China: Microsoft’s supremo for China has told state-owned China Daily that Redmond’s ready roll out version of Windows 10 with extra security features demanded by China’s government.

“We have already developed the first version of the Windows 10 government secure system. It has been tested by three large enterprise customers,” Alain Crozier, CEO of Microsoft Greater China told China Daily.

China used Edward Snowden’s revelations to question whether western technology products could compromise its security. Policy responses included source code reviews for foreign vendors and requiring Chinese buyers to shop from an approved list of products. Microsoft, IBM and Intel all refused to submit source code for inspection, but Redmond and Big Blue have found other ways to get their code into China.

IBM’s route is a partnership with Dalian Wanda to bring its cloud behind the Great Firewall. Microsoft last year revealed its intention to build a version of Windows 10 for Chinese government users in partnership with state-owned company China Electronics Technology Group Corp.

There’s no reason to believe Crozier’s remarks are incorrect, because Microsoft has a massive incentive to deliver a version of Windows 10 that China’s government will accept. To understand why, consider that China’s military has over two million active service personnel, the nation’s railways employ similar numbers and Microsoft’s partner China Electronics Technology Group Corp has more than 140,000 people on its books.

Not all of those are going to need Windows, but plenty will.

That China’s gently backed its own cut of Ubuntu, dubbed Kylin, also makes it plain Microsoft could face competition in the middle kingdom.

Windows-watchers have also found Crozier’s words significant, because it’s felt Windows Red, as The Register may call this cut, was being developed in parallel to the Windows 10 Creators Update. And if Windows Red is ready, perhaps the Creators Update isn’t far behind.

The Register has asked Microsoft to explain the security features of Windows Red, but had not received a reply at the time of writing. You know the drill: we’ll update this story if Microsoft sends any information.

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SRINAGAR: Weeks after Mehbooba Mufti-led Jammu and Kashmir government imposed ban on social media websites in the valley, a 16-year-old boy developed an app to keep the locals connected.

Zeyan Shafiq, who recently passed his class 10th exams, along with his 19-year-old friend Uzair Jan has developed KashBook in 2013. But after social media ban in the valley they decided to relaunch the website as app on May 2, 2017.

The website, KashBook, giving a Kashmiri touch to the name also, within a week has attracted over thousand people who signed up for the website and are satisfied with its features.

An important highlight of this website is that it also has an option for communicating in the Kashmiri language.

Zeyan was just 11 when he started learning HTML tags by himself and later learned C++ and Java.

“The government has blocked access to all the social networks and they are blocking VPNs too. So, when they’ll block the whole access to social media then how will people from valley stay connected with each other? KashBook is the answer to social media gag,” Zeyan said.

After the social media ban, many people turned to use of virtual private network (VPN) in order to defy the ban and access different social media websites which were banned by the state government.

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Mumbai’s top cybercop Brijesh Singh has his hands full these days. With increasing cyber crime, including a rising tide of corporate cyber incidents, there’s no respite for the Maharashtra Police cyber crime team that the suave 1996 batch IPS officer leads. Recently Singh’s crack team solved a host of high-profile cases including the Reliance Jio Infocomm unauthorized data access case and Game of Thrones leak.

“We end up getting at least three-four corporate cybercrime cases in a week. Earlier the corporates wouldn’t come forward to disclose cyber incidents, but now we see them coming forward to lodge complaints and work closely with the police department to help solve the cases,” said Singh, special IG-cyber, Maharashtra Police.

Singh’s team, these days, is swamped with sophisticated business email compromise cases wherein cyber criminals injected messages in trail mails and changed invoice numbers and bank accounts to siphon off money.

With each passing day, cyberspace is becoming a new frontier for corporates.

Globally, in the past few days, Equifax breach exposed personal information of 145 million US customers, Yahoo acknowledged three billion email accounts were breached in 2013 attack and accounting firm Deloitte, which incidentally runs a large cyber practice, was also hacked.

The industry bigwigs have started sounding warning bells. Tech visionary Larry Ellison said last week, “Make no mistake: it’s a war. We have to reprioritise and rethink about how we defend our information.”

