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The Android 8.0 Oreo update was released last month, but so far only a handful of devices have received the update. In the meantime, companies like HTC, Sonyand Nokia confirmed which of their devices will be updated to the latest version of Android. Today, Motorola joins that list of companies, with the Android 8.0 Oreo update confirmed for several devices across its line-up. The Lenovo-owned company won’t be updating the Moto G4 series and older generation Moto X series devices. For a brief recap, the Moto G4 series was launched last year with Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Motorola has rolled out the Android 7.0 Nougat update for these devices earlier this year. Moto devices eligible for Android 8.0 Oreo update Motorola will be updated a total of 10 devices across the Moto Z, Moto X and the Moto G series to Android 8.0 Oreo. Moto G5S Moto G4 Plus Moto G5S Plus Moto G5 Moto G5 Plus Moto X4a Moto Z2 Play Moto Z2 Force Moto Z / Z Droid Moto Z Play / Z Play Droid Moto Z Force Dro...

Indian telecom giant Airtel has launched a new version of the Airtel TV app on Android and iOS platforms. The app's refreshed catalogue of over 300 live TV channels and 6,000 movies and global TV shows will be made available on a free subscription basis to Airtel prepaid and postpaid users, until June 2018. Airtel is rolling out a new version of its Airtel TV app on both mobile platforms (Android, iOS). Expanding its content catalogue, the Airtel TV app will now offer 300 plus live TV channels across genres such as GEC, movies, news, etc. The app also has access to over 6,000 Bollywood and Hollywood blockbusters and numerous other Indian and international TV shows. Content from partners like HOOQ, Eros Now, and Sony Liv will also be available free of cost until June 2018, a company spokesperson has confirmed to Gadgets 360. The new version of the Airtel TV app comes with UI upgrades as well. Users can now search for content through smart search filters across languages, rati...

New Delhi : Ringing in the new year, Flipkart has announced a 'Mobile Bonanza' sale from January 3 to January 5, 2018, offering discounts on a wide range of smartphones from Google, Samsung, Xiaomi, Motorola and other makers. ​In addition to discounts, the e-tailer is offering a BuyBack Guarantee at Rs 149; no cost EMI, and up to Rs 18,000 off on exchange of old phones. The previous two sales- New Pinch Days and Big Shopping Days offered discounts on popular smartphones in different price categories. Google's 2017 flagship, the Pixel 2 will be available at Rs, 39,999 from the earlier price of Rs. 61,000. The smartphone has been consistently rated to have the best camera among flagship devices released this year. Samsung Galaxy S7 , the South Korean maker's 2016 flagship will go on sale at Rs. 26,990 from Rs. 46,000. The smartphone includes internals still capable of running the latest operating system from Google without too many hiccups. Samsung flagship devices a...

Remote debug live content on an Android device from your Windows, Mac, or Linux computer. This tutorial teaches you how to: Set up your Android device for remote debugging, and discover it from your development machine. Inspect and debug live content on your Android device from your development machine. Screencast content from your Android device onto a DevTools instance on your development machine. Requirements Chrome 32 or later installed on your development machine. USB drivers  installed on your development machine, if you're using Windows. Ensure  Device Manager reports the correct USB driver. A USB cable to connect your Android device to your development machine. Android 4.0 or later. Chrome for Android installed on your Android device. Step 1: Discover your Android device On your Android device, select  Settings  >  Developer Options  >  Enable USB Debugging .  Developer Options  is hidden by default on And...

New Delhi : Instant messaging service WhatsApp will end support for certain BlackBerry and Windows Phone platforms on December 31, 2017, the company said in a blogpost. Starting January 1, 2018, the Facebook-owned social app will cease to function on Blackberry OS, Blackberry 10 and Windows Phone 8.0. WhatsApp has clearly said that it cannot support the platforms as it will no longer actively develop for these platforms, some features may stop functioning at any time. "These platforms don't offer the kind of capabilities we need to expand our app's features in the future. If you use one of these affected mobile devices, we recommend upgrading to a newer OS version, or to a newer Android running OS 4.0+, iPhone running iOS 7+, or Windows Phone 8.1+ so that you can continue using WhatsApp," the company said in a Support page. The company, however, confirmed that it will continue to work on Nokia S40 until December 31, 2018, while will support Android 2.3.7 and olde...

