Google CEO Sundar Pichai to host the Google Event for SMBs in India

The Google CEO Sundar Pichai will address an event in New Delhi on Jan 4 for the Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs).

The Google Event will be addressed by the Union IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and some of the Google’s topmost executives including the Google India head Rajan Anandan. The event is a prelude to the Google partnership with the India Startups and is expected to be about how “to help them unlock exponential growth through the power of digital” and “how digital can be a game changer for Indian SMBs.”

The Best Android Apps of 2016

Got a Gift for this Christmas? After unwrapping it with so much excitement and expectation, if you have found a Google Pixel or a Samsung Galaxy S7, or even a One Plus 3T, then you are at the right place.

If you are new to the Android platform or a big-time fan of Google looking for what to download from the Play Store, this list of apps is for you. Biggies like Facebook, Whatsapp, and Youtube are obvious but what about the apps you aren't aware of. In the seas of apps, finding a right app for you might seem daunting. But we've made it dead easy for you. Here's what you need to download:

Prisma’s Latest Update to have Photo Feed and Full Resolution Pictures

Prisma, the AI photo-editing software has had a great year. Now, with its latest features it just got even better.

Released in June, the app gained a huge traction among the users and received over 7.5 million downloads at the end of the first week of its launch. Instead of resting on its laurels, the company came up with new features that app previously lacked. Well! No wonder it is awarded the ‘App of the Year’ by both Google and Apple.

Prisma Gets Social Features

Jarvis is real! Meet Mark Zuckerberg’s Iron Man-Style AI

You may know about the Jarvis from the Iron Man series. If this fictional superhero isn’t your interest, then Mark Zuckerberg’s Jarvis could capture your attention. The Facebook CEO and founder, Mark Zuckerberg has developed an AI system - named Jarvis to run his home, as a part of his personal challenge for this year.

He has made an AI that can talk to on his phone or computer, which can control his home, including security, appliance, lights, music, and temperature. He also wanted it to learn his tastes and patterns, and learn new words and concepts, and even entertain his one-year-old daughter, Max.

After spending about 100 hours building Jarvis, Facebook CEO has announced “I have a pretty good system that understands me and can do lots of things.” in a post on his Facebook page.

Google finally brings Gboard to Android with the Keyboard Update

Back in May 2016, Google has launched an awesome keyboard app called Gboard for iOS devices, enabling the users to access Google Search right inside the app. But ironically, the app wasn’t available for its own mobile platform and the tech giant has promised that the keyboard app would someday make its way to Android, and we are happy to announce that the day has finally arrived.

Seven months after landing on iOS, Google is finally rolling out the Gboard for Android users. The app comes as version 6.0 update to the standard Google keyboard.

Just like iOS, the users can quickly find and share messages, type and search GIFs and emojis and browse online. This search-centric keyboard is designed with glide typing, and probably the best keyboard ever made.

Show and Tell: The Best of 2016 With Facebook Year in Review Video

Earlier this week, we’ve published an article on Google Play's Best of 2016. Today, it is Facebook’s Year in Review that rolled out showcasing ‘memories, events and trends’ of 2016. To be precise, the year in review is nothing but a list of things that happened all around the world this year.

It’s sad, it’s weird, and it’s trending!

Know why? Let’s check out the most-talked trends around the world.

Google Play ‘Best of 2016’: The Ultimate List of Best Apps, Games, Music & More

Towards the end of every year, Google announces the list of best apps, games, books, music, movies and TV shows on its Play Store. Continuing with its tradition of ranking the most popular contents, Google has now revealed its list for 2016.

The global list of apps and games can be found on the Google blog post, while the reader can view the local list via Google Play in his/her country.

As for the global list, at the top of “Trendings Apps” is Face Changer 2, followed by Lumyer, Castbox, Emoji Keyboard Pro and MSQRD. Apart from this, Google has added few award categories for mobile apps like Made In India, Most Beautiful, Most Innovative, Most Share-Worthy, Most Entertaining, Top Trending, and Best Family.

Google’s All New AI Knocks Out Humans

Artificial Intelligence may sound like you are in a science fiction movie to many people out there. But in reality, we have been using it in our day-to-day life, right from our personal assistant, wallet, smart home, to video games. With Google’s incredible invention, now it can lip read, too.

Researchers from Google’s DeepMind and the University of Oxford have developed the most accurate lip-reading AI ever. According to the report, the AI was trained using a video with a duration of 5,000 hours from six different television programmes including the BBC Breakfast, Newsnight and Question Time. In total, over 118,000 sentences were fed to the system. After training, the AI was tested to check its performance using the programmes broadcasted during March and September of this year.

Athena: A Tech Jewelry For Women's Safety

In this tech-driven world, wearables have become an indispensable part of our lives. There are multifarious wearables for a wide range of applications like smart watches, eyegears, fitness trackers, and much more. But, ROAR has designed a wearable with a social twist. They’ve developed ‘Athena’ with an aim to secure women from assaults and violence.

Athena is the first-best product from ROAR For Good. This water-resistant wearable aims at providing a safe and secure place for women to live in peace. The device offers a simple and stylish look so that it can be prominently used as a jewelry. In case, if you want it discreet, you can clip it on your bags and clothes for easy access when there’s an emergency.

