BMW has confirmed plans to launch an electric, autonomous car by 2021, named the iNext. Chief executive Harald Krueger revealed the plans during the company’s celebration of 100 years in business. “We are further expanding the BMW i line-up,” said Krueger. “In just a few weeks, we will offer an...
Smart irrigation controller GreenIQ is integrating its Smart Garden Hub with Nest’s Protect, that firm's smoke detector and alarm. When Nest Protect detects a fire, it will alert the Smart Garden Hub, which will activate sprinklers to avoid a garden fire. In the event of an emergency, the hub will activate...
If you’ve got big ideas, big dreams, big ambitions, crowdfunding has become one of the ways to bridge the gap between your world-saving concept and actually saving the world. We’re big fans of it ourselves. Crowdfunding requires no loss of ownership in your business, offers virtually zero-cost publicity to your...
Lutron Electronics has added its Caséta Wireless system to the growing list of devices that support Amazon Alexa range, which includes the Echo, Dot, Tap, and Fire TV. The Caséta Wireless system features various connected LED lights that can change color or brightness on demand. The integration of Alexa allows...
Another day, another smart home system looking to break into the market. This time, a team of ex-ASUS engineers have launched a Kickstarter for SmartAll, an AI butler that connects to smart devices. The hub, which is on sale at Kickstarter, is a small camera with an LED strip around...
It's a tough slog, competing with Amazon, particularly Amazon Web Services. The cloud computing giant earns billions more in revenues than its next nearest competitors, even as it cranks out innovation at a dizzying pace. To such legacy IT and cloud competitors, failure is familiar. The problem, according to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos,...
In a recent interview post CES 2016, Las Vegas, BK Yoon, President and CEO of Samsung Electronics spoke with Samsung's Newsroom giving insights on Samsung's strategies further down the line in 2016, IOT, Consumer electronics and much more. Here we'll cover on some of the key points from the...
What Nest announced at its press event in San Francisco Wednesday may not be nearly as important as what it didn’t announce—how its flagship smart thermostat, just-updated smoke alarm and rebooted Dropcam security camera will fit into its parent company’s ambitions to fill our homes with intelligent, connected devices.See also:...
Welcome to Artik, the IoT Platform Samsung made quite an Impact at IoT World 2015 as the company unveiled its new Artik platform that enables faster, simpler development of new enterprise, industrial and consumer applications for the Internet of Things (IoT), expanding the opportunities that are open to developers...
Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference will take place June 8-12, the company announced Tuesday. As usual, the iPhone maker will kick things off with a keynote address that essentially maps out its iOS and OS X initiatives, perhaps with a smattering of other things this time around.June used to mark...
On Wednesday, an update to the Amazon Echo, a smart voice-activated speaker, quietly cinched the device’s role as a player in the connected home. Owners of the Echo—which is still only available for purchase by invitation—received an email updating them of a new feature: In addition to streaming music from the...
Guest author Scott Gerber is founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council.Let’s face it: acquisitions are stressful. From audits and fine print to non-competes and company culture, there are many details to navigate before either making an acquisition or being acquired. Add your competitor into the mix, and things can get...
Security is boring—at least until you don't have it anymore. Then it becomes exciting for all the wrong reasons. In our increasingly interconnected world, it's also painfully difficult. How do you secure connections to internal devices and external services that you do not and, indeed, cannot own? For enterprises trying to...
It’s easy to poke fun at companies that treat sensitive information recklessly, sending or receiving plaintext passwords via unencrypted email or chat, or storing customer information in ways that are far from secure. But it can be a logistical nightmare to let multiple remote employees log into a shared account...
ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.Here at ReadWrite, we strive not only to see technology as something that shapes our world, but as something we can access ourselves, to make our lives better and more fun. That’s the spirit behind...
ReadWritePredict is a look ahead at the technology trends and companies that will shape the coming year.Guest author Bill Ready is CEO of the PayPal unit Braintree.Mobile is on the rise and has helped disrupt many traditional industries, including transportation, accommodations, services and retail. As a result, mobile commerce is on...
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Samsung may be known for wacky gimmicks—like its weird rap-music corporate video—pocket-busting smartphones and bizarre press conferences. But it’s incredibly serious when it comes to its future.At the Samsung Developer Conference in San Francisco this week, the Android maker and Tizen evangelist is laying out its path forward, and it...
Technology has the potential to make our lives a lot more pleasant. But have you ever considered all the ways it can be used to make them scarier?Imagine a Jack-O-Lantern that senses when guests are near before going into scare-mode. A skull that shares secrets from the afterlife. A fully...
Tizen-Sunxi Tizen-sunxi is the name of an open-source project that aims to port Tizen to Allwinner A-Series processors. Sunxi represents the family of ARM SoC (System on Chip) processors that are made by Allwinner Tech. Tizen Common We have an updated image of Tizen:Common for A20-OLinuXino-MICRO courtesy of Leon...
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