Panasonic On The Hunt For Acquisition Targets
Japanese electronics giant Panasonic Corp said it is gearing up to spend 1 trillion yen ($8.4 billion) on acquisitions over the next four years, bolstered by a stronger profit outlook for its...
View ArticleIBM To Invest $3B In ‘Internet of Things’ Services
International Business Machines Corp announced that it will invest $3 billion over the next four years in a new ‘Internet of Things’ unit, hoping to offer its expertise in gathering and making sense of...
View ArticleBlackBerry To Offer Security Function For IoT
BlackBerry Ltd announced that it will be offering a new certificate service that will help bring the security level it offers on smartphones to a slew of devices from cars to smart meters. Certicom, a...
View ArticleSamsung Tease Of A New Gear Smartwatch
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd dropped hints that there may be a new version of its Gear smartwatch on Friday, the same day that rival Apple Inc’s long-awaited wearable devices went on sale. The South...
View ArticleGE Partners With Qualcomm, Apple In LED Lights Venture
General Electric Co announced partnerning up with Qualcomm Inc and Apple Inc as it uses digital technology and the growing appetite for data to reinvigorate its 130-year-old lighting business. With...
View ArticleIntel Awards RealSense Developers
"We also will continue mobilising our resources to inspire, educate and advance innovation through programmes such as the Intel Developer Zone, where developers can engage to find new software tools...
View ArticleFujitsu To Debut Wearable Tags For IoT
Fujitsu has designed stamp-sized wearable sensor tags that can tell whether users have changed their location or posture, fallen down or are experiencing body temperature changes. The tags transmit...
View ArticleHuawei Jumps Into IoT With New Operating System
China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, known for its telecom equipment, became the latest tech giant to present its own take on the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT), centered on an operating system designed to...
View ArticleAndroid Looking To Push Deeper Into The Home
Android, already the most widely used operating system in smartphones, may find its way into refrigerators, door locks and all manner of other “smart” appliances around the home. The OS will be in the...
View ArticleAcer Shifts Focus To IoT
Acer is still churning out PCs, but the Taiwanese vendor is far more bullish about the Internet of Things (IoT), a market the company doesn’t want to miss out on. Acer held a news conference not for a...
View ArticleAre Notebook Sales On The Rise?
Part of this is because Redmond is allowing consumers to freely upgrade their existing PCs to Windows 10, making purchasing a new PC no longer important.
View ArticleEricsson Developing Next-gen LTE, Focuses On IoT
Ericsson is developing LTE with faster upload speeds, as well as using unlicensed spectrum to speed up downloads and customizing the technology for Internet of Things applications. The Swedish telecom...
View ArticleSamsung To Bring 6GB Of DRAM To Smartphones
Samsung announced that it’s mass-producing the first 12Gbit LPDDR4 DRAM chip, which will introduce 6GB DRAM for mobile devices. Based on its 20-nanometer-class process technology, Samsung said the new...
View ArticleSony To Acquire Toshiba’s Sensor Business
Toshiba Corp is offload its image sensor business to Sony Corp for around 20 billion yen ($164.68 million) as part of a restructuring plan laid out earlier this year, sources with knowledge of the deal...
View ArticleVerizon Launches ThingSpace For IoT Development
Verizon has rolled out ThingSpace, a development platform for companies of all sizes to create Internet of Things applications more efficiently and then later manage those apps. The carrier also...
View ArticleIBM Introduces New Technology For Data Protection
At the beginning of the year IBM announced Identity Mixer, a new technology for protecting users’ personal data during authentication. On Friday, it announced that the technology is now available to...
View ArticleBlackBerry To Push QNX Operating System For IoT
BlackBerry CEO John Chen hopes for the start of something good in Las Vegas. The company is planning to push its QNX real-time operating system for the Internet of Things at CES, the giant consumer...
View ArticleSony Pivots Towards IoT With Altair Acquisition
Sony has signed a deal to purchase chip company Altair Semiconductor for $212 million in a bid to strengthen its offering for the Internet of Things market. Altair, based in Israel, is a developer of...
View ArticleIs Mozilla Dropping Smartphones For IoT?
One of the solutions through the internal tests early doors is the Firefox Smart TV platform, an already fragmented market that should still be licking its wounds from the Matchstick debacle.
View ArticleNokia, Ericcson Talk 5G Timelines
Ericsson, the world’s top supplier of wireless equipment, said on Monday it expects 150 million users to be on next-generation 5G networks five years from now, steering clear of an industry debate over...
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