Facebook messenger starts app war with WhatsApp

Facebook, with its messenger, is planning to take on other popular standalone messaging apps in India, such as WhatsApp, WeChat, LINE and Hike with the launch of its new version of Messenger for iPhone and Android.
With the explosion in usage of smartphones, more and more users are spending time on mobile devices, making it imperative for Facebook to provide a seamless experience across mobile devices, tablets and desktops. In emerging economies like India, the company is also seeing mobile-only users, a generation that has leapfrogged personal computers. 

With the new version, Facebook has tried to make the app work faster on all the versions of Android, especially Gingerbread and Ice Cream Sandwich, used in old and lower-end devices. “This will work across various versions of Android like Gingerbread, Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean, and will be a lot faster than it used to be. That is because its every aspect is looked from a mobile-to-mobile world and has a lot of focus on performance and snappiness of the app,”
But Facebook faced problems in emerging economies because of the fragmented nature of Android that is more popular in countries like India, Indonesia and Brazil,
According to Martinazzi, Facebook has focussed on the platform and tried to bring the best possible Android app. The app will now have a common navigation bar, an action bar on the bottom and a compose button, which are same on all Android phones. "We have made sure that the experience is not compromised even when you are not using the

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Todays News:Egypt's president according to report signs law restricting protests

Egypt's president signed a brand new bill into law on Sunday limiting rallies and different public gatherings, a move seemingly to boost contemporary questions about the army-backed government's democratic credentials. Thousands of anti-government protesters were on the streets of Cairo and different cities once the new bill was proclaimed on state media, as they need been often within the nearly 3 years since tyrant solon was ousted.

The new legislation would force them to urge advance permission from the police before gathering within the future, consistent with a draft seen by Reuters. "This is kind of dangerous prior to elections - in traditional times conjointly, however (particularly) prior to elections," aforementioned Ziad Abdel Tawab of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights, adding it may disrupt public conferences together with debates and rallies. President Adli Mansour's approval of the law came as a 50-member committee ready to vote on associate degree amended constitution which will be place to a vote expected in returning months. Parliamentary and presidential elections ar due next year. Rights teams had urged Mansour to reject the draft conferred to him by the cupboard put in once the military overthrew Mubarak's successor, Muhammedan President Mohamed Mursi, in July. "The draft law seeks to disallow all styles of peaceful assembly, together with demonstrations and public conferences, and provides the state freedom to disperse peaceful gatherings by use of force," scan a joint statement issued on Fri by nineteen Egyptian organisations. Thousands of supporters of Mursi and his Muslim Brotherhood incontestible in Cairo and in many different cities, marking one hundred days since security forces crushed 2 pro-Mursi sit-ins in Cairo, killing tons of. Police laid-off teargas to disperse a number of the demonstrations on Sunday. There was no immediate sign of any reaction to the new legislation on the streets. The Brotherhood has long-faced a harsh security quelling since Mursi's ouster. Thousands are in remission and its senior leaders imprisoned.

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I am not thinking about security :Barack Obama

Washington: USA President Barack Obama says that tho' John F Kennedy's assassination reworked the USA Secret Services, that infact protects him and his family nowadays, he doesn't pay a lot of of the time in worrying regarding his personal safety.

"It isn't one thing that i feel regarding," Obama said. "Majorly as a result of we've a Secret Services that will an impressive job on a daily basis.

"And, its certain that tragedy reshaped the key Services in varied ways in which, however they are doing an impressive job and it's fortunately not one thing I pay plenty of your time worrying regarding," he told basics News in Associate in Nursing interview set to air fully next week.

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Sexual assault case: Police of Goa books Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal for rape case

Accusing the Founder & also Editor-in-chief of "Tehelka magazine", Tarun Tejpal, of assaulting and raping a colleague during a media event in the state, Goa Police on 22nd Nov. 2013 registered an FIR in the case and indicated that his arrest was imminent and necessary action.

Even police also did not rule out this necessary action against Tehelka's managing editor Shoma Chaudhury saying she was not cooperating with them in the probe as required by law and can be summoned to Goa.

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