Technology

BLOOMBERG Alphabet Inc’s Google Pixel is eroding the iPhone’s dominance in Japan as the Apple Inc device gets pricier, finding success after years of misfires. Google phones accounted for a record 12% share in the Asian country in the June quarter, six times what it was a year ago, according to Counterpoint Research data. During the same period, the iPhone’s ...

BLOOMBERG A five-year truce between rivals Alphabet Inc and Microsoft Corp came crashing down in 2020 when the tech giants found themselves at odds over their competing web-search businesses, according to testimony at the US government’s antitrust trial against Google. After a decade of fights, the companies forged a non-aggression pact in 2016, wanting a fresh start to their acrimonious ...

BLOOMBERG Apple Inc said that recent claims of new iPhones getting too hot to the touch are due to software and app-related bugs and that fixes are coming soon. The company said the device can get warm in the first few days as the device works overtime to get set up and restore a user’s data, due to a bug ...

BLOOMBERG Amazon.com Inc previewed a push into generative artificial intelligence with new features for its Alexa voice assistant. The new system will focus on a conversation-like interface, real-world applications, personalisation, personality and privacy, Dave Limp, the company’s outgoing devices and services chief, said during an event at Amazon’s second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. “You can now have near human-like interactions ...

BLOOMBERG Amazon.com Inc has developed a new version of its cashierless shopping technology for clothing retailers — in an effort to expand the system beyond convenience and grocery stores. The retail and cloud-computing giant said the latest iteration of its Just Walk Out technology uses radio frequency identification, or RFID, tags to keep track of apparel. Previously, Amazon’s system has ...

BLOOMBERG Google has unveiled its next move in the race to dominate generative artificial intelligence: putting the technology directly into many of its most popular products. The Alphabet Inc division announced that it would equip services like Gmail, Maps, Docs and YouTube with its Bard chatbot. First released in February, Google’s Bard has lagged behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Google’s executives, facing ...

BLOOMBERG Intel Corp Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger, plotting a comeback for the once-dominant chipmaker, made the case that the company’s technology will be vital to an industrywide boom in artificial intelligence computing.  Speaking at Intel’s annual Innovation conference, Gelsinger pointed to advances that his company is making in production technology and software developer tools for AI. The opportunity will ...

BLOOMBERG Apple Inc’s latest iPhones and watches went on sale on September 22, a test of whether a new smartphone design and modest smartwatch changes can help return the company to growth. The devices are going on sale in about 40 countries in its first wave, including in Australia, Hong Kong, mainland China, the US, UK and France. The iPhone ...

BLOOMBERG Apple Inc has named a new leader for its secret group working on a noninvasive blood sugar monitor, putting a veteran iPhone and Mac chip executive in charge of one of the company’s most ambitious forays into health technology. Tim Millet, Apple’s vice president of platform architecture, has taken charge of the project after it was left without a ...

BLOOMBERG Apple Inc, facing a controversy in France over the iPhone 12’s radiation levels, has advised tech-support staff not to volunteer any information when consumers ask about the issue.  If customers inquire about the French government’s claim that the model exceeds standards for electromagnetic radiation, workers should say they don’t have anything to share, Apple employees have been told. Staff ...