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In present if you are person who is spending more than three hours online, so definitely you will fed up with so many online accounts and different passwords. No wonder, its good opportunity for those software’s and apps who are providing password storage service. But these passwords managers are not less than gaming tool for hackers as they can easily access them. If hackers will get your master password, so they will have an opportunity to access your all accounts. However; recently, LastPass, which is one of the premium password service manager detected suspicious activity last month. Here are some tips to avoid these issues;

All accounts are not equal and easy to crack:

Instead of remembering dozens passwords, maybe there is way to remember only half-dozen. Focus on only those accounts which are important.

Always remember the passwords and details of Bank accounts, credit card information for shopping services and never forget to remember the email info. E-mail accounts are very important, because after losing the passwords with e-mail you can reset the passwords on other services such as; social media, shopping sites and more. Try to remember the information for social media accounts because you need to use them regularly however; you can avoid the discussion forums information because they have less important. May be you will not mid if someone will post on behalf of you in discussion forums, but if someone will do it on your social media platform, so it can make harm for you in professional or personal life. Try to prioritize online accounts.

For highly sensitive accounts, use unique password and remember then or keep it on the hard copy and place that paper on safe place. Never use auto-generated or electronically generated passwords.

Lower priority:

For rest of the accounts which are not important for them you can use password manager, but in certain cases it could not necessary.

Web browsers of Apple and Google have in-built mechanisms to store the passwords for different accounts and they also update your passwords when you update your password on those sites. Even you have to sync all those to use them on multiple devices. However; in this domain the Google’s new Smart Lock feature for Android apps are very much useful if you are not limited to the web browsing. Most of the other services allow you to sign-in with Facebook ID and other social networking IDs, so instead of generating the new passwords you can use them.

Mobile phones and Fingerprints:

If you are not protecting your phone with pass-code, so someone can easily swipe your phone to get into your social media accounts and email accounts. Whereas; some of the latest iPhones, Samsung Galaxy and other high segment phones making it easier to use the phones by offering fingerprint option as the pass-code instead of four digit passwords or pattern lock. Now Apple is allowing the other app developers to use that fingerprint ID and through that you can unlock the banking apps by just tapping your figure. In upcoming Android update which is known as the M, Google is planning to make it easier for app makers to use fingerprint ID. However; Microsoft also planning to include the biometrics such as; fingerprint or iris scan in upcoming Windows 10 system.

Double layer of security:

Major service provider such as; Apple, Dropbox Google, Microsoft and Facebook are offering the second layer of security in cyber space by authentication in the form of numeric code, which send as the text messages on mobile phones. After entering the regular password you can type in the received code to verify it’s you not the hacker. To avail this service you need to go into the settings of your account where you need to activate the two-step verificationauthentication.

If there is way to sign-in through mobile number instead of e-mail address, so use mobile number for sign-in process. But you have to trust the service provider that they are not going to use them for marketing purpose.

Windows 10 can come up in pen

Now it’s clear that with the launch of Windows 10, Microsoft is planning to make a clean and clear break from the past, as its clear at hat it’s going to be the first and foremost edition of Windows, which Microsoft is planning to give away to individual home users. And if we believe on the rumors than its going to be the first operating system of Microsoft or edition of Windows, which will be sold in pen drive instead of the traditional method of selling where they were used to sale it in DVDs.
Why Windows 10 moving into Pen drive:
Windows 10 is moving into the pen drives and it is something bit different decision of Microsoft which was pending for quite long. The main reason behind choosing the pen drives are that it’s faster, easy to carry and work as the better storage device to provide overall a less hassled experience in comparison of DVDs. Now DVDs are seems to be outdated as Apple is not putting the DVD drives in its MacBooks and apart from that other high ended laptops and hybrids devices, including Microsoft’ own surface are coming up without a DVD drive.
Price of Windows 10:
According to one of the listing website of Canada, the Windows 10 can have the name as Microsoft Win Home 10 32-Bit/64-Bit English 1 License USB Flash Drive KW9-00016″ and it is expected that it will cost around Canadian $124 or Rs. 6,000.
Launch date of Windows 10:
According to reports, Windows 10 will be launched on July 29. And soon it will be available for free to all users who are using the genuine version of Windows 8, Windows 8.1or Windows 7 on their computers. Apart from that the good news is that people who are suing the pirated copies of Windows will also get the free Windows 10, but this installation will not turn their pirated version Windows into the genuine copy of Windows.
Why Windows 10 is important for Microsoft?
Microsoft is taking the Windows 10 as the major release, as company is hoping that this operating system to exorcise the ghosts of Windows 8. However; we all know that Windows 8 Microsoft was focused on the touch-screen devices, which was proved as the back fired strategy and failed very badly. Now with Windows 10, again Microsoft is planning to gain the trust of laptop and desktop users. Hence it is expected that this time again Windows 10 will bringing back features such as; the Start Menu and classic desktop-mode by default.
Microsoft is adding some additional features in Windows 10 such as; virtual assistant Cortana, replacement of Internet Explorer with Edge web browser and the feature of multiple desktops.

