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Amazon has partnered with Irvine, California-based audio and voice solutions company Conexant Systems to accelerate the adoption of smart home appliances. Conexant It has released an Alexa Voice Service (AVS) approved AudioSmart 2-mic Development Kit designed for smart home applications. Special Feaure The Industry Cloud: Why It’s Next Coud computing has engulfed lots of IT, but one of the untapped regions of the tech and business world […]

By Jack Kim and Nataly Pak | SEOUL SEOUL Protestors demanding that South Korean President Park Geun-hye step down marched on Saturday for a seventh straight weekend, a day after parliament voted overwhelmingly to impeach her and put the fate of her presidency in the hands of a nine-judge court. The crowd estimated by organisers at 200,000 packing a large square in downtown Seoul was significantly smaller […]

It was previously reported that Samsung could be releasing an update that will permanently disable the remaining units of the recalled Galaxy Note 7 that are still out in the wild on Dec. 15. Samsung has confirmed that such an update is on its way to stubborn users in the United States who are still holding on to the device despite the risk of its battery exploding and […]

Patience and preparation are the key to a great deal. Buying a new PC or Mac is a major purchase, potentially costing $1500 or more. Top-of-the-line new designs like the Microsoft Surface Book and Apple’s MacBook Pro (2016) can easily approach a $3000 list price. But you don’t have to pay that sticker price. With a little preparation and some patience, you can save 30, 40, even […]

Apart from the LG G6, poised as the upcoming G-series flagship, LG is also working on a new, midrange V-series phone, a less pricey option between its other V-series flagships, the V10 and V20. The aforementioned phone in the works is reportedly called the LG V5, and OnLeaks has now published product renders of the forthcoming smartphone. Awaiting a fresh new flagship leak, this is roughly […]

On December 19, Samsung will release a software update to all remaining Note 7 devices in the US that will stop the devices from working. According to the update posted December 9 on Samsung’s recall website, 93 percent of all recalled Note 7 devices in the US have been returned. The impending software update will stop the Note 7 from charging, and “eliminate their ability to work […]

When it comes to tablets, the two that I hear the most about from consumers are Apple’s iPad and Amazon’s Fire range. It’s pretty much like everyone else has given up on tablets and left the market to these two behemoths. But which offers the best holiday tablet? See also: How to make the rechargeable battery in your smartphone, tablet or laptop last for years The first […]

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Sony reportedly wants to be the first smartphone maker beside Google to push Android 7.1.1 Nougat to its smartphones. In fact, releasing the latest Android 7.1.1 Nougat build is apparently the “number one priority” for Sony’s developer team, according to a new report. “If you spot any other vendor (excluding Google) releasing this faster than us, prepare your rotten tomatoes,” Sony’s developer team told the Xperia Blog. Android […]

At a recent media roundtable discussion about the future for wearables, hosted by Vivalnk, I was sitting next to two doctors who have been working in this field as advisers. They told me they don’t know what to do with all the data that patients keep sending them from their wearables, heart rate, steps taken, etc. And some wearables collect data on biometric data that’s unknown to […]

Submitted by Steven Horowtiz via The Foundation for Economic Education, The headlines tell us that the Dow Jones is up around 1,000 points since Donald Trump won the election on November 8th. The conventional wisdom is that this shows how much confidence people have in Trump’s ability to generate a healthy American economy. The argument is that if people are willing to buy stock in American firms, […]

By David Lawder | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON President-elect Donald Trump is stacking his trade transition team with veterans of the U.S. steel industry’s battles with China, signaling a potentially more aggressive approach to U.S. complaints of unfair Chinese subsidies for its exports and barriers to imports. Led by Wilbur Ross, a billionaire steel investor and Trump’s nominee for commerce secretary, Dan DiMicco, the former CEO of steelmaker Nucor […]

Samsung announced Friday it would disable its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones in the US market to force remaining owners to stop using the devices, which were recalled for safety reasons. The South Korean electronics giant, the world’s biggest smartphone vendor, said 93 percent of Note 7 phones in the United States had been returned to the company after its recall earlier this year, which came amid reports […]

