BT is working to upgrade the experience of its 100,000+ employees with robotic process automation (RPA), layered with ever more sophisticated intelligence. Blue Prism provides BT with the tools and the expertise to make it happen.
Month: October 2019
All is not lost for smartphone manufacturers. On the heels of two years’ of global stagnation, the category is finally showing some signs of life. Much of the bounce back comes as manufacturers are working to correct for dulled consumer interest. I wouldn’t put too much weight in the numbers right now, as they’re little
Running software is a virtual machine (VM) is a great way to try apps designed for a different operating system. VM technology is widely used these days across a range of applications, from servers to desktop computers. But while setting up a VM on your computer might be straightforward, performance is always an issue. Here
Fitbit, the maker of wearables and activity trackers, is facing a tough fight from the likes of Apple and Xiaomi. But instead of just betting big on its hardware products, the San Francisco, California-based company recently announced the launch of a new paid service called Fitbit Premium. It is designed to offer insights to customers
Nintendo’s second-quarter operating profit more than doubled, blowing past analyst estimates, on strong demand for its Switch console. Nintendo sold 4.98 million units of its hybrid home-portable Switch device in the six months to September and 1.95 million handheld-only Switch Lite units that went on sale in September. It would be “premature” to raise Nintendo’s
WhatsApp on Thursday announced the launch of Fingerprint Lock for Android. With the move, the Facebook-owned company is finally bringing biometric authentication to the Android app, with iPhone users enjoying both Touch ID (fingerprint recognition) and Face ID (facial recognition) since February this year. With the feature, Android users can now have the app lock
One of the world’s most static technologies may be the humble mug, but startup Ember decided it was time for a change when they introduced their temperature-controlled smart mug to the market in 2016. Now, the company has launched its Ember Mug 2 – a follow-up that keeps the concept and design intact, but that
We don’t review many laptops aimed at commercial buyers, but this particular one from Dell is a little special. We first saw the Latitude 7400 2-in-1 during CES this year, where it was billed as the world’s first PC to use Intel’s Context Sensing technology. What this means is that sensors in the display bezels
Broadband World Forum 2019 BASe 5G Workshop: BT Principal Consultant for Next Gen Access and Ethernet Simon Fisher explores a 5G converged architecture
Apple on Wednesday forecast sales for the crucial holiday shopping quarter ahead of Wall Street expectations, with Chief Executive Tim Cook seeing strong sales of the wearables such as the noise-cancelling AirPods Pro and hoping for a US – China trade deal by year-end. Cook wants to wean Apple off stagnating iPhone sales that make
Razer has announced the launch of two new products. The first one is called the Razer Hammerhead True Wireless Earbuds, which are the company’s first truly wireless earbuds. These earbuds are compatible with both Android and iOS. The second product is called the Razer Junglecat, which is a dual-sided mobile gaming controller (only) for Android,
Facebook is inching closer to launch much-anticipated WhatsApp Pay in India and will soon have a positive news to share, the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said. Data compliance issues and regulations have kept WhatsApp Pay launch in abeyance for quite some time, despite a successful test run of the payments service with one million
Berlin-based femtech startup Inne is coming out of stealth to announce an €8 million (~$8.8M) Series A and give the first glimpse of a hormone-tracking subscription product for fertility-tracking and natural contraception that’s slated for launch in Q1 next year. The Series A is led by led by Blossom Capital, with early Inne backer Monkfish
Apple on Wednesday announced its financial results for the fourth fiscal quarter of the year. The Cupertino, California-based company posted a quarterly revenue of $64 billon (roughly Rs. 4,53,000 crores), with international sales accounting for 60 percent of it. The revenue was up 2 percent year-over-year and beat analyst expectations. The company also revealed that
Sony on Wednesday said quarterly operating profit jumped 16 percent on robust image sensor sales, its strongest-ever result for the second quarter, and it raised its full-year earnings outlook. Operating income for the Japanese entertainment and electronics firm came in at JPY 279 billion (GBP 2.02 billion or roughly Rs. 18,184 crores) for the July-September
Xiaomi has collated its festive sales figures, and claims that 12 million devices have been sold in one month. Out of the 12 million, 8.5 million were Xiaomi phones, and a phenomenal 40 percent year-on-year growth was achieved during the festive sales. Xiaomi has calculated these giant sale numbers from September 28 to October 29.
