Partnering with Microsoft, the Digital Health Summit called attention to consumer innovations such as robotic limbs and smart pills as some of the "game-changing" innovations in health care. – At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las
Vegas, a Digital Health Summit event highlighted some
innovative quot;game changers quot; poised to change elder care, implants and
medication management.
Organizing the Jan. 7 Digital
Health Summit were Jill Gilbert, a product strategist and co…
News Analysis: Tests of WiMax and LTE in Phoenix demonstrate that Clearwire’s technology is getting close to being true 4G. T-Mobile doubles the speed of its HSPA+ network in Las Vegas tests. – In
a video released at the beginning of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las
Vegas, Clearwire clearly demonstrates that it is very
close to achieving the 100M-bps download speeds required by the ITU
definition of 4G wireless communications. The company released a YouTube video of the tests,
whi…
Microsoft executives at CES are suggesting Windows Phone 7′s upcoming updates will include better app performance, tweaks and copy-and-paste. – LAS
VEGAS Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 updates, due over
the course of the next few months, aim to make the company’s smartphone
software more appealing to consumers and competitive with rival platforms.
Windows
Phone 7 has been a focus at the Consumer Electronics Show here, with Microsoft CEO…
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VEGAS Microsoft CEO Ste…
Samsung Mobile preannounced three devices for Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE network Jan. 6, including a 4G Galaxy Tab, a 4G Galaxy S smartphone, and a 4G mobile hot spot. – LAS
VEGAS Samsung Mobile Jan. 6 pledged its support for
Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE network, promising to build a version of the Samsung
Galaxy Tab and a new Android smartphone based on the speedy network.
Products
bearing Verizon’s new LTE network, which shuttles data 10 times faster than its
…
Skype announced plans to acquire Qik, which provides mobile video software and services, at the Consumer Electronics Show. – LAS
VEGAS Faced with the specter of rising competition
from Google and smaller VOIP services, Skype announced Jan. 6 that it had
entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Qik, which provides mobile video
software and services. Online reports indicate that Skype paid $100 million for
the s…
The Vostro 460, starting at $599, offers Intel Core processors with Turbo Boost Technology 2.0. – Technology
giant Dell unveiled its Vostro 460 desktop at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las
Vegas, announcing worldwide availability for the PC
starting Tuesday, Jan. 11. The Vostro 460 is powered by second-generation Intel
Core processors and up to 16GB of DDR3
memory, as well as Intel Turbo…
At CES Jan. 5, Motorola Mobility enjoyed a dual-core, Android bonanza, including the Atrix 4G smartphone from AT&T, the Droid Bionic smartphone and the Xoom tablet on Verizon Wireless. – LAS
VEGAS Motorola Mobility CEO
Sanjay Jha unveiled two new Android 4G smartphones and the highly anticipated
Xoom Android 3.0 tablet computer, all powered by dual-core processors, at the
Consumer Electronics Show here Jan. 5.
The
Motorola Atrix 4G smartphone, which will launch on AT amp;T i…
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer touted Kinect, Windows Phone 7 and Windows 7 during his CES keynote, but Windows-powered tablets were a no-show. – LAS
VEGAS Microsoft CEO
Steve Ballmer used his Jan. 5 keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show here to
highlight the company’s forays into the consumer realm, including the Kinect
hands-free controller for Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7.
Microsoft’s
product line is the result of quot;big tech…
Samsung officials at the 2011 CES event introduced a WiFi-only Galaxy Tab, the Galaxy Player and the Samsung Infuse 4G, all slated for launch later this year. – LAS
VEGAS Samsung executives confirmed that the company
will release the long-awaited WiFi-only version of the popular Samsung Galaxy
Tab in the United States
in the first quarter of this year.
No
launch date or pricing has been determined for the WiFi-only Tab.
Samsung
Mobile Chief Stra…
IBM’s analytics software is helping Nevada’s Clark County deliver social services to children while saving money for the state. – LAS
VEGAS IBM has
announced that Nevada’s Clark
County Family Services Department is using IBM
business analytics software to improve the delivery of social services and
ensure compliance with new state regulations.
In
an interview with eWEEK, Eboni Washington, a supervisor in the IT depart…
IBM increases its market-leading business analytics strategy with the release of Cognos 10 and other software and services at its Information On Demand conference in Las Vegas. – LAS
VEGAS IBM has introduced new software
that combines the companys information management and analytics capabilities
with tools that mark the way todays workers expect to be able to interact delivering social collaboration and analytics.
