Metaio’s chip, which will be built into ST-Ericsson’s upcoming smartphone chipsets, offers a lot of help in making AR more battery-friendly. But its ideal application is in smart glasses, not smartphones. Read more »
The two companies have signed a partnership aimed at providing municipalities with tools for making their cities, in particular their transport systems, smarter and more efficient. Read more »
The tool, which uses optical character recognition and semantic tagging to recognize and organize many different document types across disparate cloud storage services, is finally out of beta. Read more »
The mobile payments company says it now supports more cards in more countries than any of its many rivals, which include Square, iZettle, Payleven, Adyen and mPowa. Read more »
The indoor location market is young and potentially lucrative. Despite players such as Qualcomm throwing around their weight, there’s still room for new entrants, and indoo.rs looks to have some smart tech to offer. Read more »
Amazon forbids third-party merchants that use its marketplace from offering the same goods cheaper elsewhere, and the German Federal Cartel Office is gearing up to do something about it. Read more »
As a major step in its quest to take on Amazon in a federated fashion, the OnApp Cloud platform now includes fully-fledged distributed storage, VMware support and a more useful federated CDN. Read more »
EE, Vodafone, Three, O2 and BT have all won spectrum in the auction, which the regulator Ofcom says will lead to full 4G coverage by the end of 2017. Read more »
Canonical has shown off the tablet UI for the touch-friendly Ubuntu, with many of the features pitched squarely at the corporate market. Whether it succeeds there depends on how Windows 8 fares in the enterprise. Read more »
There is reason to suspect EE’s premium LTE pricing has hurt takeup, but the UK operator’s silence at this early stage could have other reasons behind it. Read more »
The Stylistic S01 includes some interesting technological tweaks, such as the ability to adjust frequency range based on the user’s age. With ageing populations, there should be more of this out there. Read more »
The increase will have been partly down to LTE taking off in 2012, but also due to massive subscription growth in China, other emerging Asian economies and Africa. Read more »
Days after a documentary alleged the harassment and intimidation of foreign temporary workers at Amazon’s German distribution centers, the U.S. firm has cut ties with security company HESS. Read more »
The handset is LG’s answer to the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, only with more pixels, a slightly beefier processor and no stylus. It’s out in South Korea this week, and elsewhere – including the U.S. – later. Read more »
Using a system that costs little over $7,000, researchers at the venerable University of Oxford have developed a modified Leaf that can drive itself — as long as it recognizes its surroundings. Read more »
The Spanish telco has beefed up its enterprise cloud portfolio by integrating its recently-announced Instant Servers IaaS play with FeedHenry’s Mobile Applications Platform. Read more »
The deal is mainly aimed at combining and enhancing the two companies’ operator offerings, with intended results ranging from new “ad-supported data” capabilities to more cell site capacity and better analytics. Read more »
An EU-funded research project aims to re-engineer the TCP protocol, as well as the way routers work – and all without the need to replace expensive internet infrastructure. Read more »
The suit, covering quality-of-service and internet telephony technologies, is a response to a suit BT launched against Google more than a year ago. But a source at BT suggests the original case is going to mediation. Read more »
The EU security agency ENISA has released a report on the cloud’s increasingly critical nature. Yes, it highlights the risks associated with the shift to the cloud, but also some notable security benefits. Read more »
Ericsson Cloud System is intended to help mobile operators make their networks and IT infrastructure more efficient, which may in turn help them offer freed-up cloud compute and storage capacity to their customers. Read more »
Opera has confirmed that it’s adopting the WebKit rendering engine and the Chromium framework. Why? Apple and Google have so much influence that the mobile web is being written to their specs. Read more »
Last time someone was rumored to be interested in buying Opera, the Norwegian browser-maker’s founder voiced his displeasure. But now he’s reduced his holding and could no longer block a sale. Read more »
Dexplora, the co-founders of which were also behind The Astonishing Tribe, is about to launch an iPhone app to make salespeople actually want to use the CRM systems they’re supposed to use. Read more »
Vertu is back with another absurdly-priced smartphone, only this time it runs an out-of-date version of Android, rather than the entirely-out-of-date Symbian. Oh, and $10K will only get you the entry-level version. Read more »
How do you highlight examples of big corporations’ lobbying proposals being copied, word-for-word, into proposed laws? For EU privacy activists, the answer lies in many eyes. Read more »
The UK’s Financial Reporting Council has opened an investigation into Autonomy’s reported financials in the two-and-a-half years leading up to its disastrous sale to HP. Read more »
Vodafone UK and 3 Austria have told subscribers that they should avoid updating their iPhone 4S to the latest version of iOS, while Apple works on a fix for reported 3G connectivity problems. Read more »
In a massive blow to Europe’s plans of getting everyone – even in rural areas – on at least 30 Mbps by 2020, a $9.36 billion fund for stimulating broadband deployment has been axed. Read more »
We already knew that tablet shipments are now roughly 1:2 versus those of non-tablet PCs but now, for one country at least, the analyst house GfK has some starker predictions about the coming year. Read more »
The Belgian IT automation startup is now trying to address the scaling needs of its users. But before it leaves beta, it also wants to figure out the billing piece of the cloud broker business. Read more »
The link between Paris and Lyon is the first operational deployment of long-distance 400 Gbps wavelength fiber connectivity, with its first tester being France’s educational and research network, Renater. Read more »
The ‘Fund a Feature’ program aims to let corporate users accelerate the development of specific features while still feeding the result back to the open-source project’s community. Read more »
6Wunderkinder continues to churn out native versions of its task management app that are optimized for their respective platforms. The latest version, for Android tablets, includes widgets and inter-app sharing. Read more »
Russia’s answer to Google may have a way to go if it wants to catch up with the search leader, but it’s just inched up into fourth place, knocking Microsoft and Bing down to fifth. Read more »
The Leikr watch, which features a two-inch color screen, will hit U.S. shores this summer after a successful crowdfunding campaign that set a record for Danish Kickstarter projects. Read more »
A survey by the analyst house Ovum has found a similar antipathy towards online tracking on both sides of the Atlantic. And that, they say, could have big implications for big data. Read more »
The combined operation will have 25 million customers in 14 countries. It will also take John Malone’s Liberty Global head-to-head with Rupert Murdoch and BSkyB. Read more »
It doesn’t necessarily confirm those rumours about the T-Mobile owner buying a stake in Fon, but a tie-in with the service by DT subsidiary Hrvatski Telekom does keep the possibility alive. Read more »
Mobile operators have treated Skype as a threat for years. Now they’re going to profit off it by allowing customers to buy Skype Credit directly through their phone bill or pre-paid allowance and taking a cut. Read more »
