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Why Restaurant Goers Need Voolsy to Change Their Dining Out Experience

19Apr By NitishNo Comments

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Why Restaurant Goers Need Voolsy to Change Their Dining Out Experience

Smit Nebhwani and Amrish Patel, both lovers of good food, always faced some problem or the other when they went dining out with their family or friends. Problems, which we take for granted, but they wouldn’t. Most of the times, eating out doesn’t turn out to be a memorable experience the way it should turn out to be. Many times it happens that waiters are too busy in a rush hour and don’t have time to attend us, and we have to wait till the waiter makes an appearance to take our order. The problems don’t end here. Sometimes, there are no enough menus for all on the table or sometimes we don’t have a clue what a particular dish looks like or the quantity being served. Worst of all, even the waiters have no clue how to answer such questions and are have not been prepared to interact with ...

16Apr By AnkitaNo Comments

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New System Finds Security Flaws in Popular Web Apps

MIT researchers have developed a system that can quickly comb through tens of thousands of lines of application codes to find security flaws in popular web applications. In tests on 50 popular applications written using Web programming framework Ruby on Rails, the system found 23 previously undiagnosed security flaws, and took no more than 64 seconds to analyse any given programme. According to researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US, the new system uses a technique called static analysis which seeks to describe in a very general way how data flows through a programme. "The classic example of this is if you wanted to do an abstract analysis of a programme that manipulates integers, you might divide the integers into the positive integers, the negativ...

When We Trended on Twitter By Spending Rs. 200!

13Apr By No Comments

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When We Trended on Twitter By Spending Rs. 200!

I suffer from all sorts of mania — often conflicting, always annoying for others: Chai-o-mania: drinking chai to the point that my stomach cries of acidity. Fitbit-o-mania: completing my daily 8k steps even if that means that I have to run clumsily at 11:45 pm on my arguably fragile terrace. Passion-o-mania: keep talking about that one idea so passionately that everyone around me starts believing in it. List-o-mania: writing everything in the form of lists. And the list goes on! Some maniacs are short-lived, some last for a few months and some have been there since forever. One such mania is my obsession with lists and striking off an item from the list is my equivalent to the big O. So, it is only right if I say that the bucket list of our one-year-...

MagicX Raised $1million (Rs 6.6 crore) From Infosys Co-founder Kris Gopalakrishn

12Apr By No Comments

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MagicX Raised $1million (Rs 6.6 crore) From Infosys Co-founder Kris Gopalakrishn

MagicX, an on-demand chat-enabled app to manage day-to-day tasks, today said it has raised USD 1 million (about Rs 6.6 crore) from marquee investors including Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan, Manipal Education and Medical Group MD Ranjan Pai. The fund raised will be used for team expansion, marketing initiatives, addition of service categories and technology up gradation, MagicX said in a release. "The backing weve received from some of the smartest investors and entrepreneurs in the business will help us build on our cutting-edge technology platform. We will also use some of the funds to market our app to the right audiences," MagicX Co-founder and CEO Pratyush Prasanna said. The company is also in talks with four venture capital firms to raise a USD 5 million Series A round....

Auto and Taxi Unions to Protest Against App-Based Services

11Apr By NitishNo Comments

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Auto and Taxi Unions to Protest Against App-Based Services

A section of auto and taxi unions will take out a protest march today against app-based taxi services in the national capital. "Hundreds of auto rickshaw and taxi drivers will take out a protest march with their vehicles from Samatha Sthal to Delhi Secretariat tomorrow," Rajendra Soni, general secretary of auto and taxi unions, said. He said that for the last two months, they have been demanding the government to control app-based taxi services who are taking away their livelihood. "If government does not pay heed to our demand immediately, all taxis and auto rickshaws will go off work soon" he said. "App-based taxi services are affecting our business and we cannot sit silent. Government should stop their services as most of the app-based cab operators are not following rul...

10Apr By PriyankaNo Comments

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India’s Affordable Home Automation Module App

A startup by two college students has developed a compact home automation module claiming it to be the most affordable in the market. The prices of 'Smitch' module, ranging from Rs 2,999 to Rs 13,499 and focussing on savings and comfort, will be launched at a consumer fair here on April 21, H R Sanathkumar of PSG College of Technology said. Sanathkumar, also Chief Executive Officer of start up firm Karsan Technologies Pvt Ltd, said the compact smitch module can be placed comfortably behind any existing switchboard and does not require rewiring or change in existing wiring. The product, with its interactive mobile app and on-board timers allows customers to control and schedule any home appliance, he said, adding that it also allows users to optimise energy consumption b...

Is Bike Taxi Services ‘Safe’ for Women in India?

10Apr By AdityaNo Comments

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Is Bike Taxi Services ‘Safe’ for Women in India?

