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Youth-centric technology brand realme recently broke into the top six smartphone vendors in the global rankings, according to the latest market insight from Counterpoint Research. It has also become one of the top smartphone makers in Bangladesh, according to Tim Shao, managing director of realme Bangladesh, who recently opened up about realme's growth, strategy and future plans in a candid conversation with UNB. Talking about realme's recent success, Shao said, "As a company we believe in the adage 'Dare to Leap.' We always embrace youth and youthful ideals. That’s why, we have a very young and vibrant team who are always in pursuit of exploring cutting-edge technology for our millions of young users." Read: Realme GT Master Edition at 12-month EMI facility in Daraz Speaking on the firm’s knack for innovation, he said, “Bringing the latest innovations for its users, realme was one of the first brands to introduce the 125W UltraDart charging technology, and phones equipped with the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 processor. Our phones were one of the first in the world with a 64-megapixel camera. realme was the first to introduce concave vegan leather, brought together with light and matte materials in one design.” “Moreover, realme has a strategy of using the asset-light, short channel business models so that we can reach customers of different age groups and status. For example – we have inked different deals with e-commerce sites of Bangladesh so that they can get our smartphones at the best possible price.” Predicting the market trends for the next two or three years, Shao said that realme has observed that the modern smartphone users are very tech-conscious and want to experience cutting-edge technology, which is why the premium segment market will boom in the next two or three years. Read Realme becomes the first brand to update GT to Android 12 “In accordance with that, realme is going to plough its revenue back into innovation, beginning initially with the GT series, which will be the only flagship product line for realme in the future. Moreover, realme has introduced a new lifestyle brand ‘TechLife’ to accommodate emerging technologies (5G) and top-notch AIoT  (AI + Internet of Things) products,” Shao said. The company’s international expansion efforts continue unabated, but Bangladesh is already established as one of its leading markets. Shao plans to keep it that way.   “We embarked on a journey in Bangladesh in February 2020. realme is now focused on the Bangladeshi smartphone ecosystem. Our core markets are mainly located in Southeast Asia, India and Bangladesh, all of which are maintaining high growth rates. We want to ship 300 million handsets by 2023,” he said.   Read: realme UI 3.0: What's New and Eligible Phones Speaking on realme’s flat company structure which created a focused team of young people and plans for maintaining this culture as it grows bigger, Shao said, “We have a team of young people who truly understand the needs of young people and are bold enough to disrupt the status quo and make innovations.” Asked to reflect on how realme seeks to meet the needs of the consumers, he said, “Our strategy is youth-focused and we always listen to them and design our products in accordance with their preferences. Consequently, already 100 million youths around the world have chosen realme, including the youths in the Bangladeshi market.”   The brand has branched out from smartphones to being a lifestyle brand, selling both smartphones and AIoT products using the ‘1+5+T’ strategy. Regarding this strategy and sales response, he said, “AloT adoption and popularisation is a part of our long-term strategy. Under this new strategy, we will be releasing products in 5 categories - smart TVs, laptops, wearables, smart tablets, and smart earphones. These new lines of products will enrich the entire AIoT ecosystem and provide consumers with more choices for a tech trendsetter's lifestyle.” Read Realme launches flagship killer GT Master Edition, C21Y, C11 2021 , 4 AIoT products On popularising 5G for the youth and young professionals, market and the role 5G is set to play for the next generation of digital natives, Shao said, “There will be mass adoption pf 5G later this year, and it is here to stay. realme wants to establish itself as a populariser of 5G in the Bangladeshi market. So, realme is developing a diverse portfolio of 5G products to offer 100 million 5G phones in the next three years to the young users.”

