The Tizen Experts Story Tizen Experts is arguably one of the world's largest Tizen resources to be found on the net. One of our claims to fame is that the site was actually registered, back in 2011, before the global announcement of the Tizen name, beat that! The Operating...
Another year, another September event, another iPhone. Apple’s key event met all the criteria, although the lack of MacBook, iPad, and “one more thing” segment might have upset some fans that were hoping for surprises. iPhone 7 The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus were unveiled at the event, with...
While the media buzz around wearables has died down somewhat, due in part to the noise of VR and AR, they still have a place to play. I live in Germany where Fußball -- you call it soccer or football -- is the national passion. Every spati, or convenience store,...
There’s no doubt about it––the Internet of Things (IoT) is shaping up to be the mother of all technology trends in 2016. There are endless statistics on how many devices are or will be coming online; just within the home, everything from doorbells to refrigerators, to light bulbs has become...
In Argus Insights' newest "Smart Home 360" report, it's clear there's a strong distinction between consumer perception of the apps associated with the most popular Smart Home Service Providers and MSOs (Multiple System Operators) and the apps coming with Do It Yourself (DIY) devices. Argus Insights found that -- from...
Despite the popularity of fitness trackers and the spike in exercise wearables, rumors are swirling that Jawbone may be exiting the wearables technology competition. The company recently announced that it has ceased the manufacturing of its UP fitness trackers and is selling off its entire inventory to a third-party seller....
In an age where adult fitness and health wearables, such as the Garmin Vivoactive tracker, have become the norm, new companies are introducing wearable baby monitors that connect to smartphone apps. These wearables can provide information to parents about their baby’s breathing, skin temperature, sleeping patterns and heart rate. See...
Recently Ford announced the opening of their Research & Innovation Center in Palo Alto, California. To find out more about their plans for the car of the future, we sat down at the recent Women in Technology Summit with Jennifer Brace, Ford’s User Interface Supervisor at the Center. So, what...
Does your love of tech extend to the pets in your life? When you look into the pettech world, there's a bewildering plethora of mobile apps to aid our furry friends from adopting a dog, deciding on a pet name, administering first aid and choosing a pet-friendly holiday location - and we...
The Smart Home market competing ecosystems is frustrating customers, according to a new report from Argus Insights. The report looks at the top current options for home connectivity and finds consumers less than delighted with an old tech theme - a lack of desire of competing technologies to work together. In...
Reports this week suggest that the number of tweets per day created by Twitter's users has fallen by more than half since a peak in August 2014, according to a sampling of data from Twitter's API. It's hardly surprising, as both the media and tech sector have been charting and...
Consumers are frustrated with smart homes. Notably, they're not annoyed with the devices that wire up their living environments. It's the apps through which they schedule and manage each device, according to a new report from Argus Insights. Argus, notably, uses actual data drawn from devices and public sources like app-store reviews....
Guest author Sarah Nahm is CEO of Lever, a San Francisco, California-based startup that builds software to help businesses source, interview, and hire top talent.If you haven’t gotten the memo, good engineers can work almost anywhere they want. If they’re actively looking to make a career move, they can rack...
The world's best cloud and big data software isn't for sale. Instead you download it for free.You won't see Oracle, IBM, HP, or any of the erstwhile enterprise IT giants developing it, either. In fact, this incredibly rich treasure trove of software isn't being developed by software vendors at all....
Guest author Doron Reuveni is CEO and co-founder of Applause, a software-testing company based in New England.When the topic of customer service comes up, names like Amazon, Zappos and American Express often spring to mind. They should—these companies invest deeply in customer service, listening to their patrons, asking what makes...
This article is sponsored by Jabil, a US-based, global manufacturing services company headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. It reflects the views of the author, not ReadWrite's editors.John Van Akkeren is president of Radius Product Development, a Jabil subsidiary. Jabil is a proud sponsor of the e2e Conference, Oct. 13-14 in Silicon Valley....
Guest author Christopher Lochhead is a cofounding partner of Play Bigger Advisors. He wrote this post with his partners Al Ramadan and Dave Peterson.“Gravity is working against me. And gravity wants to bring me down.” —John Mayer Asking why Google created Alphabet is the wrong question.The right questions to ask are: Why...
Amazon has opened up a new streamlined sales channel for startups called LaunchPad. If you've got something to sell—a recently Kickstarted invention, say—then LaunchPad lets you put it in front of millions of Amazon customers and distribute it through the e-commerce giant's massive pipeline. Your new product can even get...
Amazon’s attempts at making hardware have been laughably hit-or-miss, with flops like the Amazon Fire phone on one end of the range and the popular Amazon Fire TV stick on the other. Now Amazon aims to bend the curve with the Amazon Echo, its voice-driven smart speaker, which began taking preorders...
Pebble Time graduates from online crowdfund campaign to consumer product at Best Buy Monday. For the first time, non-Kickstarter backers will be able to pre-order Pebble's latest, marking a milestone in the company's journey. Essentially defining the smartwatch category, the first flagship device hardly had any competition when it shipped in 2013 (at least...
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