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Relaxnews Lufthansa is adding new functions to its mobile app, bringing peace of mind to flyers worried about losing their bags. Now, if a case takes a wrong turn, passengers can send a forwarding order directly from their smartphone to get missing bags delivered to their door. What air passenger hasn’t nervously waited next to the baggage carousel, wrestling for ...

Relaxnews Barcelona, Spain, the Samsung Galaxy S7 went on sale worldwide on Friday. Samsung kept things pretty classic for this 2016 upgrade to its flagship handset. The 5.1-inch Galaxy S7 and 5.5-inch Galaxy S7 edge (with rounded edges) are similar in design to the current S6 and S6 edge, but get improved processing performance of around 30% and 4GB of ...

Washington / AFP Google has announced that it would implement changes in how it applies the so-called ‘right to be forgotten’ for online searches made in Europe. The changes, to be implemented next week, would close a loophole that allowed Europeans to find deleted entries by using Google.com instead of the search page for their local country. “Starting next week, ...

SAN FRANCISCO / AP Amazon.com is introducing two devices designed to amplify the role its voice-controlled assistant Alexa plays in people’s homes and lives. The products are echoes of Amazon’s Echo, a cylinder-shaped speaker with Internet-connected microphones that became Alexa’s first major showcase when it debuted in late 2014. Set these gadgets up and they’ll listen for your voice and ...

Relaxnews According to ABI Research, this year’s Mobile World Congress proved the perfect springboard for showcasing virtual reality, so much so that the company is now predicting that 50 million headsets will be shipped globally every year by the end of the decade, including devices that work with a smartphone. The most basic virtual reality design, Google’s Cardboard, has already ...

Relaxnews Mobile messaging service WhatsApp is now rolling out a document sharing feature on iOS and Android devices reports Tech Crunch. The new feature has begun to appear on users’ phones, enabling them to share PDF documents. The document sharing joins existing sharing features for photos, videos, contacts, and locations, however, although it is now available for iOS and Android ...

Bloomberg Xiaomi Corp. Chief Executive Officer Lei Jun has reportedly said that Chinese handset maker, valued at US$45 billion by a 2014 funding round, wasn’t planning a public listing “at the moment.” Lei, speaking to reporters at the opening of the National People’s Congress in Beijing, said he wants Xiaomi’s initial public offering to be a natural process and noted ...

Relaxnews As Google gears up to launch its digital wallet service, Android Pay in the UK, many experts are still less than convinced that the idea of replacing a credit card with a smartphone is really going to gain mainstream consumer appeal. According to Juniper Research, by the end of 2016, 148 million people around the world will be reaching ...

Relaxnews While Virtual Reality (VR) headsets were the stars of the show at the 2016 Mobile World Congress, new smartwatches wore noticeably more thin on the ground. Here’s a roundup of the hottest devices from both fields that were on show at the trade fair in Barcelona, Spain HTC Vive First revealed at last year’s MWC, the HTC Vive has ...

AFP Facebook rolled out a platform for quick, immersive ads with the potential to become a tempting rival to television commercials. The leading social network made Canvas available globally as a free tool marketers can use to turn smartphone or tablet ads into “experiences” mixing videos, photos, text and “call-to-action” buttons. Mobile ads built with Canvas entice people to scroll ...