Chinese telecom giant Huawei announced the expansion of its partner network at the virtual APAC Partner Summit 2021 recently. The company has teamed up with Horangi, ZIONEXT, USEA Global, Advocado, 4Paradigm, YonYou, and Cloudwise. Huawei Cloud is a leading cloud service provider, which brings the company's 30-plus years of expertise together in ICT infrastructure products and solutions. Read Huawei to invest $50 million to develop 500,000 digital talents in Asia-Pacific This entity has also been cultivating industrial digital transformations with its platform and ecosystem, focusing on government institutions, the financial services industry, logistics and energy, and even media organisations. Speaking at the event, Zeng Xingyun, president of Huawei Cloud's APAC Ecosystem, said the company's two-pronged technology and customer-focused strategy has put the brand in the top five cloud infrastructure as a service provider globally and within the top four in Asia Pacific's emerging markets. A new partnership with a cybersecurity firm, Horangi enables the delivery of turnkey cloud security solutions on Huawei Cloud powered by Warden, Horangi's flagship Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) application. Read 1035km Laos-China railway launched with Huawei's 5G technology, smart railway solution ZIONEXT and Huawei Cloud will jointly develop new products and services in the digital learning and teaching space. Based on ZIONEXT's cloud-based learning management platform and applications, the pair will jointly market new products and services globally, particularly in the Indo-Pacific and Central Asia region. USEA Global, Advocado, 4Paradigm, and YonYou will develop a smart retail initiative to drive digital transformation among brick-and-mortar stores. The initiative is a launchpad for Singapore's retail industry revolution. This new sandbox will allow retailers to participate in multiple proofs of concepts, using the island as a hub for intelligent retail solutions. Cloudwise Digital Operational Central Platform delivered in the SaaS model on Huawei Cloud. Both companies aim to drive and offer best practices leveraging big data, AI and IoT technology and provide multi-dimensional viewpoints for enterprises. Read 5G rollout: Teletalk ties up with Huawei

Huawei has recently announced the expansion of its partner network through several new collaborations at the virtual APAC Partner Summit 2021. The new collaborations will be started with Horangi, ZIONEXT, USEA Global, Advocado, 4Paradigm, YonYou, and Cloudwise. Zeng Xingyun, President of Huawei Cloud’s APAC Ecosystem, said the company’s two-pronged technology and customer-focused strategy has put the brand in the top five cloud Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers globally and within the top four in Asia Pacific’s emerging markets. Read Huawei renews cyber security cooperation MoU with Indonesia Under these collaborations, a new partnership with a cybersecurity firm, Horangi enables the delivery of turnkey cloud security solutions on Huawei Cloud powered by Warden, Horangi’s flagship Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) application. Warden’s infrastructure security rules, delivery of Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices, and threat detection capabilities can vastly improve the cyber-risk posture of organizations on Huawei Cloud. ZIONEXT and Huawei Cloud will jointly develop new products and services in the digital learning and teaching space. Based on ZIONEXT’s cloud-based learning management platform and applications, the pair will jointly market new products and services globally, particularly in the Indo-Pacific and Central Asia region. USEA Global, Advocado, 4Paradigm, and YonYou; this quintuple of international players will develop a Smart Retail Initiative to drive digital transformation among brick-and-mortar stores. The initiative is a launchpad for Singapore’s retail industry revolution. This new sandbox will allow retailers to participate in multiple proofs of concepts, using the island as a hub for intelligent retail solutions. Read XR services, B2B market, low-carbon development to drive 5G growth: Huawei Cloudwise Digital Operational Central Platform delivered in the SaaS model on Huawei Cloud. Both companies aim to drive and offer best practices leveraging big data, AI & IoT technology and provide multi-dimensional viewpoints for enterprises.

