Thursday, 30 June 2016

“Microsoft flow” launched on iOS

Microsoft Flow is a work management tool which company recently launched and is now available on iOS play store. Microsoft Flow is an amazing tool that helps you to automate the file synchronization, alerting, data organization and much more. It offers an interface which allows you to merge two or more cloud services to create the smooth work flow.

IFTTT are the greatest competitor and they have been around longer and offers a larger list of supported connections. Office365, Dynamics CRM, PowerApps, Yammer are the Microsoft’s own business tools and it does more focus on it. Tools that are used in organizations like MailChimp, GitHub, Salesforce and others are not less concentrated. 

Microsoft Flows has many automated features like getting text msgs whenever anyone mails you, saving the result of the search on social media sites to an excel files, copying files from OneDrive to SharePoint and from Instagram to Dropbox and many more.

With Microsoft flow, you can even manage your previous created flows from your smartphone. This does means that you can navigate in the apps, check out the properties, history reports. It also checks out that there are no errors and they are performing smoothly.

Activity Feed is another feature, where you can check out last flow action. Flows that are not manageable, you can even configure the app to send you push notification. You can check out the issue in real time when something goes wrong, just launch the app. This is very much important for getting alerts when any important flow is taking place at that moment.

The company has reported that, in some interval of time they will expand the app which will include flow creation on mobile, triggering, and even the flows that take advantage of mobile signals. Microsoft added that, they are planning this app for Android too.

Wednesday, 29 June 2016

Fully harness the power of Big Data with big ideas

The world is filled with information. With cell phones and internet connections, huge information transferring is possible. Yet, there are difficulties: numerous information sets are too extensive and too complex to be processed in traditional data processing. Our present situation says that these procedures are insufficient and new numerical strategies are required. 


All inclusive, something like five exabytes of information is created each day. That is around a million words. The information originates from a huge number of sources. Among these are web activity, telephone calls, training, restorative and well-being records, court reports, genome successions, astrophysical perceptions, securities exchange developments and interpersonal organizations. On Twitter around 6,000 tweets are sent each second, which implies 500 million every day and around 200 billion every year. 

Little information sets can be composed into a lattice utilizing a straightforward spreadsheet. For huge information, handling is past human limit and more refined strategies are required: new, more productive types of preparing are expected to concentrate esteem from the information. Enormous information presents gigantic administration undertakings: information catch, check, stockpiling, sorting, examination, representation, and presentation.

Enormous information is boisterous, unstructured and always showing signs of change. Constant examination requires immensely parallel handling with programming running all the while on a large number of processors. Animal power examination alone is incapable, and cutting edge PC designs require imaginative calculations to misuse their energy. Particular programming tools are accessible, for example, Hadoop, a product structure for circulated stockpiling and preparing of huge information sets on PC groups, and Presto, a framework created by Facebook for running intelligent diagnostic inquiries.

Opening the data from substantial information sets yields understanding and empowers expectations about future patterns. Enormous information examination can uncover new connections and connections. Expansive organizations – eBay, Amazon, Netflix, Facebook and Google – are occupied with investigation of client inclinations: examples of buys empower them to prescribe items that a client is prone to purchase. Different applications incorporate protection misrepresentation discovery, flight investigation and medicinal conclusion and visualization.

People are poor at overwhelming quantitative investigation, however splendid at example acknowledgment. For instance, we may have the capacity to review a face seen quickly years prior. In this way, machines can't coordinate us at the same time, as expansive information examination advances and new strategies are produced, generous advances can be normal. A large number of pictures can be contribution to profound learning calculations to prepare them to perceive designs.

Numerous human exercises are composed in systems, which can be demonstrated utilizing diagram hypothesis. A chart is only a gathering of hubs connected by edges, similar to an electric-circuit outline or a railroad map. The branch of science that arrangements with availability and congruity is called topology, and it incorporates chart hypothesis. Topological information investigation gives a method for producing organized information sets from unstructured, disordered information. The organized information can then be prepared utilizing calculations. 

