Google Assistant Will Available for All Smartphones

Google Assistant has not limited to the pixel devices anymore. Google already announced in the MWC event about their plan to make this voice search assistant available in more devices. The Android Marshmallow and Nougat are the versions to get this latest feature. Rolling out of this feature is in the process. The lucky people have already received an update of Google Play services that contain this Google assistant. So, no need of downloading any app for that. Google Assistant will be available automatically to the eligible Android users.

However, as per a report, Android users in the US will get the feature first. And then Google will make it available to the Australia, Canada, and UK users. Long press on the home button will launch Google Assistant.

Google Assistant is the successor of Google Now. But the later version is more improved and is packed with numerous features. The Google Assistant offers more of personal and conversational tone than Google Now. Also, booking a reservation, making a list and answering follow-up questions, etc. are easily and quickly done through this voice search.

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Google Assistant was very exclusive to the pixel devices in the beginning. And this is one feature which made the devices really wanted. Also, critics have offered positive reviews for this. And all these stuff altogether made Google adopt such useful decision. As of now, Apple Siri is considered as the veteran player in the market. But some critics have offered favorable reviews for Google Assistant. So, it is no doubt this voice-based search assistant is highly helpful.

This search assistant will be available in most of the devices including Samsung, Sony, Huawei, HTC, LG, etc. So, interested Android users just ensure to have Android Marshmallow or nougat version. And Google Assistant will automatically reach you in few days. However, the lucky ones have already received it.

 

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YouTube TV: Live TV Streaming Service Unveiled by YouTube

YouTube has finally come into the entertainment industry after a long wait. YouTube launched its live TV streaming services as the YouTube TV. It all occurred at the Playa Vista office of the company. A crowd of around 100 journalists was present during the official launch of the YouTube TV.

The new service by YouTube will know as the YouTube TV is different from the YouTube Red. This was operational at Google’s internet video system for years. The new service by YouTube has been setting contracts with several media companies as well. This is aimed the distribution of the content to the TV service by YouTube.

Bloomberg News and The WSJ have previously reported that several leaks have already been made to be offered by the YouTube TV services. As per Bloomberg, the video site YouTube was talking with all the major networks to publish their content. CBS is the first-ever major TV network to sign up the services. Even other leading studios have joined the discussions. These studios include Disney, Comcast’s NBCUniversal, and 21^st Century Fox. These studios own ESPN, ABC and even others.

YouTube has confirmed that how the channels will be priced and set up. The YouTube TV service by YouTube is available at a low cost. There is a provision for a family of 6 accounts that is available for a small amount of $35 per month. In addition to this, there is no requirement of the long-term contract. Earlier, The WSJ (Wall Street Journal) had announced the pricing of the services to be between $25 and $40 per month.

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he official launch of the YouTube TV will be in the specific markets. These markets will be the locations where it can offer full live broadcast feeds including New York, L.A., and Philadelphia. In addition to this, the services included in the package are FX, CW, USA, FXX, FreeForm, Syfy, MSNBC, Fox News, CNBC, Disney, Fox Business, Disney Jr, E!, Nat Geo, Sprout and various others. Moreover, ShowTime is available for an extra fee with the YouTube TV services.

In addition, the YouTube TV services also include the original series of YouTube Red’s 28. This would make the overall services much better. For those who are looking for more content, they can take advantage of this service. YouTube TV will be available to the customers of the US on the web, iOS and Android devices in the coming months.

 

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Reliance Jio Cabs: Toughest Upcoming Rival for Uber and Ola

The craziness of Reliance Jio cellular services is not yet over. This is when Reliance has announced to launch its services in the cab industry as well. Reliance Jio by Mukesh Ambani has made plans to launch an app-based cab service in India this year itself. To start the cab services, Reliance Jio has booked as many as 600 cars to run across the streets of the nation. The cab services by Reliance head Mukesh Ambani will be referred to as “Reliance Jio Cabs”.

