Tag: Smartphones
Trade war: Boxing clever? US hits China with more tech tariffs
Chris Middleton explains why the technology sector is in the firing line of the US-China trade war, while Apple customers may get a shock...
Retail IoT: NFC-enabled POS terminals take off
By 2022, almost eight out of ten point of sale (POS) terminals installed by retailers worldwide will be able to accept NFC-enabled contactless payments,...
IoT security: Shadow devices pose growing threat to networks – report
Unauthorised devices introduce “immense security risk”, according to report.
IoT devices, as well as personal devices such as laptops, tablets, and smartphones, pose a grave...
Imperial College crowdsources smartphone network to fight cancer
Harnessing the processing power of smartphones could be a useful way to crunch clinical data, as healthcare continues to work towards the goal of...
Kneron unveils new ultra low-power AI processors
US deep learning and edge technology company Kneron has unveiled a range of low-power artificial intelligence (AI) processors.
According to the company, the devices...
Health IoT: App helps sports stars predict and manage injuries
Researchers at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga have developed a platform that measures an athlete's risk of injury using the Internet of Things (IoT).
The new system...
Crypto mining: Why IoT users should worry about NVIDIA’s stock price
Chris Middleton explains why gamblers' rush to stockpile GPUs to mine cryptocurrencies and run blockchains is creating distortions in the real world. At the...
Reuters’ AR & VR visions revealed
Augmented reality (AR) and new visual interfaces will have a major role to play in the IoT, says a new report from Reuters. So...
Food and drink festival uses smartphone scanner tech for crowd safety
The organisers of the Bolton Food and Drink Festival have used technology from Innotech Concepts and Libelium to keep attendees moving freely and safely around...
MediaTek Sensio: the first six-in-one smartphone biosensor module revealed
MediaTek Sensio, a powerful advanced health monitoring solution, makes it easy to track heart rate information, blood pressure trends, peripheral oxygen saturation levels and...
Crunchfish aims to make mobile payments swimmingly easy
Crunchfish is on a mission to make mobile payments as simple as holding a mobile phone next to a card reader.
The trouble with mobile...
Google leads in AI-powered smartphones, says analyst firm
One in three smartphones sold this year use artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of virtual assistant applications, such as Apple's Siri or Google...