Regularly, information is spoken to by focuses in a high-dimensional space – hard to imagine yet manageable to logarithmic control. Extensive multidimensional information sets can be decreased to an incredibly packed state utilizing techniques, for example, solitary quality deterioration, where the vital data bearing segments are detached and the rest dumped.

There is an intense deficiency of specialists in information examination in numerous modern segments, including well-being, money, atmosphere science, pharmaceuticals, and online administrations. A few colleges, UCD included, offer postgraduate projects in information examination. With such a large number of open issues, this is a promising field for youngsters.

Tuesday, 28 June 2016

Google jokingly confirms Android N name as Namey McNameface

As we all know, Android N still doesn’t have a name but seeing the past names, some intuitions do tell us that, “ N” will stand for some sort of sweet eateries right?

Recently, in the latest developer preview version of Android N, the name scheme took a new U turn. Android Authority reported that, if you tap on version option of Android N –located on settings, you will notice an “N” as a big letter with the name Namey McNameface.

This name was used with the reference from the past Boaty McBoatface name. This name was chosen for the British by the public #200 million research vessel in April. But at the end ship was named as Sir David Attenborough. That ship became very much popular as it operated undersea vehicle.

But do you really believe, Google would name its next version as “Namey Mcnameface”? Google is in too much love with the sweet treats, so still the perfect name is not yet knows. 

The next Android N is expected to arrive in august or September, bringing the split screen mode, seamless OTA updates, new emoji’s, data saving mode and much more. You can download the latest version preview from the website.

Thursday, 23 June 2016

Top Software Development Trends to look for in 2016

Technology advances and it’s truly an indication for the software developer to stay updated with the latest software development trends to cope with the fast moving world. A good professional will always adapt new technology and learn for self-improvement.

Here are some of the latest software development trends:

1. Full Screen Navigation Design
A full screen navigation design in the mobile devices improves the usability feature. With this facility, the user will be able to perform their desired action more quickly. Presenting the full screen navigation helps a user to perform the action in a more natural way.

2. Motion User Interface
Motion User Interface or Motion UI has become a popular way of creating an animation and CSS transition. It has removed the dependency from static visual cues where now motion can be used for both functionality and aesthetics. Here, it creates a layer above the static visuals and adds life experience to it. How the prototypical animated elements seamlessly integrate with the websites by using the motion UI makes it’s a useful and demanding feature for the developers.

3. New Responsive Design
New technology emerges in the market and so the things also change. With several technological advances, responsive design will now not be limited only to the mobile screens. As the present era is now experiencing the smart wearable devices like Apple Watch and Google Glass, it becomes a necessity for the software development firm to expand their responsive design approach.

4. Everything in Real-time
2016 will experience everything working in real-time. Talking about mobile and desktop apps, real-time analytics have become an increasingly popular approach in doing not only business but building a strong customer base. This will impact all major sections from retail to manufacturing. It will change the working ways of a business soon. Similarly for social media marketing, live streaming of videos will become an important aspect.

5. Be more efficient by coding in Containers
The most current trend in the software development world is wrapping the code in containers. Containers, specifically known as Docker is proved to be beneficial and a most known application development technique that solves the coding problems. When everything is wrapped inside the containers, then it becomes easier for the developer to spend fewer resources and ensures maximum security. Docker has been used as the “data centre OS” and “unit of scaling” for many PaaS.

6. Cloud Computing
Cloud computing burst out in the last few years. Now more and more companies are changing their policy and opting for the cloud computing. And why not, it has become an obvious way to boost a developer power to standardise the infrastructure and easily deploy the operations making more productive. As the era of Big Data is flourishing, software development companies are following the latest trends to conquer new horizon.

7. Slack Bots
Designing and pushing slack bot in the app have become a popular method. So when a user sign in their account, a bot messenger welcomes them with a short message. Today, bots have been popping up in the apps and tools to personalise the user experience.

