Devices

Since 2005, Lenovo has done very well. They acquired the ThinkPad brand of laptops from IBM and that success apparently gave them a false sense of security. They thought they had the secret sauce, but apparently they are not bulletproof. …

Apple shipped a record 78.3 million iPhones during the fourth quarter of 2016 as existing customers upgraded to the iPhone 7 and Android users made the move to iOS. CEO Tim Cook dismissed concerns about a maturing smartphone market, saying …

The world of mobile pay or electronic payments has been exploding with growth in recent years. PayPal has been the leader in this space for the longest time and that has not changed. Year after year they continue to face …

Augmented reality has the potential to develop into an incredible technology. Google is spending lots of time and money on their Tango AR software and the new Lenovo Phab 2 Pro smartphone is all about AR. So, you would expect …

Nokia filed patent infringement claims in Germany and the U.S. claiming Apple is violating 32 patents being used in Apple products. One year after settling an international patent dispute with Ericsson, Apple is now being taken to task by Nokia …

MQTT and the internet of things. MQ Telemetry Transport, invented in 1999 by Andy Stanford-Clark of IBM and Arlen Nipper of Eurotech, is an open standard messaging protocol created for constrained devices and low-bandwidth, high-latency or unreliable networks. Its design …

Audi’s Ingolstadt, Germany, factory is its largest and the second largest in Europe, producing 566,646 cars in 2015. It is where the auto manufacturer produces its A3, A4, A5, Q2 and Q5 models and is considered by the company as …

Last month I met with PayPal at the Money 20/20 conference in Las Vegas. First, let me say this is one impressive company. It started in 1998, simply helping people pay for things and get paid. Since, it has become …

Apple on Thursday released a new MacBook Pro design, the first time the model line has seen a refresh in four years. The company has all but killed off its popular MacBook Air line of portable computers, replacing it with the …

Microsoft wants “3-D for everyone,” shows off HoloLens Microsoft set the barre during its Windows 10 “Creators Update” keynote yesterday, just a day before Apple’s highly anticipated Mac event. The company known for its iconic Windows operating system defined its …

The Motorola Atrix 4G was the first smartphone with a fingerprint scanner for quicker, more secure login authentication. But the security feature’s widespread use came about when Apple introduced it in its iPhone 5s back in 2013. Since then, Snapdragon-powered …

HONG KONG – At the 4G/5G Summit today, Qualcomm introduced three new Snapdragon processors aimed at supporting enhanced user experiences and connectivity for high- and mid-tier mobile devices. The Snapdragon 653, 626 and 427 processors are designed to deliver higher levels of processing …

HONG KONG – Qualcomm announced at the 4G/5G Summit today that it is taking a learn-by-doing approach in developing a “5G” modem, the Qualcomm Snapdragon X50. It is designed to support equipment manufacturers that are building the next generation of cellular …

The top three markets in terms of mobile payment users are Turkey, Denmark and Norway The number of Europeans regularly making mobile payments with their smart devices has reached 54% compared to 18% in 2015, according to Visa’s 2016 digital payments …

The world of money is changing. New leaders are emerging with new ideas and this transformation will continue going forward. Next week, the Money 20/20 conference is coming to Las Vegas. I expect this conference will be a very interesting …

The Note 7 disaster has undermined Samsung’s recovery. The world’s largest smartphone maker said third quarter operating profit will be about two-thirds of the amount it was projecting just last week. The news comes on the heels of Samsung’s highest …

News reports suggest Samsung Note 7 production facility is shut down as reports of exploding phones, including replacements, continue After debuting its high-end new Note 7 smartphone in August, Samsung issued a recall on Sept. 1 and began sending out …

Available for preorder in an exclusive deal with Verizon, new Google Pixel features high-end camera, personal assistant and compatibility with Project Fi mobile virtual network. Google on Monday announced its new Pixel phone, which will initially be available for preorder …

5 things to know today … 1. Sprint is the only nationwide carrier still offering customers a “free” iPhone 7 when they trade in a used device. Verizon Wireless ended its iPhone offer last week, and AT&T Mobility and T-Mobile …

Nine years after Apple revolutionized the smartphone business, the company that invented the smartphone is throwing in the towel. BlackBerry will no longer manufacture phones that carry the BlackBerry name, and will focus its business on the software that has …

1. T-Mobile US resolved a nationwide LTE network outage early Thursday morning, and most customers had regained access to service by the time they woke up. Of course some people were awake during the outage and contacted T-Mobile to complain …

When Microsoft bought Nokia in 2014, it brought a dying captain onto a burning ship (or should we say, platform.) Nokia, once the leader in mobile phone sales, was on a downward spiral into irrelevance only helped out by its …

Apple’s latest smartphones, the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, could represent a major win for chipmaker Intel, according to industry analysis. Announced last week, the technical specifications for the new devices indicate there are two variants of each device …

In 2015, purchases through Apple Pay and Android Pay passed $540M In-app purchases and website retail payments are projected to drive annual spend via Apple Pay and Android Pay up to $8 billion in 2018, compared $540 million this year, …

What is the internet of nanoscale things? Nanoscale technology is enabling the development of devices as small as one to a few hundred nanometers (10^-9 meters). To give a sense of scale, a strand of human DNA is roughly 2.5 nanometers in …