Amino To Change Traditional Forums Into Mobile Communities With Round Funding

Amino, a Startup and innovative company takes the responsibility to change the traditional forums into the mobile communities and announcing a round funding of $1.65 million comes from the Union Square Ventures. This idea comes from a Interest that the CEO and Co-founder Ben Anderson was interested in, he said that he was very fascinated about Robots in his teenage but he wanted to find out other people who was also have interest into the same topics but then he figured that he could ask questions in forums but that’s pretty old fashioned and now he plans to change that and makes them open the communities on Smartphone. Now with the funding the Company is ready to launch new community and anyone can open it on a Smartphones because they were completely designed to be open on Smartphones.

Published on a News Source “There are currently 15 communities listed on the Amino website, including ones for K-pop, Minecraft, video games and art. Anderson suggested that the number could eventually reach the hundreds, creating an “app constellation” where users just register once and can then join a number of communities. Apparently 40 percent of existing users have already joined more than one community, though Anderson noted that their identities are separate on each one.”

The technology is still evolving after that much advancement recently in 3D printing and Mobile phone become Smartphone and computer become laptop and Virtual reality and all. The forum are the best option for seek information from people and many users and individual can participate on any topic. Currently there are many forums and community from different sources and some of them are pretty good but many of them have very ordinary User Interface and now they could get a new look too.

Virtual Reality Advanced with Real World Content with Alchemy VR

It’s not long gone when, Facebook acquired the Virtual Reality Startup oculus VR and just a week before Sony also begins their work on the same oculus like Hardware startup project. It is one of those technologies which have penetrated the industry very quickly. In just 2 years when oculus introduced the concept of virtual reality and how we can use it in our games to enhance the gaming experience to do more with it, now with launch of new Alchemy VR, you add more story tellers as you want it is totally dedicated to build and develop all new Virtual Reality concept with a whole new real world content. You take a virtual tour of any city or land mark.

This Studio is the idea of Atlantic productions and Production Company, which has created many documentaries. The Virtual reality concept had been around us for more than 15 years but it takes time to evolve and with Oculus and other companies are doing great with such technology. You can watch many documentaries and other thing from one of the top story tellers in the world.

“A longtime BBC celebrity, and one of the world’s most famous naturalists, Attenborough has collaborated on projects with Geffen and his team at Atlantic for the past six years, after leaving the BBC to work independently.“We always liked exploring new technology,” says Geffen. “[Attenborough] loves new technology and is very excited about another massive new frontier of storytelling.”  Published on News source.

The technology will reveal many things about our earth and how the human race gets started on earth with uninhabitable atmosphere. All this has been created by the studio with help of computer graphics and imagery. Currently after the Facebook acquisition the Oculus is operating as previously and Facebook has no effect on it as of now but in the future there could be a change in the policies as FB is not just a Social Networking Company anymore.

Skylex Voice Solutions-Best CRM Tools for Call Centers

If you are seeking to start your own consultation or outsource business, you should dedicate yourself to gain knowledge about latest advancements taken place in the contact center industries. Specifically, call center enthusiasts and job seekers should compulsorily stay aware of advanced emotion detection devices of Skylex Company, which operate on LVA technology.

Since the introduction and installation of this system into worldwide contact centers or outsourced organizations, owners and managers have obtained massive success in terms of loyal customers and smooth workflow as well as operational management. Here, you will found a detailed study of different ways in which the Skylex devices have performed their functions as efficient customer management tools for commercial level organizations.  

System’s Mechanism

Primary mechanism of this exclusive emotional analysis system is to identify the complete emotional signature of human beings during the call process. The technology incorporated in this system is different from traditional vocal analysis techniques, as it allows the system to identify and detect human feelings based on 100 different parameters. Thus, voice solutions offered by Skylex Company easily detect different emotions, like anger, uncertainty, happiness and others during both ongoing and recorded communication takes place with employees or agents.

Software Solutions Role as CRM Tools

Software solutions provided by the well-known Skylex Company play roles of CRM Tools in different ways, which we have mentioned here.

Decrease in Switching of Customers

With the help of voice detection itself, managers of call centers have succeeded to put their best possible efforts to achieve customer satisfaction to a huge level and in turn significant reduction in their switching to any other brand. In fact, Skylex systems are the best means to detect response of customers and in turn to guide senior officials of the requirement of customer retention programs on regular basis.