Microsoft Azure Mobile Development

I have spent my entire last year reviewing six types of mobile back end as a service (MBaaS) platforms, which consisted of Appery.io, Appcelerator, Parse, FeedHenry and AnyPresence. Hespend one year toreview some of the MBaas platforms that are associated with IBM Bluemix and Pivotal CF. These present PaaS services. My research has determined that almost all of the MBaaS platforms need to rely on specific kind of public cloud and almost all of them can be easily installed on hybrid cloud or on-premise configurations. Three of the most popular public cloud services have either bought or developed their own MBaaS platforms. Amazon has been able to develop the Mobile SDK having multiple mobile-specific services apart from the different methods of linking their mobile apps to their mainstream services like S3 and DynamoDB. In October 2014, Google was able to acquire Firebase, that has been also known as  to offer real-time, secure, NoSQL database, cloud-hosted, apart from being with a REST API apart from the regular login service. On the other hand, Microsoft Azure Mobile Services comprises of non-Microsoft service components like MongoDB storage, Web API,the Node.js apart from Active Directory, SQL Server cloud services and .Net, which is expected by most of the customers and users.

Amazon Mobile SDK:

The AWS Mobile SDK consists of Mobile Analytics, Cognito, and SNS push notifications. Apps that have been built on Cognito will also work offline just by synchronizing the local storage with Cognito. Cognito users can set up data profile for nearly 1 MB and this can be done in the form of key-value pairs. The local storage will be influenced by the reading and writing operations carried out on any of this data. It helps the user to not only manage, store and sync data and identities over multiple devices, applications, and platforms securely. The users also have the option of using DynamoDB, S3, as well as other services from Amazon through their mobile application. Cognito can be used for the credentials management as well. If the user is anticipating to either store or retrieve any of the non-user-related data, they can choose from MySQL, DynamoDB, or PostgreSQL, S3, or even MongoDB. Cognito on the other hand can be used for per-user credentials storage. Currently the Mobile SDKs from Amazon is under production and meant for iOS and Android and another version is available for Xamarin on AWS Labs.

So, what is Mobile Analytics? It is service from Amazon that allows the users to collect as well as analyze the application usage data. They also have the choice of setting automatic export of their usage data to platform like S3 and use other data analysis tools like Amazon Redshift for further analysis. Amazon Mobile Analytics has been designed for processing as well as exporting the application data within an hour of use. Notifications can be pushed by means of Amazon SNS to devices from Google, Apple, Windows and Fire OS and not to forget the Android devices built in China as well.

It is important for the users to ensure that they have up to date tools before starting to work with mobile SDKs. This is to ensure to avoid any kind of interruption during the entire process. It was determined that AWS Mobile SDK has been able to carry out all the functions that it is supposed to but development through this will not be easy for any novice and even a JavaScript programmer. Not to get disheartened, there are other forms of AWS SDKs available for PHP, .Net, Java, Node.js, and JavaScript meant for browsers. The currently under development Cognito Sync Manager SDK for JavaScript will be combining with the AWS JavaScript SDK meant for browsers and will be providing a set of APIs for both mobile hybrid and mobile Web applications. However, this has not been perfectly fine-tuned to any specific JavaScript frameworks so; it can be considered as any other simple form of JavaScript API around the world. For mobile app developers who are committed to Amazon services, AWS Mobile SDK is the most preferred choice.

