After being in the rumors for the last few months, Facebook-owned WhatsApp has finally launched the Whatsapp Payments service. Just like WhatsApp Business, the Whatsapp Payments is also limited only to the Indian users. As rumors suggested, the WhatsApp Payments is based on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) developed by National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). With the UPI, the transactions can be made instantly between any two UPI accounts. While WhatsApp is new to the payments service, other instant messaging apps like WeChat and Line already became popular in the payments space with the WeChat Pay and Line Pay respectively. The Hike Messenger is the first instant messaging app to make use of UPI for integrating payment services. WhatsApp currently has more than 1.5 billion monthly active users worldwide. With 200 million monthly active users, India is the largest market for WhatsApp. We expect the immense popularity of the Facebook-owned company will make it one o...
You would think that with the fast-approaching release for the Windows 10 Creator's Update that Microsoft would stop adding features and just go into bug squashing mode, but no, it continues to add new features to builds, and some of them are welcomed.
Microsoft released a new Windows 10 Insider Preview, build 15031, last week. One of the coolest, and most welcomed by me (and probably others) is the new “Compact Overlay window” function, which can best be described as the picture-in-picture function from your TV.
As you know you can only have one window on the top of the screen at any given time. If you want to watch Netflix in full screen, you can't browse the web or read email at the same time unless you have a multi-monitor setup and can additional windows on a second screen while watching Netflix.
Well, this new feature allows you to pop a video, either a Skype window or the Movies & TV app, to view the video while doing other things. For me, that would mean keeping the Skype window active while conducting an interview and typing in Word, for example.
For now, my Netflix analogy doesn't apply since the feature only works with Skype and Movies & TV. So I hope Microsoft extends this feature to third-party apps as well.
Another new function is Dynamic Lock, a part of Windows Hello. Windows Hello uses your Webcam as a security device -- your face is your password. Dynamic Lock can detect if you’re in front of the PC or not, and lock the computer when you move away from it. When you are ready to work again, just sit back down in front of the PC and it unlocks.
An overhaul to the UI is also in the works, and Microsoft gave us a glimpse how last week during the Windows Developer Day keynote. It's called Project Neon and the details are scarce, although the screenshot provided by the company did give some indications.
It's believed that the new visual look will focus on animations and transitions, “to add fluidity, animation, and blur to apps and the operating system,” as Windows Central put it. WC was the first to pick up on the new UI.
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