Hardware vendors making smartphones and tablets with screens smaller than 9 inches will get Windows for free, the latest aggressive move by Microsoft to increase the use of its OS on those devices. The move is the latest example of the ...
Tags: Microsoft, Phones, Small Tablets
When robotics began, they were discrete pieces added into the packaging process. That introductory phase is over. ABB Robotics has transitioned into solutions that are complete systems. Now, the company's industrial robots are even more ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Packaging Line, ABB
The biggest objection I hear from flooring dealers about becoming immersed in social media has to do with time. Their days are busy enough without having to add another layer of work that seems overwhelming when new social networks seem to ...
Tags: Flooring, Construction, Decoration
Ford is putting its product-led transformation on display at the 35th Bangkok International Motor Show, highlighting its commitment to bring more segment-leading global Ford vehicles to consumers in Thailand and across the ASEAN region. ...
Nokia has released its Nokia X Android smartphone family – which has a tile-based interface inspired by the Lumia family – in the UAE. It comes with Fastlane, a screen which lets people switch between their favourite apps ...
Tags: Nokia, Smartphone, X Android smartphone
It's 3am on the first day of 2014. Shanghai's Hengshan Road, an area popular for restaurants and nightclubs, is lit up with what seems like hundreds of bright green taxi lights, inviting the rowdy New Year's crowd to hop in. But the drivers ...
Tags: Taxi Apps, Government Regulations, taxi
Lenovo is buying up patents related to 3G and 4G technologies from U.S.-based Unwired Planet for US$100 million, as the company sets about expanding with its proposed Motorola Mobility acquisition. The 21 patent families Lenovo is ...
Tags: Lenovo, Mobile, Computer Products, 3G, 4G
Swedish automaker Volvo Car Group has partnered with the Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) and the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (Statens Vegvesen) for a pilot project that involves sharing road friction information ...
Avaya has announced new Customer Experience Management solutions which aim to help businesses “eliminate the fragmented, high-effort service that jeopardises customer loyalty and revenue growth.” Avaya has introduced its Aura ...
Tags: application, platform, Computer
Imagine powering your cell phone by simply walking around your office or rubbing it with the palm of your hand. Rather than plugging it into the wall, you become the power source. Researchers at the 247th National Meeting & Exposition of ...
The first room-temperature light detector that can sense the full infrared spectrum has the potential to put heat vision technology into a contact lens. Unlike comparable mid- and far-infrared detectors currently on the market, the ...
Tags: contact lens, light detector, Electronics
Samsung Electronics introduced a trio of accessories on Friday that are designed to help users who are disabled and visually impaired—those with partial or greater loss of vision. Their smartphones can be transformed in this way into ...
Nokia's new Lumia Icon smartphone offers a lot of compelling features. But they don't make up for the fact that the device runs Windows Phone software, which has proved unpopular with both consumers and developers. The Icon is Nokia's new ...
Tags: Nokia, smartphone
The European Union took another step on Thursday towards the mandatory introduction of a common mobile phone charger, which could power-up all makes of handsets. The European Parliament in Strasbourg voted in favour of draft legislation ...
Tags: mobile phone charger, connector
"With this question my brother and I started an interesting conversation which ended in underneath proof of concept. The tldr [sic] answer is: "Yes, that is possible." Those lines are from the question-and-answer posed on a Tuesday blog ...
Tags: Android application, WhatsApp chat history, instant messaging app