The march of technology into our homes is continuing unabated, but judging from the propositions presented at last week’s Milan Furniture Fair, the onus now is on invisible tech – solutions that blend seamlessly into our interiors, and are as aesthetically pleasing as they are useful. Technology for technology’s sake, be gone. Samsung’s new breed of televisions is a case in point. The electronics giant has unveiled […]
Worldwide smartphone shipments grew by 4.3 percent, according to research firm IDC. The figure is a few ticks above above the firm’s previous first-quarter forecast of 3.6-percent growth. Samsung regained the title of “world’s largest smartphone vendor” from Apple during the first quarter thanks to shipments of 79.2 million smartphones, IDC said. Samsung’s position was bolstered by deep discounts on the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge, which […]
SEOUL Strong memory chip earnings propelled tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) to its best quarterly profit in more than 3 years, the South Korean firm said on Thursday as its first-quarter results matched its earlier guidance. Samsung said in a regulatory filing its January-March operating profit was 9.9 trillion won ($8.75 billion), compared with 9.9 trillion won it estimated earlier in April. Revenue rose 2 […]
Thermal image showing thermal runaway of an 18650 cell with an implanted internal short circuiting device. Credit: Donal Finegan (UCL, NASA and NREL) How lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries behave under short-circuit conditions can now be examined using a new approach developed by a UCL-led team to help improve reliability and safety. The use of high energy density Li-ion batteries is ubiquitous – from powering portable electronics to providing […]
A Boston Dynamics Spot robot—speakers at the TED conference believe in the future intelligent machines will help humans look after the elderly Intelligent machines of the future will help restore memory, mind your children, fetch your coffee and even care for aging parents. It will all be part of a brave new world of the not-so-distant future, in which innovative smart machines, rather than being the undoing […]
A new report from South Korea claims that Samsung is working on a smartphone display that will be curved not just at the sides, but also at the top and bottom. Such a display will be a further improvement on the screen of the company’s recently released flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S8. Will the next Samsung Galaxy smartphone feature the new screen? Samsung Working On Screen That […]
Newsrooms around the world are experimenting with virtual reality more and more, but mass adoption of the medium has been slowed by the lack of quality content and an industry-wide inability to make money from it. That’s the gist of a new report, released this evening by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, that tracks adoption of and experimentation with virtual reality at major legacy […]
SK Hynix has developed an 8 Gigabit (Gb) GDDR6 DRAM that can process up to 768 Gigabytes (GB) of graphics data per second, the company announced. The product operates with an I/O data rate of 16Gb per second per pin, two times faster than GDDR5, its predecessor. Together with a forthcoming high-ends graphics card of 384-bit I/Os, the DRAM will process 768GB of graphic data per second. […]
Each technology rises, and then falls and finds a niche. Soon it will be the turn of the smartphone. The arrival of the original iPhone back in 2007 heralded a revolution in how we use computing power, transforming it from something that sat on a desk in a PC that got used nine-to-five, to something that we carried in our pockets and accessed all the […]
It’s been a busy week: Samsung and Google partnered on special version of Google Play Music and White House staffers’ favorite secure messaging app might not be that secure. Oh, and Facebook wants you to talk and listen your skin. Luckily, we’ve kept up for you. Each week, we round up the latest app news, along with a few of our favorite new and updated products, to […]
Microsoft demoed Windows 10 Enterprise edition running on a Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor late last year. Image: Microsoft Qualcomm has confirmed that new mobile Windows 10 PCs running its ARM-based Snapdragon 835 system on chip (SoC) will arrive by the fourth quarter. Microsoft and Qualcomm announced in December that a new line of always-on cellular Windows 10 PCs running on Qualcomm’s ARM chips would be on the way […]
(Image: Samsung) Read any review of Samsung’s new Galaxy S8 and there’s one consistent theme that appears: The position of the fingerprint sensor is seriously flawed. Must read: Apple’s big $1,000+ iPhone gamble Let’s take a look at what the reviewers have been saying. Let’s begin with Walt Mossberg over at The Verge: In my tests, the Galaxy S8 had the least reliable, most frustrating, biometric security […]
