Two weeks ago, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said the company was considering a big shift in strategy after it changed its financial forecast for the fiscal year to reflect a third straight annual loss as a result of “unexpectedly weak sales.”Nintendo fans and investors hoped this news was a signal...
The final 2013 numbers are in and Samsung once again reigns supreme over the mobile ecosystem.According to research firm IDC, Samsung’s shotgun strategy of developing dozens of smartphones across a variety of size and price points led to 313.9 million smartphone shipments, or 31.3% of the global smartphone market share...
Google Glass will not be the preeminent smart glassware for much longer.According to a report from The Korea Times, Samsung will unveil its own smart glasses later this year called Galaxy Glass, which will extend the wearable gadget market later this year. The report also says Samsung plans to announce...
Televisions are not smartphones, no matter what TV makers would have you believe. But if there's any confusion about that, it's understandable. Both have increasingly large screens and are highly effective time-wasters. And given the proliferation of Internet-connected smart TVs, both phones and sets are platforms for an ever-growing range...
Microsoft's efforts to make itself a company all about "devices and services"—as opposed to, you know, desktop PC software—appears to be bearing some fruit. According to the company’s latest earnings report for its fiscal second quarter ended December 31, the Xbox One is off to a decent start, and even...
After forecasting a third straight annual loss on Friday, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said the company is considering a big shift which could possibly—finally—place its hit game franchises like Super Mario Bros. and Zelda in the hands of iOS and Android users.But such a move could threaten Nintendo’s own hardware...
ReadWritePredict is a look ahead at the technology trends and companies that will shape the coming year. The year has only just begun, but there are already plenty of exciting hints at what the gaming industry has in store for 2014. At the intersection of powerful hardware and game developers unafraid...
As most of you "Tizen experts" are aware of, NTT DoCoMo has aired its plans to deliver their first Tizen smartphone around the end of March. It took a long time getting out there but when one looks at the complexity, or rather the connectivity of Tizen, it's understandable. You...
ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year. The literal and figurative flash of the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is just starting up, so it’s the perfect time to review the cameras and photo gadgets that defined an industry in 2013. Consumer...
If you believe the hype around the Consumer Electronics Show, 4K television is all the rage. TV makers have long hoped to spark demand for so-called ultra HD televisions, and this time around, they’re trying to ensure it by packaging the sets with some nifty new features. The big question is...
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...
It's not just the mobile world invading the "smart" world. Samsung does it the other way around, in a way. The experiences they have gotten with their smart camera (read: Tizen!) is to be used in their forthcoming smartphones. ETNews and Yonhap, both from Korea. Samsung is reorganizing its corporate...
ReadWriteShop is an occasional series about the intersection of technology and commerce.If you’re shopping for a music lover this holiday season, we’ve got you covered. And hey, if that music lover is you, there's no shame in that. Audio gear can be daunting to even the tech savvy—it’s a beast all...
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...
Streaming music gets one thing right. Services like Pandora, Rdio and Spotify are amazing for the consumer, and in that singular way, the music industry hasn’t been better in … probably ever.At long last, we have the celestial jukebox we dreamed of a decade and a half ago. Nearly any...
Oracle CEO Larry EllisonGoogle once again is set to battle Oracle in court over how it used the Java programming language in building its Android mobile operating system. Oracle, which lost a patent and copyright battle to Google in the spring of 2012, has filed an appeal in the case...
In spite of what has happened on many markets, Samsungs sales in Japan came down fiercely. According to sources in the industry sales dropped from almost 2 million units in the fourth quarter of last year (1.9 million to be precise) to just one million units in the 3rd quarter of...
You’ve seen the Xbox One's glossy black chassis. You’ve followed its ups and downs—and the ups again. You’ve heard the argument for the competition. Now it’s time to take a look at Microsoft’s feature-packed console on its own merits.Like we’ve mentioned before, the Xbox One is making a full court press...
If it seems as though it’s almost impossible to avoid Facebook, that’s because it is. In its most recent attempt to personalize your technologies, Facebook announced that it's headed to the living room. The social network teamed up with Sony to integrate its Facebook Login—you know, that feature that lets...
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