Monday, September 23, 2013

How Technology Is Important For You - By vTech Consultancy

QR codes, the square images that can be scanned by your phone and point you to mobile websites, are emerging fast!

Snaps — a startup, platform and app based around a photo network for spreading viral brand messages by way of photo mash ups, allow you to add viral content to your photos!

Tesco, the UK based retail giant launched Hudl, an own brand, seven inch screened Android (Jellybean) tablet priced at L119 ($190)

Poshmark, The Mobile Marketplace For Women To Sell And Swap Clothes, Crosses 1M Items Sold So Far This Year

Into The Gloss he site has been making waves in the style space for its insider access type interviews with editors, designers, writers, models, and other creative’s about their beauty routines.

London based startup Dattch is a dating app with a difference. I don’t mean the fact it’s exclusively for lesbians, bisexual and/or bi curious women.

Betabrand, San Francisco based cult clothing retailer is debuting a new way for customers to engage in developing new products — an online think tank.

Apple has finally take steps to better cater to the children who have adopted its devices, and especially family favorite the iPad, with the launch of a Kids App Store

Blippar, the AR advertising company that lets users scan real world objects to bring up extended augmented reality content, has today released a huge update that not only increases the speed of the technology, but allows for enhanced social sharing features for users.



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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Let's Dive in to the Internet Sea - By vTech Consultancy

File sharing company Hightail (formerly YouSendIt), has acquired startup “AdeptCloud”, a file sharing and Collaboration Company focused on security, control and privacy.

“FuzeBox”, a useful platform which provides online collaboration and communication tools.

“Tictail” is a super fast and more unusual e-commerce startup platform which is super easy to create a shop on. It has now launched its mobile app.

“Dafiti”, a Rocket Internet backed fashion commerce site based out of Brazil, is announcing a new investment today...

“Nix”, A Smartphone Color Sensor Plus App That Lets You Scan & Save Favorite Shades! You don’t need a piece of cloth to run and match shades!

“DeveloperAuction”, which launched in 2012 to revolutionize the engineer recruiting market, is today rebranding itself as Hired.com, and putting its sights on a much larger target covering designers, data scientists and more...

Breaking videos into clips and sub clips and sharing them! “Cinemacraft”, is a leading interactive media monetization platform. Our private label solution enable brands and publishers to deliver context driven engagement on videos and photos

Microsoft has redesigned Bing’s logo and user interface as it seeks to position the search engine as a developer platform

“Splunk” has acquired BugSense, a mobile analytics platform used by developers to improve app performance and improve quality

The “Uber”, app lets you share your ETA with contacts from the app, letting them know exactly when you’ll arrive The app also lets you text a live map of your trip to your contacts, letting them check in on you to see where you are in relation to your destination.

“Box.com”, a platform making sharing, accessing and managing content ridiculously easy.

“SlideIdea”, A platform based in Shanghai, a presentation app that’s simple to use and highly interactive. By utilizing the advances in mobile and cloud technology.

Israeli natural language processing (NLP) technology startup Ginger Software, which makes a cross app proofreading keyboard for Android, has added a new feature to its software that rewords entire sentences.

Google Analytics will also stop supporting internet explorer it by the end of the year. Internet Explorer 8, which launched in 2009, isn’t exactly a modern browser by any standards and it’s slowly turning into the new Internet Explorer 6.

“Sproutling”, a new startup coming out of stealth today, is hoping to raise parenting IQs through a new wearable baby monitor that answers many parenting questions.

“Bump Technologies”, has been acquired by Google. Its namesake app Bump lets you physically tap phones together to share contact info and more, and it will stay open for download.

“Pushpage”, amazing platform which ask you all sorts of questions, ranging from practical ("What's your go to weeknight meal?") to inspirational ("What's something about you most people don't know?").

You can determine who can see your PushPage  share it with the world, a group of friends, or build a private PushPage Community for sharing among a closed group like a business, school, team or social organization.



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Monday, September 16, 2013

Technology Everywhere....- By vTech Consultancy

“Upworthy”, the website aiming to make meaningful videos go viral. Upworthy is taking a new focus on building revenue streams through its editorial content.

