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WhatsApp gets video calling: Google Duo, Skype, Viber and other apps that also offer the same WhatsApp has video calling feature rolling out for users. Here are other apps that are also offering something similar. WhatsApp has announced video calling feature to its app, which will go live on Android ,   iOS   and Windows devices over the next couple of days. WhatsApp video calls were part of the Android public beta app for those who had signed up, but it is now coming out of beta and ready for all users. WhatsApp has promised the feature will start rolling out by tonight, and all video-calls made on the app will be end-to-end encrypted just like messages and voice-calls. For messaging apps video is the next big step, especially as connectivity and device specifications have improved in important markets like India. WhatsApp’s big announcement comes at a time when India is expected to see a big push in 4G LTE connectivity with players like Reliance Jio entering the...

At 16,000 terabytes per day traffic, Jio is the largest network globally At 16,000 terabytes (TB) per day of traffic, Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio may have become the largest network globally in terms of data carried, according to Credit Suisse estimates. The agency said that Jio is ahead of China Mobile (12,000 TB), Vodafone Global (6, 000 TB), China Unicom and Bharti in terms of data carried on a daily basis. Credit Suisse findings are based on Jio’s recently announcement of 16 million subscribers as of 30 September with each user consuming 1GB data per day. The agency said that the 16,000 TB data per day traffic also makes Jio traffic 4.2x larger than Bharti + Idea + Vodafone India combined. “Of course, this is all understandable given the free offering. Real demand will get tested only once charges start applying,” Credit Suisse said. Recent media reports talk of slowing Jio network speeds. Credit Suisse said that slow network speeds now quite understandable in the ...

Machine learning: Why Evernote has moved to Google's cloud Are you taking notes? On the surface it looks like a simple public cloud infrastructure deal. But stand back from productivity app Evernote's recently announced migration of its entire infrastructure onto Google's Cloud Platform and there's a much bigger story to tell. This one's about the changing world of customer-facing technology - and the rise of the AI API . What is Evernote doing? Productivity apps are many, but Evernote's 200 million plus customers make it one of the most popular. Allowing users to store private notes on the cloud, add multimedia, and access everything from multiple devices (recently restricted to two unless you pay a fee), Evernote's back-end now contains about five billion notes. Until now, all of that was held on Evernote's own private cloud infrastructure, but from early October it's all going to be migrated to Google's Cloud Platform. Everno...

Google Cloud SQL takes on Amazon Aurora Google’s first attempt at MySQL as a service, Cloud SQL, launched in 2011, was somewhat of a disappointment from the standpoint of performance and scalability. Cloud SQL Second Generation, which was released on Aug. 16 of this year, has no such problems. In fact, it outperforms Amazon Aurora for some load profiles. In essence, Cloud SQL Second Generation is an implementation of MySQL 5.7 on top of Google’s Compute Engine and Persistent Disk. According to Google, Cloud SQL Second Generation runs seven times faster and has 20 times more storage capacity than its predecessor -- with lower costs, higher scalability, automated backups that can restore your database from any point in time, and 99.95 percent availability, anywhere in the world. Cloud SQL features Cloud SQL Second Generation a fully managed database service, taking the knob-twiddling out of MySQL configuration. As you can see in the figure below, when you configure ...

Google says its databases are enterprise ready The company announces GA for Cloud SQL, Cloud Datastore and Cloud Bigtable Google is continuing its campaign to entice enterprises to its public cloud platform by rolling out database services stable enough to serve businesses' production workloads.   To that end, the company announced the general availability of three database-focused products: the second generation of Cloud SQL, its managed database service; Cloud Datastore, its NoSQL document database; and Cloud Bigtable, its NoSQL database service that powers products like Gmail. Each of those products has a service level agreement associated with it, guaranteeing a certain amount of availability.  ...

How to get Office 365 document sharing to actually work You know how in the movies the monster lopes along yet always somehow catches the screaming girl who's running away from it? That's been the story of Office 365, Microsoft Office, and OneDrive, the three pillars of Microsoft's attempt to move its productivity suite into a collaboration tool, both across users and across devices. But now, after years of progress and piecemeal rollouts, Microsoft has finally pulled together the pieces into a cohesive package and delivered on the original collaboration promise. Well, mostly -- the tools still have gaps, but the main issue is deadly practical: It's not obvious how to use them together, so many users can't capitalize on the collaboration promise, though they now have the tools to do it. Office 365 Document Sharing Guide How to get Office 365 document sharing to actually work How to get and set up all the Office 365 c...