Saturday, September 12, 2020

Why Microsoft Allows PIRACY in INDIA | Windows XP, 7, 8, 10 Pirated Versions

If you think that Microsoft cannot stop you from using pirated windows, then I must tell you that you are wrong. The moment you connect to the Internet to your PC, Microsoft will easily find out whether you are running a pirated version of Windows XP / 7.8.10. 

 


So why does Microsoft not want people to use their OS without payment, because the original windows are close to around 10k INR or more? They do not care about privacy in developing countries like India and China. Even Bill Gates has also said: "Although every year in China is sold the almost 3M computer, people do not pay for the software. Can, of course, get Windows 10 only 30 INR in India. He said that if they are going to steal it, we want them to steal them. they will be used to settle, and then we will explore any way that sometimes to be collected over the next decade ".


What is a great business-oriented mind,” Bill Gates”. The reason is that if you are constantly using Windows OS since your childhood, then you will become addicted to that OS. But when you enter the professional area, you will demand the Windows OS. Because in other OS like Linux, you must learn about it. And you cannot ask for the Windows professional fields and will buy the windows, because they can attack Microsoft that area, company, etc. because they use Windows pirates.

Windows OS is easy, user-friendly, and Microsoft allows to use for free right. And then Microsoft takes advantage and make good money. If Microsoft does not allow piracy, then Windows OS easily replaced by Linux OS and Mac OS. So, for business reasons Microsoft Allows Use Pirated Windows.

If Microsoft decides, it can shut down the piracy of Windows within a few hours. No warnings would be given. But it will not do that for India and other developing countries because it is taking advantage of its brand. Therefore, Microsoft Allows Piracy.



Friday, September 11, 2020

Top Features in Android 11? Android 11 2020

Android 11 introduces great new features and APIs for developers.

  






New Experiences-

Device controls

Android 11 includes a new ControlsProviderService API that you can use to expose controls for connected, external devices. These controls appear under Device controls in the Android power menu.

Media Controls

Android 11 updates how media controls are displayed. Media controls appear near quick settings. Sessions from multiple apps are arranged in a swipeable carousel which includes streams playing locally on the phone, remote streams, such as those detected on external devices or cast sessions, and previous, resumable sessions in the order they were last played.

Users can restart previous sessions from the carousel without having to start the app. When playback begins, the user interacts with the media controls in the usual way.

Screens

Better support for waterfall displays

Android 11 provides several APIs to support waterfall displays, displays which wrap around the edge of the device. These displays are treated as a variant of displays with display cutouts. The existing DisplayCutout.getSafeInset() methods now return the safe inset to avoid waterfall areas as well as cutouts. To render your app content in the waterfall area, do the following:

·        Call DisplayCutout.getWaterfallInsets() to get exact dimensions of the waterfall inset.

·        Set the window layout attribute layoutInDisplayCutoutMode to LAYOUT_IN_DISPLAY_CUTOUT_MODE_ALWAYS to allow the window to extend into the cutout and waterfall areas on all edges of the screen. You must make sure that no essential content is in the cutout or waterfall areas.

Hinge Angle Sensor and Foldables

Android 11 makes it possible for apps running on devices with hinge-based screen configurations to determine the angle of the hinge by providing a new sensor with TYPE_HINGE_ANGLE, and a new SensorEvent that can monitor the hinge angle and provides a measurement in degrees between two integral parts of the device. You can use these raw measurements to perform granular animations as the user manipulates the device.

Conversations

Conversation improvements

Android 11 makes several improvements to the way conversations are handled. Conversations are real-time, bidirectional communications between two or more people. These conversations are given special prominence, and users have several new options in how to interact with them.

Chat Bubbles

Bubbles are now available to developers to help surface conversations across the system. Bubbles was an experimental feature in Android 10 that was enabled through a developer option; in Android 11, this is no longer necessary.

If an app targets Android 11 (API level 30) or higher, its notifications are not presented as bubbles unless they fulfill the new conversation requirements. Specifically, the notification must be associated with a shortcut.

Prior to Android 11, if you wanted a notification to be bubbled, you needed to explicitly specify that the notification was set to always launch in document UI mode. Beginning with Android 11, you no longer need to explicitly make that setting; if the notification is bubbled, the platform automatically sets the notification to always launch in document UI mode.

