Google launches Springboard, an AI-powered assistant for its enterprise customers

Google launches Springboard, an AI-powered assistant for its enterprise customers

Google has unwrapped two significant announcements for its enterprise customers, the most notable of which is the rollout of Springboard, a new digital assistant to help enterprise companies that make use of Google’s services for business. Springboard, which has been in testing with “a small set of customers,” is a little like Google Now for enterprise workers. That’s […]

Project Scorpio is the next Xbox One console, arriving late 2017

Project Scorpio is the next Xbox One console, arriving late 2017

Sure the Xbox One S was the big news from today’s event, but Microsoft had one major surprise up its sleeve: Project Scorpio. Xbox head Phil Spencer took the stage one final time to announce the “latest addition to the Xbox One family” with a dramatic trailer offering glimpses of what’s to come, courtesy of some extremely excited developers. […]

As the smartphone wars reheat, the threat of chilling innovation looms

As the smartphone wars reheat, the threat of chilling innovation looms

G. Nagesh Rao Crunch Network Contributor G. Nagesh Rao is a former U.S. Patent Examiner and Senior Policy Advisor with the Department of Commerce-U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He represents the United States as a 2016 Eisenhower Fellow and Advisor to the American Association for the Advancement of Science […]

Crunch Report | Apple ordered to Stop Selling iPhone in China

Crunch Report | Apple ordered to Stop Selling iPhone in China

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Nintendo talks mobile gaming, VR and its future at E3

Nintendo talks mobile gaming, VR and its future at E3

Nintendo has never been afraid to go against the grain of prevailing industry trends. In fact, the refusal to follow the pack has become a defining aspect of the gaming giant’s business strategy during the ascendance of chief console competitors Sony and Microsoft. So it comes as no surprise, really, that it did something markedly […]

To beat SMS, Facebook Messenger eats SMS

To beat SMS, Facebook Messenger eats SMS

Surround and conquer is Facebook’s new strategy for getting people to switch from SMS to Messenger. You can now read and send old-school text messages from inside Facebook Messenger for Android. With this near-global rollout of the SMS feature, Facebook is touting ease, as you won’t have to jump back and forth between chat interfaces if your […]

iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus banned in Beijing

iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus banned in Beijing

The Baili 100C smartphone next to the iPhone 6 Apple’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus have been banned from sale in Beijing, China, by the intellectual property regulator, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The regulators claim that the previous-generation iPhones infringe on a Chinese design patent for the Chinese Baili […]

PinMeTo lets national brands automate updates to local Facebook pages

PinMeTo lets national brands automate updates to local Facebook pages

Malmö, Sweden-based PinMeTo is a location marketing platform launching a nifty new feature today that aims to make it infinitely easier for major brands to maintain a local presence on Facebook by somewhat automating the creation and updating of multiple local Facebook pages. It does so through what is essentially a templating system that lets […]