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Wednesday, December 16, 2015

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The winner of our Christmas Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet giveaway is…

Posted: 15 Dec 2015 01:19 PM PST

As you all know, we recently ran a two-week competition for one lucky winner to be drawn at random for our prize of one Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet. The contest ended yesterday at 20:00 GMT. We have now verified all entries, with 136 valid entries. We generated a winning number using Random.org’s random number generator and the winning entry is number 36, as pictured below.

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So who was number 36? We can now officially announce the winner is: Claire Sen who left the comment below on December 4th.

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Congratulations Claire, looks like you’ll be doing some reading over Christmas time! Please get in touch with us as soon as you can, preferable by email so that we can get the tablet sent out to you. We’d like to take the opportunity to also thank everyone who took part, have a happy Christmas and a happy new year! But don’t have too much of a break because we will be back soon with more giveaways!

Monday, December 14, 2015

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Just over 24 hours left to enter our Christmas Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet giveaway

Posted: 13 Dec 2015 10:39 AM PST

Hey folks just a quick word about our Christmas free gadget giveaway, its just over 24 hours before the competition ends! We’re giving away a brand new Amazon Fire HD 8 Android tablet, anyone, anywhere can take part and each person gets 10 entries (by entering up to 10 comments), one person will be chosen at random as the lucky winner. And we will send it out so that you should receive it before Christmas. So if you’ve been thinking about taking part but haven’t yet entered all your 10 entries then get going!

The contest ends on 14 Dec 2015 20:00 GMT, winner to be announced the following day. Good luck and Merry Christmas! (Comments on this page won’t count, only comment on the contest page please!)

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Thursday, December 3, 2015

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Christmas free gadget giveaway: Win an Amazon Fire HD 8

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 09:00 AM PST

Its been awhile since our last free gadget giveaway and it so happens to be Christmas time! Thanks to our sponsor Currys, we’re giving away a brand new, sealed superslim Amazon Fire HD 8 Android tablet.

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It features a brilliant 8″ HD (1280 x 800 with over a million pixels) display, a 720p front facing camera great for selfies as well as a 5-megapixel rear camera. Underneath it is equipped with a 1.5GHz quad-core processor, Dolby audio and a host of wireless connectivity allowing you to stay connected wherever you go.

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The lucky winner of this giveaway will receive a brand new 8GB Amazon Fire HD 8 Android tablet in black. So if you're interested in a chance to win this tablet which currently retails at £129, read the instructions below thoroughly on how to enter our two-week contest…

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How to Enter

Anyone worldwide can take part. Please participate according to the rules below so that everyone will have a fair chance of the random draw at the date specified below. Everyone will have an equal chance of winning no matter when your entry is placed. Late entries will not be counted and ignored. To enter into the giveaway all you need to do is:

  1. Subscribe to our newsletter for free and stay up to date with us for news and future gadget giveaways!
  2. To enter, leave a comment below with a valid email address (your email won't be given out), this will allow us to get in touch with you ASAP if you're the chosen winner. Tell us what you will be doing with the Amazon Fire HD 8 if you win!
  3. Follow us on Twitter or Facebook, we'll contact you via Twitter in the situation that we can't get in touch with you through email, we will also be announcing our future contests / giveaways via both Twitter and Facebook! (Any retweet love will be greatly appreciated!)
  4. That's it!
  5. Optional – if you're a blogger yourself and have abit of free time, do a quick post about this giveaway, it will be much appreciated!
  6. Optional 2 – each participant may enter up to 10 times, do this by providing us a maximum of 10 comments during the period of the contest, you do not need to enter all 10 at the same time, you can spread them out however you like!

This giveaway will end on the 14th of December at 20:00 GMT, one lucky winner will be directly contacted following random draw the next day so please remember to leave valid contact details!

Friday, October 2, 2015

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Get better perks with your Nook app

Posted: 01 Oct 2015 01:32 PM PDT

Reading apps are plenty. But not all of them give you the same service. For a better reading experience, the Nook reading app is one of the best choices you could go for out there. Here are 7 reasons why.

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Free App

First off, downloading and using the Nook app to read books is free. That means you could enjoy all the features, freebies and books it offers without having to spend a dime. That's one of the reasons Site Pro News thinks reading apps are so ideal.

Free Books

With the Nook app, you can access a million books and download them for free. Explore and expand your reading choices. Go for popular classics and discover what made them classics in the first place. Get your adorable nephews and nieces started on reading with the free children's titles available on the site. Learn something about entrepreneurship and what it takes to build a business from business books. Imagine travelling the rest of the world with the help of wonderfully evocative travel books. Learn a new dish from that Russian cook book. With a million books in stock, you're sure to find surprises along the way. You just have to go and look.

Better Prices

Not discounting the value and charm of ebooks but as a book lover, you'll always find books you'd want to buy. There's the latest thriller or fantasy offering from your favorite author. Or that newest installment to the series you've been waiting for—for what seems like forever. You'll never really stop buying them. The only difference now is that you've got a choice between printed books and ebooks. For books you really want to have and to hold, the printed editions or hardbound ones will never go out of style. But for books you only want to spend a few hours over, books that you enjoyed but have no wish to keep forever, buying ebooks gives you a chance to know what that story was about, satisfy your curiosity or fix for a paranormal romp or angst-ridden plot and move on to the next—all at a rate that's lower than print books. You not only get to buy books you love, you even manage to save up on some of them. That's one ebook advantage that's hard to beat.

