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Netmarketshare has released its market share report for June 2020.In this month’s report, Windows 10’s share is 58.93%, up from last month’s 57.83%.  Windows 7 share continues to decline from 24., ...ادامه مطلب

Intel has accused Qualcomm of driving it out of the mobile market. It claimed that the mobile chip manufacturer leveraged its advantages over Intel to keep its chips from being adopted by OEMs en mass, ...ادامه مطلب

For the first time in a while, Microsoft has overtaken Google’s market capitalization. As of today, Microsoft’s market capitalization stood at $732 billion beating Google who stood at $731 billion.This is the first time in around 3 years that Microsoft has overtaken Google in terms of market capitalization. Although, this shouldn’t come as a surprise since M, ...ادامه مطلب

Steam’s Hardware Survey numbers are out for February, and while they are useless for PCs at present, they do give us a look into the market share of the various VR headsets, due to Steam’s cross-platform support and attractive library of VR games and other applications.This month’s numbers, for February 2018, show slow growth for Windows Mixed Reality device, ...ادامه مطلب

A new trademark application by Samsung in South Korea suggests the company may be getting ready to release their own smart glasses into the market soo, ...ادامه مطلب

Snap is finally expanding to the desktop web from mobile, kinda sorta.The first step towards that appears to be a web-app for viewing stories on Snap maps. Much like when one is using the actual app, it only shows stories that you or your friends choose to post to the local story feed. You’ll be unable to see any of your friends snaps on there if you’re a current Snapchat user, and it’d be useless if that was your intention.Of course, it’s more likely that Snapchat intends non-users to use this app to view popular local stories, like say a concert nearby, or a festival in a park. If users find the concept of stories attractive, they’ll be more likely to download the app itself and give Snap more leverage for those sweet, sweet advertising dollars.Of course, there’s no reason why Snapchat can’t build a full web client. The firm is already halfway there with this partial web client, and it would bring Snapchat more in line with competitors like Instagram which offer the full experience on the web.For the moment though, you can access Snap maps from map.snapchat.com on your browser., ...ادامه مطلب

Facebook is testing a new story maps feature, akin to Snapchat’s own snap maps feature.For the uninformed, Snap maps showcase the locations of Snapchat users relative to their chosen friends on a map. It also allows users to see popular stories around them. If there was an event, for instance, users would be able to view snaps shared from that location to Snapchat’s ‘Our Story’ remotely.Facebook seems to be moving towards that path, with an option to share your stories to “world” being tested. This would probably let you share your stories with the world much like Snapchat’s ‘Our Story’, and then show up whenever someone checks our your geographic location.NEW: Facebook is testing a Snapchat / Snapmap-like feature for StoriesAppears to let you select to show Stories to ‘World’ + view other Stories or photos on a map if shared to ‘World’ (Screenshot: @WABetaInfo) pic.twitter.com/gsqjwFG9YL— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) February 6, 2018However,  a feature like this is only useful or meaningful if the firm is able to cultivate users for Stories, something that has not yet been showcased at this point.While Snap has been stagnating in its past, despite recent woes, the firm posted user , ...ادامه مطلب

Recently we reported that Microsoft has rolled out an update for Bing App on Android. The app brought a couple of changes including Better Map support. Reading this we decided to give it a shot and test what new features Microsoft had in store for us. To our surprise, the latest update made Bing app open the Google Maps website when searching for any destination, place or anything that involved location.This was strange considering the fact that Microsoft does have its own Maps service called as Bing Maps. What’s more surprising is the fact that Bing uses Bing Maps on web searches on the desktop but opens Google Maps when searched using Android App.To determine the exact cause of this, we checked the Bing Data Supplier list only to stumble upon the fact that mapping data from HERE was last updated in December 2016. Microsoft hasn’t added any data to Bing Maps in the last year. Microsoft did sign a deal with HERE back in 2016 to expand its reach to the connected car platform but we haven’t heard any news on the topic since then.This made us wonder if Microsoft might be planning to pull the plug on Bing Maps in the near future. This, of course, will make some sense considering the hi, ...ادامه مطلب

If Mixed Reality is to get a foothold in the construction industry hardhat compatibility is a legal requirement. We have already posted about Meemim’s hardhat kit, which is already on sale but now giant engineering firm Trimble have announced their own version that should hit the market soon.Shown off at the World of Concrete exhibition, their kit integrates the HoloLens with a hardhat, making 3D virtual reality accessible to workers in the field, and bringing CAD drawings to life in the real world via the Trimble Connect software, which can stream designs from the cloud.The Trimble Connect software lets users select different layers of information from multiple subcontractors such as structural, mechanical and electrical workers, overlayed on the real environment.This lets workers check work against the designs, find unseen wiring and plumbing, find layout points on the ground, record and preserve data and more.The solution was developed in collaboration with Microsoft, features a suspension system and quick release clips and is ANSI approved. Trimble expects it to go on sale by Q1 2018.See it in action in Trimble’s video below and register your interest here:[embedded content]Via, ...ادامه مطلب

