Philippines bags first Cannes Mobile Grand Prix for Smart TXTBKS campaign
Dubbed the Smart TXTBKS campaign, condensed textbooks and workbooks used by students into 160-character messages that were then inserted in Smart SIM cards and distributed to several public schools in the Philippines.
VIDEO | Google’s net empire soars skyward
Google launches technology-laden helium balloons that aim to bring the Internet to remote parts of the world.
VIDEO | Renault seeks change of mood with all-electric concept car
Renault hopes its eye-catching all-electric concept car, Twin’Z, can help persuade drivers who refuse to embrace alternative fuel technology to change their minds.
VIDEO | Telepathy One sets sights on Google Glass
A Japanese startup company is taking on tech titan Google, with a wearable computer it plans to have in stores by the end of 2013.
PROJECT ‘RUNAWAY’ | The new tech palaces: visionary HQs, or cursed trophies?
Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook have unveiled plans for big new buildings with distinctive designs from top-name architects to house their growing workforces and make statements that the tech companies are here to stay.
VIDEO | Microsoft unveils Xbox One
Microsoft took the wraps its next-generation Xbox- featuring an exclusive ”Halo” series produced by Steven Spielberg.
VIDEO | Making sense of Yahoo’s Tumblr deal
Yahoo’s decision to buy blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion has raised questions about how the internet company will integrate the website.
VIDEO | Penitent Romanian hacker aims to protect world’s ATMs
A Romanian hacker serving a prison term for manipulating automated teller machines (ATMs) says he has invented a device that can make the world’s cash dispensers impregnable even to tech-savvy criminals.
VIDEO | Technologists say apps can aid in Asia
Tech innovators and app designers attending the recent ”Apps For Asia – Redesigning Development” program in Uttar Pradesh, say technology holds the answer to many of Asia’s poverty-related problems.
VIDEO | Who can afford broadband? Watch the report and find out
This StatShot video from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) compares the cost of broadband around the world.
VIDEO | BlackBerry unveils new Q5 phone
BlackBerry’s CEO says his company is on ”solid ground” but analysts say the changes are coming too late.
VIDEO | Unmanned attack plane passes carrier landing test
The US Navy’s first sea-based, unmanned attack aircraft has passed its first arrested landing test.
VIDEO | DNA tool brings life to the long dead
A new DNA-based research tool developed in Poland, could help forensic specialists identify dead bodies which have either decomposed or been mutilated beyond recognition.
VIDEO | ShopKeep refines retail touch using iPad
Founded by a former shop operator, ShopKeep is hoping to get a bigger piece of the growing mobile retail point-of-sale business.
VIDEO | The most useless gadget ever created
Click LIKE if you think this thing is totally useless.
VIDEO | Funny Microsoft TV commercial for the Nokia Lumia
A very funny Nokia Lumia advertisement that tries to promote a better smartphone on Microsoft’s struggling mobile phone operating system, Windows Phone.
VIDEO | The world’s ‘smallest’ movie
A movie with atoms as actors has been named by the Guinness World Records organization, as the ”world’s smallest movie.