“Jolla”, the Finnish startup that’s aiming to build a mobile ecosystem around its MeeGo based OS, Sailfish, has announced the Sailfish OS is now compatible with the Android ecosystem.

“Zipments”, a same day delivery marketplace that connects retailers with couriers.

“Google’s Maps”, For Business A Key Ingredient For HALO Trust’s Mine Clearing Efforts In Kosovo! Amazing.

“Conduit”, the Israeli based browser toolbar and mobile startup estimated to be worth some $1.4 billion, has confirmed it is merging with Perion Network.

“Famo.us”, announced a JavaScript framework for building super complex yet still super smooth HTML5 apps, finally ready to let in a few of the 57,000 developers that signed up for beta access.

Google stepped up its efforts and launched a set of new photo editing tools, including the ability to fine tune Google+’s Auto Enhance feature, apply new filters and selectively adjust parts of an image, but they only work in Chrome :(

“Dubb”, is an app that lets users request contact information from those in their extended friend network, who can in turn choose to accept, deny, or only allow certain addresses and numbers through.

“Warsaw”, based startup called IQ Intelclinic has build an intelligent sleeping mask which uses sensors to monitor the wearers’ sleep cycles, including REM and non REM sleep, in order to determine if you’re getting quality Zzz’s at night.

 “Tow Choice”, an innovative way to benefit both sides by bringing the tow provider (YOU) more tows, and bringing the distressed motorist a fast tow at a fair price.

“Ark” has just launched a mobile email client that pulls in all the social profiles of the people you’re emailing with so you can quickly do research on business contacts or stalk your friends.

“Days”, is an app that doesn’t aspire to real time, selective photo sharing. The idea, rather, is to share lots of photos in a collection, a Day. This day isn’t shared in real time — users can choose to publish their day the day after.

Intel has made another international acquisition in its push into artificial intelligence technology: it has bought “Indisys”, a Spanish startup focused on natural language recognition.

“Seenth.is”, lets music fans hone their obsession by making it easy for them to track the most interesting social media updates from their favorite performers.

“Facebook”, Saying goodbye to Credits currency, Transitions To Local Currencies To Boost International Payments.

“Import.io”, turns Web Pages Into Spreadsheets For Getting Out The Data That Matters Most.


“Twitter’s”,  New “Verified” Filter Lets Celebs Hob Nob In Peace


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Are we Trapped ?? - By vTech Consultancy


 A research done by Robert Graham show that the encryption standards used by earlier versions of secure "tor" protocol is insecure and readable by NASA, means most of us are being trapped!

 Facebook being king of community, twitter is growing high in revenues, but “Instagram” is now fastest in terms of "growing popularity" and so they need to fix their blunders or else it will be a skyfall!

for readers, Books can’t replace ebooks? and so Amazon has recently launched a program which enables authors to sell "kindle version of their book" to all those people who bought its printed version

"Wantful" a San Francisco and New York based gift giving and personalized e-commerce startup is shutting down as they are unable to recover their initial investment. You may Had to do something different to stay in the world of retail ecommerce!

"Scholly" a mobile app which helps students at school and college to find best scholarship options for themselves! Technology is advancing for every segment...

 "Skout" an app for meeting people near you, has launched a premium feature in which users can mingle with people in other cities before they land their! the world is no more lonely

"Co Ed Supply" a startup for USA market, focusing on the needs of college students, provides monthly subscriptions of "Packages are containing college essentials" such as toiletries, diversions, food and others...

 "Ideal Media" a new player in content recommendation business, works with different content publishers to provide recommended content on their website and then earns with the sponsored content. Not a new concept but wish you best of luck!


 "keatonrow" a fashion ecommerce site with a blend of personalization where you give a quiz, and then get recommended to a stylist of your taste match who then recommends you items and sellers to buy from!


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How Technology Changes Our Thoughts.....- By vTech Consultancy

 Apple... A good step... finally secured a license of iphone to run it on China Mobile network... A huge population waits for you Apple!

 Someone is getting Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Sina Weibo, Tencent Weibo, VK, Mixi, Cyworld on one chat messenger! it’s "Uni Messenger", a mobile app which you can use to chat privately with your friends on different social media outlets!

