Amazon’s already sooo over Black Friday. The online retail giant pushes forward with new offers starting Saturday, ahead of Cyber Monday, with new deals launching every 10 minutes. For the first time, it’s also sending mobile-exclusive lightning deals through its app, so users can snag a sweet discount on the...
The advent of the connected home has made it possible for our everyday appliances to talk to us, and more important, to each other. Thermostat control, energy conservation, and routine maintenance are just a few more things your average smart homeowner no longer has to worry about. So when you...
Samsung may be known for wacky gimmicks—like its weird rap-music corporate video—pocket-busting smartphones and bizarre press conferences. But it’s incredibly serious when it comes to its future.At the Samsung Developer Conference in San Francisco this week, the Android maker and Tizen evangelist is laying out its path forward, and it...
ReadWriteHome is an ongoing series exploring the implications of living in connected homes.According to the experts, we may all be living in a smart home before long. Google wants it to be theirs. Forget the fact that it doesn’t actually have a cohesive smart home system yet—it’s working on that, and quickly...
The Samsung Developer Conference is a 3 day conference from November 11-13, 2014 held at the Moscone west, San Francisco, CA. We have previously covered this conference and our thoughts about it previously. Today Samsung has released more sessions onto the Schedule as detailed below, making it an even...
Jawbone, one of the leading makers of wearable fitness trackers, just made its own wristband obsolete.The company, which previously said it was working on a new standalone Jawbone UP app, finally launched it on Sunday for iPhones. With the new app, Jawbone’s step-tracking features work using the phone alone, no...
Samsung have had a busy IFA 2014 already, with their Samsung unpacked event that they had yesterday, a Press conference earlier today and then BK Yoon, the chief executive of Samsung Electronics presented the keynote. The keynote directly addressed ‘The Home of the Future’, and shared Samsung's...
ReadWriteHome is an ongoing series exploring the implications of living in connected homes.Three years ago, a pipe burst in Alex Hawkinson’s family vacation home when he was away.“We found it totally destroyed by moisture,” he told me in an interview earlier this year. “The electricity went out, and the pipes...
This week, Nest and six other companies announced their master plan to make smart homes better. The secret, they say, lies in mesh networking, which lets gadgets talk to each other directly—no centralized hub necessary. To help the cause, the group even introduced its own brand-new mesh wireless protocol called...
Soon, Windows smartphone users will be able to command their houses by just speaking a word or two. Smart home company Insteon will take the wraps off an intriguing new announcement Wednesday—a forthcoming Windows Phone app feature that ties into Cortana, Microsoft's voice control. With that, users will be able to speak...
Developers, you have a new smart-home platform to play with. Google's Nest unit has formally unveiled an API (see our API explainer) that will let independent programmers create new applications for the company's smart thermostats and smoke alarms. Nest's press release is embedded below.See also: How A Little Competition Made Thermostats...
For years, he told you to shut off the lights and turn the heat down. Now, for Father’s Day, you could make sure he’s covered with these easy-to-use smart home products and other connected devices.The best part: These items can be picked up from Best Buy, Staples, Walmart, Target, Apple...
ReadWriteHome is an ongoing series exploring the implications of living in connected homes.If you don't already live in a smart home, odds are good that you will before long. When that day comes, your connected residence will be like a member of the family—or, more likely, a butler. Just like Carson on...
People are on edge thanks to Heartbleed, a coding mistake that inadvertently laid waste to the security of many big online services.See also: Weekend Project: Start Guarding Yourself Against HeartbleedThe revelation this week shocked the world. And new reports coming out about Heartbleed only seem to inspire more worries, not...
ReadWriteHome is an ongoing series exploring the implications of living in connected homes.Lighting is a key ingredient in the connected home, and the benefits of smartening it up are obvious. Practically everyone has forgotten to turn off a light or fumbled around for the switch. And some find coming back to...
ReadWriteHome is an ongoing series exploring the implications of living in connected homes.When I'm at work, my cats—Gamera and Gojira—love to defy me. I know this because my smart home tells me so. People have all sorts of reasons for connecting their homes. Some people want to monitor the nanny, or...
ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.Real companies making real products that real people, you know, spend real money on. That's what ReadWrite predicted would be the hottest of hot startups in 2013 and, for the most part, we were right.2013...
This is a post in the ReadWriteHome series, which explores the implications of living in connected homes.When it comes to the connected home, it’s natural for people to assume they’ll be masters of their domestic domain. Unfortunately, some may wind up becoming victims instead. Just ask Marc Gilbert. He and his wife...
This is a post in the ReadWriteHome series, which explores the implications of living in connected homes.As the fantasy of home automation becomes a reality, devices are slowly creeping their way into our homes bringing us closer to the residence the Jetsons envisioned years ago. It could be argued that audio...
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