BIZ TECH
  • FUTURE TECH

    Google’s Project SkyBender To Use Solar-Powered Drones To Beam 5G Wireless Internet

    Google's new Project SkyBender is developing solar-powered drones to beam Internet connectivity from the sky, following its Project Loon that uses high-altitude balloons to deliver web access to rural and remote areas. The search giant is reportedly testing millimeter wave Internet at Spaceport America in New Mexico. This new tech can transmit data 40 times faster than the 4G long-term evolution (LTE) wireless standard and could power 5G Internet.

  • Legal

    T-Mobile’s Binge On Service Violates Net Neutrality, Is Probably Illegal: Stanford Study

    T-Mobile's Binge On service is probably illegal based on a new Stanford university study that claimed it violates key standards of net neutrality. The move follows the major nationwide carrier claiming video views on the wireless network of the "Uncarrier" have more than doubled since it rolled out the new deal.

  • Money

    Google Reveals Payout For 1-Minute Owner Of Google.com Domain Name

    Google's web domain name was owned by a former employee last autumn for one minute until the company noticed that he had bought the site. The world's biggest search engine shared on January 28, Thursday how much it paid Sanmay Ved to remunerate him for owning the valuable Internet website Google.com, and the amount includes a geeky joke.

  • BIZ TECH

    Apple Team Working On VR Headset For iPhones To Challenge Microsoft, Google, and Facebook: Report

    Apple is reportedly developing a virtual reality (VR) headset for iPhone devices through a secret team of VR and augmented reality (AR) researchers. The Apple VR headsets would be used for various applications and would challenge AR/VR devices from rivals including Sony PlayStation VR, Facebook's Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, Microsoft's HoloLens, and Google Cardboard.

  • Business

    Qualcomm is Targeting Servers in China, Intel Should Watch Out For It!

    China faced series of controversies, and their stock market seem to be unstable over the past years. Despite those statuses, Qualcomm still pursued its venture with the new semiconductor company in one of China's provinces.

  • Money

    Microsoft Q2 Earnings: Surface Sales Spike; Lumia Phone Sales Halved

    Microsoft has just published its fiscal Q2 2016 earnings report showing that the OS giant earned $6.3 billion in net income based on $25.7 billion in revenue. The company's sales for Surface tablets , and cloud and server businesses are growing, while its Windows Phone sales figures were very low.

  • FUTURE TECH

    Google Machine Learning: Movidius Deal Could Give Android Phones Instant Facial Recognition

    Google's new deal with chipmaker Movdius will develop more advanced machine intelligence processing on mobile devices such as Android handsets, to produce real-time facial recognition. The search giant has already squeezed a neural network into a smartphone through its Google Translate app, which uses the phone's camera to capture images allowing the processor to translate text.

  • Business

    2016 Business Acquisitions: Visual China Group Acquires Bill Gate's Formerly-owned Corbis Entertainment

    Visual China Group (VCG), a Chinese image licensing company, proudly declared on Friday the acquisition of the content licensing and image division unit of photo library Corbis Entertainment. It is a company formerly owned by Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates.

  • Business

    Xiaomi To Focus On Product Quality And Offline Sales In 2016; Will Introduce 30 New Products

    Disappointing sales in 2015 has woken up Xiaomi, China’s top performing consumer electronics company, who has declared that it shall fight back in 2016.

  • BIZ TECH

    Google Shipped 5 Million Cardboard VR Headsets Since 2014 Launch: Report

    Google reported it has shipped 5 million Google Cardboard virtual reality (VR) headsets since the device was launched about a year and half ago. The figures are very impressive considering it is competing with Facebook's Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR and the upcoming Sony PlayStation VR headset. Alphabet's subsidiary has developed the foldable cardboard viewer as an entry-level gateway to the virtual world, and partnered with content providers including The New York Times, Disney, and Volvo.

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