Wearable tech set to take off

There will be a total of almost 70-million smart wearable devices sold in 2017, including smart glasses, health and fitness devices along with enterprise wearables, compared to almost 15-million in 2013. This is according to new report from Juniper Research, which...

Curiosity ready to drill on Mars

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet. If the rock meets rover engineers’ approval when Curiosity rolls up to it in coming days, it will become the first to be...

IBM predicts steampunk trend

Based on an analysis of more than half a million public posts on message boards, blogs, social media sites and news sources, IBM predicts that “steampunk”, a sub-genre inspired by the clothing, technology and social mores of Victorian society, will be a...

HP leads sluggish Q4 PC market

Worldwide PC shipments totalled 89,8-million units in the fourth quarter of 2012, down 6,4% compared to the same quarter in 2011 and worse than the forecasted decline of 4,4%, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker....

SAP re-invents ERP with HANA

SAP has launched its in-memory HANA technology as a fully-fledged database that is capable of running the software giant’s world-leading ERP system, Business Suite, which has been re-engineered and launched to take full advantage of HANA. Chairman and co-founder Hasso...

60m downloads for Windows 8

More than 60-million licences of Windows 8 have been sold since its launch in October 2012.  Windows chief marketing officer and chief financial officer Tami Reller yesterday made the announcement at a JP Morgan Tech Forum hosted at International CES in Las Vegas. The...