Monthly Archives: January 2017

Google Translate’s ‘Word Lens’ has recently added Japanese to the growing list of languages the translation app supports. The helpful app and tool is available for both iOS and Android, and already supports 27 languages — an extremely convenient tool to have whilst travelling to countries where you are not familiar with their basic language.

The app even works without being connected to WiFi or without your phone data turned on.

To operate Word Lens, you simply open the Google Translate app, and the Word Lens feature, then point your camera at the text you wish to translate and the translation will appear on your screen in real time.

Word Lens, originated as an augmented reality translation app from Quest Visual and was acquired by Google in 2014. From then on, it was incorporated into the Google Translate app and released in 2015.

If you would like any more information on this exciting technology, please be in touch with us at [email protected]

The White House has not only been preparing for the many physical transitions which come with a new President, the first ever Digital Transition will take place on the 20th January 2017.

President Obama, the first “social media President”, and his staff carefully constructed his digital entity and now the digital material created on it, will be wiped clean to become ready for the new President.

The President’s digital material will be wiped clean and archived, just as any hard copy would be. Obama’s @POTUS tweets will be transferred over to a new account, @POTUS44, and this and all digital material ie. Facebook, Snapchat etc, will be handled by the National Archives and Records Administration. His staff also plan to have his social media material ready for download, so it’s easy for anyone from the public to access.

Transferring and transitioning digital material is something that many individuals, businesses and companies are starting to have to deal with for the first time. It’s something that many of us have never had to think about before and like the White House, have to come up with a digital transitioning strategy and policy for the first time.

If you would like more information on digital strategies and transition as a service or need consultancy in this area, please be in touch with us at [email protected].

The incredibly successful breakout product, Trello, has been acquired by Australian software company Atlassian for £425 million.

Trello had been one of the breakout hits of a fast growing enterprise software market. Focused on teamwork and productivity, it’s been a favourite for project and team management — last year they reached 19 million total registered users and one million daily active users.

Atlassian offers its own communication product, Hipchat (competes with Slack), as well as a collaborative document creator called Confluence (competes with Google’s G Suite) and a growing suite of CRM tools much like Microsoft and Salesforce. Adding Trello continues Atlassian’s ambition into the office workforce by fitting into being the place for free form ideas.

Trello will remain a standalone property for the foreseeable future but will eventually be integrated and connected with Atlassian’s other products.

If you’re interested in learning more about the web based project management application, Trello, please get in touch with us at [email protected]

Yahoo has been bought by American telecoms giant Verizon Communications for nearly $5 billion in cash.

Verizon will combine Yahoo with AOL, who they bought only last year.

The company also plans to change its name from Yahoo to Altaba, after it turns over its email, websites, mobile apps and advertising tools to Verizon. The new name is meant to reflect Yahoo’s transformation into a holding company for investments in China’s e-commerce leader Alibaba Group and Yahoo Japan who are worth more than $40 billion in total.

Yahoo email, for the time being, is safe but anything can happen in the future. We advise that anyone with Yahoo email to possibly look at other platforms to move to in the foreseeable future.

If you have any questions regarding the Yahoo changes and email, please be in touch with us at [email protected]

We are excited to announce that the new website for the7stars Foundation is now live! The site was designed by Metric and built by us at DF.

the7stars Foundation, established by the7stars, supports the most challenged under 16 year olds in the United Kingdom. Assisting forgotten young people lacking opportunity, to achieve their potential.

If you would like more information regarding web build and design, please be in touch with us at [email protected]