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Microsoft Windows 10 Update Prompts Will Now Reach More Business Users

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Microsoft announced that small businesses and other small entities will soon be able to take advantage of the free Windows 10 upgrade following the overwhelming response from consumers who have already installed the company’s latest OS offer.

With more than 200 million devices worldwide running the new Windows 10, Microsoft has attributed the OS’ popularity to its free upgrade offer, which has been made available to certain qualified Windows devices. These include Windows 7 and 8.1 devices running Windows Home and Pro editions.

“Many consumers have taken advantage of this offer thanks to an easy-to-use app called ‘Get Windows 10,'” wrote Matt Barlow, general manager of product marketing for Windows at Microsoft, in a new company blog post. “This app introduces users to Windows 10, checks their PC for compatibility with Windows 10, and notifies the user when their PC is ready to upgrade. The Get Windows 10 app has been a popular method for consumer to quickly and easily upgrade to Windows 10.”

The latest announcement is the company’s response to requests from customers who have small businesses and want to see the Get Windows 10 app in their PC’s system.

Microsoft said that soon, business users will be able to receive Windows 10 upgrade notifications while ensuring that the upgrade will be a no-brainer since users will be able do it through the app’s user-friendly interface.

In order to make sure that one’s device is qualified for the upgrade, Microsoft revealed certain criteria that customers should be aware of.

First, the device should be running valid Windows 7 Pro or Windows 8.1 Pro. Next, the device should be configured to receive these updates straight from the Windows Update service. Third, the device must be connected to an Active Directory domain.

Microsoft said that it’s rolling out the “Get Windows 10” app to those devices that meet the above-mentioned criteria, reaching customers in the United States later in January and other markets thereafter.

The move can be seen as part of Microsoft’s strategy to push Windows 10, which has now been available for half a year. Soon, a number of computers will be able to receive the update through an automatic download while prompting consumers to install and start using the OS. Users will be allowed to choose whether or not they want to switch. They are also given the liberty to go back to their former OS within the first month of Windows 10 use.

“We believe these changes balance the needs of small businesses and organizations that want to take advantage of the free Windows 10 upgrade offer to do so more easily, while providing organizations of all sizes the tools and controls they need,” added Barlow.

[“source-techtimes”]

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Google Play Store Finally Allows Android App Promo Codes

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Google has stepped up to the plate, finally rolling out support for promo codes at the Play Store, where app and game developers have the privilege to give them out for free.

Of course, promo codes aren’t exactly new. Appleallowed developers to dish them out way back since 2014. At any rate, they are fairly fresh on the Android scene.

Now, apps and games keep app stores alive. Some of them are free, and some of them are not, which means that not everyone can get their hands on every downloadable software there.

For those who can’t afford or use online paying methods, a promo code is a godsend. It’s like a golden ticket or a VIP pass that gives instant access to a particular app.

“Promo codes let you give content or features away to a limited number of users free of charge. Once you create a promo code, you can distribute it subject to the terms of service. The user enters the promo code in your app or in the Play Store app, and gets the item at no cost,” Google says.

Like most things, this feature has some restrictions, and Google has put its technological foot down and laid down the law.

First off, promo codes can’t be used for in-app subscriptions, but for in-app purchases, they’re A-OK.

Developers can only issue 500 promo codes for each app or game per quarter, where unused ones won’t be carried over to the next. That amounts to 2,000 potential codes a year.

Just to be clear, it doesn’t matter whether the code is for the app itself or for an in-app purchase, it counts to the total. For instance, 250 promo codes for the app plus 250 for an in-app product max out the limit.

As for their expiration dates, developers can set them up to one year.

It sure took a while for Google to get support for promo codes off the ground. Nevertheless, it’s a feature that’s welcomed by developers and users alike.

For app and game makers, take note of the limitations and use them wisely. Remember, great power comes with great responsibility. For users, let’s all hang on to our hats and wait with bated breath for the goodies that’ll come.

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Say Goodbye To Free iTunes Radio: Apple To Fold Service Into Apple Music On Jan. 28

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Apple will soon begin charging for iTunes Radio before January ends. This means Beats 1 is going to be the only free music service from the Cupertino-based company.

Apple sent out an email to iTunes Radio users notifying them that starting Jan. 28, this music streaming service, which was launched to take on Pandora, will no longer be free.

“We are making Beats 1 the premier free broadcast from Apple and phasing out the ad-supported stations at the end of January,”said an Apple spokesperson to BuzzFeed News. “Additionally, with an Apple music service, listeners can access dozens of radio stations curated by our team of music experts, covering a range of genres, commercial-free with unlimited skips.”