In its Q2 2017 report, leading IT security firm McAfee Labs counted 311 publicly disclosed security incidents. The report also mentioned that security teams nowadays face 244 new cyberthreats every minute.

In such a milieu, the situation is not different in India. In the past few months, two of India’s top private banks, a top telecom company, a top media company and a stock exchange have all been victims of major cyber attacks or cyber thefts, and ransomware Wannacry and Petya infected thousands of companies. “The attacks which are publicly known are only a minuscule number.

We are only looking at the surface; no one know what’s going on in the background and even the companies are not aware of threats lurking in their system,” said Altaf Halde, managing director, Kaspersky Lab (South Asia).

Given the lack of any regulations regarding disclosure – except in financial services where it is mandated by the Reserve Bank of India – companies hit by cybercrime hide the incidents even in cases where customers have been impacted. So the true extent of impact on India Inc never comes out.

Cyber experts say what makes Indian industry vulnerable is changing threat profile due to resource rich nation states now targeting companies.

Increasingly there is evidence that critical national infrastructure is being probed by cyber agents from other nation states. A few years ago, US intelligence agency NSA had picked up the trend of Chinese hackers targeting Indian pharmaceutical and IT companies and even discussed specific inputs with companies.

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NEW DELHI: Transactions using Aadhaar authentication rose to nearly 150 crore in September from just over 100 crore the previous month. This big spike in the use of the biometric ID has prompted the government to make Aadhaar authentication easier through a mobile app.

At 148.3 crore, the number of Aadhaar authentications last month was more than the country’s population, a senior government official told ET. This is a phenomenal increase from just 17 crore in December and suggests that, on an average, every Aadhaar holder used the ID at least once in September to avail of benefits or other government services, the official added.

With nearly 118.5 crore people having Aadhaar, the government has decided to enable its recently launched mobile app, mAadhaar, to do all Aadhaar authentications based on OTPs. About 31 crore transactions in September were executed using OTPs.

A major issue before the UIDAI was poor mobile network and signals causing delays in the delivery of OTP to the registered mobile number.

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NEW DELHI: Today is the fourth day of Amazon Great Indian Festival sale and it’s raining offers for the customers. Apart from discount, the e-tailer is also offering 10% extra discount on SBI credit and debit cards and 20% cashback to customers who will make payment using Amazon Pay. So, if you were planning to buy a good pair of headphones then this is the right time. We have listed below 7 headphones available on discount which you can consider buying.

JBL C100SI In-Ear Headphones with Mic (Black): Flat discount of Rs 600
The J BL C100SI in-ear headphones are listed at a price of Rs 1,299 and the e-tailer is giving a discount of Rs 600. You can purchase the device at Rs 699. The company is also offering 3 sizes of ear tips for the comfortable fit.

boAt Bass Heads 225 In-Ear Bass Headphones with One Button Mic (Red): Flat discount of Rs 530
Designed for bass lovers the boAt Bass Heads 225 is available at Rs 469 after a discount of Rs 530. The device comes with 10mm driver and features a noise cancellation mic which enables the users to carry out calls without worrying about the surroundings.

Mi Basic In-Ear Headphones with Mic (Matte Black): Flat discount of Rs 101
The in-ear headphones from Xiaomi are selling at Rs 498 after the flat discount of Rs 101. The headphones are compatible with both Android and iOS devices and come with two sizes of earbuds — small and large for perfect fit.

House of Marley Smile Jamaica EM-JE041-SB In-Ear Headphones with Mic (Black): Flat discount of Rs 1091
House of Marley is known for its audio products and the company’s Smile Jamaica EM-JE041-SB in-ear headphones are available at a discount of Rs 1,091. You can purchase the device at Rs 899. The headphones come with three sizes of ear tips and 52-inch fabric cord

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NEW DELHI: Internet companies like Google and Facebook are shying away from calling themselves media firms, but they should take the onus of the content on their platforms, said Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP, the world’s largest advertising group. “I don’t believe these companies, and particularly Google and Facebook, are technology companies,” Sorrell told reporters in New Delhi on Tuesday. “They are media companies and they still take the position publicly that they are technology companies and that is wrong.”

