WhatsApp suffered a brief outage, possibly due to the massive influx of messages sent during New Years celebrations around the world. This outage has caused WhatsApp messages to fail to deliver, and the areas affected include parts of North and South America, Europe, India and Indonesia.
After turning down the Pakistani government’s request for “unfettered access” to user information (read: backdoor) and deciding to leave the country rather than change its policy, Blackberry has informed that it will continue operations in Pakistan afterall. This comes after talks with the government, which led to the rescission of the previous shutdown order.
Motorola has released the kernel sources for the Moto X 2014 for Android 6.0 Marshmallow. It’s certainly beneficial for developers, as they can update their custom kernels with the most recent changes and fixes. Prepare your terminal and Git book and head over to the GitHub repo to find out what’s new.
With 2015 coming to an end, Huawei has released their official sales numbers for the year. It’s been previously reported that Huawei is now the #3 smartphone manufacturer in the world and these growth numbers show us the why. Huawei saw a 35% increase in revenue for all of 2015 and the company says they also saw a solid increase in profits and cash flow as well.