 "Songdrop" which lets you bookmark, create playlists and stream music from the Web, has launched an iOS app... you can use the app for the same reasons! A cleaver move as songs and mobile phones are more close to each other.

 A new move by Google in education and courseware game! along with eDX, launching "MOOC.org" a platform where nearly anyone can crease and share courses on different topics!

 "TurnCast" an APP which, through voice alarm, will warn you of rain and snow storms so that you may re schedule or re route yourself accordingly...

 "MarketMeSuite", as social emdia marketing platform being used by more than 30,000 small and medium sized businesses provide amazing social media marketing and lead generation services. A new door for retailers!

 " TaDaweb" amazing data analysis machine, where you can do data analysis without writing a single line of code. It’s just for small data, but valuable for a huge population of companies...

 Is there still a room for new mobile messaging apps? "Inbox" a mobile messaging app says "yes"... because they are different. Using inbox one can get email, SMS and OTT at one place! a small but a meaningful change   

You remember greeting cards? I just recalled them when I get to know about  "Vello’s" a video greeting card app, where you can add upto 6 second video of any event and send it as part of greeting card, a nice way to greet!

 Mobile Payments and here comes "eGood" a mobile payment platform getting famous... but why? because you can not only buy using eGood but you can give something in Charity aswell... so god people will gona love it.

 Internet is everywhere... isn’t? check this "Soil IQ" and APP integrated with device which you can put in your farm. It will collect, weather, soil and other data and will prompt the farmer to take respective measures...

 How would your new furniture looks like? don’t you? "InsideMaps"may help... it’s a mobile app using which you can scan the room creating a 3rd image and them check how it will look like with the new furniture

 Do you really want to plan you day? "Tidepool" will help you in it. It analyzes your work routine and give you suggestions and things to do, related to anything.

 Still 60 million people in USA do not know how to use internet? "Trail “as a platform which can help them. A mobile APP focused to provide internet literacy to people and help them understand internet
 Whats for artists? "Curator" an interest like platform which enables you to share art, and may be buy art one day!

 Would you rather do anything in the world instead of shopping clothes? "Brandid" is for you than... an ecommerce website which help guys do shopping by outsourcing it to personally recommenders...

"Skaffold”an APP for teachers to help them make a better class :) it helps teachers to manage work, lessons and all such things which can be part of their job...

 "First Cut Pro" provides editing teams with a cloud based tool for collaborating and monitoring all the different changes that are made to videos during the post production process...

 "Wifi Opener", which is now available for Android, allows users to easily share the password to protected Wi-Fi networks with other users within their range.


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A Brief Insight at Today's Internet World - By vTech Consultancy

“Groupontoday acquired "blink” and last minute hotel booking app, so we can see some crazy hotel offers on groupon shortly!

"Mindsy" a new start-up related to e-learning and came with a different concept... They don't sell courses, they offer "all you can eat" on per month basis! That’s interesting...

Adobe is launching some unique features in its new "Photoshop CC" version. The cool thing is the feature of direct export to "Edge Reflow" a tool for creating responsive designs

Instagram is about to sell ads too... but still have some time as it would be next year... Let’s see what new they have to compete with FaceBook ?

WAO! "Glashion" a new app which let you buy fashion item while you see them through "Google Glasses"; you never know a walking person can be a shop for you now!

"Hot Mess" an interesting app which let other people anonymously tell you about "a piece of crud in your teeth" it’s funny but amazing for those in this situation! 

"Context" a browser plug-in which lets you searches on Google but a more personalized search using APIs of Evernote, Dropbox, Spotify, and Trakt! 

 "Super Fun Kid Time" an app for kids - a play date finder for kids when they get bored in long summer holidays!

"Kovert" a gps app which, out of safety tells you directions through silent "buzzez" so that you don’t have to take your phone out of your pocket!

"SmartDrive", a neat Google Glass app which lets your dream come true.. it’s give you heads up display, you can see how your car is performing, you can unlock your car with your voice, fuel, millage meter and alot more...
  

"Road fview Hack" a car black box app which lets you capture accident videos of your car making it easy for you to get claims! you are not restricted to capture beautiful sceneries aswell :)



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