Mobile Applications

At Tech Advisor we review a *lot* of phones and tablets, but certain apps are always top of our list. Here's our pick of the best Android apps - the most useful downloads if you've just bought a new Android phone or tablet. Your phone is capable of many things, but at its heart it is a phone, and designed for keeping in touch with friends, family, colleagues and whoever else you fancy a chin wag with. Your phone will have a messaging app and a dialler built-in. What it may not have is online messenger and calling services that allow you to contact friends over an internet- rather than cellular connection. Two of our all-time favourites are WhatsApp Messenger and Skype. WhatsApp is free for all users, and lets you send and receive free messages, pictures, videos and voice messages over the web. If you have a tablet, laptop or PC you should also check out WhatsApp Web for synching messages between the two. Also see: How to install WhatsApp on a tablet. Sky...

BlueMetal, an Insight company and an interactive design and technology architecture firm, has been awarded the 2017 Microsoft Mobile App Development Partner of the Year Award. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology. BlueMetal and a global medical device manufacturer collaborated to build an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot on Microsoft Azure Bot Services, which uses predictive analytics to make suggestions and encourage patients to make healthy choices.It also offers access to a wealth of critical health information through text and verbal commands. The real-time adaptive learning has significantly enhanced patient engagement and can help improve health outcomes. The chatbot blends BlueMetal's Real-Time Business Platform with Microsoft Cognitive Services - Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS) and the Visu...

From July 1 Indian government is introducing a new tax regime called GST The reform - many years in the making - is short for Goods and Services Tax GST is a single, nationwide tax replacing a complicated mix of state and federal taxes and will change the cost of nearly everything people buy The reform involves moving all good into four main GST rate bands 5 per cent, 12 per cent, 18 per cent and 28 per cent The move is likely to boost government revenues and the country's credit rating  GST will unify 1.3 billion people into one of the world's biggest common markets  Although trying to understand all the new Goods and Services Tax (GST) variables is a complicated task, think twice before downloading one of the many smartphone apps promising to simplify the task. Cyber experts have raised the alarm over apps that claim to assist in calculating or filing GST returns. Security agencies asserted that market is ...