While the new trends keep coming up, experienced software development company keep themselves updated with the latest trends and technologies, which enables them to serve their clients in best possible way.

Monday, 20 June 2016

Microsoft Elastic Database Pools Extend Azure SQL Capabilities

Microsoft launched a performance tool option known as Azure SQL Database elastic pool option. This option features automatic scalability of cloud databases up and down according to the required condition. The announcement of the Microsoft Azure SQL database elastic pools were made last year at the Microsoft Build conference and its general release hits the market last week.


The enterprises are targeted by this new Azure feature that is a cost-effective option available which reduces cost arise due to over-provisioning of resources when anticipating spikes in application usage. This feature also improves the application performance when there are not enough database resources available. Microsoft Azure SQL partner group program manager, Tracy Daugherty wrote, “Each elastic database in the pool gets the resources it needs when it needs it, and eliminates the complexity of managing the performance of individual databases”.

He further wrote, “You can control the performance assigned to a pool, add or remove elastic databases on demand, and define the performance of elastic databases without affecting the overall cost of the pool. This means you don’t have to worry about managing the usage of individual databases.” This auto scalability option can be used according to the customer requirement.

Last year, Microsoft released its Premium Azure CDN tied to Verizon’s infrastructure. In the last week, Microsoft declared that they plan to expand opportunity to the customers streaming with Azure CDN from Akamai, which is already in preview phase from last year. A content delivery network is functioned by the Akamai, which includes 200,000+ servers in 120 countries.

The partner director of Azure CDN services and Microsoft Azure Media, Sudheer Sirivara said, “By joining forces with both Verizon and Akamai, Azure CDN creates new opportunities for our customers to achieve more with the power of the cloud – enabling them to select the right CDN for the regions in which they operate, as well as load balance across CDNs.”

Microsoft’s list of releases includes another name, Recovery Services, launched last week as an infrastructure management solution for its Azure Resource Manager. This facilitates its admins to deploy, track and manage the cloud resource together rather than individually. The recovery services can be used to both combine and automate the cloud and on premise backups. The release list is concluded with the Azure Test Drives service which is now live that allows the user to test the solutions which require test data or configuration on the Azure Virtual machine.

Friday, 17 June 2016

Safari 10 dumps out Java, Silverlight and Flash

Apple has taken a new curve, and added a new stumps to the pitch of a Flash. Ricky Mondello - one of team member of the Safari, revealed that, Flash will be automatically get disabled from the Safari 10and will ship the new MacOS operating system later this year.


The firm is not just dumping out Adobe, but will block the other plugins like QuickTime, Silverlight and Java. If the site element is requesting Flash, it will initially tell that plugin is not installed, and would display Adobe flash link. In Safari 10, when the user clicks on that link Safari will prompt the user to know that plugin is actually in their system, whether they want to install it or not. 

In a blog post, Ricky Mondello highlights that, running HTML5 instead of plugin would bring the user with more benefits like improved battery, performance and more. These standards now include much more functionality needed to support media and interactive experiences.

With other plugins, user would see content placeholder on a site with some form of “click to use” button. Selecting these will give out options for flash. Once it is authorized Safari will continue to use those plugin until it haven’t been used there over the months. Apple recommends web developers implement features using technologies built into Safari to avoid forcing users to activate plug-ins.

Safari 10 also include the feature for loading the page with the installed plugins activated to give the users additional choices for controlling the content that’s displayed. The developer added that betas of
Safari 10 for OS X Yosemite and El Capitan will be available later this summer.

This move sees Apple following in the footsteps of Google, Microsoft and Mozilla. Google has already started blocking Flash adverts, and the firm announced that its Chrome browser will block Flash by default later this year except for a whitelist of top 10 websites like YouTube and Facebook.

