Why You Shouldn't Upgrade To Windows 11 Today

What are your thoughts on Windows 11?  Is it worth the upgrade?  What does this new OS offer that's so great?  How is this different than previous versions of Windows you've used in the past?  What do you feel about Microsoft's latest operating system release?

These are all questions I often hear, and with good reason. There has been a lot of hype around the newest iteration of the world's most popular operating system, but is there any substance behind that hoopla, or will you be just as disappointed with what turns out to be released when September rolls around. Let me help answer these questions for you by explaining some of my concerns regarding upgrading to Windows 11.

Windows 11 has excellent user interfaces as transparency, floating style, and glassy look increase its hotness. Anyway, some users upgraded their PCs to Windows 11, and they faced some issues in Internet connectivity, though they had to downgrade their Windows to 10. These types of problems are confronted because of the system requirement as Windows 11 strict system requirements. If you install Windows 11 and your system requirements don't match, you may encounter these types of problems.

Even some software will also stop working, and you need to wait for them to be updated to use. And a lot of companies fixed their products in the pre-release of Windows 11. Still, some major companies started working on making their software Windows 11 friendly, and the updates will be available in the upcoming days. To avoid such issues, I will recommend waiting for a week or more.

Windows 11 system requirements:

• Processor: 1 GHz or faster with 2 or more cores on a compatible 64-bit processor or System on a Chip (SoC)
• Storage: 64 GB or larger storage device
• Memory: 4 GB RAM
• System firmware: UEFI, Secure Boot capable
• Display: >9-inch with HD Resolution (720p)
• Graphics card: DirectX 12 compatible graphics / WDDM 2.x
• TPM: Trusted Platform Module (TPM) version 2.0 or PTT you can turn these on from BIOS
• Internet connection: Microsoft account and internet connectivity required for setup for Windows 11 Home

Let us know in the comment section if you faced any problems while using Windows 11.

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WordPress.com has been banned in Pakistan by PTA

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA)  put a ban on WordPress.com officially in Pakistan, WordPress.com is one of the most popular platform in the world. PTA is an organization which is responsible every content on internet in Pakistan.

WordPress Got Ban In Pakistan

As per our sources, the hosted platform is banned completely due to hosting an alleged Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) website named 'Umer media', that was disseminating anti-state propaganda news.
Alot of bloggers in Pakistan are using this free service to express their opinions online and blog about their passion, work and lifestyle. Some bloggers are even making some good money of this service. This ban would not affect freedom of expression in Pakistan but will also deprive thousand of Bloggers who make their livelihood out of this website.
I would love to suggest Pakistani Government to contact website owners, and put that material down, and look again their service clearly. I urge Pakistani Government and specially PTA to take back this decision and unblock WordPress.com in Pakistan, as soon the TTP materials taken down.

UnBlocking SOON!!

PTA confirmed to FocDownloads that WordPress.com is just block temporally for security reason for 23March Parid, will be back soon!! Keep clam!

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Applications Apple iWatch brand extends to other countries

Applications Apple iWatch brand extends to other countries

IWatch Apple has already made a name for himself, at least when it comes to trademark applications.

Applications to the brand iWatch nickname emerged in Mexico, Taiwan and Turkey, according to 9 to 5Mac and MacRumors people. Presentations in Mexico and Taiwan directly list Apple as the plaintiff, while Turkey came to a lawyer who has worked with Apple in the past. The three were released on June 3. Columbia also seems to be on the list, according to a 9 to 5Mac reader linked to the document presentation. These four new applications for registration following a report of a paper presented at the Japan discovered last week. A report in early June, said Apple had filed a trademark for the iWatch Russia. Many analysts and observers have set Apple iWatch launch later this year. And the opinion of an analyst, you might have already made ​​the decision to go ahead with production. "We iWatch is in a state of alert, the supply chain and production pending Apple's advantage," said Citi analyst Glen Yeung in a note to investors released June 7th "We suspect that the decision to go / no-go will take place in June and leaning toward a result "go" right now. "

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Apple plans solar farm data center in Reno

Apple plans solar farm data center in Reno

  Apple plans to build a solar farm to power a new data center in Reno, Nevada, in accordance with the goal of having their data centers with renewable energy company. The company has signed an agreement with the Nevada utility NV Energy to build a solar power plant on 167 acres in northern Nevada, to be able to produce between 18 and 20 megawatts of power, Apple announced Monday. The new solar park will provide the energy needed to operate a data center 1 billion for cloud services from Apple that is east of Sparks.
Once completed, the installation of new solar panel will generate about 43.5 million kilowatt hours of clean energy per year to the grid of Sierra Pacific Power, which supplies the data center, Apple said in a statement . Because data centers consume large amounts of electricity, Apple has agreed to manage their data centers entirely on renewable energy. An Apple computer center in Maiden, North Carolina, which runs entirely off renewable energy is supplied by solar panels held by the largest end user of the nation.

