We have recently had the release of the Samsung Tizen TV, quickly followed by the Samsung Z1 as the first Tizen Smartphone to be released, and now there are rumours of a round face smartwatch being unveiled at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2015. What next? According to Samsung's blog...
The SmartThings hub was a great home automation hub, and now it is time for the next version, the upgraded model with new new sensors, battery backup, optional cellular, and premium services ... oh and it will be running Tizen. When Samsung first acquired SmartThings, the company told of...
Flickr has released its findings of the past year's most widely used cameras (via email; no link). With over 10 billion photos being uploaded by over 100 million unique users, the photo-hosting site has a pretty hefty data set to tell us all about the devices that photographers love. This year,...
Sony, Sharp and Philips will start shipping televisions powered by Android TV this spring, Android’s parent company, Google, announced Tuesday.See also: Android TV: Google Wants To Own Your Living Room (Again)With Android functionalities baked into these companies’ latest TV models, consumers won’t need additional peripherals to access Google Play and...
Here’s a surprise just in time for New Year’s: Palm, the erstwhile mobile brand that flopped despite the big potential of its platform, may still have some life left in it yet. For years, the HP-owned company sent Palm.com visitors to the HPWebOS.com website. Now Palm redirects to MyNewPalm.com, which features a Palm logo and the...
The Weather Watch application for Tizen Gear Smart watches promises an elegant watch face that will show you the weather as well as your watch’s battery in a beautiful way. This watch can be customized as well by simply opening the “Weather Watch Settings” app on your Smartphone and...
ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year. It's hard for big companies to innovate. With thousands of employees, miles of red tape, and investors to answer to, swift moves in the face of ever-shifting markets don't come naturally to them. But...
ReadWritePredict is a look ahead at the technology trends and companies that will shape the coming year. According to a report released Monday from analytics firm Flurry, people went nuts for phablets in general—and Apple's gizmos in particular—over the holiday season.The report revealed that more than half of new devices activated...
Fingerprint scanners may be all the rage right now, thanks to the Apple iPhone and Samsung Galaxy devices. But the cool tech may have just hit a major snag. Hackers claim they can lift fingerprints from hi-res photos with fingers in the frame.At the 31st annual Chaos Computer Club conference in Hamburg,...
The gift-giving season was very good to Amazon, judging by the e-commerce giant's holiday tallies. It boasted some eye-opening wins, and a revealing look at what and how we shopped during the holidays. While the company can't resist bragging about how its own devices ruled some categories, the real spotlight was on how...
Learn Urdu Do you fancy learning Urdu, a language spoken by over 100 million people in places such as India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and the Middle East and is the fourth most spoken language in the UK? Well this is the app to let you do just that ........
Television's latest upgrade, 4K Ultra High Definition, is both awesome and increasingly affordable. (See my earlier piece for details.) I just bought one on sale. Now I’m scrounging around to find something to watch.See also: 4K Ultra HD TV: How It Works And What You'll Need To Watch ItI’ve learned...
ReadWritePredict is a look ahead at the technology trends and companies that will shape the coming year.Guest author Bill Ready is CEO of the PayPal unit Braintree.Mobile is on the rise and has helped disrupt many traditional industries, including transportation, accommodations, services and retail. As a result, mobile commerce is on...
Webinar This webinar is by Daniel Juyung Seo who is a senior software engineer from Samsung's Software Center and he discusses how you can write mostly the User Interface part of Tizen Native Application development. Daniel covers how you can use EFL to create your apps layout, where to...
ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.With new technologies like wearable devices starting to break into the mainstream, it’s easy to look at the old smartphone industry and proclaim it a big, dull dud. But as 2014 winds down, the year...
Looks like 2014 was the year of the data scientist, judging by LinkedIn’s "25 Hottest Professional Skills of 2014" report. The social network people use to impress their peers and future bosses, LinkedIn knows very well what skills recruiters search for on its site and which particular talents get people hired....
Samsung's Note 4 is too big for Cardboard, though you can hold it in manually. But Samsung has its own Gear VR headset, and larger versions of Cardboard also exist.Two cheap thrills, made better by joining forces: Google Cardboard now works with Google Maps to offer virtual Street View tours. To check it...
A glaring omission for Amazon's television set-top has been righted. The HBO Go app finally landed on the $99 Fire TV box on Monday, with the $39 Fire TV stick slated to follow in the spring. At this point, the mobile app could bring a lot more than just another streaming...
In the cold war between Apple and PayPal, a possible thaw may have started on Friday. The iPhone company now permits PayPal as a payment option on its website for U.S. and U.K. shoppers, Recode reports.That new level of cooperation is notable mostly because of the way Apple snubbed PayPal...
This short film created by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the HITRECORD Community, was shot entirely in 4K Ultra HD (UHD) on the Tizen based Samsung NX1. "In a City” takes an intimate look at the cities we live in by the simple and solitary act of walking through them. It...
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