Wednesday 9 March 2016

Required Sales Representative for a Trading Company in Dubai

Dear Candidates,

A leading Trading company of General goods requires a store sales representative.

Skills Required:
ü  Min 2-5 Years' experience in sales & merchandising.
ü  English proficiency & computer acknowledgement
ü  Effective communicative skills 

 Salary:   AED 2500 (Inc. Food & Accommodation)
Return Air Ticket every year
Bonus – Depending on performance
Gratuity – Will be calculated after minimum two years of completion

 Duties:
  • To conduct sales and attend to clients.
  • To take up initiative of shop management.
  • To merchandise products to the customers.
  • To assist other team members where necessary.
  • All other duties related to store maintenance.
Kindly Send Your CV at: vacancy@aerizogroup.com

Consultancy charges apply once candidate has been selected*

Friday 4 March 2016

Virtual Reality Is the Next Big Thing


There's a lot of buzz going on about virtual reality (VR). There are articles popping up in the news and a lot of general excitement. With Smartphone-compatible versions of VR, like Google Cardboard and Samsung Gear VR, already on the market, as well as the recent pre-release of the Oculus Riftand the imminent arrival of the HTC Vive, one thing is certain: virtual reality is coming.

Although many have forecasted VR's categorical success, others are not so certain about it. Some naysayers have even predicted that VR will be a complete flop, saying it's doomed to the same fate as 3D TV.

The biggest problem with 3D TV was that there simply wasn't enough content to persuade mainstream consumers to go out and buy expensive new TV sets (not to mention that the technology was imperfect at best…). It always remained a niche venture. But this is just not the case with VR. Full-fledged VR headset, becomes generally available to consumers, there are already tons of really cool applications in all sorts of domains, not just gaming. Here are five of the best.

You can teleport yourself just about anywhere in the world and feel as if you're really there using the new Google Street View VR app

However, short of actually purchasing an $800 round-trip ticket to Europe, the Google Street View VR app (currently available for android devices using Google Cardboard or Gear VR) is about as realistic and genuine an experience as you can have in another city. Well, the 360º VR functionality is a step up from traditional Street View. Here, you get to freely zip through city streets, getting a real feel for their spaces and places. But unlike the Street View we're accustomed to, the VR function lets you really focus on small details you might otherwise miss, since you are completely immersed in the experience. And that's the magic it offers: unlike staring at your computer screen, where you never lose sight of the fact that you are, in fact, sitting in your living room, Street View VR is so immersive that you become aware only of your virtual surroundings.

You can watch movies on a 140-foot screen on the moon

Oculus Cinema is an app that lets you watch movies and other video content as though you were in a movie theater, an IMAX theater, or on the moon. The light from the movie screen bounces off moon rocks around you, and if you turn to your right, you'll see the Apollo moon lander (which, of course, explains how it is that you came to be binge watching your new favorite series on the moon).

This is really cool because it accurately recreates the cozy feeling of being in a theater while specifically focussing on watching a movie. Much like in a theater, it's dark around you and you can't glance down at your phone to check the game scores – which is what is cool about the cinema in the first place: escaping our mundane existences and diving into the movie's story. Also, Oculus has just announced that friends are coming to the oculus cinema; they are adding a social function to the app which will let your friends sit in the same theater (or part of the moon) as you while you watch the movie, thereby overcoming some of the loneliness of VR.

You can attend live shows, like the filming of SNL

You can interact with people in an entirely new social network: AltspaceVR

Released just a few days ago, AltspaceVR lets you share and really interact with other people within virtual reality spaces. Whether you're playing chess or sitting in a warm cabin in a virtual winter wonderland, this new platform lets you have shared experiences with people that may be thousands of miles away. Ultimately, the basis of friendship is the possibility of talking, having common experiences, playing together, and hanging out. AltspaceVR taps into that, and thus truly unleashes an enormous potential for VR socializing. This is still in its early stages, but it's paving the way for a social network revolution.

Tuesday 1 March 2016

A Health-Tracking App that will help you burn calories


A group of researchers has created an app that may make it easier to actually make health and fitness changes and stick with them. It logs where and when its users are active and stationary, as well as what they're eating. Called MyBehavior, the app also offers users a list of activity- and food-oriented suggestions each day, along with details about the calories they'd save or burn with them.

Plenty of Smartphone apps already track physical activity and calories — many of them, like ones from Fitbit and Jawbone, by working with a wristband or smart watch — but it can be a struggle to make radical changes to your routine.

The app tries to come up with achievable goals that blend in with a person's habits rather than bombarding him with information. It can also adapt as the person's routine changes over time.

The researchers found that people using the app burned 45 more calories per day and ate 150 fewer calories per day, or about 1,365 calories per week.

Choudhury says the group hopes to roll out MyBehavior publicly in September, around the time that the researchers present a paper on their study at the ubiquitous-computing conference UbiComp in Japan.

The app automatically tracks running, walking, and sitting with the phone's accelerometer and GPS, using that data with its algorithms to generate suggestions that you're likely to try. For instance, if you walk to work several times a week and go to the gym just once a week, the app would mostly keep trying to get you to take those walks, telling you how many calories you'd burn by doing so and noting how often you've done so over the past week, though it would also sometimes bug you to go to the gym more. If you're sitting at the office for six hours each day, it might suggest you take a few minutes to walk around each hour, too, and let you know how many calories you'll burn from doing that.

To log food, users can take a picture of what they're eating and upload it to MyBehavior's server so a group of Amazon Mechanical Turk workers can label it (they work from a list of most frequently selected foods by users of the MyFitnessPal mobile app) and determine, on average, how many calories it has, along with its similarity to other recent foods you've eaten. The app can use that data to give suggestions for other foods you may want to eat — if you eat a lot of McDonald's burgers, for instance, it might suggest you avoid them and tell you that something else you like to eat is a better option.

MyBehavior considers your activity and meals over the last week. That's enough history to get to know a person's routine, while also being able to adapt to changes you might make and giving you new food and activity suggestions as a result.