Grameenphone has signed an agreement with D24 Logistics Ltd for certain inventory & delivery management and archiving & disposal management. A signing ceremony in this regard was held at GPHouse on Tuesday. Grameenphone has teamed up with D24 Logistics to ensure that the mobile network operator’s inventory, delivery, archival, and disposal management are streamlined to attain optimum growth. Read Grameenphone reports 4.4% revenue growth in Q1 2022 The announcement has been made as a continuation of promoting former employee-led startups from Grameenphone. Earlier the company also supported two startups ReCom and VX Services Ltd, which were also incorporated by former GP employees, said a media release. Syed Tanvir Husain, CHRO of Grameenphone said, “At Grameenphone, we are keen to learn future skills and adapt lean operating model. I believe this new startup; their lean operating model and agile ways of work will help us run logistics operations smartly and efficiently. For delivering on customers’ expectation, we look forward to working together with a shared vision by best utilizing new ways of work.” Md Ziaul Karim, Managing Director of D24 Logistics said, “Our advanced capabilities and high-tech operating model shall help Grameenphone in meeting customers’ ever-increasing demands under a future-ready logistics service infrastructure”. Read Hans Martin new Grameenphone chief corporate affairs officer

It is said that an image can say a thousand words. Infographic is a special kind of image that represents information through various types of graphs and charts. Many of you may already be familiar with the 'infographic' term, while many of you have just heard it today. Infographics give the opportunity to share information and connect with the world through interesting visuals that represent a piece of detailed information on something. However, creating an eye-catching infographic is time-consuming and pricey. But there are some tools and websites to build beautiful infographics for free, which we will get to know from this article. What is Infographic? What are the types of infographics? Infographic is the graphical representation of a subject with information that combines texts too. Using an infographic, a descriptive subject or information can be beautifully presented through just one picture. In other words, an infographic is a picture that presents the words of the mind in a simple way. While a regular image is just an image to look at, the infographic explains a whole lot of stuff through the image. Although the infographic was mostly used for journalistic presentation in newspapers, it has expanded its uses over the years. Now there are mainly nine types of infographics used, which include statistical, informational, timeline, process, geographic, comparison, list, hierarchical, and resume infographics. Read Top Online Proof-reading and Editing Tools in 2021 Statistical infographic mainly visualizes and compares the survey results from multiple sources. If you want to present a specialized concept or new communicating concept or even provide an overview of a topic, the informational infographic will come in handy. For the historical visualization, a timeline infographic is best that highlights important dates or provides an overview of an event. If you want to present a step-by-step process or guide, the process infographic will help you out. If anyone wants to visualize demography or location-based data, a geographic infographic is a savior to represent a large quantity of data. Many people face a problem when they need to choose something from multiple options; a comparison infographic will help them to choose the right thing. Nevertheless, for people who want to share some tips or lots of resources, a list infographic will be a perfect choice. Read 10 Best Free Online Grammar, Punctuation Checker Tools In 2021 Finally, the infographic resume is the current trend in the job market. This can help the interview to take a glance at important points with no effort. Benefits of Infographic Although infographics are believed to have been introduced around 25,000 years ago but got popular in the 1970s. Since then, it has been providing immense benefits to the journalist and marketing personnel. Nowadays, people like to read infographics while they are reading articles too. People from any profession can give a presentation in a short period of time using the image that has information. For example, you have to give a presentation about your company or any other topic at a big event, and the time is only 1 (one) minute. What will you do then? Surely you can't make a presentation by making 15 or 20 slides? And to accomplish the task in one minute, you will not be able to say the main points in 1 minute to attract the attention of the audience. But you can present this work beautifully with just one infographic photo. Surely now you understand the benefit of an infographic. Read Free Online Basic Programming Courses for Beginners Furthermore, presentations provided through infographics are remembered for a long time, and the main points can be easily explained. Top free software to create infographics for research, business or academic purpose As we have mentioned earlier, infographics are time-consuming and require some premium tools to make. But there is some free software that is even online, which can help to build a decent infographic. Adobe Spark It is a design tool that allows creating posters, webpage and videos using computer or iOS devices. It is very simple to use, and any newbie can master it on the first day. They have professional templates to create posters and flyers with no effort at all. Read Free Online Content Writing Courses in 2021

