By Melanie Burton MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Apple Inc managed to frustrate gadget lovers and investors desperate to find out the components of its new smartwatch on Friday, encasing its chips in tough resin and using rare screws to thwart people trying prise it apart. Gadget repair firm iFixit, which has carried out “teardowns” on Apple products from iPhones to MacBooks, said the U.S. company also appeared to be promoting its
By Ritsuko Ando and Reiji Murai TOKYO (Reuters) – A group of former top Sony Corp executives has delivered an unusually blunt critique to the firm’s chief executive Kazuo Hirai, accusing him of losing sight of innovation by focusing on cost-cutting. At a meeting at Sony’s Tokyo headquarters last Thursday, five former executives, including PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi, took Hirai to task for failing to encourage the kind of creativity
Paytm, an Indian online payments platform backed by China’s Alibaba, is pushing deeper into India’s booming e-commerce industry with a zero-commission mobile app marketplace targeted at small and medium-sized firms, the mainstay of the country’s economy. “This is our move into mobile commerce,” said Paytm Chief Executive Vijay Shekhar Sharma, adding the mobile app was designed to connect small businesses and consumers.
Introduction The 2014 version of the Moto G has an imposing task ahead of it. To live up to expectations it needs to better one of the most popular smartphones ever made, not to mention the best-selling phone Motorola has ever produced. I am, of course, talking about the 2013 Moto G. This new version offers a larger 5-inch screen and an improved camera, aiming to clean up some of
Acer has just revealed a new smartphone called the Liquid X2. Why should you care? Because it has a crazy big battery. We often complain about the battery life in current phones, but Acer’s cramming an impressive 4,000mAh pack into the Liquid handset which should give you hundreds and hundreds of hours of standby time. It also has tri-SIM support for all your intrepid travellers, as well as a 64
Acer wants to make a connection with you…via your wrist and heart. Today, the technology manufacturer unveiled two wearable devices focused on fitness and fashion. The Liquid Leap Fit features a 1-inch touchscreen surrounded by a waterproof casing. It comes with a heart rate sensor that can monitor the strenuousness of your physical activity. Additionally, the wearable will feature a stress sensor with gold-plated pads to measure your mood. Liquid
Google has added a range of updates to its Chrome OS and accompanying Chromebook PCs that are designed to make it even more central to your workplace. The announcements, which were made at the first Chrome Live event, include the addition of Box as the first external service to integrate itself with Chromebook laptops and it lets users of the cloud storage service access files in the same way as
Acer has pulled the covers off a smorgasbord of new products, including new Switch laptops in multiple formats and its first US smartphone. At an event held earlier today, Acer premiered the new Switch 10, Switch 11 and Switch 12 models, which are headed by the SW5-15 that is inspired by the Aspire S7. It has a full-HD display encased in striking white Corning Gorilla Glass 3, a keyboard dock
The PC industry might be on the decline, but Acer’s not going down without a fight. CEO Jason Chen told an audience in New York that Acer will “be the last man standing in the PC industry.” Sounds like fighting talk to us. Acer also revealed that it currently sells 100,000 devices each day. Which, you know, is quite a lot.
Smartphones: is there anything they can’t do? Phone, camera, music player, portable console, the list of jobs your mobile can take on is an impressive one, and you can now add optometrist to the list too. Well, not quite – but your smartphone can be used to gather the data your optometrist needs to work out if you need glasses or not. It’s the brainchild of US startup Blink, which
