Peas and carrots, strawberries and cream, risk management and supply chain management. OK, that last pair doesn’t have the same ring to it, but I’m sure supply chain professionals are more than aware of the intrinsic ...
Brian Otis gingerly holds what looks like a typical contact lens on his index finger. Look closer. Sandwiched in this lens are two twinkling glitter-specks loaded with tens of thousands of miniaturized transistors. It's ringed with a ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Gadget lovers are slipping on fitness bands that track movement and buckling on smartwatches that let them check phone messages. Some brave souls are even donning Google's geeky-looking Glass eyewear. For the technology industry, this ...
Tags: smartwatches, technology industry, wearable computing devices, eyeglasses
Google has teamed up with several auto manufacturers on Monday with the goal of bringing Android to cars by the end of this year. To achieve this, Google, together with Audi, General Motors (GM), Honda, Hyundai and processor chip company ...
Tags: Android, Google, Audi, General Motors
Celebrities, businesses and even the State Department have bought bogus Facebook likes, Twitter followers or YouTube viewers from techies who run offshore "click farms," where they tap, tap, tap the thumbs up button, view videos or retweet ...
Tags: click farms, artificially inflate social media numbers, fake clicks
High-tech manufacturers are failing in their customer ERP strategies, according to an IDC whitepaper. The analyst’s “Manufacturing Insights Whitepaper: Get Customers Inspired – A Call to Action for High-tech ...
Two tech companies have launched rival ventures to build Android tablets in Haiti, a country with little recent experience in electronics manufacturing. Startups Surtab SA and Handxom SA began production last month and plan to sell the ...
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Investments in ICT are expect to increase in 2014 in Africa as both public and private spending rises and local content businesses partner with larger operators and tech companies, according to IDC. Adoption of data analytics and cloud ...
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This may be remembered as the year smartphones became boring. Although high-definition displays on smartphones have gotten bigger and their cameras have gotten better, the pace of gee-whiz innovation has dawdled. Smartphone and software ...
Raising a mountain of funding doesn't prove a tech company is success-bound. But if you ask Jeff Fagnan at Atlas Venture, there's a closer correlation between the two today than even a few years ago. "I think the current crop (of ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. The recent robot-related news from Apple, Amazon, and Google shows serious momentum for the ...
Critics of the U.S. National Security Agency's bulk collection of U.S. residents' telephone records should offer a better way to track terrorists and protect the country against attacks, the agency's director said Wednesday. The NSA's ...
Tags: Metadata, NSA, data collection, surveillance programmes, surveillance
Asia Pacific technology companies are flourishing despite economic slowdown in China, the U.S. and Europe, according to Deloitte's 12th annual ranking of 500 fastest-growing technology companies in APAC. China Communications Media Group ...
Tags: Asia Pacific Tech Companies, Deloitte, technology, APAC, IT
The Nasdaq computer index Friday hit its highest point since November 2000, in the wake of the dot-com bust, despite mixed reports this week from the hardware and components sector. The Nasdaq computer index closed Friday at 1989.89, up ...
Tags: PC sales, online commerce
Eight top tech companies in the U.S. have asked governments around the world to reform surveillance laws and practices, and asked the U.S. to take the lead. AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yahoo and Microsoft said Monday ...