Just in: Truecaller version 5 brings in call suggestions based on habit

Truecaller rolls out version 5.0 with predictive call suggestions

The Swedish phone contact discovery engine and caller ID, Truecaller is definitely riding a success wave with the colossal funding package it recently garnered from venture capitalists who are gung-ho about the quite apparent growth potential of the firm that bloomed from humber beginnings in India where it tied up with Nokia. Later came celebrity endorsements and a deal with Twitter and Yelp allowing users to get more information grabbed from these sites to determine the identity of an unlisted caller. 
Not one to limit itself to existent progress rates, Truecaller incessantly hopes to develop an avant-garde utility built around the way we’d want to use our phones. It’s hard to deny that the application has grown to entirely replace the bland phonebook on most of our phones, letting us easily recognize an incoming call thereby delivering us from so much anxiety and confusion. With its geographically diverse user base that has now reached a whopping 100 million in number, Truecaller is here to stay with its expansive repository that boasts of over 1.5 billion number and name match records. The Stockholm reverse phone index company is entirely focused on hiking up the social element with regard to its app. Their philosophy is that the app should be able to connect people with the “contacts they actually know”, rather than the concept of mainstream social networking sites where virtually anyone can add you and contact you. On that note, here comes a new version of the app packing yet another remarkable feature. You are about to get predictive suggestions regarding who you might want to call at a specific time of day which the system will work out thanks to enhanced machine learning capabilities based on combined analysis of time, place and call history.
To aid better understanding of how this feature can make our lives simpler, the company gives a simple example of a person who has made it a habit to drop a call to home at say 7.00 pm every evening while leaving his office. 
Alan Mamedi, CEO, Truecaller asserts that this initiative marks the beginning of efforts towards making the app “more intelligent and personal” The idea seems to be to help remove frictions around an activity that essentially involves getting in touch with a friend or loved one. I personally believe this will work out for most of us absent-minded workaholics who may often get sucked up into a particular task, leading us to forget all other things which could even include important work-related appointments and duties like calling a client every Friday noon. I would like to see more functionality built on this intuitive operation basis like, for instance, predicted missed call sending to augment on the functionality similar to the OneRing service. 
The new Truecaller Version 5 will also get enhanced memory saving implements and easier design that will let users make calls from within the app itself. The upgrade will soon be available across iOS, Andriod and Windows devices.
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Eel-Like Robotic Fish can reach and scan Inaccessible Ocean Areas

Technology is developing widely to reach every corner of the world and to study the globe in-depth. The Robotics technology is also developing vastly and the latest is the invention of an eel-like robotic fish prototype.
Anguilliform fishes are known for their superior flexibility when compared with other species of fishes. Inspired by these Anguilliform fishes flexibility, a scientists team in Singapore have created and developed the eel-like robotic fish prototype bearing in mind to reach the deep sea.
The eel-like robotic fish is designed small, stylish yet intelligent enough for it to operate autonomously underwater. This eel-like robotic fish was presented with a new form of central pattern generator model that helps the prototype to replicate successfully the swimming pattern of a real Anguilliform fish. This gets driven by an artificial neural network, an outer amplitude modulator and 3D oscillators.
Also this robotic fish looking like a snake (snake-like form) gives it the amphibious potential; it gets the similar undulatory locomotion both in water as well as in solid grounds.
The scientists have conducted many experiments and simulations on this robotic fish, prepared with a motion library to adjust accordingly with different scenarios. And this Anguilliform robotic fish as it was able to swim both forward and backward as predicted, the results proved to be validating the effectiveness of the proposed controllers. This was confirmed by the National University of Singapore’s Jianxin Xu who is also the co-author of the project.
So the robotic fish designed to move both forward and backward and also turn around through different reference inputs is sure to allow marine forces to reach deep into the sea where it is difficult otherwise or even impossible for divers to reach. Being small and sophisticated, this eel-like robotic fish operating by itself underwater is sure to bring about the scan of the deep sea to the knowledge of mankind.
This work of the National University of Singapore’s scientist’s team was published in the journal World Scientific.
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Future Smartphones – the likes and dislikes

Future Smartphones

With tough competition in the market, Smartphones are getting better and better. They are getting more powerful with sleeker, thinner and bigger bodies. All this is fine but they are even getting boring . Apple gets it from Samsung while Samsung turns back at Apple. HTC imitates them both in different ways while Chinese makers borrow from everyone. It becomes a sadistic circle then.
Phones were once used to contact and communicate with distant people but now it is not the only usage of it. With advance in technology phones are becoming most important for mankind.  But considering the design of today’s phones they are becoming incredibly conservative. The phone industry is one such industry that can be measured empirically. On considering a phone to be the best, the following attributes are noted the most –

• How fast is the phone?
• What is its maximum storage capacity?
• How big are the display and its resolution?
• How sharp is it?

