Apple's noted silence has hurt its mystique and caused it to cede the "cool" factor to competitors, a communications expert said today. "It's what Apple didn't say that made them so powerful," said Peter LaMotte, an analyst with Levick, ...
Tags: Apple, Silence Cedes Market
Intel is hoping to get more Chinese developers to back its products by forming a new joint innovation lab with the nation's largest search engine Baidu. The lab is part of an agreement the two companies signed on Thursday that will focus ...
The UK Office of Fair Trading is investigating whether in-app payments on smartphones and tablet computers are illegally encouraging children to spend money. The investigation follows several recent cases in which children have spent ...
Tags: smartphones, tablet computers
A Chinese hacking ring, which has been active for four years, has been stealing data from players of more than 30 massively multiplayer online (MMO) role-playing games. That's according to research by security software vendor Kaspersky ...
Tags: Online Games, Computer Products
The wealth of personal data that mobile apps collect on their users needs to be conspicuously stated to consumers or developers could face legal heat, California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris said Wednesday. Rather than resorting to ...
Tags: App Developers, mobile apps
The online virtual currency Bitcoin has generated some serious buzz lately, with its value soaring past US$200 for the first time this week. Now a smaller player hopes to emerge as a rival by processing transactions faster and giving its ...
Google reportedly is putting Glass, its line of wearable computers, in the hands -- or, more aptly, on the faces -- of explorers and developers this month. The Glass Explorer Edition, aimed at early testers and developers, will ship in ...
Tags: Google, Glass Edition
The Mir Stekla Exhibition unites interests and creates a unique platform for business dialogue of manufacturers, architects, engineers, developers, distributors and designers. From June 17 to June 20, 2013 the exhibition opens its doors ...
Tags: architects, glass industry, glass
Barrier films for flexible electronics will grow at 39.8% annually (CAGR) for the next decade, said Cambridge-based analyst IDTechEx. In its report, 'Barrier films for flexible electronics 2013-2023: needs, players, opportunities' the ...
Salesforce.com is giving customers and partners access to a new set of tools and services for building mobile applications on its cloud platform. Like most enterprise software vendors, Salesforce.com is trying to cater to a world where ...
Tags: APP, Computer Products, Mobile
TPE in-line pumps are designed for use in circulation systems with constant or slightly variable flow - they typically operate in heating systems, district heating services, refrigeration and air conditioning circuits and industrial ...
Tags: Grundfos, Intelligent in-Line Pump
Global solar installations are forecast to exceed 35GW in 2013, equivalent to growth of 12%, according to IHS. Global solar installations in 2012 grew 14% on year to reach 31.4GW. Contrary to many other more pessimistic predictions for ...
Vuzix Corporation, a developer and supplier of wearable display systems, announced today the launch of the STAR 1200XLD, an all digital version of its much acclaimed STAR 1200XL Wide Field of View (WFOV) See-Through Augmented Reality Video ...
With embedded control systems, the risk of software defects becomes evermore critical and qualification of test and development tools is a useful approach for designers, writes Jeremy Twaits Oil and water - fire and ice - complexity and ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Software
Mobile phone apps are accessing users' private data and transmitting it to remote servers far more than appears strictly necessary, while users have inadequate tools to monitor or control such access, according to a new study by two French ...
Tags: APP, Computer Products, private data