At the Google for Nigeria’ event, the company announced that it will soon bring ‘Google Station’ for Nigeria in partnership with 21st Century which is one of the largest fiber network providers in Nigeria. It also announced a new feature within Google Go; it can now read web pages out loud and highlights each word so you can follow along. Continue reading “Google Go to get dictation in 28 new languages, Google Station expands to Nigeria”
Telegram today has introduced a new feature; Telegram Passport a unified authorization method for services that require personal identification. Once you upload the documents, you can share the data with services that require a real-world ID. Continue reading “Telegram 4.9 brings ‘Passport’ that securely stores and shares identification documents”
Google today has yet again updated its Play Store developer policies and first among them is the “appeal to children but contain adult themes” are no longer allowed. In the same regards, apps that include content that adult content will be immediately banned from the Store. Continue reading “Google finally bans Crypto-mining, repetitive apps from the Play Store”
Google today announced that in the next few days it will be adding new features in Search to make it easier to find events. These new features will give you personal recommendations, along with more information about events that interest you.
Update: Samsung has released two more teasers about storage and speed. These hint at 512GB storage option and 8GB RAM as rumored earlier.
Panasonic India has finally debuted in the OLED TV segment with a new line-up of two series, along with 11 models in the 4K segment. The new OLED line-up comes in 55-inch “FZ950” and 65-inch “FZ1000” series. The company says that both these series are equipped with features like “Hexa Chroma Drive PRO” color management system. Continue reading “Panasonic 4K OLED and LED TVs launched in India starting at Rs. 65000”
Facebook today has introduced a new experience called Watch Party to all Facebook Groups, after testing it earlier this year. It is a new way for people to watch videos on Facebook together in real time. Once the watch party is launched, participants can watch videos, live or recorded, and interact with one another around them in the same moment. Continue reading “Facebook launches ‘Watch Party’ to let groups watch videos together”
Google and Dropbox today have announced a partnership today and through this partnership, both the companies will see their first-ever product integration which is a DropBox add-on for Gmail. Continue reading “Dropbox Gmail add-on for sharing and saving files released”
Google today on the second day of Cloud Next 2018 announced its own 2FA Security Key as part of the Titan secure elements family. It also introduced the Edge TPU for the Internet of Things. Google last year has mentioned its intentions to “built micro-controller” for servers in its data centers. Continue reading “Google introduces Titan USB Security Key for password-free logins”
Facebook today reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2018. The company has reported a total revenue of $13,231 million with a 42% growth compared to the $9,321 million from the same time last year. Facebook’s advertisement reported a $13,038 million from the entire revenue. Continue reading “Facebook reports $5.1 billion net income, 31% YoY growth in Q2 2018, has 2.23 billion monthly active users”
Xiaomi really nailed it last quarter in India pushing Samsung behind to regain the number one position in the smartphone space. However, Samsung gave it back this time reclaiming the top position. According to Counterpoint Research, the smartphone market returned to double-digit growth (18%) YoY after flat first-quarter growth. Continue reading “Samsung surpasses Xiaomi in India to regain number one position with 29% market share in Q2 2018: Counterpoint”
Qualcomm Incorporated today announced results for its fiscal third quarter ended June 24, 2018. The company has reported a revenue of $5.6 billion compared to $5.4 billion from the same time last year. This is a good 4% improvement YoY. Qualcomm’s operating income comes to around $0.9 billion versus the $0.8 billion from Q3 Fiscal 2017 and is a 20% growth. Continue reading “Qualcomm reports $5.6 billion revenue, 4% YoY growth in FY Q3 2018, decides to terminate NXP acquisition plans”
Twitter today has announced that between April and June 2018, removed more than 143,000 apps that violated the policies. The company also announced its efforts to stop malicious apps from entering the platform and remove problematic apps to limit the access these apps have on the platform in the first place. Continue reading “Twitter introduces new developer requirements to prevent misinformation, removed over 143,000 apps in Q2 2018”
Google today is introducing two new AutoML offerings; the AutoML Natural Language that helps you automatically predict custom text categories specific to domains and AutoML Translation using which you can upload translated language pairs to train your own custom translation model. Furthermore, Google also said that these are now available in beta, and announced new enhancements to Dialogflow Enterprise Edition, a new solution, Contact Center A. Continue reading “Google to bring A.I technology to contact centers, adds new automated machine learning tools”
Apple today is rolling out a new update for its brand new MacBook Pros that were released earlier this month. This update brings a fix for performance related issues and thermal management system under certain conditions. The bug especially drives the clock speeds of the MacBook Pro’s lower than necessary under heavy workloads. Continue reading “Apple MacBook Pro 2018 update brings fix for CPU throttling and thermal management bug”