The launch of the cab services by Reliance Jio is awaiting the commercial launch of the Reliance Jio telecom services. This is about to happen in April this year. A source at Reliance Industries has claimed that the Reliance Jio cab services might be launched after April. It might also take 6 months depending on the performance of the commercial telecom services by Reliance Jio.

The most striking feature of this launch is that Reliance Jio will compete with the giants like Uber and Ola cabs. To come up with competitive pricing strategy, the Jio has teamed up with a consulting firm E&Y to get the relevant market share.

It was this Tuesday itself that Mukesh Ambani had announced the commercial launch of the telecom services by reliance Jio. The commercial services by Reliance Jio telecom services will commence from 1^st April 2017. It was at a press conference in Mumbai that Mukesh Ambani claimed that Jio had crossed 100 million subscribers since its launch in India.

A source revealed that Reliance Industries had ordered several cars from the makers like Hyundai and Mahindra. Order for as many as 600 cars has already been placed. The main idea behind this operation is to function on its own fleet of cars. This would also benefit the independent taxicab drivers who can link their cars to Reliance Jio Cabs network.

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Jio has planned to launch the cab services in Chennai and Bangalore first. It would then proceed to Mumbai and Delhi. The sources said that the cab industry in the south is better to launch their cab services. The company will function on a mixed market strategy. The cab services will be extended to other smaller cities as well like Jaipur and Bhopal.

The Reliance Jio Cab services will have an app like Uber – the development of which is already underway. The company is still discovering the payment system for the independent drivers. There are high chances that Reliance will use its own mobile wallet – Jio Money. The launch of the Reliance Jio Cabs is scheduled at a time when giants like Ola and Uber are facing problems. They face regulatory protests and issues from various drivers across the country. A detailed report by market research and advisory firm RedSeer was presented. It revealed that cab services in India had served almost 500 million rides in the year 2016. This has been up from 130 million rides in the year 2015. The records might cross 7 billion by the year 2020.

 

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Accounts Locked: Facebook Kicking out the Users from Their Accounts

Facebook is going through the second glitch within a week. The first one took place on February 22^nd that put the app down. And numerous complaints appeared in the UK, Europe, and Australia. The outraged users made almost 1000 complaints. According to most, Facebook was totally black out. Just two days after that glitch, another new glitch started with the app to leave users in anger again.
The new issue in Facebook is kicking out the users from their accounts. And they are unable to login back. It affected many of the users on Friday and Saturday leaving them out of their account. Naturally, it created security threats among the affected users. The issue is reported to influence users all across the globe. But the parts that are highly affected are UK, US East Coast, and Western Europe. Around millions of users have faced the issue so far.

The users took it to Twitter to express their indignation over the issue.

However, Facebook has acknowledged the issue quickly. They have also assured stating it is not related to any security breach. Rather this is a small technical glitch and will be fixed soon. A Facebook spokesperson has quoted that, an error in their system designed to prevent suspicious account access has accidentally sent a small set of people to their account recovery flow. And this has raised such kind of issue. However, they have already fixed the issue. And the process of clearing those affected accounts from the recovery flow is going on.

The issue that left Facebook users in outrage sent weird alert messages to them. Some of the users received alert messages that say their messages are being deleted as those were spam. Another alert is also being received by the Facebook users that say, Facebook has locked their account to keep the information safe. They are asked to verify the identity along with changing their password to continue. The message also included that ‘your account will stay hidden till the process is completed’. But users were still in the same situation even after completing all the required processes.

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Another error message said ‘sorry, this feature is not available as of now. An error occurred. Please try again later.’ And finally, users were being sent to the login page. But unfortunately, their account could not be verified.

However, there is nothing much to worry about this issue. And no need for thinking that your account is being hacked. Facebook already acknowledged the issue. They have also confirmed that it is not a security breach. Just some small technical error is contributing to this issue.