To back his argument, Sorrell said Facebook has hired 4,000 employees to monitor its editorial content. Social media companies should take the responsibility of their contents, he told the journalists, “like you are responsible, and the people who own your channels, your newspapers, magazines, your digital channels are held responsible in many countries legally for the content and the accuracy of the content that you print or propagate or publish.”

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Apple Inc’s shares fell nearly 3 percent on Thursday on signs of weak demand for the iPhone 8 that caused analysts and investors to question the company’s staggered release strategy for its latest phones.

Wireless carriers in the United States and Canada have reported slow third-quarter customer upgrades. While some expect a pickup after the iPhone X goes on sale in November, others cautioned that phone’s high price tag could weigh on demand.

The chief executive of Rogers Communication, Canada’s largest mobile network, on Thursday said appetite for the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, which went on sale in September, had been “anemic,” the latest sign of weak sales for those phones ahead of the Nov. 3 launch of the pricier iPhone X.

But some analysts said overall phone production looked in line with their earlier expectations, and that it is unclear whether weak iPhone 8 sales would hurt iPhone revenue and margins because users may still be buying more profitable older models with more memory.

Verizon Communication Inc’s Chief Financial Officer Matt Ellis said the number of third-quarter phone upgrades fell versus previous years, but that he expected an upgrade surge when the iPhone X is released.

“I think what you’re seeing there is a difference in timing of some of the new devices coming out versus what we’ve historically seen,” Ellis told an earnings call.

“As we get into the holiday season, some of those new devices come out, we think we will see strong demand.”

The uncertainty about demand coupled with a Taiwan media report of a cut in iPhone 8 production pushed Apple shares down 2.8 percent by midday.
“The Street is hyper-sensitive to any speed bumps around this next iPhone cycle and (that) speaks to the knee-jerk reaction we are seeing in shares,” said Daniel Ives, chief strategy officer at GBH Insights in New York.

“iPhone 8 demand has been naturally soft out of the gates with the main event being the iPhone X launch in early November. (But) this is the early innings of what we believe is the biggest iPhone product cycle with X leading the way.”

U.S. wireless carrier AT&T said last week its third-quarter postpaid handset upgrades were down by nearly 900,000 from a year ago.

SUPPLY CHAIN

Apple no longer gives regular updates on sales numbers, but indications from supply channels, wireless carriers and analysts help shed light on demand.
When Apple announced the plan to release both phones before the end of 2017, fans were disappointed they would have to wait until November for the iPhone X.

But there are also concerns that the more expensive phone marking the iPhone’s 10th anniversary may see a muted reception compared to the frenzy that normally greets Apple phone launches.

A carrier store survey suggested the cheaper iPhone 7 was outselling its successor just a month after iPhone 8’s launch, KeyBanc Capital Markets analyst John Vinh said this week.

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An Israeli startup has sued Apple Inc , accusing the iPhonemaker of copying its patented smartphone camera technology.

Tel Aviv-based Corephotonics Ltd filed its patent infringement case against Apple in federal court in San Jose, California, on Monday.

Corephotonics, which has raised $50 million from several high-profile venture capital firms and other investors, said its patented dual camera technology for mobile devices was incorporated by Apple in the iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 8 Plus without its authorization.

According to the lawsuit, Corephotonics Chief Executive David Mendlovic approached Apple about a partnership. Apple praised the startup’s technology but refused to license it, Corephotonics said, even suggesting it could infringe the latter’s patents with little consequence.

According to the complaint, “Apple’s lead negotiator expressed contempt for Corephotonics’ patents, telling Dr. Mendlovic and others that even if Apple infringed, it would take years and millions of dollars in litigation before Apple might have to pay something.”

An Apple spokesman did not immediately return a request for comment.

Many high-end smartphones include dual camera systems that can zoom in without losing image quality. Apple has its own patents on dual camera technology.

