Month: April 2020
Google donates free Chromebooks and 100,000 mobile hotspots for rural California students
Google will provide 4,000 Chromebooks and fund the use of 100,000 Wi-Fi hotspots for rural students in California, who are studying from home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, CNBC reports. The initiative, which was announced by California governor Gavin Newsom and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, will allow students…
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Sprint is dead. Long live Sprint
It’s done. We now have just three major cell phone carriers in the US: Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile, which just completed its merger with Sprint. It’s been such a long time coming and has seemed so inevitable that the news — on April Fools’ Day, no less — felt like…
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Ikea acquires AI imaging startup Geomagical Labs to supercharge room visualisations
Ikea, the Swedish home furnishings and decor giant, has been one of the leaders among retailers when it comes to adapting to tech innovations that impact its business, being one of the first to launch augmented reality applications, partnering with others to develop smart home devices and launching a business…
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Yet another Windows 10 update is causing problems – but Microsoft’s not doing anything about it
It seems like yet another Windows 10 update is causing problems for some people, yet Microsoft at the moment doesn’t seem to be doing anything about it. The allegedly troublesome update is Windows 10 KB4541335, which was released on March 24 as an optional update that is supposed to fix…
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Disney Plus coming to the UAE, Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Middle East
OSN today announced a revamp of its digital platform, which will now feature all of Disney Plus original content. Starting from April 9, new subscribers to the OSN streaming service will be able to watch most, if not all, Disney Plus TV shows and movies, including The Mandalorian, The World…
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Avaya Cloud Office rolled out for remote workers
Amid the global coronavirus-led lockdown, Avaya has teamed up with RingCentral to launch a new online collaboration tool. Avaya Cloud Office is a new unified communication-as-a-Service (UCaaS) product offering video conferencing, messaging, voice and video calls, file sharing, and most importantly, enabling collaboration across different devices, regardless of their locations.…
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