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...In interviews during CES, tech executives defended the social impact of their products....
...Samsung still lags behind competitors on software and services, say analysts....
...Don Butler, head of Ford’s connected car initiative, is also wary of becoming dependent on Apple and Google, which have their own designs on the auto industry....
...Beyond the new features for the Blaze, Fitbit is taking a new approach to product design to help it fend off the competition....
...Design is critical, and there are multiple solutions to the 3D jigsaw puzzle of business class: yin-yang; staggered herringbone; “stacked-V”. Jamco’s DoveTail seat has a layout like parquet flooring....
...“3D user interfaces are gaining momentum as a future interaction paradigm for carmakers as evidenced at CES,” Mr Wood said....
...Qualcomm’s Paul Jacobs led the opening keynote at CES last year, and was replaced as chief executive last month....
...A new “magazine” software interface offers a “tiled” experience similar to Microsoft’s recent Windows designs....
...“For nongamers, the Edge suggests how manufacturers might expand the trend of remixed PC designs,” CNET wrote about the product....
...While most of the CES press pack, and indeed many Apple customers, would recognise its design guru Sir Jonathan Ive, few could name his opposite number at Samsung....
...A number of devices at CES, from smart watches to game consoles, were crowdfunded on sites such as Kickstarter, with users financing production runs of drawing board design concepts....
...Samsung executives often use such language to refer to design and software, branching out from the traditional bedrock of speedy manufacturing....
...Also expected to feature prominently in Las Vegas this week are the latest attempts by Intel and Microsoft to break into smartphones, with Intel showing off a design running Google’s Android software and...
...But that was a concept design demonstrated at CES last month....
...While Qualcomm’s powerful Snapdragon 1Ghz processor has garnered a lot of media attention, TI’s current generation Omap 3 has quietly gained significant design wins over the past year....
...TCS will design, develop and manage a given client’s software as well as maintain its hardware systems and handle its business processes....
...(NASDAQ & TASE: SPNS) is a provider of IT solutions that modernize business processes to enable insurance and other companies to quickly adapt to changes; and nextSource Inc., designs, develops and implements...
...Tom Tom GPS software....
...“Gates speaks at CES. Attendees doze off. Gates stops speaking, attendees leave to look at cool stuff not made by Microsoft,” posted one. “And now what?...
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