10 Apps for Kids Available on Windows Store

Summer vacations are already started a couple of weeks back and are there till the end of this month. We would be discussing 10 apps for kids available on windows store to enhance their learning, creativity, and productivity. Children belonging to digital age would already have a lot of agenda on their cards to finish during this vacation. Enjoyment, learning, and fun would be almost on the top of the chart of agendas of almost every kid. These apps will help parents also to keep their kids engaged in some interesting activities rather than spending time in wasteful activities. So, perpetually these apps will not only add fun and learning but also assist them in their home work, project work, holiday planning and more. Mind it, these apps are for Windows platform. For other platforms you will have to find their alternatives.

Here are the 10 apps for kids available on windows store:

Spelling Tutor: Spelling Tutor is for grade school students but engaging enough for their parents too. Kids and their parents can both learn and practice new words, their pronunciations, spellings, using this application. This app will inspire you to go on and on as learning can go endlessly.

Kiddo Smart: This new and innovative app is designed to develop young minds with the help of more than 50 thousand learning activities, games, and videos. The process of development is designed to take place in a personalized manner for all age group kids. Kids and parents can monitor the development with respect to other kids by age and country.

Fresh Paint: Fresh paint can unleash Picaso hidden inside your child. It provides an fabulous canvas for your child to design their brilliant ideas in the most creative manner. This work can be converted to photos to build your own collection of creativity.

KidsTube – Fun and Learn: KidsTube has a huge collection of high-quality videos for kids for a great learning experience. The collection includes Sofia, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Jake the Pirate, Doc McStuffins, and more from Disney shows, Curious George, Peppe Pig, Cat in Hat, Sesame Street, Wild Krats, and a lot more. There are separate categories of Rhymes, Stories, and Animated Series.

Exercises for Kids: This app is designed to help children develop rapid thinking, creativity, coordination, in various manners with the help of memory games, puzzles, connect the dots, geometric shapes etc. This creative learning game is segmented in various educational activities and appears as if multiples apps have been bundled in a single app.

Madagascar Math Ops: This app mixes the challenge of video games with the challenge of mathematical issues. You will find penguins from DreamWorks animated motion picture Madagascar featured in this game. The game brings a versatile range of basic arithmetic puzzles (division, multiplication, addition, subtraction) where the complexity increases as the kid clears the previous levels. When a math problem is is completed, the kid gets to tackle a few action oriented mini-games.

Sway: Sway helps your kids present their homework in an interesting and berautiful manner. It is a digital storytelling app for home, school, and work to provide quick and easy solution to build and share presentations, interactive reports, personal stories etc. Once the kid adds his or her content, Say takes care of the rest in a meaningful manner.

Pocket Mathematics: Pocket Mathematics is a good option for children to get help in their mathematics homework. The app can help them in finishing their mathematics problems in quick and accurate manner. It manages most of the mathematical formulas with appropriate details and images. The app will help you in all kind of mathematical problems and is equally suitable for university students as it is for primary school kids.

Homework On Bing: The app will help kids with their homework as and when required. This is a go to app. The app searches efficiently with integrated Bing search engine providing solution on a well designed art board. It also helps kids in learning handwriting, word search, phonics, counting, clock, tracing, word scramble, spelling, grammar, calendar, etc.

MyHomeWork: This is another app to help students with a digital planner to keep track of their classes, tests, projects, homework and so on in order to assist them in increasing their productivity and efficiency. It is available on various platforms. Although we have discussed multiple applications for homework but all have different functionality and usage thus complementing each other.

My Travel Buddy: Let us move on to vacations. My Travel Buddy assists you in various ways to manage you are out on vacations. It helps you in planning, managing and controlling by preparing checklist, create notes, give reminders and alerts, help in suggesting items you might need for traveling, and Aviary Photo Taker is there to get your pictures with a fantastic results.

TripIt: TripIt app also helps you in planning & managing your itinerary, flights, car, map, hotels, directions – in fact, what all you can think of during traveling. The travel plans can be easily synced with your mobile or online calendar. You can share your itinerary & travel plans on various social media platforms. The app helps you stay connected all the time.