Google Firebase:

Now moving on to Google Firebase, it is a cloud-hosted, real time, and NoSQL database, which comes with REST API, and it has been developed for lower latency. Google Firebase also offers a login service with different kinds of built-in authentication. Even though it provides required support for location query based on the GeoFire library but it still lacks some of the important features, which is expected in enterprise-grade MBaaS like back-end integration with the system as well as push notifications. It depends on SSL encryption for security purposes that comes with 2,048-bit certificates meant for all kind of data transfers; it also offers granular access control and support for the customer made authentication plans. All the data stored by the users on the Firebase will be duplicated and again stored in multiple secure locations. It not only handles billions of operations but it also deals with millions of simultaneous connections.

On the downside, currently Firebase runs only on its own public cloud and it does not give any option of choosing the storage locations. It will be quite difficult for users to rely on Firebase for certain applications that need to abide by PCI-DSS, HIPAA, or the FIPS standards. On the positive side, Firebase has been built with libraries that connect with all the biggest mobile and web client platforms and has bindings for all the major frameworks. It offers quick start guides for android and iOS platform and has the ability to integrate with Ember.js, AngularJS, Backbone.js and React all through the supported libraries.It can also combine with java, Clojure, Node.js, Perl, Python, Ruby and PHP servers via same method. For these combinations, users will have to rely on their server, as it does not provide any database or applications for the integrations. It gives a limited hosting of around 1GB to 10GB and it all depends on the plan chosen by the users. This can be controlled by means of command-line site management tools that come along with the installation of npm. Since the local storage also behaves as cache, all the Firebase apps have the feature of working offline. The users need to use Firebase APIs for offline usage. The users do not require any customer code if they reach an area of connectivity, the system will automatically catch up with the server state.

From what I have seen, Firebase is good for the implementation of low-latency NoSQL storage as well as for simple login services. Contrary to all the positives, Firebase still lacks lots of services and features that are expected from an enterprise MBaaS platform.

Microsoft’s Azure Mobile Services:

At the time of introduction Windows Azure cloud was nothing but all about Microsoft. It not only made the usage of APIs quite daunting, the tools were being run on the visual studios and services were being developed and served from Windows servers. Even though initially it took lot of time for users to get a hand of the service, now it can be done in few seconds. Microsoft Azure might still have many of the Microsoft services but it is no longer limited only to the Windows oriented system.Now the every user can have both MongoDB as well as CoreOS without any problem. Since all the integration is being done through Visual Studio tooling, it can be considered even better from what it was before.

The Microsoft Azure Mobile Services is not only hosted on the Azure public cloud it also provides full-featured MBaaS in around 19 different centers around the world. It can also allow hybrid connections through your data as well as the Azure cloud. It also supports for the multifactor authentication process and it has already been used in many applications in some of the most regulated industries and geographies. This supports Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Xamarin Android, Windows Store, Appcelerator clients, Sencha, PhoneGap clients and HTML clients. The users can also host Node.js Web API and .Net with all day management as well as monitoring. Users will have to use a single sign-on irrespective of the server or client technologies they are using. Both web console or a command line can be used for managing these mobile services. The service creates an Azure SQL Server database as well as a mobile hub to reduce the interservice latency incase of use of the server in an existing database. It will ask for permission from the user for accessing certain IP addresses before they can start using it.

Users have the option of monitoring their SQL server, mobile service, as well as the endpoints and depending on the results; they can configure the services of their mobile according to the plan. Azure Mobile Services team has been able to meet all the requirements of the app developers without forcing them to use any of their solutions.

Looking at all the comparison, I feel that Microsoft Azure Mobile Services is much better than Firebase or Amazon Cognito.

SMBs can come online in Rs 99/month

Recently, software giant Microsoft has partnered with leading web solution provider GoDaddy to help small and medium enterprises as well as entrepreneurs to get their business online for Rs 99 a month, which is pretty low. As per the recent reports Rajiv Sodhi, Vice President and Managing Director of GoDaddy India stated that, “Now we want to help the small and medium businesses by helping them to bring their business online through ‘Get Online Today’ initiative. With this offering, interested businesses can have a website in the most affordable way”.

As a part of partnership between GoDaddy and Microsoft, customers will get the domain name as well as a support to build a website with the access to Microsoft’s Office 365 solution for Rs 99 a month. Still customers will have the liberty to choose among the popular domains such as; .com, .in, .net, .org, .biz, and more. Apart from all these facilities GoDaddy will provide technical support through 24X7 customer care to help users set up the website, which would be mobile phone-compatible as well. For any SMB cost and complexity are the two major issues, but with the partnership of GoDaddy and Microsoft, now SMBs will get the freedom from this issue and as well as challenges. As per the Son, “In present if someone want to get the website, so all they need  to contact us and we will help them get one according to their needs within 30 minutes”.

