Rumors of the demise of Google's Nexus line of "pure Android" devices have been greatly exaggerated. When Google launches the official release of the new version Android L later this year, expect a new Nexus device as well. True, Google is changing the way it rolls out high-end Android smartphones. It's...
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.Yes, it’s tiresome how every new startup describes itself as an “X, but for Y." When an early employee of Uber started working on a doctors-on-demand service, everyone inevitably called it an “Uber for healthcare,” ridiculing it as...
A whole lot of “whoa” went into Amazon’s new Fire Phone. Its Firefly feature lets you look at anything, anywhere, and instantly buy it. Dynamic Perspective takes movement related gesture control to a degree not yet seen in smartphones. Mayday brings next generation customer service. The Fire Phone is packed...
The Platform is a regular column by mobile editor Dan Rowinski. Ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence and pervasive networks are changing the way humans interact with everything.Let's disrupt "disruption."My boss, ReadWrite editor-in-chief Owen Thomas, and I disagree, feistily and frequently, about a variety of topics. We had profound differences of opinion...
For years, he told you to shut off the lights and turn the heat down. Now, for Father’s Day, you could make sure he’s covered with these easy-to-use smart home products and other connected devices.The best part: These items can be picked up from Best Buy, Staples, Walmart, Target, Apple...
Hoping to lure cloud developers to the iCloud platform, Apple on Monday unveiled CloudKit, which gives developers “effectively free, with limits” storage for server-based apps. “You’ve gotta pay somebody to host it all,” said Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president for software engineering. Before CloudKit, that somebody was Amazon, Google, or...
The following guest post is by Bob Summerwill, who is the owner of Kitsilano Software. UPDATE: MonoTizen production is underway! Read all about it! Kitsilano Software are bringing C# to Tizen, in the form of the MonoTizen project. The MonoTizen project aims to bring the delight of C# development to...
Practically everything is a billboard to Google, but there’s one thing that shouldn't be: Your Nest.See also: Google Has New Targeted Ads That Encourage You To Dive Into AppsA December letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission, released today, fueled fears that Google might be soon be serving you ads...
When I was a kid, my brother graciously taught me what a half-Nelson was. It was a lesson learned from our nightly wrestling matches over the remote control, which was essentially the scepter in our little game of thrones. I suppose that made our old tube TV the Lee family...
The Platform is a regular column by mobile editor Dan Rowinski. Ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence and pervasive networks are changing the way humans interact with everything. What do you get when you take the greatest advertising company on the planet, computers that live in people's pockets, software that guesses where...
ReadWriteHome is an ongoing series exploring the implications of living in connected homes.If you don't already live in a smart home, odds are good that you will before long. When that day comes, your connected residence will be like a member of the family—or, more likely, a butler. Just like Carson on...
There’s a problem with gadgets today, and Pebble CEO Eric Migicovsky thinks he knows exactly what it is: “Technology shouldn’t change your own personal habits. It should mesh into the lifestyle you already live.” It sounds like common sense, but in a world where inventors too often expect people to adapt...
Amazon has put Apple TV, Roku and Google's Chromecast in its crosshairs with its new Fire TV streaming device. See also: Amazon Fire TV Wants To Ignite The Streaming Experience—And It Just MightThe box comes with many of the standard Internet video features you'd expect from a modern set-top, along with some intriguing new...
Amazon took on the big boys of streaming television at its press event in New York City Wednesday morning. On a stage decked out like a living room, the company took the wraps off its top-secret project: the much-rumored—and now very real—Amazon Fire TV.See also: 10 Things You Need To Know...
2014 is the year that the rest of the world gets connected. Cheap computers and pervasive networks are reshaping the world, and the smartphone—specifically, the inexpensive smartphone—is emerging as the key to the Internet.In the U.S. and other “mature” markets, smartphones are as ubiquitous as televisions and personal computers, and...
In may seem silly to say, but in the ongoing tragicomedy that is Nokia’s wedding to Microsoft, Nokia’s Android strategy could make a whole lot of sense. For both Nokia and Microsoft.Jussi Nevanlinna, the VP of product marketing for mobile phones at Nokia, says that the goal of both Nokia...
Windows Phone may not be the blockbuster mobile operating system that its designers in Redmond (or Espoo, Finland) hoped it would be. But that doesn't mean Microsoft and its new CEO Satya Nadella would be better off doing something drastic like scrapping the project and building a new mobile OS...
The Pebble smartwatch is growing up. A year after it started shipping to Kickstarter backers, the startup officially cut the ribbon on Pebble's very own app store last week. With this, Pebblers get a single resource covering the latest watchfaces, tools and time-wasters for their favorite arm gear.The Pebble Appstore,...
Google may be working on an application programming interface for fitness tracking in Android smartphones.This new API could help Android smartphones automatically detect its users' daily motion and exercise routines to provide contextual information for users, but it could also help third-party developers build integrated fitness apps that are much...
I like people that set goals. Be it for themselves or the company they work for. It will make them measure progress and success, Or decline and failure of course but that's what seperates the boys from the men. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich boldly stated that Intel chips will power 40 million...
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