There are several improvements to bubble performance, and users have more flexibility in enabling and disabling bubbles from each app. For developers who implemented experimental support, there are a few changes to the APIs in Android 11:

  • The BubbleMetadata.Builder() constructor with no parameters is deprecated. Instead, use either of the two new constructors BubbleMetadata.Builder(PendingIntent, Icon) or BubbleMetadata.Builder(String).
  • Create BubbleMetadata from a shortcut ID by calling BubbleMetadata.Builder(String). The string passed should match the shortcut ID provided to Notification.Builder.
  • Create bubble icons with Icon.createWithContentUri(), or with the new method createWithAdaptiveBitmapContentUri().

 

 

5G visual indicators

For information on displaying 5G indicators on users' devices, see Tell your users when they're on 5G.

Privacy

Android 11 introduces many changes and restrictions to enhance user privacy. To learn more,

Security

Biometric authentication updates

To help you control the level of security for your app's data, Android 11 provides several improvements to biometric authentication. These changes also appear in the Jetpack Biometric library.

 

Additional support for auth-per-use keys

Android 11 provides more support for authentication using auth-per-use keys.

Secure sharing of large datasets

In some situations, such as those that involve machine learning or media playback, your app might want to use the same large dataset as another app. In previous versions of Android, your app and another app would each need to download a separate copy of the same dataset.

To help reduce data redundancy, both over the network and on disk, Android 11 allows these large datasets to be cached on the device using shared data blobs. To learn more about sharing datasets, see the in-depth guide on sharing large datasets.


Thursday, September 10, 2020

Facebook Ads vs Google Ads? Which Paid Advertising Should You Use For Online Marketing?

Paid advertising is a major part of Digital Marketing. And when it comes to paid advertising, there are two major players. Facebook Ads and Google Ads.

Both are great, and yes one can be better than the other depending on your business, your audience, and your goals. 


Facebook Ads

People do not log in to Facebook to find a product or service. They login to consume content inside the platform. Facebook has lots of information about its users. Age, gender, demographics, location, and so on.

When you run an Ad on Facebook, people may or may not be interested in what you have to offer. But you can reach your target audience who are most likely to like what you have to offer.

When I run Facebook Ads, this is what I experience:

  • Low CTR (Click Through Ratio)
  • Lots of impressions
  • Low cost of impressions

The people who are interested in what you have to offer might be less, but the cost is also low. That means you can filter out the highly interested people from a large group of potentially interested people.

Facebook Ads are really good if you are trying to reach an audience who does not know the existence of your product. They might not be searching for it proactively.

It is also good for branding and driving brand recall for your product or service. Facebook Ads are outbound advertising. You are reaching out to people instead of people reaching out to you.

Now let us compare this to Google Ads.

Google Ads

People search on Google because they want something.

In Google, you will not have much information about who the audience is, but you will know what they are searching for.

What they are searching for. There is a better term for it. Keywords.

Since they are making their intent very clear with the search keyword, we do not need to worry about their demographics and interests so much.

You are going to look at what people are searching for (through keyword research), and you are going to show ads to them. Anyone of any age looking you specifically is a potential customer.

(Please note that I am talking about search engine Ads when I say Google Ads here. I am not talking about display ads or YouTube ads.)

With Google Ads I get:

  • Higher CTR – because only the people looking for me are seeing my ads.
  • High CPC – because I am getting targeted high-quality traffic.
  • Higher cost per lead but higher quality

A lot of people think that Google Ads are costly, and they do not want to use it. But that is not the way it has to be seen.

You should not worry about the cost per click or cost per lead. You should think about your ROI (Return on investment). In Digital Marketing terms we call it ROAS (Return on Ad Spend). And that is how these two platforms are different.

In terms of the mechanics of search, SEO and SEM work on the same principles, except SEM gives you an opportunity to bypass the organic search results and show paid ads on the search engines itself.

I would not say Facebook Ads are better or Google Ads are better. Both are good in their own ways.

Wednesday, September 9, 2020

How Airports Make Money? How Indian Airlines Earn Money?

The business model of airports across the world is quite unique. Airports is a hugely capital-intensive investment. Both in terms of CAPEX and Operating costs, airports demand huge cash flows.

 
With the mission to be the foundation of an enduring Indian aviation network, providing high quality, safe and customer oriented airport & air navigation services, Airport Authority of India (AAI) is currently designing, developing, controlling and managing a total of 137 Airports, including 23 International Airports, 10 Customs Airports, 81 Domestic Airports and 23 Civil enclaves at Defense Airfields.

