...Step-Up towards Privacy and Connectivity Concerns in WhatsApp Ms. Kavisha Duggal, Assistant Professor, Dept of Computer Science Lovely Professional University Phagwara, India Ms. Reema Ludhra, Student Dept of computer Applications, Lovely Professional University Phagwara, India Abstract-WhatsApp is an instant messaging application which runs on all the smart phones with internet access. Recently, hit the record of 10 billion total messages exchanged per day. Though, it is one of the most popular and favorite application of the smart phone users there are few issues involved in its working. The foremost issue I want to propose is the Last Seen Time stamp in the WhatsApp is updated with internet access time, rather it should fetch the time when the message is actually sent. In addition to this, I would like to propose the privacy concerns of the application. That is, anyone can be added to the WhatsApp chat group, without the permission of a particular user. Thus, this is the privacy concern among the application user. Keywords: WhatsApp; Connectivity issues; Privacy concerns. I. INTRODUCTION Today, WhatsApp is the most popular Application amongst youngsters. One can send text messages, images, videos etc on this cross-platform application that too free of cost. Only an internet connection is required to successfully run this application. It is a free application available in play stores of a smart phone. In very less time it has taken away the market...
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...WhatsApp One of the rolê where WhatsApp Messenger could be used is customer service, is based on identifying and satisfying your customers needs and exceeding their expectations. Everyone working on this area must be tuned into all the consumers needs. Because customer satisfaction and loyalty are always linked to the quality of the service provided. As it is messaging service that you can use anywhere and anytime as long as you have internet connection. That means that customers could reach the company on an easy and faster way. Using WhatsApp could allow the company to extend their relationship with consumer. One use to extend that is when a customer on the store instead of searching for the shop assistant, he could easily take a picture of the product and send via WhatsApp to the customer service team and almost instantly get a response answering all the possible questions and concerns to help the customers make the best choice. The first thing to think about when implementing this new technology in your company is that the company must provide to the workers on the customer service smart phones specifically for this purpose and only for use of WhatsApp for customers. It's hard to combine to personal and professional life in the same phone. Subsequently the company needs to expose the information an advertise it so that the customers know about the resource and its features. It can advertise on the site of the company and on the social media. Important thing to remember...
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...The mass media "Media refers to various means of communication. Media refers to communication devices,which can be used to communicate and intract among two or more people. Nowadays, the most commonly used media are newspaper,television,radio and internet. Mass media is a double-edged sword which means that there are positive as well as negative influences of media. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the "mass media"? On the first hand, the mass media is one of the important technological inventions that has many advantages. First,the common man gets the latest news within a fraction of seconds.The distance is not all a barrier now.The news they get through media help them in their daily life a lot.In addition, we get the latest news in our home due to the television set for example we saw all news and all programs that we educate.Also wen can bring out the hidden talent,we can get public opinion about certain events, current issues.To explain,televisions can get essay overview from news. Media can distribute your message to your target market through various sources. on the second hand, the mass media has many disadvantages that has a big influence in our life and that we can't forget.First, most of the primetime shows and stations are becoming more and more passive on what not to show . To explain, Having younger children subjected to nudity , cursing , sexual , immorality , drinking and other negative adult oriented material...
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...Is Skype worth $8.5 billion? An exercise in valuing young, growth companies Posted by Aswath Damodaran Wednesday, May 18, 2011 Last week, Microsoft announced that it would buy Skype for $8.5 billion. The reaction was fast, furious and very predictable. First, there was the search for reasons for the deal and technology mavens listed a few. Second, there was the reaction from investors and analysts, which was generally not very positive. Third, it was noted that Bill Gates, the face of Microsoft for so long, was strongly in favor of the deal (thus providing cover for Steve Ballmer). Ultimately, though, the discussion of the deal was lacking in one key respect: Is Skype worth $8.5 billion to Microsoft? A few of the analysts noted that the price paid was roughly ten times Skype's revenues in 2010, an undoubtedly rich price, but by itself proving nothing. After all, if you had been able to buy into Google at ten times revenues in 2003, you would be rich now. A great deal of attention was paid to whether Skype was the right company for Microsoft to buy and the strategic/synergistic fit of the two companies. It has always been my contention with acquisitions that it is not the strategic fit or synergistic stories that make the difference between a good deal and a bad one, but whether you buy a company at the right price. Put in more direct terms, buying a company that is a poor strategic fit at a low price is vastly preferable to buying a company that fits like a glove at the wrong...