GoDaddy will provide the web builder kit to its subscribers, so that they can design by posting content and multimedia. Now with Microsoft on board, customers will have an access to different solutions such as; Lync, contacts, professional e-mail, and calendar to their custom domain name as well as cloud storage. According to Meetul Patel, General Manager (SMS&P), Microsoft India, “Microsoft Office 365 is transformational for small businesses as it will allow them to easily access the same powerful tools that large companies use at an affordable price”. GoDaddy the world’s largest and most successful web domain registrar is already a partner with Microsoft at a global level. GoDaddy is Arizona, US based company, but it has its presence across international borders such as; Brazil, Netherlands, UK, Canada, and India,

As per the recent study reports of Nasscom and Frost & Sullivan, “Most of the SMBs are expecting to spend more than $18.5 billion (Rs 1.11 lakh crore) on information technology by FY18, driven by growing adoption of cloud and mobility solutions as compared to about $8.7 billion (Rs 47,200 crore) on IT in FY13”. In these $8.7 billion, hardware will absorb 45%, IT services (implementation, support and training) will absorb 40% and software licensing and software as a service (SaaS) will absorb rest 15%. These reports further said that SaaS adoption by SMBs in India will enhance the growth of CAGR of over 25% and is expected to reach $370 million (Rs 2,000 crore) by FY18.

Apples, pork and mushrooms sounds like a important ingredient for recipe of a kebab, but the average someone rarely think of to add strawberries. According to John Gordon from IBM, the result is delicious. Dr Gordon from the team of cognitive-computing and responsible for a machine called Watson; this machine is able to digest and analyze large number of English text and than it can draw interface from it. In March 2014, Watson fed reams of recipes and texts about the food, and it seems that these 4 ingredients would complement each and it will base on sharing a number of flavorsome chemical compounds. And at least Dr Gordon thinks Watson’s suggestion is a winner.

Working for new recipes sounds a trivial and seems to like the use of a multimillion-dollar piece of kit, but Dr. Gordon’s culinary experiment neatly explains the unique idea of Hypothesis Generation and the possible uses of same are certainly not trivial. Researcher was demonstrated the power of the technique published by Olivier Lichtarge of Baylor College of Medicine in August 2014, in collaboration with Dr Gordon’s group they employed it to hunt for kinases, which can activate another protein P53, as it curbs the growth of cancers.

They use the software to read the 186,879 abstract papers and produced a list of the most promising experiments on kinases. The twist was that question sin papers were published before 2003. It means that Dr Lichtarge could check that Watson-based approach came to the same conclusions as those arrived at by human researchers over the subsequent 10 years, in which top 9 kinases the software picked and out of which 7 have subsequently been shown to activate P53. Anne Poupon from French National Institute for Agricultural Research, heads the another group working on automated Hypothesis Generation and her software, Méthode d’Inférence crunches research on hormones and they interact with the 1,500 types of receptor molecules. It recommended to look more closely at certain of these interactions, as the literature on them contains contradictory results, which need to be resolved.

BrainSCANr, devised by Bradley Voytek from University of California, San Diego and his wife Jessica presents the third example of automated hypothesis generation. BrainSCANr is designed to help the neuroscientists, where it will help in the selection of research projects. By sifting more than 3.5m papers, software suggested that clues to the origin of migraines may be found in the levels of serotonin, it is signaling molecule which released by neurons in a region.

Advantages of Hypothesis:
According to Dr Lichtarge, hypothesis generation software works as a part because science writing tends to be free of humor and sarcasm that could trip it up. The source of text can be analyzed in search of hypotheses to test. Web searches rarely lack complex grammar and verbs that can be confusing for software’s. By analyzing the typed words in the web browser of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Bing search engine by people wondering why they feel ill while using Microsoft Research, in Redmond, Washington produced the hypotheses on potentially harmful pairings of medications. Microsoft Research’s head, Eric Horvitz, says America’s Food and Drug Administration has formed the team to use “early warning” hypotheses for producing better designs for laboratory experiments.
It all looks rather than promising that both IBM and science, it launched a commercial version in August for automated hypothesis generation software. Discovery Advisor, Dr Gordon hopes, as this service is known to be a money-spinner for the firm.