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

How DTH Works via Satellite? DTH working? Real Cost Of TV Channels? Satellite TV vs Cable TV Working?

Direct to Home (DTH) technology refers to the satellite television broadcasting process which is intended for home reception. This technology is originally referred to as direct broadcast satellite (DBS) technology. The technology was developed for competing with the local cable TV distribution services by providing higher quality satellite signals with a greater number of channels.

 





In short, DTH refers to the reception of satellite signals on a TV with a personal dish in an individual home. The satellites that are used for this purpose is geostationary satellites. The satellites compress the signals digitally, encrypt them and then are beamed from high powered geostationary satellites. They are received by dishes that are given to the DTH consumers by DTH providers.

Though DBS and DTH present the same services to the consumers, there are some differences in the technical specifications. While DBS is used for transmitting signals from satellites at a particular frequency band [the band differs in each country], DTH is used for transmitting signals over a wide range of frequencies [normal frequencies including the KU and KA band]. The satellites used for the transmission of the DTH signals are not part of any international planned frequency band. DBS has changed its plans over the past few years to include new countries and modify their mode of transmission from analog to digital. But DTH is more famous for its services in both the analog and digital services which includes both audio and video signals. The dishes used for this service is also very small in size. When it comes to commercial use, DBS is known for its service providing a group of free channels that are allowed for its targeted country.

DTH in India

India is one of the biggest DTH service providers in the world. The requirement is very high because of the high population and the increased number of viewers. The low cost of DTH when compared to other local cable providers is also one main reason for this substantial growth.

In India, the DTH requirement is more than in any country as the population of viewers is at very high rate.

The idea of DTH was first provided to India in 1996. But it was not approved then as there were concerns about national security. But the laws were changed by the year 2000 and thus DTH was allowed. According to the new rule, DTH providers are required to set up new stations within 12 months of getting the license. The cost of the license is almost $2.15 million in India with a validity of 10 years for renewal. The latest reports suggest that almost 25% of the total Indian population use this facility while others use local TV connections.

Some of the common DTH providers in India are

1. TATA Sky

2. BIG TV

3. Sun Direct DTH

4. Dish TV

5. Airtel DTH

6. Videocon DTH

Working of DTH

For a DTH network to be transmitted and received, the following components are needed.

  • Broadcasting Center
  • Satellites
  • Encoders
  • Multiplexers
  • Modulators
  • DTH receivers

It must be noted the channels that are broadcasted from the broadcasting center hare not created by the DTH providers. The DTH providers pay other companies like HBO, Sony MAX and so on for the right to broadcast their channel to the DTH consumers through satellite. Thus, the DTH provider acts as a mediator r broker between the consumers and the programme channels.

The broadcast center is the main part of the whole system. It is from the broadcast station that the signals are sent to the satellites to be broadcasted. The broadcast station receives the signals from various program channels.

The satellite receives the signal from the broadcast Center and compresses the signals and makes them suitable for re-transmission to the ground.

The DTH providers give dish receivers for the viewers to receive the signal from the satellites. There may be one or multiple satellites that send the signals at the same time. The receiver receives the signal from them and is passed on to the Set Top Box [STB] receiver in the viewer’s house.

The STB receiver changes the signal in a form suitable for our television and then passes it on to our TV.

Advantages of DTH Technology

  • The main advantage is that this technology is equally beneficial to everyone. As the process is wireless, this system can be used in all remote or urban areas.
  • High quality audio and video which are cost effective due to absence of mediators.
  • Almost 4000 channels can be viewed along with 2000 radio channels. Thus, the world’s entire information including news and entertainment is available to you at home.
  • As there are no mediators, a complaint can be directly expressed to the provider.
  • With a single DTH service you will be able to use digital quality audio, video, and high-speed broadband.


Monday, September 7, 2020

Vi - New Mobile Operator. Vodafone Idea Rebrand in INDIA | Jio vs Airtel vs Vi | Vi Plans

Vodafone Idea, one of the largest telecom operators in India, has rebranded as 'Vi' as it looks for a “Fresh Start” three years after the British telecom giant Vodafone Group's India business and billionaire Kumar Mangalam Birla's Idea Cellular merged in the country.