Through its latest funding round in January, Corephotonics raised $15 million from investors that included Samsung Ventures, electronics manufacturer Foxconn and chip maker MediaTek Inc.

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BEIJING: Qualcomm Inc has signed $12 billion worth of potential deals with three Chinese mobile handset makers on the sidelines of a state visit to Beijing by US President Donald Trump who has been looking to stir up US China trade.

Qualcomm signed three non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOUs) to sell components over three years to phonemakers Xiaomi, OPPO and Vivo, the U.S. Department of State said in a statement on Thursday.

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Sadaf Khursheed

SRINAGAR: Sitting is new smoking, warn heath experts apparently for the reason  that it’s the root cause of many health issues nowadays. And sitting may be linked to using Social media for some hours or may be hours together without realizing the ill effects on an individual or the society.

According to Childmind.org (United states based organization that deals with the mental problems of children)  “teenagers are constantly engaging in cell phone use throughout the day ,users are even texting, sharing, trolling and scrolling while studying or completing homework or even eating. It also states that teens are now spending more time participating in cyber communications rather than sharing and experiencing in person interactions with others”.

While many people may argue that social media has helped us to get closer to everyone including our next door neighbor to our college friend living at North Pole, get the latest news even from Mars however this is little good than the more harm Social Media is doing to our society.

It may appear that social media brings people together across continents but in reality it’s creating more isolation among the users. In a study published in 2016 by Swansea University (Public Research University at Wales, UK) “people experienced the psychological symptoms of withdrawal when removed from social media.

As people spend increasing amounts of time on social media, they experience less face to face interaction which makes them more dependent on devices”. And it can lead to physical, mental, psychological problems like depression, anxiety, somatic complaints and many others.

Besides isolation people get caught in the delusion that social media will help them to cope up and fight their problems which is not although true. And even after that they keep coming back to social media taking as a remedy to their issues.

“Many  patients who come with various psychological problems have agreed using more apps than others to chat with people and make social media friends which doesn’t even help them a bit instead makes their problems more aggravated”, said Dr Asif Iqbal.

 Many more negative effects of social media may be:

•       Encouraging poor grammar and spelling.

•       Allowing the spread of misinformation: fake news.

•       Online predators.

•       Cyber bullying.

•       Decreasing productivity at office places as workers keep on checking their accounts.

•       Can lead to jealousy as people sometimes post the stories of their success and achievements.

•       People start comparing their lives with others.

It’s the responsibility of the individuals to use social media carefully and the duty of parents to monitor their children.

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SRINAGAR: Electronic governance or e-governance is the application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for delivering government services, exchange of information, communication transactions, integration of various stand-alone systems and services between government-to-citizen (G2C), government-to-business (G2B), government-to-government (G2G) , government-to-employees (G2E) as well as back office processes and interactions within the entire government framework.

As we live in the world of internet e-governance is now the thrust area. In Jammu and Kashmir state some ten years back the bugle was sounded that e-governance is going to be ushered all around , but despite much talk nothing is seen on ground. Majority of the websites of the government departments are hardly updated regularly and do not contain much fruitful information for the masses. .

 E-governance is right initiative to ensure prompt service delivery. It is also needed to bring transparency and responsiveness in the administration to attend the needs of people on development count.

Pertinently, through e-governance, government services will be made available to citizens in a convenient, efficient and transparent manner. The three main target groups that can be distinguished in governance concepts are government, citizens and businesses/interest groups. In e-governance there are no distinct boundaries.

On the other hand, experts have time and again stated that e-governance will remove red-tapism and bring a “revolutionary turnaround” in the system.

But the implementation part of e-governance in the state is still laggard.  JK Tourism website is quite slow and lagging impressive character, the all important R&B Website looks quite stale,  Most of the university websites are quite slow for students liking and contain limited information . The Handicrafts sector all important for Kashmir but the website of Handicrafts is not updated regularly.

