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Moving to a New Web Hosting Service Provider, (Website Migration).

There could be multiple reasons for businesses to migrate to a new web hosting service provider. The reasons vary from low disk space to poor customer service or frequent breakdowns of the server. Switching to a new web hosting provider may look overwhelming. However, in reality it's not so. This article furnishes important points in this regard. Choosing a new web hosting provider You need to consider various aspects when choosing a new web hosting service provider. These include the operating system (OS), the bandwidth and disk space requirements, the uptime and customer service. The type of operating system (OS) While migrating from one web hosting service provider to another, it is better to stick to the same OS as the one you are using (Windows or Linux) because it'll make migration easier. Unless you have a very good reason, do not change the OS. If you are planning to opt for a new OS, you need to check for whether that OS is being offered by the new web hosting service ...

Award Recognizes Strength of BBM as a Mobile Advertising Platform

The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) just recognized BBM with a prestigious Industry 'Smartie' Award for 2015 Publisher/Media Company of the Year in Mobile, Indonesia. We're thrilled about this award because it validates the growing strength of BBM as a mobile advertising platform, and the predominant messaging application in Indonesia. Growing Beyond Chat During the last couple of years, BBM has been pushing the limits of what a messaging app can be. Since I came to BlackBerry in 2014, we've added a complete Shop experience beyond just stickers (including sponsored stickers), subscriptions services, Top Picks for apps, BBM Meetings, Android Wear support, and a number of Privacy and Security features including Private Chat. We've also launched several in-app payment solutions, including BBM Money, PayPal and over the last week Quickteller in Nigeria. We also recently celebrated BBM's 10th birthday, which reminded us how the app has quickly evolved from a text-...

How To Identify Best Website Hosting Package?

When it comes to promoting the prospects of your business, small or big, website hosting is as important to the prospects of your business as domain registration or web development. This is simply because the website of your business cannot be expected to perform well unless it is accessible to the world at large, without interruptions and hassles and this is exactly where reliable web hosting comes into the picture. However, choosing the right web hosting company is not an easy task by any standard. With countless companies in the market to choose from and a wide variety of web hosting packages in the offering, the task of identifying a good web hosting company is a difficult one. It is for this reason that you should always research about the best available options before making a commitment and make a complete list of all your hosting requirements and follow a futuristic approach to take care of the future hosting needs as well. One of the first things that you need to remember whil...

How To Identify Best Website Hosting Package?

When it comes to promoting the prospects of your business, small or big, website hosting is as important to the prospects of your business as domain registration or web development. This is simply because the website of your business cannot be expected to perform well unless it is accessible to the world at large, without interruptions and hassles and this is exactly where reliable web hosting comes into the picture. However, choosing the right web hosting company is not an easy task by any standard. With countless companies in the market to choose from and a wide variety of web hosting packages in the offering, the task of identifying a good web hosting company is a difficult one. It is for this reason that you should always research about the best available options before making a commitment and make a complete list of all your hosting requirements and follow a futuristic approach to take care of the future hosting needs as well. One of the first things that you need to remember whil...

Build Your Own Computer in 107 Seconds With Kano Kit

Kano Inc., a company founded by Alex, Yonatan and Saul, has come up with an amazing DIY computer kit. It's designed to furnish young kids, and even the adult ones, a better 'know how' of the computer hardware and assist them build their own computer, which is as simple as building a Lego game. It should be as simple as a Lego game, the main idea behind the development of a magnificent device which can transform you into a hardware engineer in just 107 seconds, all it takes to build your own computer from scratch to magic. It was November 2012, when three men Alex, Yonatan and Saul were trying to imagine, how they can change the world? How they can build something, capable enough to attract kids and teach them some good things at the same time. Finally, their messiah was Saul's six-year- old son Micah, who was interested in their thoughts and suggested to build their computer kit "as simple and fun as Legos", and so marked the beginning of new era of computing...

Mark Zuckerberg: “I Committed Every Possible Mistake During My Early Days of Facebook”

At the Townhall Q&A session at IIT-Delhi in India, Facebook addressed many questions asked by the students. Stressing on the importance of controversial Internet.org, he said that connecting India is very important and fulfilling the aim to connect the world isn't possible if we ignore India. One of the questions that intrigued Mark Zuckerberg was related to his early days, when he started Facebook. A girl from IIT-Delhi asked Mark to share his life incidents and decisions he took during the early days at Facebook that he regrets now. Instead of talking about one single incident or mistake, Mark said that when we build things and take new paths, we commit mistakes. Similarly, during his Facebook journey, he has committed lost of mistakes. "Mistakes are part of professional life. I have probably made every possible mistake possible. You learn with trial and error. You shouldn't be afraid to make mistakes," he said. He added, "More th...

