Google’s digital assistant will be available to more Android devices. Google has already announced its presence on Pixel, Google Home, Google Allo and Android Wear. Google Assistant will soon be available on Android handsets running 7.0 Nougat and 6.0 Marshmallow.
Google Assistant product lead Gummi Hafsteinsson said in a blog post, “Whether you need to know how to say ‘nice to meet you’ in Korean or just a simple reminder to do laundry when you get home, your Assistant can help. With the Google Assistant on Android phones, you have your own personal, helpful Google right in your pocket.”
Google Assistant will roll out this week to English users in the U.S. English speakers in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom, and German speakers in Germany are next on the access list. Google has promised more languages will be made available over the coming year.
Hafsteinsson said, “The Google Assistant will automatically come to eligible Android phones running Nougat and Marshmallow with Google Play Services.You’ll also see the Google Assistant on some newly announced partner devices, including the LG G6.”
Google Assistant can perform Internet searches, answer questions and perform tasks like updating your schedule or booking a reservation. It can also give you the weather forecast, offer travel directions and surface requested photos and a lot more.
Social Media Websites are meant for communication and it may be personal, professional, business related. These sites help in engaging customer communication, more brand exposure and draw traffic to the websites or blogs. Several social media platforms provide an opportunity to offer quick resolution to issues. Because the customer base is typically smaller in a B2B model this can be a manageable task.
There are trends and shifts that are looming the social media marketing sphere that B2B marketers should watch out in 2017 to remain competitive in the marketplace. In this infographic, Digital Marketing Philippines will present to you the top trends that will shape the world of social media marketing landscape for B2B organizations in 2017.
Most of the bloggers choose WordPress platform for their blog because of its useful plugins. With the right plugins, your WordPress blog can reach out the huge audience according to your niche. SEO opportunities will become easy if you use some essential plugins.
There are many reasons webmasters should adopt WordPress as their content management system. Having access to thousands of plugins available for this platform is a pretty good reason. Plugins can enhance your site’s functionality and enhance your visitors experience on it. Let's look into this inforgraphic that explains the top 10 WordPress plugins uses and features.
How to be more successful on Twitter? Tweets with photos receive engagement rates twice as high as tweets that do not. It's also been found that the more you tweet each day, the less engaged your fans are likely to be.
What you don’t see are the little details that matter to marketers. You don’t see active hours, you don’t see click-through rates, and so on. Yet, this is all important information for brands.So keep your tweets fresh and timely. Here is a nice infographic which shows the states of Twitter.
Cloud Computing has been booming day by day and this technology has been adopted by Amazon, Google, Salesforce, IBM and many more companies. People prefer because it is available anywhere, anytime access to data. SaaS is totally a new concept which was introduced on cloud services. SaaS stands for Software As A Service. Instead of using software from desktop or server, use the third party software via this service on cloud platform. Following infographic explains what are the advantages of cloud computing and the concept of SaaS precisely.
By making the right choices for your cloud computing technology you stand to benefit from improvements in profitability, improved time to decision, improvements in complete and on-time delivery and reduction in downtime.
To be considered a true geek in today's geek friendly world, you can't just be smart. You have to dedicate yourself to the right movies and TV shows. You have to be curious about all kinds of computer and technology. You need to know which video games to play, which superhero to root for, which quotes actually matter. But probably most important of all, you need to know how to Internet.
There are 50 things described in the following infographic. Each of which is essential and must know factors. If you want to find out how geeky you really are – or put your friends to the test – see how much of the trivia below you’re familiar with.
Facebook has something to offer you all just before Christmas. Facebook owned Oculus is going to launch its touch controllers for virtual reality.
Image Credit : Oculus
The device will be available both online and in stores, This device will be used by touch that gives you the sensation of your virtual hands being your own physical hands.
Facebook's blog post stated that “Touch lets you bring your hands into VR for the most immersive experience possible. You can gesture intuitively and manipulate digital objects with precision — making your VR experiences more seamless and comfortable for a deeper sense of presence.”
Each controller has a traditional analog thumbstick, two buttons, an analog trigger and an input mechanism called the ‘hand trigger.’ Precise tracking combined with an ergonomic handle design bring hand poses and social gestures into your virtual world. A diagonal grip lets your thumb and index finger move autonomously, helping to eliminate accidental triggers.