 In total this turns out to be the comfortable space to compete in. Everyone would definitely accept that four is better than two and so it doesn’t seem to be difficult to convince people.
With all this doing well, on looking at the design innovation of today’s phones they seem to have replicating the same old fashion that is turning out to be boring. Just recollect the last time when you were taken aback by a design of a phone. As said by Apple’s design genius Jony Ive, it is relatively easy to do something that is different and new but to do something that is genuinely better is difficult. And it is this genuinely better is what not many companies can do better.
With two 1080p displays the all new Gionee W900 is really a magnificent designed phone when compared with the present corny mobile design market. Yet the form factor remains the same which is a bit non-convincing. So to get rid of this monotonous phone world let’s have a look at the emerging future phone design concepts that though cannot be promised of how practical they might be working out but yes they seem to be interesting.
What might be everyone’s likes?
Lets tour on the design concepts that might really amaze every Smartphone wisher.

The forgotten clamshell designed phones

Slider designed phones:
The once considered chic and stylish clamshell and slider designed phones are now not doing well and the reason may be the need to have larger display which is why the flip phone design were bid goodbye by manufacturers. But how about considering a slider design that opens up to give a larger display? This really does make sense were people would love to have a slider Smartphone that can open up to give larger display rather than carrying a Smartphone that is bigger in size. The inner section of the slider Smartphone can get aligned to the outer section and together they can serve to give a larger display, thereby ending up in giving a portable chic device.

A Slider Smartphone that opens up with bigger screen can top the future smartphones

Flexible/Bendable Display phones:
Next is the upcoming flexible and bendable display, yes we can expect some innovations with this design as well. Consider a phone design that has a sleek and flexible display that can be wrapped into a tiny compartment. Isn’t refreshing to think about? Well the Samsung One concept is the one that showed us how it would be if a lustrous pen transforms into a large screen phone. The sleek pen easily fits into our pockets and when the 6-inch flexible screen is pulled out it turns out to be a full-fledged mobile device. It also makes it possible for the user to know all the updates without even pulling out the screen and for this one has to view notifications that are displayed on the embedded touchscreen of the concept pen’s body.
The below image shows out the concept and the question here is how effective will the battery be? Yet looking interesting the hope of every innovative Smartphone lovers is to have this concept reach the mainstream markets very soon.

Samsung One concept Pen smartphone

Smartwatch Concept:
The current hype is the smartwatches and their increasing numbers where every big company is trying to do their best in giving out the perfect smartwatche. Apple and Google getting into this product creation, the craze for these smartwatches are increasing day by day and so are the manufactures. How cool it would be for a smartwatch to do everything similar to your Smartphone, it with a projector that serves as a keyboard.  Apple’s iPhone palm concept phone is one such example for it.
This device from Apple is truly unconventional and is something that goes about with Apple’s weight loss therapy. There is no need for you to carry this phone in your pockets as it can be strapped around your wrist. This wearable device gets a projector which projects the normal homescreen on your palm while navigation can be done with your fingers on the projected display.  There’s a small touchscreen on the device with some notifications and shortcuts. On the whole this looks to be innovative and witty.

Apple’s iPhone palm concept phone

Flexible materials can also be used to build the smartwatches. Nowadays, though not commercialized widely, we see lot of flexible/bendable display concepts. So the wearable devices can be strapped on your wrists that when unfolded turns out to be a complete smartphone. With many such concepts touring online it makes us hope that someday they might become practical. Not just being a tech product these wearable devices can also turn out to be fashionable accessories.
It looks like LG and Oppo are trying to show some innovations in their design. Like LG G3’s button arrangement and Oppo N series swivel camera are some of the notable design evolutions. So something similar is what we can expect with the camera module arrangement on the future phones. Check out the Spinner Windows phone’s modular camera module, the phone with a metallic frame really looks chic and canny.

Camera module arrangement on the future phones.

What we don’t like to have?
With having done with what is wanted in our future Smartphone lets also consider what is definitely or otherwise at least not wanted in our future smartphones.
Definitely a phablet with more than 5.5-inches seems to be a bit larger but this doesn’t mean that we would want a bigger tablet with detachable Smartphone. This looks meaningless. For this it is better to manage with slightly larger phablet.

A bigger tablet with detachable phone is not what we might want

Smartwatches are really cool, but this doesn’t mean that we would like to have something more sleek and tiny to talk on. I am sure people would not like to talk over with devices fitted to their finger rings. And also additional dongles or clips controlling phones seem ridiculous.
So if future Smartphones are created considering people’s choice with innovative design’s it might wonder struck us to carry on wandering with futuristic smartphones.
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With Google Device Dashboard it becomes easy to track devices accessing your account

A Google account can be accessed from as many devices at the same time.