Operators of bike-taxis, which have over the past few months been emerging as viable, convenient and low-cost solutions for travel in the city, are now looking to attract more women riders to use the service. "We have around 400 mandatory steps that the driver needs to pass. We take a ride test and a third party does all the verification plus there are vehicle instructions and mandatory training," says Aarvind Sanka, co-founder of Rapido, an app based service . Sanka says 10 per cent of their daily customers are women and the organisation is working on bringing on board more women drivers. However for some people like Rahul Kumar, a resident of Gurgaon, are skeptical of the safety of bike-taxis. "It may be cheap but I still wouldn't prefer it for a long distance tra...

Amit Singhal “Father of Google Ranking Algorithm” Joining GOQii Board of Directors

8Apr By AdityaNo Comments

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Amit Singhal “Father of Google Ranking Algorithm” Joining GOQii Board of Directors

New Delhi (April 8, 2016) - GOQii, a digital health and wellness solution integrating personal coaching with wearable analytics, today announced it has named former Google executive Amit Singhal to its Board of Directors, his first role since leaving his position as Head of Google search. Amit brings more than 20 years of invaluable consumer and business expertise to GOQii and will help guide its expansion into new global markets, the first of which will be the U.S. Amit is widely respected in the tech industry for the ground-breaking advancements he made during his time at Google and other companies. “It’s an exciting time to be at GOQii and we are thrilled to have Amit join our board of directors,” said GOQii CEO Vishal Gondal. “Amit’s expertise is unparalleled and will be in...

Odd-Even: Delhi Govt. Warning to App-Based Taxis For Overcharging

8Apr By AnkitaNo Comments

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Odd-Even: Delhi Govt. Warning to App-Based Taxis For Overcharging

The Delhi government today said app-based taxi operators will be restrained from levying peak time charges when the second round of the odd-even scheme will be in force. The scheme aims at cutting down on the number of vehicles plying on the citys roads. Taxis have been exempted under the road-rationing plan and are in demand when it is in force. "Action will be taken if we receive complaints of app-based taxis charging exorbitant fares when the scheme is in force," Delhi Transport Minister Gopal Rai warned. "Commercial vehicles bearing yellow number plates, including CNG-run taxis, three-wheeler and four-wheeler tempos, autos and taxis will be allowed to ply under the scheme," said a senior government official. The official said that commercial vehicles of other states running...

A New Smartphone App With Shakespearean Touch

7Apr By PriyankaNo Comments

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A New Smartphone App With Shakespearean Touch

To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the world famous playwright, a new smartphone app with Shakespearean touch using text messaging, was launched today. The app is called ShakeSpeak. ShakeSpeak has been developed by software company SwiftKey, best known for their language prediction app. By analysing the Complete Works of Shakespeare they developed an app that helps turn users text messages into Shakespearean prose by predicting the playwrights best known phrases. Swiftkeys app, which is available to download free of cost, allows the user to simply type the first word or two of a famous Shakespearean quote and the technology will do the rest. SwiftKeys Head of Partnerships Sarah Rowley said: "We are delighted to be combining the Bards works with our smartphone ke...

Google Pulls Taliban App After It Was on Play For Two Days

5Apr By PriyankaNo Comments

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Google Pulls Taliban App After It Was on Play For Two Days

Internet giant Google has removed a propaganda app created by Taliban militants over hate speech concerns. The App called "Pashto Afghan News- Alemara," that was initially accepted on the Play store, reportedly featured videos and statements from the groups main website. The app, which allowed users to access the groups Pashto website, is part of a growing digital campaign by the Taliban to grow its audience. "We dont allow apps that advocate against groups of people based on their race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, nationality, veteran status, sexual orientation, or gender identity," a Google spokesperson said. The company removed an app created by the Taliban from its Play Store on Saturday. The app was reportedly published to Google Play on April 1, 20...

Ola Started e-rickshaw Bookings on its Platform, Partner with Freecharge

5Apr By NitishNo Comments

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Ola Started e-rickshaw Bookings on its Platform, Partner with Freecharge

Transportation app Ola today launched e-rickshaw category on its platform that will enable the users to book rides on the electric vehicle in Delhi-NCR region. "A total of 5,100 Ola e-rickshaws will be launched in partnership with Bhartiya Micro Credit (BMC) at the event and will be deployed across Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Faridabad and Ghaziabad. This will be further scaled up in the coming months to more small towns and Tier III cities," Ola Chief Operating Officer Pranay Jivrajka told reporters here. The company will charge a 10 per cent commission from the rickshaw pedallers. It will, however, not charge any convenience fee from users as is the case with auto-rickshaws. While the fare will differ city to city, users will have to pay Rs 25 for two km and Rs 8 per km for the follo...