Hope you enjoyed reading this article. Do connect and share your ideas in comments. Thanks!

Microsoft Garage – Insights on Apps Sprightly, Connections and Kaizala

Microsoft Garage Cherishes Business with three new apps

The new apps from Microsoft Garage are there to boost businesses

Over 50 million businesses in India are there and can use Microsoft Garage

Now you have a garage to park your productivity aspirations if you are among the 50 million small businesses in India. Microsoft Garage is offering three apps. There is a strong conviction behind this. Most of the people in India, especially those among 50 million small businesses use smart phone to carry out their core business transactions these days. Microsoft Garage apps promise to help these small businesses become productive and efficient by using the three newly launched apps – Sprightly, Connections, and Kaizala. All three are free Android apps and are available in Google Play. The three productivity apps target small and medium businesses to manage digital presence, team management, business relationships, and business transactions by using these apps. Each has a specific set of functions and functionality.

Sprightly helps businesses in creating, sharing and consuming professional digital content on a smart phone. Now a business can manage catalogs, price lists, e-cards, promotions, and similar kind of other documents in a very simple and effective manner using Sprightly. All this can happen on-the-move thereby increasing efficiency and productivity manifold. Connections on the other hand assists grow the business smartly by providing context to interactions during telephonic interactions with customer. Kaizala boosts a business in helping to perform efficient business transactions over clutter-free conversations. All three innovative apps have been designed solely with the purpose of increasing productivity of individuals and businesses while enabling them to stay connected on the move.

With the help of Sprightly a business can create multiple collage types like Flyers, Catalogs, E-cards, Pricelists and so on. The same can not only be created in a simple and efficient way, but also be shared on various social platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, etc. The repository ensures the new creation becomes part of it so as to reuse it later as and when required. The document created can also be exported as a PDF and shared via email.

With Connections a business can quickly capture notes and reminders for contacts during or after phone calls. Reminders can be set for each contact for follow-up purposes. Contacts can be categorized with tags to auto-organize and to broadcast SMS to various groups in one go. Pictures can be added from the phone gallery to connect visual notes and reminders with a contact.

With Kaizala a business can create groups for each project and conduct standard personal or group chats in an organized and fruitful manner. The members of a group can share on request location updates, photos, and other relevant information. Jobs can be created and assigned as well as tracked with the exact status of person and job at any moment of time.

Microsoft Garage does not stop here with the launch of these three effective and productive Android based smart phone apps. It is just a beginning to help businesses in small and medium business segment. The same apps will be shortly available on other platforms like iOS, Windows etc. There are more apps in the row shortly to come and help businesses in more effective manner.

Tee20 Launches Unique Online Boutique Shopping Experience for Men

Tee20 launched online boutique for men

A unique spin on men’s online boutique shopping by Tee20

Tee20 online boutique offers live fashion experts to help

Tee20 launches a unique and innovative online boutique shopping experience for men. Live fashion experts are available on the portal to provide personalized advice and expert opinions. This spin on men’s experience in buying clothes online in such a unique manner is going to revolutionize by bringing a new definition for online boutique shopping concept for men. Now buying clothes online for men is going to be fun with personalized shopping service available to them all the time, whenever required. The first and only shopping service for men have been launched officially.

Tee20 promises to join the two corners in a smooth manner, one corner being the convenience on e-commerce, and the other corner is the confidence of customary retail shopping. The credit goes to the digital arena where the internet is the boost for deploying such innovative ideas thus benefitting of boutique shopping to the masses across the nation.

You can take help of fashion experts that are available live to determine your clothing needs. Based on your personal preferences filled at the time of signup on the portal, Tee20 automatically selects the best possible hand-picked items closely matching with certain factors like profession, budget, personality, and lifestyle.

The unique set of services like expert’s advice, delivery at your doorstep, pick up of returns on merchandise from your doorstep etc. are 100% free. There is no shipping cost of any other hidden charges. You are bound to pay only for what you like to keep and use. The online boutique shopping experience on Tee20 is simple to use. You need to choose a plan and pick a package after filling a short survey. The system will inform super stylists in real-time the moment you finish your registration activities on the portal. The moment super stylists get an alert that you are onboard, they start matching the items available with your looks, style, and personality. The selected bunch of perfect match is then displayed in your personalized account. The moment you finalize those shirts/ tees/ and other merchandise, the system takes care of the shipping.

