Today, the Samsung Gear app has been renamed/rebadged as Galaxy Wearable - as part of an update that is currently rolling out to various markets. This app was originally known as Samsung Gear Manager and then was called Samsung Gear and now Galaxy Wearable. The main change seems to be...
As the world shifts its focus towards the Galaxy Watch, Samsung is rolling out another update to its predecessor, the Gear S3. And it’s an important one, too, especially for those who were not able to charge their Gear S3 to 100% without the watch throwing up overheating warnings. Now an update is...
Google’s push to offer an open, Android-like experience for wearable devices has stagnated a bit in recent years. However, the company was not going to give up just yet. Back in March, the company started the next chapter of its wearable story with the re-branding of Android Wear as Wear OS....
Tech stocks blew expectations out of the water in 2017, outpacing the S&P 500 by 21 percentage points. While 2017 certainly marked an exceptional year for tech stocks, it was also a harbinger of things to come. The increasing — and, in some cases, renewed — interest in tech companies has...
Samsung want you to know that they are serious about their wearable devices, and one way of showing the "Love" is continued development and support. Support can come in many forms and one of the best for end-users software updates. The Korean tech giant has already rolled out some major...
The Samsung Gear Fit2 Pro has become quite a popular fitness wearable device in a relatively short time. The whole idea is that you can better track your fitness goals with detailed information at your finger tips or wrist in this case. Recently, the Gear S2 smartwatch received an unexpected software update,...
Motiv smashed all the preconceived notion of a wearable device by launching the Motiv Ring last year. Earlier, the word “wearable device” meant a bulky smartwatch or a fitness tracker. But as the name suggests, Motiv Ring crams all those fitness tracking hardware into something you can easily put on your finger. The tiny...
Samsung owned Harman International has announced a strategic collaboration with Samsung SmartThings. Through the collaboration, Harman will work with SmartThings to accelerate the growth of the latter's Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem. Harman-SmartThings Collaboration This partnership is between the Samsung SmartThings R&D team and Harman Connected Services (HCS), a division...
Samsung Electronics' smart home platform SmartThings is finally back online, after a frustrating outage in North America. The downtime began on Monday evening and persisted for almost 24 hours. SmartThings acknowledged the outage within an hour since the first reports surfaced, and has subsequently addressed the root cause of the outage. SmartThings Outage...
The wearables market has seen an exponential growth in the recent past. In fact, the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2017 saw a record number of wearables being shipped worldwide. A total of 37.9 million wearable devices were shipped during the three month period, a 7.7% growth (from 35.2 million units) compared...
We've seen an immense improvement in the quality and capabilities of low-cost smartphones in the last few years. But there still are millions of people around the world who simply cannot afford them. Low cost devices, such as Jio Phone in India, though not smart enough, are serving to the appetite for...
The Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 is at full swing in Barcelona and we've already seen a number of new devices being introduced. One that has caught our attention is probably Android 8 Oreo running Samsung flagship, the Galaxy S9. However, Android isn't the only mobile OS catching some media...
Google, on Thursday, announced that it has reached an Agreement with LogMeIn Inc. to acquire its IoT division Xively. The acquisition, reportedly for $50 million, will give Google Cloud an established IoT platform to add to their product portfolio. Google, as well as Samsung, believes that more than 20 billion...
Amazon is set to make Alexa's response delay-free by building a new AI chip. A new report suggests that Amazon plans to create AI chips that will process data locally. It will give Alexa a more human time response instead of consulting huge amount of cloud data before responding to...
Enter into the world of home-automation and you'll very soon realise that Bluetooth and Wi-Fi aren't the only wireless components that can allow smart devices in your new smart home to talk to one another. There are, in fact, a number of wireless technologies out there for the task. Two of the many...
It is always an obvious assumption that upgrading your gadgets would make it perform better than ever. However, this is not always the truth. For instance, the Samsung Gear S3 received a massive value-pack update to Tizen 3.0 in November 2017, and brought with it a number of issues relating...
VMworld is a global conference on virtualization and cloud computing, hosted by VMware, the US-based subsidiary of Dell. At VMworld 2016, VMware had publicized its strategy and intent to enter the internet of things (IoT) market. The company has now announced the general availability of the first solution in its family of...
Apple Watch The Apple smartwatch does a whole lot more than just tracking health and fitness. It is a smart device that can be used to control a single smart home device or even an entire setup. The smartphone has been the most popular way of controlling and managing your...
The available apps for Gear watches have been in short supply of lates, so it's nice to see another one hit the store. Tizen Gear App developer Andrzej Bugajny reached out to us with his latest Gear app, PYT - Player for YouTube. As the name suggests this is an...
Bitcoin being a digital currency requires a digital account to hold funds. For virtual currencies, this is something called a wallet. Over the years, various crypto wallets have been created to meet the needs of bitcoin users. Since transactions involving bitcoins are conducted over the internet, this raises security issues....
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