Consider Adding This Important Info To Your Website Today

When you’re creating a website for your business, there a multiple things you need to think about. It needs to be user-friendly and have a clean and striking appearance. Your website should also have product images, links to social media and online buying capabilities. With so much to think about, it’s not surprising that a few details get overlooked along the way. If your website looks the part but lacks the most basic of information, this can have a devastating effect on your business. So make the following pieces of information a top priority and add them to your website today.

Your contact information

Your customers will want to be able to easily communicate with you for a number of reasons. They might want to enquire about an order or give you feedback on a product for example. Communicating is also key if you want to establish a loyal customer base that continually buys from you. But if your website doesn’t contain any contact information communication will be almost impossible. Create a contact form for your site or list a phone or email address for your customers to use. You might also want to list an address for your business which will be useful for customers who want to return items. If you work from home, search for Hoxton Mix virtual office services or other address providers online to get a business address set up. Also make sure links to your social media are clear on every page of your website.

The location of your business

Even if you don’t want to list a business address on your website, it should at least contain your location. Some customers prefer buying from local brands so knowing you are based nearby can be a big selling point. It can also be useful for any international clients and suppliers to know this information too. Having a location of a brand makes it easier to work out postage overseas and also time differences and shipping times. Often the best place to list your location is in the About Me page on your website. If your products are made locally, also make this known.

Customer Testimonials

Customers will often read the reviews and testimonials featured on a website before choosing to buy or work with a business. This is because it builds their confidence and trust as well as giving your business authenticity. So not including this information on your website can be a terrible mistake to make. If you don’t currently have any testimonials, contact customers you have worked with previously. Politely ask them to write a short paragraph about their experience with your company. Then add this to a testimonials page or widget on your website. Just make sure this can be easily found and accessed on the homepage of your site. Keep this page frequently updated by asking new clients for feedback.

Having this information included on your website can help give your business more personality. Original content can also make your business stand out on search engines which can boost your sales considerably. Your website provides a vital first impression so make sure you’re giving out the right one.

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Xolo Era 1X Works With the Reliance Jio Network Launched at Rs 4,999

Xolo Era 1X Works With the Reliance Jio Network, Launched at Rs. 4,999

After introducing the Xolo Era X in February, the company has expanded its Era series and introduced the successor Era 1X in India. Xolo has launched its new 4G VoLTE smartphone under its Era series, which is named as Xolo Era 1X. The smartphone is priced at Rs 4,999 and will be offered exclusively through Flipkart from September 15. Interested customers can register on Xolo’s official website and they will stand a chance to win a Xolo Era 1Xsmartphone. The Era 1X comes in gunmetal, black, gold and brown color options.

The Xolo Era 1X comes with VoLTE support, that means it will work with the Reliance Jio network. It also has a dual-LED front flash, a rare sight at this price.

The Xola Era 1X has a 5-inch HD IPS display with 294ppi pixel density and is run by a 1.3GHz quad-core processor along with 1GB of RAM. There is also 8GB onboard memory, which can be extended up to 32GB using a microSD card. On the software front, the smartphone runs on Android Marshmallow 6.0. The Era 1X gets its power from a 2500 mAh removable Li-Po battery, which claims to offer up to 22 hours of talk time and up to 185 hours of standby time.

The Era 1X has an 8-megapixel autofocus rear camera with 5P Largan Lens and LED Flash. A 5-megapixel camera with Dual LED Flash is in its front for video calling and selfies. It has many camera features that include Beauty Mode, Live Photos, Burst Mode, Time- Lapse, Audio Note, and Slo-Motion. Also, the smartphone offers Dual SIM, 4G with VoLTE, WiFi Hotspot, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, GPS, Bluetooth, a micro USB port, Proximity, Smart Screenshot, Ambient Light Sensor, Assistant, Smart Awake, Cast screen, LED flash for call and Flip to mute alarms and calls. The handset measures 145.5*72*8.6 mm.

