Technology News from the World's Most Influential Companies
The phenomenon of virtual reality kiosks or cafés are taking over the Chinese market like wildfire, or so a report via Business Insider suggests. Several companies are putting up brick and mortar arcades for people to get a quickie VR experience for as little as 50 yuan, the equivalent of $7.50. According to the report, one company…
The world’s biggest search engine and online advertising company is now squarely in the trip planner business, and in competition with online travel companies with its latest Google Trips mobile app, updates to the Google Destinations tool and Google Flights, which was launched in 2011. This haphazard collection of apps might not be the most organized…
At Oracle’s annual OpenWorld 2016 conference yesterday, founder and CTO Larry Ellison finally unveiled the plan he’s been talking about to topple Amazon’s AWS (Amazon Web Services) from the top of the cloud infrastructure industry. Yesterday we covered what he had said prior to the event: MUST READ: Oracle to Challenge Amazon in Cloud Computing Infrastructure…
Cloud computing infrastructure is essentially about running your company’s servers on an environment not owned by you. On an individual level, its about renting virtual server space on the infrastructure that another company has built and paying them a monthly fee. At the other end of the scale, however, this can run into thousands of…
Not ready for iOS 10 yet? A lot of people worry about the new iOS 10 operating system for iPhones because the latest compatible apps tend to drain a lot of battery power. That kind of defeats the point of a longer battery life on the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. So while you’re still on…
When Uber first announced that it was going to unleash a fleet of 100 driverless Volvos into the streets of Pittsburgh, people were excited. Not only did it mean self-driving vehicles were here today and not ten years from now, but it also meant a gigantic leap for the car-hailing app company. But the road has been a…
For three decades now, Google has been putting innovation before profitability. That time is now coming to an end, and it’s not because of any innovation-killing virus, but merely the introduction of financial discipline by one of the most powerful women in business. Meet Ruth Porat, the woman who helped stop the Great Recession from…
When Tesla shocked the world by announcing a 200-mile range on its electric vehicles, it seemed like an insurmountable barrier for other EV manufacturers. That list also included Nissan, Ford, GM and many other traditional car makers with EV or hybrid-EV production models already on the roads. It seems now that GM will be the…
The popularity of video streaming today is forcing a decline in cable and satellite TV viewing. More and more people are opting for subscription-video-on-demand or streaming VOD, and the number of services has grown from when there was only Netflix, to where tech, retail and social media giants like Google, Facebook, Twitter and Amazon are exploring this…
It’s Sunday! Another opportunity to share with you some of the best premium iPhone apps that are available for free as of today. I can’t promise that these three apps will still be free tomorrow so check them out and see how you like them. Of course, once you download them they’re free forever and…
Apple users who generally get their iPhones on a carrier contract will know this, but there are a surprisingly huge pool of Apple fans who don’t yet know that they can get a free iPhone 7…sort of. What you do is take your older iPhone 6 or 6S to a carrier – AT&T, Verizon, Sprint…
Amazon is the world’s largest e-retailer by valuation, with a market cap well north of $360 billion, but Alibaba is the world’s largest e-tailer in terms of gross merchandise volume (the total value of goods sold), with nearly 3,255 billion Yuan in sales (about $488 billion) in the last twelve months. But that’s not all; they’re…
Are you holding back your urge to experience virtual reality because of the high price of devices and the expensive equipment that it runs on? Well, your worries are over, because several techies have been doing this for some time now. Is it Possible to Build a Virtual-Reality-Ready Computer for Under $800? That’s a definitive…
Where Google failed to take the lead in augmented reality hardware with their Google Glass project, other players in the market are picking up where they left off. Microsoft, Facebook and even Google are still in the game, but it now has a new entrant – SnapChat. SnapChat is a social media application where users…
Amazon claims that Fire TV is the “#1 selling streaming media player in the US across all retailers.” Unfortunately, since the company doesn’t actually reveal their product sales, we can only take their word for it. Apple TV is fourth, by the way. In a recent announcement, Amazon says that it will send out an…
