Estonian Prime Minister Jüri Ratas arrived at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, in late January with praise for his country’s digital identity program. Estonia has one of the world’s foremost digital identity programs, which allows its citizens to use their identities to vote, buy medication, sign documents, and...
Holiday shopping is not over yet. We just saw Best Buy selling the Samsung Gear S3 and the Gear Sport with a $100 discount. Now it's eBay's turn to give you PRESENTS. The retailer is offering a 15% discount on a number of products across categories. All you've to do...
Let’s face it — it’s difficult to keep up with the pace (and price) of new technologies. Business owners face a barrage of new technologies, all promising revolutionary results. Wading through the hype can be time-consuming, but the right investments will reap dividends that more than make up for their...
At best, blockchain has been a trial-and-error technology. For every successful cryptocurrency, there are a dozen cases like Civil, which had to cancel its initial coin offering after failing to gain traction on a plan to use blockchain to verify user-submitted news content. Although 84 percent of global companies are...
The big Wear OS update that Google announced towards the end of last month has arrived. New navigation shortcuts, clubbed notifications, and a better Google Assistant integration are the major highlights of the update. The revamped interface is rolling out to users as Wear OS 2.1, and will certainly make your old Android smartwatch...
Taking on giant corporations isn’t easy. Established companies always have a few home turf advantages: years of experience, a well-trained workforce, and brand recognition, among other things. Imagine how daunting it must have been for companies like Sony and Fuji to take on photo giant Kodak. How tough was it...
Asteroid, a Linux-based open-source wearable OS, and a potential replacement for Google's Wear OS, has reached a big milestone. AsteroidOS v1.0, the first stable build, has now been officially released. The OS is built by a French computer scientist and Linux developer Florent Revest - as a hobby. AsteroidOS - a potential replacement...
Samsung has began rolling Android 8.0 Oreo updates for the Galaxy S8 and S8+ in the UK via an Over the Air (OTA) update, firmware/build version G955FXXU1CRB7. Users have now got some new exciting features from Samsung Experience 9.0 upgrade. A boot animation greets you with the Android Oreo-based Samsung...
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...
The global smart speaker market is set to receive another top player as Facebook plans to launch two smart speaker models in mid-2018. Earlier this year, rumours had it that Facebook was building a smart speaker with a 15-inch inbuilt screen and voice controls with more social networking functions called...
In this smart and connected world of technology, security has become the primary concern for many. Every gadget in our homes could connect and communicate with one another. This opens up the possibility of a large-scale cyber-loot if the security gets breached. And it's very much possible. Even tech companies...
While the majority of the smartphone industry is going all gaga about Bezel-less 18:9 displays, Dual Camera, AI assistants, under display fingerprint scanners and of course the Notch, Motorola have a unique line of smartphones in its Moto Z series which are capable of doing things that other smartphone users...
Amazon's Alexa and Google Assistant has been leading the way when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI). Being the only major AI platforms open to the public, third-party manufacturers don't have much choice but to adopt either of them on their products. Well, Amazon and Google are about to find...
Google announced on Monday that it's Google Assistant-enabled speakers would be produced with something new- a touchscreen. CES 2018 is blazing hot as the tech giant has announced that companies such as JBL, Lenovo, LG, and Sony would be producing Google Assistant speakers with a touchscreen. Google says these speakers...
Smart TV refers to digital TVs that use various operating systems (OS) such as Tizen (Samsung) webOS (LG), FirefoxOS (Panasonic) and Android (Sony). This year saw the advent of numerous smart TV's and one of the leading manufacturers of these products is Samsung Electronics. This company has released TVs with...
It has been six years to the release of Tizen Operating System (OS). The Linux based open source OS has gone on to become a front-runner on Samsung's smartwatches, smart TVs any many other consumer electronics. Samsung Electronics has played the forefront role in the development of the OS. Recent...
It's almost a decade now since Samsung launched its first smart TV in 2008. After trying to replicate its success with smartphones, it was able to deliver a satisfying viewing experience for users. TVs no longer became used for just DVD and Blu-ray discs, or broadcasts and satellite cables, it...
The misconception which most Indians once had on Chinese smartphones to be of poor quality with below average hardware specifications has almost vanished in a matter of 4-5 years thanks to brands like Huawei, OnePlus and Xiaomi that have been going head to head against the big guns such as...
The European video-on-demand (VOD) service Rakuten TV has announced that it will release 100 Ultra HD HDR movies for Samsung Smart TVs by the end of this year. According to Rakuten TV (formerly Wuaki.tv), titles like Baywatch, Transformers: The Last Knight, Baby Driver and Spider-Man: Homecoming are already available in 4K...
At the Wall Street Journal's D.Live conference today, David Eun, president of Samsung NEXT i.e. Samsung’s investment arm, has expressed the ambitious IoT vision of the company. “Samsung is very focused on the Internet of Things. We think this could be the third wave, where you have programmable objects blanketing...
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