Oppo isn’t hiding the fact that its event on October 19 will be all about the R9s. The Chinese company has been teasing its next smartphone for a few weeks now, and in China a TV ad campaign is already in full swing. What’s more, a few hours ago Oppo has started taking early registrations from those interested in the R9s, even before making it official. Thus it’s pretty clear that the company thinks it has a winner on its hands. The R9s (and R9s Plus that should get unveiled alongside it next Wednesday) are going to succeed the R9…
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There is no doubt that Samsung is sure to lose boatloads of money over the Samsung Galaxy Note7. Today, the company announced that it expects 3.5 trillion won (around $3 billion) to negatively impact the operating profit through Q4 and Q1 of 2017. That’s after Samsung’s re-allocation of the expected cost expense of the discontinuation of the Note7 to its Q3 report. It expects to see a drop of $2.2 billion in Q4 to ride the year out, while the other $800 million impact is expected to be seen in Q1 of next year. The company expects that by Q2…
Facebook has such an enormous audience that even minor features still wind up with tens of millions of users. The app’s Events feature, which Facebook says now has more than 100 million daily users, is one of them. Today, it’s graduating to a standalone app of its own. Facebook Events is now available for iOS, and is coming to Android soon. Just as in the mobile and desktop versions of Facebook, Events lets you browse upcoming events in your town, say that you’re going, and then stay home and watch Netflix instead. It opens to a feed of events that…
The investor pressure began building on Marc Benioff, chief executive of Salesforce.com, two weeks ago. On Sept. 23, news broke that Mr. Benioff’s company was in discussions to buy the troubled social media company Twitter. Inside the offices of hedge funds and mutual fund companies on Wall Street and elsewhere, investors in Salesforce immediately began to question the rationale for buyingTwitter. They were not happy. The investors made their concerns known to Mr. Benioff. In emails and other communications, the shareholders told the chief executive and Salesforce’s investor relations team that they disapproved of a tie-up with Twitter. The effort…
Follow Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump Here is my statement. 9:49 AM – 8 Oct 2016 · United States, United States 53,13553,135 Retweets 121,373121,373 likes Donald Trump remained in hot water on Saturday after posting an apology video for lewd remarks he made on a hot mic years ago. The crude comments surfaced in a video on Friday. Social media users took to Twitter to comment about the Republican presidential nominee’s apology. Here’s how it unfolded on Twitter: source”gsmarena”
The University of Delhi (DU) has released an official notification inviting all the interested, eligible candidates for admission to full time Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme in Financial Management and Business Economics offered at Department of Financial Studies and Department of Business Economics for the academic session 2017-18. Eligible candidates are requested to apply through a prescribed format latest by January 4, 2017. Eligibility criteria: Educational qualification: All the candidates interested in applying for this course need to possess a Bachelor’s degree in any discipline from a recognised university/institute with at least 50 per cent in aggregate from the…
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has released a detailed notification and exam date for the University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test 2017. As per schedule, the examination will be held on January 22, 2017. On behalf of UGC, the CBSE conducts the examination for determining the eligibility of Indian nationals for a number of posts, including: Assistant Professor, junior Research Fellowship & eligibility for Assistant Professor. Eligibility criteria: The candidates should have acquired a Master’s degree in the relevant discipline from a recognised university or institute. The candidates who have appeared or will be appearing in the final…
Lo Wang is back, baby. Shadow Warrior 2 ($40 on Steam) launched today and while its procedurally generated levels give the game a bit less bite than its predecessor, it’s still a riotously good time in a satisfying “mindlessly killing demons” sort of way. But we covered all that in PCWorld’s Shadow Warrior 2 review. This article’s dedicated to a pair ofShadow Warrior 2’s PC “firsts” that are almost more exciting for enthusiasts than the game itself: HDR and Nvidia’s multi-resolution shading, and more particularly the latter. HDR’s straightforward enough. Shadow Warrior 2 is the first PC game to ship…
The pilot delivery program is slated to begin sometime in the next 4-6 weeks. A test run of Starship Technologies’ delivery robot on the streets of San Francisco on September 27, 2016. Credit: Martyn Williams COMMENTS Magdalena Petrova IDG News Service Oct 13, 2016 2:42 PM Some Washington, D.C., residents may soon be sharing the streets with Starship Technologies’ delivery robots. Back in June, Washington became the first U.S. city to approve a pilot program of the ground-based delivery robots. Among some restrictions, the D.C. Council bill specifies that PPDs, or personal delivery devices, must not operate above 10 miles per…
Samsung’s recall and discontinuation situation has many consumers in a shuffle, as there is no direct replacement for the Samsung Galaxy Note7. A new survey from Ecommerce solutions which followed the official discontinuation of the Galaxy Note7 asked 1,020 US-based Samsung smartphone owners if they would buy another Samsung phone. 40% of them said “no” and 46% (about 188 people) of those who said “no” became Samsung customers “within the past two years”. 30% of the those who are done with Samsung said they were going to switch to the iPhone 7while the other 70% said they would stick with…