“As the integration of two businesses is now complete, it’s time for a fresh start. That’s why we believe that now is the perfect time to launch Vi, one company which provides the strength of Vodafone India and Idea,” Vodafone Group CEO Nick Read said at a virtual conference on Monday.

Vodafone Idea, once the largest telecom operator in the country with over 400 million subscribers, has lost more than 100 million subscribers in recent years to new comer Jio Platforms in recent years.

India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani’s telecom venture has become the largest telecom operator with nearly 400 million subscribers with its cut-rate mobile data tariffs. Jio Platforms has also attracted over $20 billion in investment from high-profile firms including Facebook and Google in recent months.

“India is the second largest telecom market and the largest data consumer, globally. With 1.2 billion Indians accessing voice and data services at the world’s lowest tariffs across 500,000 villages, the ubiquitous wireless network in India is unmatched for its reach and impact in people’s lives,” said Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman of Aditya Birla Group and Vodafone Idea, at the conference today.

“With our new brand — Vi, we stand committed to partner with government to accelerate India’s progression towards a digital economy, enabling millions of citizens to connect to the digital revolution and build a better tomorrow.”



Sunday, September 6, 2020

How POLICE TRACE our Real Time LOCATION from Mobile Number & IP Address?

Mobile phone tracking is a process for identifying the location of a mobile phone, whether stationary or moving. Localization may be effected by a number of technologies, such as using multilateration of radio signals between (several) cell towers of the network and the phone, or simply using GPS.

To locate a mobile phone using multilateration of radio signals, it must emit at least the idle signal to contact the next nearby antenna tower, but the process does not require an active call. The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is based on the phone's signal strength to nearby antenna masts.




Saturday, September 5, 2020

How Advertisers Use COOKIES to Track You? Block Third Party Cookies For Better PRIVACY

If we use a web browser like Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Edge, or Safari, then we have probably picked up a few cookies along the way. Cookies are used to remember things about websites: Our login information, what we have in our shopping cart, what language we prefer. They are created by websites and sit in our browser until they expire.



Some cookies are harmless, but others remain active even on websites that they didn’t originate from, gathering information about our behavior and what we click on. These are called third-party persistent cookies or, more colloquially, tracking cookies.

Tracking cookies can be so invasive that many antivirus programs classify them as spyware. Despite their bad reputation, they have become so ubiquitous that it is nearly impossible to avoid them. In this blog, we will go into detail and explain how tracking cookies record our web activity, why they are so popular, and how to stop them.

Types of Cookies Explained

Whenever we go into our browser settings and clear our cookies, we are deleting the persistent cookies.

Session cookies

The most basic type of cookie is a session cookie. Session cookies only exist in temporary memory and are deleted when we close the browser. Any cookie created without an expiration date is automatically a session cookie. A common use for session cookies includes remembering what is in our shopping cart on an ecommerce site (although most modern ecommerce sites now store this info in a database on their servers).

First-party persistent cookies

Persistent cookies are written onto our device’s memory and come with an expiration date. They are only used by the website that created them and can last however long the website dictates. They remain on our device even after we close our web browser. Our web browser uses first-party persistent cookies for many quality-of-life enhancements, like remembering that we are signed in, so we do not need to log in every time we visit the same site.

Third-party persistent cookies

Third-party persistent cookies, also known as tracking cookies, are the focus of this blog. These cookies are stored in our device’s memory and have a set expiration date. Unlike the first-party variety, however, third-party persistent cookies are accessed on websites that did not create them. This allows the cookie’s creator to collect and receive data any time the user visits a page with a resource belonging to them.

Where do tracking cookies come from?

Websites today are rarely made up solely of code and content created by the website owner or Administrator. Instead, they use resources from other sites to build and Add functionality to their web pages. These resources are often useful and even essential for a website to compete. Unfortunately, those same resources are often the biggest perpetrators of online tracking. Some of the most common resources that use tracking cookies include:

  • Advertisements
  • Social media widgets (Like and Share buttons, comments sections, etc.)
  • Web analytics

We do not even need to click on an Ad or social media sharing button for a tracking cookie’s information about we to be transmitted back to a server owned by the person or company who created it. As soon as we load the page, the cookie is sent to the server where it originated. If no cookie exists yet, the resource can create one.

