Artificial Intelligent Facebook Personal Digital Assistant

Facebook Personal Digital Assistant on Messenger App via Artificial Intelligence 

The messenger app has moved another level in terms of capabilities for its users, following this new capability. As a result this new offering is a competing solution with the other IT giants such as Apple Siri, Google and Microsoft Cortana in the digital personal assistant arena.

The Facebook Messenger lead David Marcus stated:

We are beginning to test a new service called M. M is a personal digital assistant inside of Messenger that completes tasks and finds information on your behalf. It’s powered by artificial intelligence that’s trained and supervised by people.

The differentiating factor from other Artificial Intelligence services currently available as from the examples mentioned above is that the facebook service called M is able to complete tasks on a user behalf.  Furthermore, it can also purchase items, organize orders to be delivered to your friends locations, book restaurants, travel arrangements, appointments and much more.

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Instagram New App - Layout, Display And Share Collage Photos

The announcement news from Instagram that it now has a new application called Layout, 

The new app Layout, offers new features for Instagram users as they use their photos to build photo group collages. And subsequently be able to share to Instagram, Facebook, or any where else.

These type of applications already exist and they are quite popular, however Instagram now offers with this new app, features that are an improvement where compared to other apps such as Pic Stitch, Pic Collage, InstaCollage, PhotoGrid, and these are just a few examples. 

The way these apps offer features are all based on similar varieties of blank photo grids where users can customize with their own photos, optional text, stickers, frames and backgrounds.

With the new app Layout, users can build collages by changing the order of the steps involved in the typical process of other apps.

As a user selects its photos, Layout then presents previews of custom layouts that a user can scroll down to see its photos. Then a selection of up to nine photos can be made, and each time to tap to add another, photo grid options update automatically to reflect the new photos selected additions. At the end when a user is ready they can simply flick through the presented options in order to choose their grid.

On Layout there is also an option to select Faces, where a user from its camera roll can select and filter just photos with pictures that feature people.

Another new option on Layout, is the Photo Booth that a user can use to capture spontaneous moments. The way it works is that when a user taps this button, the app starts a countdown timer and then captures a series of photos that will appear instantly in a layout.

Layout app from Instagram,

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BT Partners TechHub for Users New Applications on Superfast Broadband

The UK technology giant that is BT partners TechHub.

New business start-ups can create new applications and services utilising Super-Fast Broadband.

Based on the BT Infinity Lab programme, this partnership is to be present London Tech City. It will now be facilitated, supported and encouraged business to create new applications and services that can be marketed alongside existing products from BT that are offered to its large market based on UK households. 

The way it will work, is that the winners Entrepreneurs/Business Start-ups receive six month support relating to Research & Innovation, engineering, legal and marketing. Furthermore, BT is to support further development and/or trial of the winning solutions. Also Business Start-ups accepted into the programme receive membership of TechHub.

In practice BT does not make a cash investment, or takes equity or intending to acquire IPR from the winning entrants, it appears that is simply interested in co-innovating with new solutions from Start-ups and its selected groups of their existing customers.

A BT Infinity Lab competition briefing is on the 22nd October 2013.

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Newest Microsoft Windows Phone 8 Apps from YODspica Ltd

Today we saw the launch of two interesting free apps.

For users of Microsoft Windows phone 8 operating system by YODspica Ltd.

The two new apps include the Cardiff Open Coffee Network which is a monthly free business network meeting with its official website on 1Cardiff.com and the other free app is that of YODspica Ltd itself which can be viewed and downloaded on Our Company.

So if you have a windows phone what is stopping you from downloading these great apps today, the download links are above with the screenshots seen on this post. 

The windows phone apps, are well designed and developed, the first app provides detailed information about members which they are to be updated regularly, a news page with the latest event news, a ticket page for anyone wish to book into events, with other detailed information throughout the navigation options. 

The Our company windows phone app, provides detailed information on all services currently offered by YODspica Ltd, as well as a latest news feature for readers.

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Facebook Launches Self-Destruct Interactive Poke Mobile App

Facebook now has a new app, named “Poke”, the main features of this new mobile app is that allows users to send photos, videos, pokes, or even text Facebook messages to existing Facebook friends. The main attractiveness of this mobile app is that the content shared, poked and notified with friends does expire shortly after a few seconds with settings duration predefined as options. This new app follows, since when it was first reported on AllThingsD around a few weeks ago.

Other existing mobile app such as Snapchat on iOS and Android is quite popular with young users, thus Facebook trying to attract this type of users with its own version. Currently around 50 million photos are shared on the competitor Snapchat mobile app on a daily basis, with a total of 1 billion so far. As a result, Facebook clearly noted as sees it as the next big thing that could perhaps disrupt their own mobile app service popularity in the future. Reports also indicate that Facebook did try to acquire the app, nevertheless the founders decided not to accept the offer, as a result Facebook has produced this competitive mobile app in a mere 12 days in order to compete and remain leader on the popularity ranking lists.

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New App Uses Image Recognition Technology to Display User Info

A new mobile app has been launched and is now available on the App store called Cardign, this new mobile app allows users to take pictures of people's faces on their devices and then from the stored picture, the app is capable to process the information using facial recognition to then display contact details correspondent to the picture. 

Nevertheless, this recognition only works when other users already have downloaded and use the app so that their details and their face pictures are already stored on the app database. The way it works is that users are required to take three pictures of themselves for a more accurate detailed pattern for the database storage procedure, as a result then the recognition processing can occur by taking into consideration data variations. As the app becomes more widely used and popular, then the database will grow, and the intention and goal is that when users meet or greet anyone that they would like to exchange contact details, users would only simply need to take a picture of the face of the person being met for all their details being shown on the app. In a way, this is an advanced photo business card exchange, however done with simply using users faces pictures and with the requirement that everyone would need to use and agree for this app to use their details, in order to work.

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Now Available Microsoft Skydrive on Android

Microsoft keeps innovating its current solutions, following the recent upgrade from hotmail to outlook, now is the turn to its file cloud storage  SkyDrive. As a result, there is now also a new user interface design, of which it standardizes with the current look and feel of outlook, but most importantly with the new Windows 8 Metro style.

The news today is however, that skydrive is now available on the Android mobile platform, at its Google Play store. The Skydrive Android app follows on its availability also on iOS apps with equal features. The recommended Android version to run Skydrive is Android 4.0.

SkyDrive solution, competes directly with SugarSync, Dropbox, Google Drive and Apple’s iCloud.  However, the main advantage of SkyDrive is that it offers up to 7GB of storage, with possible additional storage cheaper.