You are definitely going to fall in love with this hassle-free, personalized, customized, professional, one-on-one experience at Tee20.com. 

IndiPR is the New Mantra from IndiBlogger for Press Releases

IndiBlogger introduces the new age mantra IndiPR

IndiPR is an intelligent and automated process to help businesses

IndiPR.com from IndiBlogger is simple, precise and rigorous

IndiBlogger has recently launched IndiPR, a new mantra for the first order of business that is Press Release. It is an intelligently built, simple to use, automated process. It is a new age tool for the new and old age businesses. It adds value and intelligence in managing press releases to reach the right amount of relevant audience in a wider spectrum in a precise manner. IndiPR is a self-learning tool to act intelligently in both the directions in an automated manner where one end is the publishers/businesses/corporate and the other end is the right kind of audience to make it more effective and fruitful which is the core purpose of the business. The medium is IndiBlogger and the bloggers. This way it is going to help a lot of businesses, services, products and startups.

When a service or product goes live, there is a press release from the business which may also be termed as the first order of business. IndiPR helps these press releases to reach the relevant influencers who in turn publish it on their blog to target relevant readers. The Digital journey of a press release thus gets right direction with the right aim. Time is a greater factor in such kind of ecosystem. If a Press Release does not cover a large number of relevant targets it might lose its purpose. That is where IndiPR from IndiBlogger plays a major role.

IndiPR engine is simple to use yet rigorous in functioning. The cycle starts with a business submitting a latest press release to the Automated Influencer Targeting Engine (AITE). Once submitted it is open for top bloggers to apply. These bloggers are part of the IndiBlogger community and the newly designed AITE engine intelligently shortlists the relevant bloggers automatically while taking care of the relevant basis of their selection. These factors include a blogger’s rating, ranking, genre, relevance, and maturity of the blog. 

BlueCube Network Launched FlipMetric at Surge 2016 Web Summit

BlueCube Network launched FlipMetric at first ever Web Summit held in India

FlipMetric is an intelligent, intuitive, and real-time analytics tool for businesses

BlueCube Network is a Jaipur based startup company engaged in Digital Media Marketing in an innovative manner presenting analytics in real-time thereby helping businesses to take more realistic decisions and approaches to tackle the marketing. The company started its operations in 2012. In the recent concluded Surge 2016, the prestigious Web Summit that happened for the first time in India in five years, the company launched their product FlipMetric. FlipMetric is an intelligent, intuitive, and real-time analytics tool for businesses. Surge 2016 is being treated as an upheaval for the Startup system in India. Paddy Cosgrave, CEO, Web Summit, decided this year conference to be in India. His initiative has been welcomed in a big way and the grand success is sufficient enough to prove it.

BlueCube participated in the event as Exhibitors and decided to launch their product FlipMetric there. It was the best option to do it at this prestigious global event in which more than 5000 participants were there from a little less than hundred countries. It is important to learn about FlipMetric and know what and how exactly it functions. FlipMetric is a SaaS (Software as a Service) application that performs business analytics on the huge business data in order to empower the top management in taking timely and precise business decisions. It will help companies stop banking on a subjective approach based on intuitions rather than accumulating and analyzing all business data from various sources. The companies will thus be able to take an objective and effective approach.  The product is supposed to handle complex data presenting and executing in a simple manner. The venture was started by Maneesh Sharma and Himanshu Sharma in 2012.

As per Himanshu Sharma, CEO, it is the necessity that made them create the product to enhance the capabilities and cope up with the complexity of tracking the performance based on certain set of KPIs (Key Performance Indicators). 

