How to Build Mobile App for Travel Agency?

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Most of travel agencies have their mobile app that enables customers to browse through tourism places and make bookings. In a scenario where everyone is leveraging benefits of digitization, how would your app be preferred by customers over other apps of same category?

• Get precise information on all tourism places across the globe on your travel mobile app.
• Suggest users of places to visit based on their current location, interests and preferences.
• Join the community of travellers that have visited the place or are planning to visit and get into direct interaction with them.
• Get help in packing of travel bags by suggesting a list of items to carry while heading for a particular destination.
• Allow users to browse through various accommodation options at the travel destination.
• Compare prices and amenities at hotels to take a wise decision.
• Book hotel room in advance for selected dates and pay through secured payment gateway. Give options to make the payment via Credit card, Debit card, Net Banking, PayPal, mobile wallets and cryptocurrency.
• Get the best airfare deals and allow users to book the tickets right away.
• Inform users of flight delays, weather forecast, boarding time, departure time and arrival time for the booked flight.
• Get notified of sightseeing spots at a particular place and get detailed roadmap to reach there.
• Suggest best local food restaurants and other restaurants as per your choice of cuisine at the travel destination.
• Share real time photos of travel and holidays with the travel communities through the travel mobile app.
• Share experience of entire trip with your travel communities and other social media platforms directly from the app.

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Amazon Fire TV Gains HBO GO Streaming

Amazon has announced that HBO GO will now be streaming to Amazon Fire TV customers. Customers with HBO's subscription can now bring that experience to the Fire TV set-top box starting today and Amazon's more affordably priced Fire TV Stick will also gain HBO GO streaming capabilities in spring.

Since launch, Amazon Fire TV has more than quadrupled its selection, with over 700 apps and games now available. With the addition of HBO GO, Fire TV customers now have access to over 1,700 titles including every episode of new and classic HBO series, as well as HBO original films, miniseries, sports, documentaries, specials and a wide selection of blockbuster movies.

 HBO Go added to Fire TV

• Amazon adds HBO Go to the Fire set-top box in a move that it hopes will increase the device's attractiveness with consumers.

• HBO and Amazon already have an online licensing deal which gives Fire owners an exclusive crack at streaming HBO shows three years after they premiere.

• The addition of HBO Go to the Fire TV gives HBO subscribers instant access to the network's current programming

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Twitter Launches Discounts on your Credit Card

Your Twitter account can now help you save money. On Tuesday the company has launched Twitter offers, which let marketers run promotions like discounts that you can redeem via your credit card. If a Twitter Offer pops up in your timeline, now you can add the Offer to your credit card or debit card. When you click to buy the item, the discount will be applied, though the cash back won't show up for a few days.

When you click on the offer to redeem then you are redirected to a landing page where users have to enter their credit or debit card info.

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Once you enter your card information, Twitter has it on hand so you can redeem future offers without that hassle. (Having your data also helps Twitter push its "Buy" button.)

For Advertisers and marketers, Twitter offers provides a way to track ROI for Twitter-based promotions. If 50 people redeem an Offer, for instance, they can work out how much they spent for each redemption.

Yahoo Acquires Cooliris

Yahoo a tech giant acquired Photo app-maker Cooliris. More recently, the company shifted focus to a mobile app (also called Cooliris and with an interface reminiscent of the old 3D wall) that allowed users to browse photos from across services like Facebook, Flickr, and Dropbox. The team told me last year that it was seeing particularly rapid growth in Asia thanks to partnerships with companies like Renren, Yandex, and Baidu.

On its website, the company wrote:

"Yahoo has a clear vision and unwavering commitment to making mobile an intuitive and effortless experience."

This makes Yahoo the perfect partner for Cooliris, and we are excited to come together to bring indispensable products to a worldwide audience. Under CEO Marissa Mayer, Yahoo has indeed talked a lot about its focus on mobile, and just last month it acquired mobile messaging app MessageMe. 

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Twitter's DM Feature Update

With new feature update of Twitter where it is letting you directly share public tweets through its private direct messaging system.

