Cara Bermain APPNEXT

AppNext adalah salah satu Ad Network yang bergerak pada mobile ads yang sudah berkembang dan dikenal oleh beberapa Publisher aplikasi Android. Dengan mengandalkan Cost Per Install yang memberikan CPM tertinggi di atas rata-rata dibandingkan dengan Ad Network yang bergerak pada bidang Cost Per Install lainnya walaupun peng-install tidak berada dalam Negara Premium. Indonesia sendiri, harga yang diberikan sampai $1,2x per install dan paling rendah $0,30. Bisa dibayangkan seberapa cepat earning yang didapatkan hanya dengan beberapa install.

AppNext Ad Type
Beberapa Ad Type yang disediakan oleh pihak AppNext.

1. Android dan iOS
   Interstitial, Native dan Banner (widget), menggunakan SDK dan integrasi yang sangat mudah.
   Kelebihannya : Intergasi sangat mudah, tidak perlu review aplikasi dan iklan langsung muncul. Fill rate yang 98-100%, jadi jangan khawatir dengan iklan blank yang membuat aplikasi jelek karena iklan sudah dijamin akan tayang.
   Kekurangannya : Sebanyak apapun iklan yang muncul pada aplikasi Android ataupun iOS, CPM tidak akan bertambah karena AppNext tidak bergerak dalam bidang dibayar per seribu tayang.
2. Website, Wapsite, Blog
   Interstitial dan Widget Ads, sangat cocok bagi web/blog yang banyak di akses oleh pengguna Mobile. Cukup dengan memasangkan kode iklan yang berupa javascript pada Widget blogger atau HTML website.
   Kelebihannya : Pada iklan interstitial, iklan yang ditawarkan bukan hanya 1, terkadang sampai 3 tawaran iklan bahkan sampai 5. Penempatan iklan widget pada blog tidak diberikan batas maksimum. Jadi, letakkan iklanmu dimana saja dan berapapun itu tidak masalah.
   Kekurangannya : Ketika blog di akses melalui PC/Laptop dan sejenisnya iklan menjadi Blank lebih parahnya lagi karena berbekas pada widget blog.

AppNext Payment

Pembayaran AppNext sangat mudah dan tidak sulit, baik Anda Advertiser ataupun Publisher yang ingin menerima bayaran bisa dilakukan menggunakan PayPal dan Wire Transfer. Penerimaan pembayaran AppNext adalah 10th the next month, jika memulai AppNext bulan ini, maka akan menerima bayaran bulan berikutnya pada tanggal 10 dengan minimum pemrosesan gajian yang mudah dicapai yaitu $20 melalui PayPal jika ingin melalui Wire Transfer membutuhkan minimum $500

Kelebihan dan Kekurangan AppNext Secara Umum

Kelebihan

1. AppNext merupakan salah satu Ad Network Mobile Ads yang memberikan harga Per Install yang sangat tinggi meskipun penginstall tidak berada pada Negara Premium.
2. AppNext memiliki minimum payment yang mudah dicapai yaitu $20.
3. Proses Billing and Payment yang mudah karena cukup menggunakan PayPal dan Wire Transfer.
4. Fast approval, bahkan tidak ada REVIEW baik dari aplikasi ataupun web/blog. Cukup dengan JOIN lalu memasukkan Aplikasi atau Blog, membuat kode iklan dan pasang, iklan akan muncul.
5. Contact support akan membantu jika ada pertanyaan, bisa dengan Live Chat ataupun melalui Inbox email.

Kekurangan

1. Earning tidak akan bertambah jika hanya mengandalkan jumlah Tayangan atau Impresi pada akun karena AppNext bergerak pada Cost Per Install dimana CPM akan bertambah jika ada yang menginstall.
2. Iklan akan blank pada dekstop, merusak susunan blog.
3. Jika terindikasi kecurangan, fake install, tidak ada peringatan, akun langsung disable meskipun tidak kita lakukan. Tidak menerima pengaktifan akun, semua balance atau earning akan hapus.
4. Tidak memiliki sistem referral.

Sekian review mengenai AppNext.

Visio fined $2.2 million by the FTC for secretly collecting and selling owner information

Visio did everything wrong when it comes to data collection.

