Intel’s Classmate PC not only led to a boom in netbooks, it prompted a whole new business for JP.IK, turning a small Portuguese computer company into a global technology provider working in more than 70 countries
The UK’s annual educational technology exhibition attracted a global audience for products that ranged from toys to enterprise-level offerings.
The “virtual nurse” will see you all the time. Electronic Caregiver is launching what it claims is “the world's first virtual caregiver” at CES in January, though it’s by no means the first chat-bot to offer medical help.
Barring any further stock market shocks, Microsoft will finish the year ahead of Apple and Amazon as America’s most valuable publicly-quoted company, despite never making it to $1 trillion.
Huawei's Eric Xu told CNBC that blocking the company's 5G networking products will increase prices and make it harder for the US to become No. 1 in 5G. However, it has been a huge benefit to the two Scandinavian suppliers: Ericsson and Nokia.
Apple was widely applauded for becoming the first American company to break the trillion dollar barrier. However, its value has slumped to $839bn for a variety of reasons, though other technology stocks have also suffered in a stock market reversal.
Which? tracked the prices of 94 selected tech products at four major UK retailers for six months before and six months after last year's Black Friday, and found that most were available cheaper at other times of the year. There certainly are Black Friday bargains for careful buyers, but you might get a better deal in the January sales.
Virtual Reality began in Binghamton with Link flight simulators, and the local TechWorks museum has won the Computer Conservation Society's Tony Sale Award for restoring three very different simulators from a bellows-mounted WWII Link to an all-digital Super GAT trainer from the 1980s.
The most configurable "power user" web browser just got a lot better with the launch of version 2.0. The main attraction is synchronisation with end-to-end encryption, but long-term users may also enjoy dramatically faster start-up speeds.
Some Twitter users have complained about seeing "the best" tweets in a Facebook-style timeline and want to return to the old days when they were in chronological order. Twitter now offers that option, and plans to make it easier to switch between the two views..