The spokesperson added Apple Music’s free three-month trial features radio.

If you wish to listen to Apple’s hired DJs thru Beats 1, you will not fork out any penny from your pocket. However, if you prefer radio stations based on your favorite genre or artist, you need to splurge $10 every month to subscribe to Apple Music after the free three-month trial for new subscribers.

Unveiled in 2013 along with iOS 7, iTunes Radio was only made available in Australia and the U.S. For iTunes Match customers, radio stations could be streamed without advertisements. Non-iTunes Match subscribers, however, could still listen to stations but with ads.

This latest move from Apple shows that Apple Music is one of its priority services. Speculation is rife saying that Apple has already reached as many as 10 million customers in the first six months. While Apple has made no actual mentions of this number, it previously disclosed that, as of October, Apple Music had already 6.5 million paying subscribers. As a point of comparison, Apple Music’s archrival Spotify, which was launched in 2006, was not able to reach 10 million paying customers until May 2014.

Spotify is now estimated to have notched 25 to 30 million paying customers by the end of 2015.

In December last year, rumors claimed that Apple Music is going hi-resolution this 2016. Specifically, it is rumored that the company could already be coming up with Hi-Res Audio streaming up to 96kHz/24 bit.

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‘Find My iPhone’ App Helps Woman Find Her Murdered Husband’s Body

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Carla Melendez started to feel worried one night when her husband didn’t come home.

In order to find her husband’s whereabouts, Melendez said she started to use the “Find My iPhone” app, which sent out a pulsing dot that seemed confusing.

“[The app] showed trees and it was weird, because why would his phone be by trees? And it was there for a while,” said Melendez.

Melendez decided to investigate by driving to the area as indicated by the app’s signals. After driving for half an hour, she found her husband lying dead on the Turkey Drive off Aldine Westfield Road where there were some trees on the side. He suffered from a gunshot aimed at the torso that caused his death.

“If somebody saw something please say something,” said Melendez. “He didn’t deserve to be thrown like this, like a dog in the street.”

Investigators are not sure how long the victim had been lying dead on the side of the road. They tracked down the victim’s friends and learned that he was shot by accident.

A man identified as Tristain J. Porter was reportedly arrested and had been charged with the murder of 23-year-old Ramiro Acosta, Melendez’s husband.

In an interview with the police, Porter said he and Acosta were planning to rob a drug dealer. However, they got themselves caught in a scuffle which ended up with Porter accidentally shooting his friend.

According to Melendez, her husband used to be a gang member and that he might still have enemies even after he had changed his ways.

It was unclear who dumped Acosta’s dead body on the road.

Melendez is not the first one to use the Find My iPhone app in doing detective work, as others have relied on the app’s features, such as the kill switch mechanism, to successfully recover their iPhones.

 In 2015, a teenager from Canada tracked his stolen device from thieves in Ontario but ended up being shot dead.Two women from the United Kingdom had successfully caught a bag thief after using the app since the police were not able to respond quickly to their call. Lastly, a businessman was able to retrieve his iPhone 5s after it dropped from an airplane in Texas at the height of 9,300 feet.

[“source-gadgets.ndtv”]

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Bitcoin’s back: Big year for controversial digital currency

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The U.S. dollar has had a nice run. It’s been the talk of global currency trading all year long.

And why not? After years of a weak greenback due to dovish Federal Reserve policy, the Dollar Index has extended big 2014 gains, up near-9 percent against a basket of major world currencies this year. Some individual currency trades, like USD/Brazil Real, have netted currency investors huge returns.

But to find what’s arguably been the best global currency in 2015, an investor might need to put quote marks around the term “global currency.”
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Windows 10 Mobile Rolling Out to Microsoft Lumia 535; Upgrade Advisor App Launched

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Windows 10 Mobile Rolling Out to Microsoft Lumia 535; Upgrade Advisor App Launched

Microsoft appears to have begun seeding the Windows 10 Mobile software update to Lumiasmartphones. The Redmond-based company earlier this week made available the latest version of its mobile operating system to the Microsoft Lumia 640, and it is now seeding the update to the low-cost Lumia 535 in at least one region. The company has also released Upgrade Advisor Beta for all Windows Phone 8.1 users, to help them upgrade their phone.

Users in Latin America are reporting that they have started to receive Windows 10 Mobile software update on the Lumia 535 smartphone. As seen in the screenshots, the update escalates the version number of the software to 10586.29. The update is currently only available for the unlocked Lumia 535 handset it appears.