Touch will be priced at $199 in the U.S. or for $798 when paired with the Oculus Rift, the virtual reality headset needed for Touch to work. In Canada, the price rises to $279 or $1,128 for both the Rift and Touch.
Oculus is offering a chance to try Touch out, as well. Demonstrations are available at more than 500 retailers in the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, and the U.K. Participating stores can be found here. You can schedule an appointment for a demo via the link.
Instant Messenger companies are trying to attract its users in different innovative ways like introducing video call facility, providing animated emoticons etc. Now Facebook Messenger has introduced "games" on its app which will engage you even more time on its messenger.
Facebook announced games such as Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Galaga, EverWing, TRACK & FIELD 100M and Words with Friends: Frenzy and another few are now available on the latest version of its Messenger app. It is very easy option to start with as you just have to open a conversation with a friend, tap a game controller icon and then select what game you want to play.
Messenger product manager Andrea Vaccari said in a blog post, “After you finish a round, people in the conversation will see your score and will have the opportunity to challenge you back.” The blog also revealed that “People can also discover games within the Messenger search field, or on Facebook News Feed where they can play solo or challenge friends back in Messenger. Games on Messenger are the first to be rolled out on Facebook’s new Instant Games cross-platform gaming experience.”
Pinterest has recently announced three innovative ways to advertise product or services on its platform: One-Tap, Video Pins and app Promoted Pins. Please find below the new pin line-up options.
1. One-Tap Pins
With the option for one-tap Pin in your feed, you will be taken directly to the site it came from.
Pinterest blog reveals that “We’ve only just started showing these Pins on Pinterest, but people already seem to be loving how much easier it is to get right to the products they’re looking for almost twice as many Pinners are finding items to buy through these new Pins.”
2. Video Pins
Video Pins will be available for viewing right on Pinterest. So you don't have to click a link to take you to another site to watch the video. There is also a selection of ideas related to the video to give you more product and information options.
3. App Pins
Lastly, with the option Promoted app Pins that “make it easier for you to find out about the apps and app-makers you want to hear about most.” The pins are directly linked to the store so you can download the app for immediate use.
As of now, Promoted Pins have only been available to U.S. businesses and it has recently launched for businesses in the U.K. as well. Pinterest said they are coming to “even more parts of the world very soon.”
Do you want to make your LinkedIn profile more attractive to recruiters? LinkedIn continues to be the most important social media network for job seekers and recruiters. Having an impressive LinkedIn profile is essential for the job seeker.
5 key points to remember:
Keywords in your profile – if recruiters can’t find you, they won’t hire you!
Who do you want to be seen as? People will sum up your personal brand in seconds.
Tell us your story – story telling is story selling as we all know.
Peek-a-boo, we see you – people are visual and will definitely judge you by your picture.
Your LinkedIn URL, this will take you seconds to optimize and will look great in your email signature.
Find the below infographic which states 5 ways to make your LinkedIn profile irresistible.
Google has launched Allo for Android and iPhone, which will offer users its artificial intelligence-based cross-platform smart messaging solution. In May 2016 at Google IO conference, Google announced Allo and a new video chatting app called Duo that has been released to the public since a month more. But instantly after Allo's release, it became controversial, got critics charged, such as Apple iMessage, Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, WhatsApp, and many others. Google already had at least two messaging solutions of its own, Hangouts, which is cross-platform, and the Messages app in Android. The most used messaging apps like Apple’s iMessage and Facebook Messenger, have changed dramatically over the past few months. These apps, primarily designed for simple conversation, are gradually evolving into platforms for more complex messaging and other added features also.
Google stated that their new effort "Allo" is a modern messaging platform, backed by artificial intelligence. And like other smart messaging solutions, it is aimed at a growing generation of users who are ignoring old-fashioned communications solutions like email in favor of more personal, immediate, and private ways to reach out to others. Google’s Amit Fulay says, “Google Allo can help you make plans, find information, and express yourself more easily in chat and the more you use it, the more it improves over time.”
How to use Google Allo:
Here is how you can use Allo app for messaging and other purposes. The below video from The Verge will help you know how.
Allo’s biggest asset is its integration with Google Assistant, the company’s conversational new virtual aid that can answer questions and make suggestions. Allo offers two ways to interact with Google Assistant. In a messaging thread, typing the trigger phrase “@google” will tell the assistant to pay attention to the next string of text you type so that it can answer your query. When making plans with a friend, you might type something like, “@google Show me movie times near me?” to display upcoming showings. You can also chat with Google Assistant one-on-one to ask it questions, set alarms, tell jokes, find news, and remember information like hotel room numbers, among other things.