Wednesday, 15 June 2016

Salesforce acquires Demandware of 2.8 billion and enters to E-commerce market

As salesforce continuous to branch-out the new cloud computing customers it's willing to pay steep prices to what it can't buy.

Salesforce made its recolonization initially with cloud-based programming to help salesmen deal with their leads and close arrangements and today the organization stepped into the matter of offers itself. Today the organization reported that it would burn through $2.8 billion to get Demandware, a cloud-based supplier of e-trade administrations to organizations enormous and small. The Salesforce's announcement on Wednesday agreed to buy Demandware and also agreed to pay premium of 56% to buy the company that includes L'Oreal and Marks & Spencer as customers.


This deal will create a new commerce cloud for the Salesforce's cloud software. CEO Marc Benioff said in a statement “yet another billion dollar cloud” while announcing the planned deal. And from now, Salesforce existing customer will access the commerce management tools and Demandware's customers will get a chance to use Salesforce marketing, analytics and sales tools.

“The acquisition of Demandware positions us to capture this multi-billion dollar commerce market,” president and COO Keith Block said in a call with analysts and press earlier.

The agenda is to additionally generate the revenue between $100 million and $120 million through Demandware by the end of 2017.

Since June 2013, Salesforce became the largest and the biggest since it acquired the exact targets and made it the centerpiece of new marketing cloud. At a very early phase, it purchased mobile-friendly potential Rival, Relate IQ for $390 million.

Burlington, Massachusetts-based Demandware had presented at Salesforce's annual conference, Dream force as a partner in past years.

Tuesday, 14 June 2016

The bond between Microsoft and SAP touches the universe

Microsoft and SAP have been buddies for a considerable length of time and years, and today at the SAP Sapphire client gathering in Orlando, the two organization's CEOs, Satya Nadella and Bill McDermott declared that, they were taking the relationship to another level with more profound cloud incorporation between the two organizations.

The arrangement will empower SAP clients to run HANA, the organization's in-memory database item on Microsoft's Azure cloud. The two organizations declared an arrangement two or three years prior to permit clients to assemble HANA applications, exploiting the flexible assets which Azure (and undoubtedly any cloud) gives, yet this declaration makes that another stride, empowering clients to get to Azure security and administration abilities that have been reinforced since that past understanding was reported.

HANA likewise keeps running on AWS, however Microsoft was mindful so as to separate the two with Azure offering the capacity to handle bigger measures of information and RAM, which can prove to be useful when you're preparing enormous information loads. 

Likewise, there will be a more broad connection between SAP items, for example, Concur, SuccessFactors and Ariba and Office 365 to bring correspondences, coordinated effort, calendaring and the majority of the devices in Office 365 more specifically into the SAP tool set and the vice versa.

The arrangement bodes well given that the two organizations both have profound binds to the venture and share a typical arrangement of vast clients with comparable needs. It permits them to every play to their qualities without truly contending with each other.

The declaration goes ahead the heels of SAP's arrangement with Apple that the organization trumpeted only a few weeks prior to convey iOS to SAP clients. It likewise demonstrates a deliberate exertion on SAP's part to extend its business sector achieve utilizing associations as influence, R Ray Wang, primary at Constellation Research told TechCrunch. 

"SAP's been changing their methodology around organizations. they've taken an ideal opportunity to see what clients are occupied with and are working out organizations that adjust back to client's introduce base and business necessities," Wang clarified.

For Microsoft, it's around a stage play. "In the mean time, we are likewise seeing a restored Microsoft concentrated on stages. Satya needs to be the unbiased supplier to however many business application merchants as could reasonably be expected," he said.

This organization gives another approach to unite two organizations that as of now have a long history. The items and capacities reported today will be accessible some time in the second from last quarter of this current year.

Friday, 10 June 2016

Google introduces “Awareness API” to respond according to your environment

Have you ever wondered if your smartphone can sense where you are? What you’re doing? Or what’s your nearby location? Thought of capturing an image, including the weather information and also combining your current situation together? At the recent Google I/O conference, Google has announced new tools for developers that can be customized to respond to the user’s current situation.