Microsoft also recently started to seed Windows 10 Mobile to the Lumia 640 on T-Mobile network in Poland. The rollout confirms that the company has begun to release Windows 10 Mobile to more Lumia smartphones. It had previously committed to seed the software version to all Windows Phone 8.1-powered smartphones with more than 4GB of internal storage in December. However, last month, the company said that it was pushing the roll out timeframe to “early 2016.”

The company has released an app to assist users with upgrading to Windows 10 Mobile. CalledUpgrade Advisor Beta, the app allows users to know whether their Windows Phone handset is eligible to upgrade. It also helps with cleaning up memory on the smartphone to make enough room for the new software version.

“The Windows 10 Mobile Upgrade Advisor app will tell you if your Windows 8.1 phone is eligible for upgrade to Windows 10 Mobile. It can also help free up space on your phone so you’re ready for the upgrade,” the app description reads. “When you open the app, it checks your phone and lets you know if it’s eligible to upgrade, if an update is required before you can upgrade, or if your phone can’t be upgraded.”

To recall, for Windows Phone 8 software update, Microsoft maintained an update tracker on its website to help users know when the new software version will become available for their smartphone. For Windows 10 Mobile, there’s no tracker as such, which makes the new app handy for users.
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Father Bans Gaming After Teenage Son Spends $5,300 Playing FIFA

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Father Bans Gaming After Teenage Son Spends $5,300 Playing FIFA

A Canadian parent has banned video gaming at his home after his 17-year-old son racked up a bill of more than $5,300 (approximately Rs. 3,60,000) while playing EA Sports FIFA on his Xbox console.

Lance Perkins, father of the teen, was handed a very unsettling pre-Christmas present when he saw his credit card bill last month. “It floored me. Literally floored me, when I’d seen what I was being charged,” he told Canadian news network CBC News.

The amount on the end line read 7,625.88 Canadian dollars, and when Perkins got in touch with his bank, he was told it was out of their hands “unless he wanted to have his son charged with fraud”.

When he spoke to his son, the teen confessed immediately but was visibly shocked at the magnitude of his dealings.

“He thought it was a one-time fee for the game,” the father added. “He’s just as sick as I am, [because] he never believed he was being charged for every transaction, or every time he went onto the game.”

After getting in touch with Microsoft, he was told via email that the amount would need to be paid in full. Upon adding that his teenage son was still a minor, the company agreed to look into the matter. “Until I actually hear from them, it’s actually very discouraging,” Perkins said.

For now, Perkins has taken the drastic step of banning the medium altogether. “There will never be another Xbox system – or any gaming system – in my home,” he added.

Such cases of minors using their parents’ cards without permission are highly common. Facebook wasdragged to court last year in California after it refused to refund money that had been spent by children on the social media platform without the parents’ knowledge.

Recently, another parent had a rude awakening, with his son racking up a bill of $6,000 on iTunes via the Jurassic World iOS game. In this case, the child knew his father’s Apple ID, pass code, and other credentials. Apple has been in hot water over the issue before, as have Amazon, and Google, with all companies making some changes to the system prevent accidental or avoidable purchases by minors.

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VLC Media Player for Apple TV Launched, Brings Remote Playback and More

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VLC Media Player for Apple TV Launched, Brings Remote Playback and More

The widely-used VLC Media Player is now also available for the Apple TV, which runs a customised version of iOS called tvOS. Much like its client on the other platforms, VLC’s Apple TV app offers playback of a plethora of video and audio file codecs and formats. In addition, the app can also pull videos from your local network, DLNA servers, FTP servers, and Plex.

It hasn’t been long since Apple started to sell its new Apple TV, and the platform has already attracted a lot of developers — it has over 2,600 apps in its dedicated app store as of December last year. On Tuesday, VideoLAN announced that it is bringing its popular media player VLC on Apple’s TV box.

(Also see: VLC arrives on Chrome OS)

The goal of the player is to run any media file you throw at it. This should make Apple TV customers happy as they no longer have to convert their files into a format that the Apple TV natively supports. But that’s not the only highlight of the app.

VLC for Apple TV also lets you watch your local content using SMB, UPnP and Plex protocols. But more importantly, the app offers support for remote playback, which means that you can send your file directly from a Web browser or an app to your Apple TV and it will run it.

Furthermore, the developer team added that it is working on adding support for popular cloud services such as Dropbox, OneDrive, and Box into the app soon. The feature is already available on the VLC beta app for Apple TV.

