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Google Home, the tech giant’s smart speaker suffered an outage where the Assistant did not respond to the users. Google Home is equipped with the AI-based assistant which responds to the launch phrases, ‘Ok Google’ or ‘Hey Google’. Unfortunately, Google Assistant was responding with, “Hmm, something went wrong. Try again in a few seconds,” or “There was a glitch. Try again in a few seconds.” Google updated saying that the glitch has been fixed now. The Google Home outage appears to have started from May 31 according to the complaints posted on Google Home Help Forum. Android Police reported that only the Google Home smart speaker was affected with this glitch, and the other devices with Google Assistant worked fine. Google Home users who pointed out the glitch on the forum said that they had tried resetting the device, and even changed the Wi-Fi network, but the problem was still occurring. To some users, the command ‘Ok Google’ would work 60 to 70 percent of the time, and...

Everyone wants to chip in and help expand India’s internet population. Last year, Google partnered with Railtel to provide Wi-Fi hotspots across 400 railway stations in India. The company managed to cover more than 100 stations till December 2016 and is working to add more every month. Seeing this as an opportunity, and the fact that its Free Basics programme did not gain steam in the country, Facebook has now partnered with Bharti Airtel to provide 20,000 Wi-Fi hotspots in India. With this collaboration, Facebook plans to use its Express Wi-Fi services to provide affordable internet access to Indians. Facebook was already testing its Express Wi-Fi services in India since 2015. Other countries where the affordable Wi-Fi services are available include - Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria and Indonesia. In a previous post detailing Express Wi-Fi, the company had mentioned, “When people are able to purchase fast, affordable and reliable internet, they’re able to explore the range of...

With the number of internet users in India poised to touch a whopping 450 million mark in the coming two months, as per Internet and Mobile Association of India, investing in digital marketing warrants a colossal growth for Indian enterprises~ A quarter of our country's billion plus population is already engaged in utilising the infinite 'web' opportunities on smartphones as well as PCs. If that's not compelling enough, then the telecom ministry of India expects the number to inflate to a historic 730 million by 2020. With these gigantic numbers in place, no doubt the opportunities associated with digital promotion and marketing are immense and businesses are increasingly acknowledging this fact. In this write up we will dive a bit deeper to highlight the business potential of Digital Marketing. A reach of an unprecedented magnitude While an innovative product does help in creating a buzz in the market, the real potential of a class apart entreprene...

1. Digital Payment Types With the likes of Apple Pay, Amazon Pay and PayPal customers are no longer having to take our their card to complete an online transaction, orders can be made with a fingerprint or online pin number. In 2016, more and more customers adopted digital payment types through all channels, using their phones, cards and even watches to complete contactless payments – this is set to continue and expand in 2017 where, PureNet predicts that every customer will expect to be able to complete their transaction using a digital wallet. 2. The Rise of Fast Delivery Over the last few years ecommerce delivery timescales have drastically reduced and become much more precise. Customers now expect to be able to Click and Collect, even from pure-play ecommerce retailers with the rise of collection points from companies such as Collect+. So what does PureNet predict for delivery in 2017? ASOS, New Look and Boohoo have recently launched ‘precise delivery’ with 1-hour delivery ...

As journalists would know, fact checking is one of the key jobs of an editor in newsrooms. In this freewheeling world of social media and search engines, that art has taken a back seat and has resulted in a multitude of controversies. Google, which has found itself in the eye of the storm has doubled down on its crusade against fake news which surfaces on its platform by way of search results. For this, it has introduced 'fact check' for search and its news results.  "We're able to do this work because the fact check industry itself has grown—there are now more than 120 organizations involved in tackling this issue—but our commitment to this area is not new. In Europe over the last couple of years we've been working with publishers on a number of efforts focused on fact checking. Last week, we announced CrossCheck, a joint project involving nearly 20 French newsrooms and the First Draft Coalition to debunk myths pertaining to the upcoming French electio...

It's the 1st web-based controller developed in php! Easy to install, easy to customize, but with a big potential for your applications! About this project This project is the result of a very challenging work, lasting about two years, driven solely by the passion and the desire to stake own life. Thank you for attention. WHAT IS PHP CONTROLLER? Php Controller is a powerful software platform that permits to make a customized automation system using a web-based technology, very useful for developing of Internet of Things applications. If you have in mind Arduino and Raspberry Pi modules, you can consider Php Controller as the software version of these low cost development platforms. WHO IS IT FOR? Php Controller is designed for prototypists, developers, web designers and students and offers a ready-to-start software controller that you can customize for your purposes with few steps, in order to manage remote I/O boards organized in a client-server archite...

Unless you’re a small business owner who is not interested in growing your brand, you need to have a website. These days building a business website or ecommerce store is easier than ever: it doesn’t cost much money, you don’t have to know how to code or design, your online store is not restricted to business hours, and it’s one of the best means of free advertising. Having a small business website isn’t just about selling your goods and services — it’s also about providing something of value to potential customers. With so many low priced online services, there’s really no excuse to keep putting it off. Still not sure how having a website will help you grow your business? Here are ten reasons every business needs a website: 1. Your customers expect it. If this were the only reason on the list, it would be enough. Six out of ten consumers expect brands to provide online content about their business on some form of digital property, and more than half...