Google is introducing its Awareness API to make the smart features accessible. Think of you are jogging and your music application opens an energetic music playlist. Now let’s consider another scenario where you are driving nearby to any pharmacy and if it is open, then your system application will prompt an alert.
Functions like user location, user activity, and nearby locations are also performed by the API. Earlier, combining these functions using multiple API slow down the device speed. Also, smartphone suffers battery draining and slow processing issues. With the introduction of Google’s Awareness API, all functions will now be flawlessly accessible by combining API’s. Also, data can be interoperated between the Google devices and Android smart wearables.

This new Awareness API contains two API’s, first is Fence API which identifies the user’s current situation and second is Snapshot API that requests the information about the user’s current context.

Few instances shared by the Google are:

  • Let’s say a weather application could easily sense Chrome cast plugged into your bedroom TV to display the current weather details on its screen.
  • Suppose an alarm clock can wake you up the next morning based on your last sleep time and when will be your first meeting will be on that day.
  • Even while jogging you forgot to put on your track application, then also the application automatically gets on.
For any app to succeed, it is important to define a smart business strategy, a professional UI/UX design and above all, an experienced android app development company to convert the idea into a working product!

Tuesday, 7 June 2016

Microsoft introduced PowerApps for developing line-of-business apps

Microsoft launched PowerApps, a new tool that allows the user to build a mobile app even without touching any code. It has made easier for anyone to develop a business app from the available templates. The apps can run on both web and mobile. Microsoft had announced this product last November and now launched this app in April this year. It is open for anyone who wants to try out building an app.
While the increasing number of companies are turning to mobile, still more work are bounded on the desktop. Having the new tool, companies can organize several new business apps. Microsoft not only connected its own tools like SharePoint, MS Office, OneDrive and Dynamic CRM, but also allowed the users to use the third-party tools like Salesforce, Slack, Google Drive, Twitter, and Dropbox. Even users can connect any app that isn’t integrated into PowerApps to any RESTful API.

Users can start building apps starting from the scratch. There are few standard use cases available that can be used easily. PowerApps also trigger Flow actions by using the Microsoft Flow - an IFTTT like service that connects the app without interacting with each other. Flow mostly focuses on business tools like MailChimp, Dynamics CRM, Slack, Office 365, Salesforce, and GitHub and also few other Twitter and Facebook actions.

Microsoft PowerApps offers a user interface which allows the user to build the apps an easier way in few clicks. All the newly build apps are made available through the PowerApps app on Android, iOS, and Windows Phone and also on the web. Users can easily send the link to an app to their co-workers.

Thursday, 2 June 2016

World's Most Expensive Smartphone launched at $17,000

Israeli firm Sirin Labs launched a super lavishing smartphone that is priced at $17,000! This makes the most costliest smartphone available on the globe till date. Solarin claims to have chip to chip 256 bit encryption to the level of what military uses to protect communications.

Solarin is said as “Rolls Royce of smartphones” which is aimed to design for an international business person who needs best security-usability and design in the market. The security system, is on the backside of the device offering encrypted calls and messages, which puts the phone in shielded mode, when it is put on.


As it is packed in Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor with X10LTE, it has far superior “Wi-Fi connectivity that can transfer data at 4.6 GBPS, and has a 23.8MP rear camera and 5.5 inch IPSLED 2K resolution screen.

"Cyberattcks are endemic across the globe. This trend is on the increase. Solarin is pioneering new, uncompromising privacy measures to provide customers with greater confidence and the reassurance necessary to handle business-critical information," Tal Cohen, CEO and co-founder of Sirin Labs, was quoted as saying.

"Every single design decision and material choice was based on performance and functionality," added Fredrik Oijer, vice president (products) at Sirin Labs.

