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- 12 May 2016
Over 1m Adventurers Used Samsung's Gear VR Headset in April
Oculus VR published a blog ppost during the week revealing that more than one million people used Gear VR in April. That’s quite impressive given that the device currently only works with a limited…
- 22 Apr 2016
Samsung, Other Virtual Reality Hardware to Push Market Above $2Bn in 2016
Worldwide shipments of Virtual Reality (VR) hardware will skyrocket in 2016, with total volumes reaching 9.6 million units. Led by key products from Samsung, Sony, HTC, and Oculus, the category…
- 5 Oct 2021
Facebook Explains Backbone Shutdown behind Global Outage
The massive outage that took down Facebook, its associated services (Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, Messenger), its platform for businesses, and the company’s own internal network all started with…
- 19 Jan 2017
Facebook to Invest Over $3Bn in VR In Next 10 Years
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sees virtual reality as a future computing platform that his company has a chance to own, though he admits it may take 5 – 10 years to bring it to the masses, a report by…
- 21 Jun 2018
IDC Forecasts 8.1 Million Growth for AR & VR by 2018
International Data Corporation (IDC) report has shown that Worldwide shipments of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) headsets were down 30.5% year over year, totaling 1.2 million units…
- 26 May 2016
Boost for Consumer IT Virtual Reality Reveals Ecosystem Growth
Virtual reality (VR) is an increasingly hot topic at technology events, government meetings and consumer entertainment events, injecting a boost of much needed excitement into consumer IT and…
- 1 Jun 2016
IDC Hints VR Devices Shipments Booms at Over 2400% Increase in 2016
The Worldwide Augmented and Virtual Reality Hardware Forecast, 2016–2020, has tipped worldwide shipments of Virtual Reality (VR) hardware will skyrocket in 2016. The broader VR ecosystem will benefit…
- 3 Jan 2014
FireEye Acquires Mandiant for Approximately $1Bn
FireEye, the leader in stopping today’s advanced cyber attacks, has announced that it has acquired privately held Mandiant, the leading provider of advanced endpoint security products and security…
- 31 Mar 2017
Facebook Widens 360-degree Live-streaming to All
Facebook is opening up its tool to live stream video in 360 degrees to all global users, after launching with certain publishers in December. Facebook is letting everybody stream their lives in 360…
- 21 Mar 2018
Demand for AR/VR Headsets Expected to Rebound in 2018, Says IDC
International Data Corporation (IDC) Augmented and Virtual Reality Headset Tracker shows that Worldwide shipments for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) headsets will grow to 68.9…
- 30 Aug 2018
Facebook Rolls Out Video Service Globally
With the aim of giving people around the world a new way to discover great videos and interact with friends, content creators and other fans, Facebook has made its video-on-demand service, Facebook…
- 11 Feb 2020
Andela, Facebook Host Hackathon4Justice to Create Solutions that Tackle Social Vices
Andela, the engineering-as-a-service business that helps companies build teams quickly and cost-effectively so they can ship faster, hosted 50 students from selected Nigerian tertiary institutions at…
- 4 Oct 2021
Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram Suffer Massive Outage
Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, social media services, appear to be recovering after an outage that lasted as at the time of filing this report. All three services are owned by Facebook and could…
- 16 Dec 2016
Augmented, VR Headsets Shipments to Hit 76m, Grow 108.3% By 2020- IDC
International Data Corporation (IDC) is excited to announce the launch of its newest Tracker ® research program focusing on the emerging Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) headset…
- 4 Sept 2014
Samsung Unveils Galaxy Note 4, Note Edge & Gear VR
Samsung announced three new devices on Wednesday in a global simulcast presentation, showing off newer and better screens for it global consumers. The company fired warnings to other competitors with…
- 20 Apr 2015
Nokia May Return To Phone Market
Independent Nokia Technologies aiming to return to phone market according to reports released on Monday. Although Nokia's original mobile phone division was sold to Microsoft in 2013, one of the…
- 24 Sept 2015
Instagram Now Larger than Twitter as User Tally Climbs to 400m
The photo-sharing service tallied 400 million people who use its app at least once a month, a jump of 25 percent from December, the company said. That's also more than the 316 million people who use…
- 6 Oct 2015
Microsoft Unveils First Laptop, Updated Devices using Windows 10
Microsoft Corp has unveiled its first laptop, a line of Lumia smartphones, a new Surface Pro tablet and an updated version of its wearable fitness tracker, Microsoft Band, all running on Windows 10,…