Talking about competition, the Xolo Era 1X will face competition from the likes of the Reliance Digital LYF Wind 5, which is estimated a tad higher at Rs 5,599. At this price, we get a device with 5-inch HD display, 1GB RAM, MediaTek 1.0GHz quad-core processor, 8GB expandable storage, and 2,000mAh battery. There is also an 8-megapixel rear camera with a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. 

If we don’t have a 4G VoLTE phone and are trying to get one to enjoy Reliance Jio’s free offers than we can consider this phone. Note that all 4G VoLTE phones are now suitable for Reliance Jio’s offer after its launch on September 5. In fact, a few days back while declaring its partnership with Jio, Xolo had declared that all its upcoming 4G phones will be appropriate for Jio Preview offer. But note the Xolo Era 1X is not the low-priced 4G VoLTE phone, LYF is currently proposing 4G phones for as low as Rs 2,999.

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The Secret Behind Deleting You Need To Know

The Secret Behind Deleting You Need To Know

There’s something that you need to know about deleted files and lost data. Nothing is ever truly gone. When you delete a file on your computer, you might think that you are erasing it completely. We’re sure you did the first time you used a computer. Until you found that it ended up in the recycle bin. Once you delete it from the recycle bin, the computer will warn you that you are permanently deleting the file. But this isn’t true at all. In fact, you’re simply moving it to a different, unused part of the hard drive. It still exists, and it’s still recoverable if you know how. Now, there are two things to take away from this. The first is that if you do lose a file that are options on how to recover it. The second is whether or not you can protect your files by deleting them. We’re going to look at both these questions and find the solutions.

Recovering Files

There are a few steps that you can take to recover lost files or data on your computer. The first is a system restore. You can restore your computer to an early point of processing. Usually, this process is completed to rid the computer of a virus. However, you can also regain lost files by doing this. Alternatively, you can access the files without restoring your computer. You can do this, by changing the permissions so that you can access hidden files on the computer. These are files that the make of the computer doesn’t trust you with. Tamper with these files and you could crash the computer completely. So, you need to make sure you know what you’re doing.

If you have no experience with computers at all, you may want to leave the job to professionals. There are plenty of data recovery businesses that specialise in this service. This is probably the best step to take if you’re recovering important data files.

Mobile Devices

Mobile devices can seem like a lost cause if you delete a file. Certainly, there isn’t usually an option to look at deleted files. Even though they still exist within the hardware. Your best bet is to use a recovery software that you can purchase or download for free online. Using software like this, you’ll be able to recover lost files quickly and easily. You can do this with virtually any mobile device that you can think of. Even Apple devices are hackable with the right equipment.

Deleting Files

As we have established, when you delete a file, it isn’t truly erased so what are your options? It’s best to treat any hard drive that contains sensitive deleted data as a security threat. It should still be protected. Or, if you are no longer using it, get it destroyed safely. There are professional companies that can safely destroy and erase data. Short of obliterating the hard drive, there is no other ways to delete files. The computer must be destroyed, especially if there is data on it that could be used by hackers to hurt your customers financially.


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FREE DDoS Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Everything You Need to Know About DDoS Attacks

DDoS Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Everything You Need to Know About DDoS Attacks.

DDoS attacks are the most persistent and damaging cyber-attacks. They reflect hackers’ frustratingly high levels of tenacity and creativity – and create complex and dynamic challenges for anyone responsible for cyber security.

Long Description:  While cyber-threats are by nature a moving target, Radware’s DDoS Handbook offers expert advice, actionable tools and tips to help detect and stop DDoS attacks.

Read it to understand:

• Brief history of DDoS attacks, plus roundup of recent cyber-attacks
• Overview of major attack categories, specific attack types and tools
• What lies ahead: predictions for 2015 and beyond
• Things to consider when planning for cyber-attacks
• Protecting enterprise assets in the cloud

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LuaBot First Botnet Malware To Target Linux Platforms

View the binary’s ASCII in the last part and you’ll see the first email address | Credit: MalwareMustDie 

Researchers Finds LUA Language ELF Compiled Malware Called As Linux/LuaBot.