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...Motives why Facebook acquired WhatsApp Facebook is an online social networking service founded on 4 February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and others Harvard University students. Facebook was developing not just to be a company, but also to fulfil a vision of connecting the world. They want to giving people the power to share whatever they want and be connected to whomever they want, no matter where they are. While, WhatsApp is an instant messaging app for smartphones founded in 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum. The proprietary, cross-platform app uses the Internet to send text messages, images, video, user location and audio media messages. Besides that, user can use this WhatsApp without limit or overage charges. The app is available on many platforms and is free to download and has no ads. Facebook mission is to make the world more open and connected. They do this by building services that help people share any type of content with any group of people they want. So, Facebook has paid $19 billion acquisition with WhatsApp services to achieve their mission to become grower and can gain more profit in future. But, there are several motives to identify why Facebook acquired WhatsApp. The first motives why Facebook acquired WhatsApp are an economic motive. Most company doing acquisition and merger between their rivals in order to increases the market share and market power. In these motive, Facebook acquired WhatsApp because WhatsApp will facilitate their plans...
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...Top 10 reasons why hike is better than whatsapp… Hike is getting popularity day by day, and it seems it is certainly going to compete other popular messaging apps. In jun, 2014 Hike crosses the 20 million user marks globally and is among one of the top 6 apps on android, iOS and Window store in India. now we will see its cool features which whatsapp doesn’t have & has not provided till this date. 1. Offline chat: one of the unique feature of hike messaging is its offline chat facility. It is the first to deliver such kind of service in IM. One can even chat if he or she is offline. So friend, you don’t need to worry about your validity of the data pack. 2. Stickers: Hike has amazing collection of stickers. These Stickers enhances the experience of our chat and show the real emotions of user’s mood. A user has reviewed Hike about its stickers in these words “Everyone is fond of its unique variety of stickers. These are best ever, rarely seen on other chatting app.” While whatsapp has no such facility, although emoji are there. 3. Hidden Mode: Hike provides its users the amazing facility of hidden chat. This allows hike users to keep their private chat hidden such as no person will ever came to know that they are hidden. These conversation can only be opened if we enter the right hidden mode password. This feature is extremely useful for the users from protecting their private chat from their parents. This feature of Hike is certainly a boon to its users. 4. SMS facility:...
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...Whatsapp messaging platform all around the world. Whatsapp Inc. was founded by Jan Koum and Brain Acton, who was the former employees at Yahoo Inc. Whatsapp Android mobile come over to Windows, Symbian, iOS, Blackberry OS. This further helped it to increase its popularity through out the world. I Advantages of Using Whatsapp Some of the great advantages of using Whatsapp are: You can easily send free messages to any part of the world without any charges. This service is completely free. All tools provided by Whatsapp are very easy to use. It do not have any advertisements on display screen. This app automatically imports the contacts from your phone and tells you that how many of your friends are using Whatsapp. You can share your location, photos, status with your friends. You need not spend any money for chatting and sharing with your friends. It also allows you to send 100 messages a month to any of your friends not using Whatsapp for free. Disadvantages of Using Whatsapp Everything having a plus point also has some negative points too. So here are some of the disadvantages of this brilliant app: You can chat to friends that only have smart phones supporting this application and to friends having their account on Whatsapp. You can just send 100 messages in a month to friends not having Whatsapp on their phone. You must have access to internet to send and receive messages for free and the messages are also not sent to the phone inbox. You need to pay $0.99...
