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Computer Sciences Jan 20, 2016

Voice analytics software helps customer service reps build better rapport with customers

Customer service calls can be frustrating for consumers and agents alike. But MIT spinout Cogito believes it can use behavioral analytics to make those experiences less onerous.

Other Jan 4, 2016

How Betamax bit the dust – and other tales of forgotten tech

Sony are to no longer make Betamax video cassette tapes – something that will come as a surprise to many people who thought that Betamax had long since bitten the dust. But 28 years after it lost the battle to the VHS (or ...

Business Dec 21, 2015

Toshiba to cut jobs in consumer electronics amid record loss (Update)

Toshiba plans to cut 7,800 jobs, mostly in its consumer-electronics business, as it reorganizes in the face of projected record losses for the current fiscal year.

Engineering Dec 14, 2015

Can technology help with the UK's rising healthcare costs?

From diabetes to dementia, from depression to AIDS, large segments of the UK's population are living with conditions that cannot be cured, but must be managed outside of the hospital environment. How technology could transform ...

Electronics & Semiconductors Dec 8, 2015

Imec advances drive current in vertical 3D NAND memory devices

At this week's IEEE IEDM conference, nano-electronics research center imec showed for the first time the integration of high mobility InGaAs as a channel material for 3D vertical NAND memory devices formed in the plug (holes) ...

Consumer & Gadgets Nov 13, 2015

Post-Betamax, the format wars continue in a digital world

Sony announced this week that it will stop selling Betamax cassettes from March 2016. It was a format that appeared not to succeed as Sony had desired.

Hi Tech & Innovation Nov 11, 2015

UN urges more investment in cutting-edge technologies to drive growth

Japan, the United States but also increasingly China, are among the few nations driving global innovations like 3D-printing, the UN said Wednesday, urging more investments in fields expected to carry future economic growth.

Other Nov 10, 2015

End of an era: Sony to stop making Betamax tapes

Sony announced on Tuesday the company will stop making Betamax video tapes, ending the storied four-decade history of the product that had been ousted years ago by the more popular VHS format.

Energy & Green Tech Nov 3, 2015

Japan's lofty 'hydrogen society' vision hampered by cost

Japan has lofty ambitions to become a "hydrogen society" where homes and fuel-cell cars are powered by the emissions-free energy source, but observers say price and convenience are keeping the plan from taking off.

Business Oct 29, 2015

Sony returns to profit after marathon restructuring effort

Sony Corp. returned to profit last quarter in a sign its marathon restructuring effort is beginning to produce results.

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