Let us say I write a blog post an include an image that is hosted on another website. The other website can create a cookie or send and existing one to its server, even though I am not actually on that website; I am just loading a resource from it. Similarly, most Ads and widgets are not hosted by the websites they reside on. They are just resources pulled from third parties, and they all use cookies.

According to The Guardian, some of the biggest companies using tracking cookies include:

  • AddThis
  • ADXS
  • DoubleClick
  • Facebook
  • Google
  • QuantServes
  • Scorecard Research
  • Twitter
  • Yield manager

What do track cookies know about me?

Tracking cookies are usually used for Advertising purposes, retargeting. Retargeting is a tactic that often relies on tracking cookies to show Ads to people who have previously visited a specific site or shown interest in a particular product. If we have ever bought or even looked at a product on Amazon and then started seeing Ads for similar products on other websites, we have been retargeted.

Here is a simplified step-by-step explanation of how retargeting works:

1.    We pick up a tracking cookie on our favorite blog or shopping site. That cookie contains a unique ID that does not identify we personally but does identify our web browser.

2.    The owner of the shopping site signs up and pays for an Advertising platform like Google.

3.    Google’s Ads aren’t static; when we visit other websites that use Google Ads to make money, the website sees the cookie and sends it to Google through the Ad. Google sees the unique ID stored in the cookie and recognizes that it came from our favorite shopping site.

4.    Google then shows an Ad for the shopping site accordingly.

Likewise, other Advertisers on Google’s Ad network can use that cookie, too, if our Advertising profile meets their criteria of the target audience. It does not only benefit the site where we picked up the cookie.

This might seem harmless at first, but those tracking cookies can start racking up a lot of information about how we browse the web. Google’s Ads are everywhere, and while it is the largest online Advertising company in the world, there are many, many others. Because of this, Advertising companies can collect a history of what websites we visit, in what sequence, and for how long. When cookies are sent back to their servers, they often include information about the previous site that a user visited, called a referrer URL.

Browsing history is just the start. Tracking cookies can record all kinds of information: search queries, purchases, device information, location, when and where we saw previous Advertisements, how many times we have seen an Ad, and what links we click on.

Friday, September 4, 2020

TrueCaller Working? How Truecaller Earn Money? Never Install Truecaller on your Mobile Phone ?

TrueCaller is a smartphone application that has features of caller-identification, call-blocking, flash-messaging, Call Recording, Chat & Voice by using the internet. It requires users to provide a standard cellular mobile number for registering with the service.

 

The data is crowd-sourced from the millions of users who have downloaded the TrueCaller app on their smart phones. As part of the end user agreement, the TrueCaller app asks the user to allow access to the user's address book/contacts on the smart phone. This data is then uploaded by the app to the company's servers.


Pros

1.    Allows you to find mobile phone location of the number in phone number search.

2.    'Who viewed my profile' functionality is also provided by TrueCaller application. You can keep a track on who is viewing your number. 

3.    You can find caller from phone number. Similar to reverse phone lookup

4.    It allows you to block such spam numbers and report them to TrueCaller database to mark it as spam so that others may also not suffer from this number

Cons

1. Caller ID does not work in all areas

2. Truecaller requires Internet connection for it to work

3. No guarantee of information security

4. It infringes on privacy issues.


Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Internet Speeds? Mbps vs MBps ? Bits vs Bytes Difference

Understand the difference between megabits per second and megabytes per second and how they affect file downloads and speeds.
  



The main difference between the two terms comes down to bits vs. bytes. The first acronym, Mbps with a lowercase “b,” refers to megabits per second, while the second, MBps with a capital “B,” stands for megabytes per second.

While both are terms related to measurements, they are used differently. Megabits per second is commonly used when talking about internet upload and download speeds, or the rate at which information is uploaded or downloaded based on your connection speed.

Alternatively, megabytes per second is typically referenced when talking about file size or the amount of data transferred. In many cases, you may see MBps shortened to just MB, such as a 500 MB video clip. MB can also be used when talking about internet data caps or mobile data allowances. For instance, a cell phone plan may come with a 500 MB monthly data allowance.

In short, if you were to download a file from the internet, the size of that file is measured as MBps, but the rate at which it downloads is measured as Mbps.


In short we can say, Mbps stands for Megabits per second. MBps stands Megabytes per second. The two terms are similar, but Mbps is used to specify Internet connection speeds, whereas MBps is used to specify how much of a file is downloaded/uploaded per second.







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