While talking to the Kashmir News Bureau,  DrSheikh Ghulam Rasool, Chairman J&K RTI Movement stated – “e-governance claims of the government are nowhere visible on ground, as we are still lagging far behind. Just last year we conducted a study with Commonwealth group and found that out of 280 government websites a majority of them are unimpressive  and not updated regularly. We have called in letter and spirit the implementation of RTI Act section 4 (1 ) (a) which calls for digitalization of all records of public authority and would have reduced the RTI Flow by 85 percent . Despite the clear orders by high court and our pleas before Chief Information Commission we are yet to see much headway in this regard and thus overall e-governance still remains  a distant dream for all of us in the state.” (KNB)

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SRINAGAR: Counting words while writing in exams takes bulk of time which made a nine year old boy from Gurez area of Bandipora district to invent a ‘Counting pen’

Muzaffar Ahmad Khan who is a student of class 3^rd has recently participated in an innovators exhibition held at Presidential House in New Delhi   where he is was applauded by the President of India Ram Nath Kovind for his invention.

While talking to Kashmir Patriot, Muzaffar who belongs to poor family from Gurez said that the idea of inventing a counting pen struck his mind when he got minimum marks in exams due to short of words. He said that they very day he start thinking of inventing something which will save time to count words automatically.

Muzaffar said he worked on the idea for few days. He said latter with the help of some people he got in touch with the National innovation Foundation, an autonomous body under department of science and technology based on his idea developed such a pen.

“It is a pen with a casing attached at its rear end. A casing for electronics is made and printed on a 3D printer. Once someone writes, it shows the word count that can be displayed on a small LCD monitor. It can also be displayed on one’s mobile phone through a message”, he said.

Muzaffar said he takes part in the festival of Innovation and Entrepreneurship organized by the Rashtrapati Bhavan in association with the Department of Science and Technology and the National innovation Council. The prototype of the pen was displayed in the exhibition where President Kovind appreciates and rewards him.

Muzaffar told that the only thing he wants to excel in life is a better schooling as the school he study in lacks teachers and other basic faculties. Muzaffar wants to become a scientist. His father Ghulam Mohmmad Khan a shopkeeper has three more children to look after.

His father told that he hardly manages to feed his family. He wishes that Muzaffar receives better education.  He said that government must provide support to the young innovators as they could be asset to the state. He said Muzaffar needs educational support to groom his innovative mind.

Pertinently the exhibition that has displays by young innovators from across the country was inaugurated by the President of India. The exhibit showcases how a simple idea can transform lives.

The festival was concluded on March 23 a remained open from 20 march for visitors. The innovators were rewarded for their innovations in the exhibition besides provided a platform for budding linkage with potential stakeholders whose support can improve their prospects in coming years to develop their idea into implementation project for the larger social good.

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Patriot Correspondent

SRINAGAR: The rising number of road mishaps is growing concern in the state of Jammu and Kashmir; especially the deadly blind curves across mountainous roads gives tough time to commuters and passengers traveling all the way every day.

Keeping in the plight of people, a Kashmiri student hailing from north Kashmir’s frontier district of Kupwara has invented a ‘Traffic Model’ to reduce road accidents occurring at blind curves.

Akeel Ahmad Wani who has completed Civil Engineering from KIET Polytechnic College in Srinagar besides currently pursuing B.Tech from Chandighar College believes that if his model is approved and owned by the concern department or institution, this will help to minimize the road mishaps.

In this model, Wani has tried to explain that how a commuter or driver of a vehicle can be alerted about the other side while driving through blind roads to avoid mishap.

Wani told Kashmir Patriot that this model if implemented would be very useful for commuters during night hours as the automatic system of this model signals the driver about the movement of pedestrian or vehicle on the blind road.

“This model will prevent accidents on hilly and curvy roads. If this model is being taken seriously by the government department to utilize it for implementation, then I will work on another model that will reduce traffic jams”, he said.

Wani said that the idea struck his mind when few weeks ago a road mishap occurred at a blind cure in his area. Adding that latter he started work on it. “Few weeks ago, a road accident occurred at a curvy road in my area. After that I started to thing on an idea to prevent these accidents. Thankfully I was successful to complete it in six day”, Wani said.

