A selection of cities around the world which could be housing the next big thing. There's no doubt that the world as we know it is becoming an ever-more connected place as technology increasingly covers and governs much of our everyday lives.
Taiwanese display driver and semiconductor product maker, Himax Technologies, has teamed up with Lumus, an Augmented Reality glasses maker, to develop smart glasses.
Lumus plans to use its ultra-thin optics enabled wearable display and combine it with Himax's LCOS technology, which provides high level of brightness required for see-through Augmented Reality, to create wearable technology that can be used in daily life.
The maker of mobile social games Family Farm and Happy Acres is selling its gaming division DianDian Interactive to Chinese construction firm Zhongji for $960m.
Put these attributes on your hit-list. Last week saw the IFA technology show in Berlin, marking the second major opportunity (following Mobile World Congress in Barcelona each February) for the world's biggest technology firms to bring their latest products to show off on European shores.
From Acer's budget entry to Sony's newest flagship, here are IFA's mobile offerings. Acer Liquid Z500 A low-cost, low-spec smartphone from Acer here, with a 5-inch screen and an 8MP camera. It comes in three colours: black, silver and green. Priced at just 149 euros (about £118), this budget phoner should be more than enough for basic smartphone use.
The IoT market is seeing vibrant activity. Google & Nest Labs In its second-largest acquisition ever, Google paid $3.2bn to buy Nest Labs, a maker of smart smoke alarms and thermostats for homes, back in January.
With only two devices confirmed by Qualcomm featuring the chip, CBR rounds up rumours about where else we will see the 810. So, we know that Qualcomm has got some new chips out this year, the 808 and 810.
Tools to suit any budget or hardware. If you fancy yourself as the next Pixar hotshot, it can be hard to know where to start. Software packages can set you back more than a grand, and the array of options can be overwhelming.
Outsmart the competition with these surprising strategies. Human intuition is a fickle faculty. Sometimes it leads you to exactly what you want, for reasons that are quite mysterious to you. Other times you find your common sense, for all its popularity, is idiocy. So here are some lessons from IT that might surprise you.
From social media to mobile Wi-Fi, Google has most bases covered. Google, founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, has become one of the most synonymous names in technology over the past 16 years. Starting off as a search engine pioneering the 'pagerank' method of retrieving results, Google has grown into many areas, six of which are detailed below.
Because every business needs a data evangelist. The technology world has grown and evolved immensely over the last few decades, becoming an industry that now plays a crucial part in many areas of our everyday lives. But, as it has grown, so has the need for more people to operate, regulate and facilitate this technology.
The definitive definition of big data from the experts for the kids (and adults, too). Jonathan Birch, Head of Architecture at NTT DATA "Imagine trying to finish the last page of your colouring book, but suddenly you find that you've got more crayons than you know what to do with.
From the space shuttle to your living room, here's how it all began. This month marks the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the surface of our satellite.