Yesterday, Microsoft released a new update for Bing for Android app with new improvements. This update brings improved browser experience, including video, image, tab and finding text in page. Bing team has also improved the app to offer better map and local answers.Apart from the above, this update includes several bug fixes and speed improvements that will improve the overall app experience.Download the updated app here from Play Store., ...ادامه مطلب

Microsoft has been pushing for White Spaces Inteet for more than a decade, with varying amounts of success around the world. Microsoft’s White Space technology offers wide area long distance wireless networking over the old television bands, offering higher throughput, low power usage and greater penetration into buildings. Globally, the white space technology has been successfully deployed in the US and Singapore and is being tested in Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa and the Philippines. Now in their latest move, they have registered a new trademark for a service related to the technology named Airband. The trademark pertains to two uses.  One, for “Computer hardware, software and software applications to provide inteet connectivity services to white space telecommunications channels, networks and databases” and the other for “Providing business information and consulting in the field of white space telecommunications and inteet connectivity; promoting public interest and awareness of white space telecommunications and inteet connectivity.” The trademark dates from the 16th January 2018, so is still quite fresh. Microsoft has however spoken about their Rural Airband Initia, ...ادامه مطلب

Microsoft is currently pushing out a patch for Windows 10 users designed to address the processor vulnerabilities which is involved in the Meltdown and Spectre exploits.With proof of concept exploits already in the wild it seems a very good idea to update your PC as rapidly as possible, but today we have already seen some sites explaining how to disable automatic updates due to the rumoured performance impacts of the patch, which has been said to reduce execution speed by up to 30%. Intel has, however, said for most tasks performance impact should be minimal, and now Techspot has done some benchmark tests to see exactly who will be affected. First, the bad news. There is a clear reduction in the speed at which small files are read in quick succession, by up to 23%, according to Techspot. In other operations with larger files impact appears to be minimal to non-existent. The effect was confirmed in both the CrystalDiskMark and ATTO disk benchmark. On the other hand, the good news is that there is little to no impact on other tasks, and even some improvement following the patch. For 3D rendering, the Cinebench R15 multi-threaded score was reduced by 2% while the single thread score w, ...ادامه مطلب

Microsoft launched their Windows Mixed Reality ecosystem in October last year, and so far we have had very little indication of how the platform is doing. Fortunately, the Steam platform has come to the rescue. The software store is currently the largest repository of VR titles, with direct support for Windows Mixed Reality and indirect support via a portal feature developed by Microsoft and Steam. The company publishes monthly stats, and has now for the first time revealed in December 2017 that a bit more than 4% of the installed base of VR headsets using their service are Windows Mixed Reality devices. The rise of WMR appears to have impacted the HTC Vive the most, which has seen a decline in market share while the Oculus Rift has held steady. The Oculus Rift is currently the most popular VR platform with 48.4% market share. It should be noted that the numbers only reflect the Steam platform and that Windows Mixed Reality and Oculus Rift both have their own independent stores.  It does, however, give us an idea of the trend, which so far looks good for Windows Mixed Reality. Hopefully, a concerted push by Microsoft’s OEMs, most of whom have their own headsets and who are bundli, ...ادامه مطلب

According to analytics vendor NetApplications, Microsoft ended 2017 a bit worse than it came into the year, with a combined IE + Edge market of 16.97%, down from 18% it came into the year with. Microsoft has been having trouble regaining its browser share ever since losing it to Google and its Chrome browser, and even recently released a new ad promoting the security and speed of the browser. However Redmond has been having a hard time getting users to switch from the all too familiar Chrome browser, which ended 2017 with 60.6% browser share. NetApplications, which measures browser share based on browser agent strings of those who visit its clients’ websites, recently scrubbed fraudulent bots from its data, and as a result some browsers saw a lost in market share. Overall, Microsoft saw a 1.3 % decline, Google increased by about the same amount, Firefox, in third place, dropped 3.5% over the course of the year to 11.02%, and Safari rounds everything out with 4%. By other statistics, Stats Counter, which counts usage share by specific page views, puts Microsoft’s combined browser share  at 11.9% right behind Firefox 12.2%. Of course Chrome still leads that pack as well by a long sh, ...ادامه مطلب

While the rumours regarding S9 are not new, Samsung might be working on something entirely different. The company has recently filed a trademark for Dex Pad which might confirm the rumour that the company was working on a newer variant for Samsung Dex. The application was filed on December 29th which is justified if Samsung is planning to unveil Dex Pad during CES next week. The earlier rumours, however, suggest that’s unlikely which gives the company another month before MWC in Barcelona. The device is considered to be more of a pad where your phone or the other compatible devices can be docked while connected to the display using either Wireless or Wired connection. We aren’t still sure if Dex Pad comes with Wireless technology but it will be great to have a pad that can wirelessly work. Samsung might be looking at free or discounted distribution for Dex Pad with Galaxy S9 like they did for Dex last year. The pricing is still to be revealed but you can expect anywhere around $150-$200 for the Dex Pad. Nevertheless, everything will get clear in a month or two as we get closer to CES and then MWC 2018. Via Neowin , ...ادامه مطلب