  "While Apple's data center uses 100 percent renewable energy, and we are on track to achieve this in our new data center in Reno using the latest performance concentrating solar panels," Apple said in a press release announcing the project. "This project will not only provide renewable energy for our data center, but also provide clean energy to the local power grid, through a first of its kind partnership with NV Energy. "
The company has shown a keen interest in renewable energy, both in its facilities and equipment. Besides its Maiden data center, Apple locations in Austin, Texas, Elk Grove, California, and Cork, Ireland, powered percent renewable energy resources 100.

Although Apple has not yet published the solar gadgets, the company was granted a patent in 2011 for a system that uses a solar panel to charge various mobile devices, including a laptop, tablet, phone or other handheld gadget.

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Surface model rumors LTE-Advanced and 5S budget IPhone

Surface model rumors LTE-Advanced and 5S budget IPhone

In need of a daily dose of rumors about future iPhones? Well, a blog in Chinese economic demands, the iPhone is on the road, while the Korean media were expecting a version of the iPhone 5S with LTE high speed. Let's start with the most colorful rumor. Chinese blogs Technology lieyunwang demands - BrightWire - Hon Hai Precision (aka Foxconn) has begun production of the iPhone input range, which should be available in several different colors. What colors? A French website has posted photos from Monday to demonstrate the back color plates. Meanwhile, the Chinese language report said the low-cost model is similar in the price of the iPhone 4S.
It should be noted that T. H. Pegatron CEO Tung - are also expected to make the phone - said last month it will not actually anything cheap. It is expected that the entry-level iPhone appears in the latest iPhone rumor timeframe.The fall 5S is harder to sink your teeth because it's just speculation on discussions between SK Telecom and Apple Korea South. Basically, it's about getting the LTE-Advanced technology in a version of 5S. This is interesting, because it would download speeds of 150 Mbps potential, about twice as fast 4G LTE speeds available in the United States and other countries.

For customers in the United States, the technology would probably not accessible. SK Telecom is the only global company that supports the technology, although U.S. companies have plans.

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Apple release its financial results for the third fiscal quarter on July 23

Apple release its financial results for the third fiscal quarter on July 23

 Apple executives will discuss the financial results of the company for the third quarter of the year in a conference call on July 23, according to an update on Monday taken to the page of Investor Relations of the Company. It is expected that the call, as always providing audio stream to cover the sales figures and the company's revenues for the fiscal quarter ended late June CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer is likely to be present to provide financial projections for the next quarter.
 Apple surprised Wall Street in April with higher expected earnings in the second quarter of the year, reporting $ 43.6 billion in sales thanks to strong iPhone and iPad sales. Apple said it sold 37.4 million iPhones in the quarter, well above the average of $ 34 million Wall Street expected.

However, Apple has reduced its iPhone build orders for the rest of 2013, according to analyst Peter Misek, cut orders for the third quarter of 25 to 30 million from 40 million to 45 million previously. And orders for the fourth quarter will be reduced to writing 50000000-55000000 60000000-65000000. Apple said in April that it expects its sales in fiscal third quarter to come between $ 33.5 billion and $ 35.5 billion.

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More than 1 million U.S. Android users have downloaded adware

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It is the request of the security firm Lookout, which states that 6.5 percent of free apps in the Google game on the market contain adware.

