tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61282685166274785432024-03-05T12:58:04.037+01:00TECH SPOTAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14212318257497855486noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128268516627478543.post-73398165886538509462017-06-06T12:26:00.002+01:002017-06-06T12:26:44.860+01:00UI/UX MUSINGS<span style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", Meiryo, "Hiragino Sans GB W3", "Noto Naskh Arabic", "Droid Arabic Naskh", "Geeza Pro", "Simplified Arabic", "Noto Sans Thai", Thonburi, Dokchampa, "Droid Sans Thai", "Droid Sans Fallback", -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Heiti SC", "Microsoft Yahei", "Segoe UI"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: blue;">1. </span></span><span style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", Meiryo, "Hiragino Sans GB W3", "Noto Naskh Arabic", "Droid Arabic Naskh", "Geeza Pro", "Simplified Arabic", "Noto Sans Thai", Thonburi, Dokchampa, "Droid Sans Thai", "Droid Sans Fallback", -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Heiti SC", "Microsoft Yahei", "Segoe UI"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<b>Who else noticed this?</b>
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Unlike Facebook/twitter/Instagram where a "follow/friend request" can be canceled if you aren't interested in connecting any longer,
LinkedIn's "connect/ invite" button doesn't have an "undo/cancel" feature from its </span><a class="hashtag-link ember-view" data-control-name="update_hashtag" href="http://www.linkedin.com/search/results/content/?keywords=%23pending&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED" id="ember4498" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0084bf; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", Meiryo, "Hiragino Sans GB W3", "Noto Naskh Arabic", "Droid Arabic Naskh", "Geeza Pro", "Simplified Arabic", "Noto Sans Thai", Thonburi, Dokchampa, "Droid Sans Thai", "Droid Sans Fallback", -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Heiti SC", "Microsoft Yahei", "Segoe UI"; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#pending</a><span style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", Meiryo, "Hiragino Sans GB W3", "Noto Naskh Arabic", "Droid Arabic Naskh", "Geeza Pro", "Simplified Arabic", "Noto Sans Thai", Thonburi, Dokchampa, "Droid Sans Thai", "Droid Sans Fallback", -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Heiti SC", "Microsoft Yahei", "Segoe UI"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> state. So, once you send an invite request....gooone!
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Why so? I don't quite get that part(yet).
Is it some deliberate smart engineering in UI usability? or someone just forgot something really important?</span><br />
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<span style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", Meiryo, "Hiragino Sans GB W3", "Noto Naskh Arabic", "Droid Arabic Naskh", "Geeza Pro", "Simplified Arabic", "Noto Sans Thai", Thonburi, Dokchampa, "Droid Sans Thai", "Droid Sans Fallback", -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Heiti SC", "Microsoft Yahei", "Segoe UI"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For those with connections >500, LinkedIn only shows "500+" connections on your profile like it's some upper limit. What's the big idea behind this?
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Is there any psychology behind not showing the exact number of connections one has once it exceeds 500?
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You know...does it dissuade people from treating LinkedIn the same way they treat IG, Facebook, Twitter, where much focus is placed on amassing the most followers in short time?
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<b><span style="color: blue;">3.</span></b><br />
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What's the point of getting Job Opportunity notifications "months" after it's already been posted? Why measure time in months???? I get listings 1,2,3 months after a job opening is announced.
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Better still, use hours, days, weeks as a metric for time on your interface instead. Doing this gives users a better sense of precision(time) and I know how unlikely the applications would still be open.
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Or...unless...unless, its an attempt to make you go </span><a class="hashtag-link ember-view" data-control-name="update_hashtag" href="http://www.linkedin.com/search/results/content/?keywords=%23pro&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED" id="ember5077" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0084bf; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", Meiryo, "Hiragino Sans GB W3", "Noto Naskh Arabic", "Droid Arabic Naskh", "Geeza Pro", "Simplified Arabic", "Noto Sans Thai", Thonburi, Dokchampa, "Droid Sans Thai", "Droid Sans Fallback", -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Heiti SC", "Microsoft Yahei", "Segoe UI"; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#pro</a><span style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", Meiryo, "Hiragino Sans GB W3", "Noto Naskh Arabic", "Droid Arabic Naskh", "Geeza Pro", "Simplified Arabic", "Noto Sans Thai", Thonburi, Dokchampa, "Droid Sans Thai", "Droid Sans Fallback", -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Heiti SC", "Microsoft Yahei", "Segoe UI"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. or better still...maybe I am just wrong.
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That doesn't mean a thing tho, Reddit remains loved in the US while upcoming 'QnA'sh or 'knowledge seeking' websites with awesome UI such as Quora, Medium, Curiosity are still learning work at their side.
