The Evolution Of Chatbots

If you have used tech of late you must have met a digital assistant who welcomes you to their service or offer you selection to various options available, welcome to the new norm in tech, they are called chatbots and they are replacing humans at a large scale. they are cheap in the long run and easy to scale

for more about chatbots follow the link below

https://www.cybertrend.com/article/20815/the-evolution-of-chatbots

BLAME IT ON TRUMP: APPLE SKIP REPUBLICAN CONVENTION

Apple say it will not support this year republican convention cause of Trump. They are not comfortable with trump rhetoric and hate talk against women, foreigners and LGBT community

https://www.engadget.com/2016/06/18/apple-refuses-to-help-gop-convention/

MICROSOFT BUYS LINKEDIN FOR $26.2 BILLION

Microsoft opens its wallet in a big way and buys LinkedIn for $26.2B, Microsoft is looking into the future and it believes that the connected professional  social network will go a long way in growing it bread and butter software “Office365”

http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-buys-linkedin-2016-6

HACKERS AND ATMs, THE GRAND THEFT

Rarely we hear about hackers taking down ATM machines but in japan they did that and got away with $12.7 million in heist that involved about 100 people in under 2 hours

follow the link below for full story

http://gizmodo.com/hackers-stole-12-7-million-from-japanese-atms-in-less-1778185205?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

http://www.engadget.com/2016/05/23/atm-hacking-spree-nets-thieves-12-7-million-in-two-hours/

CHROMEBOOKS ARE HERE TO STAY

When Google introduced chromebooks a few years ago nobody thought they would be a hit, who wanted a device that only runs Chromium OS and you could only use them online. Then the world changed and cloud/mobile computing became the in thing then people started to take notice. Google did a better job marketing them especially to the millennials and they are outselling both Microsoft pcs and Apple macbooks.  Now Google are going one step better by smashing together Chrome OS and Android OS. This will mean over a million apps are coming to Chromebooks.

For more on Chromebooks click on the link  http://www.google.com/chromebook/

PROJECT ARA :INTERCHANGEABLE PHONE

Imaging having a phone that you can replace any part that you dont like without upgrading the entire phone, imagine swaping parts of a phone like its lego depending on what you want to do with it…… This is not  syfy gadget but a phone that is been developed by google. This is ARA, google modular phone that it want to change the world with. This will mean that you dont have to always buy a new phone to get advance features but just buy the part that you want to upgrade and swap it. this is not a popular idea with manufacturers since they make money buy selling new phones in the name of upgrade or advance features

for more on Project ARA click on the links below

https://atap.google.com/ara/

http://blueandgoldonline.org/wp/2015/03/29/project-ara-the-slickest-smartphone-yet/  The video below shows more about Google Project ARA

YOU HAVE BEEN HACKED

 

A hacker called peace is selling 117 Million linkeIn accounts on the deep web. This include email addresses and password that can be used to access the various account on the web, User are been asked to changed their password especially those who have LinkedIn accounts

for more info check the link below

http://www.techinsider.io/hacker-selling-117-million-linkedin-emails-and-passwords-2016-5

GOOGLE HOME

In the battle for home artificial assistant Amazon Echo has been the king of the hill, a simple device that takes command and request and respond based on the search algorithm. Now their is a new player in the field……… Google Home. a voice activated home device that was launched at this year Google i/o (google biggest tech event). Analyst are taunting it as the Echo competitor. Can google beat amazon at its own game, time will tell. Check the video below for more about Google Home

 

NOKIA TO RETURN ON THE ANDROID PLATFORM

Nokia is back and it will run Android. This is good news for Nokia die hard. Nokia has one of the best hardware but was always let down by its software since it runs windows mobile. Microsoft sold the Nokia brand to  Foxconn for $350 Million. In 2014 Microsoft bought Nokia for $7.2 Billion hopping that it will challenge Google Android and Apple IOS as a mobile platform but had to admit that it was an ambitious project, later they conceded that it was a bad idea

for more info click the link below

http://www.engadget.com/2016/05/18/nokia-hmd-global-fih-mobile-smartphone-tablet-android/

Alibaba C.E.O. 5 things that will change your life

According to Jack Ma we don’t grow based on our day jobs but what we do after we live the office, our day jobs pay is just enough for our survival. the things we do after that is what will determine how far we can go. The link below shows us his best advice for growth

After work, is what determines your future! Spend one hour per day doing these 5 things and your life will change forever!