Technological advancements, new product innovations, and even demographic shifts can have a dramatic impact on consumer attitudes and behaviors around the world. Which consumer habits and beliefs are most malleable in this new era of ...
Tags: Global Consumer Trends, Packaging
Intel Capital, Intel's global investment and M&A organization, has announced investments in 16 new technology companies totaling US$65 million. Spanning nine countries, the investments will help drive innovations in the cloud, datacenter, ...
Tags: Intel Capital, mobile technologies
Mobile technologies are presenting great opportunities and challenges to even the savviest of IT. Smartphones and tablets are replacing personal computers at an accelerated pace. Corporate executives, employees, business partners and ...
Tags: Gas Industry, Power Oil
Michael Dell has won the battle to take the company he founded in 1984 private after shareholders voted in favour of the deal on the table from Michael Dell and private equity company Silver Lake. It means that the company will be taken ...
Tags: DELL, Computer Products
Apple just can’t keep a secret these days. “There’s been a thorough leaking of Apple’s most likely plans,” said Ezra Gottheil, an analyst with Technology Business Research (TBI), on what Apple will unveil ...
Tags: iPhone 5C, Electronics
Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia was a defensive move to keep the Finnish phone maker from going under or falling into the hands of an Android-first rival, several analysts argued this week. “Had Nokia abandoned Windows Phone, ...
Tags: Nokia Deal, Microsoft
TZA, a technology-enabled company specializing in the optimization of enterprise labor performance and operational effectiveness, announced today that it has been selected by Intermec to join its Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partner ...
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has announced a global partnership between the social media network and other technology firms, with the aim of making internet access available to the two-thirds of the world that are not yet connected. ...
Tags: Facebook, Computer Products, webservice
Social media network Facebook has announced that it has acquired speech recognition and machine translation technologies start-up Mobile Technologies. The start-up developed the Jibbigo app, which allows users to select from more than 25 ...
Tags: Mobile, Facebook, Computer Products, Social media
Verizon, a US- based broadband and telecommunications company, has received the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for a cloud-based, remote patient-monitoring medical device called Converged Health Management. ...
Tags: Verizon, Patient-Monitoring Device
Salutron, a developer of physiological monitoring solutions for wearable devices and exercise equipment, and Azumio, a developer of consumer mobile health applications have announced Azumio's Argus iOS app integration with the new LifeTrak ...
The Ubuntu Edge, a "superphone" in the making, seeks to raise $32 Million on Indiegogo by August 22 to fund a full-scale production of a smartphone that can also run your PC. Is this a lofty goal, or a reachable possibility? Within the ...
Tags: Superphone, Consumer Electronics
As digital commerce extends into mobile technologies, growing numbers of consumers are integrating smartphones into their purchasing processes. This worldwide trend is moving fastest in certain emerging markets, where switched-on consumers ...
Tags: E-Commerce, Mobile Shopping, Americans
Over one thousand fans enjoyed the 2013 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in a way they never experienced before, as ChirpVision delivered three channels of live video of music performances with HD audio directly to the fans' smartphones in ...
Air transport IT and communications firm SITA has unveiled Horizon, a so-called next generation passenger services system (PSS), at the company's Air Transport IT Summit in Brussels. Horizon, said SITA, is designed specifically to manage ...
Tags: SITA, Horizon, Passenger Services System