As I swim in the ocean of shiny new tech that surrounds me at CES, I find myself wondering where on earth I would put all this stuff if I had to take it with me.
One firm I met there thinks it has the answer - in the form of a jacket wi…
Parents worry about their children being bullied online, but what if it is your child who is doing the bullying?
That was the question posed by a BBC reader, following a report on how children struggle to cope online.
There is plenty…
Cruise line Carnival has launched a wearable gadget that allows services on board its ships to be personalised for guests.
The Ocean Medallion can be worn as a necklace, clip or keychain - or carried in a passenger's pocket.
It will …
ZTE has launched sales of a new crowdsourced smartphone via the Kickstarter platform. Last year the company held a contest to collect ideas for a new concept phone and a "eye-tracking, self-adhesive" smartphone was selected as the winner. …
Intel has shown off a headset that can replace a room's pre-scanned furniture with more appropriate video game scenery in virtual reality.
The capabilities of the firm's Project Alloy headset, currently in development, were demoed at th…
South Korean tech giants LG and Samsung have launched TVs that aim to better blend in to consumers' living rooms.
LG showed off a set that can be fitted almost flat against a wall while Samsung teased a new kind of TV - designed to look…
India is resisting tech giant Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) demand for tax incentives to make iPhones in the country, with the trade minister saying on Thursday that the government may not make exceptions for the U.S. company.
Apple wants to ope…
Smartphones are set to account for over half of the world’s mobile phone users for the first time in 2017, according to data from eMarketer released to coincide with the tenth anniversary of Apple’s launch of the iPhone. In 2017 there will…
Samsung’s Galaxy S8 is going to be one of 2017’s biggest (and most controversial) smartphones, but now we have a release date and it may well be late to market…
The information arrives via Korea thanks to the ever vigilant SamMobile and…
Qualcomm has introduced a new reference design for the wireless headphones market. Based on its TrueWireless technology, the platform eliminates the need for wires entirely – both between the media source and stereo headset, as well as bet…
Eutelsat Communications launched two new Fashion TV Ultra HD channels at its Hotbird video neighbourhood. Fashion TV's new Ultra HD channel, FTV UHD, and the 4K TV channel Travelxp 4K concluded multi-year contracts with Eutelsat to leverag…
BlackBerry unveiled at CES the QNX Software Development Platform 7.0 (QNX SDP 7.0), a new embedded 64-bit OS for the automotive industry that builds on its QNX technology. The new OS will be demonstrated in BlackBerry QNX's 2016 Jaguar XJ …
BMW's alliance with Intel and Mobileye aims to put a fleet of around 40 self-driving test vehicles on the road in the second half of this year, the companies said.
The premium carmaker announced its partnership with the two technology f…
Mark Zuckerberg has announced plans to spend 2017 touring the US - in the Facebook founder's latest ambitious New Year's resolution.
He posted that this year's personal challenge is to "have visited and met people in every state in the …
Beauty giant L'Oreal has unveiled a smart hairbrush packed with sensors to help consumers improve their brushing technique.
The Hair Coach, which will retail at just under $200 (£160), contains a microphone, gyroscope and accelerometer …
Start-up Faraday Future has unveiled a self-driving electric car that it says can accelerate from zero to 60mph (97km/h) in 2.39 seconds.
Faraday says the FF91 accelerates faster than Tesla's Model S or any other electric car in product…
Twitter released a new way to see what's happening on Twitter, namely through live 360-degree video. Users can check out live, interactive 360 videos from broadcasters on Periscope. They'll be able to get an inside look with well-known per…
Skype for Business, Microsoft’s collaborative productivity app, was added to Volvo's new 90 Series cars. Volvo Cars is the first carmaker to launch such an in-car productivity tool.
Skype for Business is actively used by millions of peo…
WLAN equipment sales totaled USD 1.4 billion globally in Q3 2016, up by over 8 percent year-on-year due to strong growth in access point shipments, which are up 21 percent year-on-year, according to a report by IHS.
A total of 6 million…
Iran has put limits on who can play the popular Clash of Clans mobile game.
A government committee called for restrictions citing a report from psychologists, who said it encouraged violence and tribal conflict.
The app could also ne…
Hackers are "continuously" targeting medical devices and hospitals, the US Federal Drug Administration has warned.
The alert comes in new FDA rules that define how medical equipment makers should tackle cyber-threats.
Manufacturers s…
China will revisit in 2018 the standards for vehicle-to-vehicle communication that are vital for driverless cars and lay out a common national standard after that, the chief of the Society of Automotive Engineers of China (SAE-China) said …
Microsoft has awarded Accenture a seven-year contract extension to provide finance and accounting (F&A) and procurement business process services. Accenture, extending services through 2025, will leverage artificial intelligence, automatio…
In-flight internet provider Gogo has started an additional private offering of USD 50 million worth of 12.5 percent senior secured notes due 2022. The initial 12.5 percent senior secured notes due 2022 were issued in June, worth a total of…
Privately held ride-hailing company Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] lost more than $800 million in the third quarter, Bloomberg reported on Monday.