When asked how it really works and what is the model consists of, Wani said that it will be completed digital system consists of two erected polls, Aluminum plates, digital lights connected through underground wires. He added the moment more than 10kg weight lay on the road, the lights will signal on the other side and vice versa.

“Be it a human, animal or a vehicle, the moment more than 10kg weight lay on the road where the ‘traffic model’ system is installed, the drive will get a signal like traffic lights. This will surely help drivers driving through curvy and blind roads and accidents could be prevented to save precious lives”, he said.

It is pertinent to mention that if Wani’s model proves useful, then this invention will help to reduce road accidents not only in Valley but in the other parts of country.

Worth to mention, according to the official figures revealed to Kashmir Patriot, alone in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, 5500 roads accidents occurred in 2016 followed by 5167 in 2017. This indicates that there is no significant decrease in road accidents in the state.

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In the wake of #fakenews scandals the world over, Facebook is changing how it delivers headlines to its users.

The social networking service is closing down their ‘trending’ tab, reports ITV News. The tool launched in 2014 as a way for Facebook to have headlines from different outlets all in one place, which had proven popular for rival Twitter.

Unfortunately, accusations of bias from right-wing groups led to the an algorithm replacing the human team running the tab, which led to an influx of fake news based off popularity rather than, you know, fact.

But the change doesn’t mean Facebook has given up on pushing news entirely.

The company is looking at a number of different ideas, including a breaking news label that publishers can add to their stories, and a greater focus on local news.

Facebook recently revealed that they shut down nearly 600 million fake accounts in just the first three months of 2018 alone, and in that same timeframe moderated 21 million pieces of nudity or sexual activity, 3.4 million instances of graphic violence, 2.5 million pieces of hate speech and 1.9 million posts of terrorist propaganda.

The social media site has also been trialing a Reddit-esque up/down vote system, and is soon planning to launch its very own streaming service called Facebook Watch which will bring both original programming and existing content.

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Over the past few years, there have been growing complains regarding smartphone addiction. Parents, in particular, have voiced their opinions urging smartphone manufacturers to provide tools to curb this excessive usage. Earlier this year Google introduced a feature to rein in smartphone usage. And now during the #WWDC 2018 keynote, Apple has also introduced a similar feature with iOS 12.

Apple announced new tools built into iOS 12 to help customers understand and take control of the time they spend interacting with their iOS devices. These new features, available later this month as part of the iOS 12 public beta, include Activity Reports, App Limits and new Do Not Disturb and Notifications controls designed to help customers reduce interruptions and manage screen time for themselves and their families.

iOS 12 adds new features to Do Not Disturb, making this time management tool better by helping to not get distracted during times of studying as well as during a class, meeting or dinner. There is also a new Do Not Disturb during Bedtime mode to help people get a better night’s sleep by dimming the display and hiding all notifications on the lock screen until prompted in the morning. Do Not Disturb has new options from Control Center where it can be set to automatically end based on a specified time or location.

To help reduce interruptions, iOS 12 gives customers more options for controlling how notifications are delivered. Instantly manage notifications to be turned off completely or delivered directly to Notification Center. Siri can also make suggestions for notifications settings, such as to quietly deliver or turn alerts off, based on which alerts are acted upon. iOS 12 also introduces Grouped Notifications, making it easier to view and manage multiple notifications at once.

To help customers further understand how they are spending time with apps and website, a new feature called Screen Time creates detailed daily and weekly Activity Reports that show the total time a person spends in each app they use, their usage across categories of apps, how many notifications they receive and how often they pick up their iPhone or iPad.

By understanding how they’re interacting with their iOS devices, people can take control of how much time they spend on a particular app, website or category of apps. The App Limits feature allows people to set a specific amount of time to be in an app, and a notification will display when a time limit is about to expire.

Screen Time is useful for everyone to better understand and manage their device usage but can be particularly helpful for kids and families. Parents can access their child’s Activity Report right from their own iOS devices to understand where their child spends their time and can manage and set App Limits for them.

