Made-in-Canada digital signage tech gives businesses a competitive advantage

Toshiba launched its Canadian-designed digital signage technology for business. Toshiba Display Solutions allow small businesses to communicate with customers through single or multiple LED screens.

Created by engineers at Toshiba’s Canadian headquarters, this new product helps businesses control the look and feel of their digital display content, including images, video, weather and news updates for as little as $129.99/month. The technology uses cloud computing to give business owners the ultimate flexibility and control.

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HTC One wins Global Mobile Award for Best Smartphone at MWC

The HTC One, which was launched nearly a year ago, was given the prestigious Global Mobile Award for Best Smartphone at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. 

Voted for by a panel of more than 175 independent industry experts, drawn from the media and analyst communities, the award recognises the smartphone the judges believe to be the absolute best across the industry.

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Mozilla Firefox devices crop up at MWC

Alcatel OneTouch Fire S

The Android-powered devices might overpower Mozilla Firefox’s mobile operating system but there are still some new Firefox handsets out on the MWC floor. Here’s a look at a couple of them.

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Intel introduces 64-bit Android for smartphones

Intel has introduced a new 64-bit dual-core smartphone chip for Android at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Hermann Eul, vice president and general manager of mobile communications group at Intel, demonstrated the Merrifield chip with the use of a smartphone that shows off a few screens of Android’s user interface. The company has been working on integrating 64-bit chip on Android 4.4 KitKat operating system. Intel sped up code contributions of the 64-bit Android kernel for its x86 chips. While development for 64-bit ARM chips are still underway.

“We have on Merrifield our 64-bit Android kernel running,” Eul said. “We prepare the world and the ecosystem for advances and we push the 64-bit adoption in mobile.”

There are currently no smartphones that carry the 64-bit Android. Intel expects Merrifield-powered devices to come out around the second quarter of the year.

Source: PCWorld