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Interface is overrated maybe?...I said </span><a class="hashtag-link ember-view" data-control-name="update_hashtag" href="http://www.linkedin.com/search/results/content/?keywords=%23maybe&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED" id="ember5047" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0084bf; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", Meiryo, "Hiragino Sans GB W3", "Noto Naskh Arabic", "Droid Arabic Naskh", "Geeza Pro", "Simplified Arabic", "Noto Sans Thai", Thonburi, Dokchampa, "Droid Sans Thai", "Droid Sans Fallback", -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Heiti SC", "Microsoft Yahei", "Segoe UI"; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#maybe</a><span style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", Meiryo, "Hiragino Sans GB W3", "Noto Naskh Arabic", "Droid Arabic Naskh", "Geeza Pro", "Simplified Arabic", "Noto Sans Thai", Thonburi, Dokchampa, "Droid Sans Thai", "Droid Sans Fallback", -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Heiti SC", "Microsoft Yahei", "Segoe UI"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">!</span><br />
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Every known developer in this world had a starting point. I was reading a blog post on <a href="https://medium.com/u/e39e49a99c78" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">TechCrunch Onion</a> website about the winners of Techcrunch Disrupt NY 2017 Hackathon and I noticed that the winners were not more than 17 years of age and worked on virtual reality. In my mind, I was trying to convince myself that it is because of their location that is why it is like that. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But, Forget! That is no excuse. We can do much better too.</strong></div>
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Now, as a young Nigerian developer coming across programming at 18 years or maybe you went to a good primary or secondary school and you were introduced to programming at 13 years, I am going to be writing about how to improve yourself to become better in your field of choice. Hope you learn from this!</div>
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It is important as a young developer to drill yourself by getting to familiarize yourself with basic concepts in computer science, computer programming and also, the basics of your choice programming language. Many young developers are all about building stuffs with technologies they have not really understood there basics.</div>
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Many developers are not relevant today because of poor learning habits and this affects a lot because you cannot expand beyond what you already know. The more you read, the more you become better and solve more issues with codes.</div>
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It is vital to have a mentor in programming. It helps you grow faster and escape some huddles they faced but run away from any mentor that won’t allow you go through stress in understanding some things as regard your field. If you don’t have anyone to mentor you, you can get expert mentors on <a href="http://codementor.io/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Codementor Website</a></div>
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Apart from learning at your own pace, it is important to join developers communities. If there are no developers communities in your location, it has been made easier today with <a href="https://medium.com/u/26d90a99f605" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Slack</a> . You get to meet people on the same level with you and also, people ahead of you that can help when you come across certain issues. </div>
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I have read several posts on guide for programming newbies and almost all emphasize on checking out open source projects. It is important to because it makes you familiar with coding standards of the programming language you are learning. </div>
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In the technology world, things keep revolving and technologies keep getting better. You cannot be a better programmer without updating yourself on technologies you work with. Twitter, <b>@devcenterco </b>,<b>TechCrunch</b> and <b>Forbes Tech News Website</b> can be helpful for this.</div>
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Try as much as possible to participate in Hackerthons. They help you learn new things and widen your horizon. if it is possible, work with a team and try as much as possible to have people that are better than you so that you can become better. You can try out coding challenges on <a href="http://hackerrank.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">HackerRank</a> , <a href="https://projecteuler.net/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Project Euler</a> and so on.</div>
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You can’t be the Lionel Messi or Ronaldo of your field, if you don’t work for it. Consistent practice matters a lot. Build useful packages that other developers can use. Work on uncommon projects and most importantly learn from every project you work on.</div>
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Thanks for reading. Promised it was going to be short!!! I believe you have gained from my thoughts.</div>
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It’s the Windows you know, only better</h1>
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Familiar and better than ever</h4>
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Windows 10 is familiar and easy to use, with lots of similarities to Windows 7 including the Start menu. It starts up and resumes fast, has more built-in security to help keep you safe, and is designed to work with software and hardware you already have.</div>
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This combines the strengths of Windows 8 with Windows 7.</div>
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Make the web work the way you do</h4>
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Microsoft Edge lets you move quickly from browsing to doing. Write<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 9.00259971618652px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.9em; vertical-align: baseline;">1</span> or type notes directly on webpages and share them with others, read online articles free of distraction, and save your favorite reads for convenient access later.</div>
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Multi-doing helps you get to “done” faster</h4>
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Get to done faster by better managing your desktop. Snap up to four things on one screen at the same time and create virtual desktops whenever you need more space or want to group things by project, like Office apps for work and games for play.</div>
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This Windows will definitely blow the other Windows versions out of the water.</div>
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The new Windows Store is the one place for all your favorites</h4>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14212318257497855486noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128268516627478543.post-25087636196419678042015-04-02T11:23:00.002+01:002015-04-02T11:23:31.495+01:00KONGA.COM IS ON THE VERGE OF RELEASING A PROPRIETARY PAYMENT METHOD CALLED KONGAPAY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Online payments in Nigeria <a href="http://techcabal.com/2013/07/02/news-flash-interswitch-just-killed-nigerian-e-commerce/" style="color: #1976d2; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none;" title="News Flash: Interswitch Just Killed Nigerian E-commerce">has been begging to be disrupted</a> since Nigeria first went online, and it looks like <a href="http://techcabal.com/tag/konga" style="color: #1976d2; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Konga.com</a> might be the one doing the disrupting, albeit quietly. The two-year old online marketplace has created it’s own secure payment method that will allow its customers bypass debit cards when they make purchases on the site.</div>
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KongaPay is the result of a partnership with leading banks in Nigeria, which will make it possible for their customers to link their Konga accounts directly to their bank accounts. What is more, the integration is so tight that KongaPay will work regardless of whether or not said customers have internet banking enabled on their accounts or not.</div>
