Sony, the leader in the image sensing market ever since it pioneered CCD development, is hoping that 3D image sensors will revive the flagging smartphone industry which is estimated to have fallen about 3% this year Sony’s sensor boss, Satoshi Yoshihara (pictured), says the company will ramp up 3D sensor production in later summer 2019 in ...
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In a move which could be seen as a Chinese initiative to defuse the trade war, China’s Supreme Court has said it will now hear IP-related cases. The decision takes effect on January 1st. Up to now, cases concerning IP have been decided at the district court level. The lack of legal protection for IP ...
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Dell went back onto the New York stock exchange on Friday nearly six years after Michael Dell (pictured) took the company public. The complicated deal saw a group led by Michael Dell pay a Dell subsidiary $24.4 billion for control of Dell – a valuation which infuriated activist investor Carl Icahn who says the company ...
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On April 1, Toshiba’s SCiB li-ion battery business will be transferred from Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation (TISS) to will become an independent business unit within Toshiba. The move is part of the Toshiba Next Plan and positions the battery business as a new growth business. Positioning the business as an independent operation will ...
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At half past midnight tonight NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft (pictured) flies past Ultima Thule which, at four billion miles, is the most distant object a man-made object has seen. Because of the distance, it will take ten hours for the first images of Ultima Thule to reach Earth. However NASA is showing footage of events ...
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Face recognition technology has received a boost from the decision in Rivera v Google in a Chicago District Court. The plaintiffs alleged that Google’s Photo service violated their rights by collecting and storing biometric data from people’s photographs using facial recognition software without their permission. The judge decided that Google’s photo sharing and storage service ...
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2018 was a bad year for tech, EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager told Martha Lane-Fox in a BBC interview. Vestager instanced “forced misuse of data, manipulation, supervision, no respect of the citizen, no respect of individual” as examples of abuse and stated “there is an increasing awareness of the fact that we really need to ...
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Yesterday, China’s BeiDou satellite positioning system BDS became fully operational. “This signifies that BDS has officially entered the global era as the BDS expands from a regional system to a global navigation system,” said BeiDou’s Ran Chenqi at the launch event, “from now on, no matter where you go, BDS will always be with you.” ...
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Next week the legality of the most notorious business model in the tech industry’s history will come under the scrutiny of a judge. The judge is Lucy Koh who has shown a very independent streak in judgments affecting big companies who have used bully-boy tactics. The case is the US Federal Trade Commission v Qualcomm. ...
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The Emergency Services Network (ESN), which is being built by BT to provide priority access to mobile phone services for the emergency services, will be delayed as plans to use Huawei switchgear are being dropped. The ESN was to have been in place next year. The new date for completion of an Huawei-free ESN is ...
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