Astro Gaming’s new A50 wireless gaming headset follows its predecessors as one of the most impressive, and pricey, headsets on the market. It rings in at a hefty $300, but justifies its price tag with excellent audio quality and a full feature set, including an attractive charging cradle. It’s light, comfortable, sounds fantastic for both games and music, and it can work with your Sony PlayStation 4 […]
The Surface Phone is probably closer than most people think, at least according to a report by Chinese financial publication Commercial Times, who claims that Pegatron, a main supplier for Apple, is reportedly working with Microsoft and is already administering production trials of the enigmatic Surface Phone. Surface Phone Rumors The Surface-branded phone has enjoyed its wealth of rumors in recent months. Others predict it as a high-end […]
Customer relationship management (CRM) software helps you gather current and historical information about all your customer interactions, including not just past purchases, but also interests, a roadmap of the customer’s eventual product needs, negotiation details from previous deals, and even customer service or helpdesk issues. All that combines to build what amounts to customer dossiers full of up-to-the-minute interaction records and demographic data that you can leverage […]
The Canon Maxify iB4120 Wireless Small Office Inkjet Printer ($149.99) is one of a relatively small number of small office/home office (SOHO) inkjet printers on the market, and it is a very good one. It has terrific paper capacity, competitive running costs, and above-par output across the board. The iB4120 is an easy pick as an Editors’ Choice budget SOHO color inkjet printer. Design and […]
Dubai, November 27, 2016: Al-Futtaim has announced the appointment of Dr. Hayan Sayed as Chief Executive Officer of Al-Futtaim Engineering and Technologies. Part of Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate, Al-Futtaim Engineering is a multi-disciplinary engineering organisation operating across UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia with over 30 years of successful operations. Al-Futtaim Technologies is a leading Converged Systems Integrator and provides complete business solutions to large, medium and small […]
The Microsoft Surface Pro and Apple iPads are some of the most popular tablets available in the market. It seems that these two tablets will soon see a new competition called Eve V, which will feature top-end specs and a reasonable price tag. Helsinki-based startup Eve Tech had aimed to raise $75,000 in its Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for the Eve V. However, the company has already raised […]
Resident Evil 7 players will be able to transfer their saves between versions of the game bought on Xbox One and the PC Windows Store, raising questions as to whether the game will be part of Microsoft’s Xbox Play Anywhere scheme. In an article about features present in each format of the game, Dengeki (as translated by IGN Japan) reports that “the Windows Store version can share play data with […]
John Hanke arrives at Mijita on San Francisco Bay looking more like a middle-aged indie rocker than the chief executive of a company that this summer was estimated to be making tens of millions a week. His striped flannel shirt is unbuttoned over a T-shirt bearing a compass and the words, taken from a poem in The Lord of the Rings, “Not all who wander are lost”. […]
Microsoft-owned LinkedIn, the business-centric social networking site, has been blocked in Russia after a court ruling adjudged the service of violating data laws. On Thursday, Nov. 17, Roskomnadzor — the Russian regulatory watchdog for IT and communications — decreed that ISPs in the region block access of LinkedIn website to the public. This was to make LinkedIn conform to a court ruling that pronounced the company guilty of […]
As the region’s avid online shoppers get set for another record-breaking 4-day shopping festival, SOUQ.com ensures a seamless and exciting shopping experience for customers – With the introduction of new Fashion, FMCG and lifestyle categories, 50% of units sold expected to be non-electronics – More than 100K mobiles, 100K health & beauty products and 50K apparel items on sale this year 16th November, 2016, Dubai, […]
A sell-off reverberating through sovereign bond markets tested investor appetite on Monday for a multibillion-dollar corporate bond sale, as money managers wait for volatile price swings to subside. Pfizer successfully completed a $6bn bond sale on Monday but several investors familiar with the sale said interest was subdued by the recent volatility in fixed-income markets, which has seen the yield on both the 10 and 30-year Treasuries […]
Microsoft officially revealed its Black Friday 2016 deals, cutting deep into the price of various Surface devices, Xbox consoles and Windows 10 PCs. With Black Friday just around the corner, deals are starting to pile up and exciting offers can be found at nearly all reputable retailers and online shops, including the Microsoft Store. For this year’s Black Friday, Microsoft has prepared an assortment of discounted devices […]