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It is not clear how long this has been in the offing, but this move to disintermediate card payments, with the help of banks has clearly been in the making since 2014, when Konga first announced <a href="http://techcabal.com/2014/09/25/konga-gtbank-launch-cardless-payments-feature-online-shoppers/" style="color: #1976d2; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none;" title="Konga And GTBank Launch Cardless Payments Feature For Online Shoppers">a payment feature that would let GTBank customers pay for their purchases via a bank transfer</a> that would be initiated from right inside the Konga.com checkout cart. If a user elects to pay via GTBank, they are redirected to the bank’s internet banking portal, which on the user’s login populates the forms with the amounts due. Once the transfer is made, the customer is sent back to Konga.com, completing the purchase.</div>
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KongaPay however changes the game entirely in that asides from doing away with cards entirely, the user will never even see an internet banking portal. After a one time integration, all a customer with a linked bank account need do is click the checkout button, enter a one-time password, and boom.</div>
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KongaPay also has an escrow-like feature which allows them offer a guarantee to refund the total purchase sum for any unsatisfactory products. Because the transfers will be happening between Konga’s bank account and the buyer’s bank account in the same bank, these reversals can be effected near-instantaneously. In many ways, KongaPay is like Alipay, a subsidiary of Alibaba.com, which Konga’s founder studiously follows in order to see if he can replicate the Chinese ecommerce giant’s success. Alipay is said to control almost half of China’s online payment market.</div>
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KongaPay is not just a game changer in terms of how Konga is positioned to serve its customers. Seamless bank-enabled payments could give Konga a significant boost in its running battle for Nigerian ecommerce domination with Jumia, its fiercest and better funded competitor. Jumia has raised <a href="http://techcabal.com/2014/11/26/jumia-picks-150-million-series-c-now-valued-half-billion-dollars/" style="color: #1976d2; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none;" title="Jumia Picks Up $150 Million In Series C, Now Valued At Half A Billion Dollars">close to $300 million</a> in comparison to <a href="http://techcabal.com/2014/10/08/konga-just-raised-40-million-fund-another-bout-insane-expansion/" style="color: #1976d2; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none;" title="Konga Has Just Raised Over $40 Million More To Fund Another Bout Of Insane Expansion">Konga’s < $90 million</a>, and clearly spends more on marketing, but both seem evenly matched on execution, and tend to ape each other on most market innovations and strategies. The two companies are massively invested in proprietary logistics, are aligned with mobile OEMs for exclusive device distribution pushes and even more stuff that is not apparent. It will be interesting to see if and how the Rocket-backed startup will zig to Konga’s latest zig. Or maybe they’ll zag and offer airtime-enabled one-click checkout to <a href="http://techcabal.com/2014/09/01/mtn-advertising-kitchenware-jumia/" style="color: #1976d2; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none;" title="Why Is MTN Advertising Jumia’s Kitchenware?">MTN customers</a> (this would have made for a good April fool’s joke).</div>
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Beyond one-upping its ecommece nemesis, KongaPay could have bigger effects on the Nigerian electronic payments space itself. Interswitch has said itself that Konga and Jumia are the biggest drivers of ecommerce transactions through their gateway, and the adoption of cardless payments by any one of them would take away some of those revenues. Ecommerce might not be the biggest part of Interswitch’s business at the moment, but it’s perhaps the portion where the biggest future opportunity exists. This development will cause some brows to furrow at the very least. Interswitch has been making <a href="http://techcabal.com/2014/11/28/omg-interswitch-innovating/" style="color: #1976d2; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none;" title="OMG, Interswitch Is Innovating">positive noises about overhauling its payment gateway</a> and <a href="http://techcabal.com/2015/02/16/interswitch-launches-10000000-e-payment-fund-startups/" style="color: #1976d2; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none;" title="Interswitch Launches $10,000,000 E-Payment Fund For Startups">investing in ecommerce-aligned startups</a> — they just invested <a href="http://techcabal.com/2015/02/16/african-courier-express-raises-850000-funding-interswitch/" style="color: #1976d2; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none;" title="African Courier Express Has Just Raised $2.6 Million Funding From Interswitch, Other Investors">$850,000 in African Courier Express</a>, a logistics startup — but it seems the ecosystem won’t wait for them to figure things out.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Sometimes, the coolest things are the ones which won't make a big difference in the world, </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">but could seriously help make your life a little bit more convenient. That's where the McChi </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">luggage comes into the picture.</span><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">The Kickstarter started on April 1, but this is no joke - the McChi is a really simple idea that </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">should've been invented a lot sooner.</span><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Essentially, it's a tough-looking suitcase, whose lid can be raised to create a table whenever </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">you need it. So the next time you're at the airport and there's a huge crowd of people at the </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">tiny table filling in their immigration and customs forms, you can just avoid the hassle and </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">make your own table.</span><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">There are zipper compartments under the table top, so when you lift the lid, you also reveal </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">all these compartments, which look like a great place to keep your charger cables and other </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">small pieces of gear that normally get lost amongst the other things.</span><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">The best part though, is that you can get the McChi with a 20,000mAh power bank and 2 </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">USB ports - that should charge most phones at least 7-8 times. There is also a digital battery </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">readout, so you always know how when it's time to top up the battery.</span><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">The McChi will be accepting funding until May 1, and the smallest size with USB will set you </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">back by $224. The medium size USB version is $244, and the large size USB version costs </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">$499. That sounds a little expensive, but it's made using ABS plastic - other cabin bags we </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">found made online with the same material cost around Rs. 10,000, and this bag also has an </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">aluminium frame and steel corners, so it's not actually unreasonable.</span><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">The project has a $7,500 goal and 29 days to hit the target. If it meets this goal, the </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">estimated delivery is for July 2015, around in the world.</span></span><span style="font-family: '‘Book Antiqua’', Georgia, Garamond, '‘Times New Roman’', Times, serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;"><br /><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14212318257497855486noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128268516627478543.post-66407422750872143622015-04-02T09:09:00.000+01:002015-04-02T09:09:09.039+01:00Microsoft introduces Music and Video Preview apps for Windows 10 build 10049 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Yesterday, Microsoft released Project Spartan browser in the latest Windows 10 build. