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The much touted Samsung Bixby smart assistant is exclusive to the latest Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ flagships, but it has already been unofficially ported to older handsets as well. Samsung introduced its new Bixby assistant last month, before the actual unveiling of the Galaxy S8 flagship series. The company promises a “fundamentally different” experience with Bixby as it’s not just another assistant similar to Siri, Cortana or Google […]

You need Javascript and either Adobe Flash or Html5 to view this video. You need Javascript and either Adobe Flash or Html5 to view this video. Video: Matthew Mirabelli Konrad Mizzi is refusing to reply to any more questions on his involvement in the Panama Papers, saying that he has now exhausted all questions on the matter. Following a press conference on a new joint venture with […]

The dominance of GitHub in the project hosting and code sharing space has claimed another victim, with Microsoft announcing plans to shut down its CodePlex site following a period of decreasing use. According to the plan posted by Microsoft vice president for Cloud Developer Services Brian Harry, the creation of new CodePlex projects has already ended, with the site to become read-only during October, followed by its […]

Image: Kharnagy I’ve never seen a topic in IT become so popular, so fast, while so many people in the field still have only a vague idea of what it is and how it can help them. DevOps promises that it will change the way businesses run their technology stack–shedding old ways of operating that were once efficient, but are now holding back the enterprise. When you […]

Dubai’s residential market contracted during the first quarter of 2017, with rental rates falling by an average of 1 percent quarter-on-quarter over the period, a new report reveals. CBRE’s latest Dubai Market View said the dip was driven by an increase in available housing options amid more constrained demand. Meanwhile, landlords are becoming increasingly flexible with rental rates and tenants are able to negotiate, CBRE added. Residential […]

Chat is nothing new in business (or even new to Microsoft), but it’s heading out of the technical department and the personal chat clients, and into the wider workforce. Microsoft Teams has some obvious similarities to Slack and HipChat and the other business chat services, but it has a different focus. This is chat for teams of people in your business who already use Office 365 tools […]

This year’s edition of the show will feature Investment by Residency Programs, Golden Visa Program, Immigration Services, Affordable Housing, Sustainable Homes and Luxury Properties (local & international) This year’s edition of the show will feature Investment by Residency Programs, Golden Visa Program, Immigration Services, Affordable Housing, Sustainable Homes and Luxury Properties (local & international) UAE, Dubai, 31 March 2017 Compared with other types of investments, real estate […]

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Persona 5 is finally set to be released in North America after a pair of delays that pushed the game’s launch from last year to February, and then again to April 4. As gamers look forward to the arrival of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts of Persona 5, PlayStation 4 owners should expect that one of the gaming console’s most popular features will not work with the RPG. […]

Citrix XenDesktop Essentials –the promised Citrix Cloud service for delivering Windows 10 Enterprise virtual desktops on Azure — is now available for purchase. As of this week, we finally know the pricing for this service. XenDesktop Essentials costs $12 per user per month, or $144 per user per year. There’s a 25 user minimum for the service, and billing is charged monthly. To date, users have been […]

JPMorgan is in talks to buy a new building in Dublin, but has told London staff it will not “rush into any decisions” on how it will adjust its operations after Brexit.  Bloomberg reported that the US bank was in talks to buy a 130,000 sq ft office in the centre of the Irish capital which could accommodate about 1,000 people. The bank declined to comment. The news […]

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, March 30, 2017 The award-winning African Utility Week (www.African-Utility-Week.com ), taking place from 16-18 May in Cape Town, will showcase how the continent is coming up with innovative, home-grown solutions to its energy and water challenges and how these are creating exciting and lucrative opportunities for utilities and industry suppliers alike. Experts from respected partners in the industry such as the World Bank, […]

Google lives and dies on open-source software. Without Linux, there would be no Google. The company both uses and makes open-source code every day of the year. In 2017 alone, Google has open-sourced Chrome for iOS; Upspin file-sharing; E2EMail, experimental end-to-end email encryption; and the Guetzli JPEG encoder. There’s only one problem. How do you find all these projects? Google finally has given us the answer: Google […]