Marketing Activities Made Easy

Innovative vocal analysis systems offered by the call center companies have allowed sales executives to perform every type of online or telemarketing activity, like up-sale, cross-sale, telesales, cold calling and consultation in efficient way as possible. Simultaneously, as the software displays results in both recorded and ongoing modes, supervisors can track the level of communication, emotional stability and overall performance of salespeople or employees of the commercial unit.

“Skylex software solutions are major contributors towards administrative and commercial efficiency enhancement.”

Viber Owner Rakuten Launched $100 M International Backing Program

Japanese E-commerce Giant Rekuten which already have saw a huge success on stock rising and also came into the new for Viber acquisition for almost a Billion Dollar deal. Now company jumping into the investment industry, previously it had made few speculation into the companies like Carousell, Visenze, Coda Payments and other firms also. Now, it takes a further step into the game but announcing a $100 million international investment fund, which is totally focus of Israeli Entrepreneurs, US, and Pacific Asia also. The e-commerce giant hasn’t disclosed their plans but sys that the money is for startup only, which could be turn into acquisition if possible. An Executive says the money is not focused to only mobile applications but they also want to grow organizations working in other fields such as visual search, or digital content consumption.

              

Published on a Source “The new fund, which is based in Singapore and will be run by Rakuten Ventures managing partner Saemin Ahn, supports “Rakuten Ventures’ broader goal of long-term investments with startups that have the technology and potential to enable better user experience and facilitation,” says Ahn. “Over time, this will include an increased focus on growing the ecosystem, technology, membership, and financial returns.”

The whole business strategy is working around the fact that it wants to be large, Rekuten is hoping to have largest brand in the country so it expanding its roots to different trades. Recently it had purchased lot of firms such as Viber for $900M, E-reading platform Kobo for $315M and video streaming service Viki for $200M and Spanish streaming Wuaki.tv. Also it leading a fund into Pintrest, which will make it worth $1.5 billion in 2012, executives hasn’t said much but it’s clear that it going deep into industry.

How Skylex Voice Solutions Allow for Optimization of Call Centers

Skylex systems have made drastic development in bringing automation in various types of enterprise or business level solutions to make sure of obtaining sound efficiency and quality management software for various types of contact centers prevailing in different parts of the world. Since the system introduced by this Russian and Israeli company operates on the market leading voice analysis technology and solutions, it gives customers with many excellent opportunities to bring drastic optimization in their already existing business procedures in order to assure increase in the effectiveness of business in significant way. Major activities performed by Skylex systems to bring optimization in the operations of call centers will include 

Online Assistance to Operators

Voice solutions provided by the Skylex Company provide online assistance to call center operators about their emotional conditions as well as conditions of various served clients. These systems allow individuals to apply suitable business procedures of offered services that too at some of the best possible conversational moments. 

Save Every Emotional Content

Systems or software solutions offered by the Skylex have proved to be the best option for saving of every emotional component during the conversation process in separate way over the operator and client that too with huge possibilities to perform detailed analysis during the complete conversation process.

Suits Perfectly for Providing Training

With the help of this exclusive system, operators will get the opportunity to perform self-training processes via simple listening of conversations selected by supervisors with the detailed estimation about varying emotional conditions possessed by interlocutors. In this way, we can say that the system allows business owners to save their time, which might be spend on providing training and education to new employees. 

Adjustment in Estimation of Clients Satisfaction

Emotion detection systems designed by Skylex Company allow for the minor or thin adjustments of varying estimation related to clients satisfaction via proper training of employees about systems based on suitable reference conversation procedures, which correspond to specific set of commercial-level procedures.

“Skylex software solutions let online monitoring of all conversations by supervisors in the contact center to prevent conflict situations.” Read more from here.

Mark Zuckerberg Over taking the Technologies With Facebook

The Founder and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg is a big name in the technology industry and it’s not a long time when he acquired WhatsApp for over a huge amount $19 billion and it’s going big with the Oculus Rift Acquisition. It’s just about time that 30 year Old CEO is over taking with biggest technologies in the world. The Facebook is quite good on Smartphone and the voice detection sensation Amir Liberman who himself admire the fact that the Success is comes from Hard work not from money. Mark Zuckerberg understands the fact that they need to catch up with the technologies in orders to remain in the king in social networking. After Oculus Rift acquisition, Facebook said that they will not affect any working of the company and they will let it running as it goes but behind the scene something going on and Company planning something with the virtual reality.

