Qualcomm beat Wall Street’s sales and profit forecasts for its second quarter as the mobile chipmaker’s performance was boosted by the launch of new smartphones including Samsung’s Galaxy S8. However, the company on Wednesday warned of greater uncertainty in its outlook for the next quarter because of its legal battle with Apple, some of whose contract manufacturers have withheld about $1bn in royalty payments to Qualcomm in […]
Facebook is developing a system capable of typing 100 words-per-minute straight from the brain Facebook wants to read your mind. At least, when it comes to what you’d like to say or type. The social network giant, at its annual developers conference, unveiled Wednesday projects aimed at allowing users to use their minds to type messages or their skin to hear words. “Speech is essentially […]
One of the most important trends in the automobile world is making cars smarter. I’m not talking about autonomous cars, but rather connected features on new cars and retrofitting existing cars with digital intelligence. Two of the most popular add-ons for new cars are Apple’s CarPlay and Google’s Android Auto; many manufacturers—including GM, Mercedes, Honda, Hyundai, VW, and Volvo—offer both in new cars. […]
A Lake Jackson resident suffered second-degree burns thanks to his iPhone 6s. The horrific incident occurred when the Apple smartphone burned the owner while he was asleep. iPhone 6s Lake Jackson Burn Incident: What Happened? On Saturday, April 15, Luke Schilhab, a resident of Lake Jackson, accidentally entered the pool along with his iPhone 6s. Schilhab noticed that the iPhone switched off automatically soon after. On reaching […]
Even special dispensation from Pope Francis probably won’t save Bill O’Reilly. O’Reilly was in a VIP line at the Vatican on Wednesday as a holy war over his employment status was apparently climaxing in New York. He’s apparently a goner from his mega-successful Fox News show, “The O’Reilly Factor,” in a turn of events that will further spotlight the precarious nature of finding winning TV personalities. Indeed, […]
The Boss Baby Director: Tom McGrath Starring: Alex Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, Jimmy Kimmel, Lisa Kudrow, Tobey Maguire Three stars A baby that talks, wears a suit and sounds like Alec Baldwin? Sign me up. Even the barest hint of its premise suggests The Boss Baby might be a lot of fun. Of course many a good idea in Hollywood falters before the final reel. But this latest […]
Emaar Malls, the shopping malls and retail business majority-owned by Emaar Properties, on Tuesday approved a proposal to distribute 10 percent of it share capital, equivalent to AED1.301 billion ($354 million), as a cash dividend to shareholders. Addressing shareholders, Mohamed Alabbar, chairman of Emaar Malls and Emaar Properties, said the success of Emaar Malls is led by the UAE’s robust growth and the vision of Sheikh Mohammed […]
|By Saifur Rahman| Intex Technologies Ltd, an Indian technology accessories manufacturer with an annual turnover of US$1 billion, is investing INR 25 billion that will push its annual turnover ten-fold to US$10 billion in 5 years, a senior official told The Arabian Post. India is currently the world’s second-largest telecommunications market and has registered strong growth in the past decade and half.The total mobile services market revenue in […]
Last summer Betsy O’Donovan, the incoming Executive Director of The Daily Tar Heel, wrote an essay on Medium charting the dire financial situation of UNC-Chapel Hill’s student newspaper. It started pretty bluntly: “The Daily Tar Heel is a news organization, and we don’t dodge the facts: This 123-year-old institution has two years to figure out its finances.” The Daily Tar Heel, like many news organizations these days, […]
Left to right: DTA interim CEO Nerida O’Loughlin, new DTA CEO Gavin Slater, and Assistant Minister for Cities and Digital Transformation Angus Taylor (Image: Digital Transformation Office) Former National Australia Bank (NAB) executive Gavin Slater has been appointed as the new CEO of the Australian government’s Digital Transformation Agency (DTA), Assistant Minister for Cities and Digital Transformation Angus Taylor announced on Wednesday. Slater held numerous roles in […]
Dubai, UAE, 5 April 2017 During his participation in the “Ask the Leader” initiative on the sidelines of the 5th Dubai Government Achievement Exhibition (DGAE), Director of Dubai Customs Ahmed Mahboob Musabih said Dubai Customs’ efficiency and distinctive performance have helped the UAE in moving forward to occupy first place in the region and 4 th place worldwide in the efficiency of customs procedures category according to […]