Facebook reported an uptick in users in lucrative markets and its third straight rise in quarterly sales growth on Wednesday, but the company’s controversial political ads stole the limelight when CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke to analysts. Shares rose about 4.5 percent after hours to $196.64. That put the shares on track to eclipse their record closing
The sub-Rs. 10,000 market has seen some of the trendiest smartphone launches this year. From Samsung Galaxy M20 in January this year to Realme 5 just two months ago, we have had some great phones under 10000 released in 2019. If you don’t have the budget to spend over Rs. 10,000, these two phones and
Despite ongoing public relations crises, Facebook kept growing in Q3 2019, demonstrating that media backlash does not necessarily equate to poor business performance. Facebook reached 2.45 billion monthly users, up 1.65 percent from 2.41 billion in Q2 2019 when it grew 1.6 percent, and it now has 1.62 billion daily active users, up 2 percent
Internet acronyms help you save effort by not having to type out common phrases all the time. But if you’re not in the know, they end up being more confusing than anything. That’s certainly the case with the TLDR acronym, as many have wondered what TLDR is. We’ll teach you everything you should know about
The original Moto 360 which made waves when it was introduced in 2014 (as did the second-gen model in 2015) is being resurrected and this time it will be made by a company named eBuyNow, media reported. A significant difference between the previous iteration of the smartwatch and the new one is that it features
Microsoft started a public preview of its Project xCloud game streaming service earlier this month. While everyone waits for the company’s Google Stadia rival, Microsoft is now letting Xbox One testers try out a new feature called Console Streaming. The new feature lets users play Xbox One games on a mobile device via their own
Redmi Y3 now joins the pool of phones that are the first to receive the MIUI 11 update. To recall, the phone was part of the first batch of MIUI Global Stable ROM updates scheduled to release from October 22 to October 31. Few users have taken to the forums to share screenshots of the
As much as we’d like to think that we’re entering an era of autonomous robots, they’re actually still pretty helpless. To keep them from falling down all the time, a human’s fast reflexes could be the solution. But the human has to feel what the robot is feeling — and that’s just what these researchers
A world record has been set featuring 160 choreographed drones in a spectacular indoor display. The technology showcase was coded by school children and featured a performance from chart-topping singer Jess Glynne. The Grammy award-winning artist performed her biggest hits, including ‘Hold My Hand’, ‘Don’t Be So Hard on Yourself’ and ‘Thursday’. She completed her
In a move to boost family subscriptions to its app, Spotify this morning announced the launch of a dedicated Kids application which allows children three and up to listen to their own music, both online and offline, as well as explore playlists and recommendations picked by experts, and more. The music selection is also filtered
In this week’s packed show, Christian Cawley and James Frew cover everything from the Apple TV app on Amazon Fire Sticks to Halloween movies. On the way, free VPNs, record players, giant squids, reducing smartphone use, managing the Screen Time feature on macOS, and the latest installment of Christian’s Samsung tablet repair. Is it fixed?
India is the second most sleep-deprived country with an average night sleep of 7 hours and 1 minute, while Japan is the most sleep-deprived nation globally as an average Japanese gets only 6 hours and 47 minutes’ sleep, according to a survey by activity trackers and wearables maker Fitbit, released on Wednesday. Based on aggregated
EA has announced its quarterly earnings report for second quarter of the fiscal year 2020, and if there is one game that stood out, it was Apex Legends. The free-to-play battle royale game, which was released in February this year, has already amassed a player base of 70 million worldwide. Thanks to the success of
There have been strong rumours that Samsung has been working on a Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite in the past. This smartphone was rumoured to be a slightly toned-down version of the Galaxy S10 but we didn’t have a lot of information about it. A Samsung pho d was recently spotted on Geekbench’s database that bears
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