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Today, the company is </span><a class="externalLink" href="http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/03/31/music-and-video-preview-apps-for-pcs-are-headed-to-the-store-for-windows-insiders/" style="color: #09324f; line-height: 13.9700002670288px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">adding</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;"> Music and Video Preview apps for the latest Windows 10 </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">build (10049).</span><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">These apps are replacing Xbox Music and Xbox Video apps and shedding the Xbox </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">branding. The Music app will let users browse, stream, play local songs and make playlists. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Other features like dark theme, right click context menu, compact mode and others will be </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">soon added to the app. If you have an Xbox Music Pass, you can browse our full catalog and </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">stream or download music for offline use and discover new music with artist radio stations.</span></span><span style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14212318257497855486noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128268516627478543.post-22693904008167689012015-04-02T09:07:00.004+01:002015-04-02T09:07:48.444+01:00Google brings custom snooze option to Inbox<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Yesterday, Google for Android received a number of new features along with “All Inboxes” </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">tab. Today, Google has introduced custom snooze time option to Inbox.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“As our lives change, so do our schedules. “Morning” probably means something different to a college kid than, say, a parent with a newborn baby. Whatever your schedule is, your inbox should adapt to your day (and not the other way around). ”<br />posted Vijay Umapathy, Product Manager in a <a class="externalLink" href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.in/2015/03/custom-snooze-in-inbox-by-gmail-rise.html" style="color: #09324f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">blog</a>.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Users can now set up custom times for morning, afternoon, and evening snooze. They will </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">have to set an email to snooze, pick a custom time, and then Inbox will ask if you want to set </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">that as your morning, afternoon, or evening preference. Inbox also adapts from your </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">preferences meaning if you snooze to a custom time of 7:30AM, the service will ask if you </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">would like to change your morning time to 7:30AM. When you update your morning, </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">afternoon, or evening times, the rest of your snooze options will also adapt. This evening,” </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">uses your evening time, while “Tomorrow” and “Next week” use your morning time.</span><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">In addition to custom snooze times, this edition of Inbox adds quick access to Contacts from </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">the web interface.</span><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Play Link – </span><a class="externalLink" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.inbox" style="color: #09324f; line-height: 13.9700002670288px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Inbox by Gmail</a></span><span style="font-family: '‘Book Antiqua’', Georgia, Garamond, '‘Times New Roman’', Times, serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;"><br /><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14212318257497855486noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128268516627478543.post-45331114275938750172015-04-01T23:42:00.000+01:002015-04-01T23:42:06.941+01:00Tech Tank<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You're using a wireless access point that has encryption so you're safe, right? Wrong! Hackers want you to believe that you are protected so you will remain vulnerable to their attacks. Here are 4 things that wireless hackers hope you won't find out, otherwise they might not be able to break into your network and/or computer:</div>
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<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. WEP encryption is useless for protecting your wireless network. WEP is easily cracked within minutes and only provides users with a false sense of security.</span></div>
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Even a mediocre hacker can defeat Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)-based security in a matter of minutes, making it essentially useless as a protection mechanism. Many people set their wireless routers up years ago and have never bothered to change their wireless encryption from WEP to the newer and stronger WPA2 security. Updating your router to WPA2 is a fairly simple process. Visit your wireless router manufacturer's website for instructions.</div>
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<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Using your wireless router's MAC filter to prevent unauthorized devices from joining your network is ineffective and easily defeated.</span></div>
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Every piece of IP-based hardware, whether it's a computer, game system, printer, etc, has a unique hard-coded MAC address in its network interface. Many routers will allow you to permit or deny network access based on a device's MAC address. The wireless router inspects the MAC address of the network device requesting access and compares it your list of permitted or denied MACs. This sounds like a great security mechanism</div>
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but the problem is that hackers can "spoof" or forge a fake MAC address that matches an approved one. All they need to do is use a wireless packet capture program to sniff (eavesdrop) on the wireless traffic and see which MAC addresses are traversing the network. They can then set their MAC address to match one of that is allowed and join the network.</div>
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Many wireless routers have a setting that allows you to administer the router via a wireless connection. This means that you can access all of the routers security settings and other features without having to be on a computer that is plugged into the router using an Ethernet cable. While this is convenient for being able to administer the router remotely, it also provides another point of entry for the hacker to get to your security settings and change them to something a little more hacker friendly. Many people never change the factory default admin passwords to their wireless router which makes things even easier for the hacker. I recommend turning the "allow admin via wireless" feature off so only someone with a physical connection to the network can attempt to administer the wireless router settings.</div>
