Microsoft debuts $399 Surface Go tablet, taking on cheaper iPads

MICROSOFT Corp. is going for the low-end of the personal computing market with a smaller, cheaper Surface Go tablet that takes on Apple, Inc.’s cheapest iPads.

Flying trains? French entrepreneur makes the pitch to aircraft makers

IT SOUNDS like something Q, the tech guy in James bond movies, would create: A plane that lands on a runway, shrugs its wings off, turns into a train and rolls on to rails to drop you off at your station.

How a multi-cloud strategy can accelerate your digital transformation

IT’S AMAZING to think that within our lifetime we will travel to work in a self-driving car; we’ll have conversations with our refrigerators about what’s for dinner; and we’ll receive customer service from Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered chat bots. Developments in technology are taking these once-fictional scenarios and planting them in our very near future.

US lawmakers question Alphabet developers’ access to customers’ Gmail inboxes

Alphabet Inc. is facing another day of demands from top Republican lawmakers to explain reports that hundreds of outside app developers had access to...

Automotive display maker JDI bets big on digital dashboards

FULLY digital screens are replacing speedometers and dials in vehicles, making industry leader Japan Display Inc. (JDI) optimistic about boosting sales to global car makers.

Dell study shows changing face of video gamers

THE GAMING industry has changed considerably and so did the behavior and the profile of the typical gamer, a new study by PC giant Dell has shown.

Honor 10: Budget-friendly flagship

In recent years, the battleground in the fiercely competitive smartphone market has shifted from top-tier phones with top-tier pricing to mid-range pricing with top-tier specs and for the Chinese Honor brand (a sub-brand of Huawei) this is a battleground they want to dominate in, especially with the introduction of Honor 10.

Facebook, Apple disagree on how to curb fake news for US midterms

APPLE and Facebook have figured out how to keep us glued to their devices and platforms. But they haven’t figured out how to curb the misinformation that plagued them during the 2016 election and have struggled to regain public trust. And now, in the run-up to the 2018 midterms, they certainly don’t agree on a solution.

Baidu unveils AI chip

Baidu, Inc. has unveiled an artificial intelligence (AI) chip to run intensive computing in everything from data centers to autonomous driving, as the Chinese search giant prepares to launch its first self-driving vehicles in Japan.

China wants to beat NASA

China is working on a super-powerful rocket that would be capable of delivering heavier payloads into low orbit than NASA, a leading Chinese space expert was quoted as saying Monday.

HTC to slash jobs in Taiwan

Smartphone maker HTC plans to slash 1,500 jobs or around a quarter of its global work force at its manufacturing unit in Taiwan, in a bid to better manage resources as the company continues to battle dwindling sales.

DBM warns against digital disruption as it renews call for government processing reforms

DAVAO CITY -- The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has alerted local governments and national agencies to be ready for digital disruption as...