Intel has revealed a version of its 3D depth camera that is small and thin enough to be fitted into a 6in (15.2cm) smartphone. The RealSense sensor can be used to recognise hand and head movements and makes it possible to change the focus of photos after they have been taken. Brian Krzanich, the company…
Google To Shutdown Buttercoin
Google Ventures and Y Combinator backed bitcoin exchange startup Buttercoin, is shutting down this month, after failing to raise new investment. According to a note on buttercoin website, the company states that it will be turning off its service on Friday, April 10, 2015 and asked its users to move their bitcoins to another service…
Google Launches Twitter Takeover Bid
There are reports that Google may launch a takeover bid for Twitter, the micro-blogging site whose share value is now put at $1bn. Google was identified as one of the two companies, believed to have contacted Twitter with “serious” interest. The micro-blogging site has reportedly hired Goldman Sachs as an adviser to spurn the advances.…
Why Internet Explorer Will Soon Be Phased Out
The iconic Microsoft browser, Internet Explorer, is no longer favored by the company, who is now in favour of a new browser currently codenamed Project Spartan, Microsoft announced. Users had condemned the browser for being slow and unprotected and this prompted Microsoft to change the name alone on the grounds of “negative perceptions that no…
Solar Impulse Plane On Second Leg Trip
The historic Solar Impulse Plane has crossed the Arabian Sea on the second leg of its epic attempt to fly around the world. After the briefest of layovers, the prop-driven plane took off from Muscat in Oman at 06.35 (02:35 GMT) on Tuesday. It is heading across the Arabian Sea to Ahmedabad in India. Project…
Groundbreaking Solar Plane Begins Global Flight
A solar-powered plane called, Solar Impulse-2, has begun an epic record-breaking flight around the world. The aircraft, which took off from Abu Dhabi, is heading east to Muscat in Oman. The plane will fly from one continent to another over the next five months. It will also cross the Pacific and Atlantic oceans in the…
Google Reinvents Mobile Smartphones
United States Internet giants, Google, is trying to reinvent mobile smartphones that slots together piece by piece like lego, as most phone makers are making sleeker handsets. Google, aims to challenge its rival Apple’s thin iPhones product with the Google Ara project, giving knowledgeable smartphone builders the option to build their phone themselves. The Ara…
BOLFYNG Launches e-Procurement Solution
To bridge the vast gap between stakeholders involved in the process of tendering and contract bidding, Bids Online For You Limited, BOLFYNG, has launched an electronic procurement solution platform. Yinka Sorinwa, business development director of the company, explained that the platform provides web based portal that enables purchasing organisations to manage and streamline procurement processes…
Ericsson Demands Apple Ban in US
Ericsson, Swedish multinational communications technology and service provider, has filed two complaints with the US International Trade Commission and seven other lawsuits in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against Apple, its counterpart in the communications technology industry. Ericsson sued the iPad and iPhone maker, alleging that a total of 41…
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