Amazon took on the big boys of streaming television at its press event in New York City Wednesday morning. On a stage decked out like a living room, the company took the wraps off its top-secret project: the much-rumored—and now very real—Amazon Fire TV.See also: 10 Things You Need To Know...
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.Right now, Apple, Google, and Samsung have the buzz in digital fitness. The technologies Microsoft is unveiling this week at its Build conference could make it more of a player—but it has to get moving to seize the...
ReadWriteHome is an ongoing series exploring the implications of living in connected homes.Lighting is a key ingredient in the connected home, and the benefits of smartening it up are obvious. Practically everyone has forgotten to turn off a light or fumbled around for the switch. And some find coming back to...
The following slides are for our developer followers and is from a talk entitled "Enlightenment as a Standalone Wayland Compositor", which was presented by Chris Michael and Stefan Schmidt from Samsung OSG's UK office at FOSDEM 2014. I know, FOSDEM seems like a long time ago (was this year)...
The race to build the modern smartwatch started in earnest thanks to two major events in the past two years: Pebble's über-successful run on Kickstarter in early 2012, and a steady drumbeat of reports in 2013 about Apple's alleged plans to build its own iWatch (or whatever the company decides to call...
We now have another release for EFL and Elementary taking them to version 1.9.2 and also Enlightenment 0.18.6 . Below is also the announcement for Enlightenement 0.18.6: EFL fixes: Evas filters: Fix 1-D blurs on a single buffer Evas filters: Fix memory leak when destroying the object Ecore x: Add...
The greatest paradox in the smartphone wars is that of HTC. The smartphone manufacturer had a critical hit on its hands in 2013 with the HTC One, a beautiful and functional Android device that was a top choice for many reviewers last year. But the phone didn’t sell and HTC's...
2014 is the year that the rest of the world gets connected. Cheap computers and pervasive networks are reshaping the world, and the smartphone—specifically, the inexpensive smartphone—is emerging as the key to the Internet.In the U.S. and other “mature” markets, smartphones are as ubiquitous as televisions and personal computers, and...
The smartwatch is a natural extension of the smartphone in many ways—albeit one that's not yet remotely capable of duplicating a phone's full functionality. So it makes sense that Motorola built its forthcoming Moto 360 smartwatch using lessons it learned from its smartphone predecessor, the Moto X smartphone.See also: With...
Please note: The following slides are mainly in Korean and some English! The slides below are by Daniel Juyung Seo, who is an Enlightenment Committer and a Samsung Engineer. He shows what EFL is and some of the history behind it. He also shared the open source contribution activities by...
The Arm Race is on—and Pebble CEO Eric Migicovsky is in the lead. For now.Everyone wants to get into wearable devices, from Samsung to Google and Apple. While the giants have been making splashy announcements, taking meetings, and unveiling platforms, Pebble has been shipping smartwatches for more than a year now.See...
Google promised software for wearables computers, and it didn’t disappoint.Today Google announced Android Wear, its platform for smartwatch and wearable technology development. While Google has not yet released the full software development kit (SDK) for Android wearables, we can get a good sense of what Android smartwatches will be capable of...
The Moto 360 sounds like a race car. And maybe the spirit of this wearable isn't all that different, as Motorola and its for-now parent company Google imagine people shooting through life and controlling everything from their wrists. And it’s not alone—LG also announced today that it's got its own early...
Google smartwatch patentThe probability that Google is working on a smartwatch in conjunction with LG is now fairly high. New leaks revealed its alleged specifications and the presumed timing of its announcement—which, as previously noted, is likely to be at the Google I/O developer conference late June in San Francisco.Notorious...
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.South By Southwest Interactive is an annual tech festival known for beer, brisket, and business deals cut at bars. But the city where it's held is also an epicenter of healthy living and innovative startups. So instead of...
Editor's note: This post was originally published by our partners at PopSugar Tech.Reading the entire Harry Potter series in a week—could it be possible?! Spritz, a new app that debuted at last month's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, wants to reinvent how you read and get you bolting through books while...
Google may be commonly associated with Google Glass, one of the most striking, and perhaps strangest, wearable devices out there. But where development of new wearable technology is concerned, the fun is just beginning, a top Google executive said Sunday.Wearable gadgets aren't just smart versions of glasses or watches, but...
7Digital, a music platform that is based in London has announced that it will be releasing a native client for Tizen. This will let Tizen users access the 7Digital music catalog of over 25 million tracks in over 20 territories. The music service will also be accessible from wearable...
According to The Beatles, money can't buy you love. According to the Bible, the love of money is the root of all evil. But according to Glassdoor, a billion dollars can actually buy a decent amount of employee happiness.Looking through The Wall Street Journal's "billion-dollar startup club," employees tend to rank...
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.Intel is reportedly buying Basis, the maker of a health-oriented smartwatch, though the companies have yet to confirm a deal.It's an intriguing moment for the wearable-computing market. Let’s just hope that this doesn't mean Intel is getting into...
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