Technology

  Bloomberg Auto insurance may be on the brink of an incursion from mobile-phone and technology companies. Telefonica SA’s O2 unit — one of the first mobile operators in Britain to offer car insurance — expanded its product line in February to include telematics boxes, which track people’s driving habits and can lead to cheaper premiums for youngsters. That’s stoking ...

  Emirates Business A new global study which includes data from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), ‘The Internet of Things: Today and Tomorrow’ published by Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, reveals that IoT will soon be widespread as 85% of businesses globally plan to implement IoT by 2019, driven by a need for innovation and business efficiency. While the ...

  Bloomberg Forget email, Slack and the humble telephone. When workers at one Australian company want to talk to colleagues in China, they just turn their heads and look down the “wormhole”. Large screens at the end of each row of desks offer a digital window between offices in Melbourne and Xi’an—7,000 kilometers apart—at real-estate company REA Group Ltd. The ...

  Bloomberg Line Corp. outlined an ambitious artificial-intelligence strategy that promises to transform Japan’s most popular messaging service while pitting it against Google, Facebook Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. The company is launching a suite of AI software tools to power an online digital assistant capable of conversing in Japanese and Korean, Line said at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. ...

  NEW YORK / AP Twitter is adding more tools to curb abuse on its service as part of its ongoing effort to protect users from hate and harassment. Among other things, the service will attempt to identify offenders on its own, even if no one has reported them first. It is the second time in three weeks the company ...

  Bloomberg Niantic Inc., a San Francisco startup, will unveil three new updates to Pokemon Go this year, plus a new version of its original game Ingress, seeking to build on the success of its augmented reality offerings. The developer is also busy working on new augmented reality games, Niantic Chief Executive Officer John Hanke said at a session at ...

  Bloomberg The co-founder of Noveto Systems Ltd. had five minutes to impress some 1,000 auto executives, venture capitalists and fellow entrepreneurs with his startup’s novel audio system. At stake, a potential supply deal with Mercedes-Benz. After a tentative beginning, Tomer Shani asked the crowd in Stuttgart, Germany, to “imagine a world without headphones and wires,” where speakers beam sound ...

  Emirates Business A10 Networks (NYSE: ATEN), a secure application servicesâ„¢ company, announced the expansion of its A10 Thunder CFW (convergent firewall) family with a new Gi/SGi firewall solution and a software-only vThunder CFW for NFV deployments. The new A10 Thunder CFW addresses rising security concerns of service providers who are focused on the industry’s transition to 5G, broad-scale deployment ...

  Bloomberg The team behind Pepper, the humanoid robot from SoftBank Robotics, are planning a platform for the machine where developers create applications for everyday use, such as guarding your home or giving floors a vacuum clean. SoftBank intends to open a platform similar to a mobile “app store” for developers to sell or market software to consumers, said Nicolas ...

  Bloomberg Cheap handsets helped Chinese smartphone makers climb to the top of home market. Now they’re hoping cutting-edge technology will take them global. Shrugging off a reputation for knockoffs, the country’s biggest brands are starting to push the envelope in everything from gadget specs to marketing campaigns. Huawei Technologies Co. has declared open-season on Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics ...