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Apple Music All Set For An Android journey

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-flat" style="font-size: 1.5em;">A</span>pple has always been very shy or I should say, very mean, when it comes to developing apps for their rival Google’s Android OS. <span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: #333333;">Their very first app only requested users</span> <span style="color: black;">to leave their beloved android and switch to iOS</span></span>.
 And seriously, Apple should forbid these type of actions as not many 
people have the courage to shell out 92,000 bucks, just for an iPhone.</span><br />
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Apple has been in the music industry since last decade with the 
advent of iTunes, “from the moment we got into music, many, many years 
ago, we’ve always wanted to do things for everyone when it came down to 
music. Part of that was letting you enjoy your music no matter where you
 were and what products you were using.”, said Eddy Cue, SVP of Internet
 Software and Services at Apple, while explaining how apple wants to 
homogenize its music experience, “We’ve obviously been really excited 
about the response we’ve gotten to Apple Music. People love the human 
curation aspects of it, discovery, radio”, Cue added.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You can login with your existing Apple ID, and your purchases will be
 there, right on your android device, but music videos are not supported
 in the beta version of Apple Music for Android, and also the app 
doesn’t let you play you own music stored either on internal or external
 memory of your smartphone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">For those users, who have opted for a family plan on their iOS 
devices can login with their Apple ID, but currently, there is no option
 to create a family account on the android version of Apple Music.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The biggest reason behind Apple going Android is its user base, which
 expands far greater than the premium brand-value based iOS customer 
base. Kantar WorldPanel, which keeps an eye on smartphone OS market 
share states, 65.9% users in the USA are on Android and 29.2% on iOS, 
for Japan it is 60.7% Android and 38.3% iOS. Similarly, other regions 
around have a greater android market share which has compelled the 
Cupertino giant to code some android apps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">“We’ll be getting feedback from customers and seeing where they’d 
like us to go,” says Cue, as he was asked additional hardware support on
 Android. The Apple Music for android app does include a feedback 
button, so that Apple can know, whether they did the right thing or not.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Apple Music for Android offers you a three month trial subscription 
for free, after which you’ll have to opt for a monthly payment mode at 
$14.99/month.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Apple has made its entry into the Android eco-system, but they’ve a 
whole army of different players to compete, which are well-equipped with
 stable apps and more features, also lower pricing model for in some 
cases. Google also has its own music service called Google Play Music, 
which is well liked among Android fans. Youtube is also preparing their 
music app in combination with their YouTube Red music streaming service.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">But Apple Music has its advantages, there vast music library with 
some exclusive collections like Taylor Swift’s full  discography, and 
you have the comfort to just have your whole iTunes collection on 
Android by just signing-in with your Apple ID. Apple has a long way to 
go, and they need to recognize the popularity of Android.
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Snapchat now wants you to pay for its selfie lenses

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Snapchat has finally figured out how to monetise its service, and 
it's going to charge you to be rainbow sick again. Snapchat is now 
launching a store so you can buy the most popular customisations for 
your disappearing snaps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Lenses were first introduced back in 
September and the new store will not replace the free lenses, but will 
supplement them. There are 30 lenses available for purchase every day 
(which you can then keep and use forever).</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">To activate lenses, 
simply switch to the front-facing camera on your phone when snapping a 
photo in Snapchat and do a long press on your face.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Return of the sick</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The store will feature both new and "old favourites". It's all about the rainbow sick.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As we reported back in September, it and other favourites have been removed
 - so presumably to get it back again you'll have to pay up. Pricing 
isn't clear just yet and we don't know if you pay for each use either.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The company says that lenses have proved so popular that 10m are used every day (out of 100m daily users). </span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The
 store should provide Snapchat with some much needed revenue to justify 
its massive $16bn valuation - and the expectation is that lenses could 
also conceivably be sponsored by brands too.</span><br />
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Use "Hey Siri" Anytime from Any iPhone

