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Product Summary Pokémon GO is one of the latest augmented-reality mobile games which are described as location-based and free-to-play in the iOS and Android mobile devices. This game calls for players to catch, train and battle the Pokemon (virtual creatures) that appear on the screens of the device as if in real-life. This game makes use of the device’s camera and GPS function to create a virtual world in which the player has to travel to prescribed destinations on the map in order to collect different Pokémon characters. Usage After being launched in the beginning of July 2016, Pokémon GO soon became the top-selling smartphone app game, even surpassing the record previously held by Candy Crush Saga in the US. By 20th of July, the game was downloaded by more than 30 million users around the world and went on to be the most popular augmented-reality smartphone app. Discovery Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata and The Pokémon Company’s Tsunekazu Ishihara came up with the concept for...

Product Subway Surfers is a mobile game available to the Android, iOS, Kindle and Windows Phone Platforms. The game was co-developed by Kiloo and SYBO.  In the game, the player is a youthful hooligan, who has to run through a subway, dodging the incoming trains.  The game was released on 24 May 2012, and soon became one of the most downloaded games. Features Jake is the default surfer character of the game. The game also has 15 permanent characters that can be unlocked after collecting a certain number of coins. After an up-gradation, 13 new limited characters are added to the cities under the “World Tour”. These characters run through the subways systems of cities around the world dodging the trains, and escaping the police inspector and his dog. The player has to grab the gold coins and also collect the strength boosting product. These items include jumping shoes, skateboard and others. The game ends when the surfer is hit by the train, or when he stumbles and is...

Some victories are magnanimous, larger than life. The size of the dream may or may not matter; but when it shapes into a reality and makes a difference to mankind, it becomes an immortal success story. Xbox rings a bell of similar victory in the hearts of millions of user all over the globe.Just before the launch of PlayStation2 by Sony, four engineers at Microsoft decided to work on designing a new game console. These were troubled times for the gaming industry when a revolutionary idea was required to turn things around. Seamus Blackley, Kevin Bachus, Ted Hase and team leader Otto Berkes from the DirectX team worked on a model and pitched their idea to Ed Fries, who headed Microsoft’s game development division. Fries decided to support Otto Berkes and his team. An approval from Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer later, Xbox was launched in 2000. Microsoft had quite a successful decade heading into the new millennium. Both Windows 95 and 98 were best sellers and company enjoyed mono...

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. As per the study, people spend around 16 years of their lifetime playing online games on a desktop or on their mobiles. Angry Birds is one such popular game in the world now which people got hooked on to lately. The game went to the Mac App store and received tremendous success in the first week itself, selling around 150,000 copies. Angry Birds is considered to be the most successful mobile game available in the market in the recent years of gaming. The official YouTube video of the game fetches millions of views to this day. It is the first game of its type that is purely based on physical movements & trajectory. It has been found to be very addictive by its users. The game was first released in the year 2009 for iOS users by Rovio Entertainment, the same year when the company was about to go bankrupt. Initially the game was not much of a success for the Rovio group. They have to create perfect titles for the users in the g...

Emailing, NEWS, Lifestyle, Entertainment, Information and many more, all these holds a very important role in our lives or, rather, they have become part of our life. Most of the people spend their time in just switching from one website to another. But, MSN Live has actually made it possible to access everything on a single web portal. MSN Live bought a revolutionary change in the sphere of web portals. MSN live in the early times was thought of a search engine only but, now it has emerged out as a fully fledged web portal with all possible facilities. With its popularity and reach to people Microsoft decided to launch MSN app and it was launched for windows and mobile devices in 1990 MSN live is one of the unique services which Microsoft network is providing. MSN live trapped both the home users and business or work users since its initial days. The graphical user interface of both the services is kept so attractive that its user gets involved inside the portal itself.MSN li...

The Galaxy Nexus is an Android smartphone co-developed by Google and Samsung Electronics. It is the third smartphone in the series of Google Nexus after the Nexus One and Nexus S. Packed with features like a high-definition (1280X720) Super AMOLED display and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, the device was unveiled by Google and Samsung on 19 October, 2011 in Hong Kong. The device weighs 135 g and is provided with a 1.2 GHz-dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor and 1,750mAh battery. Similarly, the data input for Nexus can be performed through Multi-touch capacitive touchscreen, coupled with smart sensors like accelerometer, 3-axis gyroscope, A-GPS and proximity sensor. The plan to launch the third Nexus smartphone model in the market was revealed by Google's senior vice-president of mobile platform in May 2011. Samsung hinted towards the release of Nexus by putting out a teaser video on its website. It became extremely popular just as the Nexus Prime among the ...