At
the IBM
Information on Demand (IOD) 2010 event he…
MetroPCS Communications has activated its 4G LTE network in Las Vegas, along with a Samsung-built 4G LTE smartphone. Verizon and AT&T are currently planning 4G LTE networks in the United States. – MetroPCS Communications has activated its 4G LTE network in Las
Vegas, with plans to extend coverage to the company’s
other cities within the next year. As part of that activation, MetroPCS is
offering the Samsung Craft, which it claims is the world’s first commercially
available 4G LTE handset….
A security researcher offers a peak at how botnet operators build million-dollar operations, as well as at a popular scheme they are using to remain elusive while banking profits. –
Starting a career in cyber-crime operation is simple, but just how do
attackers go about building a botnet into a multimillion dollar business?
During the Black Hat security conference in Las
Vegas last week, Damballa Vice President of Research
Gunter Ollmann gave attendees a behind-the-sce…
At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, former NSA Director Michael Hayden examines the concept of cyber-war and the role attendees need to play. – As a former National Security Agency director, retired
Gen. Michael Hayden has seen firsthand the sometimes
nebulous realities of cyber-warfare.
During his keynote July 29 at the Black Hat security conference in Las
Vegas, Hayden discussed those realities,
emphasizing the importance of cle…
Cisco Systems is looking to use its Cius tablet to give businesses a mobile platform for collaboration. Cisco showed off the Cius, with its 7-inch screen, at the Cisco Live event. The device won’t be ready for general availability until the first quarter of 2011. – Cisco Systems is unveiling an Android-based tablet PC designed as a mobile
communications and collaboration platform for businesses.
At its Cisco Live event June 29 in Las
Vegas, company officials showed off the Cisco Cius,
the latest addition to a growing collaboration portfolio that includes W…
Microsoft suggested at the MIX 2010 conference in Las Vegas that its upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series had to be developed under an accelerated time-frame, perhaps curtailing its ability to be backward-compatible with Windows Mobile 6.x applications. Microsoft executives believe, however, that the consumer-oriented focus of Windows Phone 7 Series will attract both the enterprise and regular users, and that the tools are present to quickly rebuild older applications in an updated form. Microsoft will likely accompany the devices’ release later in 2010 with a large marketing blitz.
–
Microsoft re-emphasized at the MIX 2010 conference in Las
Vegas that its upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series devices would not be
backwards-compatible with current Windows Mobile applications, a situation
attributed by one executive to the company needing to deliver the new
smartphone …
The new NAND flash storage components — a 64GB moviNAND memory device and a 32GB micro secure digital (microSD) memory card — are designed to fit mobile handset designers’ requirements for advanced compact high-density memory.
– Samsung, fresh from demonstrating
several new disk drives for netbooks at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las
Vegas, announced Jan. 13 that it is ready to ship two new high-density
solid-state memory components for mobile devices.
The new NAND flash storage components a 64GB moviNAND memory d…
Verizon will begin offering the Palm Pre Plus and the Pixi Plus on Jan. 25. While the devices were previously exclusive to Sprint, these smartphones will now have a much wider audience with Verizon. But is Palms move to Verzion too little, too late?
– At the start of 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las
Vegas, Verizon Wireless announced that beginning Jan.
25, it will be offering the Palm Pre Plus and the Pixi Plus, slightly updated
versions of the devices Sprint first began offering in June 2009.
These smartphones will be the first WebOS-b…
Count AT T, Dell, Motorola, Lenovo and MIPS Technologies among the companies that gave Google’s Android mobile operating system a hug at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show. These companies’ announcements showed that Android is not just a trendy open-source platform, but a movement articulated with cutting-edge smartphones, tablet PCs and other devices. This may be the show the high-tech world looks back on and proclaims as the event that ushered in the second coming of Android. This bodes well for Google’s mobile ad designs, which is of course what Android is all about.
– The 2010 Consumer Electronics Show may be the show the high-tech world looks
back on and proclaims as the event that ushered in the second coming of
Android.
A torrent of product releases from the show in Las
Vegas this past week made it clear that Google’s
operating system is not just a trend…