Sprint has apparently started a slow rollout of Rich Communication Services, or RCS, for select devices. RCS, for the uninitiated, is an upgraded SMS standard for improved text and multimedia sharing. The nearest RCS comparison would be iMessage, Apple’s proprietary messaging app between iDevices. The newest version of Google Messenger has now been found to display the option to enable “Enhanced Messaging,” but only for a number of […]

Japanese electronic parts maker TDK Corp is in talks to acquire InvenSense Inc, a U.S. chip maker that produces motion sensors for Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co, people familiar with the matter said on Friday. The deal would allow TDK, already a major smartphone components supplier, to boost its sensor technology offerings. InvenSense designs gyroscopes which help smartphones calculate motion, enabling augmented reality games such as […]

Google Home is now fair game after Google officially unlocks it for developers last Dec. 8. The developer community has now been given the go ahead to develop what the company touts as “conversation actions.” Google Home vs. Amazon’s Alexa The move is widely seen as a direct challenge to Amazon’s smart speakers, which now have a comprehensive list of third-party integrations. Conversation actions are analogous to […]

09 December 2016 The Roads and Transport Authority – Nashwan Atta’ee: The Customers Service Council of the Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) in Dubai has explored in its 70th session held recently with the parties concerned with school transport various services provided by the RTA. The Council engaged in discussions and exchanged ideas & suggestions that will improve the business process and serve the public interest. Mohammed […]

What are Australia’s policy options for responding to the internet threats of 2022? This question was explored in the 360° Cyber Game conducted jointly by RAND Corporation and the National Security College (NSC) at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra on Thursday. RAND has conducted two of these games before, in Washington DC and in Silicon Valley, and has written up the methodology and results in […]

Samsung’s annual year-end reorganization announcement is being delayed. South Korea’s largest business group usually announces reshuffles and structural changes within the second week of December. The changes are indicators of what direction and strategy the conglomerate plans to take the following year. For instance, last year, Samsung Electronics made Injong Rhee, a software expert, the head of mobile division’s research team one. Since then, the company has […]

Breaking News, the popular alert app from NBC News, is shutting down at the end of the year. The entire staff at Breaking News — more than 20 editors, developers and administrative staffers — will stay on payroll at NBC News until Jan. 20, a spokesperson for NBC News told Poynter. Meanwhile, an effort is underway at the company to try to find jobs for as many […]

Dropbox is often the choice solution for file storage in the cloud, but the problem is that as smartphones proliferate the market, widespread internet coverage is slow to follow suit, so accessing the cloud is not always an easy feat when physically moving from place to place. In this case, cloud-based file storage basically becomes useless on a smartphone. Dropbox previously enabled a solution for this by allowing […]

1776, a Washington, DC-based technology incubator with a direct presence in Dubai, has signed a partnership agreement with the UK Lebanon Tech Hub (UKLTH), a joint initiative by Banque du Liban (Lebanon’s Central Bank) and the UK Government. The partnership is aimed at supporting Lebanon’s fastest-growing tech start-ups and help them break into new international markets such as the UAE and the neighboring Gulf countries. Start-up companies […]

Pebble’s time ran out. Pebble did not launch the first smartwatch or even the first smartwatch of the modern era. But its combination of long battery life, daylight-readable display and iOS compatibility led it to become the highest-grossing Kickstarter campaign ever. Its campaign for the Pebble Time — which noted that over a million Pebble watches had been sold and that it was the top-selling smartwatch on […]

The Lifetime Achievement Award handed to Samuel L Jackson during the opening ceremony of this year’s Dubai International Film Festival on Wednesday honours an improbably prolific 40-year career during which the actor has become as ubiquitous as popcorn. Above all else, moviemaking is a business, and on Jackson’s website, you can find a startling fact to explain the true meaning of the citation: “In recognition of his […]

Among the victims of a plane crash that killed 48 people Wednesday night was Junaid Jamshed, a pioneering Pakistani pop star turned religious preacher. Mr. Jamshed’s two careers, and the mourning that followed his death, reflected two conflicting sides of Pakistani society, commentators said. While some of his fans remembered him as a musician others lauded his most recent evangelical persona. The Pakistan International Airlines domestic flight […]

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