Google AMP the Accelerated Mobile Pages Project – An Insight

Google AMP or the Accelerated Mobile Pages is aimed for faster mobile web experience

Google AMP will change the complete gamut of revenue through advertising

Accelerated Mobile Pages is focused on optimization of web page loading and relevant user behaviour

Google AMP or the Accelerated Mobile Pages project is aimed at faster mobile web experience. It will change the complete gamut of revenue through advertising and subscriptions. It is about focusing on optimization of web page loading and its relevant impacts on user behaviour. News access on smartphones has increased. People want to utilize their time on the move. The consumption of time for accessing news on phones is larger than other devices. The user’s expectations have changed accordingly. The user expects a faster experience. The pages have obviously to be lighter in the mobile version. But the user doesn’t want any compromise with the quality or content of the news while accessing it on mobile. That is where Google AMP project comes into picture – a project for faster and open mobile web experience by the user.

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Most of the publishers don’t want any compromise in web page loading in a mobile so that the faster page load ensures two things. First, the probability of losing a customer reduces if the page loads with a faster pace. Secondly, if the page loads faster, consequently the readership staying intact ensures lesser risks to the opportunity of earning revenue through advertising or subscriptions. Obviously, if the pages load taking a higher amount of time, there are higher chances of users abandoning those sites completely. This seriously impacts advertisers positioned on these websites having a high risk of losing customers paying attention to their ads.

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Google AMP project was initiated in Oct last year. Accelerated Mobile Pages is a new and open source project. Its sole aim is to enhance mobile internet performance. The rich content has not to be compromised. Videos, graphics, and animations have to stay intact. With all this, the content has to load instantly keeping in mind all kind of phones, tablets, and other mobile devices. The backbone of this project is AMP HTML which is an open framework quite different from the current web technologies. It allows creating light-weight web pages thus keeping all the risks away.

Arun Jaitley Updates World In Real Time Via Twitter For Union Budget

Arun Jaitley presented his third Union budget lit up by Twitter with real-time updates

Union Minister of Finance Arun Jaitley used real-time video, infographics while presenting Union Budget 2016

As the Union Minister of Finance Mr. Arun Jaitley (@arunjaitley) presented his third Union budget today, Twitter lit up with real-time updates around #Budget2016 taking over timelines. The Ministry of Finance (@FinMinIndia) aided by Press Information Bureau (PIB_India) and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB_India) kept millions of citizens updated with real-time video, infographics and key highlights of #Budget2016.

Join the #Budget2016 conversation on Twitter, hear from the Government directly. https://t.co/oiiwgtRyNj

— Twitter India (@TwitterIndia) February 26, 2016

#VikasKaBudget Rupee comes and goes to pic.twitter.com/UypumCTZrw

— Ministry of Finance (@FinMinIndia) February 29, 2016

#VikasKaBudget Budget at a glance : Key figures pic.twitter.com/YycROLlJFd

— Ministry of Finance (@FinMinIndia) February 29, 2016

Twitter also integrated with media platforms, who innovated on real-time Twitter Tools like Periscope, Video, Polls, Q&As, and other innovative integrations to enliven the #budget2016 conversation.

LIVE on #Periscope: Discuss the #Budget2016 with the @mint_ed! https://t.co/0lE5vACPTX

— Livemint (@livemint) February 29, 2016

#ETonBudget: Live updates on #Budget2016: https://t.co/gvwsVJWJHg

Will this budget be the #Gamechanger?

— EconomicTimes (@EconomicTimes) February 29, 2016

ബജറ്റ് 2016 പ്രധാന പ്രഖ്യാപനങ്ങൾ ലഭിക്കാൻ #ബജറ്റ്2016 എന്ന ഹാഷ് ടാഗിൽ ട്വീറ്റ് ചെയ്യുക

— Manorama News (@manoramanews) February 29, 2016

#ETonBudget Join me on Periscope at 1.30 PM and get all your budget queries answered by @tkarun

— Rohini Singh (@Rohinisgh) February 29, 2016

#Budget2016 left you dazed and confused? We have the answers! #AskCNBCTV18 and we'll tell you what really happened. pic.twitter.com/xHaUB4aOid