Trojan coded in Lua to target linux Platforms to adding into a Botnet explain by security researcher from MalwareMustDie.

The code is interacted with the udp.lua, as per its name suggesting a lua library of User Datagram Protocol function and struct, This is showing the malware has its own lua resolver code for the DNS query, and has ability to form its own UDP packet to be sent to any destination.

There’s also the telnet.lua codes compiled in this ELF, which is after being reversed it seems to be a simple telnet basic communication functions interpreted in lua language (that can be found many references in the internet) that may allow Linux/LuaBot to communicate remotely through this protocol.

What is LUA?

Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description.

Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting bytecode with a register-based virtual machine, and has automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping.

According to Softpedia,

At the moment, the LuaBot trojan is packed as an ELF binary that targets ARM platforms, usually found in embedded (IoT) devices. Based on his experience, this seems to be the first Lua-based malware family packed as an ELF binary spreading to Linux platforms.

MalwareMustDie” also found penetrate_sucuri” part, a symbol (suggested a reversed function) traced to be coded in the lua source file: *cough* “checkanus_sucuranus.lua” and “checkanus.lua”, which I took only a peek for it, it forms (http) action to a defined target. 

Get Your Business Ready to Get Paid

Get Your Business Ready to Get Paid.

Moolah. Cheddar. Dinero. Okane. Green. Money. It’s what your business needs. If you’re not getting paid, then your business isn’t going to last very long. Unfortunately, the ability to actually get paid can be one of the most complicated things to set up.

Some would argue that simply getting paid by cash means that it’s not a difficult process. But businesses don’t get paid mainly in cash anymore. We have to deal with the more abstract methods of credit and debit cards.

The merchant account

You need to open an account into which the money customers give you can actually be paid. I’m going to assume that you don’t want to use your personal bank account! (Unless you’re just doing some freelance solo work. But, in that case, this article probably isn’t for you anyway!) Even if you’re still certain you only want to get paid in cash, you need one of these accounts.

Setting up a merchant account is you taking the first step you need to take in order to get paid. If you don’t have one, you’re not going to make it very far here. Once you’ve got this account set up, you should then get the business tax process started with your government. This ensures that you are taxed correctly, in accordance with your business type and merchant account setup.

Getting telephonic

Everyone seems to forget about receiving payments over the phone. But people are definitely underestimating how often telephone payments occur. Pretty much all of the big names in commerce will accept payments in this way. After all, it’s actually relatively easy to set up. It also ensures that your customers have as many ways as possible to pay you!

The biggest complication when it comes to telephone payments is making sure that you’re following the law. When we deal with telephonic payments, we’re dealing with a very complex legal area. This is why you should be looking into PCI DSS compliance. If you don’t follow these regulations, you could be putting the card information of your customers at risk.

Credit and debit cards

And so we come to what provides us with the bulk of our business profits. Getting a card machine for a brick-and-mortar store is easy enough. But getting this stuff set up for online payments is a bit trickier. Still, it’s not as complex as some may make it out to be. The right merchant account provider will also be able to provide you with the Internet facilities you need.

When you have the website set up and your account set up, you’ll need a payment gateway. This is the software that actually processes the payment. In a way, it’s basically a digital middleperson. You’ve probably heard of the most famous payment gateway there is: PayPal. But if you don’t want to go with PayPal, you can work with Amazon, Square, Flint, or many others. You’ll also need to make sure your network security is strong. These transactions can also become prey to cyber criminals looking for customer data.

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Lenovo A Plus, Lenovo P2 Smartphones Launched at IFA 2016

Lenovo A Plus, Lenovo P2 Smartphones Launched at IFA 2016

Lenovo hasn’t stopped until now even after the K6 family of devices was introduced. Now Lenovo has taken another step and bought two new devices – The Lenovo P2 and A Plus with different specifications. Lenovo has been busy this year, with launched of many devices and this Chinese multinational technology is also known for its wide range of Notebooks, ThinkPads, and Laptops. Newly you have also seen that Lenovo and Microsoft have signed a new joint agreement by which few selected Android-powered Lenovo and Motorola devices will come pre-loaded with Microsoft-created applications like Office, OneDrive, and Skype.

