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Photo Elements of the technology being developed for the Morph project might be integrated into consumer handsets within seven years, though initially only in high-end phones, says Nokia. Morph, a concept mobile phone co-developed by Nokia Research...
[26 Feb 2008]
Photo Donelan believes his device will have applications for military and medical fields, as well as consumer markets. Researchers from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia have developed a device worn much like a knee brace that generates...
[11 Feb 2008]
Photo The technology is currently ready to pilot and Accenture is in discussions with retailers and consumer packaged goods companies, which can lose up to 25 per cent of their investment in product compliance agreements by items being in the wrong place.
[31 Jan 2008]
Photo Bill Gates gave his last speech at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in which he offered his predictions for 2008 and had a musical moment with ex Guns 'n' Rose guitarist Slash. And talking of CES, we brought together some of the...
[30 Jan 2008]
Photo The Macintosh was launched in 1984 and everything about it was revolutionary, from the consumer-oriented graphical user interface to the mouse - both firsts for a commercially successful computer. Apple's long history of innovative and occasionally...
[24 Jan 2008]
Photo Microsoft chairman Bill Gates gave what could be his last keynote speech at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Gates, who is shifting to part-time work at Microsoft later this year, offered predictions and whimsy at CES.
[08 Jan 2008]
Photo The idea is we'd launch these phone boxes in popular areas of Second Life and then we can start to understand the consumer need," he said. The consumer need we recognise is that people play Second Life but they have many friends and contacts that...
[13 Sep 2007]
Photo It has a price tag approaching $10,000, not exactly consumer-friendly just yet. Mark Bolger, director of marketing for Microsoft's surface-computing effort, shows off the company's new 'Milan' at a briefing in San Francisco.
[30 May 2007]
Photo In terms of consumer piracy the deputy minister also hit out at vendors such as Microsoft for overly strict and costly licensing policies. Red Square, the colourful St Basil's Cathedral and the Kremlin may be the traditional image of Russia but the...
[15 Feb 2007]
Photo CFSK's Edwin Martins (above) says Kenya is far better equipped to extract end-of-life value than consumer cultures in the West which will bin things more quickly. The ribbon-cutting ceremony in Nairobi was watched by a group of visitors from the IT...
[12 Feb 2007]
Photo With Vista's commercial launch fast approaching, Microsoft unveiled the first new PCs and laptops designed for the Windows Vista operating system at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas at the start of the month.
[31 Jan 2007]
Photo Microsoft's long-awaited Vista operating system finally got its consumer launch in London this week. The company's chairman Bill Gates (above) was at hand for the unveiling, in an event at the British Library.
[31 Jan 2007]
Photo With Vista's consumer launch date fast approaching, Microsoft tried to 'wow' the crowds in London's Covent Garden with a giant ice sculpture promoting the forthcoming operating system. Locked inside the letter 'O' is a laptop - which one member of...
[26 Jan 2007]
Photo Microsoft unveiled the first new PCs and laptops designed for the Windows Vista operating system at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week. The new computers from HP, Medion, Sony and Toshiba will run the high-end...
[10 Jan 2007]
Photo The retail/consumer goods industry has spent $230m on equipping pallets and cases with RFID. A consumer can walk a bag of RFID-chipped shopping past a tag reader and instantly have the items rung up. Payment can also be completed this way if a...
[22 Mar 2006]
Photo October 2005: silicon.com's Jo Best visits Microsoft's LifeČ showcase in Fulham, London, where the software giant is demonstrating a range of business and consumer technology in real world situations until February 2006.
[20 Dec 2005]
Photo Behind these blue doors in Fulham, London, is Microsoft's LifeČ showcase, where the software giant is demonstrating a range of business and consumer technology in real world situations. Also at LifeČ, a range of consumer technology is exhibited in...
[31 Oct 2005]
Photo Photo: Jo Best as well as a display of how Apple products are used in the consumer world, such as using Macs as gaming machines. This year's MacExpo - the gathering for all things Mac and iPod related - is being held at the Olympia centre in London...
[28 Oct 2005]
Photo The 7370 is available in two colours - coffee brown and warm amber, says Nokia, or light and dark brown to the average consumer. Had enough of boring BlackBerrys and dull devices? Nokia has launched its latest range of phones for the style conscious.
[20 Oct 2005]
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