The Tizen Developer Conference took place this year in Shenzhen, China. Hyogun Lee, Executive Vice President of Samsung Electronics and Co-chair of Tizen Technical Steering Group presented the first keynote of the event. Asian developers learnt first hand what tizen was and the upcoming opportunities that it brought them....
Guest author Scott Amyx is founder and CEO of Amyx+McKinsey, a wearables and IoT (Internet of Things) strategy and execution agency.The tech industry is no stranger to change, but the data derived from the IoT is taking disruption to a new level—sforzando. At IBM's Insight conference last month, Bob Picciano, senior...
Guest author Tom Slowe is CEO and cofounder of Nervve, a provider of visual search technology that aims to change the way video and imagery is used for intelligence, insight and action.In 2015, we’ve reached a point where the ability to fulfill our every want and need is right at...
Amazon has a bold new gadget, and it’s a button. It’s literally a stick-on, Internet-connected button that, when pressed, sends a “Bat-Signal" to Amazon to order more dog food, coffee, detergent or other common household goods. The new Dash Button looks like an April Fool’s Day joke, but it actually reveals...
The leveling off of Samsung’s mobile business last year sent a message to the consumer electronics giant: Today’s tech users want more than just huge, plasticky phones. They want beautiful gadgets that are a pleasure to use.Enter Samsung's new design chief, Lee Don-Tae. He just joined the technology giant this...
At the Consumer Electronics Show on Monday, Samsung Electronics CEO B.K. Yoon talked up his company's strategy to connect everything in your life. "The Internet of Things is ready to go," he said in his keynote address. Turns out, Samsung's latest and perhaps boldest IoT campaign is already underway. The not-so-secret ingredients: Its big...
Tizen TV News The HOT News of the day is that Samsung have decided to start shipping Tizen on ALL of their upcoming Smart TVs starting 2015. According to industry sources, Samsung have taken this bold move following a meeting that took place on 29 December, and decided to...
Brad Silverberg (@bradsilverberg) is one of the most accomplished legends of high technology, yet somehow manages to keep a low profile. As a young engineering executive he headed Microsoft’s Windows, Internet and Office franchises. Dubbed “Mr. Windows,” Silverberg led the launch of Windows 95. It's easy to forget just how...
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...
Home automation platform SmartThings unveiled Wednesday new modules for support for Samsung devices. This in itself is not surprising, given that Samsung acquired SmartThings in August. What’s new is the extended functionality it lends to your home appliances.See also: Samsung Buys Smart-Home Outfit SmartThings, Reportedly For $200 MillionWith SmartThings integration,...
Samsung's efforts in the Smart home are already well underway. We have seen the robotic vacuum cleaner, Washing machine, the fridge, the TV in what BK Yoon, the chief executive of Samsung Electronics called ‘the Home of the Future’ at the IFA 2014. “The biggest change, the biggest transformation,...
Tizen devices are built from the ground up with convergence in mind, and the ability to share videos and pictures between compatible devices. At the Tizen Developer Summit 2014 in Shanghai Samsung showed off their All Share framework using a Tizen Gear S Smartwatch and a Tizen refrigerator. ...
Running water, air conditioning, refrigeration or Internet ... which is most important to you? In some parts of the world, getting any of these is a trial, but in the overly pampered Western world, they're taken as a given. Until they're not, which is what happened to me this weekend.At the...
Amazon is quietly staffing up its Silicon Valley-based hardware lab as it gears up to create and test new connected home gadgets. Lab126, the Amazon division behind hardware products like the Kindle Fire, will bring its full-time payroll to at least 3,757 in the next five years, Reuters reports in...
Samsung Electronics showed off the very first Tizen-OS based smart TVs at Samsung Open Source Conference held at the Grand Inter-continental Hotel in Samsung-dong, Seoul. The reveal was shown as part of the 'Overview on Tizen TV Architecture' session. Tizen TV was presented running on a 65inch Smart TV...
ReadWriteHome is an ongoing series exploring the implications of living in connected homes. This week, it is sponsored by Best Buy.How cool would it be if you had a house you could control from wherever you are? If you never had to remember to turn the lights off again, or...
These days, every tech giant of note is staking a claim in the smart home, and Samsung’s no exception. In April, the company imagined a universe of smart-home appliances and devices hooking to its smart TVs and apps for automation and control. Now it appears to be rethinking this approach. The South Korean...
It's standard to size a market by the number of widgets sold, but in the Internet of Things, which numbers sensors and devices in the billions, widget counts don't really matter. In part this is because the real money in IoT is not in the "things," but rather in the...
The machines have taken over; the future of the Internet of Things is already here. Across a dizzying array of applications, machines are generating copious quantities of data, most of it being pushed to the cloud for storage, processing and analysis.As Amazon CTO Werner Vogels told attendees at the MongoDB World...
Practically everything is a billboard to Google, but there’s one thing that shouldn't be: Your Nest.See also: Google Has New Targeted Ads That Encourage You To Dive Into AppsA December letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission, released today, fueled fears that Google might be soon be serving you ads...
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