— CNBC-TV18 News (@CNBCTV18News) February 29, 2016

@rvirgo9 Here are the top 10 takeaways of #Budget2016 pic.twitter.com/TGx9SYjyoI

— CNBC-TV18 News (@CNBCTV18News) February 29, 2016

@Mojitowali Here is how #Budget2016 will impact Education pic.twitter.com/Wdz79w5kMb

— CNBC-TV18 News (@CNBCTV18News) February 29, 2016

@EterrnalBliss Here is how #Budget2016 will impact Digital Push pic.twitter.com/QUAK6vmFP8

— CNBC-TV18 News (@CNBCTV18News) February 29, 2016

@Yashancool Here is how #Budget2016 will impact the Power Sector pic.twitter.com/uFgGTC6vlI

— CNBC-TV18 News (@CNBCTV18News) February 29, 2016

@10_ssc Here is how #Budget2016 will impact Aam Aadmi pic.twitter.com/tsVeLwnr5E

— CNBC-TV18 News (@CNBCTV18News) February 29, 2016

@COOL8769 Here is how #Budget2016 will impact the Telecom Industry pic.twitter.com/9BBZzAFAWp

— CNBC-TV18 News (@CNBCTV18News) February 29, 2016

@DebSourobh Here is how #Budget2016 will impact Housing and Real Estate pic.twitter.com/K5PbFqwBui

— CNBC-TV18 News (@CNBCTV18News) February 29, 2016

@DebSourobh Here is how #Budget2016 will impact Infrastructure pic.twitter.com/wDbrir3KCr

— CNBC-TV18 News (@CNBCTV18News) February 29, 2016

@DebSourobh Here is how #Budget2016 will impact Banks pic.twitter.com/JgSbm3XFQq

— CNBC-TV18 News (@CNBCTV18News) February 29, 2016

@DebSourobh Here is how #Budget2016 will impact the Telecom Industry pic.twitter.com/9BBZzAFAWp

— CNBC-TV18 News (@CNBCTV18News) February 29, 2016

@vipin277 Here is how #Budget2016 will impact Housing and Real Estate pic.twitter.com/K5PbFqwBui

— CNBC-TV18 News (@CNBCTV18News) February 29, 2016

@Deep10x Here is how #Budget2016 will impact Agriculture pic.twitter.com/Xec679tVmX

— CNBC-TV18 News (@CNBCTV18News) February 29, 2016

Raheel Khursheed, Head of News & Government Partnerships at Twitter India, said “Twitter has become the go-to platform for users for all the real time information pertaining to a vast array of topics. By simplifying the Union Budget 2016 for public with the help of Twitter tools, we created a holistic and well integrated real-time budget experience for them. We saw tremendous participation from users as they engaged with the relevant stakeholders, Tweeted their views on the budget and participated in discussions.”

PM Modi (@narendramodi) and several others took to Twitter to congratulate Arun Jaitley and his team on the Budget.

Embeddable Tweet: https://twitter.com/PMOIndia/status/704241057240715266

Embeddable Tweet: https://twitter.com/ChouhanShivraj/status/704210125070839809

Twitter also equipped users with a live and public platform to engage in conversations around the Union Budget and express their views on the same.

This budget is about the dreams of the people. I congratulate FM @arunjaitley and his team: PM @narendramodi #VikasKaBudget

— PMO India (@PMOIndia) February 29, 2016

Happy with budget proposals, particularly the ones towards Agricultural and rural sectors #Budget2016 #HailArunJaitly

— Rajkumar Kattimani (@CARajkumarK) February 29, 2016

Very well balanced budget, #Growth oriented #Budget2016..Big boost to infra-Sector will boost employment and overall economy

— Ravi Gupta (@rav26051) February 29, 2016

Key trending hashtags:

●     #Budget2016

●     #VikasKaBudget

●     #UnionBudget2016

●     #ModiBudgetTest

Accounts to follow:

●     @FinMinIndia - Ministry of Finance

●     @arunjaitley - Arun Jaitley, Finance Minister

WhatsApp Divorces Blackberry OS and Many Others in December 2016

WhatsApp ends supporting Blackberry OS

WhatsApp not only ends support for Blackberry OS but many others

WhatsApp, owned by Facebook has declared its end of support for a few operating systems. These operating systems include Blackberry, Nokia Symbian S60, and Windows Phone 7.1. The company says it will impact only a handful of smartphone users. It estimates there are very few smartphone users who are having devices working on these operating systems. Facebook says it wants to move ahead with a focused approach in further development of this most popular messaging and voice application’s features. It probably is working on 80/20 rule in my opinion. By discarding 20% of the smartphone users with least used operating system will let them focus more on 80% of users. More than a billion smartphone owners actively use this app. The divorce will happen in December 2016.