Samsung Electronics will commence a software update for the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus following consumer complaints that their handsets have red-tinted displays. Earlier this week, in South Korea, consumers posted pictures of their phones with red tinted screens. Samsung said it was not a quality issue and something that could be fixed manually via settings. The South Korean tech giant said the software update will supplement […]
Some Samsung Galaxy S8 units apparently have a red tint on their display, but Samsung does not consider it a defect — more like an easily adjustable detail. For those unfamiliar with the matter, the Galaxy S8 is not set to go on sale in the United States until April 21, but it already launched in Samsung’s home country of South Korea on April 17. The smartphone had […]
(Image: Mastercard) Swipe-to-pay, then chip-and-PIN. What next, credit cards with fingerprint sensors? Turns out that’s Mastercard’s latest invention, a new credit card with an integrated fingerprint sensor, which aims to fight in-store fraud. The card, currently under trial in South Africa, includes sensor is embedded in plastic of the credit card, allowing customers to authorize a payment with a fingerprint, rather than a PIN code or a […]
Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ will hit the U.S. shelves on April 21. However, some users who preordered the Samsung smartphones have started receiving the devices. The flagships are being touted as two of the year’s best smartphones. Tech Times reported on Tuesday, April 18, how a YouTuber compared the latest Samsung handsets’ real-world speed performance against premium flagships from other OEMs such as the iPhone 7, OnePlus […]
Samsung Electronics has completed the development of its second-generation 10-nanometer process, the company said. The 10-nanometer Lower Power Plus (10LPP) increases performance by 10 percent and consumes 15 percent less power than its predecessor the 10-nanometer Lower Power Early (10LPE) process, the company added. Samsung began mass production of 10-nanometer processors, using the 10LPE process, last year in October. It used the process for its own System-on-a-Chip […]
At the second day of its F8 Conference, Facebook announced the second-generation Surround 360 VR cameras, and the company is serious about commercializing them, as opposed to last time’s strategy. Facebook Outs 2nd-Generation Surround 360 Cameras Facebook unveiled the first Surround 360 camera last year not as a full-fledged product, but as an open-source guide for third-party developers to build upon. The second-generation Surround 360 cameras have been […]
The Samsung Galaxy S8, top, and S8 Plus are displayed, Monday, April 17, 2017, in New York. The 5.8-inch S8 and the 6.2-inch S8 Plus both have nearly 15 percent more display space than last year’s comparable models. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) Samsung’s new Galaxy S8 phone is stunning. But its $100 price hike is hard to swallow. That’s how much extra you’ll shell out for the S8, […]
Qualcomm beat Wall Street’s sales and profit forecasts for its second quarter as the mobile chipmaker’s performance was boosted by the launch of new smartphones including Samsung’s Galaxy S8. However, the company on Wednesday warned of greater uncertainty in its outlook for the next quarter because of its legal battle with Apple, some of whose contract manufacturers have withheld about $1bn in royalty payments to Qualcomm in […]
Lilian Pintea, chief scientist with the Jane Goodall Institute, demonstrates features on Google Earth, Tuesday, April 18, 2017, in New York. Google Earth is getting a revival, with the mapping service becoming more of a tool for adventure and exploration. Google has partnered with such groups as the BBC, NASA and the producers of “Sesame Street” to mix in video clips, photos and text narratives. The Jane […]
|By Saifur Rahman| Intex Technologies Ltd, an Indian technology accessories manufacturer with an annual turnover of US$1 billion, is investing INR 25 billion that will push its annual turnover ten-fold to US$10 billion in 5 years, a senior official told The Arabian Post. India is currently the world’s second-largest telecommunications market and has registered strong growth in the past decade and half.The total mobile services market revenue in […]
By Stephen Nellis | SAN FRANCISCO SAN FRANCISCO Apple Inc’s decision to stop licensing graphics chips from Imagination Technologies Group Plc is the clearest example yet of the iPhone maker’s determination to take greater control of the core technologies in its products – both to guard its hefty margins and to position it for future innovations, especially in so-called augmented reality. The strategy, analysts say, has already […]
Microsoft’s Windows has long been the world’s most popular operating system, but not anymore. Windows is no longer on top. For the first time ever, Google’s Android mobile operating system has managed to trump Windows and become the world’s most popular OS. This further goes to prove how mobile has soared and in today’s mobile-driven world, Android rules the game. Android Dethrones Windows Web analytics firm StatCounter […]