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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you don't feel like pressing the Home button, you can call up 
Apple's digital assistant app with a "hey Siri" voice command in iOS 
9-as long as your iPhone is charging or you're using an iPhone 6s or 
iPhone 6s Plus. Those limitations are designed to prevent battery drain,
 but you can actually access the shortcut anytime, anywhere on any 
iPhone just by keeping Siri active.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">First, you need to activate the "hey Siri" voice shortcut via <b>General</b> and <b>Siri</b>
 in the Settings app. Second, you need to run Siri once and not say 
anything (or run a query of your choice). With Siri on the screen, the 
"hey Siri" voice command works until the display automatically locks, a 
time period you can set by tapping<b> General</b> then <b>Auto-Lock</b> in Settings.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Obviously
 the main downside is your battery is going to drain pretty rapidly, but
 on those occasions when you need hands-free Siri access for 
something-in the car or when cooking, for example-it's a neat trick you 
can use to avoid having to physically tap your phone at all. With new 
iPhones supporting "hey Siri" whether or not they're on main power, it 
looks like we won't need this workaround for much longer.</span></div>

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Majority of Top Android Apps Easily Reverse Engineered: Report

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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><strong>Most of the top 200 and top 100 applications available for Android users via the Google Play store can be decompiled and reverse engineered, a new report from mobile application security solutions provider <a href="http://seworks.co/" style="color: #0076b4; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">SEWORKS</a> claims.</strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">According to the security company, 85 percent of the top 200 most popular free applications in the official Android marketplace can be decompiled, and the same applies to 83 of the top 100 paid apps in the store. Since the process is used to reverse engineer software to expose the source code, these applications can become easy targets for exploits, including malware injection and ad fraud.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: small;">Most worrying is the fact that some of the most popular retail, messaging, photo sharing, and streaming service applications are included in the top 200 Android applications. Furthermore, puzzle, sandbox, and real-time strategy games are among these highly vulnerable applications, the security firm says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">The report reveals that 87 percent of the top 100 free game applications in Google Play are decompilable, a list that includes multiplayer, match-3, and real-time strategy installments, along with games based on recent popular movies. 80 percent of the top 100 non-game free applications in the storefront are also decompilable.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: small;">SEWORKS also found that 95 percent of the top 200 free apps in Google Play can be reverse engineered, and that the same applies to 82 percent of the top 100 paid apps in the marketplace. The researchers used a SaaS-based scanner service to find apps that can be reverse engineered through the apps' shared object library and DEX file with malicious tools available on the Internet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">"We are publicizing our findings to warn the industry at large of the dangers they are currently exposed to, which app developers can still fix through relatively simple precautions. Until these protections are put in place, over a billion Android owners are vulnerable due to these decompilable apps," SEWORKS founder and CEO Min-Pyo Hong, said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Android has been the target of choice for a large number of malicious attacks lately, and many of these attacks were carried out using infected mobile applications, such as BrainTest, a malicious game app estimated to have infected up to one million devices. In early October, FireEye researchers revealed a malicious adware campaign that affected Android users in more than 20 countries via popular apps such as browsers, calculators, games, and sharing tools.</span></span></div>
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Facebook's standalone breaking news app might launch next week

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Facebook's latest project, a breaking news app called Notify, could be in your hands as soon as next week. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Notify
 is close to launch and even has a list of supposed partners lined up to
 bring news stories straight to its users, according to a report by <a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/165410b4-8316-11e5-8095-ed1a37d1e096.html#axzz3qYLZ4600" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Financial Times</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Some
 news outlets in particular have also been reported as partners for 
Facebook's latest endeavor, namely Vogue, The Washington Post, CNN and 
Mashable. Once launched, Notify would allow for users to select news 
sources of their choosing and receive notifications for breaking stories
 in the same fashion as Facebook alerts you that your cousin liked that 
picture you posted from last week's Halloween party.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">While Notify 
is set to be a standalone app, it's still unclear how this will impact 
new outlets that already post stories on Facebook. The requirements for a
 news organization to join the ranks of Notify are also unknown, 
especially if the outlets already operate independent news apps.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The
 inclusion of in-app news has shown to be the next big step for social 
media companies to establish a consistent online presence, as seen with 
Twitter's recent Moments feed and Snapchat's Discover feature, even 
though these features do not require an additional app. </span></div>

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Infosys to Develop Apps on IBM's Bluemix Cloud Platform

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Software major Infosys said on Friday it would use the cloud platform (Bluemix) of global IT firm IBM to develop and deploy next-generation applications for its enterprise clients worldwide.<br /><br />"We have set up a Bluemix-powered innovation lab to co-create applications with clients, train our engineers on the IBM platform to develop application skills and adopt the cloud platform to leverage its cognitive computing and analytics solutions," the IT major said in a statement here.
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Micromax announces investment in music streaming service Gaana

