By Antoni Slodkowski TOKYO (Reuters) - Robots that can chat, find misplaced glasses, draw airplanes and play with your children are attracting thousands of visitors ... More
TOKYO (Reuters) - Robots that can chat, find misplaced glasses, draw airplanes and play with your children are attracting thousands of visitors during an expo in Tokyo as Japan adapts to changes in society. Robots, such as the sound-sensitive Chapit, answer simple questions and even joke with people to help the ...More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Motorola Inc <MOT.N> posted quarterly earnings and revenue that beat Wall Street expectations driven by products such as mobile network equipment, sending its shares up 1 percent. While smartphone sales held no surprises, Avian Securities analyst Matthew Thornton said revenue beat his expectations at the networks ...More
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp lifted its annual outlook and returned to profitability in the first quarter on booming demand for its Bravia flat TVs and PlayStation 3 game consoles. Rivals Panasonic Corp and Sharp Corp also reported profits for April-June versus losses a year ago, while Panasonic joined Sony in ...More
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has raised security concerns with Research In Motion over the Canadian company's popular BlackBerry services, but is not planning a ban in the world's fastest growing mobile phone market. Internal Security Chief U.K. Bansal told reporters on Thursday that he hoped Indian concerns ...More
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - William Shatner confesses he has problems with the digital age. At 79-years-old, he doesn't use Twitter and can't remember computer passwords. So what is the actor -- who started in television when it was aired exclusively live and became a pop culture hero in "Star Trek ...More
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - A security expert showed off techniques for breaking into ATMs, causing machines to spit out cash to a cheering crowd at an annual gathering of hackers. "I hope to change the way people look at devices that from the outside are seemingly impenetrable," Barnaby Jack, director of ...More
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Amazon.com launched a cheaper, wireless-only Kindle on Wednesday, betting that the $139 price will turn its latest electronic reader into a mass-appeal device as Apple Inc's iPad gains ground. The world's largest online retailer and leading e-reader seller also revealed its third generation Kindle, some ...More
HELSINKI (Reuters) - The Mobile telecom equipment market will grow 7 percent to $40.3 billion in 2011 after shrinking for two years in a row, helped by investments in new 4G mobile networks, research firm iSuppli said on Wednesday. Investments in fourth-generation LTE (Long Term Evolution) networks are set to ...More