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...of Whatsapp Messenger Usage on Students Performance in Tertiary Institutions in Ghana Johnson Yeboah (Lecturer)*,George Dominic Ewur (Lecturer) School of Business, Marketing Department, Takoradi Polytechnic, P.O box 256, Takoradi, Ghana Email:gastybg@yahoo.com Abstract The perceived high level of usage of social networking applications amongst students of tertiary institutions in Ghana is inevitable. However, little is understood from empirical viewpoint about the intensity, of usage of whatsapp messenger and its impact on the academic performance of students in tertiary institutions. This study seeks to empirically identify the impact of social network (whatsapp messenger) on the performance of tertiary students in Ghana from the perspective of the students. To achieve this, 50 students from five tertiary institutions were interviewed and 500 questionnaires were administered to students from same institutions. The study revealed that, whatsapp instead of making communication easier and faster thereby enhancing effective flow of information and idea sharing among students, rather has impacted negatively on the performance of tertiary students in Ghana .The study among other things unveiled the following: whatsapp takes much of students study time , results in procrastination related problems, destroys students’ spellings and grammatical construction of sentences, leads to lack of concentration during lectures, results in difficulty in balancing online activities (whatsapp) and...
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...| BRIEFING ON WHATSAPP | EMERGING COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN BUSINESS | | NOVEMBER 2014 | | Prepared by Hayden Shaw 21400482 | Submitted: Sunday 9th November 2014 What is WhatsApp? WhatsApp Messenger is the World’s most elite cross-platform mobile messaging application with over 500 million users. WhatsApp Inc. was founded in 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum, whom both are former employees of Yahoo! (WhatsApp Blog, 2014) How does it work? WhatsApp can be used on any internet capable device that incorporates a (SIM) subscriber identification module card, it uses the same internet data plan that you use for email and web browsing and there is no cost to message and stay in touch with clients, business partners and so forth. In addition to basic messaging WhatsApp users can create groups, send other users unlimited images, video and audio media messages. (WhatsApp Blog, 2014) Business communication Communication with consumers and (B2B) businesses to form strong healthy relationships are crucial aspects for any business, enabling to promote deals and close sales. Many firms already use social networking to communicate with their target market; although this can often be seen as a form of spamming. WhatsApp communicates in a more personalized way where current and potential consumers can be contacted through their personal mobile phone enabling loyal strong relationships. The opportunity to share eye-catching e-brochures of your company/product/services...
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...Analytical Report (LINE vs WHATSAPP) KELOMPOK 4 Cita Indraswari (1206277930) Haidar Aji Kalbuadi (1206277672) Made Ayu Aristyana Dewi (1206208675) Rizda Dwi Prasetya (1206277722) Tania Putri Permatasari (1206277810) DEPOK, APRIL 2014 FAKULTAS ILMU KOMPUTER COVER Title Fly Title Page Letter of Authorization “Kami yang bertanda tangan dibawah ini menyatakan bahwa laporan yang kami kumpulkan ini murni merupakan hasil pekerjaan kami sendiri. Tidak ada pekerjaan orang lain yang kami gunakan tanpa mencantumkan sumbernya. Laporan ini ditujukan kepada seluruh elemen perusahaan sebagai bahan pertimbangan untuk memilih Instant Messaging Service yang akan digunakan perusahaan.” Cita Indraswari Haidar Aji Kalbuadi Made Ayu Aristyana Dewi (1206277930) (1206277672) (1206208675) Rizda Dwi Prasetya Tania Putri Permatasari (1206277722) (1206277810) Letter of Acceptance Letter of Transmittal Table of Contents List of Illustrations Executive Summary PENDAHULUAN ISI KESIMPULAN User Experience Pengalaman pengguna (User Experience) adalah apa yang dirasakan seseorang saat menggunakan sebuah produk, sistem atau jasa yang melibatkan persepsi mengenai aspek aspek praktis seperti kegunaan, kemudahan penggunaan, dan kecepatan. User Experience WhatsApp 1. Kemudahan dalam Pembuatan Account Whatsapp Aplikasi Whatsapp hanya meminta nomor...
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...WhatsApp Encryption is the process of converting the information such as text, photo and video into unreadable scrambled phrase or code which people are unable to read it. WhatsApp uses end to end encryption method to secure the privacy and safety of the message. The videos, photos and text are secured by the end to end encryption. It will not be able to read by other people including WhatsApp company because the message had been encryption before send to the recipients. When the message fall to the other parties such as hackers or anyone, the message is encrypted and is protected. The message unable to read because the message had been encrypted. Therefore, the privacy of the users was secured. The message is secured with lock and the special key is required to unlock....
