Facebook’s Messenger Day Is an Attempt to Take on Snapchat Stories In an another attempt to take on photo sharing mobile service Snapchat, Facebook has rolled out a new feature called Messenger Day which lets users post illustrated photos and videos that disappear after a day. TechCrunch reported Messenger Day – which reportedly tries to clone Snapchat’s Stories feature – ... Read More »
The revamped MacBook Pro line of laptops has arrived with 13 and 15-inch models almost four years after the last noteworthy upgrade. And this time around there are more changes, both inside and outside. A Look at the New 2016 MacBook Pros Externally, they are smaller with the 13-inch coming in at 14.9 mm thick and 3 lbs, while the ... Read More »
Russian Indicted in US on Charges of Hacking LinkedIn A federal grand jury in California has indicted a Russian man for hacking computers belonging to LinkedIn Corp , Dropbox and Formspring, the US Justice Department said on Friday. Yevgeniy Nikulin was arrested on October 5 by officials in the Czech Republic and remains in custody in Prague, the Justice Department ... Read More »
The Assistant is always at the ready on the Pixel phone and can be summoned by pressing the home button or saying the words ‘OK Google.’ Photo: Reuters About six months ago, people working on hardware and the voice-activated Google Assistant for the Pixel phone started sitting next to each other at the company’s Mountain View, California headquarters, hammering out ... Read More »
Moto Z A brainchild of Google, the modular smartphone concept also known as Project Ara first surfaced in 2013. Three years down the line and many prototypes, all we know is that Ara remained delayed. Eventually, enough was enough and Google decided to suspend the idea of making modular phones by itself in September 2016. Instead, the company will be ... Read More »
HIGHLIGHTS The DJI Mavic Pro can be folded to the size of a ‘water bottle’ It features a new controller and camera that supports 4K video It’s up for pre-order and starts shipping on October 15 for $999 GoPro unveiled its debut effort in the world of drones by introducing Karma at Photokina 2016. DJI, a long time player in ... Read More »
HIGHLIGHTS Sony commands about 40 percent of the market for CMOS image sensors The sensors were central to Sony’s recovery from years of losses Sony’s clients include Apple and Samsung. Sony Corp’s image sensor production will return to full capacity in the October-March half-year due to a pickup in smartphone demand, having spent part of the past year running just ... Read More »
Wearable camera maker GoPro Inc said on Thursday it temporarily stopped selling its latest Hero5 camera model on Amazon.com Inc in the United States as the company negotiates pricing with the online retailer. GoPro’s shares fell as much as 3.8 percent, on track for its worst six-day drop since May. The company will resume supplying to Amazon at the end ... Read More »
HIGHLIGHTS Sony to concentrate on videogames, entertainment and camera sensors Expects JPY 270 billion in operating profit for year ending in March Sony to sell its battery business for about JPY 17.5 billion Sony Corp cut its annual profit outlook due to losses related to the sale of its battery business – disappointing a market that had been hoping for ... Read More »
Google unveiled its smart home speaker called Google Home at its Made by Google event on October 4. The speaker, like the Google Pixel smartphones, is powered by the Google Assistant. At the time of launch, Google Home did not have many integrations to work with, but that should change when the Assistant SDK becomes available. Now however, IFTTT has ... Read More »
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