This post is sponsored by The Wearable Tech In Sport Summit, an event taking place in San Francisco on September 9–10. It reflects the views of the sponsor, not ReadWrite's editors. Athletes today use increasingly complex technologies to enhance performance. We have seen considerable leaps forward in sporting performance as a...
Samsung Electronics, unveiled their mobile payment service Samsung Pay would be launching in their home country of Korea first on August 20 and then in the US on September 28. Other countries that will have Samsung Pay rolled out are UK, Spain and China. You can also use Samsung...
Guest author Min-Pyo Hong, CEO and founder of Seworks, has advised corporations, NGOs, and governments on digital security issues for over 20 years, and led a team of five-time finalists at DEF CON. Nearly every month, Android owners encounter fresh news of serious security breaches to Google’s mobile platform, with the StageFright hack...
This post appears courtesy of the Ferenstein Wire, a syndicated news service. Publishing partners may edit posts. For inquiries, please email author and publisher Gregory Ferenstein.There’s a new global ranking of startup ecosystems, with the top three spots all from America—Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and New York, according to tech...
Guest author Tony Stubblebine is the CEO and founder of Coach.me, an online productivity community and app.I love the job title "growth hacker." It’s an indictment of the entire field of marketing.How many marketers had to forget to do their job before we had to create a new title to...
Samsung has launched a short beta program in order to test of its new mobile payment service Samsung Pay. The services is due to be launched in the companies home market of Korea following a rapid 36 day trial period. The Beta tester recruitment process has almost completed by...
This post first appeared on the Ferenstein Wire, a syndicated news service; it has been edited. For inquiries, please email author and publisher Gregory Ferenstein. Just 3 minutes after the Supreme Court declared gay marriage legal nationwide, much of America shifted its attention to learn more. Google set up a series...
There's something about Tesla ... In Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, Ashlee Vance's excellent, newly released biography of the Tesla Motors CEO, he writes that Musk's all-electric Model S Tesla sedan "slapped Detroit sober," despite the automobile industry tinkering with electric cars for years. Musk...
Samsung Electronics have announced it will launch a mobile payment platform in South Korea and the United States around September. The new mobile payment system called Samsung Pay will be could possibly be the Note 5 at IFA 2015 in September. Industry watchers said Samsung Pay stands out from...
Samsung Pay is one of the Galaxy S6’s most compelling features, but it will apparently disappear if owners decide to root their devices.That could pose a tough choice for Android users who love the new Galaxy’s design—but hate Samsung’s proprietary interface, TouchWiz.Why Rooting Kills Samsung PayRooting an Android phone essentially requires...
eHarmony, the online dating site that was founded back in the year 2000, has announced today that its mobile app will also support Android Wear and the Samsung Gear S Smart watch. Mobile technology is increasingly important for the online company as over 50% of new users come to...
Taptu is quite an established RSS / News Reader application that has been around for a while now and has gained popularity since Google shut down its own Google Reader service. The app is a fully featured news reader app for Tizen Samsung Z1 Smartphone. You can add your...
In the last week we've seen both Apple and Google launch laptops with a new brand of port attached: USB Type-C (or USB-C for short). In the case of the MacBook, in fact, it's the only port on offer.See also: How The New Chromebook Pixel Gives The MacBook A Run...
Samsung Electronics have previously announced their own mobile payment service, Samsung Pay, which will be releasing in Korea and the U.S this summer, and now has decided NOT to collect fees on the mobile payment service, in an effort to accelerate the adoption of their technology. Normally they would...
It’s bad enough that the government can order up user data from services like Google and Twitter without any judicial oversight—even on people not suspected of a crime. To make matters worse, federal agencies can also forbid these companies from ever mentioning the request in public.But some unhappy tech companies have...
MyFitnessPal recently sold to Under Armour for $475 million. In this exclusive excerpt from ReadWrite founder Richard MacManus's new book, Trackers: How Technology Is Helping Us Monitor & Improve Our Health, he reveals founder Mike Lee's secrets for building an app that has helped millions lose weight. Trackers is now available on Kindle...
Samsung just announced its intention to buy Boston-based LoopPay, a mobile payments company that has one very noteworthy benefit—the technology can work with standard magnetic stripe-reading credit card terminals.The payments company claims it works with 90% of those existing machines, which would immediately give Samsung a payments system with far...
Sony, Sharp and Philips will start shipping televisions powered by Android TV this spring, Android’s parent company, Google, announced Tuesday.See also: Android TV: Google Wants To Own Your Living Room (Again)With Android functionalities baked into these companies’ latest TV models, consumers won’t need additional peripherals to access Google Play and...
European Apple users got a holiday bonus recently: Apple now offers a new two-week return policy for iTunes, App Store and iBooks customers in the U.K., Germany, Italy, France and other countries in the European Union.Apple's previous policy restricted refunds to a narrow set of circumstances where the user might...
At a dinner party in New York last Friday, an Uber mistake of epic proportions took place: Emil Michael, senior vice president of business for the ride-sharing company, made social conversation out of threats to disgrace PandoDaily's Sarah Lacy, a female tech journalist who has repeatedly criticized the company. His...
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