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Android O Beta is Available for Users

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Android O is now available as Beta to be used by all of us. Now here is an opportunity to deliver the primary features and to use or test by users. Actually the version is already in market but as a developer preview but now we can now we finally can use as a user. Updates like in notification – includes a notification dot that lets users now new note is tied to it. If you press it for a while a preview window will open. You might concern how to download the new version of android and what are the new features of it:- The version is available on such devices- Nexus 5X, Nexus Player, Nexus 6P, Pixel XL, Pixel C and Pixel.  If you want to play the latest features of Google’s here’s what you can follow:- 1. Before downloading Android O, back up your all data because installing the beta version can wipe your phone too. 2. Visit the page of Android O Beta program through the link. 3. Sign in with Google account and if you are not having sign up or register yourself. 4...

Hey Siri, Google Assistant is on iPhone Now

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Google announced on Wednesday that now Google Assistant is available for iPhone. It competes with Siri and allows users to check weather, booking tickets, book restaurant or more. Already Google Assistant is available on Google Home or Android OS. But can say Apple still has one leg-up with Siri as it can be activated through “Hey Siri” command and for Google Assistant you need to open it separately. Google Assistant is restricted in United States after launching and soon will come to other countries as well. Users will not able to replace Siri with Google Assistant. Google announced few new features are also coming this month that include Google Lens- image processing algorithm with text interpretation in aspect to location, to translate foreign text a camera view finder is used and adding 10 languages before the end of this year. Google Assistant is considered a powerful voice assistant when you compare it to Siri, current version. It allows you to ask more complicated...

Cyberattack Impact on India- “WannaCry” Rasomware

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You must have heard “the road to Hell is paved with good intentions". The WannaCry ransome attack is an ongoing cyber-attack of rasomware computer worm targeting the widows OS. The attack flows on 12-May, 2017 and affect more than 230,000 computers in approx. 150 countries. Many businesses were affected by this and RBI asked banks to operationalize their ATM networks after updating software. Government has issued caution message and reinforce the online security This attack brought computer systems to their knees from Russia to China to UK to the US.  WannaCry attacks lock the essential data of people and demand for some ransom or lose your data. Victims affected were Banks, Hospitals, Telecommunication Companies and Warehouses. What is WannaCry? It is a hacking attack that holds your computer until you pay ransom. When it infects the computer it encrypts and scrambles the data. And demands money to get back the access of your system. They increase the amount wit...

What is MAC Address? Where MAC is Stored

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What is MAC Address?  MAC- Media Access Control is unique identifier that is assigned to network interface for communication at data link layer and is used as network address. It is often referred as a hardware or physical address. MAC’s are of 48-bit or 6 bytes and are written in MM:MM:MM:SS:SS:SS format. The first 3 bytes are ID number of manufacturer and next 3-bytes are serial number.  It represents Layer 2 of TCP/IP where IP represents layer 3. MAC address supports hardware implementation whereas IP address supports software implementation. Where MAC is Stored? MAC addresses are called the “burned in address”. NIC manufactures will assign MAC address to the device and hardcoded is stored in ROM chip and preloaded into non-volatile memory like EEPROM. There are few USB adapters that are not having MAC address preloaded in firmware. These devices rely on software drivers that load on host system to assign the MAC. So MAC can store on NIC or OS, depends ...

Which is the Best WordPress Popup Plugin?

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WP Popup Plugin is the most beautiful and easy to create popup plugin to create different pages. Through this we can make more popups of different styles and for different attractive pages. This plugin is free of cost, open source and is world renowned plugin. This is the superb plugin to make your website beautiful and give it a stunning look. However, the main goal of every business is to convert the visitors of website into email subscriber and paying customers. Did you know more than 80% of uses will not come back to your website after visiting once unless you offer them a chance to come back. There is what the popup plugin comes in wordpress. Features of Popup Plugin • On the top of plugin you can add the header or heading section. • You can add image to the Popup. • You are allowed to customize width of Popup Box. • According to your choice you can add background color. • You can get popup with or without image. • You can set the display time of popup box. ...

How to Stay Safe on Public Wi-Fi Networks

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Public Wi-Fi networks like in airports multiplex or coffee shops are not safe as you think.  It might also possible when you are sharing your data with other as hotspot. This also describe your data is at risk. In this article you will get to know how to secure your data while you are connecting to public network. Through this public Wi-Fi hackers can easily gain control of your email account. Although public are warned not to use public Wi-Fi but they ignore such warnings because they don’t believe this can happen. How Wi-Fi works Wi-Fi is acronym of “ Wireless Fidelity ”.  It is a simple way to connect multiple system or device wirelessly so they can share their data without the cables.  To establish a connection router is used and once the connection is established you will have access to data that is saved on other system. Router not only provides you the internet connection but also stores your data. They work like a firewall but it doesn’t mean you’re se...

5 Ways that IoT is Reshaping Today’s Insurance Proposition

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Global insurance industries is inflowing a different phase of disruptive changes driven by the IoT- Internet of Things.  In last fifteen years insurance industry has experienced significant technology-driven change. IoT is changing the nature of insurance An IoT can change the fundamental nature of insurance propositions. Here are some of the methods in which internet of things can transform today’s mainstream offering of insurance. • Minimize the potential claims IoT devices can not only perceive an incident but also initiate an automatic response to decrease the cost. • Mass market With raise in functionality or ubiquity of sensors the IoT technology allows insurers to provide high insurance offerings. • Risk-based charging IoT offers true usage and risk-based insurance. With premium rates the rates are adjusted accordingly. Say, auto insurance would be charged high pay rates while driving late at night- in winter. But it would be reduce while driving in da...

WhatsApp is down and the internet is freaking out

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The hot news is whatsapp is down and causing issues for millions across the world. In many places it’s totally not working and in few places its connecting to screen only or can say internet is not the issue. Today whatsapp is need of every single person; they don’t think their life without. And sudden collapse shocked all of them and for some it was like a nightmare. Anyhow they need it back as they think their life is stop without it. According to the report the problem started at 1 PM on May-3, 2017. The victim Countries are Europe, Brazil or large swaths of United States. Users had shared their horror on other social sites like Facebook or Twitter. Company’s spokesperson shared his opinion in an email that we are trying to resolve the problem as we are aware of the issue. And will inform you shortly. At the same day 4:58 PM, finally user took a deep breathe- whatsapp is back again. Whatsapp representative apologies for the inconvenience that happen but now everythi...

Use Any Email to Access Yahoo Mail App Now

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Users can access their Yahoo mail now with Gmail, Outlook or AOL email address. This is the latest of Yahoo and the team is always looking to create new features that help people to stay organized. To create a Yahoo account and access new features tap your Gmail or Outlook account and allow Yahoo to synchronize emails in mail app. Yahoo mail app is available in App Store of iOS- 4.15 and Google Play of Android- 5.15. In February, Yahoo also launched caller ID and image upload feature for yahoo app. It helps user to identify the details of caller and access their phone camera roll on desktop. This new feature will show who is calling either the number of person is not saved in your device. Contact information is used by Yahoo from emails. As soon as the person contacts you, their name will surface with the call and Yahoo Mail will update names in your smartphone’s call history. When you dial the number it will show automatically. Once if you have enable this feature, you ca...