Say Hello to Google Allo!

The talk of the town is the ‘smart’ chat app that just hits the store last Tuesday. After a long wait, Google has launched the “Google Allo” a smart message app on 20th September for Android and iOS to express yourself through chat, stickers, Google Assistant and so on. But what makes it so exciting for the world to go crazy?

Here we’ve listed out the new exciting features of Google Allo. Let’s roll.

1. Respond to message without typing

A voice message would do that, what’s the exciting factor here? No, you are wrong fellas! Allo enables the smart reply function wherein you can respond to your messages with a tap. For example, you can send ‘Yup’ with a tap for a friend messaging “Are you coming to the party?”.

The AI  recognizes the picture that your friend has sent and suggest you with suitable replies. If you receive a picture of a puppy or a baby, the suggestion would be “Aww..”,  “So Sweet’, and “Nice”.

Top 5 App News - October 2016

Every month Hakuna Matata Solutions delivers the most exciting app news around the world. No longer switching between apps to know the latest trends, we figure out what’s happening in the appverse - just for you! Catch up the latest app news here! Let’s go through the top 5 app news for the month of October.

Let’s Roll!

No #5 - Newsroom App

No more boring news website! No longer a passive audience! Yahoo has revamped its core app to a news app called ‘Newsroom’ with a social twist. The app allows the user to discover a range of topics under different forums or “vibes”. The user can read, post and interact on their favorite news articles, and over time it will display related news based on specific interests of the user. Yahoo Newsroom is now available on iOS and Android.

Why India Banned Rs 500, 1000Rs Notes? And What Should We Do Now?

India was at its cold feet after the surgical strike of Narendra Modi to fight against the corruption. Millions of people have rushed to ATMs and banks to withdraw cash after the announcement has made. In the heat of emergency scenario, many came up with funny memes on Facebook and twitter. “Black money” has become the predominant topic for all the news debate shows. The reason behind this baffling situation is due to the ban on the highest denomination currency notes of Rs.1000 and Rs.500. And the highlight is that the deadline is not even close to four hours after the announcement was made.

This scheme was announced to fight against the corruption and counterfeit currency. “Corruption and black money are diseases rooted in this country..” he said, adding that “Across the border, our enemy uses fake currency..” And then he announced “From now on, Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 notes will not be used.” Followed by this, he has announced that the ATMs will remain shut for the next two days and the banks will remain shut on November 9. This announcement is nothing but smoke and mirrors. But there’s no restriction on any non-cash payment like net banking, cheques, demand draft, debit and credit transactions.

What’s Up With The New Features Of Whatsapp?

Unlike the Romeo and Juliet era, sending a message to your loved one isn’t a big deal nowadays. A great shout out to the Whatsapp Messenger. Yes! It had changed the way we used the text message to communicate with our family and friends. The Facebook-owned messenger app, Whatsapp have recently updated with new features to meet the growing demands of its users.

Top-notch Features:

• Available on Android Beta
• Supports Gifs and have inbuilt camera settings
• Auto sorts the files
• Enable PDF files
• Supports Cloud drive sharing

Google Acquires A Tech Startup To Make Virtual Reality Better!

Creating an illusion and making us present somewhere we are not, isn’t a child’s play. Way back then, artists like Diego Rivera and David Siqueiros mastered the art of creating the illusion through murals. Now, it’s the virtual reality! In the event of bringing three-dimensional environment, Google takes a step forward by acquiring a tech startup to incorporate the eye-tracking technology for its virtual reality platform - Daydream.

And, the startup is none other than the Eyefluence!

Eyefluence was founded in 2013 by Jim Marggraff and David Stiehr to develop the eye-tracking technologies for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). The startup had raised $21.6 million in two rounds from investors like Intel Capital, Motorola Solutions Venture Capital, NHN Investment and others.

7 Things you should know about the iPhone 7

Selling a kidney? Going Bankrupt? What, not people think about purchasing a mobile phone. The world has gone wild after the launch of a new Apple product, none other than the iPhone 7.      

Tim Cook, CEO launched the new Apple iPhone 7 at the annual September press conference in San Francisco. The high-end phone paves the way for a wireless era of technology. The Apple launches the new iOS 10 for the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7s and updated the Programming language, Swift which enables the iOS developer to work more flexibly and fun.

What’s new in the iPhone 7? Let’s discuss the 7 things you should know about the iPhone 7.

Happiness 2.0 that tell the right story of Hakuna Matata

Hola!!

Welcome to Happiness 2.0!  Welcome to our new brand identity!

We are excited to unveil our new brand identity as we evolve to the next step in our journey of digital excellence. Our brand reflects celebration of happiness; it resonates with the capabilities we have built with passion, the creative spirit of our team and the delight of our customers.

the happiness of digital excellence

What’s new in Android Nougat ?

Beyond any doubt, Android’s love for food is a never ending story. After Jellybean, Lollipop, Marshmallow and now time for Nougat. Android has officially released its seventh major version of Operating System ‘Android Nougat’  in August 2016.

New Nexus phones will be the first device to operate on Android Nougat. Google has redefined the current OS and added a new meaning for user experience. So, what’s new in Android Nougat? Let’s check out the new features which will incite us.