Toyota Motor Corp  unveiled the futuristic concept car resembling a giant smartphone to demonstrate. How Japan’s top automaker is trying to take the lead in technology at the upcoming Tokyo auto show, which opens to the public this weekend. Toyota Fun-Vii, a futuristic concept car that Toyota’s president described as a smartphone on four  wheels. [...]

While the West leads the world in terms of an attractive place for IT firms to work, more Asian nations are moving up the ladder. According to a report by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Asian economies are closing the gap on the West in terms of their IT competitiveness. A study showed, as they [...]

As a first step in the partnership Canon will work with Oracle to integrate its business copiers and printers with the software giant’s database and server products. Canon subsidiary IT Solutions will sell a new platform that easily links products like Canon’s image Runner Advance copiers with Oracle’s database. Web Logic and other offerings, the [...]

Japan Airlines will begin adding WiFi internet access to international flights between Japan. North America and Europe from summer 2012. Based on Panasonic’s eXConnect system. The in-flight access will be a paid service available to all classes of passenger, though Japan Airlines is yet to confirm exactly how much it will cost. The WiFi system will [...]

Point Topic an analyst firm founded in 1998 is recognized today as one of the best sources on broadband. It was set up with a mission to provide focused information on broadband communications services. The information provided helps service providers propel the market forward even faster.Oliver Johnson, CEO of Point Topic, said: “It has only taken 11 years [...]

Envivio showcased an extensive demonstration of video headend solutions to CommunicAsia 2011 which integrates content encoding, packaging, encryption and distribution in innovative ways to meet the requirements of multi-screen TV services.Envivo, a leading provider of live and on-demand multi-screen IP video processing and delivery solutions showed new techniques that help service providers minimize complexity as they build smart video [...]

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While not the fastest USB drive in existence (read 12MB/sec, write 7MB/sec is slow, actually) as of this writing it is one of only two USB drives in existence that actually transform. While there are 2GB and 4GB versions of this drive that have been around for some time, this is the only 8GB version we’ve [...]

TOKYO (AFP) — A Japanese research team has revealed it had created a technology that could eventually display on a computer screen what people have on their minds, such as dreams. Researchers at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories succeeded in processing and displaying images directly from the human brain, they said in a study unveiled [...]