Alipay Expands into Europe
The Payment Service Taps into Chinese Overseas Travellers This week, Alipay, the financial affiliate of the Alibaba Group, announced plans to advance into European markets
View ArticleBluetooth 5 Gets the Green Light
Bluetooth's Prominence Could Give It a Lead in IoT This week, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) gave the green light to Bluetooth 5.
View ArticleVirtual Reality Gets Organised
New Promoter Group Founded by Current VR Leaders The virtual reality experience is scattered across a varied choice of headsets and content with no one predominant type of virtual reality.
View ArticleNumbers Game
T-Mobile's Digits: the Phone Number Grows Up The classic phone number is one of the last legacies of a bygone telecommunication era.
View ArticleFox Reaches for Sky
Fox to Acquire Sky Shares in a Deal Valued at $14 Billion Last week, 21st Century Fox, the media company controlled by the Murdoch family, and Sky, the UK satellite pay-TV company, announced an...
View ArticleIT Buyer Survey Reveals Changes in Mobility and Digital Workplace
Business Outcomes and Security Take Centre Stage Results from our recent Decision-Maker Mobile Technology Survey, 2016 show us changes since last year's survey are wide-reaching.
View ArticleWearables Will Be Able to Detect Health Problems Before They Occur
MD2K Project Wins $10.8 Million in Funding Last month, the Center of Excellence for Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge (MD2K), which applies big-data tools to mobile sensors, won $10.8 million in funding...
View ArticleBiometrics below the Surface
New Synaptics Fingerprint Sensor Scans through 1 mm of Full-Cover Glass Earlier this week, Synaptics announced a fingerprint sensor that can be positioned below the glass surface of smartphones,...
View ArticleQualcomm Fires Two Shots at Intel
Announces the Centriq 2400 Processor and Support for Windows 10 on ARM It has been an important month for Qualcomm as it continued its diversification and focused its sights firmly on Intel territory.
View ArticleSpeaker Wars
Microsoft Is Entering the Smart Speaker Space Microsoft recently reported that engineers at its artificial intelligence and research labs have developed speech recognition systems at human parity in...
View ArticleFile Transfer Made Easy
CapCam Method Enables Quick Pairing and Data Sharing This week, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, demonstrated a file transfer technique named CapCam.
View ArticleLeave Me Alone
AT&T's Call Protect Is like an E-Mail Filter for Calls Spam isn't just confined to e-mail. In the US alone, consumers receive millions of fraudulent calls each year scamming them out of billions of...
View ArticleFlying Presents
Flirtey and 7-Eleven First to Launch Commercial Drone Deliveries In a first for commercial drone delivery in the US, 7-Eleven together with drone maker Flirtey completed deliveries by...
View ArticleMobile Business Subscriptions to Outgrow Consumer Segment in Western Europe
Brexit Could Hinder Growth in the UKĀ CCS Insight recently published its latest market forecast for cellular business subscriptions in the five biggest European markets of France, Germany, Italy, Spain...
View ArticleCES 2017 Highlights: Tuesday 3 January
Our Picks from the Las Vegas Technology Show The CES 2017 show takes place in Las Vegas from 5 to 8 January. Over the next few days, CCS Insight's team of analysts at the show will highlight items from...
View ArticleCES 2017 Highlights: Wednesday 4 January
Our Picks from the Las Vegas Technology Show In our second round-up of news from CES 2017, we highlight more connected devices with integrated voice assistants, Intel's plans for virtual, augmented and...
View ArticleCES 2017 Highlights: Thursday 5 January
Our Picks from the Las Vegas Technology Show Today's picks include announcements from Panasonic, Nvidia and Fasetto, as well as news of more support for Google's Daydream VR initiative.
View ArticleCES 2017 Highlights: Friday 6 January
Our Picks from the Las Vegas Technology Show Today's picks include a summary of the many smartwatches and 360-degree cameras on show, and an innovative approach to the smart home from EDF. We also...
View ArticleThe Perfect 10
Apple Unveiled the iPhone 10 Years Ago: What's the Next Big Thing? It's almost hard to imagine a time when the iPhone didn't exist. The device has become a part of the developed markets' lexicon as...
View ArticleThe 2K Challenge
Indian Smartphone Makers Asked to Aim Low India's economy is still very much cash-based, making the government's goal of eliminating the circulation of banknotes of large denominations particularly...
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