With Google accounts becoming vulnerable to hacking Google wanted to provide a steep security guard for its users accounts and so it has launched a new security device dashboard termed “Devices and Activity dashboard“. This new Devices and Activity dashboard lies within your Google account’s security settings listing out every device that is accessing your account for the past 28 days. It also lets you know when and where your account was last accessed.  It also becomes easy for you to just log off your account in any listed device from the dashboard that you no longer want to use it.
A Google account is that easy where users can access their accounts from as many devices as they want simultaneously. But this indeed also lets the users forget to log off their account from any such device that is no more used by them, thus creating room for mischief causers. So Google to help out with this has introduced the Devices and Activity dashboard that in every way helps keep things secure and organized. This new tool from Google is designed simple and unified to help its users easily check out the devices that are accessing their accounts.

Google’s Devices and Activity dashboard lies within users Google account’s security settings

This Google’s Devices and Activity dashboard is added to every user accounts with the option to remove account access from any device that is not currently used by the user.
If anyone find their account being used by an unknown device (a suspicious activity) then with the help of dashboard they can easily secure their account. The “Secure your account” link found at the top of everyone’s dashboard allows users to change their password, their recovery information can be updated, app passwords and account permissions can be checked and also their two-step verification settings can be checked.
 For example if you find your account still being accessed via your lost Smartphone then “Secure your account” link helps you to immediately react.
 Also “New” is marked all in caps next to the device listing, if there is a new device that is accessing your account recently. The device that is currently used by you to access your Google account is shown first in the list.
Though this Google Device Dashboard might look like a tool designed mainly for IT administrators or someone equal, basic users still find it to be a handy tool. This tool offers its users with every detail pertaining to the devices that are accessing their account currently as well as for the past 28 days.  Even keen details about when and where the users’ accounts were last used can be got with this new dashboard that wind-up suspicious activities.
It becomes a shared responsibility to have security in the cloud and so by making users more conscious of their devices security settings, things can be worked up together against bad guys.
According to Google, changing passwords becomes possible for users while they can still take up with other steps to ensure security like including links from within the Devices and Activity dashboard directly to Android Device Manager.
So with all this Google is trying to have its users accounts safe from hacking thereby giving its users seamless account access.
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Eyecan+ from Samsung is an Eye Controlled Mouse to help disabled users

Samsung EYECAN+, a special eye mouse

Samsung Electronics, couple of years before revealed Eyecan – a special eye mouse that acted as a mouse replacement. Now the latest from the company is the second-generation eye mouse termed EYECAN+ that helps people with disabilities to work on the system with ease, which is they can browse through the web, compose and edit documents and do other functions with just moving their eyes.
EYECAN+ as boosted by the company is the first of its kind, the user doesn’t need to wear any devices such as glasses or so here.  This is a single unit device, a portable box that gets fixed below the monitor and by wirelessly calibrating with the user’s eye it works.
On comparing with EYECAN, its predecessor that got introduced in March 2012, EYECAN+’s calibration sensitivity and the on-the-whole user experience is very much upgraded. The upgrade credit partly goes to a by-birth quadriplegic computer science graduate student of Yonsei University in Seoul, Hyung-Jin Shin. Shin worked with Samsung in 2011-12 on EYECAN and there on took on a key role in developing EYECAN+ UX accompanying with the testing phase of the eye mouse over a period of 17 months. He had been working with the Samsung engineers extensively to reach out with the final phase of the EYECAN+ that is practically easy in usage.
With EYECAN+ as it can be used even while sitting or lying down, it is not required for the users to take up a specific posture but to be in a position between 60cm and 70cm from the monitor. Only first time users need to calibrate with the device as it can memorize every user’s eye characteristics. Sensitivity of EYECAN+ can also be adjusted by users for both usage and calibration.

EYECAN+ can be used even while sitting or lying down

18 commands and usage of EYECAN+:

Once the EYECAN+ is calibrated there appears 18 different commands in its user interface that gets shown as a pop-up menu either in a rectangular menu board or in a floating menu wheel. Configuring both the menu types at the front of the screen is possible.
The 18 commands supported by the device are “select all”, “copy” and “paste,” along with “zoom in”, “scroll” and “drag and drop.” Also custom commands can be created additionally to go about with existing keystroke commands like the “print” (“Ctrl+P”) and “close program” (“Alt+F4”). Using these 18 commands just needs the user’s eye movement and blink, by looking exactly on a relevant icon and blinking at it can start executing the function of the particular icon.
According to Samsung Electronics Vice President of Community Relations, SiJeong Cho this Eyecan+ is their engineers’ voluntary project’s result that shows out their commitment and passion to have more people in their community. Samsung at present has no plans to have this Eyecan+ commercialized, but the South Korean company is to manufacture a limited quantity of this device to be donated to charity organizations. Also it has got plans to have this technology and eye mouse design to be open sourced, in a way to help organizations and companies that wish to have this device commercially available. For more Information check out http://techliveinfo.com