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Gaana is one of the leading music streaming services in India and boasts
 of a relatively large user base. Micromax has now announced its 
investment in the company, which essentially means that we will get to 
see Gaana apps preloaded on future Micromax devices.</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> Talking 
about the strategic investment in Gaana, Rahul Sharma, Co-founder, 
Micromax Informatics Ltd, said, "We at Micromax have been consistently 
integrating the best in class services to our smartphones and are trying
 to build an ecosystem of connected devices in a connected world.
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is a music loving country and youth today are hooked on music for 
atleast 2-3 hours a day through their smartphones. Gaana brings the 
widest selection of songs across genres and we are proud to announce our
 strategic partnership with them to provide our neo users an 
uninterrupted access to latest tunes and transcend them into the world 
of music."</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> Given that Gaana saw an exponential increase in 
marketshare over the past one year, this move from Micromax makes 
complete sense. The service comes with ad supported streaming, while 
purchasing the Gaana+ subscription saves you the trouble of facing ads.</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
 With this strategic partnership, it is said that future Micromax device
 owners will get a free subscription to Gaana+ for a limited period. In 
addition to enjoying music ad free, customers also have the ability to 
save files for offline playback, which is a pretty nifty feature to 
have.</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> The music provider has nearly 19 million songs in its 
library and includes most recent music as well, although some popular 
titles are exempt.</span>
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DDA rolls out new mobile app to curb land encroachment menace

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">While the government and civic bodies showcase their incapability in 
finding land for settling up new development projects, it's surprising 
to see how easily land mafias usurped land worth crores of rupees. Now, 
the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has launched a new mobile app to 
keep a track of vacant lands that fall under its jurisdiction.</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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According to the housing authority, this app, which it claims will help 
curb land encroachment, will start functioning from October 20.</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
 DDA vice-chairman Arun Goel introduced the mobile app in presence of a 
number of officials from the Land Management Department, Engineering 
Wing and Planning at the headquarters in Vikas Sadan. These officials 
also gave their feedback on it.</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> As per a statement issued by 
the Delhi-based housing authority, "Suggestions from all the officers 
were invited and decisions taken on the spot thereby resolving 
ambiguities or explicitly outlining the policies in case of confusion."</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
 While elaborating on the functioning of the app, the official statement
 revealed that there will be regular monitoring in accordance with the 
standard operating procedure. And at least once during a week's time, 
all the Kanoongos and Junior Engineers concerned will visit the property
 to carry out an inspection.</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> The housing authority further 
stated, "The officials will be required to take photographs and upload 
the same on the server on a weekly basis. The next officer in rank shall
 inspect the site once a month and take a photograph of the site and 
upload the same on the server."</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> It added that "the deputy 
director/executive engineer in-charge shall personally inspect at least 
10 per cent of the most valuable plots every two months and also take 
photograph along with coordinates and upload the same on the server 
using mobile application."<br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> "And in case any encroachment is 
noticed, it shall be the responsibility of Land Management Department to
 get the same removed," said the DDA.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> Apart from this, DDA is 
likely to roll out four new mobile applications, which even includes one
 for receiving feedback from allottees for its new housing schemes.</span></div>

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Microsoft's Upcoming Dialer App to Offer Truecaller-Like Features

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Last week Gadgets 360 exclusively reported
 about Dialer, a voice-calling app for Android which Microsoft is 
currently testing in India, and plans to launch in the country later 
this year. Gadgets 360 has learnt more details about the app that we can
 now share with our readers.</span>
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As we previously reported, Dialer has been developed by Skype
 team. It is a voice-calling app that allows users to talk to each other
 on slower networks (3G as well as 2G). But that's just one of its 
features.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">

Gadgets 360 can now confirm that Dialer
 can also be used as the default phone app i.e. as a replacement for the
 stock dialler app that most Android phones ship with, which means you 
can use it to make regular phone calls as well. Additionally, 
Microsoft's Dialer allows users to look up contact information of 
people, offices, and other nearby places like railway stations from 
within the app.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">What's more, Dialer offers users Truecaller-like
 real-time information about the caller and provides users a quick 
option to block spam callers. While Truecaller uses crowdsourced data to
 power its database, it's not clear at this point where Microsoft is 
sourcing this information.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">