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The good news is that the app will be running fine on Blackberry latest range of smartphones. It is so because the new range from Blackberry runs Android operating system. Logically, the end of support will not impact even the 20% as stated above. That was just to elaborate my opinion using 80/20 rule. It will not impact much because these are least used operating systems. They don’t come on new devices. These are legacy operating support facing an end of life. Even there are no updates released for these operating systems. The only exception among these is Blackberry 10. It was launched hardly three years back and is still being supported and developed by the company.

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The next upgrade of Blackberry, that is, 10.3.4 is planned to be released in the last quarter this year. The development of Blackberry 10 has been a setback for the company as it has not attracted volume churning. It could attract hardly 1% of the market though the dreams were much higher. I assume an end of life of Blackberry 10 soon. 

Suresh Prabhu Used Periscope and Twitter To Present Rail Budget 2016

Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu Presented His Second Railways Budget 2016

Suresh Prabhu presented Rail Budget 2016 using Twitter to update in real time

Suresh Prabhu utilized the power of Twitter and Periscope to present Rail Budget 2016

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Suresh Prabhu, Union Minister for Railways is not only being praised for an excellent Railways Budget 2016 but also for unleashing the power of technology to reach out to his audience in real-time, and that too in an interactive manner. That is the beauty of the human mind. Technology has no limits and boundaries. It is the human brain that sets the limitations based on his thoughts and capabilities. Before releasing railways budget 2016, Suresh Prabhu was seen on Periscope in the morning. He was having a breakfast chat with a large number of audience in real-time. The session was to set expectations from this year’s budget. These are few steps taking India from the status of a developing country to a developed country.

@amit_maurya01 Here are the highlights of the 2016 Railway Budget pic.twitter.com/QW7ReR9v16

— Ministry of Railways (@RailMinIndia) February 25, 2016

Such things were never seen in all previous governments. Suresh Prabhu not only ensured to present a well-balanced, poor friendly and old-age friendly budget; but also made it a point to engage a lot of people using social media in a real-time environment. It was all interactive for the first time in the history of our country. It was presented in public symbolically than in the parliament. New Delhi Railway Station witnessed more than 100 Twitter screens broadcasting the speech and getting users the Rail Budget 2016 in real-time. It was for the first time a real-time engagement with people on a global front. People were connected at home, in office, on the move, in the country, outside country.

Want to congratulate @sureshpprabhu and the entire Team Railways: PM on #RailBudget2016 @RailMinIndia

— PMO India (@PMOIndia) February 25, 2016

It was not only broadcasting of Railways Budget 2016 and speech of the Union Minister of Railways, Suresh Prabhu but also demonstration of the urge of One India by engaging all the people to such a large extent using Twitter. The minister also sent real-time infographics highlighting the key features of the budget. There was a clear cut engagement visible when a number of ministers, celebrities and a lot of other people interacted, praised, reacted and expressed their opinion on the budget.

Tweet using #RailBudget2016 & get the highlights of the budget from @RailMinIndia instantly. @sureshpprabhu https://t.co/egQfSM6ruF