You can find the app on your Apple TV by searching for VLC in its App Store.

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India Funding Roundup: Wishup, Shopclues, Hike, CarTrade, Rentomo

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India Funding Roundup: Wishup, Shopclues, Hike, CarTrade, Rentomo

Our latest funding roundup sees some startups secure large investments in e-commerce, concierge services, apart from personal investments made by angels and veterans in mobile chat messengers, and rental marketplaces.

Wishup
Bengaluru-based concierge service startup, Wishup, Tuesday announced that it has raised an undisclosed sum of seed funding from TracxnLabs, 500 Startups, and Mato Peric, the former Partner and Global Managing Director at Rocket Internet. along with funding from a host of angels through TracxnSyndicate. The startup been operational on Facebook Messenger and its helpline number, and also announced the Beta launch of its Android app. In an emailed statement, Wishup said has already acquired over 10,000 customers during the short time since its inception in July 2015.

Shopclues
Online managed marketplace ShopClues has raised a fresh round of funding led by sovereign wealth fund GIC, becoming the latest entrant in the billion-dollar Unicorn club. The round saw participation from existing investors Tiger Global Management and Nexus Venture Partners, valuing the company at more than $1.1 billion (roughly Rs. 7,352 crores).

Hike
Hike Messenger announced investments from tech veterans Adam D’Angelo, Founder and CEO, Quora; Aditya Agarwal, Vice President Engineering, Dropbox; Ruchi Sanghvi, who was the Vice President, Operations, Dropbox, and Aditya Agarwal, Vice President Engineering, Dropbox. The veterans invested in the company in their personal capacities and are playing advisers to it, the company said in an emailed statement.

CarTrade
Online automobile classifieds portal CarTrade.com has reportedly secured $145 million (roughly Rs. 950 crores) from Temasek Holdings, March Capital and existing investor Warburg Pincus in its latest funding round. CarTrade reportedly lists more than 225,000 used cars for sale and works with over 10,000 car dealer partners, following its acquisition of CarWale in 2015.

Rentomo
Bengaluru-based rental listings platform Rentomo has reportedly raised a seed funding of $100,000 (roughly Rs. 66 lakhs) from Shiva Ashok and an unnamed UAE based investor. Rentomo enables a user to rent products in the trusted network such as Facebook friend circles, and handles 250 transactions a month.

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Key Tips RV Dealers Want Everyone to Know

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RV or recreational vehicles are meant to provide the comfort of home on road to the clients. The dealers focus on providing maximum comfort levels to the people buying them. But it is not always that the benefits of a recreational vehicle are understood by everyone. Therefore it is necessary to make people aware of them in order to make them avail it.

With such a big vehicle, the first issue that comes into your mind is parking. Therefore, the dealers maintain a directory indicating different places to park which will give buyers a clear idea about where they should park there mobile home on wheels. The dealers generally have a directory or website which they provide to their clients on request. Also the amenities being searched for are indexed properly in the websites making pools, beaches, dump stations and everything else properly visible. There are cases where you will be offered benefits when accessing selected parking spaces in a company’ chosen network of locations.

The different types of RVs up for sale are Class C, Class B, Fifth Wheel and Truck Camper. If you are new to this and the abbreviated classifications do not make any sense to you, talk to one of your local RV dealers. Their job is to help you in making decisions, informing you about everything you need to know and taking care of your needs providing best value for the money you are spending. One has to keep the budget constraint and fuel economy in mind for he will have to shell out the money from his own pockets. The golden rule of RVs is that the bigger they are the more expensive they are to buy and maintain.

RVs need state inspection before the owner can drive it on the streets. Therefore, one needs to schedule inspection dates from their local RV dealers. Also there is a lot of difference between buying a new RV and an old one. As a RV is but a home on wheels, one has to buy all the necessary appliances, make arrangements for electricity and take care of the roof just like any other regular apartment.

One needs to go to a dump station to get rid of the sewage stored in the RV sewage tank. There are several such locations spotted on a map. At times, they can be chargeable. One has to book a reservation for dumping the sewage at a particular spot through the contacts mentioned in the website or directory. This has to be done regularly because though it does not look much, sewage can be very heavy and can drastically effect your fuel economy.

RVs have water tanks to supply water on the road. These tanks can be very bulky at times. Water, as we know it is very heavy and greater load reduces mileage. Therefore one should judge whether the water carried is worth the expense. There are several parking spots with water outlets. Therefore it may actually be a waste to carry all the extra weight. One has to judge the quantity of water he is carrying depending on how remote a place he plans to travel.

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