BenQ top projector seller in Indian market

NEW DELHI: Smart and digital lifestyle innovations provider BenQ has once again rated as the top player in the Indian projector market.


It had over 22% market share for 2015, said a report by market research and consulting firm Futuresource Consulting. In 2014, BenQ's market share was 19%.
BenQ sold more than 50,000 [.....]

Telecom giant MTN pays $250 million in Nigeria fine dispute

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HANNESBURG: South African telecoms giant MTN said Wednesday it had paid $250 million to the Nigerian government in a dispute over a $3.9-billion fine imposed last year for failing to disconnect unregistered users.

The company also said it had agreed to withdraw its legal challenge over the huge fine in a case that was [.....]

CIA chief Brennan supports FBI in Apple encryption case

WSHINGTON: America's top spy said in an interview today that he supports the FBI's high-profile battle to force Apple to unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers.

In a conversation with National Public Radio, Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan said the public would never accept criminals or terrorists having exclusive access to a physical storage box, and asked why an encrypted phone should be treated any differently.

Huawei launches $699 MateBook Windows 10 tablet with a stylus at MWC 2016

Huawei has launched $699 Matebook windows 10 tablet with a keyboard case and stylus. The company has made waves in the US with the launch of Surface Pro-like 12 inch Windows 10 tablet with its keyboard cover and an optional pressure sensitive dock and stylus. Matebook pricing with both windows 10 Home and professional will be beginning at $6999/€799 for its M3 processor, 4GB of RAM and 128 GBSSD. The keyboard will click at $129 and then stylus and dock at $69 and $99 respectively. The company has informed that [.....]

Vivo to launch Xplay 5 on March 1 with 6GB RAM, Snapdragon 820

Although no official announcement, but as per the confirmation post on Vivo’s Weibo account, the leading technology company from China ‘Vivo’ is all set to launch the Xplay 5 on 1st March 2016. The 6GB LPDDR4 RAM is the main highlight for the slim smartphone that runs Snapdragon 820 processor. The 6 GB RAM factor is not the first time with a smartphone as Samsung in September last year already started producing 6GB LPDDR4 RAM for smartphones and tablets.Some of the previous teasers have also indicated the handset to sport a [.....]

Salaries for IT security professionals are on the rise as firms react to an increase in cyber crime

An increase in cybercrime has led to a rise in salaries for IT security professionals, according to Robert Walters. Research by the recruitment firm has found the salaries of IT security specialists has risen by an average of 14%, Steve Corbett, associate director of IT recruitment for Robert Walters, said: “Over the past year, we’ve seen a massive increase in both permanent and interim cyber security roles due largely to the ongoing threat around IT and cyber crime. “The challenges facing companies continue to grow in volume and complexity as cyber security threats constantly evolve.” Leading roles in cyber security, such as cyber security head, will see an increase of 18% in salary, while roles in cyber security analysis will [.....]

Government adds wireless to BDUK consumer voucher scheme

The government has extended the BDUK consumer broadband voucher programme to cover wireless systems in a few locations, in addition to satellite The government has extended the Broadband Delivery UK(BDUK) supplementary scheme intended to subsidise satellite broadband connections for people receiving speeds of 2Mbps or less to cover wireless systems, in a few selected locations. East Yorkshire-based wireless altnet Quickline – which operates an expanding network covering the area around Hull, Scunthorpe and Grimsby – revealed it had been approved onto the scheme at the end of January. In a statement, it said: “This is part of the government’s commitment to give access to 2Mbps download speeds to all premises in the UK. Local authorities in conjunction with BDUK are making available the [.....]

IT to the rescue: How technology helps the UK deal with flooding

Mobile technology, digital mapping and geographical information systems all played a part in ensuring public safety during this winter’s floods in the UK For hundreds of thousands of people in the UK, Christmas 2015 will be remembered not for mulled wine, carols and chestnuts roasting on an open fire, but for torrential rain, rising rivers, flooded homes, and a bleak and tedious clean-up. With a warming global climate and an extreme El Niño event combining to hit the country with a succession of severe storms over the Christmas period, communities across the north of England and lowland Scotland were left counting the cost of repeated inundations. But although it will be scant comfort to those affected, things could have [.....]

Robotic Exoskelton AIDS in Post-Stroke Motor Skill Rehabilitaion

Motor talent coaching employing a robotic arm skeleton is also useful to individuals affected bypost-stroke weakness poignant a whole facet of their body, in line with analysis conferred on at the Association of educational Physiatrists Annual Meeting in state capital, Calif.
A stroke happens once blood flow to a neighborhood of the brain is bring to an end, and cells in thisspace of the brain begin to die - inflicting the person to lose specific skills controlled by that a part ofthe brain (such as walking, talking or grasping things with their hands). Stroke is that the leadingreason for serious semipermanent incapacity within the u. s., and its most typical motor impairment is hemiparesis, or weakness of 1 entire facet of the body.

Very little is thought regarding what will have an effect on and aid in hand motor perform when a stroke. to handle this, researchers [.....]

Carbon films can give microchips energy storage capability

After more than half a decade of speculation, fabrication, modeling and testing, an international team of researchers led by Drexel University's Dr. Yury Gogotsi and Dr. Patrice Simon, of Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France, have confirmed that their process for making carbon films and micro-supercapacitors will allow microchips and their power sources to become one and the same. The discovery, which was reported in the Feb. 12 edition of the journalScience, is the culmination of years of collaborative research by the team who initially created the carbide-derived [.....]

Intel is changing how we watch sports forever

Did he score or not? Was she in or out of bounds? Despite multiple cameras covering major events, we still miss a lot of stuff when watching sports. We're still not sure if the player was down before he fumbled. We missed the awesome pass, because the big guy was blocking our view of it. Intel is helping to change our view of sports with the introduction of two new technologies: Curie and freeD. If you were watching Super Bowl 50 earlier this month, then you've seen freeD in action. [.....]

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