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Hackers can use tools like Firesheep and AirJack to perform "man-in-the-middle" attacks where they insert themselves into the wireless conversation between sender and receiver. Once they have successfully inserted themselves into the line of communications, they can harvest your account passwords, read your e-mail, view your IMs, etc. They can even use tools such as SSL Strip to obtain passwords for secure websites that you visit. I recommend using a commercial VPN service provider to protect all of your traffic when you are using wi-fi networks. Costs range from $7 and up per month. A secure VPN provides an additional layer of security that is extremely difficult to defeat. Unless the hacker is extremely determined they will most likely move on and try an easier target</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Microsoft just </span><a class="externalLink" href="http://blog.surface.com/2015/03/announcing-surface-3/" style="color: #09324f; line-height: 13.9700002670288px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">announced</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;"> Surface 3, an affordable variant of the the Surface Pro 3 tablet </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">lighter at 622g compared to the Surface Pro 3 with a 12-inch screen. Microsoft says that it is </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">the thinnest and lightest Surface the company has ever shipped. It also comes with LTE </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">of colors separately for $130 and the Docking Station is also available separately. Microsoft </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">says that the display would offer incredibly accurate colors and clarity from multiple </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">viewing </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">angle. The rear camera has been bumped to 8-megapixel from 5-megapixel on the </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Surface Pro 3 and this also has a 3.5-megapixel front-facing camera. It also has a kickstand </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Microsoft Surface 3 starts at $499 for the 2GB RAM with 64GB storage version. 4GB </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">RAM with 128GB storage costs $599. Surface 3 with LTE costs $599 for the 2GB RAM + </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">64GB variant and $699 for the 4GB RAM + 128GB version. It will be available though </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px; text-align: left;">WhatsApp started rolling out voice calling feature for Android users earlier this year. It was </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px; text-align: left;">already have calling feature to call you to unlock it. Now, after the </span><a class="externalLink" href="http://www.whatsapp.com/android/" style="color: #09324f; line-height: 13.9700002670288px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">latest version</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px; text-align: left;"> (2.12.19) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px; text-align: left;">WhatsApp calling without invites. We tried it on several smartphones, including </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px; text-align: left;">smartphones running on Android Jelly Bean.</span><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px; text-align: left;" /><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px; text-align: left;">As we said earlier, the call quality is decent on WiFi, but on 3G and 2G it was not the best. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Google has launched a new Chrome browser extension called Data Saver, which can be used </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">to save bandwidth and time when loading Web pages. The service has till now been </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">primarily targeted at mobile users, since they suffer from limited connectivity and try to </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">save </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">expensive data. However, with the launch of this extension, Google has made the </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">service available to PC users of the Chrome browser as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">immediately after installation. It can be disabled and re-enabled through settings. It should </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Google's Data Saver feature has been available for mobile devices through Chrome for </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Android and Chrome for iOS in release form since January 2014. Apart from saving </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">bandwidth and loading Web pages faster, the extension also boosts security, since all sites </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">some utility for PC users with slow Internet connections, limited Internet connectivity or </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">low bandwidth plans. With this latest Chrome extension launch, Google appears to now be </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">on track to launch the service in release form soon.</span></span><span style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14212318257497855486noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128268516627478543.post-60721035514211673942015-03-31T17:17:00.002+01:002015-03-31T17:17:57.910+01:00Gmail for Android gets “All Inboxes”, smart search and more <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Drive integration.</span><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">First up, Gmail is adding the ability for users to view emails from all your different accounts </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">without needing to manually switch between accounts and it does not matter if its a Gmail </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Gmail like Yahoo, Outlook.com and other IMAP/POP accounts. All the emails will be </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">allow </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">you to find the correct email even faster. Finally, users can now see larger previews of </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">attachments, and the ability to save emails to Google Drive with just a single tap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">did not say when will it bring the feature to iOS.</span><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Google Play Link – </span><a class="externalLink" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.gm&hl=en" style="color: #09324f; line-height: 13.9700002670288px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Gmail</a></span><span style="font-family: '‘Book Antiqua’', Georgia, Garamond, '‘Times New Roman’', Times, serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;"><br /><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14212318257497855486noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128268516627478543.post-29873235389530701362015-03-31T17:15:00.002+01:002015-03-31T17:15:47.741+01:00Microsoft adds Project Spartan browser in latest Windows 10 build <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Microsoft has launched a new Windows 10 preview for PCs and this one comes with </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">companies much talked about </span><a class="externalLink" href="http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/03/30/introducing-project-spartan-the-new-browser-built-for-windows-10/" style="color: #09324f; line-height: 13.9700002670288px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Project Spartan</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;"> browser. The browser will ship with the </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">latest </span><a class="externalLink" href="http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/03/30/windows-10-technical-preview-build-10049-now-available/" style="color: #09324f; line-height: 13.9700002670288px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Windows 10</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;"> version on smartphones, tablets and PCs.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Project Spartan, the Internet Explorer successor, is touted as a browser that is made for </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">easy </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">sharing, reading, discovery and getting things done online.” The latest build number is </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">10049 and includes a preview version of the new browser. Project Spartan comes with </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Cortana, the company’s digital assistant that lives in both current builds of Windows Phone </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">and Windows 10. The browser includes ink support, reading list/reading view and the new </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Spartan rendering engine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Other features of the browser are Web Note, which will let users write or type directly on </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">web pages and then share them with other people. Microsoft says Project Spartan’s latest </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">design is “puts the focus on the page, not the browser.” You can write or type directly on to a </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">webpage, and share the comments through email, social networks, or through OneDrive. