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WhatsApp on the Web soon

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WhatsApp is soon coming to the desktop. Making true of its earlier rumors that its going to show its presence on desktop official authorities made a statement about it. A new webpage web.whatsapp.com is live as a proof for it. “The primary use is of course still on your phone,” a spokesman said, “but there are people who spend time in front of a computer at home or at work and this will help bridge the two.” You can connect you phone to the web and your messages on the web will be stores on your phone too. More flexibility is expected with this decision. According to the announcement they were planning to bring the same experience to iOS,although the time-frame is still unclear. The company said, “we really hope you find web client useful in your everyday lives.” With more than 600 million users using WhatsApp it is one of the giant messaging app. With this announcement it boosted its users with its more flexibility ideas. In November, WhatsApp pa...

Microsoft says Friday’s outage caused by software bug not cyber attack

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Microsoft sites, including search engine Bing and MSN.com downed by ‘bad code,’ not cyberattack On Friday almost all Microsoft powered websites like Bing, MSN.com, Outlook, Live were knocked out of service with most users returning page not available messages. Even the Microsoft powered Yahoo! search was knocked down for about 20 minutes before being restored. Microsoft sites, including search engine Bing and MSN.com downed by 'bad code,' not cyberattack This caused users to speculate that Microsoft was under some kind of high profile hack attack.  Given the rising temperatures between United States and North Korea after the Sony Pictures hack attack, many Twitter users blamed North Korean hackers for the outage. In reality all the Microsoft sites, including search engine Bing and MSN.com, were knocked briefly offline Friday after bad code was rolled out, according to a report. Microsoft engineers struggled to immediately roll-back the code, which w...