Better Access

Ebookfriendly says that it's time to stop thinking your e-reads should be confined to just your mobile or laptop or tablet. By downloading and installing the Nook Book app on all your devices, you can enjoy multiplatform access anytime you want. So if your tablet is low on battery and you're eager to get on with the story, you can just find your way into your e-book library through your laptop or mobile device. That's convenient, all-around access. With everything synchronized, you won't have to be tied to one unit anymore. You can access your reads from any device you own for a truly integrated reading experience.

Library on Cloud

Ever had your phone slow down because you loaded too much on your reading app and now it's eating up too much of your phone's operational memory, compromising speed and core functions? That happens when you don't go for the Nook book app the first time around. Correct that misstep by installing a Nook app as soon as you can. Because the sooner you do, the sooner you can enjoy having your entire collection on cloud. That means no more memory issues with your phone. And because it's on cloud, you could add to your reading pile without worrying you're going to run out of space any time soon. From your Harry Potter collection to your comic book faves and the children's classics you love, you can upload them all up there and still have plenty of room to spare.

Neat Piles

For book lovers, owning dusty towers of precariously balanced and disorganized, often slightly askew, tomes are normal. But those towers and tomes often require a bit of work. You've got to dust them off regularly. Also, when you pull one out of the pile, sometimes the whole edifice crumbles and if you're pressed for time, you won't have to luxury to carefully put them all back in their proper places. That makes looking for your favorite reads a little bit difficult. That's why PC Tech Magazine cites the organizational benefits of getting a reading app. With the app, it's easy to find your books since they could be arranged according to author, title or even genre. You can say goodbye to dealing with the mess of your dusty tower of tomes.

These are just some of the best reasons to download and install a Nook book reading app in your devices. With the app, you can improve your reading experience with better features and perks.

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

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Are you being watched? The dangers of unencrypted video conferencing

Posted: 30 Sep 2015 04:56 AM PDT

“If it can be hacked, it will be hacked:” this is the sentiment from the recent 2015 Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas where dozens of presenters identified gaps in the security networks of companies in order to showcase where improvements needed to be made. Of particular interest is a ubiquitous piece of technology that graces many of today’s boardrooms, namely the video conferencing system. It was revealed that without the right protections, it was actually a rather simple matter to dial into the system observe meetings as they took place. The potential for malicious use of information obtained utilizing this process is staggering and, as such, shows why a greater level of awareness of the issue as well as the implementation of better methods of protection are needed to counter such a threat.

What Can Hackers Find Out?

In 2012 Wired.com released an article on how two computer experts, Moore and Tuchen, were able to digitally access several boardrooms and meeting areas of not only prominent companies but also those of universities and prisons. The findings of Moore and Tuchen revealed that there are considerable gaps in the way in which companies approach protecting their video conference systems. The largest gap was that they automated the process to allow access outside of their firewalls and also allowed connections to be established automatically without a proper vetting procedure being put in place. While it is true that these methods were implemented to make conferences far easier to connect to, the problem with this process is that it creates the potential for corporate secrets or private information to get out to the general public. This can cost a company millions of dollars due to the how many important decisions are made in conference rooms around the world.

Can You Detect if a Hacker is Watching?

If a person trespasses onto your property you can normally see them doing so and catch them in the act, the same cannot be said if someone were to hack your system. While some older video conferencing systems have a startup procedure that results in the device emitting a few sounds and the camera swiveling around, newer systems have been developed in such a way that such obvious elements of the system being in active use have been eliminated. Not only that, as evidenced by the work of Moore and Tuchen, accessing such systems without being detected is actually quite easy if the hacker in question does not commit any obvious attempts at being found out (i.e. making sounds through the microphone). If the system is lacking encryption, all they would need to do is stay quiet and merely observe the proceedings of a meeting and they are unlikely to be caught. This leads to a situation where a hacker could potentially listen in to all manner of private meetings that would decide the strategy for a company for the next few years. Should this information get out, it could cripple the future plans of the company, especially if the information deals with proprietary product development. Imagine a situation where you can listen in to an Apple conference meeting that will decide the company’s future lineup of products, the sheer value of that information alone shows why it would be tempting for hackers to attempt to breach your company’s video conferencing system.

Resolving the Issue

While Moore has informed companies like Polycom HDX systems of the issue with the company implementing the necessary fixes to prevent such a problem in the future, the sheer amount of video conference system providers currently in the market today has created the issue of whether or not the system currently being utilized by a company can be easily compromised by an outside attacker. One way of preventing such a problem is to look for companies that protected services such as encrypted video conferencing from Blue jeans. Other potential solutions come in the form of implementing stricter entry procedures for video conference meetings to ensure that only authorized individuals can access the system. A more direct method to resolving the issue would be to simply take the video conferencing system out of the equation altogether by making sure that it is unplugged when not in use. Hackers cannot access a device that is not turned on and connected to the internet.

In Summary

Negligent practices when it comes to protecting what occurs within your company’s boardrooms can result in significant losses since any strategy that you develop behind what you deem as “closed doors” may find its way to your corporate rivals. As stated earlier on in this article “If it can be hacked it will be hacked”; however, just because it can be hacked does not mean you should make it easy to do so.

Sunday, September 6, 2015

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Video: Samsung Gear S2 vs Apple Watch

Posted: 05 Sep 2015 10:20 AM PDT

Samsung has announced the Gear S2, the latest Android smartwatch has a rotating bezel, circular screen and two different designs – but will the Samsung Gear S2 have enough to beat the increasingly popular Apple Watch?

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