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Today’s update bumps the Windows 10 build number from 10041 to build 10049. Windows </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">10 testers can now download the latest build.</span></span><span style="font-family: '‘Book Antiqua’', Georgia, Garamond, '‘Times New Roman’', Times, serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;"><br /><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14212318257497855486noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128268516627478543.post-42309698319836844042015-03-30T03:57:00.002+01:002015-03-30T05:16:28.839+01:00You may soon be able to run Android apps on Windows Phone <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Nearly five years following its debut, the beleaguered Windows Phone still suffers from a </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">lack of apps. Recent, high-profile additions like WatchESPN have mitigated things, but the </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">truth remains that the offerings on the Android and iOS app stores positively dwarf </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Microsoft’s own. The App Store and Play Store respectively boast an app catalog north of 1 </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">million, while the Windows Phone Store just last November reached 187,000. Microsoft is </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">acutely aware of this fact, and in response is reportedly experimenting with Android app </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">emulation within the upcoming Windows Phone 10.</span><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">According to Neowin, the scope of the emulation is quite wide. As the software currently </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">stands, most Android apps are compatible, and some builds even sport a working Google </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Play Store client. Of course, questions about the legality of the emulation’s implementation </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">and its potential effects on native Windows Phone development have kept the project from </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">being green-lit thus far.</span><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Technical concerns may also be playing a part. BlackBerry’s own Android emulation </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">solution </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">in the BlackBerry 10 operating system was plagued with limitations and </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">performance issues, and required manually downloading and installing apps. It’s since been </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">improved, but Microsoft would no doubt rather avoid the same user backlash its competitor </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">endured.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">On the other hand, Microsoft may do better to stay the course. The company is on the cusp </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">of releasing Windows 10, and with it, refreshed development tools that may finally make </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">creating and publishing multi-platform apps simpler. Separately, Microsoft’s aiming to </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">address the issue of market share by producing a program that can easily convert Android </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">devices to Windows Phones.</span><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">If successful, those efforts could give Windows Phone the boost it needs to compete with </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">incumbents. Still, Microsoft will have to act quickly. While the company’s still committed to </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">“the long game,” the Wall Street Journal reports, it’s already spent billions of dollars to prop </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">up the Windows Phone ecosystem, and Microsoft has nothing but falling market share to </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">feature will be rolled out to iOS users in "couple weeks".</span><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">While speaking at Facebook's F8 developers' conference, Acton said that WhatsApp team </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">"refined and iterated voice calling" last year before launching it on Android. Unfortunately, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">v2.11.17.444 beta app showing off the UI of the WhatsApp voice calling feature surfaced </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">earlier this month. The screenshots showed a UI that was in-line with the interface spotted </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">last month.</span><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">The leaked WhatsApp for iPhone screenshots showed mute, message, and speaker options </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Truecaller for Android has received a new update that will enable users to identify any </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">mobile number on the smartphone without opening the app.</span><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Called Truecaller Auto-Search, the feature lets Android app users identify an unknown </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">number by just copying it - associated information will then be automatically searched for, </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">and a notification will be displayed to the user. The company claims that users can 'auto-</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">search' for an unknown number seen on a website, mail or even message by just copying the </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">number.</span><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Essentially, the Truecaller app now checks whenever a number is copied onto the Android </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">smartphone's clipboard, from any app, such as Gmail, Messaging, or a Web browser.</span><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Announcing the new update, Truecaller said on its </span><a class="externalLink" href="http://www.truecaller.com/blog/identify-a-number-anywhere-auto-search" style="color: #09324f; line-height: 13.9700002670288px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">blog</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">, "Identifying a number has never </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">been so fast, and frictionless. Android users now can be browsing anywhere on their phone, </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">copy a phone number, and Truecaller will instantly try to identify the number and give easy </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">access to calling or texting."</span><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">The updated Truecaller app for Android is now available for </span><a class="externalLink" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.truecaller" style="color: #09324f; line-height: 13.9700002670288px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">download</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;"> and brings other new </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">features such as the addition of Nepalese language support, as well as bug fixes and general </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">search for contacts in the phonebook or in Truecaller. Unfortunately, the company has not </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">revealed when the Auto-Search feature will be rolling out to iOS users.</span><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">App Link - </span><a class="externalLink" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.truecaller" style="color: #09324f; line-height: 13.9700002670288px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.truecaller</a></span><span style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14212318257497855486noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128268516627478543.post-40777290416765145522015-03-30T03:45:00.002+01:002015-03-30T03:45:47.548+01:00iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, iPhone 6C to Launch This Year Read more: <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Plus, and iPhone 6C - claims a report citing industry sources.