Gadget makers unveil hot tech to woo kids

An example may be never too young to become connected. The technology industry displaying its wares for the massive Electronic devices Show recently included many different products and apps directed at the youngest audiences, even those unable to walk.

 The child tech offerings featured accessories and apps marketed to parents as tools to aid children learn in a very tender age. Fisher-Price was showing a bright plastic object with teething rings that doubles as a possible iPhone case. That means it is easy for a six-month-old to utilize the smartphone.

 "It's actually a great learning tool," said Julia Maher, marketing manager for infant toys at Fisher-Price, one of Mattel. "We percieve moms passing back their devices to occupy babies at all times."

 She said babies "like to turn pages" which enables it to actually interact with a mobile device. For 18-month-olds, another device from the toymaker attaches for the iPad, giving toddlers another substitute for commence a digital lifestyle.

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Android, iOS to power your property appliances like refrigerator, oven

It may speak to your car, your refrigerator, water your plants and keep on being healthy: the smartphone is end up being the consumer's handheld remote control for a lifetime.

 That's the content delivered by a multitude of firms for the International Electronic devices Show, where terms like "appification" were tossed around freely.

 The tens of thousands of "apps" developed for mobile platforms for instance Apple's iOS, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows Phone and showcased for the Nevada tech gathering are quickly choosing a large amount of functions that folks or different devices i did so.

 Nowhere was this more evident inside the "connected home" zone on the world's biggest technology show.

Samsung, the South Korean tech giant, showed a connected refrigerator which could stream music from the smartphone, while US appliance maker Dacor unveiled what it really the "first Android oven," using a panel to check on emails along with the Web.

 US appliance maker Whirlpool showed its lineup of smart appliances which could send an individual a text in the event the laundry is finished. Whirlpool's refrigerator could also stream music by using an app, enabling a bunch setting a playlist for every span of a dinner party, for example.

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Apple won't blindly pursue share of the market: Phil Schiller, marketing chief

San Francisco bay area: In a revised version of your interview published in a very Chinese newspaper, Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller said the organization would give attention to making "the very best products" for customers and "never blindly pursue market share."

 The Shanghai Evening News cited Schiller as nevertheless Apple would not produce a cheaper smartphone in the interest of expanding its share of the market.

 That did actually undermine other recent media reports indicating that Apple was working on a decreased-end smartphone, which would represent a tremendous transfer of strategy for an organization that has always dedicated to premium products.

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Microsoft to change Messenger with Skype in March

Bay area: Microsoft on Wednesday posted out to you word that it's going to "retire" its Messenger online chat feature on March 15 and replace it while using Skype internet telephony service it bought not too long ago.

Microsoft sent an e-mail message advising Messenger users to update to Skype employing their same account information prior to the deadline.

 "You are able to instant message and video chat... much like before, and as well discover new means of residing in touch with Skype in your mobile and tablet," Microsoft said from the message.

 The Redmond, Washington-based technology giant announced in November who's was shutting down Messenger in preference of merging users into Skype.

 The transition began late recently while using discharge of Skype 6.0 software that lets people check in towards the online communication service using Microsoft accounts. Messenger will likely be disconnect in most country but China.

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Steve Jobs honoured with 'iPhone memorial' in Russia

MOSCOW: A memorial to renowned tech innovator and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was unveiled in Russian town of St Petersburg on Wednesday.

 The monument, a huge replica of an black, late model iPhone using a screen that displays a photo and video slideshow of Jobs' life, is located in the courtyard with the heart.} St Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics.

 On the back, the monument includes a QR code which observers can scan before being directed to an online site commemorating the Apple co-founder.

 The Progress IT Fund held a competition not too long ago to pick a designer with the monument. From more than 200 project ideas, the fund chose St Petersburg native Gleb Tarasov's, entitled "Sunny QR Code".

 Jobs, credited with helping to build Apple in a computer giant, died in October, 2011 after a long struggle with cancer.

 Apple products, and this includes the iPhone and iPad, enjoy widespread popularity among mostly urbanised, middle- and upper-class Russians.

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