Theverge Said “Naturally Facebook was a big part of the discussion, and Iribe was quick to note that the social network's billions won't have much of an impact on the first consumer Rift. The company still isn't saying when that product will be released, only admitting that employees "will be disappointed" if it's not out the door by the end of 2015. But it's apparently too far along now to revisit and revise using Facebook's added resources.”

Mark Zuckerberg Launched the FB from his Dorm room and since then the company hasn’t look back several people helped him to build a billion dollar company and Sean Parker was the most helpful person for Mark to get the show on road. Since Google launched and advance the Android operation system Facebook added billion users and going on. Facebook is 25 most valuable companies in world acquired many companies in the field.

Android Will Let All the Malware Out Of the Device

Recently, Google lunch’s new version of operating system name is kit-kat 4.4.3. It is smarter, faster, good performance than its competitor but more than the release Google says they had tweaked the whole Ecosystem and applied many Fraud Prevention techniques that will prevent the third party application outside the play store trying to come into your devices. Company had recently releases the update to  phones, most amazing thing on the Android is, when you talk to people, most of the time it is automatically arrange  the  contact list these people are top of the in your contact list. And search them nearby places. If you got an unknown call, OS will hunt down the Google maps. It has a one of the best thing is our massages are not miss place because it is use some app and it store all massages in app.

Here we introduce feature for reserved people some time some feelings are expressed by words so it gives emoji it is available in Google keyboard it is Japanese character. it is also connect any printer with the Google cloud print ,hp e-printer that prints the document, picture, web pages. On Google drive we save and open any file through the app quikoffice. Any recently access files the send easier and works on it. It gives the chance to make some creative when we listing music and watching the movies. Read More at Mashable.

As one of the top selling product and king of the market and technology, Google has took a better care of the users, in means of security and other aspects because it don’t let the third party apps to install in the system without the knowledge of user. That also helps to prevent any kind of malware to come to your device and steal your information.

BigHand Incorporates Advanced Speech Recognition Abilities into Secured Hosted Solution

BigHand is now delighted to announce the inclusion of its advanced speech recognition abilities into its secured hosted and dictation solution as BigHand Professional. This is one of the exclusive and exciting advancement for many small and solo law firms seeking to transcript different alternatives. The new functionality will feature the Dragon SDK from the company named Nuance hosted in the secured cloud-based infrastructure of BigHand and embedded inside the technology chosen by Professional Edition of BigHand. Primary benefit, which individuals and business owners can expect to avail with the help of this drastic enhancement, is that large numbers of users will get the opportunity to design their own personalized and individual levels of speech profiles to remain highly specific to their voice instead of simple and generic profile of public.

In this way, companies will get the excellent opportunity to achieve high levels of accuracy as well as precision in terms of voice-to-text translation technology or process to undergo different types of legal work. Accuracy rates actually witness improvements with consistent use, while professionals host the entire solution within a secured environment designed specifically with confidentiality requirements of lawyers and other similar types of professionals in mind.

Dan Speed, Managing Director of Global Cloud commented, “We have worked with Nuance to make the Dragon Server SDK, which has been so popular in the legal vertical with our Enterprise users, available within our secure cloud infrastructure. It means that our BigHand Professional users can now subscribe to a basic Speech Recognition service that still allows them to build and maintain their own custom speech profile, while removing barriers related to in-house server investment for smaller law firms.” Read more from here. 

Overview of BigHand Company

BigHand Company has helped many companies and business organizations to develop their efficiency levels by making sure that they can easily create their documents and tasks with the help of few appropriate resources for the job. Furthermore, information systems offered by the company can empower supporting staffs to allow for efficient and faster turnaround of documents with the application of comprehensive workflow, management and prioritization suites. Since its first step itself, the company has delivered advanced software to empower different clients in increasing efficiency and productivity, utilization of advent resources and ultimate enhancement in the profitability.

Excluding the BigHand Company, many other organizations have even contributed a lot to bring advancement in the speech recognition or vocal recognition sector. One such company is Skylex Info Systems located in Israel and in Russia, whose technicians are involved in providing Interactive Analytics solution to monitor both received and made calls within the premise of call centers and other firms involving interaction of employees with customers. 

