Gadgets bring work home

Facing greater pressure at the workplace, a majority of employees take their official work home through tech gadgets like smartphones, reports The Economic Times.

Employees are checking in with the office on their smartphones from virtually anywhere and everywhere, the survey by jobsite CareerBuilder said.

About 62% of employees, among more than 5 200 surveyed in the US, have admitted to using their smartphones to check e-mails and perform other tasks of office while having meals, followed by 60% on vacations.

IBM is embarking on a research project to design mobile gadgets which will be easy to use for people with disabilities or those who are not fully literate, says the Wireless Federation.

The institute has collaborated with India's National Institute of Design and the University of Tokyo's Research Center for Advance Science and Technology. The aim of the collaboration is to develop a common interface for mobile devices that will make the gadgets easier to use.

According to Chieko Asakawa, an IBM Fellow and CTO of IBM's accessibility research, through this collaborative research initiative, the institute will uncover real information accessibility requirements and issues the elderly and people in developing economies are facing everyday.

Figures and reports have confirmed that sales of electronic book readers, or e-readers, displayed for the first ever time at the IT Show, took off at the four-day fair in Suntec Singapore, states Top News.

Exhibitors at the first major consumer electronics show of the ongoing year shared that they witnessed "brisk business" for the e-book readers and also received various enquiries for the gadgets, which are utilised to read digital books.

McCoy, the local firm which is involved in selling digital lifestyle products, managed to sell off all of its 100 units. The e-readers were sold out within the first two hours of the show.