World’s thinnest TV

Letv, a China-based internet conglomerate on Wednesday released the World’s thinnest TV Super 4 Max65 Blade at the International Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The TV also has a separate speaker and is the first product of company’s second chain of TV series after the 70-inch Super 4 Max and 65-inch Super 4…

Infant cry analyser App

An infant tantrum what does that mean, now a new Infant cries translator app developed at the National Taiwan University Hospital Yunlin can distinguish between four separate crying sounds y recording the sounds of 200, 000 babies from 100 new born babies and comparing them to a large database. When baby cries, all the user…

Facebook’s free basic service runs into trouble in India

India’s telecoms regulator has asked Reliance Communications, the mobile network that partnered with Facebook to put their Free Basics offer on hold. In India, the data fees are unbelievably expensive and the initiative aims to prevent this being a deterrent. Facebook’s efforts to provide the common man in India with free access to a limited…

Li-fi tested successfully

Heard of Li-fi, a novel way of delivering data faster, by using the visible spectrum instead of radio waves, using a standard LED bluh, an internet connection and a photo detector, tested by Estonian start-up Velmenni in Tallinn.  Li-fi can deliver internet access 100 times faster than traditional wi-fi , exceeding speeds of 1Gbps (gigabit…

Future of digital photography is here

The newly-developed fastest yet most flexible silicon photo transistor that can take the digital cameras to next level, according to a research published in the journal Advanced Optical Materials. In future there will be no such thing as “simple straight photograph”. Failure to recognise the huge changes which are about to happen, is to risk…

Apple Inc posts £15billion operating income

Apple CEO Tim Cook said China will become Apple’s largest market. Apple Inc sales in China surged 84 per cent in the last fiscal year, but profits are growing even faster. Cook also said  30 per cent of iPhone buyers in the past quarter switcher over from an Android device , anticipating this the company…

Western Digital to buy ScanDisk for £12.35billion

In a low interest rate environment, where growth is harder consolidation is the only way. Three multi-billion-dollar acquisitions totalling  £22.1 billion $34 billion, including Western Digital acquiring  flash memory maker ScanDisk for £12.35 bn $19 bn, semiconductor maker Lam Research buying rival KLA-Tencor Corporation for £6.92 bn $10.65 bn and IT management software group SolarWinds…

Wisconsin University wins$234m in Apple patent case

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the patent licensing arm of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, won £152m $234m worth of damages for patent infringement by Apple ordered by a US jury. The verdict was important to guard its inventions from unauthorized use.  The Jury had earlier come to the conclusion that Apple incorporated patented microchip technology…