With the progressing year, the technology diversified ways in which we could communicate and retrieve the information from the pocket fitting devices. Technologies such as IoT, automation, and cognitive computing moved beyond the conceptual stages in 2016. As the year takes up, companies throughout the world are developing their business strategies. In order to move forward in the competition, companies are turning towards major investments in technology. The world's biggest consumer technology convention, CES is one of the best places to find a handful of key technologies. CES 2017 finished another spectacular year with pioneering technology trends including smart homes to self-driving cars. This year is assumed to bring transformative technology trends for us to explore and invest in. AI, also known as Artificial Intelligence has been studied for decades and now the vision of transforming insentient objects into intelligence is gradually becoming a reality. AI based Innovations are now pondering into the market and becoming part of our daily lives with quick adaptability. Artificial intelligence assists humans and handles the tasks flawlessly, without interrupting your comfort. Whether to set an alarm, or remind you of something important, or to play your favorite music or to read out general news for you or to find your phone, AI can make the task more convenient and smart. Sit back and relax while you command your device to do things for you.

Every year the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona features the updates and innovations likely to sweep the mobile industry in the year ahead. What will it take to get you jazzed about smartphones again? The industry appears mostly stuck in neutral, as was evident at the Mobile World Congress trade show that took place in Barcelona, Spain, last week. There was a me-too-ness to most of the handsets on display, and it's been this way for a while. It was equally telling that one of the biggest stories to come out of MWC was about the relaunch of the Nokia 3310, a cheap compact throwback phone that debuted around the turn of century.

As companies increase their efforts in retaining customers, being able to predict accurately ahead of time, whether a customer will churn in the foreseeable future is an extremely powerful tool for any marketing team. The paper describes in depth the application of Deep Learning in the problem of churn prediction. Using abstract feature vectors, that can generated on any subscription based company's user event logs, the paper proves that through the use of the intrinsic property of Deep Neural Networks (learning secondary features in an unsupervised manner), the complete pipeline can be applied to any subscription based company with extremely good churn predictive performance. Furthermore the research documented in the paper was performed for Framed Data (a company that sells churn prediction as a service for other companies) in conjunction with the Data Science Institute at Lancaster University, UK. This paper is the intellectual property of Framed Data.

Samsung's Galaxy S8 information has been leaking non-stop in the last few days, and now one of its key features may have been revealed as well. A new report has surfaced claiming that that Galaxy S8 will come with facial recognition technology. The long-standing rumor was that Samsung was going to implement its iris scanner technology from the Galaxy Note 7 onto this year's Galaxy S8. However, that will no longer be the case, an unnamed Samsung official told the Korea Economic Daily, as per The Investor. The main reason why Samsung decided to ditch the iris scanner in favor of facial recognition technology was because iris scanning was unreliable in terms of speed.

NEW YORK The founder of former telecommunications company Global Crossing Inc, Gary Winnick, has acquired a majority stake in live streaming concert service Qello - the first step in creating a new company and technology platform to capitalize on the surge in online TV consumption, Winnick told Reuters.

O2 has announced plans to introduce an AI capable of performing the same job as customer service staff. The voice recognition system, which is called Aura, was unveiled by the mobile operator's parent company Telefonica at MWC this week. It's expected to launch in the UK next year, and will enable the company to cut customer service costs. Aura would be able to deal with customers' issues over the phone, such as questions about bills and requests to make changes to existing mobile plans. Telefonica also believes that Aura will help it boost customer loyalty, by allowing the firm to hand customers' data back to them.

The legend is that Almon Strowger invented automatic telephone switching in order to stop human operators deliberately or accidentally misdirecting phone calls. This was an early (patented 1891) example of using machinery to improve security and reliability in the telecommunications network. However, it was primarily the need to manage growth that drove automation of the phone system. And since then, through various stages of electromechanical, electronic and computer driven developments, the telecommunications networks of the world have benefited from increasingly high levels of automation. Most of this time, the underlying pattern of advancement stayed the same.

They're old ideas, but machine learning and AI are now the communications industry's hot buzzwords, judging from last week's Mobile World Congress. "For mobile operators around the world, this is no longer an experiment," said Patrick Ostiguy, CEO of Accedian, during an MWC panel discussion on machine learning. Machine learning, which involves training a computer by feeding it examples and counterexamples, has been around for decades. The post office's optical mail-sorting machines are one example. True AI and deep learning, which strive to teach a brain how to teach itself, are also long-standing disciplines.

Chinese electronics company Huawei is now the world's third-biggest mobile phone manufacturer – though it's still a brand many people don't know well. Its latest releases, the Huawei P10 and P10 Plus, build on last year's P9 by lavishing improvements all round and adding a notable extra focus on colour. While it's become common in recent years for premium phones to be presented in metallic colour variants (gold, silver, rose gold), it's been left to more affordable handsets, usually clad in plastic casing, to go for bright hues. Think the Apple iPhone 5C or models from HTC and, until recently, Microsoft. Huawei has gone further, producing its top-of-the-range P10 in eight shades, yes eight. One of them, rose gold, will only be available in China.

Samsung is set to launch the highly anticipated Galaxy S8 later this month, but new reports suggest the handset's release has been delayed. The smartphone had been expected to hit the shelves on 21 April, but it appears that Samsung has decided to push its plans back by a week. The S8 will instead hit the market on 28 April, according to VentureBeat. The reason behind the apparent delay is unknown, but the company won't want to take any chances in terms of safety or reliability following the Galaxy Note 7 disaster. Samsung itself is yet to announce an official release date for the handset, but numerous leaks over the past several weeks have all pointed at 21 April.