That doesn’t help position Allo against Hangouts and Google Messages, of course. For now, Google claims that Hangouts will be repositioned as a messaging/video conferencing solution for businesses. I don’t buy that: If Allo matures into the product Google envisions, it will replace Hangouts for both individuals and businesses. And Hangouts will simply disappear.
Many reviewers have criticized Google for not activating this functionality by default, as Apple does with iMessage. Google also stores your Allo conversation history, even though it said it wouldn’t look at your messages when it initially unveiled the app, as The Verge noted. (Google says it does this in order to improve its service, but the company’s advertising-based business model is built around knowing as much about its users as possible.)
Let's see how users are getting addicted to it like other rival apps such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, iMessage etc.
We are aware of the fact that mobiles and smart phones have very important role in today's world. Despite the unstoppable growth that is the popularity of applications, there will almost certainly always be a need for websites. We will still need websites to introduce us to a company, through a search engine or alike, although the most innovative of companies could and should find a way of transforming their visitor to a Smartphone application user, if the conditions are right.Here are some inforgrapics which show how the mobile apps dominated us and its trend in market.
Mobile App Download Lowdown
This infographic tells us about the inside information regarding the popularity of different applications, their revenue and consumer trends.
Apponomics
Apponimics or app-economics tells us about the world of apps and some important facts about it.
App Permission
This alarming and thought-provoking infographics tells a lot about how different applications are meddling with our privacy.
Mobile Apps Download Trend
This gives you a peek into the app download trend worldwide and in different regions.
App Store Metrics
An insight into the facts and figures of mobile applications.
App Store Millionaire
A neat infographic about financial breakdown of facts and statistics of an app developer.
App Option for Your Business
An insight into important facts discussing either businesses should go for a mobile app or not.
Cloud Based Applications
This retro styled infographics gives a peek into the statistics of apps based on cloud computing and their usage.
Mobile Health Market
Infographic showing the popularity and statistics of health applications on mobile.
Health and Fitness Apps
Growing trends and market flow of apps based on health and fitness.
Mobile App World
Infographic showing the present state of mobile app world and things associated with it.
Mobile Games App Revenue
A thought-provoking infographic about where does all the money earned by the mobile game apps goes.
Photography Apps
Some interesting facts and figures about photography apps in the form of decent infographics.
Apps Programmed for Consumption
An overall review of applications programed for consumption by the users.
Small Business Saving Money with Apps
Infographic telling about some benefits of using apps for your small business.
Top Ten Travel Apps
A colorful piece of infographic showing the stats of most popular and useful travel apps.
Truth Behind Apps Success
Some shaking numbers revealing some truths behind the success of app business.
Appetite for TV Apps
Infographic about the popularity and statistics of TV related apps.
Users Expect From App Stores
Useful and minimal infographics about user trends and expectations from an app store.
Twitter can be an extremely powerful tool to help recruiters to capitalize on these trends and fill their open positions faster and more effectively. In this informative infographic, we share best practices for recruiters on how to use Twitter to reach active candidates.
The widely popular microblogging site "Twitter" can be used to share your contents and get connected with your followers. How do you do that? Well! here is a nice infographic which will help you with steps to find the users with your niche and recruit for your company.
Twitter users will finally get to stop seeing updates and tweets from people they don’t want to. This is similar like Facebook’s ability to stop following certain people.
This will be most easily achieved through the notifications setting on Twitter. Twitter explained this feature should eliminate repeat tweets and retweeted messages.
“Starting today, everyone will have the ability to limit notifications to only people they follow on mobile and on twitter.com. Simply turn it on if you want to give it a go. If not, no worries – your individual Twitter experience will continue unchanged,” Twitter’s product manager, Emil Leong, stated in his blog post. He also added, “We’re also making managing your notifications settings easier: you can now access them directly from your notifications tab.”
Leong also explained that, “Turning it on filters lower-quality content, like duplicate Tweets or content that appears to be automated, from your notifications and other parts of your Twitter experience. It does not filter content from people you follow or accounts you’ve recently interacted with – and depending on your preferences, you can turn it on or off in your notifications settings.”
Before the name revealed by Android team, all around the world - people were expecting the name should be Android Nutella but Google revealed via Twitter that N is actually for Nougat. Android tweeted as below to intimate all its fans about the new version of it and the new name.
