Information Technology

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich revealed the chip maker’s plans for wearable devices as CES  2014, the International Consumer Electronics Show opens in Las Vegas. Intel will create reference design devices and platforms to support the development of wearable products. The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Latest News Roundup » Krzanich indentified specific wearable reference devices which Intel will develop, these included smart earbuds that provide biometric and fitness capabilities, a smart ...

Wolfson Microelectronics is working with audio processing company ComHear to develop chips for the wearable consumer audio applications. The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Latest News Roundup » The first product to be released, a Wolfson reference design headset integrates ComHear’s Kinetic Audio Processing (KAP) software onto Wolfson’s WM8280 Audio Hub with ambient noise cancellation (ANC). The KAP software is designed to “improve the user’s ...

HP is offering secure Android mobile devices to the UK public sector built with Green Hills Software’s SoftwareINTEGRITY Multivisor virtualization technology. As part of a partnership with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services (UK), Green Hills Software is piloting a secure mobile device initiative combining HP’s secure mobility end-to-end service and Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY Multivisor security technology. “The separation kernel-based Type-1 hypervisor ...

Deutsche Telekom has teamed with telematics provider Un-Blinking Technologies to launch a vendor-independent machine-to-machine (M2M) service for vehicles in the US based on iCar. The intention is to “offer value-added services to purchasers of any vehicle – un-tethered to the proprietary technology of individual vehicle manufacturers”. This will include automated reminders for the next oil change, to remote diagnostic information, ...

Does Microsoft’s new Xbox One cost more to make than its price tag in the shops? This seems to be the reality, according to an early teardown of the games console by analyst IHS. It seems the hardware loss can be compensated for though sales of game. “The combined hardware and manufacturing cost of Microsoft’s new Xbox One amounts to $471, ...

Avnet Embedded believes that the forthcoming withdrawal of support for Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system will create a internet hacking risk for businesses and they are failing to take action against the dangers. Support for the opeartings syetm is due to end in April 8th 2014, which could create web security risks. In the paper, entitled Panic? What panic? Is the industry in denial over ...

Intel has acquired Kno, a education-software company. This is part of Intel’s  educational activities to support what it calls  “technology adoption in the classroom”. “The acquisition of Kno boosts Intel’s global digital content library to more than 225,000 higher education and K-12 titles through existing partnerships with 75 educational publishers,” said John Galvin, vice-president of the sales and marketing group ...

Freescale Semiconductor and Oracle are lining up a number of joint engineering, marketing and standards initiatives aimed at optimising the Java platform for connecting hardware systems and not only mobiles to the Internet. What is becoming known as the Internet of Things (IoT). As part of the collaboration, Freescale will join the Java Community Process (JCP) and work with Oracle and other JCP members to drive ...

A flip cover for Samsung and HTC smartphones which has its own integrated electrophoretic display (EPD) using a daylight readable integrated E Ink screen is being shown at IFA 2013 in Berlin. Called the CoverReader and supplied by Pocketbook Readers of Lugano (Switzerland), it will use Plastic Logic’s flexible EPD product; the 4.8″ display will be manufactured in the company’s Dresden facility. According to Enrico Müller, sales ...

Body area networks are not only transforming medical patient monitoring, but also offer an interesting opportunity for electronics suppliers. At the heart of it, a body area network (BAN) is a method for collecting vital statistics about a patient. Previously, the method of acquiring information required the patient to be in a hospital or care facility with multiple wires attached ...