Visio has been fined $2.2 million by the Federal Trade Commission for "surreptitiously collecting details on viewers' watching habits." The company also agreed to delete all the data collected before March 1, 2016, and to get specific consent from users with a new privacy program.

Visio's Smart Interactivity technology isn't much different from what other smart TV manufacturers use to find out exactly what you watch and when you watch it. The difference, according to ProPublica, stems from the way Visio went about collecting it and what they did with it afterward.

For starters, Smart Interactivity is active and running unless you specifically opt out, and you're not told it's there or that opting out is even posible. Oddly enough, the instructions to tell you how to opt out have disappeared from Visio's support site and have been replaced by a 404 error page.

While folks were watching TV, Visio was tracking everything it could about the channels and amount of time viewers spent on them. They also collected your IP address. Standard stuff from the TV industry. But what they did next got them hauled into court by the FTC.

Visio would work with "data brokers" � companies who only exist to collect data about people, connect it all together, and then sell it. They would use these data brokers to help them connect your IP address with information like your gender, age, income, and interests. They then sold this information to advertisers. The same advertisers other companies use who might already have your IP address from other products.

This makes for a nice tidy way to get a very good profile on who you are and what you do. Frankly, a $2.2 million fine isn't enough.

Sprint customers used 5TB of data at the 2017 Super Bowl

That's a lot of data!

Sprint dropped a press release about customer data usage at the big game and the ways they were able to provide enough of it.

Customers used almost 5TB of data inside and directly adjacent to the Houston stadium on February 5. That's three times as much as the 2016 Super Bowl and eight times more than the 2015 game. And the network speed was nothing to sneeze at, either.

Network speeds varied from 85 Mbps from the stands during overtime to 99 Mbps from the stands during the Lombardi award ceremony to 124 Mbps just outside the Verizon box suite during the fourth quarter. Nice jab at the competition there, Sprint. Let's hope it doesn't backfire. We're given no details on who performed the tests or how they were run.

We are told how Sprint was able to supply enough bandwidth for everyone with plenty to spare. Cell on Wheels (COW) and small cell site deployment was able to boost the capacity in and around NRG Stadium. Also, two- and three- channel aggregation on small cell sites played a role, as devices capable of using LTE-A spectrum bonding had access on wider bandwidth lanes to keep network congestion to a minimum.

The best Sprint phones

No matter which team you were rooting for last night, if you were a Sprint customer it sounds like you were a winner. If anyone was at last night's big game, jump into the comments and tell us all about your experience � Sprint or otherwise.

User manuals and photos of LG's upcoming Android Wear watches leak ahead of announcement

See the LG Watch Style and check out the features for both new watches, because today is a leaky day!

Everyone who is interested already knows we're going to see a couple of new watches from LG on February 9th. Special watches, because they will be the first to launch with the new Android Wear 2.0 update that makes everything better and they're Google products � the Nexus Watches that have been talked about for months.

The LG Watch Style. Click or tap for a larger view

So we're not surprised in the least that LG has posted the actual user manuals online or that photos from an unknown Best Buy location have appeared at GSM Arena.

We get a good look at the front face of the LG Watch Style from the pictures leaked to GSM Arena, as well as a few pictures of the box it comes in. And nothing we see is a big surprise.

A round design with a moderate bezel and standard lugs means it should be easy to change out the band if you come across something you like better than what LG supplies, and a sizeable button or crown at three o'clock hints at the navigation features that come with Android Wear 2.0

Fans of Android Wear as a platform and LG's watches, in particular, should like what they see here as there has been no drift from LG's tried and true design language for Android Wear.

But photos aren't all we get to see today. LG has also posted the user manual for both the LG Watch Style and the LG Watch Sport on their support site.

LG Watch Style manual

LG Watch Sport

LG Watch Sport overview

A look throughout the manuals confirms some things we all suspected: The button(s) are indeed rotating crowns that will aid in navigation through the features and settings on both watches. The LG Watch Sport will also have two additional buttons that look to be used on a per-app or user-defined basis.