EATTLE, Feb. 24, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Tableau (NYSE: DATA), a global leader in visual analytics, today announced that Gartner, Inc. has positioned Tableau as a Leader in its February 2017 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms report. This is the fifth consecutive year that Tableau has been named a Leader. In addition, Tableau was positioned the highest for Ability to Execute for the fourth consecutive year. Tableau believes this recognition establishes the analytics software as the first choice in the industry. A complimentary copy of the report can be downloaded from the Tableau website at  https://www.tableau.com/resource/2017-gartner-magic-quadrant The annual report evaluated 24 different software vendors on 15 critical capabilities before placing Tableau in the Leaders quadrant. Tableau is an established enterprise platform, with an innovative roadmap including NLP, machine-learning-enabled data prep and smart data discovery. "We be...

Users can keep track of saved places and share lists with others via text, email and popular messaging apps. Google Maps has added a new list-making feature that lets users save locations to a specified list so that it can be accessed later — even offline — and shared with other users. To save a location in Google Maps, tap on its name and then the “Save” icon to add it to a list. Lists of saved places can be organized under preset lists Google has already named, like “Want to go” or “Favorites,” or users can create a new list. Google says lists can be shared by text and email, on social networks and via popular messaging apps. From the Google Maps Blog: Whenever friends and family come to town, tap the share button to get a link and start flexing your local knowledge muscles. Once you send a link to your out-of-towners, they can tap “Follow” to pull up the list from Your Places whenever they need it. Google posted the following video to show how the new feature work...

The taskbar is getting ever so monochrome—even as apps are looking more exciting. At its developer day event yesterday, Microsoft spent a long time extolling the virtues of the Universal Windows Platform and the Windows 10 Creators Update to developers. But subtly, the company slipped in a screenshot that gives us a first look at Project Neon, the next iteration of the company's design language. The picture shows a refreshed version of the Groove music app on a Windows desktop. The fundamentals of the app and its layout aren't changed, underscoring that Neon is very much an iteration of the current Metro/Microsoft Design Language (MDL). The window has shed its discrete title bar and one pixel border, with the application content now extending to the very edge of the window. The search text field no longer has a box around it, and the left hand pane has a hint of translucency to it. This adds a little more visual interest. While Metro/MDL has long been assumed to...

Open source CMS projects hit the ground running in January, barely pausing after the end-of-the-year break. A Forrester web content management Wave was released, summits were held and words of digital war were declared.  If you missed out on any of last month’s action, here are the latest open source CMS headlines. Hippo The latest Forrester Wave WCM report ensured January was a big month for Hippo, a BloomReach company, which was promoted to the “Strong Performer” category. Hippo’s rapid rise through the ranks is well worth discussing.  Throughout 2014, Hippo was nowhere to be seen on any Forrester Wave. A year later, it debuted in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant as a “Niche Player” before being bumped up to “Visionary” status in 2016. Today, Forrester places Hippo comfortably alongside the industry’s most revered names. DNN The DNN Summit was held in Denver from Jan. 18 to 23. Hundreds of DNN users attended the event, which is managed by volunte...

In honor of Data Privacy Day, we provide the following “Top 10 for 2017.”  While the list is by no means exhaustive, it does provide some hot topics for organizations to consider in 2017. 1.  Phishing Attacks and Ransomware – Phishing, as the name implies, is the attempt, usually via email, to obtain sensitive or personal information by disguising oneself as a trustworthy source. The IRS reported a 400 percent surge in phishing and malware incidents in 2016 and dedicates a page on its website to phishing and online scams. A relatively simply, yet extremely effective safeguard against such an attack is for organizations to advise employees (especially those in HR and Payroll) to be on the lookout for email requests, often appearing to come from a supervisor, for the personal information of all, or large groups of, the company’s employees. Before responding electronically, employees should verbally confirm such requests. This is especially true as organizations begin t...

Google is acquiring Twitter's mobile application developer platform Fabric, a move which could give some breathing room for the social network after charting an independent path without a suitor.  Terms of the deal were not announced.  Twitter last year was in talks to sell itself with several firms including Google parent Alphabet, but without a deal decided to continue on an independent path, cutting jobs and refocusing on its core services.  The sale of Fabric will shift to Google the platform used by developers for mobile apps.  "When we launched Fabric in 2014, our goal was to provide the best tools to help developers create amazing apps," the Fabric team said in a blog post.  "Today we enter the next chapter for Fabric and are pleased to announce that we've signed an agreement for Fabric to be acquired by Google and for our team to join Google's Developer Products Group, working with the Firebase team."  Google Firebas...

Knowing which techniques are most effective for driving traffic to your site is a learning curve that never flattens. A new year means new SEO speculation and trends. While there are some components of search engine optimization that have worked for several years and will continue to work, there will always be new trends that you need to shift your focus to. One of the most frequent questions I’m asked via direct message on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram is, “What’s new in terms of SEO?” It’s a constantly changing landscape that never sits idle long. Here are eight trends to be aware of as we start 2017. 1. HTTPS is no longer just an option. HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) keeps data exchanged between your user's computer and your website secure. Consumers are much more internet savvy than they were a few years ago, and now expect nothing less than a secure experience when visiting a website. The cost to switch to HTTPS is minimal and aside from the sec...