Google Set to Launch Mobile Phone Plans in Deals with US Internet Heavyweights

(Digital Marketing Agency, thesnsgroup.com)- Google Inc. is reportedly preparing to launch its project codenamed ‘Nova’, which will see the world’s leading search engine sell mobile phone plans directly to consumers and manage their calls and mobile data over a cellular network.

According to Reuter citing technology news website Information, the US-based giant is in talks to buy 

wholesale access to Sprint and T-Mobile mobile voice and data networks, making it a mobile virtual network operator.

To date, though, it has not been clear how widely Google plans to offer the wireless service, how much it would cost or which mobile device manufacturers, if any, have already agreed to work with Google for its new service.

Google Agreed To Rewrite Its Privacy Policy

After achieving plenty of pressures from the UK Information Commissioner's Of  fice, Google fail to disagree to change policy, according to Digital Marketing Agency.

Google was not precise when showing and describing users on how it employs personal data gathering from web, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) found.

As a result, Google should exhaust all possible solution to make users moreeasier to seek how their data is collected and what it is used for and submit to a two-year review.

Not yet the end, Google needs to insert some other important information concerning with who may collect anonymous identifiers and it also need to guarantee that passive users are better informed about the processing of their data.

Steve Eckersley, the ICO's head of enforcement said, "this undertaking marks a significant step forward following a long investigation and extensive dialogue.”

In that meantime, a Google spokesman said: "We're pleased that the ICO has decided to close its investigation. We have agreed improvements to our privacy policy and will continue to work constructively with the Commissioner and his team in the future."

Amazon Challenges Microsoft and Google with Email and Calendering App “WorkMail”

(Digital Marketing Agency) – Based on Amazon Web Services, an email and calendaring feature WorkMail has been released by Amazon to compete with Microsoft and Google.

According to Wall Street Journal, WorkMail is also encrypted once they’re sent, and then decrypted via a company-controlled key at the other end of the tunnel when received by the intended target.

Report from techcrunch mentions that WorkMail also offers a “feature-rich” web-based client for access without any special software.

Compatible with Outlook, WorkMail costs about $4 per inbox without the possibility of further extensions like Google and Microsoft have. Each inbox contains 50GB with an addition of a 200GB Zocalo file storage block will be available at the extra cost of$2 per month.

Snapchat Release Discover, a New Feature That Allows Users to Browse through Renowned Broadcasting Channels

(Digital Marketing Agency) – Snapchat has reportedly commenced the start of “Discover” that will enable the view of popular media stations.

Discover is described as an ongoing feature that gathers daily stories and contents from brand broadcasting channels such as National Geographic, Vice, Yahoo News, People, Daily Mail, Comedy Central, Cosmopolitan, CNN, Food Network, and ESPN.

Snapchat confirmed that everyday stories hoarded by celebrities and famous figures as well as Snapchat’s own editorial staff will be available to Discover.

According to Techcrunch, these stories will feature “full screen photos and videos, awesome long form layouts, and gorgeous advertising,” 

Samsung Reportedly Set to Produce Mass Amount of Chips for Next iPhone

(Digital Marketing Agency, thesnsgroup.com)- According to South Korea’s Maeil Business Newspaper, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd will be the main supplier of processors powering Apple Inc's next flagship iPhone, though the world’s no. 1 smartphone maker declines to comment on the matter.

If the report is to be believed, the South Korean giant will be responsible for around 75 percent of the chip production for the next iPhone and it will make the chips from its factory in Austin, Texas.

Sadly, nothing is mentioned regarding how much the contract is worth and what other company will be supplying Apple.

Google Now Backs Crawlers with Locale-Adaptive Web Pages

Digital Marketing Agency, Google announced that the company added support for their crawlers with locale-adaptive web pages, web pages that change the content based on the user’s country origin and/or language settings.

With the new support for crawlers, the company introduces two methods: geo-distributed crawling and language-dependent crawling; however, Google strongly recommends you use different URLs or TLDs based on having content specific for different countries or languages.

Google said: “These new configurations do not alter our recommendation to use separate URLs with rel=alternate hreflang annotations for each locale. We continue to support and recommend using separate URLs as they are still the best way for users to interact and share your content, and also to maximize indexing and better ranking of all variants of your content.”

Gate Warns Threat on Artificial Intelligence

Bill Gates, Microsoft founder, said the threat caused by artificial intelligence was significant. Human should highly take into consideration, according to Digital Marketing Agency.

However Gates’ claims on the threat of AI seems contradictory. He skeptical on why there was no harm by possibility that AI could grow too strong for people to control. Gates had a different opinion from Eric Horvitz, one of Microsoft Research's chiefs, who has said he "fundamentally" did not see AI as a threat.

Mr Gates with Elon Musk and some others don't understand why some people are not concerned about this AI. Mr Horvitz has said: "There have been concerns about the long-term prospect that we lose control of certain kinds of intelligences. I fundamentally don't think that's going to happen."

Horvitz continued, however, there was more than expected since the progress was good and less harm.