Also as read in a blog, this colossal US Company also stated that Samsung had used an excuse and tried to get over with their payment course by stating about Microsoft’s takeover of the handset unit of Nokia.

While on the other hand, Samsung stated that they will take appropriate steps only after they go through the complaint and then likewise determine what step to take ahead. This is the very first time that Microsoft has taken legal action against Samsung. For quite a long term both, the companies were running a great partnership, because of the manufacturer’s sale of Windows phone and Windows PC.

Nokia deal

Though we all know that Microsoft is well recognized for its Windows OS, it has been claiming ownership over several of Google’s Android OS patents at the same time.

It has been pursuing a wide array of Android device-makers for their license fees and till the very present time has struck deals with a list of more than 25 companies some of them being ZTE, HTC, Nikon and Acer. In September 2011 Samsung agreed with the demands made by Microsoft and in the following year it had made their very first payment. It is most likely that the dispute arose due to the Microsoft’s Nokia acquisition.

Nevertheless, as per the censored court papers which were filed by the lawyer of Microsoft which was also posted by Geekwire news website, highlighted news that Samsung had obstructed and refused to make the second payment after getting to know about the Nokia deal in September 2013.

Even though it was also stated on the documents later that Samsung had made the payments in November 2013, Microsoft still claims that Samsung has yet not been able to successfully cover the interest on the sum over the period it did not pay.

Furthermore, Microsoft is not quite happy as Samsung has reserved the rights and claimed not to make any further payments from now. It also stated that Samsung had asked many of the Korean competition authorities to arbitrate to remove any kind of fees in the future- this is a matter, which falls outside the authority of the regulator’s vicinity.

In addition, the papers also stated that Samsung had threatened Microsoft further with its very own patent infringement claims involving the Nokia takeover case.

David Howard Microsoft’s deputy general counsel stated on the company’s blog that Microsoft respects and values its partnership with Samsung and intends for its further growth. All that there were doing was asking the court to come to their settlement of their disagreement and that they were quite confident about the enforcement of the contract.

Upon this Samsung has declined to discuss on any such claims. How much Microsoft makes does from its Android patents has never been disclosed by them, but analysts’ have estimated the yearly figure to be between $1bn (£595m) to $2bn.

Clearly, working in the scenario successfully is the ‘fear factor’ as being noticed in the fast growing podium of cloud computing.

As per the recent quarterly reports as per the market research shows that Microsoft and IBM are the fastest companies in the area of cloud computing business and are fast evolving giants. In fact, their business tend to be at a danger level from shift to computing delivered over the internet area from far-flung data centers, as the business is in the form of a pay-for-use service rather than acting as a product.

Around the second quarter, Microsoft’s cloud revenue scored as high up to 164 percent where as IBB’s surged to around 86 percent as per the report made by the Synergy Research Group in the last week. Amazing is quite ahead and its revenue in the area of cloud computing rises to around$962 million when compared to Microsoft’s $370 million and IBM’s $259 million, an estimate made by Synergy. Amazon’s growth rate at around 49 percent was a bit ahead very slightly of the torrid 45 percent rate.

This progression rate by IBM and Microsoft was also highlighted in the quarterly financial reports of the company and conference calls with eminent researchers and analysts. The analyst at Synergy, John Dinsdale stated that these are not mere claims but come with many backups together with loads of investments.

A technology research company by the name of Gartner supplied the so-called magic quadrant reports, is being very minutely followed by corporate customers and technology experts and suppliers. These reports consist of the strengths and difficulties that are faced by the two graphic plotting tech companies side by side. The niche players are placed towards the lower left area while the lead players or the players are positioned at the upper-right quadrant space.

As per the previous year’s reports posted by Gartner on the basic cloud services, IBM was placed in the area of niche players while in the year 2012 it did not even come close as a feasible participant or player. In the present year with the acquisition of SoftLayer, which was a cloud start-up and its personal internal investments it has managed to rise to a slightly higher position towards the right even though it is not in the leaders area. Nonetheless, this is a strong vision as per Gartner, yet it lags a bit in the execution area.
Microsoft has managed to move towards the right area this very year, paving its way into the leader’s space. Last year it placed Microsoft in the very same position where IBM stands today.