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7 Big Ways How An Augmented Reality Food Menu App Can Profit Restaurant Marketing

Reach out to not just your regular or current customers, but potential ones, too, by presenting your fare in all its attractive dimensions, through an Augmented Reality Food Menu App -- the latest trend dominating Restaurant Marketing.

All You Want To Know About Augmented Reality Jewelry Try On Apps

Augmented Reality Technology, taking over extensive areas of retail, business, and e-Commerce, is becoming a necessity for survival in the market, now. Any advertising campaign using AR is certain to be successful with today’s generation of consumers, and the new concept of “try on” has become especially prominent; moving on from clothes and accessories, to something that is considered more exclusive, attractive, and expensive – jewelry.

Definition

An Augmented Reality Jewelry Try On App lets a shopper try rings, earrings, necklaces, etc. on, without having to visit a store, or touching the p...

5 Tips For Choosing Your Off Shore Development Team

Though outsourcing is very common in business today, it certainly helps if you can find yourself the right off shore development team.

The advantages of outsourcing can be many, such as

• Availability of the best of Talents
• Lower Cost of Infrastructure
• Speedy Completion of a Project

and so on.

The challenge, however, is to find the right partner to reap these benefits, and more, with.

Here are 5 tips that you can follow for the same.

    (1) Check Capabilities and Technology --

It is important to know the technical capabilities of our outsourcing partner, especially if you are looking for a l...

Apple Directs App Developers To Disclose Or Remove Codes That Were Recording Screen Interactions Without Permission

On 6-2-2019 was brought to light this shocking information that several major companies were recording each and every movement that was being made by you on their iPhone apps. Which means even a tap or a swipe that was made was being recorded. Without your knowledge, most of the times. Without your consent – probably every time.

When TechCrunch brought this news forth, names of leading companies such as Expedia, Air Canada, and Hollister were referred to.

It is one thing to assume that most apps are likely to be collecting data on you; and a completely different shock to know that many popul...

Skype Introduces Background Blur Feature In Its Video Calls

Now video calls can keep you better in focus before your client or partner, with Background Blur being introduced by Skype.

The News

The Skype Team shared this news on 6-2-2019, drawing many sighs of relief from users who were embarrassed about stuff in the background while attending a call.

How To Activate It

Skype’s Background Blur is quite similar to the Microsoft Teams’. You can have your background blurred for a video call with the help of

• Skype Settings
• A right click
• An ordinary toggle.

In a moment, your background can get subtly blurred, to keep the entire focus of the vi...

Facial Recognition: Blessing Of Technology Or Invasion Of Privacy?

Facial Recognition Technology -- a very important aspect of Artificial Intelligence -- that can enable you to identify or verify a person or more from a video frame or digital image, has the potential of bringing very appreciable improvements in the quality of work and living. In fact, it is already proving itself useful in various areas related to business as well as domestic purposes.

Corporations such as Google, Adobe Systems, Uber, and Tesla are making extensive use of Image Recognition, and as per an Adoriasoft report, researchers have made a prediction that the global market of Image Re...

Recent SBI Data Breach Highlights Why You Should Not Take Software Security For Granted

It came as yet another shocking news, after the incidents related to Adobe, about 5 years ago, and iCloud, about 4 years ago, when TechCrunch reported in an article on 30-1-2019 that the State Bank Of India had an unprotected server that could allow anyone access to financial information – such as recent transactions and bank balances – on millions of its customers.

The server was hosted in a Mumbai-based data center. It stored 2 months of data from SBI Quick, which is a text message and call-based system that customers use to obtain basic information about their bank accounts.

The largest b...

5 Ways A Recommendation Engine Can Improve Your Online Sales

Recommendation Engines -- or Artificial Intelligence operated data filtering tools – suggest the most relevant products to a user, to make his/her shopping or browsing experience feel most personalized.

They are like those most helpful ‘shop counter guys’ who somehow sense your interests and lead you to just the sort of things that you were thinking of buying. And then they show you more things to go with the ones that you are buying, or are planning to buy. At the end of the shopping or browsing, you return with the feeling that that store can read your mind.

With the number of internet use...

6 Characteristics Of An Ideal Chatbot

Artificial Intelligence driven Chatbots are increasingly being adapted by businesses to handle various aspects of communication and provide support to their customers.

A chatbot is a Computer Program or an Artificial Intelligence which can conduct a conversation with humans via auditory or textual methods. Such programs are often designed to convincingly simulate how a human would behave with another as a conversational partner.

Now, we know chatbots can prove to be the most incredible tools that can foster customer loyalty across marketing, sales, and service, if created masterfully.

There ...

5 Ways How Image And Video Recognition Solutions Can Help Your Business

Image And Video Recognition, or Computer Vision, a very important aspect of Artificial Intelligence, is increasingly being used by businesses to simplify, enhance, or augment existing processes.

An Adoriasoft report states, ‘Researchers predict that the global market of image recognition will reach $38.92 billion by 2021’ and ‘corporations and startups as Tesla, Google, Uber, Adobe Systems etc. heavily use image recognition.’

Let us now take a look at some of the scenarios in which Image and Video Recognition can be leveraged.

Image Recognition Solutions are as follow:

Facial Recognition and ...