|By Arabian Post Staff| Xanadu Real Estate Development, a Dubai-based property developer, announced the delivery of nearly 200 luxury villas and townhouses with a development value exceeding Dh750 million, part of the Dh8 billion worth of projects it helped deliver with its partners over the last six years. These include 130 Townhouses at Jumeirah Village Circle, worth Dh300 million and 68 luxury villas at Jumeirah Golf Estates, […]
The event discussed latest technology developments, created business opportunities and tackled industry issues and challenges Qatar, Doha, 18 May 2017 Billed as Middle East’s premier event for the real estate and hotel industry, Hotelier Summit Middle East 2017 gathered once again some of the biggest names in the local and international hospitality sector to engage in focused face-to-face business meetings, discuss the latest technology developments, create business […]
Google is opening its Instant App platform to all developers and embedding it into Android O–the latest version of the mobile operating systems. With the move, Google is likely to give business tech decisionmakers a bit more to think about. At Google I/O, execs outlined how developers can use Instant Apps to create mini applications that will improve interaction without downloading an app. Android O will have […]
Google chief executive Sundar Pichai delivers the keynote address at the 2017 Google I/O Conference, where he stressed the importance of artificial intelligence Google announced Wednesday it was bringing its digital assistant to Apple iPhones as part of its effort to win the battle with tech rivals on artificial intelligence. At its annual developers conference at an outdoor concert-venue near its main campus in Mountain View, California, […]
Blizzard earned its reputation as one of the best game developers today well before Overwatch. Now, with year one in the bag, it’s time to take a look back at the year that was in Overwatch. Calling All Agents Overwatch released on May 24, 2016, after what seemed like an eternity in beta on the PC. Anyone who had gotten their hands on the game talked up the […]
Google has unveiled a new kind of standalone virtual reality headset that does not need to be wired to a PC or external sensors to offer more realistic graphics and movement tracking, in the hopes of kick-starting what has been sluggish consumer adoption of the technology. Device makers HTC and Lenovo are working with Google and chipmaker Qualcomm to launch the headsets starting later this year, Google […]
GE Appliances announced a deal with Google Wednesday enabling the US tech giant’s voice control home hub to be used for cooking, cleaning and other functions. The deal enables GE’s “Geneva” to communicate with the Google Assistant, so users can say: “Ok Google, ask Geneva Home to set the oven timer for 10 minutes.” The announcement comes nearly a year after GE Appliances unveiled a similar […]
One minute I’m in an office in Dubai’s Jumeirah Lakes Towers; the next, I have been transported to the grounds of a villa in the Sheikh Zayed Housing Programme. I scan the garden – there’s a ball by my feet, so I pick it up and toss it out of the way. Next, I teleport myself just inside the front door. I take a wander around the […]
Amazon is adding two-step verification of the “Alexa” wake word to make sure Alexa-enabled devices respond when they’re supposed to. The update is part of the Alexa Voice Services (AVS) feature, which is what hardware developers use to build Alexa capabilities into third-party devices. Amazon said the verification change improves Alexa wake word accuracy and reduces false wakes caused by words that sound like “Alexa.” “With this […]
VMware said Monday that it plans to acquire Apteligent, makers of application performance software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. According to VMware, the Apteligent platform lets mobile app developers and IT admins analyze mobile application performance in real time, providing converged visibility and contextual analytics to improve application uptime. The company said it plans to use Apteligent’s capabilities to bolster its digital workspace platform and […]
Although voice-activated platforms like Alexa will continue to grow and be important, it is my sense that AR is really the platform to watch. As I’ve discussed before, augmented reality has the potential to become the Next Big Thing. Voice-activated systems like Alexa are nice, but they have their limits. We’ve seen AR take off in apps like Snapchat and Pokemon Go, but what if a major […]
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Hotel giant Hyatt has announced plans to expand its brand footprint in the Gulf and wider Middle East region with the signing of management agreements for 14 new properties. Under the agreement, Hyatt-branded hotels across the Park Hyatt, Grand Hyatt, Hyatt Regency, Hyatt Centric, Hyatt Place, and Hyatt House brands will open in the region over the next few years. They will be based in cities including […]
