Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM),considering strategy changes after customer and market-sharelosses, introduced a new smartphone BlackBerry Curve 9220 inIndonesia as local demand for its products increased. “We spent a lot of time in focus here making sure that ourproduct is as relevant as possible for Indonesians,” HastingsSingh, RIM’s managing director…

LAUSANNE, SwitzerlandSwiss scientists have demonstrated how a partially paralyzed person can control a robot by thought alone, a step they hope will one day allow immobile people to interact with their surroundings through so-called avatars. Similar experiments have taken place in the United States and Germany, but they involved either…

A new test version of Microsoft’s flagship Windows 8 operating system — expected to boost support for tech gizmos and let PC makers kick the tires of the forthcoming OS — will be made available to the public in the first week of June, the company said Monday. Microsoft President Steven…

AUBURN HILLS, Mich., April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –The Chrysler Foundation today announced that it is granting $40,000 in additional funding to nine Michigan high school robotics teams that will participate in the international 2012 FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) Championship, April 25-28, at Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, Each of the nine…

The Honeoye High School robotics team is on its way to the national championships in its first year of competition. The group leaves today for St. Louis, Mo., where the students will compete against about 400 other teams from across the country. The team, Students Utilizing Ingenuity, Technology and Science High…

Swiss scientists have demonstrated how a partially paralyzed person can control a robot using brain signals alone. The team at Switzerland’s Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne says the experiment takes them a step closer to enabling immobile patients to easily interact with their surroundings through a robot `avatar.’…

Samsung’s UN46D800, a 46-inch 3D LED HDTV, earned 4.5 out of 5 stars in our review last year for its top-notch image quality, outstanding features, and good color in 3D scenes. As much as our reviewer liked it, however, she took issue with its $2700 list price at the time. For hot…

A worker shows a smartphone on March 2 in Toulouse at the Intel’s smartphones’ research center. STORY HIGHLIGHTSThe first smartphone powered by Intel-designed microprocessors is on saleThe Xolo X900 is available in India from today for around $423Intel is launching a new family of Core microprocessors, called Ivy BridgeIvy Bridge can…

Amped Wireless has released two WiFi-boosting USB adapters, the UA1000 and the UA2000. The two models are high-power WiFi directional adapters that can handle high-speed access and extend the range of your wireless network by up to three times the distance of standard wireless adapters. Amped Wireless claims that its…

Now that you’ve got an HDTV, you may want to start saving up for a super-high definition one. Television manufacturers, ever eager to shore up their business with new technology, are gearing up to roll out sets with so-called 4K screen resolutions. These TVs, which should start to hit store…