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OnePlus launched the much-awaited OnePlus 9 series yesterday, March 23, but before the early adopters get their hands on the smartphone, the company is pushing an important update to the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro. The update carries version number OxygenOS 11.2.1.1 and adds performance improvements, Bluetooth fixes, system stability improvements. The update also includes lots of improvements to the came...

Earlier this year, Razer went into a partnership with Microsoft to develop the first wireless keyboard and mouse combo for Xbox One users. The company has now aounced that it’s ready with the hardw...

Spotify went public earlier last month, opening itself up to more scrutiny from walls quarterly basis, and that’s already begiing to bear fruit.In its firsteaings report, the firm revealed it had 170 million subscribers last quarter. Of those, 75 million were paying customers, almost double the 40 million sported by Apple’s Music service.For users who p...

In May 2017 we reported a major win for the Windows Store (now the Microsoft Store) when Apple said they would be bringing their iTunes music and phone management app to the Store “soon”, or at least before the end of the year.The Cupertino company, of course, failed to deliver, but promised: “We have been working with Microsoft to deliver the full iTunes experience to our customers and we need a little more time to get it right.”Now the first concrete sign of the work has shown up in the latest Windows Desktop version of the app.ITHome.com have noticed the build now includes a component called iTunesUWP.dll which will presumably mediate the store requirement and features for the Centeial ap...

The IDC reports PC sales were better than expected in Q4 2017, with shipments actually growing 0.7% YoY instead of declining 1.7% as expected. A total of 70.6 million traditional PCs (desktop, notebook, and workstation) were shipped. A total of 259.5 million PCs were shipped in 2017, supported by commercial upgrades and some pockets of improving consumer demand. Growth in demand was noted inAsia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APeJ) and Latin America, withEurope, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) stable due to growth in the sales of notebooks and an upgrade cycle in business, and USA challenging with a decline in both notebooks and desktops and a total of 16.5 million units sold. Japan was a stan...

At CES 2018, AMD aounced the first desktop Ryzen processors with built-in Radeon Vega Graphics. These new desktop Ryzen APUs combine the latest “Zen” core and AMD Radeon graphics engine based on the advanced “Vega” architecture. As a result, they offer the highest performance graphics engine in a desktop processor with up to 8 processing threads. AMD claims that it will support 1080p HD+ gaming performance without a discrete graphics card. Since it is based on Radeon graphics engine, it supports the Radeon FreeSync technology and all the features of Radeon software driver features including Radeon Chill, Enhanced Sync and Radeon ReLive. These new processors will be available starting Februa...

Earlier this year, Johnson Controls first revealed their first smart thermostat GLAS featuring Microsoft’s Cortana digital assistant. Today, they provided more details on this powerful thermostat featuringWindows 10 IoT Core. GLAS features a translucent OLED touchscreen display through which users can control temperature, monitor indoor and outdoor air quality, check the weather and more. If coected to inteet, GLAS can also continuously monitor air quality and intelligently adjust settings to help create a comfortable environment.GLAS also adapts to the schedule of people living in the building by automatically detecting when they are home to save energy. Since Cortana is built into it, us...

With CES fast approaching, Samsung is all in for the upcoming Galaxy S9 which are rumoured to launch during CES. The smartphone has been leaked a lot recently and did manage to make its way in the fresh set of leaks online. A user on Chinese websiteWeibo posted photos of the device showing off the design and camera. You can check out the images below. The pictures do confirm that the device will feature the same design as S8 and S8+ but will even thierbezels. The leak also confirms the change in position of the fingerprint scaer from the side of the camera to below the camera. Earlier Geekbench results confirmed the device will be powered by a Snapdragon 845 processor with 6 GB RAM. It foll...

While Microsoft is hoping that consumers will upgrade to new 4K TVs in the coming years to take advantage of its new Xbox One X console, the industry is already moving ahead with new 8K displays.LG Display, one of the world’s largest display maker, aounced yesterday that it has developed the world’s first 88-inch 8K OLED display. This stuing new display boasts the highest resolution with 33 million pixels (7680×4320), 16 times more than FHD (1920×1080) and four times more than UHD (3840×2160). LG Display reduced thesize of each pixel and in tu aperture ratio to achieve suchhigher resolution without compromising brightness. Also as they are powered by the self-emissive OLEDs, they do not nee...