</span><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">While the </span><a class="externalLink" href="http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20150325PD210.html" style="color: #09324f; line-height: 13.9700002670288px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">report</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;"> suggests that the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus will be the incremental </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">updates from last year's iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, it adds the iPhone 6C will be cheaper </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">variant of the handset that the Cupertino-based giant will launch to tap the emerging </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">markets, which also includes India. All three are due in the second half of 2015.</span><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">No reasoning was given as to why the 'S' in the model names will be upper-case. Digitimes </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">including Japan Display, Sharp and LG Display, and will also feature Corning Gorilla Glass </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">protection. The report adds that the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus will use the A9 chips </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">while the iPhone 6C will be backed by A8 chips. Other highlight features such as NFC and </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">fingerprint scanner will be present on all three iPhone expected to launch later this year.</span><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">The rumoured 4-inch iPhone has been in news for some time and was claimed to be </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">targeted </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">at "female users". The handset, tentatively called iPhone 6C, is said to replace the </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">One of the sources pointed out, "The adoption of a plastic case for the 5C, which made the </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">iPhone look cheaper than its family products, contributed to lower-than-expected sales of </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Further commenting about the pricing of the iPhone 6C, a source added that it should be </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">priced around $400-500 in the US. "Shipment performance of iPhone devices in emerging </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">markets, including India, Africa and Latin America, has been flat, as consumers in these </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">The 4-inch iPhone could also tie-in with a recent Wall Street Journal report that claimed </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Apple is working on a Pink variant of the handset as the successor the iPhone 5c. The report </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">had added the Cupertino giant was looking to use its new pressure-sensitive Force Touch </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">technology introduced in the new 12-inch MacBook to its next iPhone models as well.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">In another report </span><a class="externalLink" href="http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20150326PD202.html" style="color: #09324f; line-height: 13.9700002670288px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Digitimes</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;"> claims that the rumoured iPhone 6C will be manufactured by </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Wistron while the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus will be assembled by Foxconn and </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Pegatron. It adds that Wistron and Compal Electronics joined Apple as manufacturing </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">partners recently and that while the former handles older generation iPhone models; the </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">latter assembles iPads.</span><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Digitimes also suggests that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">A team of doctors here have developed a mobile application through which the health status </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">of heart could be monitored at any time of the day by calculating the risks and giving </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">The mobile application, named '</span><a class="externalLink" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mb.hhm&hl=en" style="color: #09324f; line-height: 13.9700002670288px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Heart Health Meter</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">' (HHM App), was launched at a </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">function in Thane last evening by a team of doctors and IT experts from Madhavbaug - an </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">organisation of multidisciplinary cardiac care clinics and hospitals - on its 50th anniversary.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Explaining the modalities of the app, Rohit Sane, trustee and MD of Vaidya Sane Trust (the </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">parent organisation of Madhavbaug), said through 'HHM App' one can know the current </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">health status of his heart.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">"With increasing age, conditions like diabetes, excess weight, </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">smoking, high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels damage our blood vessels and the </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">heart, increasing our risk of getting a heart attack," he said.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">The 'Heart Health Meter' calculates this risk and also gives you recommendations and tips </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">on how to reduce or manage the risk, he said.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">"Taking treatment early for these risk factors reduces chances of developing a major heart </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">condition and getting a heart attack. The HHM can be downloaded and heart health </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">calculated easily with it," Sane said.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">The app was released in the presence of Thane Mayor Sanjay More, Shiv Sena MPs Rajan </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Vichare (Thane) and Shrikant Shinde (Kalyan), Kuldip Rai Kohli, Director, Department of </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">The app, currently available free of cost on Google Play for Android, was developed by the </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">experts after extensive study, researches and taking inputs from various doctors, patients </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">and medical consultants, and has been successfully tested on the hospital's web portal.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">"Our aim was to make this utility available to masses.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">The app was developed keeping in </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">mind that nowadays mobile technology is becoming the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">most popular, powerful and </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">suitable </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">medium to reach people," Sane said.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">The app would soon be made available on Windows Phone and iOS platforms as well, he </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">said.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">This will help in raising awareness among people about the heart diseases, as knowing </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">your heart's health is the first step towards taking care of this vital body organ, Sane added.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Madhavbaug is an ISO certified private cardiac rehab centre (hospital), having branches </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">across Maharashtra, that treats heart disease using Ayurveda.