Category: Biz Tech

Snapchat is making the platform more appealing for businesses thanks to its new feature that automatically launches any website after a user scans its unique QR code. As part of its most recent update the popular photo and video app is now allowing users to create their own custom QR codes known on the platform as Snapcodes, which will then go to their website when scanned. To create a Snapcode, businesses, brands, and any Snapchat user with an account can do so

Apple CEO Tim Cook says that he remains "bullish," but the numbers suggest that this is little more than putting a brave face on things.Must read: Five things you shouldn't buy from AppleThe problem facing the

Every so often, a slew of hysterical articles bemoan the demise of newspapers and fret about how robots will soon take journalists' jobs. What a crock. I do not want to see or read about this sort of story until these fabulous computers can do optical-character recognition with 100 percent accuracy on old books. Or after voice recognition gets past 97 percent accuracy. Actually, 97 percent is not good enough. Getting three words wrong out of a 100 means a lot

What started as a toothache has cost a Sacramento truck driver his life. Vadim Kondratyuk Anatoliyevich, 26 years old and a father of two in Antelope, was driving the route from Truckee to New York on Jan. 24 when he began to experience pain in the lower left portion of the mouth, according to his wife Nataliya as reported by Sacramento Bee. He made a stop at an Oklahoma dentist to have it checked, and he was prescribed antibiotics for the

Starting Tuesday, Comcast will allow its customers to use Roku as a secondary cable box. Those who have a Roku — one of the best streaming devices around — released in the last couple of years or a Roku TV can install the Xfinity TV app and try the feature out before it heads for a wide rollout later in 2017. Xfinity TV For Roku The news comes nearly a year later after Comcast announced the development on its Xfinity TV partner app for Roku

The company rolling out the Australian government's National Broadband Network (NBN) has revealed the fibre-serving areas that will likely receive fibre-to-the-distribution-point (FttDP) or fibre-to-the-curb network technology in replacement of the unusable Optus hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC) network.In

Uber's self-driving car ambition just got another boost after it signed on the German automaker Daimler in an initiative to develop automated vehicles for its ride-hailing network. Looking at the announcement, however, one is left wondering if the partnership could really lead Uber to build a driverless car on its own. Uber's Role Uber CEO Travis Kalanick stated that, here, Uber is not going to be involved in doing the dirty work. Daimler, which is the parent company of Mercedes-Benz, appears to be

According to the Chinese zodiac Google became a public company in the year of the Monkey, in August 2004.In Western culture we are familiar with the story of the three monkeys who very wisely: see

Over the past 2.4 billion years, oxygen particles from the Earth's atmosphere have been streaming to the moon, researchers of a new study revealed. Observations Of Japanese Lunar Orbiter Kaguya Using data from studies of moon rocks and measurements taken by the Japanese lunar orbiter Kaguya, which was launched to study history, surface, and local gravitational environment of the moon, researchers found evidence that the moon may have materials that were produced by life from Earth as early as when plants started to

Enterprise software firm 8common has announced that two federal government departments are now using its travel and expense management product, Expense8, in a bid to achieve greater transparency on the costs associated with public service staff

Donald Trump may soon replace his old Android handset with a more secured one as rumored and he may have a new option with his own face handy. Caviar, a Russian company, is offering a gold-plated iPhone 7 with Trump's and Vladimir Putin's portrait embossed on it. As reported by Tech Times earlier, some of the most secured handsets which could be considered by President Trump were the Blackphone 2, Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge and more. The iPhone could possibly be on his list

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) posted fourth quarter financial results on Tuesday, reporting higher-than-expected revenues and a net loss in line with expectations. The chipmaker reported a non-GAAP loss of 1 cent per share on revenue of

London, UK based SaaS platform GRABR has launched BLINK, a secure mobile content distribution platform for brands, broadcast media, music labels, event organisers, news outlets and public services.The software as a service (SaaS)

Apple has reportedly sold more iPhone 7 Plus models than the iPhone 7 during the 2016 December quarter. The company is expected to release its financial results for the fourth quarter soon and analysts estimate that the company has managed to sell 78 million iPhones in the December quarter. This is a 4 percent increase in sales, when compared to the same period in 2015. The trend is an unusual one as the more expensive model - the iPhone 7 Plus - has outsold the

Image from Wikipedia User experience is not just about pretty design and attractive software screens. It encompasses every link in the chain that influences interactions between a user and the system. Historically, the enterprise software industry

