Apps introduced for Pakistani Hajj pilgrims
Ministry of Religious Affairs has introduced various Apps to help pilgrims’ during the Hajj and their stay in Saudi Arabia. The ministry has asked the intending pilgrims to use android phone applications to get Hajj related information and guidelines to perform religious obligation with ease and comfort. The ministry said...
Facebook not invited to White House social media summit: company
Facebook Inc said on Monday that it had not been invited to a White House summit on social media being held later this week. The White House has repeatedly declined to say who will attend the July 11 event. White House spokesman Judd Deere said last month the meeting...
Facebook, WhatsApp back online after global outage
Facebook said it was “back at 100 per cent” Wednesday evening after an outage on all of its services affected users in various parts of the world. Online monitoring service DownDetector reported earlier the outage began around 1200 GMT and affected Facebook as well as its Instagram and WhatsApp services....
Spanish smartphone users welcome 5G network’s collaboration with Huawei
Huawei smartphone users across Spain expressed their expectations after Vodafone announcement oflaunching its 5G network in cooperation with Chinese telecom giant Huawei in 15 Spanish cities, including Madrid and Barcelona. While looking forward to the upcoming way faster download speeds of up to 1 Gbps, the Spanish also said they...
Huawei postpones laptop launch because of US ban
Huawei has postponed a product launch for the first time after the US placed it on a trade blacklist. According to sources, Chinese tech giant Huawei has scrapped the launch of new laptop as a result of being effectively barred from doing business with American suppliers. It’s the first product launch...
Uber to bring flying taxis, announces Melbourne as trial city for the service
Uber Air has announced Melbourne as a trial site for its new ‘flying car’ taxi service that is expected to fly people around cities by 2023. According to sources, passengers will travel in “electric vertical take-off” contraptions. The service will operate using the Uber app, allowing passengers to travel across a network...
White House seeks delay in Huawei restrictions
Acting budget chief of White House official is seeking to delay putting in place portions of a law that limits the U.S. government’s business with China’s Huawei Technologies Co, sources reported. Russell Vought, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, made the request in a letter to Vice...
Apple to get rid of iTunes after 18 years, sources say
Apple is finally putting to rest the program that started a “music revolution.” iTunes, which helped usher in the Mp3 era of music, will shutter after nearly two decades, sources report. According to a report by Bloomberg, the tech company will announce that three separate apps for music, TV and podcasts...
Zuckerberg: Voice controlled products are on their way
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the company is working various different projects that could benefit from having an AI voice assistant. According to sources, Zuckerberg discussed upcoming voice-controlled products at the company’s annual shareholder meeting in response to a question about whether Facebook was working on an A.I. voice assistant....
A new Pokemon app is set to launch next year
A new Pokémon app called Pokémon Sleep that will track player’s sleep and use the data for game play, is in its development phase. Information about how long the user has slept for and when they wake will play a part, but it’s not been made clear exactly how. The...