</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We've got our hands on a test build of the Microsoft Dialer app for 
Android and tested calling other app users, as well as made and cellular
 calls with the app.</span>
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As we previously reported,
 the company plans to release Dialer in the second week of December, 
though the time-frame could later be changed if the testing process 
takes longer. A public beta of the app is expected to go live next 
month. The company also plans to launch a Windows Phone client of Dialer early next year. It is worth pointing out that Microsoft recently updated the phone app on Windows 10 Mobile developer preview to add Skype integration.</span><br />
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India Drafts Rules to Regulate Uber, Ola Other App-Based Taxi Firms

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">India has drafted guidelines to regulate ride-hailing companies, 
including US-based Uber and its domestic rival Ola, for the first time 
laying down federal rules that could end months of uncertainty on how 
they operate in the country.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The federal transportation ministry has 
asked states to ensure companies operate with call centres and their 
taxis follow emission norms, according to a six-page advisory issued 
last week and reviewed by Reuters on Tuesday.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The guidelines also 
call for extensive background checks of drivers to ensure passenger 
safety. Any person who has in the past been convicted of any "cognizable
 offence" under India's criminal laws should not be allowed to become a 
driver.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Although it is not yet clear whether the guidelines will 
be binding on the states and much uncertainty still remains, Uber and 
Ola both welcomed the move as a step in the right direction.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ola, 
backed by Japan's Softbank, called the advisory a "progressive 
directive" that will help it work closely with different states. Uber 
said the guidelines were a "big leap" in recognising regulations for 
such companies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In recent months, ride-hailing services have faced
 questions by authorities about their safety measures, especially in the
 capital Delhi, where an Uber driver was last December accused of raping
 a woman passenger.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Such services were banned in Delhi after the 
incident, but a court recently revoked the decision. It also led to 
widespread outrage against online taxi companies after it was found the 
accused driver had a past criminal record.</span>
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transport ministry had voiced support in April, saying such firms were 
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Microsoft is testing a new Skype voice calling Android app called 
Dialer, multiple sources have told Gadgets 360. The app has been 
developed by Skype team and is designed exclusively for the Indian 
market, the sources added. This ties in with the company's announcement
 of the start of closed beta testing of the India-specific version of 
Skype. As of now, the release time-frame for Dialer is set for the 
second week of December, two people familiar with the matter said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">

</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Dialer is Microsoft's attempt to capture the markets that are bogged 
down by connectivity issues like slow and unreliable Internet access. 
According to one source, India is the testbed for the app and the 
company may later launch Dialer in other markets as well. Microsoft also
 has plans to release a Windows Phone (Windows 10 Mobile) client of the 
app early next year, said one person familiar with the matter who didn't
 want to be identified because the plans haven't been made public yet.</span>
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">When asked for a comment on its plans for the Dialer app, a Microsoft
 spokesperson told Gadgets 360, "As part of the ongoing improvements to 
deliver the best experience possible to our users, we are always 
innovating and occasionally test out new features and functionality on 
small groups of users in different markets. If you live in India and 
have an Android phone and would like to get involved, sign up to our 
Pre-Release program via the Skype Community page. We have no specific 
news on product announcements planned in India to share today."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">

</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">At this point, it is unclear whether Dialer will also offer video 
calling capability, but one of the sources said it will support video 
sharing in some format. The app works on 3G as well as slower networks 
(2G).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">

</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">While everything we've heard leads to one thinking about the app as 
'Skype lite', given the name of the app, Microsoft's Dialer could well 
be a replacement for the default dialler app that comes on your Android 
phone, with seamless Skype integration thrown-in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">

