A partnership between Austria-based semiconductor company ams and US start-up Mobeam is designed to make it possible for barcodes to be scanned from a mobile phone screen. The companies claim they have technology which will enable laser ...
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Further demonstrating the extent to which domestic and commercial property-owners are recognising the benefits of energy-saving, cost-efficient LED lights, general lighting has - for the very first time - become the primary market for ...
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Global financial groups have intensified their war to control the lucrative future of the digital wallet, which will let people use a smartphone to go shopping instead of cash and credit cards. MasterCard, Visa and online payments service ...
Tags: digital wallet, smartphone, payments service
The social network is partnering with mobile operators to allow free data access for consumers to use Facebook messaging. Facebook first opened its messenger app up to non-members in December 2012 in efforts to rival similar services like ...
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Samsung Canada, the leading supplier of mobile phones in the Canadian marketplace, today announced the launch of the world's first 8-inch tablet, the GALAXY Note 8.0. Unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the GALAXY Note ...
GLOBAL financial groups are competing to control the lucrative future of "mobile money", which will enable people to use a smartphone to go shopping instead of cash and credit cards. MasterCard, Visa and online payments service PayPal ...
Mozilla previewed the first commercial build of its Firefox operating system and announced several operator and smartphone rollout plans on Sunday at Mobile World Congress. The OS is being pitched as a better alternative for low-end ...
LG spokesman said recently that the company currently did not plan to release any Windows Phone mobile phones. The spokesman said, "We want to provide consumers with everything they need.” As Windows Phone handsets market demand is ...
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LG Electronics Mobile Communications department heads Park Jong-seok, said on the eve of the 2013 Mobile World Congress (MWC), as part of the out of basic mobile phone strategy, the company plans to sell 40 million smartphone in 2013. Last ...
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The fanfare entrance into the market of smartphones is hardly breaking news, but eyebrow-raising figures show how Germany is next up for the app-fed mobile data revolution. After a 7.8 percent fall in mobile phone sales overall in 2011, ...
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany, a wholly owned subsidiary of Osram GmbH, is the world's second largest manufacturer of optoelectronic semiconductors after LiteOn and followed third place by Cree Inc. One of the main ...
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MRAM/STTMRAM and PCM will lead the Emerging Non-Volatile Memory (ENVM) market, reaching a combined $1.6bn by 2018, says a report from analysts Yole Developpement. "By 2018, MRAM/STTMRAM and PCM will surely be the top two ENVM on the ...
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CBR rounds up expert comments on the 4G auction winner announcement and what this means for the future of mobile broadband in the UK. Gary Marven, CEO of MLL Telecom As a UK focused telecoms operator and existing spectrum owner we are ...
General lighting has become the largest market for packaged LEDs globally for the first time according to new data presented at the recent Strategies in Light (SIL) Conference in Santa Clara, California. Ella Shum, director of the LED ...
Tags: General lighting, LEDs, LED lighting
Microsoft’s Lync Conference 2013 this week saw a demonstration of the Lync unified communications platform, including clients for Android devices, iPhones and iPads that support VoIP. The VoIP capability means that formerly ...
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