This was the first time that I attended the XDA DevCon conference and this event was an opportunity for me to get know the wider XDA Community, look at collaboration opportunities and also to let them know there is an alternative Operating System on the horizon for them to keep...
Pretty Geeky is an ongoing series that explores the role of style and design in wearable technology. Two new smartwatches debut this week hoping to make people forget about the bland wrist gizmos that first flew the Android Wear flag this summer.Arriving at Sprint on November 14, LG's circular $300 G...
Getting texts sent to your phone is not a right, nor is it a given. And if you think it is, well, Apple says it can’t be blamed for what you “subjectively believe,” reports Reuters.See also: Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To AndroidA U.S. district...
Apps World Europe is a fantastic Developer Conference that will be taking place at the ExCeL London Exhibition and Convention. They are going to be over 350+ exhibitors and expected over 12,000 attendees. This is a Developer event with the focus squarely on APPS !!!!. Tizen Experts...
Some good news, our friend Leon Anavi has had his very own Tizen book published entitled "Tizen Cookbook", which will help developers create and publish their own Tizen Apps! Leon is a regular contributor to Qt for Tizen, Tizen projects, and various other open source projects. He is the founder...
Google has finally released its new mobile operating software, Android 5.0 Lollipop. But if you're not buying a new phone that comes with Lollipop installed, it's much less clear just when—if ever—you'll see the update.Of course, Lollipop looks worth having. Google's tweaks to the mobile platform are designed to make...
Amazon's attempt to make itself into the poor man’s Google continues with its latest online offer: unlimited photo storage for Prime members.The company’s Prime service costs $99 per year, and offers a variety of "free" but circumscribed perks, including:Free two-day shipping on many (though not all) itemsFree video streaming (though only...
Google has a history of getting creative with its Android mobile security features. Who could forget 2011’s Face Unlock, courtesy of Ice Cream Sandwich—or the failing that let photos fake it out? Now the Android security team has another concept called Smart Lock, and it’s heading to Lollipop next month. See...
Android 5.0 Lollipop, the latest version of Google's mobile operating software, will indeed shield files, photos and other user information on Android phones from prying eyes. But that protection isn't quite as all-encompassing as the company's earlier statements might have led you to think.A month ago, Google announced that Lollipop would automatically...
ReadWriteHome is an ongoing series exploring the implications of living in connected homes.According to the experts, we may all be living in a smart home before long. Google wants it to be theirs. Forget the fact that it doesn’t actually have a cohesive smart home system yet—it’s working on that, and quickly...
At the Tizen Developer Summit shanghai 2014, Brian Warner kicked off the Keynote sessions to a packed Chinese crowd, which was a great sight to see. He drew attention to the fact that there have been releases several Tizen products this year, which hasn't been the case in recent...
Google pushed out a major update for its Android Wear smartwatch software that, among other things, supports location-tracking GPS hardware and offline music syncing. All that potentially gives these gadgets useful features that will still work, even if they're not tethered to a smartphone.That’s a first for the platform, which makes...
Moto 360 flagship smartwatch by MotorolaMicrosoft is preparing to launch a fitness wearable in the next few weeks, sources say. According to Forbes’ covert sources, the new gadget will take the form of—what else?—a smart watch that tracks the wearer’s heart rate. The major advantage of this offering, anonymous sources say,...
Device Giveaway The Tizen Developer Summit Shanghai is almost here, well it's on the 20 - 21 October in Shanghai China, and we are going to have a Developer Giveaway. All eligible registered attendees will be entered into a random draw with the possibility of receiving an Intel NUC, a...
Today Online UK retailer Handtec have joined other online stores such as Unlocked-Mobiles, Clove Tech and Mobile Fun in offering the Tizen based Gear S Online with a shipping date of 24th October, for £335.99 with £4.56 standard delivery. Tizen. 2.0-Inch Super AMOLED, 1.0 GHz Dual-Core, 4GB, 512MB RAM,...
We had a slight surprise when we saw Tizen being used to run a portable personal cloud pocket webserver, and now we have Tizen running (hopefully) under the hood of another Smartwatch, but this time it's not Samsung. The concept of this Smartwatch is different, "modularly" different. Just like...
Android 5.0 LollipopWith its latest device announcements, including the Nexus 6 smartphone and Nexus 9 tablet, Google has effectively given the public its first real glimpse of Android 5.0, officially dubbed Lollipop (née Android L). The operating software represents a sea change in the way the company approaches mobile development.See...
Samsung has been using TouchWiz on its Galaxy Smartphones and tablets from the early Android days (seems like decades now). It has reached it's success with using TouchWiz and incorporating its own features such as multi app display or screen mirroring (before it was native to the Google Androids...
Jony Ive, Apple vice president of design, at the Vanity Fair New Establishment SummitYou know that saying about imitation being the sincerest form of flattery? It’s total hogwash, at least according to Apple’s Jony Ive.At the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit on Thursday, the typically reclusive, but recently chatty Sir...
By global standards, U.S. broadband speeds are slow—and getting slower. In Akamai's worldwide ranking of Internet speeds, the U.S. recently dropped from 12th place to 14th, lapped by Denmark, Norway ... and Romania.True, in absolute terms, U.S. speeds are still edging upward. In the second quarter, for instance, average broadband...
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