Tech & IT
Zeal Optics Announces iON Goggles With HD Video & Photo Capability
Zeal Optics will unveil its new iON Goggle this week. The GPS goggle technology player’s latest offering embeds a high-definition camera that will let you capture videos and photos on the move or while standing. We understand this will be among the first lifestyle products from the company aimed at incorporating technology to “redefine how [...]
Seagate Acquires Samsung’s Hard Disk Drive Business
Seagate, a player in hard disk drives and storage solutions, has acquired Samsung’s hard disk drive (HDD) business. Under the terms of the transaction announced earlier this year, Seagate has gained select elements of Samsung’s HDD business, including assets, infrastructure and employees that enable Seagate to drive scale and innovation. These assets include Samsung’s M8 [...]
Garmin Releases GTN 750 Trainer App for iPad 2
Garmin International has released a new GTN 750 trainer app for the iPad 2. This trainer, downloadable from the iTunes Store, simulates the behaviour of the GTN 750 system interface and provides pilots with a safe, on-the-ground environment to learn the basic operation of the system. The app offers a touch and drag interface allowing [...]
Samsung Sliding PC 7 Series & 9 Series Laptops Announced
Some serious designers at Samsung seem to have got down to work and worked really hard to integrate a tablet and a laptop into one convenient device. The Samsung Sliding PC 7 seems to be the result of such an effort. It has a 10.1 inch 340 nit touchscreen with a 1366×768 resolution and is [...]
Microsoft, Temenos join forces for core banking solutions
Temenos, a provider of integrated core banking systems, and software solutions provider Microsoft have announced an alliance for delivering core banking solutions with TEMENOS T24 and Microsoft SQL Server to increase operational efficiencies of large-scale banks worldwide. Earlier, the two companies worked with North Shore Credit Union (NSCU), a financial institution in Canada, to deliver [...]
Vocaltec acquires Outsmart assets
Vocaltec Communications, a provider of multimedia and voice-over-IP solutions for communication service providers, has acquired substantially all of the assets of Outsmart, a provider of telecommunications convergence solutions. The Outsmart assets acquired by Vocaltec includes Outsmart’s technology and intellectual property, as well as its primary customer and partner contracts. Vocaltec plans to engage certain Outsmart [...]
Qualcomm samples new smartphone chipset family
Qualcomm, a developer of wireless technologies, products and services, is sampling a new smartphone chipset family. The MSM7x30 family lays emphasis on multimedia performance, supporting high-definition video recording and playback, improved graphics with dedicated 2D and 3D cores, and an overall chip design optimised for a responsive Web experience. The company claims that its MSM7x30 [...]
Intrinsyc selects Inrix traffic information for Destinator 9 GPS Navigation
Inrix, a provider of traffic services, has announced an agreement with Intrinsyc Software International, a provider of software solutions for mobile and embedded devices to provide real-time traffic flow and incident information for the company’s upcoming iPhone Destinator 9 GPS Navigation app. Through crowdsourced real-time traffic network and its data fusion engine, Inrix helps Destinator [...]
Avnet signs distribution deal with Falconstor
Falconstor Software, a player in disk-based data protection, and Avnet Technology Solutions (Avnet), an IT distributor, have entered into an agreement for the distribution of Falconstor software products by Avnet UK. Avnet will be distributing the full range of Falconstor solutions, including Falconstor Continuous Data Protector (CDP), Falconstor Network Storage Server (NSS), Falconstor Virtual Tape [...]
IBM, Qantas ink project delivery deal
IBM has announced the signing of a seven-year contract with Qantas, an Australian airline, for the provision of project delivery functions as part of the airline’s improved business efficiency goals. Under the agreement, IBM will bring a combination of project management delivery know-how to Qantas’ project portfolio to ensure timely delivery of business and IT [...]