Facebook is not alone in the list to go through glitches rather Google too faced the similar situation. Google account engine problem was originated earlier this week. And it has affected various Google services to leave users in annoyance.

Anyways, not to worry much as things will get back to normal soon. And Facebook users will be able to use their accounts just as before without any issue.

 

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Government Launches Free Anti-Virus for Mobile Phones, PC, and Laptops

In order to promote cyber security, the government of India launched the Cyber Swachhta Kendra (CSK). It is a malware analysis center and has been launched by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY).

MEITY along with other Internet Service Providers (ISP’s), banks, academe and anti-virus organisations in the industry will provide the citizens the necessary digital tools to protect their important data on their laptops, PC and mobiles. These tools will eliminate the malicious content from their laptops, Smartphones and desktops. There are 13 banks and 58 ISP’s for now that have already joined hands with CSK.

While inaugurating the set-up of Botnet Cleaning and Malware Analysis Centre, IT Minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad said that he wanted the Internet Service Providers to encourage their users to come on board and make use of the free service. “Come and use it in the event some malware has sneaked in the system”, he added.

Prasad also said that security and safety were important. He also added that Cyber threat is similar to bloodless war according to the Prime Minister of India. He was sure that not only cyber security would be a big area of Digital Swachh Bharat but also of digital employment, digital growth and digital commerce.

India is moving fast and catching up with the digitization. The country is already a part of the eminent group of countries that have malware cleaning systems for their citizens.

The botnet cleaning and anti-malware analysis center is a 90 crore set-up that would be spread over a period of 5 years and will help in removing the malicious software.

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CSK will provide specialized packages for consumers, start-ups, and businesses that have laptops, Smartphones or desktops.

The system has proposed that The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team(Cert-In) will monitor and identify botnet, malware and virus infected devices across different industries of media, banking, finance, manufacturing, etc. and inform the ISP’s or the concerned bodies.

The users would be given the link to the website that would carry the necessary information about how they would have to go about in cleaning the system.

For now, the Standardization Testing and Quality Certification (STQC) that is a division within the Ministry of Electronics and IT. They would charge about Rs 8 to 10 lakhs to scan and disinfect big IT systems of corporate bodies. However, the start-ups who are in the cyber security would be charged lesser, and the charges would be between Rs 4 to 5 lakhs.

Here is a list of Anti-virus Tools that have been made available:

Free Anti-Virus Tools

• USB Pratirodh (USB Protector) cleans storage devices such as external hard-disk, USB’s and memory cards.
• The M-Kavach is the anti-virus for smartphones.
• AppSamvid is especially for Windows OS. It is a desktop based whitelisting solution.
• One of the most important one in the list is the Free Bot Removal Tool that would be provided with QuickHeal.
• Another specialized tool is the Browser JSGuard which has been designed to detect and clean malicious JavaScript and HTML files in the browser.

 

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Intel to Announce 8th Generation Coffee Lake Processors in 2017

Intel has announced that the Intel 8^th Gen Core Processors, codenamed Coffee Lake would be released in the second half of this year. The 8^th Gen Core Processors were due for launch in 2018 which has been preponed by the company.

On its Investor Day, the company declared that just like Skylake, Broadwell and Kaby Lake the 8^th Gen chips would also be based on 14nm process. Intel was tight-lipped about the 10nm Cannonlake chips when they spoke about their next generation CPU’s.

In fact, they also announced that they had let go of their “Tick-Tock” approach. Every “tick” was meant to represent a die shrink whereas every “tock” would represent a fresh microarchitecture. This was substituted by a three-phase model of “Process, Architecture, Optimization.”  Coffee Lake seems to have replaced this three-phase model as well. If seen technically the Kaby Lake is “optimization” to the “Architecture” of Skylake and the “Process” for Broadwell which makes the 8^th Gen Coffee Lake processors on 14nm as a variance.

However, Intel still assures that Coffee Lake will give a 15% boost in performance over its predecessor. Whether the boost is meant for desktop or mobile chips is yet to be disclosed.

