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Sony goes OLED and pumps up the bass at CES 2017
Sony used the Consumer Electronics Show 2017 to unveil its new Bravia OLED 4K TV - a serious competitor in the premium OLED space - and added 25 new LCD TVs, sound, Blu-ray, speakers, and headphones to...
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LG brings webOS and Alexa to smart fridge
LG is putting on show a new line of refrigerators at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show. The models have voice control and remote viewing courtesy of the LG webOS operating system which is used in its...
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Firm uses carbon dioxide from own plant to make baking soda
An Indian company based in the southern state of Kerala is attracting global interest after its ability to capture carbon dioxide from its own coal-powered plant and converts it into baking soda was...
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Apple says App Store brought in US$13b in 2016
Developers earned US$13 billion from Apple's App Store in 2016, the company said today, adding that purchases from the store had hit a US$144 million on New Year's day, a record for a single day. The...
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LG rolls out new OLED, LCD TVs, Blu-ray and audio for 2017
LG wowed audiences at the Consumer Electronics Show with a new 77” W7 “Picture-on-wall” using its latest OLED panel that is just 2.57mm thin and mounts flat to any wall using micro-thin magnetic...
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Australia's big data push belongs in amateur hour
The Australian Government's ongoing Centrelink bungle is an indication of the fact that an obsession over the use of big data to balance the budget and the ability to do so skillfully are oceans apart....
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LG shows off intelligent robots for home and work
LG has showcased a line-up of intelligent robots at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show, including a home robot that doubles as a smart home gateway and intelligent home notification centre and advanced...
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LG sets the Tone at CES – personal, wearable, speakers and earphones
LG has unveiled a new range of Tone personal wearable speakers, headphones, and buds at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show, with a surround sound model gaining the most attention. The Tone Studio is an...
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Norton extends core business to Core Router
Security company Norton (by Symantec) used the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show to preview its move into high-performance Wi-Fi routers to provide complete security for connected homes. The router,...
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Sennheiser sounds good at CES 2017
Sennheiser has unveiled its 2017 range of AMBEO 3D binaural audio recording devices, new HD wireless headsets, Momentum in-ear buds, and a range of MKE 2 elements/HandMic/ClipMic microphones for action...
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A phone smarter than you - Huawei's vision of the future at CES 2017
Huawei’s vision for the smartphone of tomorrow was presented to the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show. It is one where the phone could probably be smarter than you. CEO Richard Yu reinforced Huawei’s...
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Dell’s canvas of computing – its vision for CES 2017
The traditional desktop — replete with keyboard and mouse — is on the way out, according to Dell, which says a new workspace — dubbed Canvas — is the way to go. It used the 2017 Consumer Electronics...
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Samsung says it wants to enhance the way consumers live, work and play
Samsung’s press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show went for 1.5 hours so rather than inflict that on iTWire readers here are a few highlights. iTWire has covered some of the announcements...
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Keeping your SQL Server healthy
These are the tools I depend on, both when establishing a new SQL Server or encountering one in the wild. Any significant application needs to store data and, although the cloud is becoming more...
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Microsoft Surface Pro 5 coming in March 2017
Microsoft is planning to launch its updated Surface Pro 5 — a hybrid two-in-one tablet with optional keyboard cover — in March 2017, according to the Chinese-language Economic Daily Report. While...
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Cook's bonus down as Apple misses sales target
Apple chief executive Tim Cook will receive 15% less salary and bonuses in 2016 than the previous year, after the company revealed that it had missed its sales target for the year. Apple's annual sales...
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Chrome users increase, Internet Explorer use plummets
The Chrome browser increased its marketshare to 56.43% by the end of 2016, according to figures from Net Applications, a company that tracks key Internet technology usage market share and publishes...
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Apple to overtake Microsoft in 2017 OS shipments: Gartner
Technology research company Gartner has predicted that Apple will overtake Microsoft in OS shipments this year, with shipments of devices powered by its operating systems moving ahead of those powered...
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Smartphone 'legal' wars are back
If you can’t beat them, kill them, or at least make it very hard to do business. That was the apparent motto of Apple’s legal department in the past but the courts are getting more savvy to “fair use”...
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iPhone stoush: FBI hides identity of firm that obtained data
Exactly who managed to obtain access to the data on an iPhone 5C, the centre of a row between Apple and the FBI last year, is unlikely to be known after the agency released 100 pages of documents...
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