MP3 players had once been the de facto audiophile gadget, the thing you needed to have if you wanted on-the-go music sessions. Apple, in particular, has had a stake in the MP3 market for many years thanks to its continued refresh of the iPod line. Yet the most recent model, the sixth-generation iPod touch, was released as far back as 2015. That’s because in recent times, MP3 players […]
Oracle this week launched its API platform cloud service, a part of the Oracle Cloud platform that delivers “end-to-end capabilities for designing, prototyping, documenting, testing, and managing the proliferation of critical APIs,” Oracle said in its release. The launch follows Oracle’s acquisition of Apiary, a startup that provided API development tools. The new platform effectively combines Apiary’s API design and governance platform with Oracle’s API management capabilities. […]
2017: The year of the Linux desktop on the Windows desktop. Yes, Microsoft is making it much easier to run the Bash shell, based on Ubuntu, and soon SUSE or Fedora, on Windows 10. No, hell hasn’t frozen over. True, Carmen Crincoli, Microsoft’s Storage independent hardware vendor partner manager, tweeted: “2017 is finally the year of Linux on the Desktop. It’s just that the Desktop is Windows.” […]
The life of an Android release, before Project Treble. Via Google. Google has unveiled a new system that aims to streamline vendor Android updates. It’s called Project Treble, and Google says it’s the “biggest change yet to low-level system architecture.” Treble is technically a vendor interface that sits between the Android OS framework and the device-specific, lower-level software written by chipmakers. It’s powered by the new Vendor […]
This image shows the stage of the Microsoft Build developers conference in Seattle, Washington on May 11, 2017, where the tech giant unveiled new hardware for “mixed reality” computing Microsoft on Thursday debuted hardware for reaching into virtual worlds powered by its technology as it looked to “mixed reality” as the next big computing platform. An update coming to Windows 10 operating system later this year will […]
Microsoft showed off the forthcoming return of OneDrive placeholders to Windows 10 at its Ignite conference earlier this year. The most eagerly awaited new feature in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update isn’t new at all. see all of ed bott’s Windows 10 Tips OneDrive Files On-Demand, which Microsoft showed off during the Day 2 keynote address for its Build 2017 developers conference today, marks the return […]
Google’s mobile search makes it easier to find events and buy tickets. Image: Google Google has rolled out a new mobile feature that makes it easier for its US users to find events and buy tickets. Google’s app for iOS and Android now offers an orderly rundown of upcoming events in results for searches about local events accompanied by bold date, time, and location details. There’s also […]
Dubai-based Majid Al Futtaim will open its largest mall in the Northern Emirates – City Centre Al Zahia in Sharjah – by 2020. The mall operator, which will increase its investment in the UAE by $8.17 billion (AED30bn) to $13.08bn (AED48bn) by 2026, will invest $708 million (AED2.6 billion) in developing the new city centre. The super-regional mall will have a gross leasable area of 136,200 square […]
Microsoft, whose campus is shown in this 2014 picture, has told developers at its annual Build conference it wants to bring artificial intellience into the mainstream Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled new tools intended to democratize artificial intelligence by enabling machine smarts to be built into software from smartphone games to factory floors. The US technology titan opened its annual Build Conference by highlighting programs with artificial intelligence […]
IBM on Wednesday is announcing significant updates to PowerAI, its deep learning software distribution package, making it faster for data scientists to deploy deep learning models and easier for developers to integrate computer vision into their applications. Analysts say that artificial intelligence has reached a tipping point where it’s being integrated into just about every service, product or integration, but there are still major challenges for the […]
Apple on Tuesday invited members of the press to attend the opening keynote for its annual World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) on June 5. The keynote is scheduled to start at 1 pm ET/10 am PT at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, CA. Apple in the Enterprise: A Strategic Guide Once a pariah in the enterprise, Apple has quietly emerged as a darling of executives […]
Held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Presidential Affairs of the UAE 09 May 2017 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – Held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Presidential Affairs of the UAE, the 1st edition of ATech World Conference & Exhibition and World Game […]
