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App Showcase: LIKE

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‘Liking’ something is associated with Facebook but it’s a different ball game when it comes to using the LIKE app and ‘liking’. It’s a nifty app that allows users to create fun videos, complete with special effects. The app boasts sci-fi effects that one can add to a video to achieve that superhero movie trailer kind of effect and comes with features like music magic filter, acting and lipsync, ability to segment foreground and background for 4D magic effect and lots more. The app is available for free on both Android and iOS. LIKE for Android LIKE for iOS

Microsoft Kaizala to help companies communicate more efficiently

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Microsoft India launched Microsoft Kaizala, a mobile-only product designed for large group communications and work management today. The company also announced its enterprise version, Kaizala Pro that allows organisations to have full administrative control of their groups.

The app makes it simple for organisations to communicate, collaborate and complete tasks thereby bringing together desktop and mobile-only users who might be within or outside their organisation. Since nowadays they are spreading out across the country, connectivity has become a priority. This is especially evident in industries like construction, manufacturing, insurance and healthcare. Kaizala will help organisations easily coordinate tasks across the value chain and gain actionable insights by just using their mobile number as their primary unique ID.

Microsoft Kaizala is powered by Microsoft Azure which is Microsoft’s cloud platform. Currently it is being used by YES Bank, Apollo Telemedicine, Republic TV, United Phosphorous Limited and Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, who are piloting it for their internal teams. The Government of Andhra Pradesh is one of the first government organisations to use it for real time governance.

The Pro version has additional features that include user and group management, system integration and automation using Microsoft Kaizala APIs, advanced reporting and analytics, ability to push custom actions, ability to create public groups and organisational profile and directory. The pro version has a charge of Rs.130 per month for each administrative user.

GOQii can now detect what food you’re eating

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GOQii has updated its app that brings new features like Referee and GOQii Arena. Referee is a food and nutrition detector that takes advantage of food recognition machine learning algorithms to identify different foods and show users their nutrition information. GOQii claims to have tested Referee on thousands of dishes and can identify food from Indian and Continental cuisine.

Arena on the other hand, is a motivational platform to connect other GOQii members and motivate each other in making a lifestyle change. Arena enables users to create their own with similar health goals and challenge each other.

The app is available on both iOS and Android.

Google Allo 2.0 coming soon

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Google’s new chat app Allo has received a major update with various features bumping it to version 2.0.

GIF keyboard support allows users to directly send animated GIFs using the Google keyboard directly. Android Wear support has also been added which will let users quick reply with their voice, emoticons or even use automated responses. Direct voice recognition is also supported when using Google Assistant.

Android Marshmallow immigrant Direct Share lets users share text and images directly with a person or a group instead of opening up the app or contact card. Notifications have been improved using the Better Notifications feature from Android Nougat allowing users to directly reply from the notification bar.

The update will roll out in a phased manner shortly.

WhatsApp video calling is available in beta

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WhatsApp has finally integrated video calling into an update for Android on Google Play Store. However, users can only access it if they are using the beta version. Video calling and audio calls have been in the works for a while in the WhatsApp labs with GIF support introduced recently.

Tapping the call button now displays a popup asking the user whether a video call or voice call needs to be made. Video calling further has 3 options including call mute, sending text message and camera switch. A minor but interesting change to the installation screen is it has been updated to match Android Marshmallow and the ancient holo interface has been ditched for good.

Video calls can be done only if a user enrolls into the beta program from the Google Play Store. Of course, the user on the other end also needs to be using the beta version.