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Samsung has officially entered the extended reality (XR) market with the announcement of its “Worlds Wide Open” Virtual Galaxy Event. The event, which will live-stream on October 21st at 10 p.m. ET, will reveal “Project Moohan,” the company’s first XR…
Starbucks has initiated a testing phase for a novel artificial intelligence (AI)-driven virtual assistant, Green Dot Assist, across 35 outlets in the United States and Canada. This innovative tool is designed to offer immediate, conversational answers to…
Shoppers searching Google for cosmetics will be able to try them on virtually through a deal with L’Oreal, as the French group looks to make up for lost store sales caused by coronavirus lockdowns by expanding online. Maybelline maker L’Oreal, which returned…
Diesel has unveiled Hyperoom, a 360-degree virtual selling platform and exhibition space. Conceived by Diesel’s parent company OTB, Hyperoom resembles the Diesel’s physical showroom in Milan. All Diesel’s products will be featured in the virtual store through…
Standard Chartered has released details of its virtual bank in Hong Kong, set to be launched later this year in partnership with PCCW, Hong Kong Telecom (HKT) and Trip.com. The Mox virtual bank will offer customers a suite of retail banking services, as well…
Singapore may permit virtual banks to operate in the city-state, following in the footsteps of Hong Kong, said DBS chief executive. If virtual banking licenses were handed out in Singapore, it would step up the competitive pressures faced by incumbent…
Virtual currencies offer an efficient and anonymous way to store and transfer funds online. Australia is set to regulate virtual currency exchanges such as Bitcoin and strengthen the powers of its financial intelligence agency AUSTRAC as it cracks down on…
Nokia has published the industry’s first complete templating system for VNF lifecycle management, designed to streamline and automate VNF onboarding, integration and lifecycle management processes. The company said today’s methods for managing VNF lifecycles…
VMware, Taiwan’s Institute for Information Industry (III) and the USA’s Methode Electronics have become the latest members of the Broadband Forum. The latest additions highlight recent developments within the Broadband Forum to address the constantly changing…
Fujitsu Laboratories has developed automatic analysis technology to boost communications performance and quality in virtual networks. With the spread of virtualization technologies, such as the cloud, software defined networking (SDN), and network functions…
VMware launched its Cross-Cloud Architecture at VMworld 2016, along with a partnership with IBM Cloud and plans to extend to Google, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. The architecture is designed to let network operators manage, provide uniform…
Korean retail giant Lotte Department Store revealed Thursday that it will implement a new 3D foot-measuring device at its stores starting Friday, to provide quick and accurate measurements for custom shoe orders. By placing his or her foot on the device, a…
Today we are happy to announce that we have established partnership with Garuda Indonesia Virtual (GIV). GIV is a VA base in Jakarta, Indonesia providing great simulation experience as one of the biggest VAs within South East Asia Region. The partnership…
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