Screen Time also gives parents the ability to schedule a block of time to limit when their child’s iOS device can’t be used, such as at bedtime. During Downtime, notifications from apps won’t be displayed, and a badge will appear on apps to indicate they are not allowed to be used. Parents can choose specific apps like Phone or Books that will always be available, even during downtime or after a limit is spent.

This feature is similar to the one previewed in Android P where users have the ability to set time limits for each app.

Screen Time is account-based and works across all of a child’s iOS devices, so settings, reports and allowances are based on their total usage. Screen Time works with Family Sharing and is quick to set up. Parents can configure Screen Time settings remotely for their child within the same Family Sharing group or locally on a child’s device.

iOS 12 will be made available in the fall of 2018 and is expected to launch alongside the release of the next generation flagship iPhones.

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NEW DELHI: Reliance Jio to enter 5G Network, Data cost to dip down Mukesh-Ambani-led Reliance Jio has disrupted the market with unlimited voice plans bundled with free high-speed 4G data. The data prices have come down by a steep 90 per cent with the industry staggering from one challenge to the next.

Reliance Jio has build the largest next-generation all-IP data network. Jio uses the latest 4G LTE and VoLTE technology and is now all set to deploy the next-gen 5G technology and beyond. The company currently has a total spectrum footprint of 1,108 MHz across three spectrum bands. It has bands presently ranging around 800 MHz, 1800 MHz and 2300 MHz band in 22 circles.

Reliance Jio is locking their horns to cover 99 per cent of the whole population of the country by the end of the current fiscal, the worries remain countless. The incumbents are even struggling to remain operational under the current circumstances.

An average Jio subscriber consumes 9.7 GB 4G data, 716 minutes of voice calls, and 13.8 hours of video per month. The network has an average download speed of 17.9 Mbps.

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NEW DELHI: Transactions using Aadhaar authentication rose to nearly 150 crore in September from just over 100 crore the previous month. This big spike in the use of the biometric ID has prompted the government to make Aadhaar authentication easier through a mobile app.

At 148.3 crore, the number of Aadhaar authentications last month was more than the country’s population, a senior government official told ET. This is a phenomenal increase from just 17 crore in December and suggests that, on an average, every Aadhaar holder used the ID at least once in September to avail of benefits or other government services, the official added.

With nearly 118.5 crore people having Aadhaar, the government has decided to enable its recently launched mobile app, mAadhaar, to do all Aadhaar authentications based on OTPs. About 31 crore transactions in September were executed using OTPs.

A major issue before the UIDAI was poor mobile network and signals causing delays in the delivery of OTP to the registered mobile number.

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Bengaluru: Paytm plans to hire 10,000 temporary workers to expand its know your customer- (KYC-) compliant accounts. This comes on the back of recent regulations from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which allowed KYC-compliant e-wallet accounts to send money to other e-wallets and bank accounts using the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) – an account-to-account remittance platform.

Paytm, which also has a payments bank, will have 100,000 banking outlets and KYC points, the company said. As reported earlier, industry analysts have pointed out that most e-wallet companies have a small base of KYC-compliant users compared to the overall user base.

TOI reported last week that Paytm had allocated about $500 million worth of investments over the next three years to complete KYC requirements. The new regulatory guidelines also mean these companies have to maintain stricter compliance to reduce frauds in digital payments.

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NEW DELHI: Internet companies like Google and Facebook are shying away from calling themselves media firms, but they should take the onus of the content on their platforms, said Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP, the world’s largest advertising group. “I don’t believe these companies, and particularly Google and Facebook, are technology companies,” Sorrell told reporters in New Delhi on Tuesday. “They are media companies and they still take the position publicly that they are technology companies and that is wrong.”

To back his argument, Sorrell said Facebook has hired 4,000 employees to monitor its editorial content. Social media companies should take the responsibility of their contents, he told the journalists, “like you are responsible, and the people who own your channels, your newspapers, magazines, your digital channels are held responsible in many countries legally for the content and the accuracy of the content that you print or propagate or publish.”

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