AVIA’s CAP consumer survey shows benefits of site blocking

AVIA’s CAP consumer survey shows benefits of site blocking

The Coalition Against Piracy (CAP)’s most recent YouGov consumer surveys show that while piracy continues to be a major concern around the Asia Pacific region, particularly in Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines where 61 percent of consumers admit to accessing pirate services in each country, site blocking, and in ...


Google Play partners with Spotify

Google Play partners with Spotify

American tech giant Google has announced that it will allow Swedish music company Spotify to use its payment system in its Android app with the launch of a pilot program to explore user billing choices in some countries. According to Google, it will allow a small number of participating developers to offer an additional third-party billing op...


With Sports18 arrival, Indian sports b’cast scene just got jazzed up

With Sports18 arrival, Indian sports b’cast scene just got jazzed up

With the announcement of the prices of the sports channels, the Reliance Industries-controlled Network18/Viacom18 group just made it public that the media company is all set to shake up the sports broadcasting arena --- probably akin to the disruption that Reliance did with the launch of its Jio telecom services few ...


WhatsApp rolls out screen-sharing feature

WhatsApp multi-device support starts for all users

Meta-owned encrypted messaging service WhatsApp has started rolling out the much-awaited multi-device support for all users.

Till now, the feature has been available to users under WhatsApp's opt-in beta testing program. The update will roll out to iOS users this month, followed by an Android release next mon...