Though Android will be made available to few of its own devices such as Nexus series and few sets of Motorola in the near future, but as per normal practice by Google - slowly Android N would be distributed among all the brands.
Picture Credit : Google
Most of the people are upset with the name because it is more obscure than Nutella, a brand most North Americans have heard of. Nougat, on the other hand, is a less familiar food. It is a chewy confection that is made with sugar or honey, nuts, egg whites and candied fruit. Check out the big unveiling in the video below.
Android N also known as Android 7.0, which is slated to launch later this summer, is currently in beta as users test out new features such as split-screen multitasking and a better notification shade. Android N also comes with Google’s VR platform, Daydream, and features a new version of Doze. It is again an amazing expected release by google for it's Android lovers.
Google is going to set up its own hardware division and appointed former Motorola president Rick Osterloh to run it. This idea was taken to bring the company’s various gadget projects under a single umbrella.
Picture Credit : Google
The Telegraph’s sources say that Google is gearing up to design and manufacture a smartphone on its own – representing a major shift from its standard strategy of partnering with major handset makers like LG, Huawei and HTC to develop Nexus devices which is popular to showcase the Android platform.
The phone is expected to be launched near the end of this year; Google is believed to be in talks with mobile operators about the release. It’ll be interesting to see what this means for all the hardware firms Google partners with to build Android and Chrome OS devices, as well as for the Android platform itself.
We all know that Google's Chrome browser and Mozilla's Firefox have been most used browsers in recent few years. But recently, Microsoft claimed that the recent number 1 browser Chrome may not be a friendly tool for your laptop's battery. In a battery test video, the software giant has pitted its Edge browser against Chrome, Firefox and Opera browsers by streaming the same HD video for hours.
The below results came up after the test (in hours : minutes : seconds):
Chrome: 4:19:50
Firefox: 5:09:30
Opera: 6:18:33
Microsoft Edge: 7:22:07
As per the above results, Microsoft proved that it's Edge browser lasted 70% longer than Chrome. It also claimed that even for non-video tasks, its browser lasts 36 to 53% longer than the rivals.
Picture Credit : Microsoft
These tasks, as claimed by the company, include things like opening sites, tabs, reading emails, scrolling articles and watching small videos. Microsoft has also reportedly published data it collected from millions Windows 10 PCs. In a blogpost, the software giant claims, "We designed Microsoft Edge from the ground up to prioritize power efficiency and deliver more battery life, without any special battery saving mode or changes to the default settings."
According to the latest data from NetApplications, Chrome is now the most popular browser in the world. The browser has over 45% share in the market. The biggest loser, according to the study, is Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which went from 41.37% down to 38.6% during the month of May.
Microsoft is working to make Microsoft Edge even more efficient with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update soon. No doubt about that, once immensely popular Internet Explorer is almost dead now and a re-birth has been given as Edge to it. Let's see how it goes in it's journey ahead competing it's rivals.
Microsoft announced a deal of $26.2 billion today to acquire professional social platform LinkedIn for $196 per share.
Picture Credit : LinkedIn
Immediately, shares of LinkedIn surged 47 percent after the announcement to near $193, while Microsoft's stock was down 3.2 percent. Trading in Microsoft had been halted briefly for news pending before the announcement of the all-cash deal.
Jeff Weiner will stay on as CEO of LinkedIn and will report to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. The deal was unanimously approved by both companies' boards, and is expected to close by the end of the year. The acquisition is still subject to approval by LinkedIn shareholders and regulators.
"The LinkedIn team has grown a fantastic business centered on connecting the world's professionals," Nadella said in a statement. "Together we can accelerate the growth of LinkedIn, as well as Microsoft Office 365 and Dynamics as we seek to empower every person and organization on the planet."
When it comes to the murky world of social media, it doesn’t matter how fantastic your products & services are, how good your reputation is or how many awards you have won. Social media users tend to trust brands with a high number of followers and are more likely to follow a company with 10,000 over one with just 500.
Together with SocialNewsDaily people at WhoIsHostingThis?, the infographic below will hopefully be the last word on why filling your social media accounts with fake robot followers is an expensive waste of your time. There are the practical reasons to consider (they’re not real people, they can’t like or share your content, etc.) but WhoIsHostingThis? put together a solid argument for why real beats fake every single time.
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