Photoshop is a popular tool today, loved by hobbyists and professionals like photographers and designers. This program offers a readily available, easy to use and flexible solution for all the needs of a perfect design. However, the tool doesn’t come out with such awesome features at once and has been evolved in several years of development. The program provides a wonderful example of the evolution of a simple idea into an impacting and useful tool. The tale began with a PhD student in 1987, Thomas Knoll, who created a graphics application, Display in Macintosh Plus. With this tool, a monochrome display was made to demonstrate grayscale images. However, his brother John Knoll, who was a photo-enthusiast, saw the program and persuaded Tom to convert it into software for editing images. The task was finished within a period of six months by the duo and was named Photoshop, after considering a previous name, ImagePro, discarded due to non-availability. In 1988, Adobe Systems Incor...

Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work. Brian Acton, the former Yahoo engineer and Jan Koum are the founders of WhatsApp which is the most successful instant messaging app now available in the world. The story of Whatsapp is a live example of where innovation in technology takes people and their communication. With billions of users addicted to ‘Whatsapp’ style of keeping in touch, it is worthwhile to explore what went behind making this phenomenon happen. Founder Jan Koum was not from a wealthy family. He stayed with his mother and grandmother in a small apartment. With his hard work, he finally got into San Jose State University where he took training in programming.whatsapp foundersJan met his business partner, Brian while working at Yahoo as an engineer. They worked together in Yahoo for almost nine years and then left the company together. Then they applied to Facebook, but saw no luck. They had no plans to become rich until they thought of m...

Product Summary Known to be amongst one of the most popular operating software’s across the globe, the legendary Microsoft Windows is a family of operating systems that drove the primitive PC, and are now driving the modern PC. Microsoft was the creator, marketer and seller of Windows. These operating systems have been created to cater to very specific sectors of the computing industry. Usage Windows has always been an extremely popular operating system. According to a survey by Gartner, around 14% of worldwide shipments of devices by operating systems in the year 2014 were Windows based. Windows has several versions. Currently the most popular and used versions are Windows 10, Windows Vista, Windows 8, Windows 3.1, Windows Phone, Windows Embedded and several others. Windows is used as an operating system in mobile phones, tablets, netbooks, personal computers, laptops and desktops Discovery The internationally famous corporation Microsoft developed Windows. Windows is wr...

Product Summary Microsoft Office is office productivity software that consists of services, applications and servers. This software was created and developed by the Microsoft Corporation. Some of the application available through Microsoft Office include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, OneNote, and a variety of other desktop applications. Usage Up until recently, Microsoft was available for use only on as a desktop version for Windows as well as OS X. Microsoft Office is now also available as a mobile version for Windows Phones, iOS and Android. The various components of Microsoft Office are used to make reports, draft letters, and send out and save Emails and various other purposes. Discovery  On the 1st of August 1998 in Las Vegas Bill Gates announced the launch of Microsoft Office. It was officially released on the 19th of November 1990. Over the years several updated versions of Microsoft have been successfully released. Success Story  Microsoft...

Time and distance do not matter for talking or chatting or seeing or sharing, now that we have the new age technology in place. Skype is a free and premium Voice over IP service and an Instant Messaging Client. Users ranging from a school-going child to an elderly grandparent can use this service comfortably and conveniently if they have a computer with an internet connection, microphone and webcam. Text messaging, video sharing and live chatting are all possible and designed in a quick to grasp and user friendly manner. The service was publicly released in the year 2003 by a team of Janus Friis from Denmark and Niklas Zennstrom from Sweden. They created this software in co-operation with Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu and Jaan Tallinn who supplied the backend for this service. Later this entire company was bought over by Microsoft Corporation in 2011 for $8.5 billion phasing out Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger instant messaging service. Microsoft has kept the Skype division’s h...

Technology with difference always makes a difference. Android is an operating system that swept away all other available operating systems (OS) in the market. It has been around 5 years old and had captivated everyone’s heart very strongly. Android is a very unique and a resultant of Google’s continuous quest for upgraded technology. Google also gives away this OS free to many hardware manufacturers so that they can use Android on their devices. Android is the largest installed base operating system till now as compared to the rest of its peers. Most of the companies in the mobile industry move on at snail’s pace, but Google has come very far from other players, delivering the latest versions of Android every 2 or 3 months. Android was first founded in Palo Alto, California, United States. Millions of devices are being activated daily using Android systems. But what Google did differently made it work big. The path was not easy and involved countless efforts and planning. Andr...

Only a very small percentage of the world’s population are not on social media. An even smaller percentage only can claim that they have not heard of Facebook. Today, Facebook has become a household name, a way to know what your cousin abroad is doing on Saturday nights. Facebook has practically transformed the lives of people, and has changed the very way world communicates.Facebook was started in 2004 by college kids Mark Zuckerberg along with his friends. What initially began a way for the students at Harvard to connect with each other soon grew to include its neighbouring colleges and finally, the entire world.Messenger by Facebook takes communication to the next level. It is an instant messaging application that is downloadable onto computers, mobile phones and tablets. Using Messenger, Facebook users can chat with their friends on the website as well independently through the application. Initially the chat service was available as an integrated option to all the customers...

