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Teaser videos for Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S9 focus on camera enhancements
In just over a week, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will unveil its long-awaited flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S9. Thanks to the numerous reports and leaked renderings over the last few months, there will be few surprises on Feb. 25 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. What’s more, when the company announced the date of ...
Video platform Vimeo adds new social distribution tools
Video platform Vimeo LLC today rolled out new tools that will help simplify the distribution of videos across social media platforms. The new update comes just a few months after the company finally introduced live streaming to its platform, the No. 1 requested feature from its community, following its acquisition of live video streaming platform ...
Facebook’s new Lists feature focuses on more personal posts
In its continued push for more meaningful interactions on its platform, Facebook Inc. is rolling out a new feature that will allow for more personal posts from users. The new feature, called Lists, will allow users to create and post personal lists as a status update. In an attempt to fill the news feed with more ...
Report: Apple rethinks software release schedule for iPhone, iPad and Mac
Apple Inc. has reportedly decided to slow down its annual software updates for iOS and macOS and instead will spread out new features over the next two years. The company has decided to make a major change to its development program, rather than having its engineers work on a relentless annual release schedule crammed with ...
Microsoft’s LinkedIn Resume Assistant rolls out to Office 365
Microsoft Corp. has rolled out its LinkedIn-powered Resume Assistant tool to Office 365 subscribers. Resume Assistant, which Microsoft announced in November, will give users access to insights from millions of LinkedIn profiles, which the tech giant acquired for $26.2 billion in 2016, to help draft a better resume. In addition to providing users access to ...
Google reunites with Nest to expand smart home ambitions
Apparently hoping to bolster its chances in the smart home market, Google Inc. announced Wednesday that it’s once again joining forces with Nest, the company it bought for $3.2 billion in 2014. Today’s announcement comes just a few months after the Wall Street Journal reported a possible integration of the entire Nest team into Google ...
Google updates Motion Stills Android app with new augmented reality mode
Google LLC Tuesday announced a new augmented reality mode in its Motion Stills app for Android. The company launched its Motion Stills app for Android users in July, following the launch of the app on iOS the previous year. Google launched the Motion Stills iOS app to provide video stabilization for Apple Inc.’s Live Photos ...
Google update lets mobile users book hotels and flights directly from search results
Google Inc. announced Tuesday that it’s updating its search results for hotels and flights on the mobile search engine to make the travel process easier for smartphone users. The updates include the ability to scroll through images of the hotel, book flights and hotels and filter results based on date and price adjustments, all without ...
Latest renderings showcase the Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ ahead of Feb. 25 launch
In less than three weeks, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will unveil its latest flagship at Mobile World Congress, and with the many reports and leaked images, there are unlikely to be many surprises on Feb. 25. The latest renderings of the Galaxy S9 (pictured left) and the larger S9+ come from noted leaker Evan Blass ...
Google new Assistant gets smarter and goes more places
Google LLC announced new features Thursday for its digital assistant and released a lightweight version of the app that will work on most Android devices. The Google Assistant Go app is optimized for the Android Go platform, which is the company’s streamlined operating system that has been designed to work on entry-level mobile devices. The ...