Meet Pepper, World’s First Emotional Robot that Understands You

SoftBank has come up with the world's first humanoid robot with 'emotions'- Pepper. This 4 feet tall, 61 pound robot is equipped with cameras, lasers and infrared sensors to recognize your mood and acts accordingly. It tries to make you happy. Also, it can be used for all household activities like serving as a nurse, babysitting, gardening, or even making sandwiches. today's world when fellow humans may not understand your emotions, a robot might as well help you out! Yes, you heard it right. The telecom giant SoftBank has come up with the world's first humanoid robot with emotions. This four feet tall, 61 pounds of adorable humanoid robot recognizes tones of voice and facial expressions in order to interact with humans. And the best part? Well, Pepper tries to make you happy! Pepper features cameras, lasers and infrared sensors on its head so it can detect human faces. Also, it is equipped with artificial intelligence to interpret and even re...

Freevolt Creates ‘Free Perpetual Power’ Out of Thin Air

Getting everything for free. Well, now we might have something like that in reality as well. With this latest development, you can power your low energy electronic devices for free and for a very very long time. Freevolt is the technology that could absorb energy from the radio waves and convert it into useful and long lasting powering source. And since we are not going to run out of these electromagnetic radiations anytime soon, this technology might just be a brilliant piece of innovation. Now, this is not the first attempt at creating a technology of such sort but efforts had been going on since many years on this front. Interestingly, there is an app that helps you see all the wireless signals flying around you. The product of the Drayson Technologies, however, is the first commercially available technology of such kind that aims to cut out our energy dependence on the conventional sources. The Freevolt system has a multi-band antenna that extracts energy from the surrounding withi...

29 Toughest Questions Asked in Facebook Job Interviews

Zuckerberg created Facebook 11 years ago with an aim to connect the college students. Today, apart from connecting the college students and obviously many others, it's one the favorite places to work at in the tech industry. The interns working at Facebook make $25,000 more than the average US citizen. Also, the employees on Glassdoor voted Facebook as the #1 company to work for. But, getting a job there isn't an easy job. To accomplish that, you'll have to answer some tricky Facebook interview questions to prove your caliber. Most of the questions are inclined towards the technical side. We have collected some of the toughest questions asked from Glassdoor and many of these are extra-challenging. Let's take a look at these Facebook interview question for different jobs: Question #1 There is a building with 100 floors. You are given 2 identical eggs. How do you use 2 eggs to find the threshold floor, where the egg will definitely break from any floor above floor N, incl...

10 Things Guys Think You Lie About on Your Dating Profile

Be real or the relationship is doomed. Our guy expert, Lodro Rinzler, reached out to men across the country to ask what they were worried about when looking at your online dating profile. Here's what guys think women might lie about online: Your Looks The number one thing the guys polled think a woman might lie about on her online dating profile is her looks. I am using "looks" as an umbrella term here that covers everything from your height to your weight to your body type to you using a photo of yourself from five years ago. Also, please note that a picture of just your face tells us that you either don't have a nice body or you don't like the body you have. Be confident enough to show your full form. Your Age "I've definitely gone out with women who say they're 25 but are actually 29," said Eddie. Sometimes a woman may change her age to initially attract a man, but it's such a silly lie to chose; was Eddie's date going to pretend to be...

7 Things He's Hiding on His Dating Profile

In a recent study conducted at Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison it was discovered (no surprise here) that 80 percent of people using online dating sites lied about their height, weight, or age. Here are a few more things men tend to lie about when online. His Job Oh? You're about to go out with a good- looking CEO of a booming start-up? Don't be surprised if that means he has a great idea for an app and is working out of his parents' garage. Most men have a tendency to inflate their titles or responsibilities in order to impress women. It's not a great idea to ask about his salary, but a safe bet is to ask about his title and how large a company he works for. CEO is very impressive, but not if the company is him and his dog. His Intention Just because a man is on a dating site does not mean he's looking for a long- term relationship. In fact, if you're on Tinder, you should assume that the guy is trying to get laid and be pleasantly sur...

