HANOVER, Germany–IBM showed off technology today designed to let people use their smartphones to take command of their real-world shopping. Big Blue showed an app idea from IBM Research in Haifa, Israel, that uses image recognition to identify products on store shelves, then lets people sort those products by attributes such as price and nutrition …
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HANOVER, Germany–You’re traveling and your coworker needs your key to get into your office. Why not just e-mail it? That’s the idea behind Fraunhofer Institute’s Key2Share technology, which the German research lab is developing in partnership with Bosch and showing off here at the CeBIT show. Key2Share uses smartphones equipped with near-field communications (NFC) short-range wireless networking abilities to unlock …
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HANNOVER, Germany–In today’s James Bond world, smartphones get you instant access to top-secret information. In the real world, security constraints mean mobile phones generally aren’t nearly so clever or convenient. BlackBerry and Secusmart hope to change that through a partnership that at least has won over the German federal government. It has authorized purchases of phones with the BlackBerry 10 …
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W3C CEO Jeff Jaffe Stephen Shankland/CNET BARCELONA, Spain–You’re used to the Web on your PC. You’re getting used to it on your smartphone. So what’s next? Publishing and automobile industry players have just begun spinning up efforts at the World Wide Web Consortium, said W3C Chief Executive Jeff Jaffe in an interview here at Mobile World Congress. So don’t be …
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BARCELONA, Spain–People save 1 billion files every day to Dropbox‘s online storage service, Chief Executive Drew Houston said today at the Mobile World Congress show here. In addition, the company’s 100 million users tap into the service with 500 million devices, he said. The statistics shows major growth for a company founded in 2007 when today’s high-end smartphones only just …
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BARCELONA, Spain–With another 2 billion people hooking up to the Internet in the next five years, there’s plenty of room for another mobile operating system, Mozilla Chief Executive Gary Kovacs said today in a sales pitch for his new Firefox OS. Apple and Google have led the way in the smartphone market but can’t cover the whole thing, he said …
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BARCELONA, Spain–Carriers love to bash companies like Skype and WhatsApp that provide services on top of their mobile networks at the Mobile World Congress trade show. But one thing was different this year: Viber Media founder and Chief Executive Talmon Marco entered the lion’s den to defend the idea. Viber‘s free messaging service, which competes directly with carriers’ own high-profit …
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BARCELONA, Spain–Opera Software has dropped the new engine into its browser and now has begun revving it up. At the Mobile World Congress show here, the company began showing for the first time its new WebKit-based version of Opera for Android. That browser is the first product from a completely overhauled product line and technology strategy for the company based …
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BARCELONA, Spain–Under a broadened partnership with mobile network operator Telefonica, Sony Mobile is exploring support for Mozilla’s new Firefox OS and hopes to release a phone with it next year. “Our engineers are now working with Firefox OS Mobile and HTML5, evolving technologies which show great potential. In addition, we continue to work with our operator partners, including Telefónica, on …
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