Lenovo P2 has a 5.5-inch Full HD display with 1080×1920 pixel resolution. Powering the device is a 2GHz octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor paired with 3GB/4GB of RAM. The handset runs on the Android 6.0 Marshmallow platform, sports a 13MP rear camera with LED flash, and a 5MP front camera. The connectivity options of the smartphone include LTE, 4G, 3G, Bluetooth, WI-Fi, NFC, GPS, and is supported by a mammoth 5,110 mAh battery with fast charging support. It also has a fingerprint sensor. It offers 32GBG/64GB of internal storage expandable through a microSD card.

In terms of specifications, the Lenovo A Plus features a 4.5-inch FWVGA display with 480×854 pixels resolution. It is driven by a 1.3GHz MediaTek MT6580 processor paired with 1GB RAM. It comes equipped with a 5MP rear camera along with a 2MP front-facing a camera. It contains an internal storage of 8GB which can be further expanded up to 32GB via microSD card. The device contains 4G VoLTE support and is driven by a 2000mAh battery. The Lenovo A Plus runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop operating system. 

The dual SIM handset will come with a 2000mAh battery. Like other A-series smartphones, the main highlight of Lenovo A Plus is the support of 4G VoLTE.

Lenovo P2 will go on sale in November while the Lenovo A Plus will go on sale this month.

The smartphones would be presented in Gold, Dark grey, and Silver colour variants and are likely to go on sale later this month. However, the company is yet to disclose anything about the global launch of the devices.

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Ganesh Chaturthi 2016: Twitter Launches Special Emojis

Ganesh Chaturthi 2016: Twitter launches special emoji

This year, Twitter joins the festive fervor by introducing a special Lord Ganesha Twitter emoji that Indians can Tweet to welcome the much-loved god home on Monday, 5th September. When people Tweet using #HappyGaneshChaturthi, #GaneshChaturthi, #गणेशचतुर्थी, #Ganeshotsav, #गणेशोत्सव, a Lord Ganesha emoji will be started next to the hashtag. The emoji has gone live since September 4 and will be active until the last day of celebrations September 16. 

On Friday Micro-blogging website Twitter announced a special emoji for Ganesh festival to delight millions of its users.

“We are launching a special Twitter emoji for Ganesh Chaturthi to delight our millions of Indian users celebrating this moment,” said Viral Jain, Head (Media partnerships), Twitter India, in a statement. 

For the duration of the festival, people on Twitter can share pictures and videos of their favorite pandals, street processions, decorations, food and sweets and traditional clothes, among others. This isn’t the first time that Twitter has made emojis for events taking place in India. The micro-blogging site has made emojis for important occasions such as Independence Day, Republic Day, and the International Day of Yoga. The first ever made emoji was for Diwali. #HappyDiwali emoji received almost 1.8 million tweets.The newest emoji that Twitter created for India was on International Yoga Day which was a Padmasana position.

According to Viral Jani, Head Media partnerships, Twitter India, “Twitter is the best way to see what’s happening in your world right now, and we are the live connection to India’s cultural diversity, festivals, languages in the spirit of unity. Over the past year, we have seen the nation come together over cultural moments such as Diwali and even local moments such as Makar Sankranti in Gujarat. We are launching a special Twitter emoji for Ganesh Chaturthi to delight our millions of Indians celebrating this local cultural”

During the festival, people on Twitter can share photos and videos of their favourite pandals, decorations, street processions, food and sweets and traditional clothes, among others.

In the past, Twitter has celebrated the Indian culture by declaring customized emojis for important moments such as Republic Day, Independence Day, and the International Day of Yoga. The first-ever Diwali emoji was declared in November 2015 and the #HappyDiwali emoji received 1.8 million Tweets. 

