7 new Apps for Android.

1. Ambience Nature Sounds.

ambience nature sounds

A good-looking app that plays soothing nature sounds to accompany your meditation or your working process.

Price: free

Download

2. Canvy.

Canvy

Canvy is a new contacts app, which brings beautiful material design, automatic curation, big, big pictures, and floating shortcuts to your phonebook.

Price: free
Download

3. PopOut 3D GIFs

PopOut 3D

This app makes use of the 2-white-stripe method to trick our brains and make GIFs pop out with a pseudo-3D effect. You record your own clips and need to follow a set of rules for it to come out perfectly, but don't worry — there are clear instructions and a “practice” mode

Price: free

Download

4. Weather Wiz.

WeatherWiz

This is a beautiful-looking weather app that definitely deserves a spin. Check it out, you might end up replacing your current favorite. 

Price: free

Download

5. Microsoft StaffHub

MS Staff Hub

Much like the famous Slack, this is a communications app geared towards professionals and office work. It's made for business chats, schedule and project management, sharing files, and even manage shifts. Of course, it's deeply integrated with OneDrive to make project sharing quick and easy.

Price: free

Download

6. SystemPanel 2

SystemPanel

As the name suggests, this app is built to give you deep, deep insight into everything that's going on with your phone. From hardware components and usage to active apps and processes and all the accounts they are using. Users with root access will, naturally, enjoy more control, such as individual process restrictions.

Price: free

Download

7. StringiFy

Sringify

Sort of like IFTTT, Stringify lets you create automatic actions, which trigger from specific events. These span from different apps to different IoT appliances. For example, you can set your home lighting to come on when you are in the area of your house. Or, you can have a post automatically be shared to all your social media accounts when you post it via Twitter (for example). Really, there are a ton of combinations you can make, this app is a tinkerer's dream.

Price: free

Download

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New Samsung 15-inch Notebook 9 weighs more than a MacBook

Samsung's Notebook 9 extremely pushed the envelope on size whereas still providing solid performance in a very direct package. Today, the corporate is updating those extraordinarily light-weight laptops: a replacement pair of Notebook 9 computers has just been declared, and that they are even lighter than those that came before. The 13-inch weighs only 1.8 pounds, whereas the 15-inch version comes in at a laughably light-weight a pair of.17 pounds. That 15-inch weight is significantly noteworthy, because the sooner version came in at a still-light a pair of.9 pounds. to place things in perspective, Apple's 12-inch MacBook weighs 2 pounds even -- the 15-inch Notebook 9 is barely heavier than that.

Samsung notebook 9

The Notebook 9 doesn't skim on performance, either - the lineup offers 7th era Intel Core i5 or i7 processors and gives you a chance to put in up to 16GB of RAM. Normally, the capacity is in a strong state, with drive choices "up to" 256GB, and the screen determination comes in at 1080p on the speck. In any case, Samsung needed to compromise some place to get this much PC in such a little bundle, and it would seem that battery life is what'll take the hit. Samsung says these machines are appraised for seven hours. Luckily, USB-C control gives a full charge in 80 minutes.



From an design outlook, the new PC looks somewhat not quite the same as the first. It has more of an unmistakable flavor and looks less like a MacBook Air clone. The entire machine is a lighter shade of silver and dim, with keys to coordinate (as opposed to the dark key tops that denoted the past model). Furthermore, Samsung included a unique mark scanner here - so on the off chance that you loved the TouchID scanner in the new MacBook Pro however detested everything else, the Notebook 9 may work for you.


Unfortunately, Samsung didn't say how much the new Notebook 9 models cost (or when they'll be available). Last year's model 15-inch model started at $1,200; hopefully these new ones will be in that same ballpark. We'll have to really get our hands on these and try them out before we can pass judgement, but Samsung had a good thing going with the last model. It looks like the company kept what worked with the first Notebook 9 while somehow reducing the weight of that 15-inch model in a big way. There are also more configurations available this time out -- so if you're looking for a light but otherwise basic laptop (no touchscreen, no tricks like a detachable screen), the new Notebook 9 could be worth a look.

Commercial Bank of Dubai to launch digital-only bank

Commercial Bank of Dubai (CBD) is targeting the digital-savvy citizens of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with a mobile app-based bank.

The digital-only bank, which will launch early in 2017, will be known as CDB NOW and will be based on a customer’s mobile phone.

Murray Sims, general manager personal banking group at CBD, said this approach to banking will change the relationship between bank and customer.

“CBD NOW will redefine what a bank should be. It is built around customers and offers a unique experience that is simple, smart and safe, whereby everything can be done by smartphone,” he added.

The launch will target the generation known as Millennials, who carry out much of their daily activity through a smartphone.

Mobile banking is being used more than any other form of online bankings. For example, in the UK, which has a more mature digital banking economy, the British Bankers Association recently revealed research showing that there were 11 million log-ins to banking apps every day in 2015, compared with 4.3 million log-ins to internet banking through bank websites.

According to a recent report from FinTech Week, only 0.1% of global finanical technology (fintech) investment originates from the Middle East. However, these organisations are behind their western equivalents in fintech, there are signs of acceleration of its adoption in the UAE.

In October 2016, UAE telco Etisalat launched a mobile wallet to enable its customers to make payments and money transfers on their smartphones, using a platform from Oberthur Technologies.

Meanwhile, the fintech development on everyone’s lips at the moment – blockchain – is also being adopted in the region. ... ... ...

Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange recently said it would provide access to documents on listed firms via mobile devices through a blockchain-based system. Emirates NBD banking group also recently announced a pilot for the use of blockchain for transactions between the UAE and India.