The first Gear Fit product by Samsung ran a Real Time Operating System (RTOS) and this seems to have been a good decision for them for the first generation Gear Fit. Now, as the Gear Fit 2 (SM-R360) is on the horizon, it looks like Samsung are ready to...
Sideload with watchland The Gear S2 is unarguably one of the better designed and good looking smartwatch available in the market. Given that its been around for a while now, the third party development community are slowly stepping up their ante with interesting apps, utilities and more importantly watchfaces. There...
The Tizen Software Development Kit (SDK) has received another update to take it to version 2.4 Rev6. This update features improvements to the CLI / SDB and also a whole load of bug fixes to improve performance and stability. This is a comprehensive set of tools for developing Tizen native...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is accelerating at an impressive speed, forecasters predict 25 billion devices will be online by 2020, creating over $300 billion in opportunities for companies involved. Even with this considerable growth coming in the next five years, most enterprise folks still don’t understand or aren’t invested...
The wearables market has seen over 67 percent annual growth in the past twelve months, but the smartwatch industry continues to drag down the numbers. Market research firm IDC posted sales results for the first quarter, which shows Fitbit and Xiaomi ahead of the rest by a considerable margin. The two...
The world's largest Internet of Things (IoT) event has started today at the Santa Clara Convention Center, with over 12,000 attendees and 200 exhibitions expected to attend the two day event. And because the new connected world is so interwoven, this event will feature discussions on the industrial IoT, smart...
Smart cities may look towards open wireless standards to save billions in Internet of Things (IoT) deployment costs. Choosing open standards could cut costs by 30 percent and promote more cities to utilize IoT, according to Machina Research. The market intelligence firm predicts that by 2025 smart cities may spend $1.12...
Sigfox, the French startup that uses a cellular network to connect all thousands of devices together, has announced major expansion plans for the United States. The company plans to work with “strategic site owners” to ensure the Internet of Things (IoT) deployment goes smooth. The partnership gives Sigfox access to...
Indian conglomerate Tata Group has announced plans to launch two wearables in the near future - one focused on crane workers in the company's giant steelworks facilities and the other on...yoga. The factory worker wearable is being tested inside Tata Steel factories by crane workers. A Tata spokesperson said it...
Apple's iPhone sales declined for the first time since 2003. That's the bad news, and judging from the pundits, the sky has started to fall on Apple's halcyon days. One analyst goes so far as to say that "the only thing that is plainly clear concerning Apple is that it has...
Popular Swiss jewelry and luxury watch-maker de Grisogono had recently teamed up with Samsung to launch a luxury edition of the Gear S2 smartwatch (because the Rose Gold variant didn't seem expensive enough). The partnership between the two companies seems to be working out well, as a recent report from...
Communications giant Huawei has revealed its vision for 2016 at its annual analyst summit (HAS), with a focus on the Internet of Things (IoT), virtual reality, and 5G internet. The Chinese firm was one of the first to begin 5G tests, working with Japanese wireless carrier NTT Docomo last year...
The countdown to Samsung Developer Conference 2016 to be held at Moscone, San Francisco from 27th to 28th of this month has officially begin. The event will see some of the major innovations that could propel into actual products or services in the future. Samsung’s interest in VR, IoT and...
The creation of programming languages and platforms is rarely without challenges. A case in point is in the experiences of the community around the Node.js platform. Node.js allows the creation of backend services using JavaScript and a collection of "modules" that handle various core functionality and other core functions. Node.js' modules use...
Gear Manager for iOS / iPhone leaks Gear Manager, the app used to connect Samsung Gear smartwatches to smartphones, has so far been released for Android and also a BETA for Tizen. It was confirmed in January that there is an iOS version for iPhone in the works and...
FidMe, one of Samsung's global partners for the Gear S2 comes pre-loaded on the smartwatch. The popular loyalty wallet application is available on almost every mobile platform and provides users with digitally stored coupons and discounts for over 17,000 business places both (online and local shops). The FidMe app on...
Contactless payments from smartphones and wearables is still a small segment of the payments market, but might see a surge in usage over the next two years, according to Juniper Research. The research firm predicts the value of the smartphone and wearable contactless payments to rise from $35 billion to...
Samsung's subsidiary brand SmartThings that's been bringing solutions for consumer and smart homes based IoT recently announced compatibility for four smart home products in the UK which include the Belkin WeMo LED Bulb, Belkin WeMo Switch Outlet, Logitech Harmony, Aeotec Siren (Gen 5). These products can now be paired directly with Samsung SmartThings Hub without...
In a reminder of how powerful current gen smartwatch hardware is, Gameloft has released one of its viral smartphone games Bubble Bash 3 for the Gear S2. The rules of the game can be related to that of tetris with the user having to shoot bubbles on a stack of...
Nvidia has announced its DGX-1 Deep Learning System at the 2016 GPU Technology Conference. The system sports eight of Nvidia’s newest Tesla GP100 graphics cards, providing up to 170 teraflops of half-precision performance. That might not mean much to the average PC fan, but in context that is over twelve...
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