— Twitter India (@TwitterIndia) February 25, 2016

iZofy Astrology and Numerology App

iZofy is a scientifically designed Astrology and Numerology App

iZofy is all about Astrology and Numerology, and much beyond

iZofy Astrology and Numerology App provides good and relevant information alerts

Download iZofy App on Android to see more such shocking videos about people born on 4^th, 8^th, 13^th, 17^th, 22^nd, 26^th, and 31^st https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmQHcjbe6Og&list=PLx6IR6svqpomWEtWsqNfXpwnbpMb4enJz&index=5 via www.fromote.com/#ref=1601. If you all in the age group of 30 to 45, you must try this astrology and numerology app. But I feel it can be used by anyone belonging to any age group. The app promises to keep you engaged throughout on daily basis. The app is light to use and fast to respond. I checked the app thoroughly. The downloading is fast. Its content is quite informative and relevant. You have plenty of articles and videos to run through. This is something unique. The app is quite informative. You get your daily forecast based on astrology and numerology. The videos are really stunning. The interesting articles are updated on a regular basis. You get fresh stuff on daily basis. Installation of the app didn’t take much time. It asks your basic details. Based on your zodiac. If you all in the age group of 30 to 45, you must try this astrology and numerology app. But I feel it can be used by anyone belonging to any age group. The app promises to keep you engaged throughout on daily basis. The app is light to use and fast to respond. I checked the app thoroughly. The downloading is fast. Its content is quite informative and relevant. You have plenty of articles and videos to run through. This is something unique. The app is quite informative. You get your daily forecast based on astrology and numerology. The videos are really stunning. The interesting articles are updated on a regular basis. You get fresh stuff on daily basis. Installation of the app didn’t take much time. It asks your basic details. Based on your zodiac and birth number, you keep getting interesting information.

To solve your life obstacles and problems there is an innovative approach adopted in iZofy. The astrology and numerology app is, in fact, a collaboration of problem solvers of repute and solution seekers i.e. the app users. To find a solution to your problem you need to explain it well and submit it. The problem is seen by all relevant astrologers and numerologists. They will submit their quotes for the solution. You have a choice to select the best solution provider. Logically, you will find it quite practical and transparent. The mechanism designed is simple yet powerful.

iZofy gives you daily tips based on your zodiac and birth number. You can check the astrology and numerology app on the basis of both verticals. I check it on the basis of the zodiac and then on the basis of numerology. Then I get a clear picture on the basis of both. You will also find free calculators related to astrology and numerology. Overall, it is an innovative, practical and scientifically designed app that you must try. Since I installed this app, I use it daily on my android phone on a regular basis. 

NASA and Made In Space unveil 3D Space Printer

NASA and Made In Space bring a revolution with launch of Space Printer

Made in Space, a NASA-funded start-up developed this 3D Space Printer

3D Space printer produced by NASA and Made in Space is a major breakthrough

Made in Space is a start-up engaged in the production of innovative technology products. It is funded by NASA. 3D Space Printer is a phenomenal breakthrough in the earth-space arena. This amazing space printer has been produced by NASA and Made in Space. Imagine the cost and time constraints for sending spare parts for the astronauts deployed on the International Space Station (ISS). The best way of getting things there in the easiest possible manner is to get the things generated there. Create it in space as and when it is required. Otherwise sending it from earth to space is going to absorb the exorbitant cost for even an item of negligible weight or cost. Survival in space is possible only if we are able to create or build things there without any dependency on Earth. Development of space printer is one such step in this direction. This significant development was announced by NASA at its research park in Silicon Valley.

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On March 23, a miraculous thing will happen in the International Space Station (ISS). That is the plan shared by NASA and Made in Space in their recent announcement while explaining the new 3D space printer. There are six crew members in the ISS. This printer will help them in making spare parts. They will be free to use it further for some innovative solutions. This will be a kind of mini-factory in space. A factory that will produce anything you want. It will be a manufacturing unit in space. A prototype of this 3D space printer has already been shared with the ISS crew. The new model that is reaching them on March 23 will be a fully functional device. The project undertaken by NASA and Made in Space will take its shape in reality that day.

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The wonderful concept is whatever you want to send in ISS, it will be sent digitally to space. Andrew Rush, CEO of Made in Space is quite excited while making this announcement. The launch of 3D Space Printer is dream come true for NASA and Made in Space.

