The Microsoft Cortana-powered Harman Kardon Invoke has its benefits, but Amazon’s Echo lineup might be too big to topple. Redmond has no one to blame but itself. Imagine an Amazon Echo with stellar sound quality that wasn’t primarily intended to sell you stuff you don’t need. Or a Google Home that wasn’t tied to your frighteningly detailed online dossier on the gargantuan […]
10 May 2017 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – Jannah Hotels & Resorts’ award-winning flagship hotel, Jannah Burj Al Sarab played host to the ultimate Iftar preview party for the media delegation of the UAE and the GCC on 7 May. The all-day restaurant The Dining Room specializing in French and Mediterranean cuisine, served an extensive menu of Middle Eastern and International dishes for the Iftar buffet […]
OnePlus has carved out a name for delivering excellent phones, like its recent 3T, at mid-range prices since its 2013 launch. Image: OnePlus Smartphone maker OnePlus says it will launch its next flagship, the OnePlus 5, this summer. The OnePlus 5 will succeed last year’s popular OnePlus 3 and the recently launched OnePlus 3T, which offered fans high-end specs well below the cost of flagships from Apple, […]
May 6, 2017 by: Jeevan Vasagar in Singapore and Michael Peel in Bangkok Puma Energy, the fuel storage and petrol station business backed by Swiss commodities trading house Trafigura, wants to expand in Myanmar across a range of fuel and petroleum products after opening a $100m storage facility at the southern port of Thilawa. The new terminal, with a capacity of 91m cubic metres, opens the prospect […]
Google’s autosuggest feature lets you know, sometimes with spooky accuracy, what other people are looking for when conducting queries similar to yours. So, with Google’s help, we provide answers to a few of the most popular searches about Android. Can you use iTunes and FaceTime on Android? I combined these two Android-related questions, which are both at the top of Google’s auto-suggested list, based on their common […]
Just a few days after OnePlus CEO Pete Lau posted the first teaser for the upcoming OnePlus 5, some of the most important specifications of the device have been allegedly leaked on Chinese social network Weibo. According to Lau, OnePlus fans should expect a “big surprise” soon from the company. From the leaked specifications, the OnePlus 5 will definitely be considered as a smartphone to look forward […]
Your daily guide to community and cultural activities across the Emirates for May 5, 2017, including performances, festivals, art exhibitions, film screenings, health and fitness events, talks, classes, workshops and family fun. Aarti Jhurani rounds up 10 things to do today in the UAE. Want to see your event listed here? Email us with the details and contact information at [email protected] newslide Abu Dhabi Food festival Visit […]
By Michel Rose and Ingrid Melander | PARIS PARIS Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen and centrist Emmanuel Macron clashed over their vision of France’s future, the euro and ways of fighting terrorism in an ill-tempered televised debate on Wednesday before Sunday’s run-off vote for the presidency. The two went into the debate with opinion polls showing Macron, 39, with a strong lead of 20 percentage points over […]
Apple CEO Tim Cook (Image: CNET/CBS Interactive) Apple CEO Tim Cook has said he remains enthusiastic about business opportunity in China, the world’s largest smartphone market, despite the company’s Greater China sales falling 14 percent year-on-year to $10.7 billion in the quarter ended April 1, from $12.5 billion in the same period last year. This figure was also down 34 percent from revenue of $16.2 billion recorded […]
What were you thinking Microsoft? The company’s just-released Surface Laptop is meant to challenge Chromebooks, but at a starting price of $999, who the heck will buy it? It sure won’t be schools, which Chromebook dominates now. Windows 10 S and Surface Laptops are neither Chrome OS or Chromebook killers. They’re another pair of Microsoft mistakes. Sure, there have been premium-priced Chromebooks. I own two of them, […]
Heads up, Cortana. Google Assistant is coming to PC via Google Chrome. The erstwhile mobile-exclusive personal assistant is coming to all devices, now that Google has made its software development kit public. Through the Google Chrome extension AutoVoice, Google Assistant can now be used on PCs. It takes time to set up, but it opens up a myriad of uses via voice commands. AutoVoice And Google Assistant AutoVoice developer […]
The OnePlus 5 is among the most hotly anticipated smartphones of this year and the company’s CEO just posted the first teaser, touting a “big surprise.” With the LG G6 and the Samsung Galaxy S8 out of the bag, one of the most rumored smartphones yet to debut is the OnePlus 5, which is expected to hit the scene sometime in the second half of this year. OnePlus […]
Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron have each promised to bring renewal to French politics. Still, the two insurgent candidates, who will go head to head in the second round of the presidential election on Sunday, have clashed over how to handle the challenges facing France. Ms Le Pen, of the National Front, is running on a populist, anti-immigration platform but has spurned economic liberalism in favour […]
In 2001, “Frontline” aired a documentary by investigative reporting legend Lowell Bergman. The movie, which chronicled the new cowboys of “Energy Alley,” contained never-before-seen interviews with Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling and other players in the energy scandal. It was compelling footage. After Enron imploded, filmmaker Alex Gibney bought the video from PBS and used some of it in his 2005 documentary about the scandal, “The Smartest Guys […]
For the first time ever, Red Hat will align its flagship operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), development and release dates with a third-party: Amazon Web Services (AWS). This alliance underlines just how important the cloud is to Red Hat as it moves from being a Linux distributor first to being a cloud services provider first. Red Hat is partnering closely with Amazon to fly Red […]
The Samsung Gear S3 is compatible with a number of Android and iOS smartphones and Samsung just published a handy chart to illustrate it. Just recently, Samsung announced a permanent price cut for its Gear S3 smartwatch in the United States, indicating that the company is looking to boost sales before Apple and other players release new smartwatches. The permanent Gear S3 price cut makes the smartwatch […]
Brussels is rushing out proposals to impose EU control on the City of London’s lucrative euro-clearing market, forcing UK operators to either relocate or be policed by European authorities. In a provocative regulatory salvo fired as Brexit talks begin, the European Commission is preparing to issue legislative proposals in June that would heavily restrict London’s ability to host one of its flagship financial businesses. The commission’s power […]
Samsung, which delayed the voice command component of its new digital assistant Bixby, has finally released the feature in South Korea. Bixby, which was supposed to debut alongside Samsung’s latest flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus, was incomplete upon the launch of the devices. Full Version Of Samsung Bixby Delayed Upon the launch of the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus, users receive access to […]
“Aaaaaaayyyyooooo!!!” yells Will Buikema, moments before he reaches to shake hands with a man who crushes 300-pound NFL players for a living. Buikema, a video producer with SB Nation, is visiting Eagles linebacker Jordan Hicks in Philadelphia as part of an ill-fated attempt to make friends with the NFL star. It goes south quickly, to hilarious effect: Buikema is comically overexcited to meet Hicks, he botches an […]
T-Mobile is apparently planning to launch a high-end smartphone exclusively and offer it at a much more affordable price than a regular flagship. The self-proclaimed Uncarrier has been trying to revolutionize the mobile scene for a good while now and has constantly come up with aggressive offers to blow the competition out of the water. T-Mobile CEO John Legere has made it his mission to revolutionize the […]
France’s presidential candidates battled for the working-class vote in a day of sometimes violent protests ahead of next Sunday’s election. As May Day workers’ rights marches were being held across the country, the National Front’s Marine Le Pen attacked her rival Emmanuel Macron as an “enemy of the people” who represented finance and “savage globalisation”. The rancour and confusion of the campaign spilled on to the streets, […]
According to reports, LG is gearing up to release a smaller version of its G6 flagship. The device will feature a 5.4-inch display with a screen-to-body ratio just under 80 percent. It’s also expected to tout the G6’s 18:9 aspect ratio, reports add. LG To Produce Mini G6 That’s according to TechnoBuffalo, who claims to have received an internal document from a trusted source. The move, if true, isn’t […]
(Image: Jason Cipriani/ZDNet) Galaxy S8 owners have taken to Samsung’s US community forums and XDA Developer forums to complain about the smartphone randomly restarting. First reported by Android Authority, complaints on the Samsung forum started a week ago, with forum member Lazazy stating: “So I picked up my Galaxy S8 and everything seems to be working well except the phone keeps restarting itself. I have had it […]
Marine Le Pen has agreed to team up with an anti-EU candidate who came sixth in the first round of France’s presidential election as she seeks to win votes from the centre-right in the run-off next weekend. On Saturday Ms Le Pen announced that she would name Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, an anti-EU Gaullist and founder of the nationalist party Debout la France (Arise France), as prime minister in […]
