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The world’s first mobile receiver with a touchscreen, known as IBM Simon, made its debut in 1992. But it was not until 2007, when Apple revolutionised the touchscreen interface for handsets, that cell phones became ‘smart’ and were ...
“When elephants fight, the grass is trampled. Today, Canada is the grass.” That was the take from the Financial Times last weekend on the plight of the Canadian government, which has been caught in the crossfire of the Sino-US trade and tech ...
The Onion, which labels itself as “America’s finest news source”, once awarded Kim Jong-un the title of “sexiest man alive”. Not known for its sense of satire, the website of the People’s Daily in China republished the parody as a ...
Winter “is coming” for China’s mobile gamers, but there are signs of spring in the air for game developers. After a nine-month regulatory impasse, they have started to get approvals again from a new ministry tasked with implementing more ...
Call centres rarely muster much enthusiasm among their customers, but they wouldn’t have been possible without breakthroughs in automatic call distribution and touch-tone dialling in the 196os and 1970s. Now the industry is poised for another ...
Xiaomi CEO and founder Lei Jun was in a combative mood when he launched the company’s new flagship phone, the Redmi Note 7 on January 10. The Chinese tech firm is currently confronting all manner of issues, including a stock price collapse ...
“Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.” The aphorism from Aristophanes’ comedy The Birds throws some light on why Tencent ...
TCL Corp started out in the early 1980s as a small state-owned factory. Back then it was known as TTK Corp and it focused on making knock-off TDK cassettes from Japan. By 2015 – when the group completed a management buyout – it had grown into ...
The use of facial recognition technology is one of many ways that artificial intelligence (AI) is being deployed in China. But a malfunctioning system in the coastal city of Ningbo has demonstrated how the world of high-tech surveillance still ...
When Xi Jinping embarked on his high-profile ‘Southern Tour’ in October, his first stop was a factory run by Gree Electric Appliances, China’s leading air conditioning manufacturer. Xi took the chance to hammer home his message that ...
