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Google Announces $1.1 Billion Deal with HTC
Investment Aims to Bolster Google's Smartphone Business Yesterday, Google announced a $1.1 billion agreement with HTC to acquire employees and technology licences.
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Particle Accelerator
Wireless Technology Has Become a Piece of Ikea's Strategy According to Pacific Standard magazine, Ikea uses about 1 percent of the world's wood supply each year.
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A Big Boost for NFC
NFC Forum and Apple Expand NFC Support In many ways, near-field communication (NFC) has had its share of hiccups, and has been blocked from its achieving its potential owing to fragmentation. But now,...
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Facial Recognition and Smart Doorbells
Two Trends Come Together with Nest's Hello Last week, Alphabet's Nest division unveiled a series of home security products.
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The Continental Connection
Microsoft and Facebook Complete Enormous Undersea Cable Last week, Microsoft, Facebook and Telxius, a telecommunication infrastructure company, announced the completion of the highest-capacity undersea...
View ArticleA Big Step toward Fully Connected Cars
Cellular Technology Is Becoming Central to an Autonomous Future Autonomous driving is accelerating swiftly up the hype curve, and for good reason.
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VR, Coming to a Theatre near You
Dreamscape Partners with AMC for VR Experiences Virtual reality (VR) has failed to live up to the initial market hype, but we remain optimistic about the opportunity.
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New Forecast Shows Continued Growth in VR and AR Market
Device Shipments Will Near 100 Million Units in 2021 Today CCS Insight published its latest forecast update for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) devices. Here we share some of the...
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Yellow Streak
Could Sprint Propel T-Mobile US to the Number-One Spot? It's been a persistent rumour and now speculation about an impending combination of T-Mobile and Sprint is peaking again.
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Smart Speaker Wars
Amazon Seizes the Speaker's Podium from Google At an event today in San Francisco, Google is expected to announce a series of new hardware products.
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Vodafone Repositions for "Exciting" Future
Operator Wants to Help Society Prosper from Tech Trends This morning, Vodafone announced the biggest shake-up to its brand strategy in more than a decade, through the launch of a new global strapline...
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India's Ola Bolsters War Chest
Ride-Hailing Firm to Raise $2 Billion from SoftBank, Tencent Ola, India's largest ride-hailing company, is in talks with SoftBank, Tencent and others to raise up to $2 billion in a new funding round,...
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Mixed Reality from Microsoft
Company Debuts Its Windows Mixed Reality Platform Last week, Microsoft held a special event in San Francisco to introduce its Windows Mixed Reality platform, along with a series of mixed reality...
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Liberty Global Opens 5G Innovation Hub
Operators Collaborate to Aid Product Development Last Thursday, I travelled to Brussels for the launch of Telenet's first innovation centre in collaboration with parent Liberty Global and network...
View Article5G Phones on Track to Take Off Faster Than 4G
CCS Insight Forecast Signals 300 Million 5G Phone Shipments in 2021 There seems to be a growing view that the mobile phone market has become rather dull and predictable.
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Project Loon to the Rescue
Alphabet Balloons to Offer Emergency Cellular Service in Puerto Rico Last Friday, the US Federal Communications Commission granted an experimental licence for Alphabet's Project Loon, allowing the...
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Web Giants Eye Rights to Football Matches
Upcoming Premier League Rights Auction Set to Spark Bidding War Over the past month I've been asked to comment on the forthcoming UK Premier League rights auction.
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General Motors to Focus on Autonomous Cars
Acquires Strobe, a Lidar Technology Start-Up Fully autonomous driving is still several years away. It will take time for all the necessary ingredients to be properly aligned.
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Google Touts Gigabit LTE Advantage
Aims to Enhance Android Experience on High-Tier Phones It's common knowledge that differentiation is difficult in the smartphone space, particularly for Android manufacturers targeting the high tier.
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Game On in Smartphone Market
Will There Be Demand for Razer's Gaming Smartphone? Razer, a maker of laptops and accessories aimed at gaming, is rumoured to be introducing its first smartphone on 1 November 2017.
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