Apple supposedly wants to put a FaceTime camera in its next smartwatch, along with more wireless support, 9to5Mac sources say. Although its original Apple Watch has only been on the market for a couple of months, the company may have plenty of reason to focus on the next generation device already....
At Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, executive Craig Federighi offered up tons of announcements about changes heading to iPhones and iPads with iOS 9—namely, smarter voice features and updates designed to improve the experience of making apps and using them. See also: App Makers Now Have More Access To The Guts Of...
Blocks Wearables, a UK-based startup that’s been working on a modular smartwatch since early 2014, announced its plan Tuesday to release its first product through a crowdfunding campaign set to launch this summer.The company earned a finalist spot in Intel’s Make it Wearable contest in late 2014, and the experience...
Dave Burke, Google’s vice president of engineering for Android, took to the stage at Google I/O Thursday to reveal a few cool new features that’s coming to Android M. The new features focus on refining the user experience that was ushered in with Android L last year.“We’re working incredibly hard to...
Whoever you are, wherever you are, Google wants to get you online. Today's rumor, courtesy of the Telegraph, is that the company is negotiating to bring cheap roaming to its upcoming wireless operator service.That's not a huge deal in itself—and not yet confirmed by Google—but it may well be Google's first shot...
Cyanogen CEO Kirk McMaster has been making a big deal recently about his company's plans to "take away Android from Google," as he put it at a recent meeting. He calls Google's control of Android a "tyranny" and most recently said Cyanogen plans on “putting a bullet through Google’s head.”A recent...
In the wake of Monday’s big Apple Watch event, The Verge reports that Google will update its Android Wear operating system with support for Wi-Fi and gestures, as well as quicker, easier access to built-in apps and contacts. Google neither confirmed nor denied the report, though it did tell TechCrunch that its...
The smartwatch era is still in its infancy, but some companies are already pushing the limits of innovation into downright weirdness. Exhibit A could be the just-announced Neptune Duo—a smartwatch that thinks it's a phone, paired with a smartphone that seems to think it's a brick.The Duo's main attraction is...
The Urbane LTE includes a SIM slot and NFC.Just days after unveiling the stylish-looking Urbane smartwatch, LG has announced a second model. The Urbane LTE runs software based on WebOS, rather than Android Wear, and doesn't require a phone connection at all—it takes its own SIM and can make and...
Move over, Rolex. According to reports by the French media late last week, Apple may be taking a page from your playbook by building dedicated stores for its upcoming Apple Watch. The company has not breathed a word of this, of course, but there's reason to believe it may be...
BlackBerry PassportBlackBerry's newest smartphones will return to a major carrier's stores at the end of this week. Starting February 20, AT&T will begin offering the company’s Passport and Classic on contract, as well as through installment plans.Despite efforts by carriers to wean consumers off phone subsidies, in the American market,...
Over the years, software development has fashioned itself more and more to resemble the lucrative, gonzo machine that fuels Hollywood, with top talent scoring big deals and even hiring agents. So it was just a matter of time before one of its sectors actually overtook Tinseltown. In this case, it’s the...
ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year. It's hard for big companies to innovate. With thousands of employees, miles of red tape, and investors to answer to, swift moves in the face of ever-shifting markets don't come naturally to them. But...
ReadWritePredict is a look ahead at the technology trends and companies that will shape the coming year. According to a report released Monday from analytics firm Flurry, people went nuts for phablets in general—and Apple's gizmos in particular—over the holiday season.The report revealed that more than half of new devices activated...
Fingerprint scanners may be all the rage right now, thanks to the Apple iPhone and Samsung Galaxy devices. But the cool tech may have just hit a major snag. Hackers claim they can lift fingerprints from hi-res photos with fingers in the frame.At the 31st annual Chaos Computer Club conference in Hamburg,...
Television's latest upgrade, 4K Ultra High Definition, is both awesome and increasingly affordable. (See my earlier piece for details.) I just bought one on sale. Now I’m scrounging around to find something to watch.See also: 4K Ultra HD TV: How It Works And What You'll Need To Watch ItI’ve learned...
ReadWritePredict is a look ahead at the technology trends and companies that will shape the coming year.Guest author Bill Ready is CEO of the PayPal unit Braintree.Mobile is on the rise and has helped disrupt many traditional industries, including transportation, accommodations, services and retail. As a result, mobile commerce is on...
ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.With new technologies like wearable devices starting to break into the mainstream, it’s easy to look at the old smartphone industry and proclaim it a big, dull dud. But as 2014 winds down, the year...
As a woman with tiny hands, making peace with the iPhone 6 Plus took some effort. It’s the largest iPhone ever, and my mitts skew itty bitty. But I got the hang of it, only to land on the receiving end of some weird reactions—some from women, but mostly from...
For all the fantastic (and fantastical) things tech companies do these days, they’re still spectacularly bad at one thing: transparency.This week, a lawsuit against Apple revealed that, between 2007 and 2009, the company deleted music off of users’ iPods—specifically songs from non-iTunes sources—without telling them. If there’s one thing we...
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