Tech stocks blew expectations out of the water in 2017, outpacing the S&P 500 by 21 percentage points. While 2017 certainly marked an exceptional year for tech stocks, it was also a harbinger of things to come. The increasing — and, in some cases, renewed — interest in tech companies has...
Samsung want you to know that they are serious about their wearable devices, and one way of showing the "Love" is continued development and support. Support can come in many forms and one of the best for end-users software updates. The Korean tech giant has already rolled out some major...
The Gear S3 is an eye catching smartwatch that is currently Samsung's flagship wearable device. Near the end of 2017, the Gear S3 received a value pack update that brought many improvements to the watch, including updating it to Tizen 3.0, but also brought with it a bug that affected battery...
The Samsung Gear Fit2 Pro has become quite a popular fitness wearable device in a relatively short time. The whole idea is that you can better track your fitness goals with detailed information at your finger tips or wrist in this case. Recently, the Gear S2 smartwatch received an unexpected software update,...
Motiv smashed all the preconceived notion of a wearable device by launching the Motiv Ring last year. Earlier, the word “wearable device” meant a bulky smartwatch or a fitness tracker. But as the name suggests, Motiv Ring crams all those fitness tracking hardware into something you can easily put on your finger. The tiny...
Digital data thefts are on the rise and sports apparel merchant Under Armour has become the latest victim of the crime. The Baltimore (USA) based company has disclosed that there was a massive data breach into its food and nutrition app and website, MyFitnessPal, system earlier this year. An unauthorized party gained access...
As we all know, the Chrome OS runs on their Chromebooks, laptops, desktops etc. But have you noticed, that the OS has never been run on a tablet? Well, Acer has now launched the Acer Chromebook Tab 10, which is the first tablet to run the Chrome OS! The tablet was...
Facer is introducing a new feature to the Facer platform called the Smartwatch Tracker. The Smartwatch Tracker is inspired by Flickr’s Camera Finder and this new feature is going to utilise the wide collection of Facer's data. With the Facer platform, tracking the most popular smartwatch devices by brand, model...
Samsung owned Harman International has announced a strategic collaboration with Samsung SmartThings. Through the collaboration, Harman will work with SmartThings to accelerate the growth of the latter's Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem. Harman-SmartThings Collaboration This partnership is between the Samsung SmartThings R&D team and Harman Connected Services (HCS), a division...
Google Is rebranding its smartwatch operating system, Android Wear to Wear OS by Google. Some Andriod users got an early notification of the new branding and logo. Although the hardware and software remain the same, the first developer preview of Android P refers to the wearables platform as “Wear OS.”...
Whats happening in the world of Tizen Smartphones? Well, not really that much of late, but that's probably another post for another time. For the last year we have kept a close eye on the Tizen App ecosystem and today we bring you the Top 20 Apps downloaded from the...
Samsung Electronics' smart home platform SmartThings is finally back online, after a frustrating outage in North America. The downtime began on Monday evening and persisted for almost 24 hours. SmartThings acknowledged the outage within an hour since the first reports surfaced, and has subsequently addressed the root cause of the outage. SmartThings Outage...
The smartwatch market has been growing steadily since the first smartwatches came years back. However, Google’s Android Wear hasn't exactly reached the peak where some people were hoping it to reach by now. The disappointment has forced smartwatch fans to look for an alternative, in the form of Tizen or Apple Watch. But...
The mobile payments industry is a huge revenue stream. Every top player in the tech industry is jumping into the lucrative sector, with the hope of carving out a share for themselves. Huawei is one of the many such companies with its own mobile payments solution. Named Huawei Wallet, the...
Google launched Google Pay, the company's digital wallet solution born out of the merger of Android Pay and Google Wallet, last month. It was a long-overdue consolidation to say the least. The company's bid to make the various e-wallet solutions less confusing for consumers has now started taking bigger steps. Starting March, Google Pay is...
The wearables market has seen an exponential growth in the recent past. In fact, the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2017 saw a record number of wearables being shipped worldwide. A total of 37.9 million wearable devices were shipped during the three month period, a 7.7% growth (from 35.2 million units) compared...
We've seen an immense improvement in the quality and capabilities of low-cost smartphones in the last few years. But there still are millions of people around the world who simply cannot afford them. Low cost devices, such as Jio Phone in India, though not smart enough, are serving to the appetite for...
Are you excited about the Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ ? Well, Best Buy in the US have an offer for existing and new customers alike and that is that they will knock off $100 off the retail price if you order the new Samsung flagship devices on Friday. Just...
Hello, all Tizen users it is really after a long time a good and very necessary app has been released onto the Tizen OS. In addition, the app is called Collabio Documents. XCDS International Limited finally launched there app for Tizen Smartphones. Let’s know the details about it as well. About...
The Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 is at full swing in Barcelona and we've already seen a number of new devices being introduced. One that has caught our attention is probably Android 8 Oreo running Samsung flagship, the Galaxy S9. However, Android isn't the only mobile OS catching some media...
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