Terror Data Debate About Government Requests for Data – Bill Gates

Terror Data Debate should start as per Bill Gates

The recent tussle between Apple and the FBI calls for a terror data debate – Bill Gates

There has to be set norms for terror data requests by the government, says Bill Gates

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Norms need to be set for all telecom and other companies for providing terror data when requested by the government. A recent tussle between Apple and the FBI calls for a terror data debate says, Bill Gates. The FBI wanted access to the complete history data of a dead murderer’s phone from Apple. Apple refused to oblige the FBI. This should immediately be taken into account. A debate must start about any kind of government requests for such kind of data as opined by Bill Gates. The fight between the FBI and Apple is lingering on for last few days and has reached to an extent of knocking the doors of the court. FBI wanted Apple to unlock the iPhone owned by Syed Rizwan Farook. Farook killed more than a dozen of innocent people in December last year. Is Apple worried in losing business if they oblige the FBI with this terror data?

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On one hand the FBI is seeking data related to Farook for investigation purposes. On the other hand, Apple has plainly refused to provide so saying the FBI order is risky and exceptional. Bill Gates in a discussion with the Financial Times stated that this is a particular case where the FBI is seeking data access. If they had asked for complete data of all customers, it could raise an objection. But for a specific case with a valid reason, Apple should not get into such kind of resisting mode. He further opined that the case is not different from government agencies seeking data from telecom and banking sector. In another interview held with BBC, Bill Gates said the issue has reached to an extent where a debate has become a necessity. The controversial point raised by Bill Gates is that on one hand government assures to protect citizens and on the other hand, in such critical conditions, the government wants this data to be exposed. He emphasized that the question is about the availability of such data to the government. Should agencies like the FBI stay blind or they should have all the rights to access data.

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The US Department of Justice is also seeking relevant date from Apple in the context of around 15 different cases where investigations are stuck due to lack of data. It is important to settle this issue once for all. The terror data debate must take place as early as possible as demanded by Bill Gates.

TED 2016: Uber and AirBnB Play Same Music

Uber and AirBnB emphasized on goodness of sharing at TED 2016

Both Uber and AirBnB take advantage of disruptive business ideology: TED 2016

Uber and AirBnB, most talked about technology businesses, defend Sharing Economy at TED 2016

At TED 2016, two different business verticals Uber and AirBnB talked about the same philosophy of Sharing. Both played the same music on the goodness of sharing. Both have taken a good amount of advantage of disruptive business conditions. The bosses of both the companies emphasized on defending sharing economy model at TED conference Talks. Many governments in the countries where these two companies are operative are scrutinizing their operating model. The concern is about understanding their operating mechanism, business model, and profit model. Head or AirBnB, Joe Gebbia is confident about his understanding of benefits of the disruptive models of business and commerce. The same is the case with Travis Kalanick, head of Uber.

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It is all a mind game. The business world is like a chessboard. It all depends on how well you play your turns. How do you strategize and how far you are able to strategize in advance? The risk is not jumping into turbulent waters. The risk is in not knowing it is turbulent. And the risk is in knowing but not equipping well before jumping. It is important to have clarity in various business situations that might arise at a later stage and how do you plan to cope up. While Uber is in sharing cars, AirBnB is in sharing homes. Both the business gurus emphasized on passing on the maximum benefit to end consumer makes it a winning the game situation. The more communities get benefitted, the more you prosper. The more you benefit the communities, the better are the chances to connect with more communities. Now replace the word communities with customers. And that is the crux of any business to prosper. This philosophy works well even in worst kind of economic conditions.

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Joe Gebbia when launched AirBnB started it as an online service to enable traveling community to offer private homes for rent rather than opting to stay in hotels. He explained the first time fear for a customer to rent his home to a stranger is like unlocking your mobile phone and handing it over to the person sitting next to you. But when you build an atmosphere of Trust, everything is possible. Though he himself had a drastic first-hand experience as a first-time host under this business model, gradually the trust factor built up in the business model. He feared that night when he had a stranger sleeping on an airbed in his room, that the stranger might kidnap him.

Uber is an app-only based cab booking service. It provides private and hire cars. It is among the most controversial companies on the earth. Overall, both the companies emphasized at TED 2016 that sharing of economies is the best business model. Both Uber and AirBnB were seen singing the same song and playing the same music.

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