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...revised form 5 September 2013 Accepted 5 September 2013 Available online 2 October 2013 Keywords: Text messaging Social communication Social phobia and anxiety Addiction Extraversion a b s t r a c t The recent use of mobile text messaging applications, such as Blackberry Messenger (BBM) and WhatsApp, has increased greatly throughout the world. Unfortunately, this advanced technology is not without problems. In this study, the researcher argues that BBM and WhatsApp may generate noticeable improvements in consumer’s lives but may simultaneously cause serious social and personal problems, including addiction to these applications. Amazingly, this topic has received little if any attention from consumer behaviorists, who need to understand the psychological factors that affect BBM and WhatsApp consumers. Hence, the current research examines two personality traits—extraversion and social anxiety—that influence consumer attitudes toward these applications. The results of a survey from 552 BBM and WhatsApp consumers in Kuwait indicate that the interaction effect of extraversion and social anxiety is significantly related to consumer attitudes toward BBM and WhatsApp. Furthermore, addiction to these applications plays a mediating role in the examined effect. © 2013 Western Social Science Association. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction Social psychologists consistently emphasize...
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...were real, the use of WhatsApp cost money from summer 2012. If you send this string to 18 different on your list, your icon will be blue and will be free for you. If you do not believe me see tomorrow at 6 pm ending WhatsApp and have to pay to open it, this is by law This message is to inform all of our users, our servers have recently been very congested, so we are asking your help to solve this problem. We require our active users forwarded this message to each of the people in your contact list to confirm our active users using WhatsApp, if you do not send this message to all your contacts WhatsApp, then your account will remain inactive with the consequence of losing all their contactsMessage from Jim Balsamic (CEO of Whatsapp) we have had an over usage of user names on whatsapp Messenger. We are requesting all users to forward this message to their entire contact list. If you do not forward this message, we will take it as your account is invalid and it will be deleted within the next 48 hours. Please DO NOT ignore this message or whatsapp will no longer recognise your activation. If you wish to re-activate your account after it has been deleted, a charge of 25.00 will be added to your monthly bill. We are also aware of the issue involving the pictures updates not showing. We are working diligently at fixing this problem and it will be up and running as soon as possible. Thank you for your cooperation from the Whatsapp team” WhatsApp is going to cost us...
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...WhatsApp have recently boasted of providing end-to-end encryption for all its features. That is, every message you send, whether its text, photo, voice, group or one-on-one, is kept secure during transmission until it reaches its recipient. An organization committed to advance secure communication technology worked with WhatsApp to implement an encryption system that offers full coverage. With the help of Open Whisper Systems, WhatsApp messages have become secure, and users will see corresponding notices in their conversation screens. Following the intense encryption talks between Apple and the FBI, WhatsApp defends its security implementation. "While we recognize the important work of law enforcement in keeping people safe, efforts to weaken encryption risk exposing information to abuse from cybercriminals, hackers and rogue states." But what if the risk comes from an entity that is expected to...
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...The technology commonly used by people on their phones / systems is WhatsApp. It is an instant messaging app for smartphones that operates under a subscription business model. The proprietary, cross-platform app uses the Internet to send text messages, images, video, user location and audio media messages. WhatsApp was the most globally popular messaging app with more than 700 million active users and now it reached 800 million active users. Technically it uses a customized version of the open standard Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). Upon installation, it creates a user account using one's phone number as the username. It automatically reads all the phone numbers from the device's address book with its central database of WhatsApp users to automatically add contacts to their WhatsApp contact list. Previously the Android and S40 versions used an MD5-hashed, reversed-version of the phone's IMEI as password, while the iOS version used the phone's Wi-Fi MAC address instead of IMEI. WhatsApp is supported on most Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, and Nokia smartphones. All Android phones running the Android 2.1 and above, all BlackBerry devices running OS 4.7 and later, including BlackBerry 10, and all iPhones running iOS 4.3 and later. However, some Dual SIM devices may not be compatible with WhatsApp, though there are some workarounds for this. Multimedia messages are sent by uploading the image, audio or video to be sent to an HTTP server and then sending a link...
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