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">App Link - </span><a class="externalLink" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mb.hhm&hl=en" style="color: #09324f; line-height: 13.9700002670288px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mb.hhm&hl=en</a></span><span style="font-family: '‘Book Antiqua’', Georgia, Garamond, '‘Times New Roman’', Times, serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14212318257497855486noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128268516627478543.post-41275739386711872602015-03-30T03:36:00.002+01:002015-03-30T03:36:46.504+01:00WhatsApp likely to backup chat history with Google Drive integration <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">integration to </span><a class="externalLink" href="http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/03/26/whatsapp-could-soon-backup-and-restore-your-chat-history-and-media-to-google-drive/" style="color: #09324f; line-height: 13.9700002670288px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">restore</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;"> you conversations.</span><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><br style="line-height: 13.9700002670288px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">Users chats gets wiped out when they uninstalls WhatsApp, change their devices or </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">to </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">translate certain instructions, some of which made reference to backing up their chat </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;">of the launch of this feature but we sure hope that the update will be launched soon.</span></span><span style="font-family: '‘Book Antiqua’', Georgia, Garamond, '‘Times New Roman’', Times, serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.9700002670288px;"><br /><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14212318257497855486noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128268516627478543.post-144941043146808592015-03-28T12:28:00.002+01:002015-03-28T12:28:19.739+01:00INEC website hacked<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The website of the Independent National Electoral Commission has been hacked. The website is hacked by a group that parade itself as Nigerian Cyber Army. The hacking was confirmed by INEC on its Twitter handle, @inecnigeria<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />“We are aware of the recent hack of our @inecnigeria website, we are currently investigating this incident<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />#NigeriaDecides”</div>
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Information on the INEC website: www.inecnigeria.org reads:</div>
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[!] StruCkED by Nigerian Cyber Army[!]<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Sorry xD Your Site has been STAMPED by TeaM Nigerian Cyber Army<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />FEEL SOME SHAME ADMIN!!<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Security is just an illusion</div>
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Remember US :D GREETINGS OF PEACE TO CITIZEN OF NIGERIA FROM TEAM NCA</div>
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NIGERIANS No Body Can Give You Freedom No Body Can Give You Equality Or Justice If You Are A Man/Woman YOU TAKE IT<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Its 2015 Elections And We Are Here AGain But This Time In A Different Form, APC Claimed They Hacked Into INEC DATABASE But We Own The DATABASE Long Before Now So No Worries No Fear To All NIGERIANs…GO And Cast Your Vote And We Assure You That Your Vote Must Count Because We Are The Kings Of The NIgerRian CYber SPACE.<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />NOTE: WE GAT ACCESS TO OTHER HIGH RANKING NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT SERVERS, BUT WE ARE NOT HERE FOR THAT TODAY!.<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />INEC DONT TRY TO RIG BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING YOU DAY AND NIGHT FOR MONTHS NOW BUT DONT BE SCARED WE MEAN NO HARM COS IF YOU ATTEMPT TO RIG YOU WILL PAY!!<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />WE ARE THE THE VOICE OF THE YOUTHs!!<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />WE ALSO USE THIS MEDIUM TO ADVICE ALL POLITICAL PARTIES: WHO PRICE GO PAY.<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />WE DO NOT FORGIVE<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />WE DO NOT FORGET<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />EXPECT US!</div>
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GO ahead and cast your votes.<br />
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Today, I'm excited to share that we've successfully completed our first test flight of these aircraft in the UK.</div>
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Aircraft like these will help connect the whole world because they can affordably serve the 10% of the world's population that live in remote communities without existing internet infrastructure.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Web pages would be loaded quicker sans JavaScript via a proposal being floated by the editor of a fashion magazine, possibly as part of a still-theoretical "HTML6."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) mailing list post entitled "HTML6 proposal for single-page Web apps without JavaScript" details the proposal, dated March 20. "The overall purpose [of the plan] is to reduce response times when loading Web pages," said Web developer Bobby Mozumder, editor in chief of <a href="http://www.futureclaw.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #005f7e; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">FutureClaw</a> magazine, in an email. "This is the difference between a 300ms page load vs 10ms. The faster you are, the better people are going to feel about using your Website."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The proposal cites a standard design pattern emerging via front-end JavaScript frameworks where content is loaded dynamically via JSON APIs. "This is the single-page app Web design pattern," said Mozumder. "Everyone's into it because the responsiveness is so much better than loading a full page -- 10-50ms with a clean API load vs. 300-1500ms for a full HTML page load. Since this is so common now, can we implement this directly in the browsers via HTML so users can dynamically run single-page apps without JavaScript?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Accomplishing the goal of a high-speed, responsive Web experience without loading JavaScript "could probably be done by linking anchor elements to JSON/XML (or a new definition) API endpoints [and] having the browser internally load the data into a new data structure," the proposal states. The browser "then replaces DOM elements with whatever data that was loaded as needed." The initial data and standard error responses could be in header fixtures, which could be replaced later if so desired. "The HTML body thus becomes a templating language with all the content residing in the fixtures that can be dynamically reloaded without JavaScript."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">JavaScript frameworks and JavaScript are leveraged for loading now, but there are issues with these, Mozumder explained. "Should we force millions of Web developers to learn JavaScript, a framework, and an associated templating language if they want a speedy, responsive Web site out-of-the-box? This is a huge barrier for beginners, and right now they're stuck with slower full-page reloads." The plan translates to simpler and less-costly advanced Web development, according to Mozumder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As far as the "HTML6" designation, Ian Jacobs, who is a representative of the W3C, said he was unaware of any plans for anything branded HTML6. He pointed to a working draft for HTML5.1, published March 17, as a specification under consideration <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/resources/15695/html5/html5-how-to-infoworlds-expert-guide" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: #005f7e; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">post-HTML5</a>. Mozumder said he merely put the proposal out for early feature consideration and was unsure of any plans for HTML6. "I expect this [proposal] to take years to develop, but if this can be incorporated into HTML5.1, then great, even better!" </span></div>
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