The company's $800 million in losses did not include its operations in China, Bloomberg …
Apple Inc is in talks with India's government to explore making products locally, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, as the U.S. firm aims to make deeper inroads in the world's second-largest mobile phone market by users.
Prim…
Facebook has been accused by the European Commission of misleading it during its investigation of the company's 2014 takeover of WhatsApp.
The Commission says it was misled when Facebook said it was impossible to match users' Facebook a…
The social network will air the two-hour spectacle live prior to the awards show.
It's one thing to tweet praise or criticism about what stars wear to the Golden Globes.
Now, fans can watch in real time on Twitter what nominees like…
Canada's BlackBerry Ltd (BB.TO) will open an autonomous driving research center on Monday, as it tries to make itself an indispensable under-the-hood piece of the automotive industry's weaponry in the self-driving vehicle arms race.
Pri…
Uber Technologies [UBER.UL] and Indonesia's second-biggest taxi operator PT Express Transindo Utama Tbk announced on Monday a partnership on ride-sharing and vehicle financing.
The deal will give Uber, which currently operates in five I…
Your eyes are more than just a window to your soul. They may be the window to your phone, too.
Future passwords could be more secure than anything you type, and all you'll have to do is look at your device's iris scanner to unlock it.
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Yahoo Inc warned on Wednesday that it had uncovered yet another massive cyber attack, saying data from more than 1 billion user accounts was compromised in August 2013, making it the largest breach in history.
The number of affected acc…
Instagram's user base rose to more than 600 million, the Facebook Inc owned company said on Thursday, as new features helped it gain popularity.
The photo-sharing app added 100 million users since June, when it last announced its 500 mi…
Games company Nintendo has rolled out Super Mario Run to iPhones and iPads.
The app marks the first time the firm has created a smartphone game based on its most famous character.
It follows the successful release of Pokemon Go earli…
Pokemon Go has released its first major update, but faces a battle to reinvigorate the gaming phenomenon.
The augmented-reality game's popularity has waned since its launch in July when it smashed download records and sparked a global c…
An update to Windows software has caused problems for personal computer users trying to connect to the internet.
Several European internet service providers (ISPs) have highlighted the problem, which can strike regardless of the type of…
The UN has issued some safety advice if you get a drone for Christmas.
It says users should learn how to operate it first before flying one.
It sounds obvious but research from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) suggests only 36% of …
The world market for smart lighting and connected lighting controls was valued at USD 6 billion in 2015, and is forecast to more than double in size by 2020, according to a report from IHS Markit. The smart lighting market is being driven …
VR headset shipments will exceed 2 million units worldwide in 2016, according to a report by Canalys. This number is forecast to grow to 20 million by 2020. The lion’s share of 2016 shipments are basic VR headsets that rely on other device…
Southeast Asian ride-hailing service Grab disclosed on Monday that Japan's Honda Motor Co had invested in the firm, as part of a $750 million funding announced previously, to collaborate on motorbike-hailing services.
This is the latest…
ZTE announced the availability of X-Site, a new platform designed to enable smooth evolution to multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks for mobile carriers.
The new ZTE X-Site platform is designed to help carriers increase site c…
Piccadilly Circus's billboards are to be switched off for the longest period of time since World War Two.
A revamp of the central London attraction will see its famous lights go out from January until the autumn.
It is the first time…
Apple is tackling an outbreak of spam on iPhone calendars by introducing a button that lets users report the junk appointments.
The messages appear as invitations to events but are sent by spammers not the brands they feature.
The "r…
YouTube has announced that it now supports 4K live-streaming in both 360-degree and standard video formats. In a statement the company said creators and partners can immediately start streaming 4K-resolution video, with four times mo…
The IoT network developer Sigfox plans to list on the stock market in 2018, the Financial Times reports. In an interview with the paper, CEO Ludovic Le Moan said the company "made EUR 12 million last year, over EUR 30 million this year and…
Visa announced an agreement to acquire CardinalCommerce, a specialist in e-commerce payment authentication. The acquisition is meant to help Visa’s clients and merchant partners accelerate digital commerce. Visa already provides Cardinal’s…
The amount of money spent on advertising on social media is set to catch up with newspaper ad revenues by 2020, a leading forecaster said on Monday.
The rapid expansion of social media platforms on mobile devices, as well as faster inte…
BMW will test autonomous vehicles in Munich next year as it seeks to keep up with ride-hailing firms like Uber [UBER.UL], which have spent billions on pay-per-use personal transport.
The German carmaker will have about 40 vehicles with …
Apple has acknowledged for the first time that it is investing in self-driving car tech.
In a letter to US transport regulators, Apple said it was "excited about the potential of automated systems in many areas, including transportation…
Ride-sharing service Uber has acquired a New York-based artificial intelligence start-up which it hopes can speed up its progress in creating self-driving cars.
The deal, for an undisclosed sum, will see Uber gain 15 specialist research…
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