However, like any other restricted file attachments, it will allow to upload to its cloud storage sites such as Google Drive, Google Cloud Storage or any other storage solutions to share or send .js files.

When you try attaching a .js file to the email, it will show a warning message with a help link to pop-up message explaining why you can’t attach such files.

What They Mean
FAT32 is the older of the two drive formats. FAT32 is the most common version of the FAT (File Allocation Table) file system created back in 1977 by Microsoft. It eventually found its way on the IBM PC’s PC-DOS in 1981, and carried over to MS-DOS when that became a standalone product. FAT had been the standard format for floppy disks and hard drives all through the DOS years, and versions of Windows up to and including Windows 8.

NTFS (New Technology Files System) is the newer drive format. Microsoft introduced NTFS in 1993, as a component of the corporate-oriented Windows NT 3.1 and then Windows 2000, though it didn’t become common on consumer PCs until Windows XP in 2001. Windows 7 and 8 default to NTFS format on new PCs.

Compatibility
FAT32 is read/write compatible with a majority of recent and recently obsolete operating systems, including DOS, most flavors of Windows (up to and including 8), Mac OS X, and many flavors of UNIX-descended operating systems, including Linux and FreeBSD.

NTFS, on the other hand, is fully read/write compatible with Windows from Windows NT 3.1 and Windows XP up to and including Windows 8. Mac OS X 10.3 and beyond have NFTS read capabilities, but writing to a NTFS volume requires a third party software utility like Paragon NTFS for Mac. There are other hacks and workarounds for NTFS on the Mac, but in any case NTFS is only semi-compatible with OS X. NTFS on Linux systems is spotty for both read and write operations. Look for NTFS-3G driver support on your Linux support page to see if it’s built in.

File Size Matters
FAT32 file size support tops out at 4GB and volume size tops out at 2TB. This means that you’re limited to 2TB FAT32 partitions if you want to use a 4TB drive. It also means that you are limited to 4GB files. This is a concern with uncompressed high-definition movie files, where 30GB files are not unheard of. Theoretically, NTFS is limited by design to 16EB (Exabytes). One Exabyte is the equivalent of one billion Gigabytes, so we’re quite a ways away from maxing out NTFS. In practice, 2 to 4TB volumes are the limit at this time. Larger volumes will require a 64-bit OS and compatible hardware.

Which is Faster?
While file transfer speed and maximum throughput is limited by the slowest link (usually the hard drive interface to the PC like SATA or a network interface like 3G WWAN), NTFS formatted hard drives have tested faster on benchmark tests than FAT32 formatted drives. Other factors will be in play, however, including drive technology (HDD vs. SDD, Flash vs. non-Flash, etc.) and file fragmentation (on spinning drives).

While your OS usually makes the choice of hard drive format for you ahead of time, you can choose which format when you’re re-formatting a drive, particularly an external drive. If you need the drive for a Windows-only environment, NTFS is the best choice. If you need to exchange files (even occasionally) with a non-Windows system like a Mac or Linux box, then FAT32 will give you less agita, as long as your file sizes are smaller than 4GB.

Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2421454,00.asp

Nearly a billion people around the world today rely on WhatsApp to stay in touch with their friends and family. From a new dad in Indonesia sharing photos with his family, to a student in Spain checking in with her friends back home, to a doctor in Brazil keeping in touch with her patients, people rely on WhatsApp to be fast, simple and reliable.

That’s why we’re happy to announce that WhatsApp will no longer charge subscription fees. For many years, we’ve asked some people to pay a fee for using WhatsApp after their first year. As we’ve grown, we’ve found that this approach hasn’t worked well. Many WhatsApp users don’t have a debit or credit card number and they worried they’d lose access to their friends and family after their first year. So over the next several weeks, we’ll remove fees from the different versions of our app and WhatsApp will no longer charge you for our service.