If you copy and paste a tweet's URL into a direct message (DM), it will embed itself in the message for easier viewing. You can also hit the "..." icon under a tweet and select "Share via Direct Message." 

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Previously, if you tried to paste the URL of a tweet into a DM, it would show up as a link. It saves you a click when privately sharing something in your Twitter feed; the update works on Twitter's web client, iOS and Android apps, and TweetDeck for Chrome, Windows and web.

The move is a part of Twitter's larger effort to update its platform to be more user-friendly; it's not quite as intuitive as Facebook's Messenger app, for example. Earlier this week, a bug prevented people from sharing URLs in direct messages, but was later fixed. The private sharing of public tweets was also anticipated earlier this week.

Twitter is also planning on introducing native video in the first half of 2015, which would be an alternative to Vine or YouTube.

 

Xiaomi May Soon to Launch a Smartwatch

Xiaomi a chinese smartphone manufacturing company would be one of the latest to join in making smartwatch after a good success in smartphones. Xiaomi is in the list of top 5 smart phone makers in the world and now they are hinting about their plan to launch a smartwatch soon.

Hugo Barra a vice president of Xiaomi said in a YouTube video that "you'd be absolutely amazed if you'd see all the things that we experiment with here at Xiaomi". He went on to mention that smartwatches were among the things that they have experimented with, and said that they are yet to decide on whether the company will be launching one in the coming months. 

Xiaomi is already involved into wearables like MiBand, a water resistant fitness and sleep tracker and now company is in a plan to go into making smartwatch.

Xiaomi has been very successful in selling phones in India, China, Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia, and has plans to enter Turkey, Russia, Brazil, Mexico and Thailand. However, the company has still not commented on expanding to other markets. So lets wait till the launch of smartwatch.

See also: Xiaomi released Android Lollipop Update.

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Yahoo Replaced Google as Default Search in Mozilla Firefox

The Tech giant “Yahoo” will replace a Search engine Giant “Google” on Mozilla FireFox browser in US.

Yahoo said that it would launch a clean and user friendly design search engine for Firefox in December. The news says that decade-long partnership of Google with FireFox has almost came to an end.

Yahoo made a five-year deal with Firefox "the most significant partnership for Yahoo in five years". As said by Yahoo chief executive “Marisa Mayer”.

Firefox users in the US will be automatically directed to search results on Yahoo's website when they enter a subject into the small box that appears at the top of the browser. Along with ending its partnership with Google in the US, Mozilla is also directing Firefox to Baidu's search engine in China and Yandex in Russia.

Meanwhile, just last month, Google chairman Eric Schmidt had said that the firm's biggest rival in online search was e-commerce giant Amazon and not competitors like Yahoo.

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Microsoft Rolling Out Nokia MixRadio

Microsoft rolling out Nokia MixRadio the Pandora-esque music streaming service that Microsoft acquired as part of its takeover of Nokia’s Devices and Services business, is close to being spun-out as a separate entity.

According to sources, Microsoft is in the midst of seeking out investors for an independent Nokia MixRadio. And, although nothing is official yet.

As it stands, the service, which comes in free and premium versions and lets you create a ‘radio station’ based on genre or similar artists, is chained to Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform, after it originally came bundled with various Nokia Lumia handsets. Breaking free from Redmond would allow it to become platform agnostic.

Nokia MixRadio have deals in place with record labels/publishers, seeing its availability in 31 countries, the ex-Nokia unit also has legacy relationships with mobile operators, something that could be valuable as part of a much wider music services strategy.

The move to offload Nokia MixRadio would also make sense for Microsoft, considering that the service has overlap with its own home-grown and cross-platform music streaming service, Xbox Music, which makes it slightly odd that the Nokia Music unit was included in the Nokia Devices and Services acquisition in the first place.

