NFL’s Amazon deal could be test for more streaming games

Amazon begins its foray into the live broadcast of the NFL games on Thursday night when it broadcasts a confrontation between the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers in their Prime Video service.

This is another option for traditional programming on CBS and NFL Network. Amazon will air 10 games Thursday night and a Christmas party this season, and the success of these shows could determine how quickly the NFL is ready to offer one of its packages exclusively to a broadcast company.


The Thursday night NFL package will be released jointly by CBS, NBC, the NFL Network and Amazon this year, but the 2018 package will be available soon. There could be substantial interest from companies like Twitter, which launched games on Thursday night, Amazon and potentially other technological monsters such as Google, Apple or Facebook.


"I think there will be a real interest from major digital companies and digital platforms in the distribution of NFL games exclusively and more widely in the experience of a game we have done in the past," he said. Hans Schroeder. , the operations manager of NFL Media. "I think we're going to have some interesting options so we can see and I think what we're doing with Amazon this year will be incredibly informative about how we make those decisions."

Amazon is paying $ 50 million for the rights to these games for its core members, a strong $ 10 million increase that Twitter paid last year for 10 games.

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The Chinese Government Has Blocked Whatsapp In The Country

The messaging service WhatsApp has been disrupted in China as the government steps up security ahead of a Communist Party meeting next month.

Users have faced problems with the app for more than a week with services dropping in and out.

At times, it has been completely blocked and only accessible via virtual private networks (VPNs) which circumvent China's internet firewall.

WhatsApp is Facebook's only product allowed to operate in mainland China.

Facebook's main social media service and its Instagram image sharing app are not available on the mainland.
Services disrupted

The BBC's China based correspondents said the WhatsApp messaging service started going offline more than a week ago.

A test of its services on Tuesday showed users in China could not send video messages or photographs to people outside China.

The disruption follows restrictions on WhatsApp video chats and photographs in July, which were later lifted.

The tightening of online censorship comes as China steps up security ahead of the Communist Party's national congress which is held every five years.

"The run-up period to a gathering is a normally a time of greater restrictions of all kinds to assure that the critical Party Congress is held under ideal social conditions and is not disrupted", Robert Lawrence Kuhn, long-time advisor to China's leaders and multinational corporations told the BBC.

However, he said it is not yet clear whether the restrictions will be relaxed as has happened after previous party congresses, adding that many analysts do not believe they will be.

Now, Nadim Kobeissi, an applied cryptographer at Symbolic Software, a watchdog focusing on online censorship in China, reports that the use of text messages has also been blocked, completely restricting the use of the app in the country.

Kobeissi believes the move may have been a result of Chinese authorities figuring out how to block the NoiseSocket protocol used for text communication by WhatsApp. Video and other content are shared via HTTPS/TLS, which may indicate that the earlier stay on text messages was not necessarily an act of leniency but, rather, a stay of execution due to technical limitations which have now been circumvented.

With the shuttering of WhatsApp in China, none of Facebook's major services are available in the country as the social media site and Instagram were already banned, marking a significant setback for its ambitions in China, opening the gateway for local competitors like WeChat to take over the space.

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Download videos and images from Instagram | OGInsta Plus Free Download

OGInstagram is an unofficial Instagram client that lets you access your account, publish photos, follow other Instagram users, and do pretty much everything you can do on the official app. The main difference is that it also lets you download photos and videos from Instagram.

The entire OGInstagram interface is identical to Instagram's in every way except instead of reading 'Instagram' along the top part of the interface it says 'OGInstagram'. Everything else – profiles, photo feed, search tools, etc. – is exactly the same.

The main (and pretty much only) novelty on OGInstagram compared to the official app is that when you press the share button you'll get an option not just to share the image or video link, but also to download it. This download takes place in the background and it goes directly to your downloads folder.

OGInstagram is an Instagram client that offers more features than the official client. The best part: it makes downloading videos and pictures from Instagram easy.

Instagram is a simple way to capture and share the world’s moments. Follow your friends and family to see what they’re up to, and discover accounts from all over the world that are sharing things you love. Join the community of over 500 million people and express yourself by sharing all the moments of your day––the highlights and everything in between, too.

Use Instagram to:
• Post photos and videos you want to keep on your profile grid. Edit them with filters and creative tools and combine multiple clips into one video.
• Share multiple photos and videos (as many as you want!) to your story. Bring them to life with text and drawing tools. They disappear after 24 hours and won't appear on your profile grid or in feed.
• Go live to connect with your friends and followers right now. When you're done, live stories disappear.
• Send disappearing photos and videos, text messages and posts from your feed to groups and friends with Instagram Direct.
• Watch stories and live videos from the people you follow in a bar at the top of your feed.

• Discover stories, photos and videos you might like and follow new accounts on the Explore tab.

           

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Hackers compromised free CCleaner software, Avast's Piriform says

                          

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hackers broke into British company Piriform’s free software for optimizing computer performance last month potentially allowing them to control the devices of more than two million users, the company and independent researchers said on Monday.

The malicious program was slipped into legitimate software called CCleaner, which is downloaded for personal computers and Android phones as often as five million times a week. It cleans up junk programs and advertising cookies to speed up devices.