Google Fit is prominently featured on both devices, with sections of the manual going over how to get it set up and how to use Google Fit on your new watch. The LG Watch Sport's manual also mentions NFC and Android Pay, but both are absent in the LG Watch Style manual, so we assume the Style is lacking NFC.

There's also a section about call forwarding from a CDMA phone (Verizon and Sprint) in the LG Watch Sport's manual, mixed in with the sections that explain its stand-alone GSM calling abilities.

It looks like LG is presenting these as two different types of watches with two different markets, just as the rumor mill has suggested. The Sport will be a standalone device with NFC and we assume a bigger price tag, while the Style seems to lack any cellular abilities and NFC. We'll know everything there is to know very soon.

Google is making it easier to see the original URL from an AMP search result

A new feature makes it easier to make sure the page you're seeing from an AMP search result is legit and lets you share the "real" URL with others.

AMP pages are great. They are designed to help us find what we're looking for when we're mobile and point us towards search results that are easy to read because they were designed for a smaller screen and touch-based navigation. So many people use their phones to get on the internet and get the information they need that anything that makes the experience better is welcomed.

On the web, trust is important. You need to know you're seeing results from a place you trust.

But there are a few drawbacks to using AMP URLs, too. One is that they require a separate (and sometimes frequently changed) URL to be cached by Google, and this breaks the traditional way the web works. When something goes on the internet, it should be there forever, in the same place. Moving the URL we use from a mobile device around can make things confusing. Google is working on streamlining this so the right solution can be found.

The other issue with AMP pages is user-facing. We don't know exactly where we are or if what we are seeing is from the website it claims to be. It's also difficult to share the actual URL of a web page when you are viewing through an AMP search result. This is the issue (they are really the same issue) Google is addressing today.

AMP headers will now have an anchor "button" you can tap to get access to the full canonical URL.

The layout and navigation features of am AMP page haven't changed. You'll still see the header whilst at the top of a page, and it will slide out of view as you scroll down to allow more screen space for actual content. But now, when we push that header back into view we'll be able to find the "real" location of the page we're seeing and share it with a long press on the URL itself.

The feature is available in the Google app for iOS today and is coming to the Android app soon. Google is also working with the WebShare API to allow users to use the native sharing features of their phone and share the canonical URL as well.

Transparency is important. While changes like this may seem insignificant, being able to use Google's AMP platform while verifying exactly what we are seeing is a welcome update.

Android Security Bulletin: Everything you need to know

Fixing the latest bugs and exploits in Android every month.

Google has detailed the latest Android Security Bulletin and released the fixes for Nexus and Pixel devices.

These are exploits and other security concerns that affect Android as a whole. Issues with the operating system, kernel patches, and driver updates may not affect any particular device, but these need to be fixed in the Android base by the folks maintaining the operating system code. That means Google, and they've detailed the things they have improved for this month.

Updated factory images for Pixel and Nexus devices that are supported are available, and over-the-air updates are rolling out to users. If you don't want to wait, you can download and flash the factory image or OTA update file manually, and here are some handy instructions to get you started.

How to manually update your Nexus or Pixel

The company who made your phone uses these patches to send an update out to you.

These changes have been released to the people making Android phones for at least 30 days, but Google can't force anyone to deliver them to you. If you're using a phone from Samsung, LG, or anyone besides Google, you'll need to wait for them to send an update and shouldn't try to flash any of the above files.

Of course, Google has safety checks in place to prevent any problems on your phone because of any security exploits. Verify Apps and SafetyNet are at work any time you add an app to your phone, and seamless updates to Google Play Services will keep them up to date regardless of any hold-up from a manufacturer or carrier. Details and incident numbers can be found in the yearly Android Security Review (.pdf file).

Highlights for February 2017

February 2017's update comes with two patch dates: 02/01/2017 and 02/05/2017.

• Qualcomm and MediaTek have issued updates that prevent a malicious app from gaining elevated privileges by executing code in the kernel space. The code for these patches is not publicly available, but updated binary files are available at the Google Developer site. Devices running Android 7.0 or higher were not affected.
• The AOSP Messaging and Mail apps have been patched to address a vulnerability that could enable another app to bypass Android's system-level protections and see data it shouldn't be able to access.
• The Bionic DNS function (Bionic is Android's standard C library) has been patched to prevent a specific Denial of Service attack that would cause a device to freeze or reboot.
• Updated firmware binaries to address hardware-specific vulnerabilities were received from Broadcom, HTC, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Realtek, and Synaptics. Any of these binaries that are applicable to Nexus or Pixel devices are available at the Google Developer site.

