In an official statement, Samsung has confirmed that the Samsung Z (SM-Z910F), the smartphone originally shown at the Tizen Developer Conference, and the one that we thought would launch at the Tizen Developer Summit Russia (TDSR) has been put on hold, with no release date at the movement. The...
CNBC interviewed Twitter CEO Dick Costolo on Tuesday, and the network invited Twitter users to ask him questions about the social network with the hashtag #AskCostolo. It could have been an opportunity for the company to address users' concerns over safety and harassment on Twitter, but the questions were never asked.Over...
Amazon’s habit for gadget-making now seems like a full-blown addiction—and its latest fix is the all-new Fire Phone.Since the company first got into hardware in 2007, it has debuted a range of gadgets, starting with a varied line of Kindle e-readers, expanding to its Kindle Fire tablets in 2011 and...
An Ohio man seeking $10 to fund his first attempt at potato salad has received more than $40,ooo in pledges via the crowdfunding site Kickstarter, prompting the deepest and most wrenching national soul-searching since the launch of Sputnik.What kind of country are we? What kind of people would fund a...
Guest author Chris McConnell, a designer, writer and entrepreneur, goes hands-on with the coolest consumer tech products at DailyTekk.I’ve got a problem. I love the camera on my iPhone. It’s become an appendage—like an arm, or hand. If it was amputated from my life I’d feel like I’d truly lost a...
Pinterest’s Promoted Pins are great for big brands, but what about medium to small ones? Now there’s an offering scaled just to them—a new do-it-yourself Promoted Pins tool.Pinterest for Business was launched 18 months ago and in that time the social discovery platform has made it so anyone, from big-time corporations...
Want to attend Google I/O this year but didn’t get a chance to register?ReadWrite is here to help.Google’s I/O developer conference takes place June 26-28 in San Francisco. That's right around the corner.A lot of developers felt left out after Google instituted a lottery to randomly select developers who could...
Today Facebook announced a new feature for its Facebook app that can automatically identify music and TV shows playing in the background as you're writing a status update. When you activate it, the opt-in feature uses your smartphone’s microphone to scan your surroundings; you’ll see a sound icon moving on the screen as...
In the past two weeks I have been forced into Apple's App Store not once, not twice—but five times from a handful of different websites.At first I thought it was a human error—like, maybe my large thumbs just accidentally tapped on a game ad. When it happened again, I assumed...
Google has housed its productivity apps under the Google Drive label since launching it in 2012, but no longer. The search giant on Wednesday unbundled new Docs and Sheets apps—for text documents and spreadsheets, respectively—and will shortly also release Slides, a PowerPoint rival, into the wild as well.It's not entirely...
Developers are flocking to the public cloud, and if Red Hat's recent moves are an indication, deploying operating systems and applications in the public cloud is catching on with the IT crowd as well.See also: Cloud Wars In 2014: Amazon vs. Google And Other FolliesThis week, Red Hat and Google announced...
Microsoft would like to reintroduce you … to Microsoft.Microsoft kicks off its long-running Build developer conference in San Francisco this week, and it's undoubtedly going to spend a lot of time reminding everyone of its “One Microsoft” message—its attempt to line up its various products and services into a single...
If his Reddit AMA was any indicator, Quora's first verified public figure should certainly improve the credibility of the quietly growing topic-driven Q&A platform.President Barack Obama is joining Quora this morning to answer questions about the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. March 31 is the last day to sign up...
Turkey may have banned Twitter—the country’s prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to “eradicate” it from the country on Thursday—but Twitter isn't going to leave its users tweetless.Twitter’s @Policy account tweeted instructions on how Turkish users can use the service via SMS text messaging in both the Turkish and English...
Ever wanted to Build a Linux kernel and Tizen platform image from scratch? Of course you have and this is the subject of discussion by Leon Anavi on how you can create an open-source hardware device powered by SoC with Allwinner processors and boot Tizen on it. Video:...
Pinterest is cracking down on users who get paid to "pin"—that is, for posting items on the visual social network. Weirdly, though, its new rules don't actually prevent people from getting paid for putting stuff up on Pinterest. Instead, they're mostly aimed at eliminating visual spam.Late last week, Pinterest updated...
I've been a LinkedIn fanboy for a long time (as this ReadWrite post from 2007 testifies), but I've since become disconnected from the mainstream as far as LinkedIn users go. I am not a headhunter, nor do I use LinkedIn to find a job.I use LinkedIn for business development purposes, to...
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...
Here's a bit of irony: 3D printing is suffering from an image problem. This maker movement has been plagued by a reputation for producing plastic knickknacks via complicated, costly machines that are really only suitable for businesses. If 3D printing wants to court mainstream customers—and it badly does—it needs to change...
Guest author Nolan Wright is the CTO of Appcelerator.Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. ~ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798.If we replace the Coleridge Mariner’s “water” with “data,” you have the lament of...
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