Mobile App Can Detects Mood Via Voice Analysis

People use Smartphone everyday and never forget it while going out also it is very useful and handy item that connects people with their loved ones. The New Era of phones are totally based on the Mobile application, app developer building apps to solve many real world problems, Nemesysco, which is specialized in voice technology, CEO Mr. AmirLiberman “Initially, he wanted to design an ultimate lie detection device based on some common techniques including speech analysis, but later on changed his research scope for exploring many unique properties present in human voice”. With the use of similar technology the University of Michigan has developed a Mobile app that monitors the voice diffraction during the talk, which will suggest them the talker mood is changing. This app could be proved to best solution to the fight on the phone situations, and tell you before anything goes wrong.

Dnaindia says"The results give us preliminary proof that we can detect mood states in regular phone calls by analysing broad features and properties of speech, without violating the privacy of those conversations," explained Zahi Karam, a postdoctoral fellow and specialist in machine learning and speech analysis.”

Companies like Google, Apple, have already uses the technology to suggest many solutions with the mobile apps, but no one has come up with the proper solution, this might be the perfect solution for the scan the voice and suggest the mood changing about any one. This project is known as the PRIORI, because scientist has some feeling that the project will have some influence from the biological marker to priorities. This app is for android Smartphone and run in the background automatically, when you call someone and monitors the voice patterns. They have also build few API’s to latter use and also offer developers to create their own app.

Google Now Talks with Skybox For Acquisition, Could be $1B+

Google is one of those companies, known for quick acquisition and also it had surprised us after buying the Titan Aerospace that supposed to be acquired by Facebook. Now Company looking much deeper into the Satellite world, it has closed to complete the deal with the Skybox Imaging that is a satellite company expert in recording the very deep landscape pictures and video, covering all building and land marks. Company had reveled in a conference 2014 that they would be looking into the expanding the technology by acquiring the major leader companies because by which they get the talent from the firm and could use to build new tech and skills. Google is interested to have Skybox because it would help them to enhance the Maps facility in on Android and Web Maps also.

TechCrunch posted“Currently, Google uses a mixture of sources for Google Earth, the real-world imaging component of Google Maps. Some of those images are more up to date than others, and some are years out of date. Having its own primary source of data, updated regularly, would provide a more reliable and accurate set of data that Google could potentially expand into more consumer-focused products and services.”

Companyalready had gone war with apple due to patents and it took eyeing on SkyBox, company has a separate division called Earth enterprise that is responsible for the mapping and viewing the data, that also allow enterprises to store terabytes of imagery, vector data on your own server and after rendering the data it produces the map of that area for users to views using Google Earth Desktop or Mobile Apps, or you can develop your own app with Google earth API’s, which helps you to connect with its servers.

All Patents Suits Dismissed By Apple, Google, Seems a Truce

It was a nightmare when Apple filed a patent violation lawsuit in the court against technology giant Google, says that they copied the UI designs from Apple’s iOs. The suit was against Samsung but the Os comes from Google so they had to come to court for testify the development process. Now, that lawsuit has reached a truce, says both companies are agreed to dismiss all the patent lawsuits against each other. The Apple and Google released a joint statement, in which they’re agreed to work together in some of the area. Apple and several other android phone makers’ were sued over the patent-Infringement battles in several countries. Apple has accused Samsung of violating patent law by using features of iPhone and iPad but companies responded that Google created the technology first. The business perspective apple wants more than money that is Mobile Market share because Android has been recognized a world’s most popular Mobile Operating System.

Cnet Wrote “Apple and various handset rivals, such as HTC and Nokia, have reached settlements over the past couple of years. However, the highest-profile case -- Apple v. Samsung -- continues to work its way through the courts. A jury in San Jose, Calif., earlier this month ruled that both companies infringed some of each other's patents.”

Other companies including Apple, Google, Samsung and Various phone makers are repulsing the patent trolls simultaneously. These corps is waiting for the products to come in the market that allegedly infringes the patents. Google Glass is one of the most controversial and useful product form Google. According to Lex Machina, a companies from Silicon Valley started last year and helping enterprises to change the way they register the patents and licensing, Google and Apple are the biggest defender of 59 cases.

