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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 ...

Relaxnews The two new Galaxy S7 handsets from Samsung were the most-tweeted about Mobile World Congress topics during the annual tech conference’s 2016 edition. The Mobile World Congress has increasingly become a destination for technology manufacturers of all kinds, but at the eighth MWC in Barcelona, February 22-25, it was the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge that won out ...

Relaxnews YouTube has launched a new custom blurring tool that allows users to blur objects in any video. Available on desktop versions of YouTube, the Enhancements feature lets creators blur objects — from license plates to wardrobe malfunctions — even while moving. The tool, which uses new technology that analyzes the motion of any video, simply requires users to draw ...

ABU DHABI / EMIRATES BUSINESS To reiterate the cloud presence in the market, Microsoft will be hosting a free two- day training at the Hyatt Dubai Creek Heights on the 22nd and the 23rd of February. The cloud roadshow will bring technology experts to your city, who’ll be sharing valuable tips and techniques throughout this training period, allowing organisations and ...

Relaxnews Instagram is rolling out an authentication process that will ask users to verify a phone number, a tool that will serve to reassure its 400 million users including celebrities and brands. According to TechCrunch, the photo-sharing site is testing out the new feature following calls to beef up security from hackers. The two-step authentication process is modeled after Facebook’s ...