Well, these luxury smartphone is not a new phenomenon. In 2006, Nokia launched a $310,000 "Signature Cobra" device in 2006 and the $5,000 "Constellation" smartphone in 2011.

In 2012, Nokia sold luxury-phone brand maker Vertu. After leaving Nokia, Vertu brought its first Android device "Vertu Ti" to market.

Wednesday, 1 June 2016

Biggest Announcements from Google I/O 2016

At this Google I/O year, Google has made a wide appearance with the latest technology. Google is packed with the several new announcements for this year.

Here are overall biggest announcements made by Google I/O 2016:


Google Home

To enrich the user experience, Google will launch its Home speaker later in this year. This will give control of the connected devices in the home and also user can voice control their speaker. The entire function is performed solely with the voice commands, hence, buttons are not available. Even user is facilitated to do integration with the third party services that will allow performing other actions like doing the reservation in restaurant or making a call to book a taxi.

Google Assistance

User will experience a more impressive voice search option with Google Assistance which supports “conversational understanding” feature. Countless possibilities are provided with this improved voice search feature that will continue to perform the search without missing a single beat.

Google Allo

Allo is a new messaging app from Google that includes several new features which keep it apart from its top rival like the Facebook messaging app. Loaded with exciting features, this app features a whisper/shout feature which basically control the font size of the text message using the slider. If user feels to capitalize all letters or shrink their text size, then this can be performed using the slider.

Smart replies is another cool feature where the responses to the conversations or an image are scanned to reduce extra typing work. Users are also allowed to open their chat in an incognito tab where all messages will be encrypted. Additionally, user gets facility of end-to-end encryption and self-destruction of messages

Another exciting feature includes bot support. This means users are allowed to use multiple bots within the app without quitting the Google chat. Also included is a Google Assistance bot to perform a search in the chat.

Of course bot support is also available. From right within the app, users can interact with a wide range of bots. For example, an OpenTable bot will allow users to choose a restaurant and book a reservation without ever leaving an Allo chat. And of course, there’s also a Google Assistant search bot. Want to search for a cute cat GIF from within a chat? No problem. This app is available for both Android and iOS.

Google DUO

To boost the feature of Google Allo messaging app by adding video calling facility, Google DUO app is available with many smart features. Talking about the Knock Knock feature, user can easily view incoming video call details before answering the call. Also, user can easily switch their data connectivity between Wi-Fi and Cellular. The video quality will be managed automatically according to the bandwidth strength. This app is available for both Android and iOS.

Google Android N

Now a major update will be released later this year is an Android N mobile software. An enormously important feature included in this major improvement is performance and graphics. This ensures the smooth running of the device. The Vulcan software is used for performance improvement for graphics, whereas software is optimized to boost the performance.

A smart feature available by Android will be auto removal of the apps from the UI if they are no longer needed. So, if a user is looking for any app then they can easily find it on the screen. A Quick search filter is available to search an app quickly. Android N improves its security by implementing block-based encryption. Also, the user will get the updates automatically download and installed.

Android N will support spilt screen apps feature for phones and tablets where the picture in picture facility is available only for Android TV. User can directly reply to the notification from the direct reply feature. It will also support Unicode 9 emoji and support all skin tones. The beta version of the Android N is already pushed out, however, the Android N will be released later this summer.

Android Wear 2.0

A big release by Google is the Android Wear 2.0 that can work independently without a smartphone. This means a user will get the details without ever require to connect their app with the smartphone. The data will be updated as long as the smartphone is connected to the internet either by Wi-Fi or Cellular.

Google Daydream

An all new Virtual Reality platform is available known as Google Daydream. This VR based platform is designed to standardize the mobile-based experience. Google plans to create a reference design for controller and VR headset.

Instant Apps

With the instant apps facility, the user can directly start using an app within the Google Play store without downloading and installing the app.

Demos of the above products are impressive, however, they possess high challenge to actually use in real life.