TECHNOLOGY


Moneylife Digital Team 19 February 2025
Highlighting concerns over the misuse of social media and online applications for altering calling line identification (CLI) or spoofing caller ID, the department of telecommunications (DoT) directed social media platforms and application hosting platforms to remove by the end of this month...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 February 2025
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has launched a new mobile application, 'RBIDATA', to provide users with seamless access to macroeconomic and financial statistics related to the Indian economy. Designed to be visually engaging and user-friendly, the app aims to offer economic data at users...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 February 2025
The central bureau of investigation (CBI) has successfully dismantled a sophisticated transnational cybercrime network that had been defrauding German nationals since 2021. The operation, codenamed Operation Chakra-IV, was carried out in coordination with German authorities and resulted in...

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Pooja Dash (IndiaSpend) 17 February 2025
In the Union Budget of 2025, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that the government would provide internet connectivity to all secondary schools and public health centres in the country. But as of January 2025, through the government’s BharatNet programme, only 1.99 lakh villages out...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 February 2025
The Ahmedabad zonal office of the directorate of enforcement (ED) has seized cryptocurrency worth around Rs1,646 crore, along with Rs13.50 lakh in cash, a Lexus car and several digital devices, as part of its investigation into the BitConnect cryptocurrency fraud. The seizures were made during...

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Imagine expecting an important document from a client and receiving an email that looks completely legitimate. The email contains an attachment in an SVG (scalable vector graphics) format. You open it, and it redirects you to a website that looks just like DocuSign, Dropbox, or SharePoint,...

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If you are tired of always having to swipe, to answer an incoming call, Auto Answer Call lets you answer a call by simply holding your phone to your ear. When your phone rings and the app detects that it is near your ear, it will beep once and automatically answer the call. It's that...

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A few days ago, Ashish from Lokmat Videos posted a message on X about the hacking of his WhatsApp account. He also warned people not to respond to any message from his WhatsApp account requesting money. After checking the details he had shared, I found that the fraudsters had used a very simple...

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This app allows you to lock / unlock your USB (Universal Serial Bus) drives. If you have USB drives with photos, audios, videos, etc, and would like to lock them with a password, this app is for you. Once the drive is locked, nobody can access your files without unlocking it by entering the...

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Everything was going smoothly in the world of artificial intelligence (AI), with established players making small bits of progress every day. AI models were being developed or integrated by device-makers and service-providers and a growing number of end-users (especially smartphone users) were...

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When you give away your personal email online, there is a good chance that your email address would end up with a spammer or a hacker. SimpleLogin acts as a firewall to protect your personal email inbox.   SimpleLogin is an open source solution, to protect your email inbox. It allows you to...

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Ratna Singh (Bar  and   Bench) 28 January 2025
A commercial court in Gurugram recently awarded Microsoft Rs55 lakh in damages after a company, Retnec Solutions Pvt Ltd was found guilty of trademark infringement and running fraudulent call-centre operations using Microsoft's trademarks, including 'HOTMAIL', 'OUTLOOK', and 'OFFICE...

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There is a new clipping going viral on social media about a Bengaluru techie losing Rs2.8 crore after using a mobile phone he 'won in a lottery' (he did not even participate in the lottery!). From the complaint that he filed with the police, it appears to be a case of specific pre-installed...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 January 2025
The central consumer protection authority (CCPA) of India has issued a notice to Apple Inc following numerous consumer complaints about performance issues with iPhones after the iOS 18 software update.    In a post on X, Union minister for consumer affairs Pralhad Joshi says, "After receiving...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 23 January 2025
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) today upheld the part of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) order that said that WhatsApp users have an option to opt out of data sharing under the messaging platform's 2021 privacy policy.   A coram of Chairperson Justice Ashok...

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While dealing with any sudden incident, almost all government authorities in India come up with knee-jerk reactions. Most of the time, their response is not just vague but provides no solution to the incident or issue. Take, for example, the ban on some Chinese apps to 'teach' a lesson to that...

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This is a QR code generating site. You can generate a QR code in less than 30 seconds, for free. You can create a QR code for your website URL, social media, app download, WiFi login, business cards and much more.   The beauty of this site is its simplicity. QR codes for a variety of purposes...

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Security services-provider Avast decided to make unavailable its virtual private network (VPN) services from India affecting several users, following a mandate issued by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) on customer data collection and storage by service-providers.    In a...

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Yet another con was successfully executed by fraudsters in the name of quick and bumper returns through investment in the jewellery business. This is the story of the Torres, a scam that rocked Mumbai this week and was run through a firm called Platinum Hern Pvt Ltd. Torres offered 6% to 11%...

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Have you ever typed something and then accidentally erased it? Written down something important and couldn't find it again? App crashed and lost everything you wrote? With your own Type Machine, that's no problem.   Type Machine saves everything you type in every app. Open it at any time to...

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