Adware has become a little something about regarding Android, a new study from security firm Lookout discovered.
According to the security company, over the last year, more than 1 million U.S. Android users download involuntary or adware. What's worse, 6.5 percent of free applications available on the Google Market now has game advertising of any kind.
Adware is not exactly the easiest subject to define because there is a gray area between what is the practice of advertising and what is not. But Lookout says there are some key features that are seemingly innocuous ads in adware:

    The application that displays advertisements "outside the normal experience;
    The ad "unusual cultures personally identifiable information, or
    The ad "makes unexpected, as a response to clicks on ads.
Adware has long been a concern for computer users. But with the use of cloud mobile devices, advertisers - and creators of adware - focus on Android. Worse, Juniper Networks report released earlier this week shows that mobile malware has increased 614 percent in the past year, and 92 percent of all detected threats running on Google's operating system.
To illustrate the impact of adware on Android, Lookout offers some statistics on what is most likely to find Android users disorder. Lookout says that 26 percent of Google Play free personalization contain adware applications. As for games, 9 percent were free of adware programs. Interestingly, social applications are less likely to contain adware, Lookout find with only 2 percent of adware packaging programs.
"Dubious practices in mobile advertising, such as adware, can get in the way of privacy of users and experience, do things like capture personal information (eg email list Address of location, etc.) without changing phone settings and office without proper notification and consent, "Lookout said in a blog post on Wednesday." While most mobile ads are A-OK, the industry grows, it must protect the privacy of the user and an excellent user experience. "

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Axes CEO of BlackBerry PlayBook tablet should BB10

Former president of RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis introduced BlackBerry PlayBook developer conference in San Francisco in 2010

CEO Thorsten Heins said he was not satisfied with the experience.

The BlackBerry PlayBook will not be moving to BlackBerry 10 after all.

 CEO Thorsten Heins confirmed that he had canceled BlackBerry's plans to bring its next-generation operating system to its tablet, which continues to ship and has developed a small cult following.

Heins said he wasn't satisfied with the level of the experience, and made the "difficult decision" to stop the company's efforts on that front and shift its resources back to its core smartphone products.

The PlayBook runs on a rudimentary version of the BB10 operating system. Both BB10 and the PlayBook OS are based on the QNX operating system. Heins said the company would continue to support the PlayBook's existing operating system.

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BlackBerry reduces losses, but Wall Street expects earnings

 BlackBerry reports a sequential improvement in sales, but warned that it would issue a further loss in the quarter. The company sold 6.8 million smartphones in the first quarter of the year.

BlackBerry may have shown some progress in sales of its new smartphones, but their loss left many industry observers surprised and disappointed.
Company of Waterloo, Ontario, reported Friday a loss of $ 84 million, or 16 cents per share in the first quarter of the fiscal year that ended June 1. It was narrower than the loss of $ 518 million, or 99 cents per share, a year earlier. Excluding items, the company lost $ 67 million, or 13 cents per share. Revenue rose 9 percent to $ 3.1 billion.

Analysts on average expected BlackBerry to post revenues of $ 3.36 billion and a profit of 6 cents per share. The company sold 6.8 million BlackBerry, but it was 10 broke many BlackBerry. BlackBerry continues to emerge from the abyss as it expands its range of BlackBerry smartphones with 10 engine and tries to boost sales and profits. The company, however, still faces huge challenges in the form of his rivals with deep pockets and several other competitors seeking their own back story. Although the company has excited BlackBerry faithful unconditional, it is still unclear whether other consumers are interested in returning.

"Consumer interest and adoption seems to be declining in society is only partial and slow," said Sanford Bernstein analyst Pierre Ferragu in a research note published Wednesday.
BlackBerry warned that the competitive environment remains difficult and said he would issue a further loss in the quarter. CEO Thorsten Heins said in a statement that the company plans to increase its investment to support the launch of new products and services.

The shares fell nearly 16 percent to $ 12.20 in pre-market.

May introduced BlackBerry BlackBerry Q5 low end, which is adjacent to all-Z10 with touch screen and keyboard Q10 packaging. Sales of BlackBerry Smart phone has increased by 13 percent of its fiscal fourth quarter, but down from 13 percent a year ago, which is before the launch of its first BlackBerry 10 phone. The new findings are important because they represent the first quarter sales of the Z10, which was the first BlackBerry smartphone platform for their next generation. BlackBerry does not specify that sales come with its older BlackBerry devices still sold in emerging markets.

However, industry observers believe that the Q10 - it's more like the traditional BlackBerry - use real catalyst. While the Q10 has been in several markets for a few weeks, which just arrived in the United States earlier this month. BlackBerry does not release its subscriber base, which had declined in recent quarters. The company also sent 100,000 PlayBook tablets.

