Tech

Drones should have a built-in chip in the future. That should make it easier to recover damages makes such unmanned aircraft chunks.

Increasingly people are booking their holidays online. Last year, 81 percent of all holidays booked through the internet. Furthermore, we increasingly make composite holidays : transport and accommodation are booked separately from each other. The holiday is also increasingly luxurious, including through the advent of all-inclusive hotels. According to figures from research firm NBTC- NIPO.

Snap Chat offers new possibilities for playing videos on its network. Speed ​​Modifiers is a new feature that allows videos accelerated, slowed down and backwards playback.

Alphabet, known as Google, has signed an agreement with three Indonesian telecom companies offering internet in remote areas via balloons. According years the first few hundred balloons into the sky.

The cheaper version of the taxi service Uber is also available from Thursday in Rotterdam. The olinetaxidienst introduced the new service, UberX in September in Amsterdam.

Electronics manufacturer Sony put in the past quarter profit in the books, helped by a visitor record for the animated film " Hotel Transylvania 2 '. Also strong sales of the new game console PlayStation 4 attracted the Japanese company out of the red.

The biggest privacy violators of the Netherlands Minister Ronald Plasterk (Interior) and the National Police. Plasterk Wednesday received the audience award at the Big Brother Awards, police chief Gerard Bouman received the expert price. The awards were presented by the civil rights organization Bits of Freedom.

The Nuon Solar Team of Delft University of Technology and Solar Team Twente last week are respectively number one and two were in the World Solar Challenge in Sydney presented their solar cars Nuna8 and Red One. Dutch Consulate General in Sydney invited the teams to their solar cars in the city's business district to promote the innovative character of the Netherlands.

King Willem-Alexander with a visit to the Chinese Internet giant Alibaba in Hangzhou headquarters Thursday ended his state visit to China. Alibaba was at the king witnessed the launch of a Dutch portal on the web store T-mall. There are more products Attentive and Ahold sale. The Netherlands is also now the first European destination recorded Alitravel where Chinese can directly control travel to China and books.

Of Dutch companies with ten or more employees 90 percent have their own website. In 35 percent of companies allow customers to order online, book or reserve. Also refer more and more on their website to social media in which they are active.

Tech giant IBM has devised a plan to take over The Weather Company, a US meteorological company. This is among other things manager of the sites like Weather.com The Weather Underground.

Although half of the Dutch are concerned about Internet security, has only a small proportion (8 percent) actually had trouble with viruses or privacy violations last year, reported the Central Bureau of Statistics Wednesday.

Apple sees the demand for iPads decline for several years and it seems that the company does not think the larger iPad Pro which time it will return immediately. Component suppliers have been relatively modest according to DigiTimes orders from Apple.

For years, tech companies are trying to come up with a decent alternative for the exchange of business cards. The latest effort : the Shake-on a bracelet that allows contact information to be exchanged with another carrier to give a hand.

The Japanese electronics giant Sony will take over the division of Toshiba which makes image sensors for cameras. Which announced both companies.

Facebook will remove a feature that many people did not know it existed : the ' overige' inbox. Sending messages to people you're not friends, it will be easier.

Spotify may regularly have criticized the free version of the music service, but research from the University of Minnesota shows that this criticism is unjustified. According to two scientists from the American University, the free version of Spotify mainly affects piracy.

People with Android devices can now also use the app for the digital kiosk Blendle. The app is Tuesday and Wednesday in the Play Store. Alexander Klöpping, co-founder of Blendle, which is Tuesday.

The data of people who have sought information and advice about their health on the website thuisarts.nl has inadvertently been collected by so-called tracking cookies and shared with others. That made Dutch College of General Practitioners (NHG), the organization behind the site on Tuesday.

Facebook has all its employees understand the problems that users of the social platform that do not have to have a fast mobile internet with it. Under the name '2G Tuesday' the Facebook employees can choose each Tuesday when they log in to a slower 2G connection, reports Business Insider.

Apple and American Express will cooperate more closely in order to roll out Apple Pay worldwide. According to CEO Tim Cook, the credit card company has to help his company to go apple pay initially roll out in Canada and Australia, reports The Next Web.

Strong demand for iPhones in China in particular has helped Apple in the third quarter with a lot more profit. The latest models yielded a modest contribution because they came only in late September in the trade.

The new update of iOS , the operating system of the iPhone and iPad software, Apple now offers also the function to carry out the update overnight, but by that night update, many users may overslept.