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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.

by Joe Curtis| 02 September 2014 Could councils get a helping hand going digital? A proposed local Government Digital Service (GDS) would help councils digitally transform, according to a public sector IT body.

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.

Analysis: Was phishing or brute force responsible for the attack? Both businesses and consumers are increasingly reliant on services such as Apple's iCloud, which has been implicated in the celebrity picture attack. Companies are now using it to store intellectual property as well as information about its customers, and this makes it a prime target for hackers.

CBR rounds up the big and beautiful smartphones on the market right now. Yes, we've all heard it and if it annoys you you're not alone - the little portmanteau that describes a smartphone with an above average-sized screen.

RPM Infosys is an Australian based computer repair company which provides superlative computer repair services in major cities of Australia such as western Sydney.

Hype surrounding smartwatch exploited by cynical scammers. Hackers have jumped on the unveiling of the Apple Watch as a chance to phish for data through social networks, according to the security vendor Malwarebytes.

Net neutrality, women and data from the creator of the web. Since inventing the world wide web Tim Berners-Lee has been a tireless pioneer for internet rights, trying to extend his creation to as many people as possible across the globe.

Industry experts weigh in on all things cloud. CBR headed to this year's Cloud Expo at the Excel centre in London to ask those in the know their opinion regarding key topics in the world of cloud. "Disruption of most enterprises is no respecter of legacy and people that have been in the business for thirty years, a hundred years.

Interested in the open source OS but unsure what to try? Linux has always been the outsider's operating system. Even more hipster than Apple's iOS and completely off the radar of most Microsoft Windows users, the open source OS umbrella covers an ever increasing collection of mutations and flavours, known to its users as distros (short for distributions).

Internet of Things, broadband, renewable energy - the government is embracing technology and realising its economic potential. Between the jokes tailored to evoke the maximum jeering from backbenchers, Chancellor George Osborne delivered the 2015 Budget.

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.

This week Microsoft Devices released the Nokia Lumia 530, but what are you other options in the world of Lumia?

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.

From before-their-time gamers to the phone shaped like a teardrop, here are five devices that just didn't work. Most mobile phones look the same these days, and it turns out that's really not such a bad thing. Before standardised forms and fucntions and the dominance of Android and iOS, manufacturers tried all sorts of crazy things to sell phones.

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.