Guest author Alberto Torres is the CEO of Atheer Labs and a speaker at Wearable World Congress, ReadWrite's signature annual conference in San Francisco on May 19-20. The event will feature key players who are shaping wearable technology and the Internet of Things. Once a small hobbyist movement, the wearables industry looks poised...
Wearable World Congress, ReadWrite's signature annual conference in San Francisco on May 19-20, will feature the key players who are shaping wearable technology and the Internet of Things. This series profiles some of the experts who will be speaking at the conference.Imagine this: You’re in the hospital, and your son...
Circa: From smartwatch to smartphone to Web.Circa is seeking a buyer after failing to raise a new round of venture capital funding, Fortune reports. It sounds like 2015 is going to be a make-or-break year for the pioneering mobile news app, which first appeared nearly three years ago.Circa delivers bite-sized...
Wearable World Congress, ReadWrite's signature annual conference in San Francisco on May 19-20, will feature the key players who are shaping wearable technology and the Internet of Things. This series profiles some of the experts who will be speaking at the conference. Before becoming CEO of Cuff, Deepa Sood was a...
ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.When we're mobile, we're social. In 2014, we spent 45 minutes a day on social apps on our smartphones and tablets—the biggest use for our devices after games, according to Flurry, the mobile-analytics firm Yahoo purchased...
ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.Pretty much all young adults—and a majority of people living in the U.S.—have a smartphone these days, which means that apps are an increasingly important part of everyday life. Apple’s 2009 ad slogan, “There’s an app...
ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.Picking out the best gaming hardware is even harder than picking out the top games of a given year. It's difficult to say what's "the best" given that whichever console or platform is the best...
OpenStack rules the open-source cloud. Which may simply mean it's the tallest person in Lilliput.With Amazon Web Services (AWS) paving the way for enterprises to move their workloads to the public cloud, including in-house apps, OpenStack’s reign as open cloud sovereign may be short (if not nasty and brutish). The...
Offering a shot of one-stop convenience, Starbucks began its roll-out of free Powermat wireless charging last week. The Seattle, Wash.–based coffee purveyor equipped roughly 200 stores in San Francisco with the technology, ahead of a nationwide launch next year.I stopped by a location in Levi Plaza to check out the...
Pretty Geeky is an ongoing series that explores the role of style and design in wearable technology. Two new smartwatches debut this week hoping to make people forget about the bland wrist gizmos that first flew the Android Wear flag this summer.Arriving at Sprint on November 14, LG's circular $300 G...
ReadWriteBuilders is a series of interviews with developers, designers and other architects of the programmable future.Entrepreneur, designer and artist Caterina Fake was one of the early pioneers of the Web. She was one of the first online graphic designers and a blogger before people thought it was normal to post...
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.In Santa Barbara, Microsoft is working on the future of computing. Station Q is a Microsoft Research post staffed with some of the brightest mathematicians...
Most people in the United States can't get a decent Internet connection. That seems like a simple enough problem, but there is no easy solution. To make matters more confusing, most information floating around about broadband availability is confusing and contradictory. A lot needs to be sorted out before we...
Battery life is like ice cream and cash—there’s just no such thing as too much. In fact, what’s there usually isn’t enough.See also: If The Future's Battery-Powered, We're ScrewedMobile technology is a way of life now, which brings us face to face with a bizarre truth: More of us are choosing...
Distributed computing is the future of technology, but you'd never know it from how many tech organizations continue to operate. While our systems run across multiple servers and even data centers, our development teams too often sit within the same office. While there are real benefits to a co-located development...
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has gotten lotsofattention thanks to its pending multi-billion-dollar U.S. IPO. It seems to have no immediate plans to expand in the U.S.—but that's likely just a matter of time. And when it does, Amazon had better watch out, because Alibaba has a host of ready allies:...
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 Financial Times reports Apple Inc. is closing in on a deal to buy Beats Electronics—specifically, the company's headphones and streaming music service—in what would be the Cupertino company's largest deal to date.Obviously, a deal like this would have huge implications for Apple—particularly its music-related divisions, including iTunes, the fledgling...
See also: What You Need To Know About Heartbleed, A Really Major Bug That Short-Circuits Web SecurityYou know that song lyric about the first cut being the deepest? It’s complete rubbish. Heartbleed taught us all that. Because the more we learn about this online data-security wound, the deeper that threat seems...
India has never paid much for software, but that may be changing, according to a new Gartner report.With the Indian software economy growing at a hearty 10% clip, there are signs that indicate India is growing out of the rampant software piracy that has long characterized the market. The question...
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