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Samsung is set to launch a new smartwatch at an event next week under the Gear brand, the electronic giant's mobile head told us, just days before Apple is expected to unveil its next wearable. In an interview with CNBC DJ Koh, the president of Samsung's mobile division, said that the next generation of the Gear S series of smartwatches will be launched at IFA next week, a consumer electronics trade show in Berlin. Samsung has been prolific when it comes to its wearable launches. It launched two versions of the Galaxy S3 smartwatch in August 2016, and currently sells a fitness band called the Gear Fit. The wearable market hasn't exploded as many had expected, but it has been growing. Wearable shipments hit 102.4 million units in 2016, marking a 25 percent year-on-year rise, according to data from IDC. In the first quarter of 2017, Samsung shipped 1.4 million wearables, growing over 90 percent year-on-year, holding 5.5 percent market share, IDC data showed...

First-person shooting games have been a craze since time immemorial in the world of gaming. Though it was brought to the mainstream by the world renowned games like Counter Strike and Call of Duty, the origins can be traced back to a game many loved playing in their childhood days. Yes, we are talking about the famous ‘Duck Hunt’ here, which by the way, was also a technological wonder of its time. Video game gears like the PlayStation Kinect, which are prominent now just look to be a refurbished version of the technology available at the time of Duck Hunt.  As the gaming gears have evolved over the years, so have the basic fundamentals of shooting games. Today’s games focus on giving you a much stronger reason to shoot at those ‘ducks’. One such game that we have been playing since the last couple of days is ‘Lonewolf’. The mobile based game is available both on Google Play Store and Apple Store. Here is our experience with the game and the reason why it is different from a...

Google finally unveiled the much-awaited operating system Android Oreo aka Android 8.0 at an event held in NewYork today. This latest iteration of OS comes with a plethora of new features and upgrade. As previously it multiple beta version was released from Google over the last few months. So, let have a look on all handfull features present in Android Oreo one by one. Picture-in-Picture  – PiP mode is a most anticipated and crucial feature in Android Oreo. This feature allows users to watch the video content while executing other tasks at the same time. The PiP window can be dragged anywhere on the screen and can be easily resized to desired dimensions. Further, this feature is also empowered, users execute two different task at the same time. For example, now users can have a video chat while executing the other apps like watching video or typing messages. Google brings this feature Android smartphones and tablets. Notification Dots – This is another welcome feature...

Xbox Live is down for many and Microsoft is working on a fix. According to the Xbox Live status page, affected services include the ability to simply login to Xbox Live, play multiplayer games, access the store, download games, and even log in to play single-player games (unless you switch to offline mode.) Microsoft is aware of the problem:  Follow Xbox Support   ✔ @XboxSupport The proper teams are still working to get Xbox Live &  http:// xbox.com   back on track! We'll update you when we have more to share. 7:20 AM - Aug 23, 2017 Xbox | Official Site Experience the new generation of games and entertainment with Xbox. Play Xbox games and stream video on all your devices. xbox.com   880 880 Replies     249 249 Retweets     758 758 likes Twitter Ads info and privacy If you were hoping to play some  Destiny  or  Overwatch  or maybe fire up a...

I understand people's phone choices say something about their personalities, so what does the luxury Lamborghini phone say about the person who uses it? They're glamorous? They enjoy leather? They value luxury, maybe? I can't say, nor can I even guess, because I doubt I'll ever see someone with  Lamborghini's new Alpha - One smartphone . The Android device, which the company debuted today features "Italian handmade black leather" with a custom Italian leather accompanying phone case. That's about as luxury as it get. Specs-wise buyers can expect: 5.5-inch WQHD, 2560x1440, display Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor Android Nougat 4GB of RAM with 64GB of storage and up to 128GB of expandable storage 20-megapixel rear-facing camera and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera 3,250mAh battery Dual SIM card support Fingerprint scanner The phone will be available starting today in both the UK and UAE, as well as  online . In the UK, it'll be s...

The Developers' Beta 7 of iOS 11 is upon us, just seven days after the last update, suggesting that it’s going to mainly be a series of bug squishes and general tightening up of the software which is looking increasingly ready for release. In other words, this late in the beta game, Apple’s working to an impressively accelerated schedule. As I mentioned last week when Dev Beta 6 arrived, the Developers' Beta is the one that’s only available to developers (I mean, there's a clue in the name, right?), not the rest of us who are able to take a look at the software a little later via the public beta. Although you can sign up for the dev beta just by registering as a developer, please bear in mind that this costs $99 and in all likelihood, you’ll only be saving yourself a matter of hours – in recent weeks the dev beta has been followed the next day by the public version if not sooner. Update: the public beta is now live, in record time, following the Dev Beta ju...

We want to directly thank each of the users of Windows App Studio and we want to be sure you have a smooth transition off when Windows App Studio service ends on December 1, 2017. What will happen to App Studio afterwards?  Windows Template Studio  is the evolution of Windows App Studio. We took our learnings from the code generation engine and the existing wizard to provide a strong foundation for our code generation and developer experience in Windows Template Studio. Best of all, it is open source over at  http://aka.ms/wts . More info on  blogs.windows.com Ensure your apps continue working On September 15th, 2017, the dynamic collection API inside App Studio applications will stop providing data to your existing applications. To ensure your apps continue working once the API is shutdown, you have the following options: Include dynamic data within your apps: Modify the dynamic collections and make them static. With this, all the collection reso...