WhatsApp has been served a legal notice[1] by a New Delhi-based lawyer, asking the company to remove the middle finger emoji from its platform. The lawyer, Gurmeet Singh, says in the legal notice the concerned emoji shows a lewd and obscene gesture, which is a crime in India. The notice says WhatsApp[2] has 15 days to remove the emoji, after which a civil or criminal case may be filed against the Facebook-owned app.
Facebook asking new users for ‘name as per Aadhaar’
Facebook[3] has started asking a small number of people joining the platform to use their ‘names as per Aadhaar’[4] on the site. This is only a prompt and not a mandatory requirement, so if the users choose to, they can enter any name while signing up. Moreover, Facebook has not asked for any Aadhaar[5]-related information yet, such as the UIDAI number. Only a small number of new users signing up for Facebook will see this prompt, and that too only on the mobile site, the company said in a statement to Gadgets 360.
Idea updates Rs. 309 plan to offer 50 percent more data
Less than a month after its launch, the Rs. 309 Idea plan has been updated[6] to offer 1.5GB data per day, up from its original 1GB daily data allocation[7]. This means the plan will now come with 42GB data in the 28-day validity period, instead of 28GB. Other details of the Rs. 309 Idea[8] plan, such as the bundled calls (250 free minutes a day, 1,000 minutes a week) as well as the free roaming calls and 100 SMSes, remain the same as before....