The Consumer Electronics Show is the biggest trade show in the Western Hemisphere. If you somehow missed the show this past week—you’re so lucky! CES a staggeringly huge, crowded, noisy, sensory-overload sort of show. About 3,900 booths fill enough floor space for 35 football fields. Trying to take it all in gets exhausting and expensive. […]
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But if you give something a voice, it takes on life. Give it a name and it becomes real. That is the lesson I learned at CES 2017 in Las Vegas this week. Amazon has a voice with a name—Alexa—and it was everywhere. Because of Alexa, the Internet of Things has become real. Over the
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In a corner of LG’s sprawling, dripping-with-technology booth at the Las Vegas Convention Center sat a circular table populated by a group of small, futuristic snowmen. Each of them sported a black touchscreen display showing a pair of electronic eyes that would intermittently squint as if they were smiling at you. On a large screen
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Illustration picture. Keeping tabs on your teenager’s smartphone Q: I am really worried about my teenage daughter. She is on her phone all the time. Is there a free app to see what she is doing? A: Cellphones are a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, you want to be able to contact
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(Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg) Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them? 1 – Carnival Corporation plans to make guests wear “smart medallions” to record their every whim. The medallions can be carried in your pocket or worn as jewelry and will track
Over the past month Alexa, the virtual assistant from the Amazon Echo smart speaker, has forayed far and wide. But, rather than looking at the short-term success of Alexa’s capabilities, let’s look at what this represents for Amazon and Bezos’ strategy for building out the company’s “pillars of longevity”, if you will. The growth patterns of
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Is Intel Stock a Bet for the Future? At first glance, dividends seem to be what makes Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) stock special. Indeed, when most technology companies have to forgo a current payout in order to invest for the future, Intel stock’s 2.86% dividend yield stands out. But that’s not the only reason for investors
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Beth Daniel junior reporter, Tech City News Sunday January 8th, 2017 Topics Related articles Welcome to your round up of some of the past week’s most interesting surveys, statistics and reports relevant to those involved in the UK tech industry. This week, we have statistics relating to IoT and the connected home, government support to
As cybercrime and other online disruptions soared in 2016, it was another record-breaking year for global cybersecurity bloggers. The public- and private-sector topics covered ranged from cyberterrorism to cloud computing trends and from hacked systems to securing the Internet of Things (IoT). Meanwhile, Lohrmann on Cybersecurity & Infrastructure saw another dramatic increase in readership and
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LG Electronics’ newly-appointed CEO Jo Seong-jin said Sunday that the South Korean electronics maker will finalize its decision on setting up its first home appliance manufacturing plant in the US within the first half of this year. “We’ve been considering the possibility of building a new plant in the US for a long time,” Jo
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