As the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show rapidly approaches, Samsung, LG, Sony and others are ready to release their latest and greatest televisions with support for 4K, which was officially deemed "Ultra High-Definition,” or “Ultra HD," by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) in October 2012.With four times the resolution of standard...
Qualcomm is not exactly a consumer electronics company. The San Diego-based chipmaker's forte is to drive technology through research. It has developed and implemented much of the hardware componentry that comes in our smartphones and tablets. At this, Qualcomm exceeds.What Qualcomm normally does not do is build its own devices....
Editor's note: This post was originally published by our partners at PopSugar Tech.Extreme temperatures are making their way through the Northeast this weekend, with temperatures in some areas dipping to as cold as -20°F at night. Weather advisories suggest staying inside whenever possible, and that goes for your tech peripherals as...
If marketing is all about creating stories around a product, few CEOs are as good at storytelling as Apple's Tim Cook. But that doesn't mean the stories he tells are true.At least, not as true as he'd like. Like any storyteller, Cook likes to cherry pick the data that suits...
I'm working together with some nice people in several industries. One of them built an application I'm testing. It works well on my wifes' iPhone and should work on my G4 mini as well. The coming week I'll also do some testing on an HTC (the one with the large...
ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.In looking back over the past 12 months, it’s apparent businesses pushed the envelope of the programmable web. Instead of being influenced by consumer apps and trends like BYOD, employers this year looked inward to solve...
There's no mistaking OpenStack's community momentum. In 2013 some of that momentum translated into serious enterprise adoption, with PayPal's CTO, for example, declaring it now runs 20% of its infrastructure on OpenStack, "a number that will only increase." Even "no software" Salesforce may be getting into the OpenStack game.See also: Can...
With the Dynamic Analyzer in the Tizen SDK developers can work on improving the performance and stability of their applications in a smart and simple way. Using it will developers help to find the bottlenecks, like memory use and stability, files, threads, network, interaction with OpenGL applications and many of...
ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.This year, we got serious about connecting our homes. We smartened up our arms and eyes. And we figured out ways to make all the screens we've accumulated—from tablets and laptops to LCD TVs—seem fresh and...
ReadWritePredict is a look ahead at the technology trends and companies that will shape the coming year.In 2014, the mobile Web will die. That’s right, that bastardized version of the normal Web will crawl into a shallow grave and leave us all in peace. No more websites crippled with horrible “mobile.yourawfulwebsite.com” URLs....
ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.When tech companies and government agencies make mistakes, whole teams and departments mobilize in some massive effort to sweep them under the carpet. But sometimes, the gaffes are just too glaring, public and spectacular to overlook.So...
Will Tizen become the found link between people, machines and environment "Mobile connecting" can be seen as the paradigm shift of the first 10 years of this century. I had one of the first 10.000 "portable" cell phones in the Netherlands (felt like at least 5 kilo's on a shoulder...
ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.Every year smartphones and tablets get better, and 2013 was no exception. Competition has pushed the top manufacturers to create ever better devices and—with the exception of Apple—sell them at lower prices.Not that the big phone...
ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.It was a big year for mobile in 2013, as it has been for the past several years.Smartphones took the first steps toward becoming hubs we can use to control our entire lives. Companies became...
Even at a Tizen devoted blog we have to respect the engineers of Cupertino. According to sources within the industry Apple baffled competition with the first 64-bit system-on-a-chip. Or, in hte words of the source: "It set off panic in the industry". Most were working toward 64-bit for mobile platforms...
More rumours are flying around the web again and it seems the Korean media is at it again. According to ZDNet Korea, Samsung will be announcing its first QHD (2,560×1,440) display smartphone at Mobile World Congress (MWC) February 24 – 27 – most likely this will be the Samsung...
Sometimes technologies can boggle me. Most people Iknow that buy a thin smartphone have to shell out extra money to get a protective cover, a bumper and a screen protection stick on. Serious roadrunners also take a back up battery pack. Most of this could be combined into the device...
Mozilla is teaming up with a group of leading cellular carriers and mobile manufacturers today to create a new standards board to standardize performance and development of open Web devices. Mozilla, which this year released Firefox OS as a browser-based smartphone operating system, believes the new review board will help...
ReadWriteBuilders is a series of interviews with developers, designers and other architects of the programmable future.Talk to Broadcom’s Henry Samueli, and you get the sense of a man who knows exactly how lucky he is. The son of immigrant parents, Holocaust survivors, the current chairman and chief technology officer grew up...
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...
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