The department of telecom (DoT) has recently amended the regulations on internet telephony that will henceforth allow the telecom service providers like Airtel, Vodafone India, Idea Cellular and others, to provide voice and video calls over the internet.

Oriflame has been expanding its product portfolio rapidly in these two categories to drive future growth in the country.

Indians make 50 million minutes of video calls daily via WhatsApp, the highest compared to users in any other part of the globe.

The revenue system of the chat was not well defined. However, after Facebook acquired the application at a hefty amount ($19 billion), it's making sure the app can start generating revenue.

Brian Acton, co-founder of popular messaging app WhatsApp, called on IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad to discuss ways in which the company can contribute to Indias vision for digital commerce.

Ahead of the impending launch of Reliance Jio's 4G services, rival Reliance Communications today announced app-to-app 4G calling at Re 1.

Part of its efforts for drafting rules on net neutrality, telcom regulator TRAI is preparing a consultation paper on the issue and may come out with its recommendations in next 5-6 months.

Instant messaging app WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app all over the world and is used in 109 countries, or 55.6 percent of the world, a new report said on Wednesday.

The new interactive videos or talking pictures, named Mojis by Skype, are the first-of-a-kind very small clips of video that the company claims will revolutionise chat platforms.

Gone are the days of penning letters or cutting calls short because of sky-high costs. The internet has opened up a daring new universe of staying in touch - from anywhere.

Although the feature can work without internet, it won't work outside a 100-metre radius. The technology used to create the feature is same as the Wi-Fi direct technology available in most smartphones today.

Data is gold for digital thieves and hackers. Which is why all information, be it sensitive messages or inane chatter on social media, is encrypted.

The draft on National Encryption Policy proposes to introduce the New Encryption Policy under section 84 A of Information Technology Act 2000.

Legal action was proposed in the draft policy for a failure to store and produce on demand the encrypted messages sent from any mobile device or computer.

Allrecipes.com, a Seattle-based website where people submit and find recipes, boasts of 1.3 billion annuals visits with a presence in 24 countries (including India).

Net neutrality calls upon government, internet service providers and other stakeholders to treat all voice and data services on the Internet equally, and not levy differential tariffs for usage, content, platform, sites, application or mode of communication.

The DoT panel's recommendations have opened a Pandora's box instead of clearing the air around simmering feud between telecom operators and over-the-top service players, led by WhatsApp, Skype and Viber.

The company has quietly launched the video chat app which it describes as \"the most natural way to have real conversations.\"

\"While ruling that domestic calls by OTT CS players would be regulated, they have most illogically exempted both international VoIP calling by OTT CSPs as also all messaging by these players. This is rather bizarre,\" Assocham Telecom Council Chairman said.

Besides, international revenue of telecom operators may remain under pressure as traffic would continue to move to VoIP players who offer free calls barring nominal data charges.