</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Internet voice calling has quickly become one of the most favourite 
features among many Indian users. WhatsApp's voice calling feature, 
which the company rolled out this year, has proven to be quite popular 
in the country. Hike Messenger, an alternative to WhatsApp, recently 
added group voice calling ability. The app allows up to 100 people in a 
group to simultaneously talk to each other.</span>
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">While these apps continue to bloom, Skype is starting to lose appeal,
 especially amongst the younger, mobile-first audience. Skype apps on 
Android and iOS are bloated compared to some of its competitors, and 
require more resources. The smaller, lighter Dialer app is ostensibly 
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to better personalize their profiles and more easily control their 
privacy settings.</i></span><br />
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 as it makes more of its $10 billion-plus in annual ad revenue off of 
phones. The updates also come during New York City’s 12th Advertising 
Week, where Facebook is courting the world’s largest advertisers and 
companies.</i></span>
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that users can curate what pieces of information are public and which 
are only viewable to “friends,” or people that they have allowed to view
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Apple Music launched with a three-month free trial earlier this summer,
 a trial millions of people signed up for. Well, the leaves are 
changing, a brisk chill is in the air, and it's the ideal time to 
disable the auto-renew on your trial subscription. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>With Apple's 
trial subscription, you've got three months of free listening from when 
the trial was activated. After that, it's $10 a month. If you signed up 
for the trial back when Apple Music launched, it will be ending on 
September 30th. </i></span><br />
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 double-check that Apple's not going to keep billing you. Open the Music
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 Apple ID -> Manage (Subscriptions) -> Your Membership, and turn 
the automatic renewal toggle off. </i></span></div>

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Google's alleged Android app favoritism reportedly under investigation

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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>The US Federal Trade Commission is reportedly investigating Google in
 relation to the search giant using Android to favor its own apps.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Reuters
 is reporting that the FTC will be looking into allegations that Google 
has been using anti-competitive tactics, including making it a 
requirement that Android handset makers favor Google-made apps.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>According
 to the report, technology companies complained to the US Department of 
Justice earlier this year </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>about Google's anti-competitive behavior, with
 the DoJ deciding the FTC would investigate the allegations.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Complaints
 from the unnamed tech companies include the requirement that Google's 
Search, Maps and other apps be given a prominent location on Android 
handsets, making it "impractical for handset makers to put Google rivals
 on their smartphone's home screen."</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Sources speaking to the 
publication say the probe will focus on whether Google has been 
dictating to Android phone-makers on where and how Google-made apps are 
displayed, and that the investigation is in its early stages.</i></span></span><br />
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 isn't the first time Google has been investigated for anti-competitive 
practices, and not for the first time in relation to Google-made apps on
 Android either.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Earlier this year, the European Commission also began investigating allegations of anti-competitive practices focused mainly on Android as well.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>"[We]
 help manufacturers of Android devices compete with Apple, Microsoft and
 other mobile ecosystems that come preloaded with similar baseline 
apps," Hiroshi Lockheimer, VP of Engineering, Android said at the time on the Google blog.</i></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>"...remember
 that these distribution agreements are not exclusive, and Android 
manufacturers install their own apps and apps from other companies as 
well," he continued, before pointing a finger at Apple.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>"And in 
comparison to Apple-the world's most profitable (mobile) phone 
company-there are far fewer Google apps pre-installed on Android phones 
than Apple apps on iOS devices."</i></span></span></div>

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Immersive 360-degree videos land on Facebook

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Facebook has announced that 360-degree videos will begin rolling out in News Feeds starting today.</div>
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Rumors that Facebook would be launching the new video feature popped up last week, though it was suggested then that the feature would be launched through a standalone app.</div>
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Instead, the social media giant today launched the feature as part of its video offering, which means the 360-degree videos will available right on your New Feed.</div>
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As part of the announcement, a number of companies have launched 360-degree videos, including a 360 experience from Star Wars: The Force Awakens that was made exclusively for Facebook, which you can view here.</div>
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The video, for anyone interested, has you speed across the Jakku desert from the new movie.</div>
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Other 360-degree videos that are available to watch right now on Facebook include Saturday Night Live, VICE and GoPro, amongst others.</div>
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By adding 360-degree videos, Facebook is playing a bit of catch up with Google, as 360-degree videos have been available on YouTube since earlier this year.</div>
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"In the future, imagine watching 360 videos of a friend's vacation to a small village in France or a festival in Brazil - you'll be able to look around and experience it as if you were there," Facebook said, so we imagine the feature won't be available to just professional content makers.</div>
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You'll be able to see the new immersive videos on Facebook through the web or on Android devices, with the feature to be rolled out to iOS in "the coming months."</div><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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Facebook says that on the web, you can drag your cursor within the video screen to view the different video angles, while on mobile, you can move around the video by dragging your finger in the direction you want.</div>
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And like with other 360-degree videos available on phones, Facebook says you can also "hold up your phone, and the 360 video will follow you as you turn, looking around, to experience things from all over the world like never before."</div>
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