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Barcelona, which just hosted the Mobile World Congress, wants to become a major technology hub.
For Barcelona, four days isn’t enough. Spain’s second biggest city, which just hosted the nearly weeklong Mobile World Congress, wants to be a center of technology year-round. And it’s easy to see why. Faced with a worsening recession, a 26...
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IBM's Watson computer system came up with its recipe for Spanish crescents based on academic research.
Attendees of IBM’s investor meeting today noshed on Spanish almond crescents, Australian grilled asparagus and veal croquettes crafted by perhaps the most overqualified chef in the world. The meal was designed by Watson, the artificial-intelligence computer system that outwitted “Jeopardy!”...
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Motion sensors allow users to control the screen of a device without having to touch it.
It’s the latest in mobile technology, inspired by an invention nearly a hundred years ago. At this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, chipmaker STMicroelectronics is showcasing screen technology that works by just hovering your hand a few inches away from the...
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Gary Kovacs, CEO of Mozilla, with the Firefox logo during a news conference at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
While many European technology companies have pared back their presence at this week’s Mobile World Congress, Silicon Valley’s Mozilla is leaving a noticeably bigger footprint. The maker of the popular Firefox web browser sent about a hundred employees — which...
Read more »When a government is buried in debt, making money from thin air sure sounds like a good idea. The U.K. and the Netherlands were among the latest European countries to sell wireless frequencies — the right to use certain airwaves...
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A technician works at the Uranium Conversion Facility outside the city of Isfahan, 255 miles south of the capital Tehran, Iran, in 2007.
The developers behind Stuxnet, the computer worm that damaged an Iranian nuclear plant in 2010, began their work on the malware earlier than previously known and experimented with multiple attack techniques, according to new research by Symantec Corp. Stuxnet, which tampered...
Read more »Near-field-communication technology, or NFC, may allow consumers to someday leave their wallets at home and instead use their mobile devices as digital wallets, where credit cards, gift cards, coupons and bus passes are stored. But what happens if you forget...
Read more »After Millennial Media reported this week a 71 percent surge in 2012 sales, the company’s CEO started calling top investors — to address their concerns. As much as the mobile-advertising company is growing, it’s not enough to meet its own...
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IBM CEO Ginni Rometty has made Africa a big priority for the company.
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty has visited Africa twice in the past six months. She’s taken her entire executive team there. She’s told IBM’s investors, customers and the general public about the potential to transform the continent’s businesses and governments through technology. Expansion...
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The Asus Taichi 21 Ultrabook functions both as a laptop and touchscreen tablet.
Something about Microsoft’s Windows 8 seems to bring out the eccentric in PC makers. In the few months since Win 8 launched, we’ve seen PCs that fold, PCs that slide, PCs with keyboards that pop on and off. But we...
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