The Nintendo Switch 2017 Presentation on Jan. 12, in which more details regarding the upcoming hybrid console will be revealed, is still several weeks away. While waiting for more information to be released by Nintendo regarding the Nintendo Switch, rumors and speculations are running rampant for the details that are still unknown for the device. Garnering perhaps the most amount of speculation among the unknown specifics of the […]
If you’ve been salivating over Snapchat’s Spectacles, the company’s video-recording plaything unveiled back in September, you’ll be pleased to know Vuzix’s Blade 3000 series of upcoming smart glasses functions far beyond what Snapchat is poised to accomplish. Similar smart glasses have not ambled well in the past, keenly exemplified by the lukewarm reception of the Google Glass, whose future still remains foggy. There are only a few […]
Dubai, UAE – November 14, 2016 Gulf Islamic Investments LLC (‘GII’), a UAE based Islamic financial services company, today announced the successful closing of US.$145 million fund raising for “Apttus”, a Silicon valley based company delivering Enterprise Class, Software-as-a-Service (Saas) Solutions to complete the Quote-to-Cash customer process and the Procure-to-Pay supplier process. This is the fourth company out of Silicon Valley for which GII has raised funds […]
Facebook has been navigating the dark web in search of stolen passwords, buying credentials off the black market in a bid to protect users. By purchasing stolen passwords off the black market, Facebook aims to increase its own security, as well as protect users who rely on one password for two or more accounts. While most people know that it’s highly recommended to use different passwords for […]
The Google Pixel, a device that is being considered as possibly the best Android smartphone to date, has just been hacked by Chinese team in less than 60 seconds. The feat was achieved by white hat hackers from security solutions company Qihoo 360 at PwnFest, a hacking competition held in Seoul, South Korea. The Google Pixel Hack At PwnFest, Qihoo 360 demonstrated an exploit that gave the team […]
Top retailer Best Buy has announced its Black Friday deals for 2016, and they include discounts on some of today’s hottest technology items, including PS4 and Xbox One bundles, a $199 49″ Toshiba 4K HDTV and more. The retailer has also announced its official store hours for Black Friday, including those for Thanksgiving Day and the weekend following Black Friday. Most of the nation’s largest retailers, have […]
Ever since Microsoft launched the first Surface device, the company has been pushing to get creative apps in the Windows Store in hopes to have creators switch from the Mac to Windows. So far, the company has been doing a decent job, and the latest app to cross over is Affinity Photo. The app began life on Mac OS X, but now it’s coming to Windows 10. […]
Xbox One may already be cementing its position as the best-selling console in the United States after consistently beating PlayStation 4 in the past four months. This is considered the longest Xbox One dominance in the history of the consoles’ rivalry since they were both launched in November 2013. Xbox One October Sales The information is based on data gathered by The NPD Group and GfK Entertainment […]
Staples is looking to cash in on some Black Friday 2016, and it aims to do that with some smashing deals. Folks who are looking to pick up a new Surface laptop and or other Windows 10 devices should be pleased by what Staples is offering. We know of what Staples is planning because of a recently leaked advertisement. From what we can tell, these deals are more […]
Business-focused social network LinkedIn faces being blocked in Russia after a court ruled it broke a law on data storage. The Moscow city court rejected LinkedIn’s appeal against a ruling that it had broken a law that requires personal data on Russian citizens to be stored on servers within Russia, court spokeswoman Ulyana Solopova told The Associated Press. Solopova says LinkedIn can appeal Thursday’s ruling. The case […]
As of this morning, several hours after the U.S. presidential race was called for Donald Trump, some of the tech world’s leading voices had yet to weigh in on what those results could mean for Silicon Valley in particular and innovation in general. But many news outlets are saying the impacts could be disruptive in ways that the otherwise disruption-loving tech sector might not like. Meanwhile, venture […]
Carnegie Mellon University plans to announce on Wednesday that it will create a research center that focuses on the ethics of artificial intelligence. The ethics center, called the K&L Gates Endowment for Ethics and Computational Technologies, is being established at a time of growing international concern about the impact of A.I. technologies. That has already led to an array of academic, governmental and private efforts to explore […]