CCleaner is the main product made by London’s Piriform, which was bought in July by Prague-based Avast, one of the world’s largest computer security vendors. At the time of the acquisition, the company said 130 million people used CCleaner.

A version of CCleaner downloaded in August included remote administration tools that tried to connect to several unregistered web pages, presumably to download additional unauthorized programs, security researchers at Cisco’s (CSCO.O) Talos unit said.


Talos researcher Craig Williams said it was a sophisticated attack because it penetrated an established and trusted supplier in a manner similar to June’s “NotPetya” attack on companies that downloaded infected Ukrainian accounting software.

“There is nothing a user could have noticed,” Williams said, noting that the optimization software had a proper digital certificate, which means that other computers automatically trust the program.

In a blog post, Piriform confirmed that two programs released in August were compromised. It advised users of CCleaner v5.33.6162 and CCleaner Cloud v1.07.3191 to download new versions. A spokeswoman said that 2.27 million users had downloaded the August version of CCleaner while only 5,000 users had installed the compromised version of CCleaner Cloud.

Piriform said that Avast, its new parent company, had uncovered the attacks on Sept. 12. A new, uncompromised version of CCleaner was released the same day and a clean version of CCleaner Cloud was released on Sept. 15, it said.

The nature of the attack code suggests that the hacker won access to a machine used to create CCleaner, Williams said.

CCleaner does not update automatically, so each person who has installed the problematic version will need to delete it and install a fresh version, he said.

Williams said that Talos detected the issue at an early stage, when the hackers appeared to be collecting information from infected machines, rather than forcing them to install new programs.

Piriform said it had worked with U.S. law enforcement to shut down a server located in the United States to which traffic was set to be directed.

It said the server was closed down on Sept. 15 “before any known harm was done”.

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Flipkart Jio Khelo Dhan Dhana Dhan Contest: Play & Win iPhone 7 | JioFI Device Daily

On the occasion of Big Billion Day Sale, Flipkart is coming up live with a contest called “Flipkart Jio Khelo Dhan Dhana Dhan Contest“. This contest is powered by Reliance Retail Limited. The contest starts at 6 PM on 13th September 2017 & ends on 24th September 2017. Every user who wins this contest will get a chance to win an Apple iPhone 7 phone or a JioFI device as a prize.

How to Play Flipkart Big Billion days – Jio Khelo Dhan Dhana Dhan Contest

1. Firstly Download the Flipkart App Or Visit the website.
2. Click on the Flipkart Jio Khelo Dhan Dhana Dhan Contest Banner.
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4. Give the answer for the given Questions.
5. Fill the details required like – Name, Mobile Number, Pincode.
6. Click on the check box “I want to subscribe for a Jio Connection”.
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Flipkart Jio Khelo Dhan Dhana Dhan Contest Today Question & Answer – 16 September 2017

Today’s Question 1: Jio has a network of more than ___ KM of optic fibre cable.?

Answer is: 250000

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Question 2: How Many Users Will Participate in this contest today?

Answer: 8699

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Jio Khelo Dhan Dhana Dhan Contest Prize

Flipkart Jio Khelo Dhan Dhana Dhan Contest Terms & Conditions
The Contest will run only on the Flipkart app.
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Further, Flipkart does not review, monitor, approve, endorse or interfere with respect to processing and usage of the information provided by you to Jio and Flipkart shall not be held liable for any breach in this regard.
The processing and usage of such information shall be under the control of Jio.
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Blue Whale Challenge: Government Asks Parents To Monitor Child's Social Media Activity

NEW DELHI: A government advisory on 'Blue Whale Challenge Game' has asked guardians to monitor their children's online and social media activity to ensure that they are not engaging with the deadly game which has led to a spate of suicides in India and other countries.

It has asked them not to talk about the game "unless there is reason to believe your child already knows of or has played the game" as discussing it may "increase the chance that your child will search for it on their own", said the advisory issued by the ministry of electronics and IT.

At least, nine suicides linked to the game have been reported in the country over the past few months, with latest being a 13-year old boy in Lucknow who hanged himself last week.

"Blue whale game (The suicide game) is abetment to suicide. It is understood through various internet reports that it is shared among secretive groups on social media networks. The creators seek out their players/victims who are in depression and send them an invitation to join," said the advisory dated September 13.

The advisory explained that the basis of the challenge is that an anonymous 'group administrator' otherwise known as 'the curator' hands out 50 tasks to selected 'players' that must be completed, documented and posted during a 50-day period.




"Players of the challenge can't stop playing once they've started; they are blackmailed and cyber bullied into completing the 'game'," the advisory said.







It has suggested that guardians be attentive if they notice unusually secretive behaviour, mostly related to their online activity of their child.

The other symptoms of children playing Blue Whale Challenge Game includes unusually secretive behaviour mostly related to their online activity, visible marks like deep cuts or wounds on any part of the body of the child, a sudden increase in the time they spend online especially on social media, change screens on their device when approached, become withdrawn or angry, after using the internet or sending text messages.

Also, guardians should remain alert if their is a sudden increase of many new phone numbers and email contacts in their device.

The advisory has asked guardians to install a good cyber or mobile parenting software which helps them in monitoring children besides taking help of professionals if there is apprehension that child is at risk.

"Remind your child that you are there and will support them as they face life challenges," the advisory said.

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