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Explosions Privacy Project Group Announces cookies Mozilla, Stanford

Interactive Advertising Bureau CEO Randall Rothenberg called to determine which cookies should be blocked or allowed to "Kangaroo Court Cookie" that hurt small publishers websites.

The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School is working with Mozilla on a project called the Cookie Clearinghouse to try to improve Internet privacy controls.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau, a group that represents hundreds of Internet advertisers, has attacked Mozilla's involvement in a Stanford Law School privacy project to judge whether individual Web sites can be trusted to set behavior-tracking browser cookies.

The IAB doesn't like the Cookie Clearninghouse, which Stanford's Center for Internet and Society and Mozilla announced on June 19. The project aims to rate individual to bring privacy ratings for browser cookies -- the small text files that Web site operators can store on people's computers. Cookies can be useful for remembering that you're logged into a site or for not showing you the same ad over and over, but they can also track behavior across the Web so advertisers see what Web sites you've been visiting.

"The Cookie Clearinghouse will develop and maintain an 'allow list' and 'block list' to help Internet users make privacy choices as they move through the Internet. The Clearinghouse will identify instances where tracking is being conducted without the user's consent, such as by third parties that the user never visited," the project organizers said.

On Tuesday, though, the IAB castigated Mozilla for its involvement, calling the clearinghouse a "Kangaroo cookie court"
"This is not a clearing house for cookies -. Cookie is a kangaroo court, an arbitrary group to determine who can do business with the replacement of the principle of consumer choice with an arrogant" Mozilla knows better "system" said IAB CEO Randall Rothenberg. involved in the clearing were "not a shred of concern shown by the publishers, small businesses, and hundreds of thousands of people who depend on Internet advertising as a way of life, "he added.

Mozilla said the IAB can influence policy for sharing information and suggested that strives to help users better understand their members are on the Web.

"The Centre Cookie is an open project managed by the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, and there is sufficient time for interested parties to participate in the formation of its recommendations sides," Mozilla said in a statement. "We hope that groups IAB and other advertising industry will work with us to make the process of online advertising more transparent and responsive to Internet users."
The IAB attack is the latest in a long series of disputes over how to balance privacy and tracking users. Much work has taken place in recent months discussing a project called Do Not Track technology standards in a World Wide Web Consortium called the Working Group on tracking protection group. This effort, however, was a rebel and did not reach a consensus.

Interactive Advertising Bureau CEO Randall Rothenberg

The letter IAB positions the conflict as a fight of David against Goliath. "Small publishers, retailers and other businesses" play the role of David, Mozilla, "a powerful technology company" and "the non-profit non-profit organization whose Firefox control 20 percent of the browser access to the world Web "is Goliath.

It should be noted, however, that the IAB is a lot of Goliath, like Google, Yahoo, eBay, Amazon, Nascar and CBS. And in the world of browsers, Google, Microsoft and Apple are much better funded than Mozilla.

The current dispute concerns cookies "third party" in particular. Cookies record information party Internet Web site the browser is visiting address, but other parts of a web site - a service of placing ads, for example - can configure third-party cookies to locations network. It allows advertisers to track user behavior across multiple sites.

The Safari browser blocks cookies and apple cookies from advertisers by default. Mozilla has proposed a similar ban third cookies, also, a move that raised hackles of the IAB. But Mozilla has decided to put the patch on hold because of two weaknesses, according to Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich: false positives in which domain cookies first game seem to others, and false negative places first part may place cookies undesirable.

The study author, Jonathan Mayer, opposed the decision to Mozilla to third cookie blocking waiting, arguing that Mozilla put "economics of advertising" to "privacy user required a long time. "

But Eich dryly, "Users who want privacy are complementary really hardcore, but few users, and do not believe in the paternalistic idea that we know better." He added: "No one will have undue influence As proof of this, here's how you and the people of ad-tech (IAB) are both angry against us right now.".

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Mobile malware has increased 614 percent in the last year

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Mobile malware is greater than ever and the operating system of choice is Android, which receives 92 percent of all identified threats, a new report shows Juniper.

Mobile malware and smartphone manufacturers seem to be in a race neck and neck software, but the new data show that the malware could take the lead.

Juniper Networks has introduced its third annual mobile threats on Tuesday and the results are not pretty. Mobile malware has increased at a rate of 614 per cent from March 2012 to March 2013 - the equivalent of 276,259 malicious programs circulating. Last year, the increase was only 155 per cent.