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New Nokia N1 Tablet with Android 5.0 Lollipop Launched

Nokia company on Tuesday announced new Nokia N1 tablet. The very “first Nokia-Android tablet”. The Nokia tablet will be launched in China in Q1 2015 with a brand-licensing agreement extending to an OEM partner (Foxconn) that will manufacture, distribute, and sell it.

The Nokia N1 will cost $249 (roughly Rs. 15,400) before taxes, and will be made available in other markets globally.

The Finnish company says that Nokia N1 tablet will have predictive features like a "unique one-piece aluminium design with a soft finish", and will be available in Lava Grey and Natural Aluminium colours. The main thing is Android 5.0 Lollipop.

Other features are 7.9-inch (2048x1536 pixel) IPS LED-backlit display protected by Gorilla Glass 3, and is powered by a 64-bit 2.3GHz Intel Atom Z3580 processor (4 cores, 4 threads) coupled with a PowerVR G6430 GPU and 2GB of LPDDR3 (800MHz) RAM. It sports 32GB of inbuilt storage (non-expandable). Camera is 8-megapixel rear autofocus camera with 1080p video recording, and a 5-megapixel fixed focus camera. Connectivity options include Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/n/ac with MIMO, Bluetooth 4.0, Micro-USB with reversible Type-C connector, and a 3.5mm audio jack.

The Nokia N1 tablet weighs in at 318 grams, and measures 200.7x138.6x6.9mm. Also onboard are 0.5W stereo speakers, and a 5300mAh battery. For sensors, it sports a 6-axis gyroscope and an accelerometer.

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Amazon Kindle Update: Share eBooks with Family Members

Amazon has made an update to Kindle app. It now allows sharing ebooks among family members. The new Family Library feature allows one to access ebooks “from the Amazon account of a spouse or partner.” Amazon's allowed loans of ebooks, under limited conditions, for a while now. But it's not been possible to enjoy permanent access to another person's library.

The new feature doesn't look like it's anywhere near the equivalent of being able to hand a book over to a friend of family member: it only kicks in once you enable the “Household” feature that lets one control the ebooks and other content that one's offspring are permitted to access. 

That makes this new feature arguably less useful than a shared Amazon account and lots of Kindles: the company seems not to place a limit on how many devices – or virtual Kindles running software only.

Amazon is also not exactly on the bleeding edge here, as Apple's iOS 8 allows six family members to share content. And a calendar, a service Amazon doesn't currently offer.

The software update allowing Kindles to join the family will land without user intervention in coming weeks.

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Blackberry to Launch new Classic Smart-phone in December

Canadian Smart-phone manufacturing company “Blackberry” soon to introduce a new Classic Smart-phone in December. A new OS and a qwerty keypad just to make the phone simply easy to use and comfortable to hold.

The new smartphone will come with a 3.5-inch touchscreen having a 2GB RAM. It will come with a 8MP rear camera and a 2MP front camera.The smartphone may be priced around $450.

The phone will offer some new features but don't expect it to be loaded with fancy features such as finger print scanner, a bigger screen and many more which are offered by smartphones these days.

Enjoy Blackberry !!!

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Xiaomi Redmi Note to Launch Next Week

Its just not any ordinary smartphone manufacturer, its “World's THIRD largest smart-phone manufacturing company" producing mobiles which has become popular all over the world.

A Chinese mobile manufacturer has made such a great terms with Indian consumers since it released its first phone in July this year and now people are waiting for its next Phablet Redmi Note.

As per the insider reports the price for the Phablet is just Rs 9999. Other features like 5.5 inch IPS LCD, 720p HD display. Android OS 4.2 jelly bean-based MIUI ROM with 2GB RAM memory, 8GB storage extendable upto 64 GB.

The battery has a good life with 3100mAh with 1.7GHz octa core processor. Moreover, the set will come handy for photo enthusiasts as the set comes with 13MP rear, 5MP front camera that is more than enough at this price.

Words starting doing the rounds of the set to be available in India after the company’s vice president Hugo Barra dropping hint. In a Facebook post, he has announced that the set’s next destination is to be Asia. In Indonesia the set went on as hot cake selling off 10000 units within 40 seconds of its launch.