The complete details of the 8^th Gen Coffee Lake processors are yet to be unveiled. One can expect a six core CPU as a part of i7 processors. Currently, Intel offers more than four cores in the Extreme and Xeon ranges.

The Coffee Lake chips will be competing with AMD’s upcoming Ryzen CPUs that will be released this March. Ryzen is rumored to have eight cores and sixteen threads in its top-end part, with quad-core and six versions making up the rest of the line. Prices for Ryzen are yet to be revealed.

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The highly awaited Cannon Lake CPU’s that would be based on 10nm process are nowhere on the release list. But as soon as they are available in the market the enterprise users would grab them even before the customers can put it to their use. The company also foresaw the market and said that the future process would be more fluid which means the 14nm chipsets would be seen hanging for longer than we actually thought.

The 10nm chips that the consumers are expecting are surely not going to come from Intel instead Samsung and Qualcomm will be flaunting it. The forthcoming Snapdragon 835 SoC will be crafted on Samsung’s 10nm process, enabling a 30% smaller die size and a claimed 40% decrease in power consumption. Although no devices using the Snapdragon 835 have been released yet, but the chips are in production and are guaranteed to arrive in the first half of this year. It looks like Samsung has been saving it for their upcoming Galaxy S8.

Intel said that they would not be using the 10nm chips presently but will adopt a more fluid style of production, and you will get it when it is a ready approach.

 

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Snapchat Spectacles are now available online at $129

Snap Inc., a parent company of Snapchat, has finally given a surprise its users. Yes, the coolest and most in demand cameras are now available on its online store. Now you do not have to search for a Snapbot vending machine. These beautiful glasses- camera came in the market, September last year. And these spectacles became a hot selling product quickly. At that time these were available at specific places only and finding a Snapbot vending machine was a time taking task. Now, you do not need to wait, just add in your bucket online and place the order.

Things you should know about these spectacles

These Snapchat Spectacles sport built-in camera that records a 10-second video clip. Further, you can send this clip to your snapchat app and view in your app as well. It can captures images with an 115-degree field of view that is similar to the human eye’s natural field of view.

You do not have to pay extra bucks to order from its online store. The company has launched these glasses online store with the same price tag $129 as on Snapbot vending machine.

These spectacles are available on its website coral, teal and black finishes the same as before.
Earlier the buyers were able to buy only two pairs per person only. Now, they can place an order for 6 pairs of glasses per person.

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Buyers have started placing their orders online quickly. This sudden surge may delay delivery of orders as of now. This is not something unexpected, as this is the first time when these spectacles are available for users to buy online.

Initially, people were facing many problems in getting these camera glasses. They were not easily available. The company has gone one step further and taken this decision. Now, this step has created a buzz around the market, and some more buyers are lined up.

This strategic move comes after Snapchat’s parent company, Snap, filed for IPO in early February. It has said that spectacles do not generate a good revenue for the company. Snap did not disclose the revenue for spectacles, though.

Snap Inc. filed amended IPO last week. It has gone public and decided to sell off 230 million shares. The price range of these shares will $14 to $16 per share. Further, this will give it a valuation of $19.5 billion to $22.2 billion. The company has announced that this amount will go redesigning its infrastructure. Hopefully, as you are already aware, this company has signed a deal of $1 billion with e-commerce giant Amazon for its cloud services. Earlier it has signed a deal $2 billion with Google.

 

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Microsoft’s Bing Search Integrated Mobile Banking In India; Allows You To Check Account Details

Gone are the days when people needed to stand in a long queue just to get their account details or bank statement. Technology has stepped into every step of our life, and this has made our life much easier. In this era of the internet, we are not required to step out the home rather everything is possible just sitting at home only. Mobile banking is one such very useful service which helps us get all the account information in our mobile instantly. The best part is this service is available for 24 hours, so anytime the account details can be accessed sitting at home.

