Disruption is overrated. Just ask Roku. The device maker doesn’t want to change the game; it likes its game just fine, thank you very much. And that’s why the streaming device maker hasn’t gone back to the drawing board with its very first lineup of smart TVs, announced late Tuesday...
Amid the Moto 360 details that leaked out over the weekend thanks to Best Buy's misstep, one intriguing tidbit went largely unremarked. If the spec sheet is both correct and authentic, the Motorola gizmo could be one of the first major smartwatches that can connect directly to the Internet via...
Motorola plans to launch the Moto 360, the latest and best contender in Android Wear’s army of smartwatches, at a September 4 press event in Chicago. But now we know most of the important details, thanks to Best Buy.The retailer briefly posted a Moto 360 product page this weekend. Spotted...
Development of the Tizen Operating System is still going full speed ahead in the Developer forums. Below is a summary of the major topics covered during July 2014, as compiled by Łukasz Stelmach. Automatic testing Nicolas Zingilé announced plans to of developing automated tests for Tizen images. He says:...
Earlier we posted a method to root (jailbreak) your Samsung Gear 2 / Gear Neo by Skin1980, and one of the great features is that you can install apps onto your Gear 2 Smartwatch from non Samsung Smartphones !!!! As we know, the Gear 2 can currently ONLY work...
Tizen Developer Conference sponsors were generous this year by offering to the attendees two tizen devices, the 1st one was Samsung’s gear 2 Smartwatch and the second one was a Intel’s NUC device (Next Unit Computing). NUC is a small box to be used as a regular computer if...
ReadWriteHome is an ongoing series exploring the implications of living in connected homes.Three years ago, a pipe burst in Alex Hawkinson’s family vacation home when he was away.“We found it totally destroyed by moisture,” he told me in an interview earlier this year. “The electricity went out, and the pipes...
SmartBloggy is an RSS feed reader designed for Android smartphones and especially for the Tizen based Samsung Gear smartwatches including the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo. It lets you easily manage your feeds on your phone and you'll get notifications from your favorite blogs on the go, just on...
Never has a tweet been more true, or potentially more disastrous for a vendor. Years ago Google's Andy Rubin, stung by Steve Jobs' criticism that Android wasn't truly open, tweeted that anyone could fork - i.e., modify - Android, making it "open" in the truest sense of the word.Unfortunately for Google, many...
Here's another entry for the selfie hall of shame. When photojournalist David Slater got mugged by a camera-hogging monkey in 2011, he couldn't have imagined that three years later, he'd still be fighting a rights dispute over the resulting monkey selfies. Much to his dismay, the pictures wound up in...
Lots of people jumped to the conclusion that Apple's hire of a prominent social-media marketer meant that the iPhone maker might be ready to relax its infamous reality distortion field and dive into the social-media age.Too bad that's not likely to happen, at least not on the scale Apple really...
Guest author Sanjay Patel is CEO and co-founder of Personify, an immersive video technology company.Before long, 3D imaging—which requires a 3D camera to capture the 3D nature of the world—will be a core component of laptops, tablets and smartphones. While it’s easy to imagine how this technology might impact consumers,...
I'll admit that all these wearables are starting to wear on me. Every time I roll up my sleeves, I roll my eyes.Yet I've found a new wearable device that may be a keeper, from an unexpected entrant. It's the Runtastic Orbit, which goes on sale Thursday morning for $119.99.The...
High-pitched sound is making a comeback. Engineers have discovered that ultrasonics, which have been around almost as long as electronics of any sort, can give modern devices some cool, futuristic features.Ultreo ultrasound toothbrushMankind has been capable of making high-frequency ultrasounds for at least a century. Today, we use them to...
In an official statement, Samsung has confirmed that the Samsung Z (SM-Z910F), the smartphone originally shown at the Tizen Developer Conference, and the one that we thought would launch at the Tizen Developer Summit Russia (TDSR) has been put on hold, with no release date at the movement. The...
Facebook has made it very clear it’s no longer just a social network. It’s been working hard trying to compete with Google on several fronts: search, nascent technology markets, and post-desktop computing. Now that the $2 billion Oculus deal is closed, Facebook can beef up its focus on that third part of...
Demand, meet supply. The world is in dire need of millions of Internet of Things developers within the next few years. The good news? According to a new Evans Data survey, 17% the world's software developers are already working on IoT applications; those in the Asia-Pacific region are particularly active.See...
In her keynote address at VidCon, YouTube's unofficial, annual convention, Susan Wojcicki, the Google executive who took over the video site this year, looked over a packed audience at the Anaheim Convention Center. Many of the people seated there were a special breed of YouTube users—the people YouTube calls "creators,"...
Amazon’s habit for gadget-making now seems like a full-blown addiction—and its latest fix is the all-new Fire Phone.Since the company first got into hardware in 2007, it has debuted a range of gadgets, starting with a varied line of Kindle e-readers, expanding to its Kindle Fire tablets in 2011 and...
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.The middle class of mobile app developers is completely non-existent.According to a research survey from market research firm VisionMobile, there are 2.9 million app developers...
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