The term “metaverse” seems to be everywhere. Facebook is hiring thousands of engineers in Europe to work on it, while video game companies are outlining their long-term visions for what some consider the next big thing online. The metaverse, which could spring up again when Facebook releases earnings Monday, is the latest buzzword to capture the tech industry’s imagination. It could be the future, or it could be the latest grandiose vision by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that doesn’t turn out as expected or isn’t widely adopted for years — if at all. Plus, many have concerns about a new online world tied to a social media giant that could get access to even more personal data and is accused of failing to stop harmful content. Here’s what this online world is all about: Think of it as the internet brought to life, or at least rendered in 3D. Zuckerberg has described it as a “virtual environment” you can go inside of — instead of just looking at on a screen. Essentially, it’s a world of endless, interconnected virtual communities where people can meet, work and play, using virtual reality headsets, augmented reality glasses, smartphone apps or other devices. It also will incorporate other aspects of online life such as shopping and social media, according to Victoria Petrock, an analyst who follows emerging technologies. “It’s the next evolution of connectivity where all of those things start to come together in a seamless, doppelganger universe, so you’re living your virtual life the same way you’re living your physical life,” she said. But keep in mind that “it’s hard to define a label to something that hasn’t been created,” said Tuong Nguyen, an analyst who tracks immersive technologies for research firm Gartner. Facebook warned it would take 10 to 15 years to develop responsible products for the metaverse, a term coined by writer Neal Stephenson for his 1992 science fiction novel “Snow Crash.” WHAT WILL I BE ABLE TO DO IN THE METAVERSE? Things like go to a virtual concert, take a trip online, and buy and try on digital clothing. The metaverse also could be a game-changer for the work-from-home shift amid the coronavirus pandemic. Instead of seeing co-workers on a video call grid, employees could see them virtually. Facebook has launched meeting software for companies, called Horizon Workrooms, to use with its Oculus VR headsets, though early reviews have not been great. The headsets cost $300 or more, putting the metaverse’s most cutting-edge experiences out of reach for many. For those who can afford it, users would be able, through their avatars, to flit between virtual worlds created by different companies. “A lot of the metaverse experience is going to be around being able to teleport from one experience to another,” Zuckerberg says. Tech companies still have to figure out how to connect their online platforms to each other. Making it work will require competing technology platforms to agree on a set of standards, so there aren’t “people in the Facebook metaverse and other people in the Microsoft metaverse,” Petrock said. IS FACEBOOK GOING ALL IN ON THE METAVERSE? Indeed, Zuckerberg is going big on what he sees as the next generation of the internet because he thinks it’s going to be a big part of the digital economy. He expects people to start seeing Facebook as a metaverse company in coming years rather than a social media company. A report by tech news site The Verge said Zuckerberg is looking at using Facebook’s annual virtual reality conference this coming week to announce a corporate name change, putting legacy apps like Facebook and Instagram under a metaverse-focused parent company. Facebook hasn’t commented on the report. Critics wonder if the potential pivot could be an effort to distract from the company’s crises, including antitrust crackdowns, testimony by whistleblowing former employees and concerns about its handling of misinformation. Former employee Frances Haugen, who accused Facebook’s platforms of harming children and inciting political violence, plans to testify Monday before a United Kingdom parliamentary committee looking to pass online safety legislation. IS THE METAVERSE JUST A FACEBOOK PROJECT? No. Zuckerberg has acknowledged that “no one company” will build the metaverse by itself. Just because Facebook is making a big deal about the metaverse doesn’t mean that it or another tech giant will dominate the space, Nguyen said. “There are also a lot of startups that could be potential competitors,” he said. “There are new technologies and trends and applications that we’ve yet to discover.” Video game companies also are taking a leading role. Epic Games, the company behind the popular Fortnite video game, has raised $1 billion from investors to help with its long-term plans for building the metaverse. Game platform Roblox is another big player, outlining its vision of the metaverse as a place where “people can come together within millions of 3D experiences to learn, work, play, create and socialize.” Consumer brands are getting in on it, too. Italian fashion house Gucci collaborated in June with Roblox to sell a collection of digital-only accessories. Coca-Cola and Clinique have sold digital tokens pitched as a stepping stone to the metaverse. Zuckerberg’s embrace of the metaverse in some ways contradicts a central tenet of its biggest enthusiasts. They envision the metaverse as online culture’s liberation from tech platforms like Facebook that assumed ownership of people’s accounts, photos, posts and playlists and traded off what they gleaned from that data. “We want to be able to move around the internet with ease, but we also want to be able to move around the internet in a way we’re not tracked and monitored,” said venture capitalist Steve Jang, a managing partner at Kindred Ventures who focuses on cryptocurrency technology. WILL THIS BE ANOTHER WAY TO GET MORE OF MY DATA? It seems clear that Facebook wants to carry its business model, which is based on using personal data to sell targeted advertising, into the metaverse. “Ads are going to continue being an important part of the strategy across the social media parts of what we do, and it will probably be a meaningful part of the metaverse, too,” Zuckerberg said in the company’s most recent earnings call. That raises fresh privacy concerns, Nguyen said, involving “all the issues that we have today, and then some we’ve yet to discover because we’re still figuring out what the metaverse will do.” Petrock she said she’s concerned about Facebook trying to lead the way into a virtual world that could require even more personal data and offer greater potential for abuse and misinformation when it hasn’t fixed those problems in its current platforms. “I don’t think they fully thought through all the pitfalls,” she said. “I worry they’re not necessarily thinking through all the privacy implications of the metaverse.”

