Google fixes Gmail after brief outage around the world
SAN FRANCISCO — Google suffered a service outage yesterday (afternoon Jan 25 Nigerian time) that briefly took down Gmail, the email service used by hundreds of millions of people and many businesses...
View ArticleGoogle and Samsung sign patent agreement
Google and Samsung sign ‘highly significant’ deal, paving the way for future joint product developments and research collaborations. The pair are already closely linked due to Samsung’s adoption of...
View ArticleMobile ad revenue lifts Facebook past Wall Street targets
Facebook delivered its strongest revenue growth in two years, beating Wall Street targets as the Internet company’s mobile ad sales continued to accelerate. Shares of Facebook surged 12 per cent to...
View ArticleNintendo to persist with console strategy, ignores calls to go mobile
Nintendo dug in its heels on a game console strategy that has dragged it into operating losses for three years in a row, ignoring calls to go mobile and promising instead to wow customers with...
View ArticleFacebook shares slide, then recover on WhatsApp purchase
NEW YORK — Facebook’s record-breaking US$19 billion purchase of the messaging service WhatsApp got a mixed reaction from investors yesterday, as a sharp sell-off was followed by a rally in the social...
View ArticleHTC to unveil smartwatch in bid to raise game
TAIPEI — HTC Corp, the Taiwanese smartphone maker struggling with sliding sales, plans to demonstrate the first of three wearable devices next week in Barcelona, said a source. Carriers will be getting...
View ArticleSwiss Pilot Unveils Solar-Powered Plane for Planned Global Flight
A Swiss pilot unveiled what could be a history-making aircraft Wednesday; the plane is designed to fly around the globe powered only by the sun.The Solar Impulse 2 will begin test flights next month in...
View ArticleSupercomputer passes ‘Turing Test’ for first time after emulating teen
LONDON (AFP) — A Russian supercomputer posing as a 13-year-old boy has convinced judges that it is human, becoming the first to pass the “Turing Test” in a historic moment in artificial intelligence,...
View ArticleGoogle Rates Internet Service Providers’ Video Streaming Quality
WASHINGTON — Google Inc. is rating Internet service providers’ video streaming quality on a new website, the latest development in the fight between broadband providers and content companies over who...
View ArticleApple says bent iPhones are ‘rare’
Apple has responded to claims that its new handsets are prone to bending by saying such damage would be “rare” during normal use. Media outlets across the globe had reported that several iPhone 6...
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