2011

Medical News Today | May 30, 2011 HP, SingTel, HealthSTATS and Frontier Healthcare Group today announced an 8-week clinical trial of a mobile health monitoring solution. The solution enables near real …

Bangkok Post | May 31, 2011 | Komsan Tortermvasana Thaicom Plc, the country’s sole private satellite operator, has unconditionally decided to build a sixth satellite despite receiving no incentives or a …

Texas Gov. Rick Perry killed his first bill of the year, which would have taxed retailers conducting online business in Texas, citing that the measure would cause “unintended consequences.” The …

E-commerce software firm Insterpire plans to expand its footprint in its Austin, Texas office from around 40 employees to 70 workers by the end of 2011. The Sydney-based company announced …

A recent phenomenon of the social web – aside from your parents commenting on drunk pictures of you on Facebook – is the smattering of buttons now adorning every website, from Justin Bieber fansites to CNN. These buttons allow you to share the information on the page with your friends or followers on the likes on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or any number of link aggregators.

If you are a Genband employee, you have tomorrow off. Jealous? You should be, but not because Genband employees are spending the day lounging around at home. June 1 is …

In an odd move for a company usually so laser-focused on 100% secrecy, Apple today issued a press release to tell the world that Steve Jobs would be announcing a slew of new products at the firm’s upcoming Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) event next week in San Francisco.

While all manner of cool new hardware is shown off in Taipei at Computex 2011, the Silicon Valley rumour mill keeps churning. This week’s choice titbit is that eponymous social network Twitter is due to launch its own photo upload and sharing service imminently, potentially when CEO Dick Costolo takes the stage at the D9 conference on Wednesday.

Journalists at ARM’s Computex press conference were in for a musical treat on Monday, in the form of a Taiwanese boy band using iPads as instruments.

Taipei, Taiwan – Rumor on the showfloor has it that while Nvidia’s Tegra 2 virtually cleared up in terms of design wins, Tegra 3 might not have the same luck.

Ah – the old “robots have taken over the world!” plot. Not especially original, but it has provided us with some good material over the years.  Most notably the Terminator …

Qualcomm managed to confuse and confuddle press at its Computex briefing on Monday, as the firm displayed slides showing MeeGo logos alongside other “supported OSes”.

The annual Computex trade show is well underway in Taipei, and local manufacturer ASUS have been showing off their newest creations. While many device makers have been moving away from Netbooks, the diminutive laptops that took the world by storm a few years ago in favour of smart devices and tablets, ASUS are sticking to their guns.