How to Root any Android device with Root Genius

Root Genius the quickest and easiest Root tool for Android devices You want to root your Android smartphone to make your phone faster, remove bloatware, increase battery life, allow it to run more apps, custom software and ROMs which allow complete control over every aspect of your device by allowing superuser and admin level permission. However, rooting isn't for everyone. If you don't know what a command prompt is or you have trouble handling .zip files, please do not use root tool. Also rooting can void your phone's warranty so please make sure you follow instructions to the letter. Also, always backup your data before you proceed to root your Android smartphone or tablet! Root Genius is one click root tool designed to work on Windows computer. It helps user to root their Android smartphone and tablet in single click. Here, we are going to guide you how to use Root Genius to root any Android smartphone or tablet. Requirements: If you are using any Antivirus Application o...

Salaries of Software Engineers: Top Paying Skills, Top Roles and Best Engineering Schools

You're working as an engineer and you strive to do something big in your life, searching for growth options must be an integral part of your life. Looking at the market trends and analysing the growing companies' hunting for new talent- this could be of some great help if you are looking to make a switch. Working on the same line, analysing the engineering marketplace for the last 12 months, Riviera has and observed and tabulated some trends regarding the salaries of software engineers. During the study, over the period of one year, the salary figures of software engineers was looked at and some interesting finding were compiled. The average salaries when sorted by company funding stage, it was found that software engineers get paid the most by Series B funded companies. Talking about the highest paying skills of a software engineer– it was found that languages like Java, JS, Ruby and Python are the ones helping the people to earn fat pay-cheques. Enou...

‘Working’ Thor’s hammer build by engineer that only can be lifted by him

Electric engineer build's Thor's weapon, Mjolnir which can only be lifted by him A replica of Thor's hammer Mjolnir build by an electric engineer using powerful electromagnets and a fingerprint scanner Only the ones who are worthy can hold and use Thor's famous and legendary hammer Mjolnir in Marvel comics. For the ones who are not worthy, which is almost everyone except Thor and the odd someone else occasionally (an useful loophole for writers), Mjolnir just cannot be lifted off the ground. It is this thing that electrical engineer Allen Pan, AKA Sufficiently Advanced on YouTube, made a decision to reproduce in his very own take on a "working" Mjolnir. He decided to use the strong magnets to make the hammer immoveable, as that was the best method. He filled a microwave oven transformer electromagnet that uses electricity to produce a magnetic field inside the head of his Mjolnir. This in turn produces a strong magnetic pull, which...

The Spooky Crypto-Puzzle That’s Taking Internet Into A Frenzy

Months back it was a mystique dress that broke the Internet over its chameleon feature, and now it is a spooky crypto-puzzle that has taken the Internet into a frenzy. Everyone having even a little bit of the subject knowledge of morse code or binary is trying to decode the message hidden inside the creepy video. The website GadgetZZ.com received a letter from Poland containing a weird CD. The CD contains a video having a 'Scream' kind of a black hooded guy flashing a code through a blinking light in his hand. Apart from the haunting costume and audio and of course, the code, there seemed to be hidden messages as well in the video. This art of hiding messages in plain sight is called steganography. The spooky crypto-puzzle video after being uploaded garnered a lot of attention. People have screened the audio through a spectrogram and the result was even scarier. It read: You are already dead. After decoding images from sound, disturbing images came ou...

Hacker reveals how to extract PIN of a smartphone from any selfie.

Corneal Key Logger can extract PIN of any smartphone using the owner's selfie If you thought biometrics was the ultimate weapon of authentication, you may be proved wrong by Starbug. German researcher Jan Krissler, aka Starbug is a hacker whose claim to fame is breaching Apple's TouchID and recreating the German defense minister's thumbprint from a high- res image. Starbug has revealed that he can now decode anyone's smartphone PIN code from any selfie "image". of the owner. Starbug and his colleagues have extracted the reflection of smartphone screens in the eye whites of "selfie" subjects, then they used an ultra-high resolution image techniques to extract the user's PIN code. Starbug presented his discovery at the Biometrics 2015 conference in London. His team also revealed a method to take hi-res images of iris using a high-resolution camera and recreating them using a simple laser printer. They were also able to extract the reflection of ph...