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Be Careful: Facebook Counterfeit Ads

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Be careful before responding to those brand Ads like Ray Ban glasses advertised on Facebook. Think twice before buying those products advertised on Facebook. There's a chance they're fake.  

As per the cyber security researchers, a conclusion of a new study came more than a thousand Facebook ads and found that almost a quarter of those promoting fashion and luxury goods are for counterfeit items such as Ray Bay sunglasses, Louis Vuitton bags, and Ralph Lauren polo shirts.

At first sight, the ads look legitimate and lead to websites that look like real ones, the researchers warned, potentially tricking average Facebook users into believing they're buying real products without realizing the danger. 

Samsung & Blackberry to start for better Android Security

The two huge companies “Samsung and Blackberry” announced a new security-focused partnership on Thursday that will bring Blackberry's encryption to businesses using Samsung Galaxy smart-phones.

Samsung will integrate BlackBerry's BES12 end-to-end encryption service, into its own Knox software. Knox, which Samsung licenses to enterprise customers, adds an extra layer of security to Android devices— though the service has been criticized for weak encryption. 

Blackberry has close partnership with Samsung deepening the interaction between our engineering and product development teams for the long-term,” John Sims, BlackBerry's President of Global Enterprise Services, said in a statement.

Samsung KNOX offers a number of hardware and software security features and our partnership allows us to tightly integrate these capabilities with BES12.”
Samsung will begin to offer the software in early 2015, but the company has not revealed details about pricing.

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New Wearable by Samsung Simband

On Wednesday Samsung revealed health-monitoring wearable, announced Samsung's Developer Conference in San Francisco.

A thick rubber band connects to a slightly curved touchscreen display. But the Simband isn't a smartwatch at all, it isn't even a consumer device at this point. The Simband is intended to be used by those within the medical industry — startups and medical researchers alike — to develop new applications for sensor technology. It's part of the company's broader shift to move its wearables from fitness tracking to health monitoring with the goal of enabling preventive healthcare and wellness. 

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This Simband wearable is equipped with six sensors, though its modular design means developers can add their own proprietary sensors as well. It comes with can keep tabs on your daily steps, heart rate, blood pressure, skin temperature, and how much sweat your sweat glands are producing.

The screen of the simband displays the time, date and shortcuts to the device's three main functions: trends, monitor and spot check.

Putting the device into monitor mode activates all six of the Simband's sensors and displays a real-time feed of all the stats being collected.

But data means nothing if you can't understand it and the Simband's software does a pretty good job at putting the measurements into context. Aside from the onboard dashboard, this information can also be tracked on the web when the device has synced over wifi.

Xiaomi released Android Lollipop 5.0 Update

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Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi has already rolled out Android Lollipop 5.0 update on its MIUI blog. Xiaomi posts software availabilities, bug fixes, patches and all software update on the blog. The official MIUI blog declared the Lollipop update with the post that read: "Android 5.0.0 (Lollipop) is here". They mentioned that the update was done last week and it was tested on Monday for bug-fixing.

The update available on the web will be applicable to Mi2 and Mi 2S devices only. Sources, however, claim that Xiaomi would soon release the update for the other Mi and Redmi series devices too.

They have sounded an alert that making and receiving calls through Bluetooth headsets after the update may cause FC. Xiaomi has also asked not to opt for dual system and temporarily there are still some problems with CDMA SIM's.

These bugs indicate that the update is still in beta-phase with some minor concerns. However Xiaomi is always very concerned about bugs-fixing and their MIUI community always responds to issues with quick patch releases.

Instagram Update: Now Let's You Edit Photo Captions

Now you can go back and rectify all the typos in your Instagram captions. Captions are most important thing to express your picture.

This update was rolled out on Monday that gives the ability to change the photo captions after they are posted also added new recommendations to the app's explorer menu.

Previously the users of the app didn't allow to tweak captions after a photo or video posted. User has to post corrections as a comment or delete and re-write the caption entirely.