Air Force Researchers Evaluate Combat Effectiveness of Google Glass

Air Force has now started with the evaluation of the combat effectiveness of the Google Glass, which refers to a wearable computer put by Google Inc. on sale in front of the public. Research professionals working under the Air Force Base of Ohio’s Wright-Patterson have explained that they have designed prototypes software programs to allow personnel of Glass-wearing ground to detect snipers and even treat many injured or wounded people. The organization has already used various types of advanced technology and head mounted displays to perform different types of functions, most notably with pilots as well as its pararsecue jumpers, who are responsible for doing different tasks related to recovery of wounds and various types of medical treatments. 

Majority of applications developed by Air Force research professionals include apps, which connect to the threat detection program or system, which is responsible to feed data over a specific range and bearing of snipers in the direct way towards Glass screen. In addition, researchers have developed an effective text message tool, which allows soldiers to pass on important messages without speaking or oral communication. These types of info systems or message tools are very much useful in some particular situations, where officers require stealth. 

Experienced research professionals of Air Force have even designed Android-based medical app to receive respiration, heart rhythm, level of blood oxygen and other health-related information with the help of vital monitors wear over their chests. Once the app receives heartbeat and other information, it is fed into the Glass-wearing medic, which can review vital signs of wounded individuals by keeping hands free to check the wound. Gregory Burnett commented, “We’re trying to improve the war fighter’s mission efficiency as well as effectiveness through intuitive displays.” Read more from here.

Parrot’s Newest Drone Packs A Serious Camera, Extreme Range

The All new Parrot’s AR Drone 3.0. This is the latest drone from parrot less with the Intelligence and power and it a good update from the previous AR drone. It more likes a flying camera that can pipe the image directly into the oculus rift headset. This new Flying object is taking the Flying of drone to a new level. This new drone has a 14 Mage pixel camera with a fisheye lens. This setup, along with the software and hardware it makes a amazing machine, allows the drone to pick some amazing images and even zoom the area to get a clear shot.

TechCrunch Says "This setup gives the Bebop a unique selling point over competitors, including models from Phantom that rely on more traditional camera and gimbals rigs. Like previous AR Drones, connectivity is achieved through Wi-Fi and the Bebop has four antennas and can ride on 2.4GHz and 5 GHz frequencies. Still, range through Wi-Fi is limited to, well, the range of Wi-Fi. The Bebop can do much more. Along with the Bebop, Parrot is introducing the Sky controller that extends the Bebop’s range to 2 kilometers. The tablet or Smartphone used to control the drone just mounts in the middle of the controller. Using an assortment of antennas and boosters, the controller boosts the controlling tablet’s signal by 36 dBm."

A video can even pan and slope while the drone hovers. The 180 Degree field of vision allows the camera to capture the amazing shots at a very different angle. The software let it to capture more video then it needs. It then uses the software to edit the clip and discarded the rest irrelevant clips. This all happens when the angle of view to remain fixed even the camera moves away.

Mayor Bill de Blasio Will Appoint Technological Head in Future

This time, technological updates revealed that Mayor Bill de Blasio will appointment the head for particular field of technology in the coming months, but news release has not yet mentioned about any title about it. However, many technological analysts predicted that Mayor Biaso woul announce for the Internet Week starting from 19^th of May when the city’s mayor delivers keynote speech to outline his plans and objectives to deal with the competitive tech industry. Based on the speech, clearly technological news analysts and other people can understand that the new designation will have bigger duties and responsibilities as compared to some closet predecessors. The new position will locate itself close to the power center of the area i.e. inside the City Hall. 

Rachel Haot, the chief digital officer and analyst will deal with different types of tech issues faced by people under the guidance of Mayor Bill Blasio. Moreover, the Mayor will also appoint some officers possessing vast knowledge in digital and information systems to work in assistance with Rachel Haot. The team that already remained in its place will include Maya Wiley, the counseling officer of Mayor working over different issues related to broadband access for many low-income residents and citywide plans for bringing significant improvements in connectivity.

According to the statement given by Andrew Rasiej, the chairperson of NY Tech Meet up, “From everything I can tell, the administration is looking for someone, who will be responsible for overseeing all of the city's technology operations and liaising with the tech community to make sure its growth continues and is distributed equitably through all of the five boroughs. It's a dual role.” Read more from here.