The recent smartphone revolution had also called in for massive security and privacy compromises. The threat comes in different forms. Missed calls, blank calls and fake calls can be a real nuisance in life. If you receive such calls from an unknown number, it would have been a thing of the past to track down the culprit. Earlier, it was not possible to identify the caller in case of a fake or a prank call, even the debtors. TrueCaller Usage TrueCaller solves this purpose for you. Whenever you receive a call from an unknown number, TrueCaller identifies the name and location of number’s registered owner, and you have decent information handy about the caller. Other than this, there are several other features with whichtruecaller foundersTrueCaller enhances your security and privacy while elevating the fun of using a mobile phone.With TrueCaller installed on your phone, you can know the name and place of the person who is calling you, even if the number is not saved in your ph...

While looking to access your email, or to search for your favourite recipes we rely on our computers and phones and use the internet. It is fool hardy to suggest that any other search engine is as widely used to get closer to wanted information than Google.com. It is a universal website, everyone knows about it and uses it at least ten times every day to look for different information. Come 2008, Google decided to take internet browsing to the next level. They decided to launch their very own browser. People took it instantly, and today Google’s Chrome web browser has dethroned Internet Explorer and Firefox with just a click. Its iconic red, green, yellow circle with the blue centre can be found now on 51% of the world’s desktop users. It is a free browser that can be downloaded as an application on your computer. Chrome works better than other browsers in a variety of different ways. It can load web pages at extraordinary speeds. It tracks your most visited and favourite pages a...

Instagram’s meteoric rise to success is one of the best motivational stories for budding entrepreneurs who dream of making it big. Some say that Instagram just had a lucky break because they launched a brand new app, managed to get 100,000 users in a week’s time and two years later sold it to Facebook for $1 billion. But Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, its co-founders, attribute its success to the fact that they made thoughtful decisions based on communications with users.Kevin Systrom had a talent for making photographs look beautiful and Mike Krieger was an extremely talented engineer. Together they developed an application called ‘Burbn’ which was basically a check-in app. This was quite similar to an app called Foursquare. After a while, they realised that most people were only using it to take photos. Systrom says that you need to fail in order to find the right solution and through this failure, the idea for Instagram was born. They decided to focus their new app mainly on...

WordPress has undoubtedly emerged as a powerful content Management System (CMS) since 2003. Today, almost 23% of the total websites are leveraged by WordPress. The product has also gained immense recognition as a blogging tool. The most striking feature about Wordpress is that it is an open source that one can access totally free of cost. Users can add a great deal of dynamicity to the blog with the wide range of plugins. Why use WordPress? WordPress was initially called b2 or cafelog, this software was written by Michel Valdrighi in PHP. Then Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little worked jointly in order to create the fork of b2 and named it as WordPress in the year 2003. Apart from all the above parameters, updating the software on a regular basis is a must since every update adds more and more functionality and features to the software. Another reason that invites software updation is the security since several bots try focusing on security flaws in a software. In case one avoids updat...

Whenever the most famous internet company in the world releases a new product or an application, the whole world takes notice. That was precisely the case when the revolutionary Gmail service was released by Google back in 2004.Google have always known to have every tech geek in the world on edge before the announcement of a big release and Gmail was touted to be the next big thing in the e-mail service around the world. Gmail started out as a service that remains free and supports advertisement at the same time.Gmail was released as a Beta service back in 2004 before being available for general net users around 2007. However, even in 2007, Google released only the Beta version so that they were able to take checks to ensure that a perfect release was withheld for until much later. One of the biggest advantages that Gmail started out with when it released its full version was the memory space with which it came attached. Earlier competitors such as Yahoo! and Hotmail provided onl...

If you are living in another city or a foreign country, then a major part of your monthly expenses will consist of phone calls you will have to make to your family and friends back home. What most people do is to reduce the number of calls they make, with an aim to keep their phone bills within limit. But you no longer need to do that. With Imo free calls app on your device, you can make unlimited voice and video calls to your friends and family at any part of the globe, that too absolutely for free. The only thing you will have to pay for is your Internet connection. Imo Free Calls – What Are They Imo Free Calls is an instant messaging and chatting app that allows you to keep in touch with your friends and family via Internet. Now, you can make voice and video calls, instant chat, or send unlimited messages to your loved ones over your Wi-Fi, 3G or 4G connection. Just download this app on your smartphone, laptop, tablet or any other device, and stay connected on the go. In add...