The beauty of Android is its customizability and its open-source nature. As a consequence, we've seen a slew of bespoke skins and user interfaces from companies throughout the years. There's Xiaomi's MIUI, OnePlus' OxygenOS, Samsung's One UI, OPPO's ColorOS, and so on. OEMs prefer to update their custom UI with new Google updates as well as some smart additions with each new Android release. With the release of Android 12, companies are striving to update their custom skins to use the most recent version of Android as the foundation. This article will elaborate on the features and updates that have come with the new OPPO ColorOS 12. Read Android 12 Key Features: What’s New? All the Aspects of OPPO ColorOS 12 ColorOS is arguably the most improved custom user interface in recent years. OPPO has taken customer input seriously over past years and has corrected all of the minor issues encountered with the software. Given how well-liked OxygenOS was, it's more essential than ever for the skin to deliver on all fronts now as the OxygenOS codebase has been integrated with ColorOS.  Key Features of OPPO ColorOS 12 Here are some tweaks and new introductions ColorOS 12 provides: UI Tweaks and Design Material UI and Dynamic Colors are significant design changes in Android 12, but they seem to be restricted to the Pixel series exclusively. ColorOS 12 introduces several small design and UI modifications that aren't immediately noticeable. Text in certain applications, such as Contacts, has been made bolder with an updated foundation, resulting in a cleaner appearance. Read Virtual RAM: Types, Advantages, Disadvantages of Virtual Memory The UI of the phone remains much the same as it was on ColorOS 11. The Settings menu has been updated to appear more contemporary. The many choices under Settings are now simpler to discover and move through. The last UI update is the ability to choose between three kinds of Dark Mode options: Enhanced, Gentle and Medium. The Enhanced option produces a pitch-black backdrop that is excellent for OLED screens, while the Medium and Gentle settings provide a somewhat grey background. Wallpaper-based System As previously said, one of the most important aspects of Android 12 is Material Theming, which can alter the System theme depending on the wallpaper color. On ColorOS 12, OPPO has added a similar function in which users may choose a theme based on the color dominance on the wallpaper. While this isn't as smooth as Android 12's default approach, it's certainly a welcome addition. It surely does not work with Google's Material apps. Read realme UI 3.0: What's New and Eligible Phones Always-on Display: Portrait Silhouette This functionality was originally seen on OxygenOS for OnePlus smartphones, and it has now found its way to ColorOS 12 for OPPO phones. The portrait silhouette function, also known as Canvas AOD, essentially outlines the primary subject in a portrait picture and produces a sketch appearance that can subsequently be utilized as an Always-on Display image. It's a neat method to change the appearance of a smartphone while the display is turned off. Easter Egg Navigating to Settings > About Phone > Android Version and pressing on it pulls up the Android 12 Easter egg with the fresh-looking clock widget. When people set the clock-hands to 12 o'clock, they'll be taken to the new Android 12 interface. Read E-Waste Crisis: Effects of Electronic Waste on Environment and Human Health Screen Translate ColorOS has had a sidebar on the display's edge for quite some time. The sidebar is where users will find commonly used applications and shortcuts that they may access from any screen. On ColorOS 12, a new option named Screen Translate has been added to the sidebar. Screen Translate, as the name implies, is a one-click solution for translating the whole contents of a website they're viewing. Users can select this option to have the whole page translated after opening any page they wish to convert to a different language. This tool, which interacts with Google Lens, provides a simple method to translate text. Read Mechanical Keyboard Buying Guide with the Price Range in Bangladesh Background Stream Another new function has been added to the sidebar. Background Stream activates a clever function on their phone that allows them to keep playing anything in the background even while they're not on the screen. Like they may want to listen to songs on YouTube but they don't want it to end when they close the app or switch off the device. Ideally, people need a YouTube Premium membership to accomplish this, but Background Stream on ColorOS 12 can do it with the touch of a button. Refurbished Phone Manager On ColorOS 12, the Phone Manager app is used to simplify a phone's storage, remove unneeded applications and files, manage app permissions, and so on. It includes a list of features that are now appropriately separated into