A prestigious association of medical professionals in Great Britain has urged its staff to avoid the use of the term “expectant mother” to avoid offending transgender and intersex patients. Published late last year and found inside a 14-page booklet, the British Medical Association’s guidelines instead recommend the use of “pregnant people.” Inclusive Language The guidance on inclusive language, in the subsection “pregnancy and maternity,” states that gender inequality reflects in traditional man-woman roles. Then it proceeds to say that the language “can include intersex men

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A bag-like marine creature from China could be human's earliest relative. In a study published on Jan. 30, scientists revealed that the sea creature that wriggled in seabed mud about 540 million years ago could be the earliest known animal in the evolutionary branch that eventually led to humans. Evolutionary Deeper Ancestors Apes and monkeys are known to have evolutionary links with humans, who emerged 200,000 years ago, but paleontologist Simon Conway Morris, from the University of Cambridge, explained that humans have a

Australian rail freight company Aurizon has announced the termination of its Freight Management Transformation (FMT) project, contracted to SAP since 2014, resulting in an impairment charge of AU$64 million.The FMT project in 2014 attempted to bring

Lady Gaga is gearing up for her big performance at the Super Bowl halftime show on Feb. 5, and has just revealed new details regarding her set. Gaga announced the show will include music spanning her entire career, and not just from her latest album Joanne. Lady Gaga Super Bowl Halftime Show As we grow nearer to the big day when the New England Patriots face off against the Atlanta Falcons, football fans are speculating as to who will become NFL champions

Telstra has announced the launch of its gigabit-capable 4G mobile network in three capital cities throughout Australia, allowing users with compatible devices to attain speeds of up to 1Gbps amid promises that it will also upgrade

Monash University has implemented a multi-petabyte deployment at its eResearch Centre, giving the Melbourne-based advanced computing facility the capacity to store and manage massive workloads of data.The university implemented a software-defined solution that uses Red Hat

Dogs are man’s best friend. Tweak the adage a bit and you get the findings of a new study: pets are children’s best buds — closer to them than their own brothers and sisters. University of Cambridge researchers examined children’s relationship with their pets and found that they derived more satisfaction from animal companions and got along better with them than with their siblings. These pets may then wield a great influence on the kids’ development, potentially benefiting their social skills as well as

If you work in IT in the enterprise business space chances are the following scenario will sound familiar.You have spent the better part of the past few years working hard to help support or build a

Part of the Pokémon GO's novelty as a mobile game is the requirement for players to go out of the confines of their homes to hunt for monsters. While this gameplay has been lauded for getting people outdoors, it has also exposed players to all sorts of risks such as falling into manholes, getting run over by vehicles and even walking into danger or restricted properties. This is said to be the reason why a new Pokémon GO Plus accessory is

The new look of Google Voice across Android, iOS, and web.

Veterans Affairs Hospital in Pittsburgh is currently under water restriction after the discovery of Legionella bacteria in many areas of the hospital. This is not the first time that Veterans Affairs hospital is coping with Legionnaires' disease outbreak. In 2011 and 2012, at least six patients were declared dead due to Legionnaires' disease and 22 fell sick. Per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Legionellosis is a respiratory disease caused by the Legionella bacteria. The bacteria causes a type of pneumonia, a lung infection, commonly

(Image: file photo) "No industry, organization size or geographic location, is immune to a data breach." That's the bottom line to Risk Based Security's recently published end-of-year data breach report, which concluded

Self-driving cars have the potential to be much safer than vehicles on the road today. As Gary Shapiro, CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, told the Wall Street Journal last year, driverless cars could eliminate 90 percent of the 30,000+ deaths and many more injuries that occur on US roads each year. I suspect that by the time these cars hit the road in the next five years or so, they will have the kind of sensors, cameras, and AI-based instructions

A reconfigurable radio developed for NASA could allow tracking planes permanently, through a space-based tracking system. To send larger quantities of data faster, NASA engineers designed higher-frequency radios that can be programmed from a distance through software updates. The powerful radio communications network designed by NASA allows a series of operations and data transmissions, from Pluto images to tweets from the crew on the International Space Station. However, this type of informational transfer could be employed in tracking flights worldwide. Radio-Based Flight Tracking Engineers

Until recently, buyers could use iCloud to check the IMEI or serial number of a device being sold online to see whether it was still locked by another Apple account.

Yet a new update is beginning to roll out for Pokémon GO, although the latest isn't as sizable as the ones before it — just some minor but welcome changes to the popular mobile gaming app. Pokémon GO Update Niantic took to Pokémon GO's official website on Saturday to announce that a new version of the app has arrived for both iOS and Android platforms. Trainers are advised to install the latest update as it becomes available in their region. Instead of an