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Can Japan’s Tech Firms Finally Turn It Around?
Japan’s top tech firms have been aggressively marketing all manner of gadgets and gizmos at Las Vegas this week, including 4K OLED TVs, funky new display tech and water-proof smartphones, but their upbeat mood does little to mask the growing problems each of them are facing. Last year saw the stock market value of Japan’s ...
The Internet Of Things Is Cool, But Cool Doesn’t Count
If there’s one thing that the CES has shown us so far, it’s that the idea of staying connected is no longer limited to our smartphones, tablets and computers. The Internet of Things has become all the rage in 2013, and as a result we’re seeing technology seep into every single facet of our lives, ...
Google Brings Free Public Wi-Fi to New York City
Google has announced a further expansion of its plans to connect the world, with the launch of free public Wi-Fi services in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York that will become the city’s largest unified network. The project, which Google is carrying out with local non-profit organization Chelsea Improvement Group, will bring free Wi-Fi access ...
Intel Outlines Strategy at CES: More Mobile, Higher Performance, Less Power
Intel was all over the place at CES yesterday, despite the fact that it didn’t have much by the way of ‘new’ news to offer us. However, what the company did provide was a comprehensive look at its products, initiatives, and most importantly, its strategy for the year ahead. Much has been made of the ...
Qualcomm CEO: New Snapdragons Will “Crush” The Competition
Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs took to the stage at CES yesterday for his keynote in order to discuss the company’s two new processor core architectures, the Krait 300 and Krait 400. The chipmaker unveiled its newest products yesterday, announcing that Krait 300 will be used on Snapdragon 600. According to Jacobs, Krait 300 represents the ...
Toshiba’s Self-Encrypting Drives Give Enterprise Users Peace of Mind
Toshiba has announced a line of high-security drives for enterprise that will help businesses to better manage sensitive information in cloud computing, data centers and client computing applications. The Japanese firm unveiled four new SATA and SAS drives packing the enhanced security features at CES on Sunday evening. The drives boast embedded self-encrypting and cryptographic-erase ...
CES 2013 Innovations: Smart Forks, Android-Powered Ovens and Throwaway Tech
The first few hours of CES 2013 have dazzled us with a deluge of delicious devices so far, with dozens of new Android tablets weird and wonderful Smart TVs stealing the show so far. But while the big guns have given us plenty of tech to chew over so far, a number of smaller companies ...
Verizon & Delphi Team Up With Car Connect Remote Tracking & Controls
Delphi and Verizon have teamed up to offer a new Car Connect device that delivers a host of control and information options to car owners, allowing them to control, monitor and track their vehicles by remote. Packed into a small, black box about the size of a pack of playing cards, Car Connect seems to ...
Lenovo Storms The Show With 8 New Devices at CES 2013
Apparently whoever said that interest in the CES was on the wane forgot to inform Lenovo – the Chinese manufacturer has just unleashed a deluge of new hardware to demonstrate that the world’s largest consumer electronics show has lost none of its excitement, no matter what the detractors might say. The likes of HP, Microsoft ...
Hackers Exploit Security Lapse to Impersonate Google+
Google, Microsoft and Mozilla have all rushed to update their web browsers after it emerged that cyberthieves were exploiting a security loophole that allowed them to impersonate the Google+ social network.