Instagram said that it was from long that users were expecting this change to be brought in to make it more user friendly and so finally it came.

To edit a caption, tap the menu button underneath a post → select edit. Edited captions will include a note indicating the post was edited when a user views the comments.

A new update also brought recently revamped Explore tab to make it easier to find new accounts to follow.

Now this Explore menu, which surfaces popular posts, has now been split into two tabs: Photos and People. The Photos tab displays the same posts as the Explore menu did in previous versions of the app — photos and videos popular within your circle of friends as well as those trending among the greater Instagram community. The new People tab displays recommendations of new accounts to follow, including people you're connected to on other social networks, along with a preview of some of their most recent posts.

Get your updated version of Instagram that has rolled out to the App Store and Google Play Monday.

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Mozilla's New Features with Developer Edition

Mozilla turning 10 and Monday marks the 10th anniversary of Firefox 1.0 and to celebrate the day Mozilla is rolling out new features, as well as a developer-centric version of its web browser. Check out the new features of Mozilla FireFox with a developers centric edition.

New features and a developer edition

On this big moment for Mozilla and as a part of the 10th anniversary of Firefox 1.0, Mozilla has released a new version of Firefox to the public with a few key features

→ First, DuckDuckGo is now pre-installed as a search option for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android.

→ Mozilla added new feature called "Forget" to the browser that makes it easy to clear out recent history, cookies, tabs and open websites. Many users love the private browsing features built-into modern web browsers and the "Forget" feature makes it easy to "retroactively" invoke that feature.

→ A new browser version by Firefox has also released just for developers called as Firefox Developer Edition can sit along regular versions of Firefox, but it is designed with tools specifically for web developers.

→ There are new developer tools and experiments and it has built-in options to make it easy to test web apps and do remote debugging from mobile devices.

→ Developers were some of Firefox's first major adopters — thanks to its support for extensions, add-ons and more modern web standards.

Happy Birthday Mozilla FireFox. Good Luck and keep coming with such new things.

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Google Doc Playback Update

Google docs will now play back all the changes that you have made. If you use are using Google Docs in the Chrome browser, a cool new extension will allow you to play back all the changes that you've made in a document as if it's a movie.

Writer and programmer James Somers reverse-engineered Google Docs and put together Draftback, which reveals a character-by-character history of documents.

It actually show you how you have been typing in the document what changes you made and what originally you were typing. Staring at a blank word-processing document can be a pretty intimidating starting point for a writer.This allows you to experience your entire creative process all over again, hands-free. 

As per Somers, Google keeps a revision record of everything you've ever typed in Google Docs that's "accurate to the microsecond" since at least May 2010.

You can also use Draftback with any Google Doc that's shared with you. You can run the shared doc through Draftback and see all the typos of your unedited work.

Microsoft to Launch New Lumia Smart-Phone

The very first ever phone to be launched by Microsoft lumia smartphone all set to launch on November 11.

This upcoming Lumia phone will the first product in the name of Nokia. The Lumia smart phones, which are known for their bright colors and top-of-the-line cameras, did not do very well in terms of sales, except in a few emerging markets.

Microsoft is hoping that the Lumia smartphones will be rejuvenated and will gain more success under the company.

The new hastag teaser called #MoreLumia on Nov. 6 revealing a picture of a portion of a smartphone with an orange frame and the phone's camera. 

A little portion of the smart phone is revealed in the teaser that coincides with the orange picture that Microsoft released in October featuring logo of the company.

Senior vice president Tuula Rytila of Microsoft said that the company is excited to unveil the first Microsoft Lumia, but denied that the change in name will effectively render obsolete the Nokia Lumia smartphones that are still operating today.

The switch in branding was done as Microsoft looks to take steps toward full control of its newly acquired smartphone division. The Lumia smartphone line is a significant part of the company's plans; the devices will showcase the Windows Phone operating system.

The company added that while Microsoft's branding will be more prominently featured in its smartphones, the Nokia brand will still be used on certain entry-level devices, as the brand still holds value in several emerging markets.

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