If you’re like most Internet users, you download various types of files now and then. You either download these files with your web browser or some download manager software. Have you ever considered downloading files using the command prompt i.e. CMD? If not, we recommend you to try it. It’s quite interesting apart from being very useful as well. In this article, we’ll show you how to download a file using command prompt aka CMD. How to download a file using command prompt?   There are several useful commands for the Command Prompt and one of them is  bitsadmin . Though bitsadmin has several uses, here we shall limit this article to its role in downloading files only. If you want to read the details about bitsadmin syntax, continue reading this section. Otherwise, you can scroll down to the next section –  Downloading a file .   The syntax of bitsadmin is : BITSADMIN [/RAWRETURN] [/WRAP | /NOWRAP] command   As you know, the parts of the syntax inside ...

Summary HTML injection is a type of injection issue that occurs when a user is able to control an input point and is able to inject arbitrary HTML code into a vulnerable web page. This vulnerability can have many consequences, like disclosure of a user's session cookies that could be used to impersonate the victim, or, more generally, it can allow the attacker to modify the page content seen by the victims. How to Test This vulnerability occurs when the user input is not correctly sanitized and the output is not encoded. An injection allows the attacker to send a malicious HTML page to a victim. The targeted browser will not be able to distinguish (trust) the legit from the malicious parts and consequently will parse and execute all as legit in the victim context. There is a wide range of methods and attributes that could be used to render HTML content. If these methods are provided with an untrusted input, then there is an high risk of XSS, specifically an HTML ...

Search engine giant   Google  will introduce a built-in ad blocker in the  Chrome browser  to block "annoying" advertisements from February 15. "This date does not appear to be tied to a specific Chrome version. Chrome 64 is currently scheduled to arrive on January 23 and Chrome 65 is slated to launch on March 6, suggesting   Google   will be turning on its browser's ad blocker remotely and possibly gradually for select users," Venture Beat reported late on Tuesday. Earlier this year, the   search engine giant   joined the "Coalition for Better Ads" -- a group that offers specific standards for how the industry should improve ads for consumers. The coalition announced the "Better Ads Experience Programme" which provides guidelines for companies using the "Better Ads Standards" to improve the experience of users with online ads. This will essentially stop the ads that are deemed annoying or intrusive. However, al...

Motorola is launching its flagship product, Moto Mods, that was promoted by the brand a while back alongside the Moto Z2 Play. The three new Moto Mods are – JBL SoundBoost 2 speaker Mod, TurboPower Pack battery Mod and GamePad Mod. The three Mods in question are expected to go on sale exclusively on  Flipkart  from December 17 onwards. According to Indian Express, the brand has also thought of renting out the Mods at Rs 399 per week from RentMojo, with whom Motorola has entered into a partnership and the service will be available across top 8 metro cities in India. The Moto Mods can be seen as an extension and are cases of the MotoZ family. Moto Z series phones are a new kind of flagship modular smartphones launched by Motorola in India a while back that can be expanded with the Moto Mods which can snap like a case with a magnetic click onto the back of the phone. JBL SoundBoost 2 speaker Mod is an upgrade of the SoundBoost 1 introduced with the moto Z seri...

If you’re wondering how to make a Chrome Extension, Chrome’s  extension documentation is great for basic implementations. However, to use more advanced features requires a lot of Googling and Stack Overflow. Let’s make an intermediate Chrome extension that interacts with the page: it will find the first external link on the page and open it in a new tab. manifest.json The  manifest.json  file tells Chrome important information about your extension, like its name and which permissions it needs. The most basic possible extension is a directory with a  manifest.json  file. Let’s create a directory and put the following JSON into  manifest.json : { "manifest_version" : 2 , "name" : "My Cool Extension" , "version" : "0.1" } That’s the most basic possible  manifest.json , with all required fields filled in. The  manifest_version   should always be 2 , because version 1 is unsupported as of January 2014. So far...