Apple and Facebook are gearing up to challenge start-up Magic Leap and Microsoft’s HoloLens in the race to create a pair of augmented reality glasses that could one day replace the smartphone as consumers’ primary computing device. Apple is stepping up its efforts in AR eyewear, according to people with knowledge of its efforts, while Facebook is also researching the technology that can make what chief executive […]

March 26, 2017 by: FT Confidential Research Government efforts to cool the Chinese housing market are not working. Despite an intensifying clampdown, more households expect prices to continue rising in the coming months, particularly in the richest cities that are the focus of the government’s campaign. Consumer sentiment towards real estate purchases has also spiked, probably in response to widespread coverage of the policy tightening. The clampdown […]

26 March 2017 Rebrand to emphasize unique integrated structure Open D Group reinforces position as a global expert in efficient retail and brand focussed solutions with a shopper approach Open D Group, Retail Access and Sparkle, the award winning retail and branding design agencies, have today announced their rebrand to ODG to implement a simpler, cleaner, agile and integrated organization to deliver its expertise in Intelligence, Branding, […]

Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com, Ultimately, no one can stop what is coming. The haves and have nots of the next, gritty era of aftermath will be those who have the means to survive when the system has failed, and those who do not. For the wealthy, and prepper minded elite, hidden fortified layers purchased for insurance will preserve most of the luxuries of life above […]

By Venus Wu and Jess Macy Yu | HONG KONG HONG KONG Hong Kong on Sunday will likely select Beijing’s favoured candidate for its next leader who some say will further divide a city where middle class families have become increasingly disaffected by political tension and economic hardship. The former British colony, governed under a “one country, two systems” arrangement, was promised a high degree of autonomy […]

KUALA LUMPUR: Owning a bungalow or semi-detached house for below RM100,000 (US$22,600) is just a dream for most people, but Johor’s Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar is about to make it reality. The project called Rumah Impian Bangsar Johor (Johoreans’ Dream House) had its soft launch on Wednesday (Mar 22), marking the start of construction for 1,840 units, including bungalows and semi-detached houses.  These will be built in phases […]

The biggest challenge facing Joel de la Garza, chief security officer for file sharing giant Box, is juggling the need to be secure with the need to allow for innovation. Speaking with ZDNet in Sydney, the California-based CSO explained that as a security professional, it is always hard for him to say anything positive after spending 20 years exposed to the cybersecurity threat landscape. He said he […]

Two weeks after a variety of online services from Microsoft suffered outages for several hours on Tuesday across Western Europe and the Eastern United States, Outlook and Hotmail appear to be having another outage across the US.  Services like Xbox Live, Outlook.com, Skype, OneDrive, and Microsoft’s Windows Store are currently not allowing users to sign into accounts. Zero Hedge has tested a number of accounts, and can […]

PSIM Market Expects Banking Organizations To Drive Future Demand As Panama Papers Leak Triggers Security Overhaul – MarketIntelReports Monday, March 20, 2017 8:00 PM UTC Wilmington, Delaware, March 20, 2017 — The report “Global PSIM Market by Manufacturers, Regions, Type and Application, Forecast to 2021”, available on MarketIntelReports, estimates that the North American market will continue to remain as a key growth driver till 2021. Browse numerous […]

For Honor, a war game that pits Knights, Vikings, and Samurai against each other in chaotic free-for-all matches, received praise from critics for its combat system, balanced character classes and realistic physics. However, one of the aspects of For Honor that has drawn criticism is the free-to-play model of the game. For Honor features microtransactions that require either real money or steel points that players acquire to unlock everything […]

(Image: Sighthound) Palo Alto, Calif.-based Sighthound has released an emotion recognizer on its Sighthound Cloud API for developers. The recognizer has a Detection API for person, face, gender, and facial landmark detections, and a Recognition API that developers can use for face and vehicle recognition applications. Its Cloud Recognition API makes it easy to add face recognition to applications. Currently, the API only supports Objects with a […]

19 March 2017 Dubai Land Department (DLD), the strategic partner of the Dubai Property Show – Shanghai, hosted a preparatory meeting for Dubai property developers who will be exhibiting at the show from 24th to 26th March 2017. At the meeting, DLD discussed the various methods for ensuring the ongoing success of the show, including the promotional plan shared with exhibitors at the Real Estate Investment Management […]

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