Trai pushes MeitY to act strongly to curb spam, phishing on OTT appsThe telecom regulator is urging the Ministry of Electronics and IT to address the rise in spam and phishing on OTT apps like WhatsApp and T...
06 Sep, 2024, 08.48 AM IST
TRAI calls for joint effort from JCoR members to tackle increasing spam messages, callsThe telecom regulator emphasized the need for a united effort to combat spam messages and calls at a meeting of the Joint Committee of Regu...
27 Aug, 2024, 07.24 PM IST
Trai move to curb fraud could ring in an SMS outage next monthStarting next month, Indian consumers may experience disruptions in receiving service and transactional messages due to a new directive fro...
24 Aug, 2024, 01.27 PM IST
Telecom regulator to recommend AI, ML software features to curb pesky SMSes"We will soon inform telecom operators to use AI, ML software to curb Unsolicited Commercial Communication (UCC) with certain characteristi...
24 Apr, 2023, 04.41 PM IST
Bliv.Club, Soclly join hands to support the Ethereum Merge eventBliv.Club is building the world's first perpetual exchange based on NFTs where users can take long or short positions on an assorted basket...
15 Sep, 2022, 02.02 PM IST
Google disables RCS ads in India due to flood of spam from businessesAccording to TechCrunch, RCS stands for Rich Communication Services, and it is the result of a collaboration between a number of industry p...
05 Jun, 2022, 04.26 PM IST
Assembly elections: Twitter vows to crack down on manipulative, misleading contentIn a blogpost, Twitter said it is implementing "significant" product, policy, and enforcement updates that have been drawn based on learnin...
25 Mar, 2021, 12.13 AM IST
Truecaller fine-tunes algorithms to catch frauds real time: CEOWith rampant phishing calls preying on the vulnerable during the ongoing period of uncertainty, Truecaller, arguably the world’s largest mo...
20 Apr, 2020, 11.16 AM IST
Telcos review blockchain tech to tackle pesky callsTrai’s new rules to quell pesky calls stated that telecom operators are required to deploy blockchain-based technology to prevent unauthori...
28 Aug, 2018, 07.47 AM IST
Tech Mahindra, Microsoft join hands to curb pesky callsBased on blockchain technology and built on Microsoft Azure, the solution aims at mitigating the issue of unsolicited commercial communicat...
27 Aug, 2018, 01.30 PM IST
Apple's mettle in India tested in squabble over anti-spam appAt the heart of its latest tussle with the government is India's pervasive problem with spam and nuisance calls.
09 Aug, 2018, 03.33 PM IST
Local startups get into global shape at Google’s bootcampAt the search engine giant’s Launchpad Accelerator, 23 startups learn how to use machine learning and artificial intelligence most effectiv...
14 Feb, 2018, 08.14 AM IST
Nimbuzz's caller ID app Holaa to have India-specific featuresNimbuzz plans to offer India-specific features on its free caller identification app Holaa as it seeks to differentiate the product from it...
14 Apr, 2015, 09.25 AM IST
India 4th most affected by mobile malwares: F-SecureGrowing popularity of smartphones and rising data usage in India is also making the country a favourite among cyber criminals.
01 Sep, 2014, 04.38 PM IST
Half of our 70 million users are in India: Kari Krishnamurthy, Truecaller's vice-president of growth & partnerships in Asia, Middle East & AfricaThe app, developed by a startup in Sweden in 2009, allows you to identify the person who is calling you, even if the person is not listed o...
21 Aug, 2014, 12.26 PM IST
- Pesky callers to pay up to Rs 2 lakh fine, lose connection from Jan
Under the new system, mobile users would get an option of blocking all telemarketing voice calls and receiving text messages only.
30 Nov, 2010, 06.16 AM IST
- India 7th amongst spammers of the world
India is the 7th largest spam sender in the world and first in Asia, according to internet content security firm. Managing email | Citizen ...
09 Oct, 2008, 06.20 PM IST