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Reliance Jio Will Also Give Unlimited Data on Plan Rs. 149

Reliance Jio Will Also Give Unlimited Data on Plan Rs. 149

Today Reliance Jio is set to roll out its full-fledged 4G services in India. That means that Jio services will be open to all smartphone brands, which were not under its umbrella previously. Though Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) opened its 4G service to most brands like LG, Samsung, Asus, HTC,Lava, Micromax etc.; there still were a few left out. This includes Xiaomi, iPhone, Motorola, and Lenovo. Now, any user with a 4G-enabled handset is appropriate for Jio SIM card. 

News agency PTI cited sources and said, “The SIMs will be available at nearly two lakh stores across the country, including locations where SIMs from other vendors are also sold.” The SIM cards were only presented at Reliance Digital Store o Digital Xpress Mini stores.

Although Reliance Jio declared plans last week, the company seem to like to be still working out what the final rates and profits for customers will be once customers start paying for services from January 1. As of now, there are ten different plans under which user can subscribe to Jio – voice calls are free in all plans, and user pays only for the data packs. The entry-level plan, Rs. 149, looked like a bad deal at the launch since it only came with 300MB of data bundled, and no access to Reliance’s JioNet Wi-Fi network, or to the unlimited 4G usage at night (between 2AM and 5AM) that all the other plans get to use.

Now, the company has updated its plans on the Jio website, and it’s proposing free night usage even for the Rs. 149 plan, and 700MB of bundled usage at Jio’s public Wi-Fi hotspots. This gets the entry level plan more in line with Jio’s other offerings, however, the amount of data being presented is still very low. Even if user counts the Wi-Fi access that works out to Rs. 150 per GB far more than user pays on any of the other Jio plans.

At present, no other telecom operator offers unlimited, full-speed 4G.In addition, users also get 4 GB of day-time 4G data as well, as part of the Rs 499 pack. The plan is probably to create the major disruption in India’s telecom market, where users normally spend about Rs 200 to make about 350 minutes of calls, and another Rs 250 for 1 GB of data. Under this new tariff plan, one can get unlimited high-speed downloading at night and voice calls throughout the day for Rs 499.

In fact, for Rs 500, user get only 4 GB of 4G data on other networks and Jio is proposing free unlimited calling and night data usage as extras.

“We see a good amount of migration happening from the current incumbents till the free period, or December 31, as Indian consumers are price-sensitive,” KPMG partner Jaideep Ghosh said in an interview. “After the free period, we have to see if Jio is able to retain customers as the incumbent telcos will not take it lying down and come with better offers triggering a price war.”

“With Rs.149 entry-level offer, Jio’s average revenue per user (ARPU) will be much higher than the existing players,” Mr. Ghosh said. “The industry average is the only Rs.125 per user, most of which comes from voice.”

Rumit Dugar, an analyst at Religare Institutional Research, wrote in a note to clients: “We believe RJio’s launch will put pressure on voice tariffs for incumbents, who would now be prodded to roll out more bundled plans. While we are already below consensus, we cut our margin estimates for Idea and Bharti further (150 bps or 5 per cent EBITDA) to factor in higher network costs, churn rates, and marketing growth.”

Jio also revealed an entry-level plan of Rs 149 per month, For those who don’t want to spend so much, or who do not need data at all.This plan is directed at those who use their phones only or mainly for voice calls and do not have big data needs.Under this plan, the user gets 300 MB of data per month plus unlimited voice calls. 300 MB will be sufficient to do some amount of WhatsApp messaging and the occasional app downloads.

Jio also revealed other plans for those who need more data. Though, disappointingly, the plans are not just as affordable as expected if the usage is mainly during the daytime. A typical heavy data user would be prepared to spend Rs 1,500-2,500 in return for 50-100 GB per month of data.Though, Jio’s new plans offer only 20 GB of day-time data for Rs 1,499 and 35 GB for Rs 2,499.This suggests a tariff of Rs 75 per GB in the case of the Rs 1,500 plan and Rs 71.43 per GB for the Rs 2,500 plan.

However these plans offer unlimited voice calls and night data, many users — particularly small businesses — may not have much use for these extra features, and may have a preference to go with Airtel’s Rs 51 per GB offer instead.

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