If you get an update with a patch date of 02/05/2017, you also have every issue addressed by the 02/01/2017 update in place.

Previous bulletin highlights

Here are summaries and highlights of recent patches from the monthly Android Security Bulletin. As with the current bulletin, these issues were also mitigated by Google's Verify Apps, Safety Net, and seamless updates to Google Play Services.

January 2017

January 2017's update comes with two patch dates: 01/01/2017 and 01/05/2017.

• Qualcomm has fully patched the various exploits that were collectively called quadrooter. All phones with a patch date of 01/05/16 or later are patched. Qualcomm additionally assisted in patching less severe exploits in the camera and bootloader of some phones.
• The multimedia server and support drivers for audio and video components continue to be updated to prevent exploits such as last year's Stagefright issues. Google made a promise to continuously monitor and patch the multimedia system to prevent a repeat and have so far delivered on it.

If you get an update with a patch date of 01/05/2017, you also have every issue addressed by the 01/01/2017 update in place.

December 2016

December 2016's update comes with two patch dates: 12/01/2016 and 12/05/2016.

• Fixes in the 12/01 update cover Android in general and address issues with the Android operating system itself. The most serious exploit addressed was in the CURL library (software used to transfer data that covers most transfer protocols and security certificates), where a man-in-the-middle attack could be performed by someone with a spoofed security certificate. Other patches for Smart Lock, the telephony system, and comm stack are also included.
• The 12/05 patch date covers issues with the kernel or drivers. These aren't part of Android, but Google is the central maintainer and assembles updated code and resources from the folks making the hardware components. This time we see fixes for serious exploits from Qualcomm, MediaTek, and NVIDIA � so chances are your phone needs these. Samsung's Exynos chips are covered outside of the Android Security Bulletin and are patched by Samsung themselves.

If you received an update with a patch date of 12/05 you also have every issue addressed by the 12/01 update in place.

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See the Android Security website for details on all bulletins

Best T-Mobile Phones

The best phone options available through T-Mobile.

Whether you're a long-time T-Mobile subscriber looking to upgrade your phone or you're switching and want to find out what's available at a glance, we're here to help.

We've broken down the best devices available to buy through T-Mobile. Check out our reviews to learn more about each of these and if you're ready to take the plunge, we've included links to buy directly from T-Mobile.

• Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge
• HTC 10

Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge

Samsung really delivered with this year's flagship devices, the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge. They brought back great features, like expandable memory via microSD and a bigger battery, and improved on the sleek, one-piece design of the Galaxy S6. Plus, they're both water and dust-resistant.

These devices are beautiful, featuring a stunning QHD Super AMOLED display, protected by Gorilla Glass on the front and back. Both the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge take amazing photos, even in low-light conditions, and include must-have features like Samsung Pay and wireless charging. Oh, and they're also VR-ready with the Samsung Gear VR.

The Galaxy S7 edge features the curved screen edge and a slightly beefier battery.

The 32GB Galaxy S7 is available via T-Mobile in Black Onyx or Gold Platinum, while the 32GB Galaxy S7 edge is also available in shimmering Silver Titanium.

Check out our Galaxy S7 review and Galaxy S7 edge review for more.

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LG V20

The LG V20 is a big phone with some powerful specs, but at the end of the day it's one of the best options on T-Mobile for someone looking to replace the now-defunct Galaxy Note 7. With a pair of excellent rear cameras, a big, beautiful 5.7-inch screen (with a second display for things like notifications and quick shortcuts), the V20 is LG's best phone yet.

Moreover, it runs Android 7.0 Nougat out of the box, and LG has done a fine job ensuring that the device has all the features you'd expect from Google's flagships, plus a bit of extra flair in the form of awesome camera features and more.

The V20 is available from T-Mobile in Titan grey, and comes VoLTE ready out of the box.

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