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Tie, tee or tiz? Operating systems also-rans seek to outsmart Google, Apple
(Reuters) - You may have heard of the operating system Tizen (you may even know how to pronounce it: tie-zen, not tee-zen or tiz-zen). But the chances of it running...
In Asia, WhatsApp posts mixed message for Facebook
Singapore (Reuters) - WhatsApp may be hugely popular but its forays into Asia, the world's biggest mobile market, have had mixed success, raising questions about whether it can sustain the...
In Asia, WhatsApp posts mixed message for Facebook
Singapore (Reuters) - WhatsApp may be hugely popular but its forays into Asia, the world's biggest mobile market, have had mixed success, raising questions about whether it can sustain the...
Making waves: In the hunt for invisibility, other benefits seen
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A new way of assembling things, called metamaterials, may in the not too distant future help to protect a building from earthquakes by bending seismic waves around...
China Mobile courts overseas users with mobile app
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - China Mobile International, a unit of China Mobile, has launched an application it hopes will win business from millions of overseas Chinese and others communicating with China....
Insight: It’s all in the wrist – Who has vision to crack the ‘smartwatch’?
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The smartwatch could be as revolutionary as the smartphone - an intelligent device on our wrist that connects our bodies to data and us to the world...
Insight: It’s all in the wrist – Who has vision to crack the ‘smartwatch’?
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The smartwatch could be as revolutionary as the smartphone - an intelligent device on our wrist that connects our bodies to data and us to the world...
Asha to Ashes: Microsoft’s emerging market conundrum
SINGAPORE/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp's acquisition of Nokia's handset business gives the software behemoth control of its main Windows smartphone partner, but leaves a question mark over the bigger...
Sliced and diced, digitally: autopsy as a service
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Malaysian entrepreneur Matt Chandran wants to revive the moribund post-mortem by replacing the scalpel with a scanner and the autopsy slab with a touchscreen computer. He believes...
Insight: Peter Chou – Is he HTC’s savior or obstacle to revival?
SINGAPORE/TAIPEI (Reuters) - Now in his tenth year as CEO of HTC Corp, Peter Chou is lauded as the architect of the Taiwanese firm's award-winning smartphones. But as the company's...