In mobile banking, the users are required to register their mobile number with the bank. After which the users can receive all the details in their mobile only.

Now things are becoming much easier with the search engine Bing integrating Mobile banking service with them. However, this service is available in India only that will allow users to connect with the bank promptly. Account information and bank statement will be available then to the users from the search result. How it works is explained below.

• When any user searches for any major bank on Bing search engine, the search result will offer two options.
• The options are balance inquiry by missed call and Mini statement by missed call.
• Just click on that option, and it will dial the mobile banking number of that bank.
• Wait for few seconds, and an SMS will arrive in your mobile containing all your account information.

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So, the process does not involve any hassle, just type the bank name and you are good to go. While this integration is an easy way to offer users with needed bank account details, it also comes to offer various advantages as well.

Advantages of Bing’s integration process with Mobile Banking:

• This process is a very effective way through which user can quickly connect with their required bank.
• It will save enough time of the users.
• This process does not require users to memorize the bank’s number or else no need to dig through the contacts.

This mobile banking integration process with Bing is live in India as of now. And it will work in the mobile browsers only across every platform. So, whether you are using Android, iOS or Windows phone, you are supposed to get the advantage of this integration process. But in order to make this process work ensure you have registered the mobile number for mobile banking. Also, the number from which you will be dialing should be updated in the bank’s records.

Bing is one of the popular web search engines which is being owned and operated by Microsoft. This search engine comes to offer varieties of search service such as images, videos, web, map, and other search results. This search engine was launched in 2009, and since then this platform has done a lot to improve the user experience continuously. And this is must mention that this integration step will really be helpful for the users.

 

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Reliance Jio: Mukesh Ambani announces Rs. 303 per month plan with 30GB data

Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries made some important announcements about the forthcoming plans of Jio.

Before Mukesh Ambani could proceed with the announcements, he thanked the Jio users for being a part of the Jio family.

He said that Jio had added seven customers every second every day in the last 170 days to its network. There are over 100 million users of Jio now, and the company seems to have reached its lofty heights. In the last six months of free usage, 100 crore gigabytes of data has been consumed on Jio network and 200 crore minute of video and voice calls.

Several telecom companies have announced different plans that seem to have created confusion amongst the people but, Ambani added, that Jio leaves no space for confusion. He promised that besides offering the lowest possible rates, Jio would offer 20% more data than any other telecom company. “Better value for the best price, he said.”

The voice calls for Jio users to all networks would continue to be free. There would be no roaming charges and no blackout days. However, the free data plan that Jio was offering under the ‘Happy New Year’ plan would be chargeable after March 31, 2017.

However, Jio users don’t need to despair as with the Jio Prime membership you can avail data plans at incredible prices.

Jio Prime Membership

All the current Jio users and those who will join the Jio network by March 31, 2017, can register for the Jio Prime membership for a nominal charge of Rs. 99 for one year.

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The enrolment will start from March 1, 2017, and continue till March 31, 2017. Once you are a Jio prime member, you can enjoy the same services of Jio by paying Rs. 303 for a month for the next one year which is as cheap as Rs. 10 per day. This means you would be able to enjoy the unlimited data (subject to 1GB Fair Usage Policy per day) just for Rs. 10 a day.

Ambani assured exclusive plans for Jio Prime members the details for which can be seen through My Jio App and Jio.com

All the Jio Prime members will also have access to – Full bunch of Jio Media Services of Rs. 10,000 absolutely free for one year.

There are several other deals that Jio along with its partners would offer to its Jio Prime members. Ambani said that Jio was committed to returning the trust of its users. All the Jio users can expect to get several exclusive offers and surprises in the days to come.
Process to register for Jio Prime Membership
There are two ways to enlist for in the membership plan.

1. You can login to Jio App or Jio.com if you wish to enroll for the membership yourself.
2. Walk into the nearest retailer to get it done for you.

He ended by saying “unlimited maza continue hoynga.”

 

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