Like Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and other services, JioMeet offers unlimited high-definition calls - but unlike Zoom, it doesn't impose a 40-minute time limit.
Other highlights include easy sign up with either mobile number or email ID, meeting in HD audio and video quality
Experts say now service providers may be told to block IP addresses
Geetanjali Krishna takes a stroll around Asia's largest slum and gets a hands-on cooking lesson
Apart from the boycott campaign, Indian intelligence agencies have red-flagged usage of over 50 China-linked apps as being a threat to national security.
The company will also be using AES 256 GCM transport encryption as its default, which it describes as "one of the strongest encryption standards in use today"
Reebok also dropped its affiliation with CrossFit this week.
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In other big news, the recordings obtained by the Associated Press, showed the World Health Organization struggled to get required information from China during early weeks of January
Zoom has attracted millions of free and paying customers amid the pandemic, in part because users could join a meeting - something that now happens 300 million times a day - without registering
Houseparty began picking up in India and globally in the last three months since lockdowns in most parts of the world forced people to stay at home.
Sankarlingam will oversee the company's engineering, product, and dev ops teams .
Banning the platform is not the right solution
Not for nothing is Chandrababu Naidu known as the most tech-savvy politician in India.
The petitioner, Harsh Chugh, argued that the software application was not safe and did not have end-to-end encryption
In a queue to buy provisions, two friends talking over the head of another shopper, everyone a meticulously measured six feet apart
Zoom has some limitations, like time cap of up to 40 minutes on a free account, and privacy and security concerns raised by many critics lately
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Cost-effective video-conferencing tools are enabling team discussions and client meetings
From Zoom calls to virtual experience centres, they are trying out everything possible to generate sales at a time when bookings have dried up.