Today, Microsoft aounced a major customer win thanks to its LinkedIn acquisition.Park Place Technologies, a leader in third-party datacenter maintenance and support, aounced that it plans to deploy Microsoft cloud services including Dynamics 365, Office 365 and LinkedIn to its employees. A major organizations deploying Office 365 is not a big news, but this customer win is significant for Microsoft because of Dynamics 365 and LinkedIn.Park Place selected Dynamics 365 mainly because of the deeper LinkedIn integration.Park Place will first deploy the Microsoft Relationship Sales solution, which combines the power of Dynamics 365 for Sales and LinkedIn Sales Navigator.“We looked at a few of the...

The UK chael partner ITPS has deployed Microsoft’s hybrid Azure Stack infrastructure in its data centre, the first firm to do so.“A large proportion of IT managers are still reluctant to move to public cloud due to confusion over the location of their data.“With GDPR set to come in next year, this conce is growing. Azure Stack overcomes the problem by providing a consistent experience between public and private for a true hybrid experience.“This allows us to offer a comprehensive cloud solution on a subscription basis to meet a substantial customer demand.” Paul Anderson, operations director at ITPS explained (via Chael Web)Microsoft debuted its hybrid Azure Stack earlier this year, de...

OrbusVR is the first fully-realized MMORPG designed from the ground up for room-scale VR. It features a huge open world with thousands of players, dozens of hours of quests following an intriguing story, interesting lore and characters, five-player group dungeons, world bosses, and more.The game is currently in closed beta, but it will soon be coming to Steam Early Access with more than 60 hours of content including full quests and 20 levels.The game will also feature elements such as 5 man dungeons and crafting. The full version will have additional features including Hard Mode dungeons, end-game raids and more.The game will be available on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed reality d...

Ex-Microsoft CEO and the second richest person in the world, Bill Gates, has aounced his intention to invest $100 million in research designed to find a cure for Alzheimer’s Disease.The degenerative brain disease affects up to 50% of those over the...

Razer acquired smartphone manufacturer Nextbit earlier this year. Nextbit only made one Android-powered smartphone, the Robin, which had a beautifully interesting design and heavily relied on the cloud to give users more storage on their device. And now, Razer is soon going to be revealing its own smartphone.Razer today teased a big event for November 1st, just two days ahead of the release of the...

This moing we expressed some conce about the price of the Samsung Odessey Windows Mixed Reality headset, which at $499 costs around the same as the Oculus Rift, but without the proven ecosystem and years of support the Facebook-funded headset offers.After some reports of some hands-on time with the device, it seems the price may be justified. Joualists from Engadget and the Verge have tried ...

We already know that Microsoft is investing in next-generation clean energy from their past activities in the energy space. Yesterday, Microsoft aounced that they are building the world’s first gas-powered datacenter in partnership with McKinstry and Cummins.Microsoft is doing this pilot project in its Advanced Energy Lab in Seattle. They have a20-rack datacenter and the racks are directly co...

Microsoft today aounced the first major integration of LinkedIn inside Office apps. Millions of users using Microsoft apps and services can now view LinkedIn profiles without navigating to LinkedIn.com. With the new Profile Card in Microsoft Office 365, users can have a quick and easy way to find more information about the people they work with without having to leave their app.To have this expe...

With nearly 2 billion users estimated to be using digital assistants by 2021, voice assistants are becoming increasingly important. Amazon has been dominating the world of smart speakers for a while now, but other tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and even Apple have been making moves to catch up, with Google, with the release of Google Home in November 2016 seemingly the most nimble.While Apple...

Bethesda just aounced that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition is getting a free weekend on Xbox One. No, this offer isn’t available on PlayStation 4 if you were wondering. Skyrim is an absolutely legendary game so if you’re one of the few people who hasn’t played it, be sure to give it a go this weekend. The best part is, it’s available to download right now! The game is also 50% off ...

As the devastation Hurricane Harvey inflicted in Texas becomes increasingly clear Microsoft has increased its donations to those affected by the massive weather event, which has at last count killed 36 people and displaced more than 364,000. Microsoft initially pledged $100,000 in aid, but arenow contributing $2.5 million in cash, technology and services to support relief efforts and to help non...