr Pichai said the text crossed the line due to it "advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace”.
Entitled Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber, the paper argued that "the abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don't see equal representation of women in tech and leadership”.
The author wrote: "We need to stop assuming that gender gaps imply sexism."
Google has not confirmed who the employee is, but media reports name him as James Damore.
"[I was fired for] perpetuating gender stereotypes," he told Reuters.
He also claimed to have received "many personal messages from fellow Googlers expressing their gratitude" for speaking out.



Comments 'not OK'

In his note to staff sent on Monday afternoon, Mr Pichai spoke at length about protecting free speech in Google’s ranks, and that "much of what was in that memo is fair to debate, regardless of whether a vast majority of Googlers disagree with it”.
But he added: "To suggest a group of our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work is offensive and not OK.
"It is contrary to our basic values and our Code of Conduct, which expects 'each Googler to do their utmost to create a workplace culture that is free of harassment, intimidation, bias and unlawful discrimination’."
The tech firm's new head of diversity, Danielle Brown, had earlier criticised the memo saying it had "advanced incorrect assumptions about gender".
 This Article by: http://www.bbc.com
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at 4:44 pm 2


Shortly after walking through the door at Face++, a Chinese startup valued at roughly a billion dollars, I see my face, unshaven and looking a bit jet-lagged, flash up on a large screen near the entrance.
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at 10:12 pm 0

Microsoft is asserting that enterprise customers have the wrong idea about the asset management investigations its partners tout as a way to save money on software licensing.
"There is a misperception around Software Asset Management and Compliance Audits," Patama Chantaruck, the general manager for Microsoft's software asset management & compliance group, claimed in a post to a company blog last month that included the phrase "myth-busting" in its title.
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