If you thought your TV remote control was just for switching channels, think again. Sony has a new system that uses the remote control as a transfer device between a smartphone and television. The system, which makes use of NFC ...
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IDG News Service - Qualcomm called on some big names Monday to ensure its opening-night keynote at the International CES wasn't a dud. Steve Ballmer, Big Bird, the pop group Maroon5, and even former Archbishop Desmond Tutu all made ...
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Asus, Lenovo,Intel and Nvidia are using CES to show off their latest tablet and PC innovations headed to store shelves later in 2013. But gadget makers would be better off focusing on slates rather than notebook PCs, one market research ...
IDG News Service - As TV makers show off UltraHD TVs at CES, communications chip maker Broadcom is introducing the guts of future gateways that will be able to bring video for those sets into viewers' homes. Broadcom's BCM7445 silicon ...
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IDG News Service - Raising the bar for image quality on television sets, Panasonic unveiled a 56-inch OLED TV that shows images at 4K resolution, four times the overall resolution of current 1080p high-definition TVs. The new TV was shown ...
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IDG News Service - As TVs get higher resolution and bigger displays, while getting cheaper over time, cable operators may be able to cover an entire wall of your home with a screen that includes two full-size TV shows plus weather, upcoming ...
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Computerworld - LAS VEGAS -- LaCie today announced at CES the 5big storage box, a RAID array with Thunderbolt that comes in 10TB and 20TB capacities. The LaCie 5big array comes with dual-core 2.13GHz Intel processors. The dual Thunderbolt ...
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Computerworld - LAS VEGAS - Ford Motor Co. is looking to integrate drivers' favorite apps into their cars, giving them someone to read them the morning newspaper, along with an app to find them the site of their next great date. Ford ...
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Microsoft has sold more than 60 million Windows 8 licenses so far, a number that is “roughly” in line with the performance of Windows 7 at the same stage of its release three years ago, according to Tami Reller, CFO and Chief ...
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One Laptop Per Child is back in the tablet race, announcing a new 7-inch tablet with the Android OS that will be sold commercially and include its learning software. The XO Tablet was announced at the International CES show in Las Vegas. ...
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Intel executives plan to accelerate new mobile device experiences across the company’s growing portfolio of smartphone, tablet and Ultrabook offerings, it said at CES in Las Vegas this week. The announcements included a new ...
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Microsoft has sold some 60 million Windows 8 licences since the OS's launch, according to the finance and marketing head of Windows business, Tami Reller. Reller was speaking at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, where ...
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German carmaker Audi has received the approval to test the autonomous vehicles on the state's public roads in Nevada in the US. The company tested the self-driving car's technology including the piloted parking and piloted driving on the ...
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New Combat Creatures colours and weapons on show at US tech expo. Wow Stuff has taken its Combat Creature Attacknids to the world's biggest technology showcase, CES. The toy is yet to launch in the 'States, but visitors to the Las ...
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As the first wave of attendees stormed the gates of CES 2013 on Tuesday morning, RIM, in a hotel suite several miles away, gave a small group of journalists a glimpse of its upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system. This was a "hands-off" ...
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