Jay Alabaster - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Jay Alabaster

Article | 10/01/2012 Samsung plans smart TVs with face recognition, voice and gesture control

Samsung Electronics announced a host of new gadgets at the International Consumer Electronics Show on Monday, including smart TVs with face recognitio...

Article | 10/01/2012 Samsung to launch smart TV converter kit

Samsung on Sunday showed a device that converts standard televisions into smart TVs, providing high-definition Internet access, Skype video conferenci...

Article | 10/01/2012 Huawei unveils world's thinnest smartphone, signals offensive into high-end

Chinese device manufacturer Huawei has declared that it will begin an offensive into the high-end market for mobile phones, unveiling at the Consumer ...

Article | 8/01/2012 Sony denies report it will promote No. 2 Kazuo Hirai to run company from April

Sony on Saturday denied a report that it has decided to promote the head of its consumer product division, Kazuo Hirai, to lead the company from April...

Article | 7/01/2012 Casio develops technology to send data visually between devices

Casio has developed a new way to send information between smartphones and other gadgets, encoding it visually in small sets of flashing pixels that ap...

Article | 6/01/2012 Sony to launch flash cards with 125 Mbps write speeds

Sony said Friday it will begin selling memory cards with write speeds of 125 Mbps, the fastest in the industry, from February.

Article | 6/01/2012 Samsung, LG to launch Google TVs, joining Sony and Vizio

Google said Thursday that TV heavyweights Samsung and LG will launch sets that run its Google TV platform, with new models to be showcased at the Inte...

Article | 5/01/2012 Samsung to build new NAND flash factory in China, production in 2013

Samsung Electronics will break ground on a new NAND flash factory in China this year, a spokesman said Thursday, moving production closer to where man...

Article | 5/01/2012 Has the world's largest gadget expo lost its mojo?

The International Consumer Electronics Show takes place next week in Las Vegas, and as always there will be plenty to trigger our technolust. Teaser p...

Article | 30/12/2011 Researcher: Google+ growth accelerating, passes 62 million users

Google+ membership is accelerating, and the young social network is now adding 625,000 users a day with over 62 million in total, a researcher has est...

Article | 28/12/2011 Japan's Mitsui to invest in U.S. Tres Amigas smart power grid project

Mitsui, a massive Japanese conglomerate, will invest US$12 million in an ambitious smart grid project that is being constructed in New Mexico.

Article | 27/12/2011 Samsung, NTT DoCoMo and others to set up LTE chip joint venture

NTT DoCoMo said Tuesday it will form a joint venture with Samsung, Fujitsu, NEC and two other Japanese companies to design and sell chips for high-spe...

Article | 26/12/2011 Samsung to buy Sony's share of LCD panel joint company for $934 million

Sony said Monday it will sell off its entire stake in an LCD (liquid crystal display) manufacturing joint venture with Samsung Electronics for 1.08 tr...

Article | 22/12/2011 Japan mobile carriers to expand mobile touch payment beyond Sony standard

Japan's three biggest mobile phone companies said Wednesday they will adopt international standards for touch payment systems, expanding beyond the cu...

Article | 19/12/2011 Japanese game maker Square Enix to reopen hacked site, says no private data lost

Japanese game developer Square Enix said Monday that no private data was stolen when a server for a fan site was hacked last week, and it plans to reo...