Naturally, people might wonder how we plan to keep WhatsApp running without subscription fees and if today’s announcement means we’re introducing third-party ads. The answer is no. Starting this year, we will test tools that allow you to use WhatsApp to communicate with businesses and organizations that you want to hear from. That could mean communicating with your bank about whether a recent transaction was fraudulent, or with an airline about a delayed flight. We all get these messages elsewhere today – through text messages and phone calls – so we want to test new tools to make this easier to do on WhatsApp, while still giving you an experience without third-party ads and spam.

We hope you enjoy what’s coming to WhatsApp, and we look forward to your feedback.

Source: WhatsApp Blog

(Original title: Making WhatsApp free and more useful)

• When you’re browsing files, the toolbar now shows a “Move” icon for files already in Drive and “Add to My Drive” for everything else.

• When previewing files, a new icon lets you add the file to any folder in “My Drive” quickly and easily.

• From search results, you can now drag and drop files into folders.

Source: Google Drive

Let’s face it – for many kids these days, tablets have replaced TV, toys, or that old-fashioned concept of “playing outside” as their favorite pastime. Whether that’s good or bad is up to every parent to decide, but tech companies are more than eager to capitalize on this trend. Enter a variety of kid-centric tablets (Fire HD Kids Edition, Samsung Tab 3 Kids, Fuhu Nabi, etc.) and now this new app geared towards YouTube’s youngest users.

USA Today reports that the app, expected to launch February 23, features a simple, kid-friendly interface, stripped of non-essentials like comments. The main interface will consist of eight thumbnails showcasing popular content, as well as shortcuts to video, radio, educational, and exploration sections. Parental controls such as password-protection, timed use, and search filters are all available.

“Parents were constantly asking us, can you make YouTube a better place for our kids,” the project’s product manager told USA Today, noting that family-oriented content is growing four times faster than YouTube’s overall view growth.

At least initially, YouTube Kids will only be available for Android devices. Stay tuned for an official announcement on Monday.

Source: http://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-kids-588627/

Without domain names, each and every website would have to be recalled by a number like this, similar to the telephone system, but much more difficult to remember. For this reason, domain names were introduced, and have made navigation on the net much simpler.

BT’s chief executive officer (CEO), Tshewang Gyeltshen, said the company would spend USD 7.491M to improve mobile connectivity services across the country.

“It’s a big investment,” the CEO said, accepting the current complaints from the public today. “We’re planning to work through all the problems.”

Tshewang Gyeltshen attributed the current problems to timeworn equipment, outdated system, and towers. Some of them are unable to cater to the services required and have to be replaced.

According to BT officials, the towers’ capacities also need expansion. “The towers have certain capacity as per the number of users,” the CEO said, adding the capacity has to be increased if the number of users increased. “Users have increased tremendously.”

BT officials also made it clear that it would take time, because the coverage was huge. However, work started since last December.

The CEO, meanwhile, said there were limited people with the capacity to do the required expansion work. “Having deployed people in problematic pockets, problems in many areas have been solved.”
Meanwhile, officials also mentioned that the BT base was “small,” meaning the market was not huge and the revenue low, unlike in other countries.

Given the constant change in technology, the costs incurred in any telecom works were huge, officials said. BT CEO said people want fast service at cheap rates, which, according to him, was hard to maintain.
“However, our motto is to provide the most reliable and effective services,” Tshewang Gyeltshen said.
In 2013, the company also invested Nu 200M and has currently carried out two systems’ audits.

Source: http://www.kuenselonline.com/bt-invests-usd-7-491m-towards-better-mobile-services/#.VOjZe_mUeSo

As the company is also involved in the education sector, it has also chosen to sponsor the training of 10 IT graduates annually, starting this year.

HP business manager for Bhutan, Kazi Shohidul Islam, said that 10 IT graduates will be trained locally by Yangkhor IT Solutions.

He said that they will be trained in technical IT skills focusing on products and solutions. The training will take between six months to one year.

Upon completion, the partnership company will employ those that meet their criteria. They will serve as HP representatives in Bhutan.

He added that HP will provide its local partner with the required certification and technical knowledge so that it can provide IT support for large organisations in the government and private sector.

He said that the company will provide services and support solutions for services like cloud computing, servers, and security, among others. He added that HP has also asked its local partner to establish a centre in Phuentsholing by this or next year. “HP is very focused for this market,” he said.

Yangkhor IT Solution’s Phub Gyeltshen said that the current trend is for foreign IT companies to come to Bhutan, market their products and supply it. He said that with IT skills lacking in the country, after sales support and a local point of contact is usually a problem.

Phub Gyeltshen said that with HP’s entrance, this problem should be addressed. The partnership is expected to not only benefit users of information communications technology, but to strengthen the IT sector in Bhutan, said Phub Gyeltshen.

Source: http://www.kuenselonline.com/hp-to-open-product-and-service-centre-in-bhutan/#.VOjZm_mUeSo

Tech: With Bhutan Telecom (BT) launching a certified tier III data centre in Phuentsholing, yesterday, individuals, entrepreneurs, and organisations across the country can now host their computer systems and information in a safe and secure location, within Bhutan.

The data centre will provide 99.982 percent availability of services to its customers, which indicates the amount of time the services are guaranteed.  The 99.982 percentage roughly translates to about only two hours outage in a year.

Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay launched the data centre in Phuentsholing, yesterday.  It is the country’s first tier III data centre  certified by the Uptimes Institute in the USA.

The centre will offer three major services to customers.

It offers rack space for both single phase and 3-phase power, in which organisations can keep their servers, cage services and cloud services.

Cage service is when a particular client does not want even BT officials in the centre to access their data, except for housing and maintaining the server and data.  Cage services are relevant to banks, officials said.

The centre is composed of multiple distribution paths, with equipment that are dual powered.  The centre also has multiple uplinks and has a concurrently maintainable site infrastructure.  This means that the centre is linked by two uniform power connections with two uniform cables, in which one will function if another is damaged or is under maintenance.

In addition to the hosting services, the BT data centre will also provide remote hands services and managed services.

In the remote hands service, a client can call and have the host do any changes to the data as required.

The centre will also procure equipment for clients, if there is demand.

Further, the data centre building is managed by the Intelligent Building Management Systems (IBMS), which helps in providing a secure environment for protecting the clients’ data.

Lyonchhoen Tshering Tobgay also made it very clear that the service reliability of 99.982 percent should be maintained as per the tier III design certification.

“Tier III is Tier III, ” lyonchhoen said, pointing out it must be ensured such reliability is provided. “I need 99.982 percent.”

Lyonchhoen also said he would have high regard and appreciation if the data centre provided such reliability.

Lyonchhoen said that, if the reliability was not provided in the initial year, the goodwill would be lost, and that it would be difficult to regain the goodwill.

Lyonchhoen also highlighted how Bhutan’s first tier III data centre was different from those abroad.

“Our centre is a clean and green one,” he said, pointing to the renewable energy used by the centre. “We have to market this green data centre to the world.”

Lyonchhoen also pointed out that the centre was in a pollution free environment and a politically stable one.

BT CEO Tshewang Gyeltshen said reliability of 99.982 percent would be ensured. “Yes, we have to maintain it,” he said, adding that BT staff would be monitoring the centre 24×7.

BT professionals, Tshewang Gyeltshen added, would continuously monitor the performance of the data centre system through live management. “Everything is systemised, so it’s possible.”

As constant power is critical for data centres, the CEO said a back up system of two diesel generators has been provided.  A total of 12,000 litres would be available onsite for the two generators.

“The generator will automatically start if there’s power interruption,” Tshewang Gyeltshen said.

The data centre is also built in such a way that small earthquakes  will not be able to hamper its service.

The data centre already has five clients, whose websites are being hosted by the centre.

Officials said the number of customers couldn’t be fixed because customers differ in size and service demand.

BT has invested Nu 167M to construct this centre in Phuentsholing.  BT chose the border town because of it is close proximity to the international gateway.

Source: http://www.kuenselonline.com/tier-iii-data-centre-launched-in-pling/#.VOjZ_vmUeSo