The report is based on an analysis of more than 1.85 million mobile applications and vulnerabilities in the major mobile operating systems.

As operating systems are operating at an ever increasing rate, Juniper said it was clear that cybercriminals are becoming more entrepreneurial, intelligent and calculated. Instead of trying to break into all systems tend to fetch the most popular android.

Overall, Android dominates nearly 60 percent share of the smartphone market, according to analyst firm Canalys, Apple comparison is just over 19 percent and Microsoft at 18 percent. According to Juniper, 92 percent of all mobile malware detected is specifically targeted at Android.

Most Android users have not updated their devices to the new version, which is another reason why I prefer cybercriminals operating system. From this month, only 4 percent of Android users are running the latest operating system, according to Juniper. Given that users remain in the previous versions, such as Ice Cream Sandwich and Gingerbread, get lost in the new updates to Google Security.

This does not mean that other operating systems are not vulnerable, however. Juniper warns that all operating systems can be used, including Apple iOS.

"Theoretical Exploits for iOS has been demonstrated, as well as methods to sneak in malicious applications iOS App Store cybercriminals But generally avoided Apple products for greener pastures offered Google Android", says the report from Juniper. "This does not mean that iOS is safer than Android."

Most malware attacks are users through SMS Trojans, which trick users send text messages to numbers created by cybercriminals. Forty-eight percent of attacks come from these Trojans SMS, 29 percent are false through facilities, and 19 percent comes from Trojan spy malware.

The most imitated by cybercriminals applications Google Play, Skype, Adobe Flash and Angry Birds. Recently, even malicious "Bad Pigs" application is poorly disguised Piggies popular game on Google Play.

To reduce the risk of infection by mobile malware, users should avoid buy apps from third party app stores, the upgrade to the current version of mobile operating systems do not allow applications to access personal and private information stored on the devices.

"There is no question of mobility will remain a dominant force in any harmful industries. 'Ve found that you have created an easy business opportunity for malware developers are more expert in their approach to quickly transform a income market fast "Juniper Networks mobile Threat Center Director Troy Vennon said in a statement growth. "We hope that the development of PC-based threats, mobile attacks will continue to increase and become more sophisticated in the years to come."

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Ministry of Defence to build your own secure 4G network

The ministry hopes the new network will enhance the cooperation between the different branches of the armed forces, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said.

 The U.S. Department of Defense is building its own secure 4G network to enhance collaboration between the different branches of the armed forces, according to the president of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The network is part of an effort called "the common information environment", which will include 15,000 DoD networks in the cloud, said Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, in a speech (PDF) presented Thursday at the Institute Brookings, an influential think tank based in Washington, DC in addition to strengthening collaboration, the new network will be "much safer, helping to ensure the integrity of our systems against interruption battle," said Dempsey.

The network, which will allow access to a variety of mobile devices expected to be operational by mid next year, Dempsey said, as he gave an overview of the type of security service people will know.

"This phone is both Batman and James Bond jealous," he said, saying what he said was a mobile phone insurance. "With tools like this, generation of smartphones to help us reach our army to initiate a new era of mobile command and control. "

Part of the plan is a federated application store that will allow DoD users to share content across multiple devices, he said.

"Using off-the-shelf technology, we bring the full force of the technological revolution in the classified environment," said Dempsey.

Earlier this year, the U.S. Agency for Defense Information Systems approved the use of Apple iOS 6, Galaxy S4 and 10 BlackBerry U.S. government and military departments that use the DoD network. The Department of Defense currently has more than 600,000 commercial mobile devices in operational use and the pilot, whose 470,000 41,000 Apple Devices BlackBerry, Android devices and 8700.

Noting that the U.S. military has made ​​significant progress in embracing the field of cyber-security, Dempsey echoed the concerns of the efforts of the Department of Defense to protect previous local critical infrastructure private sector are "delayed".

"Very few companies have invested adequately in cyber-security. I fear that opponents will try to exploit this vulnerability in the armor of our nation," said the general. "For them, the economy and infrastructure are easier targets than our armed forces."

Improved infrastructure battlefield communication was a major objective of the Ministry of Defense. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced last December that it was looking for ideas on how to improve the platform wireless communication of the army to deliver 100 Gbps connections.

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