Dubai Police on Tuesday refuted media reports that it has arrested a group of foreign hackers that targeted five White House officials in an email blackmail scheme. The Arabic-language Al Bayan newspaper and the television channel Dubai One reported the arrests on Monday but Dubai Police said on Twitter: “#DubaiPolice refute allegations in faulty news article.” Al Bayan quoted Saud al-Khalidi of Dubai police as saying an […]
Microsoft’s Windows has long been the world’s most popular operating system, but not anymore. Windows is no longer on top. For the first time ever, Google’s Android mobile operating system has managed to trump Windows and become the world’s most popular OS. This further goes to prove how mobile has soared and in today’s mobile-driven world, Android rules the game. Android Dethrones Windows Web analytics firm StatCounter […]
Taking a cue from the Marvel Universe, researchers report that they have developed a self-healing polymeric material with an eye toward electronics and soft robotics that can repair themselves. The material is stretchable and transparent, conducts ions to generate current and could one day help your broken smartphone go back together again. (via WSJ)
ODG’s new R-7 HL goggles. Osterhout Design Group (ODG) announced a new pair of wearable googles aimed at hazmat workers. Dubbed the R-7 HL, ODG says the googles are a ruggedized enhancement of the its existing R-7 glasses built to withstand “Hazardous Location” certifications. The ruggedness certifications include drop, shock, vibration, splash, dust and temperature extremes, as well as safeguards for potential explosive environments. The R-7 HL’s […]
Being able to interact with mobile phones and other smart devices using gestures with our hands and fingers in three dimensions would make the digital world more like the real one. A new project will help develop this next-generation interface. (via WSJ)
In this Monday, April 3, 2017, photo, Tim Berners-Lee poses outside his office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. Berners-Lee, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, is this year’s recipient of the A.M. Turing Award, computing’s version of the Nobel Prize. The honor comes with a $1 million prize funded by Google, one of many companies that made a fortune […]
A company in Sweden is tapping on a relatively new technology to give their employees the ability to do things with just a wave of the hand. The technology also has the potential to track what employees do. Swedish company Epicenter offers to implant its workers with microchip the size of a grain of rice. Injecting the microchip that functions as swipe card for opening doors and […]
Imagination Technologies lost more than half its market value in a single day this week when the chip designer revealed that Apple, its largest customer, was developing its own version of the graphical processing units in which the UK-based group has specialised. Apple’s initiative to make a GPU, however, should not have come as such as surprise to investors. It follows several months of intensive recruitment by […]
Mobile phones have increasingly become the repository for the details that drive our everyday lives. But researchers have recently discovered that the same apps we regularly use on our phones to organize lunch dates, make convenient online purchases, and communicate the most intimate details of our existence have secretly been colluding to mine our information. (via WSJ)
Dubai, UAE – April 3, 2017 BlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ: BBRY; TSX: BB) today shared new details on its broad licensing strategy which addresses the growing need for secure, connected devices and endpoints in today’s Enterprise of Things. The first phase of BlackBerry’s strategy, announced in September 2016, was focused on providing the most secure and comprehensive Android software for smartphones around the world manufactured and marketed […]
Journalism has a trust problem. In the run-up to the 2016 election, a Gallup poll revealed Americans’ trust in the press had sunk to an all-time low, with just 32 percent surveyed they felt “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of trust in the mainstream media. Whether it’s criticism from the Trump administration, the failure of the media to correctly forecast the outcome of the 2016 […]
Bahrain’s King Hamad on Monday approved a constitutional amendment granting military courts the right to try civilians accused of terrorism, state news agency BNA said. The amendment, approved unanimously by the upper house of parliament last month, drops a clause limiting military trials to members of the armed forces or other security branches. It does not specify what constitutes an act of terrorism. The Sunni-ruled kingdom has […]
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 […]