various menus, making it simpler for users to locate the functions they need. Read Why Do Mobile Phones Explode? How to Protect Your Smartphone from Blasting? Privacy Dashboard This is one of the standout features of the latest Android 12, and OPPO has fortunately chosen to incorporate it in ColorOS 12 as well. The Privacy Dashboard shows all of the permissions that applications on a phone utilize, as well as when they were last used. Users can manage whether or not specific applications may use location, microphone, camera, or any other permission from this page. Location Sharing Approximate Approximate spot sharing is another key privacy-related feature on Android 12, and now on ColorOS 12. When an app asks users to share their location, they may opt to give the precise position or an estimated location if they don't trust the app or don't want to disclose their specific location with an app that doesn't actually need it. Read Ai and Future of Content Writing: Will Artificial Intelligence replace writers? Conclusion With hundreds of models set to upgrade to OPPO ColorOS 12, it will reach around 150 million users worldwide, making it one of the most ambitious updates in OPPO's history. Other interesting improvements include OPPO finally enabling customers to unlock their smartphones' bootloaders by obtaining an unlock code. OPPO is demonstrating with ColorOS 12 that it can offer an interface aligned with the finest Android phones. The style is consistent, there are many helpful improvements, and users don't lose out on any of the features released by Google in Android 12. Read Mobile Phone Network Booster Buyer Guide, Price Range in Bangladesh

Export earnings from the electronics sector will overtake the readymade garment sector, Salman Fazlur Rahman, private industry and investment advisor to the prime minister, said Saturday after visiting the Walton factory in Gazipur. "When Walton says 'Made in Bangladesh', it's made in Bangladesh. This means Walton manufactures every spare part. Research and development is most vital for achieving the target of becoming a developed country within 2041, and Walton is doing excellent work in this sector,'' he added. Read: Xiaomi launches smartphone manufacturing plant in Gazipur Walton Hi-Tech Industries Limited Managing Director and CEO Golam Murshed said: "The electronics sector is the future of Bangladesh." "The 'Made in Bangladesh' Walton products are being exported to more than 40 countries. Walton holds 75 per cent of the country's refrigerator, 50 per cent of AC and 40 per cent of the TV market." Read Walton brings Arc CPU liquid coolers

Global smartphone company Xiaomi has launched a smartphone manufacturing plant in Gazipur with its partner DBG technology BD. DBG is a global EMS company, which has been operating manufacturing business around the world for several renowned brands of consumer electronics. The plant will produce around 3 million mobile phones per year. Around 1,000 people will be employed in the plant in the initial phase. Read Xiaomi brings Mi Notebook, RedmiBook 15 laptops to Bangladesh Xiaomi revealed its "Made in Bangladesh" plan at a special event Thursday in Dhaka. The first phone of the company to be assembled in Bangladesh belongs to the Redmi sub-brand, which is expected to be available in the market from the first week of November 2021. Next, the POCO and Xiaomi series will be made in the country. Ziauddin Chowdhury, country manager of Xiaomi, said: "Manufacturing smartphones locally is a significant step towards incorporating Xiaomi into the fabric of Bangladesh in the years to come. Local manufacturing shows Xiaomi's commitment to being in Bangladesh for the long haul, and we can contribute to generating more jobs here." Read Top features of Xiaomi 12 Pro

"Better World Summit: Green ICT for Green Development" was organised by Huawei, in partnership with Informa Tech, in Dubai. "With our innovative products and solutions, we will help operators cut carbon emissions and make their networks more energy efficient. We also want to work with operators and use ICT to better enable other industries to cut carbon emissions and become carbon neutral faster," Bob Cai, chief marketing officer of Huawei's Carrier Business Group, said at the summit. READ: Canadians released after Huawei CFO resolves US charges "We believe the BWS in Dubai is a good beginning. Looking ahead, we will continue to work with our industry partners and operators to empower green development of all industries using our innovative technologies," he added. Back in June 2021, the Network Carbon Intensity (NCI) initiative was jointly proposed by Huawei and Informa Tech to better manage and measure carbon reduction roadmaps. READ: Huawei Connect 2021 begins During this summit, Huawei reiterated its commitment to establish a platform for industry collaboration on green development, according to a media statement.