If Google shares less data, rivals shout antitrust; if it opens up, privacy advocates cry foul
Google LLC is limiting access to key tools that track ad spending, disrupting hundreds of marketers and underscoring the powerful role the search giant plays in the digital advertising industry. One recent change affects ad measurement companies — independent firms that monitor the performance of ...
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Summer activities: a gadget to keep an eye body odor, plus smartphone apps to enhance mahjong and fishing.
Apple takes on Google in education with cheaper iPad and new software
Apple Inc. is going head-to-head with Google in education, a market the iPhone-maker helped pioneer but has let languish. For the first time in several years, Apple released hardware specific to education: a new iPad that squares up against Google's cheap Chromebook laptops, which have ...
Apple seen eying 2018 iPad revamp to add facial recognition, but OLED screen unlikely
Apple Inc. is working on a redesigned, high-end iPad for as early as 2018 that incorporates key iPhone X features such as slimmer edges and facial recognition, according to people familiar with the matter. However, the new version of the tablet is unlikely to include ...
Liberating young minds with technology
Education in Japan, within the nexus of business, science and internationalization, is currently developing progressive initiatives. One such trend is to move university teaching out of brick-and-mortar classrooms and into the online sphere. This could be, in its more modest form, simply supplementary resources for ...
Noh players seek new audiences with live subtitles on tablets
Tightly traditional noh drama is loosening up, with theater groups trying out tablet computers to help baffled audiences understand what's going on. The devices show the actors' lines and help to explain plot twists in real time. "Noh groups are trying to get more people interested ...
Japan Post enlists Apple, IBM in search for ways to help vulnerable elderly
State-owned financial conglomerate Japan Post recruits tech giants Apple and IBM to find care solutions for senior citizens.
Advanced iOS virus targeting Hong Kong protesters, security firm says
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a computer virus that spies on Apple Inc's iOS operating system for the iPhone and iPad, and they believe it is targeting pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. The malicious software, known as Xsser, is capable of stealing text messages, photos, call ...
Docomo set to begin selling iPad next month
NTT Docomo Inc. said Wednesday it will start selling Apple's popular iPad starting in June. Docomo, which has the largest share of subscriptions in the domestic market, is the last major carrier to become an iPad provider in Japan, as KDDI Corp. and SoftBank Corp. ...
Abe stirs gadget-use debate in Diet
Using iPads and other digital devices during Diet sessions is banned under current rules as well as custom, but this may change after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the devices may invigorate deliberations. Abe made the remark at an Upper House audit committee meeting Monday ...
NTT Docomo Inc. will start selling Apple Inc.'s iPad tablet computer soon, a senior official at the mobile phone carrier said Wednesday. The company will offer the product "in the not-too-distant future," Senior Executive Vice President Kazuto Tsubouchi said. It will do so by the ...
