A New York federal court revealed that the Microsoft Corporation is demanding a small sum of $6.9 million USD interest from Samsung Electronics, with regards to a dispute over smartphone patent royalties. The money is interest that Microsoft says that Samsung should pay on more than $1 billion in royalty...
The next generation of Apple devices will let you buy things in stores without taking out your credit cards or cash. The new iPhones and Apple Watch use NFC, or Near Field Communication, to enable simple mobile payments.Apple created a new payment process called "Apple Pay." It's integrated into the...
The Smartwatch market is certainly going to be a lucrative space for the companies that can be first to release their products, go through the lessons learnt cycle, and also be able to build a viable application ecosystem on top of it, which shouldn't be confused with standard smartphone apps,...
I rarely buy things in stores with cash anymore. Between mobile apps and credit cards, there’s very little need.Apple reportedly wants to streamline that experience even further—by using a technology many had given up for dead. Wired's sources tell it that the iPhone maker is putting NFC wireless chips in its...
We were expecting the Tizen Gear S to be announced at the Samsung UNPACKED 2014 Episode 2 event scheduled for IFA 2014 next week, but Samsung have already announced it today. The Gear S was previously rumoured as the Samsung Gear Solo. A wearable device with 3G connectivity built...
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...
I won't go into the oft-repeated tirade about how Samsung had limited the Galaxy Gear smart watches to just Samsung phones; enough of that already on the Internet. It's a well-known fact, no need to beat a dead horse. But if you don't mind a couple pieces of the Gear...
OK, it won't land you in Zuckerberg or Gates territory but developing a winning app brings some nice cash to a bank very near to you. Apart from prizes, ranging between some $30 of USD $10.000 each as well as 10 times $50K and a one of off $100.000 USD,...
The Platform is a regular column by mobile editor Dan Rowinski. Ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence and pervasive networks are changing the way humans interact with everything.Apple’s lawyers once again get to lord over Samsung in patent court—even if Apple is only getting a fraction of what it wanted from the...
In spite of the Galaxy S5 getting a hot welcome, selling some 30% more than the S4 did, analysts are in doubt of the the S5 outselling the S4 in numbers. Both the european and US markets are slowing down whereas the Asian markets, especially India and China, are getting...
Samsung loves to make a splash when it announces its brand new Galaxy smartphones. The launch of the Galaxy S5 in Barcelona was no different. But this time the focus was on the smartphone and not theatrics and features that may or may not work.Presumably Samsung learned something from last...
I feel bad for anyone who actually bought a Galaxy Gear, the smartwatch Samsung just made obsolete with two new models of its second-generation Gear smartwatches. Obsolescence may be an indelible part of technology, but even here, five months is a whiplash-worthy product cycle. Fast as their introductions may be, the...
No use in denying that I was surprised by all the information but maybe not as much as many other analysts. In Dutch we have a saying that if it takes too long it might by postponed to eternity. (Van uitstel komt afstel). And it's that tantalizing delay that has...
Earlier today, we learned that Samsung has reportedly agreed to to stop copying Google’s core apps on its Galaxy smartphones and tablets running Android. What did Samsung get in return?Maybe it got Google out of the smartphone hardware business. Google announced today that it's selling Motorola's smartphone business to Chinese manufacturer Lenovo...
ReadWriteShop is an occasional series about the intersection of technology and commerce.It’s Black Friday, and the Cambridgeside Galleria is, as expected, a madhouse. I don’t know why I decided coming here was a good idea. The crowd around tablets at Best Buy is three rows deep. People seem to be looking...
Here's one for you: how is it that some of the smartest, richest, market-savviest companies on the planet - allegedly - can't seem to figure out how to name their products in a way that isn't strikingly confusing?The "new iPad" is not to be confused with the iPad 2. The...
'100% Indie’ is a developer initiative designed to encourage indie game developers to join the Samsung Apps eco-system. Samsung and leading indie mobile games publisher, Chillingo, (a division of Electronic Arts Inc.), announced this joint program to fuel the mobile games developer community. “100% Indie” allows developers to tap into...
Samsung has announced Samsung Wallet app at their Developer day conference in Mobile World Congress. This application would function in similar terms as Apple's Passbook which enables users to pay for items via this method. Only a handful of select developers are invited for early API access in the...
This Article originally appeared on TheVerge: Samsung took the wraps off of its new Samsung Wallet app during a developer conference at Mobile World Congress on Wednesday. The Wallet app is designed to let users store things such as event tickets, boarding passes, membership cards, and coupons in one...
Samsung Electronics has emerged as a global corporation commensurate with U.S. technology giant Apple but a weakness in software is still the Korean firm’s Achilles heel. The world’s largest electronics maker by revenue is now first in market share and annual shipments of smartphones and total handsets, thanks...
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