ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.It was a big year for mobile in 2013, as it has been for the past several years.Smartphones took the first steps toward becoming hubs we can use to control our entire lives. Companies became...
Sorry, this not like the old days were words like "hot" and "sex" would get you to the top of search results. And yet we're talking about stripping to the bare bones to get dressed up in what might be the Emperor's new clothes. History In the beginning, a mobile (camera)...
Google is developing a smartwatch that runs on Android and is integrated with Google Now, the Wall Street Journal reports. The device is in late-stage development and Google is talking with component manufacturers in Asia to mass produce the device, according to The Journal. See also: The Hard(ware) Realities Keeping Us From...
Apple has a lot more to cover this year. At least, that is what the invite for its October 22nd announcement stated. Tomorrow, we will find out exactly what Apple means.Apple is set to make its second major announcement of the fall tomorrow in San Francisco and the prognosticators have...
Google isn’t really all that worried about how much money it is losing with Motorola. Google’s smartphone manufacturer continues to be the company's biggest cost sink. In its third quarter earnings today, Motorola lost another $248 million on revenue of $1.18 billion. So far this year, Google’s Motorola division has cost...
Nokia is now a part of Microsoft. When the dust settles, the new Microsoft will have its guns aimed directly at Google and Apple.Microsoft has made a big deal recently of transition itself to be a “Devices and Services” business. Buying Nokia’s device business is the easiest way to make...
In one fell swoop today, Microsoft is becoming an extremely different type of company. Microsoft is pushing hard to recreate itself as a “devices and services” company and today it took a very big step in that direction by buying, you guessed it, Nokia’s mobile devices and services division. Microsoft is...
Samsung smartwatch patent. Image source: Moveplayer.The first of a long line of expected smartwatches is likely to be announced next week. Next Wednesday, Samsung is likely to announce a very big new smartphone (the Galaxy Note III) and a very small mobile device, a smartwatch that may go by the...
If ever we needed confirmation that markets, not courtrooms, should decide the technologies we use, witness SCO Group's reborn dream to sue all of UNIX-dom into its wallet. It was a specious lawsuit in 2003 when SCO Group (now Xinuos) first launched its $1 billion broadside against IBM. It's even...
A year ago, I left Google's annual I/O developers conference convinced it was making a major strategic shift into being a hardware company.As this year's I/O wraps up, I'm left questioning that conclusion.The message Google is putting forward in 2013 is very different: It's all about what developers can do...
One fine day, we might all ditch our smartphones in favor of smartwatches or other wrist-worn devices that do everything that a smartphone can do, but better. That day is not coming any time soon.The ideal smartwatch would be able to stand by itself without requiring help from a smartphone...
At some point, Apple is widely expected to release a miniature computer for your wrist. Assuming the rumors pan out, you, dear geek, are going to hate whatever is released — because it's not going to do many of the things that you think such a device should do.Your favorite...
What happens when a new company comes into your market, drives down prices, iterates better and faster and ends up kicking your butt around the room and taking all of your customers?Well, you sue them, of course. That is what a coalition of companies under the moniker FairSearch.org has been doing...
Everybody can agree that Apple’s next couple of iPhones need to be more than just iterative updates. From the design to the hardware to iOS, Apple clearly needs to do… more. But some people like to take that idea of "more" to ludicrous extremes. Usually it is some obscure blog trying...
I want a smartwatch. Not just because I am a gadget nerd or because owning one will be, more or less, a professional requirement. I want one because I see the potential of having a data connected device on my arm with a variety of sensors provides extraordinary value… if...
We might look back on 2013 as the year when wearable computing came in vogue. Apple is reportedly working on a smartwatch. Samsung too. The rumor mill now tells us that Google is working on the concept of a smartwatch and has been for some time.According to a report from...
Last week, Google's Motorola Mobility division axed 1,200 jobs - about 10% of its workforce. These latest cuts were in addition to the 4,000 job reductions Motorola announced last August. In a statement released to the press, Motorola glumly stated:These cuts are a continuation of the reductions we announced last summer. It's...
A smartphone is probably the most advanced piece of technology most people own. We take these devices with us everywhere, we use them all the time. Odds are high we will drop them - onto the floor, into water or even onto hard pavement. Even if you got the phone for free...
Finnish startup Jolla is open for business. That’s the message CEO Marc Dillon was putting out, loud and clear, during two on-stage appearances at the Mobile World Congress tradeshow in Barcelona last week. Not a bad amount of stage time for a first time MWC attendee and a mobile...
Turns out Apple CEO Tim Cook and his team celebrated too soon when they took a big victory lap last summer after a jury awarded Apple more than $1 billion in damages based on claims against Samsung.Because the judge overseeing the case just tossed out almost half of that judgment...
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