Last week the Top 10 and Third Prize Winners in Round 2 of the Samsung Gear App Challenge were announced. A Public Voting to choose the Popular Choice Prize Winner among the Top 10 is now open on the Gear App Challenge website (http://gearappfinal.challengepost.com/submissions). * Public Voting on Top 10:...
IBM wants to help companies better understand trends and opinions by analyzing data in 140-characters or less. The technology giant announced a partnership with the hip, young Twitter on Wednesday that will offer Twitter data as part of its cloud-based services. Now IBM products and services, like the popular Watson Analytics,...
Vine's six-second video loops are the latest forum for today's Internet Famous. Like YouTube and Instagram, Vine now hosts online celebrities with giant, legitimate followings. Here at ReadWrite, we've told you about how Vine stars spawned real-life teenage pandemonium, and also how some short video celebs branch off to become stars on other...
Apple CEO Tim Cook told an audience of journalists Tuesday—literally—what he has up his sleeve: “An entirely new product. We believe this product will redefine what people expect from its category."He was talking, of course, about the new Apple Watch. (Note the lack of a little “i.”) The new squarish...
Editor's note: This post was originally published by our partners at PopSugar Tech.Zero-emissions vehicles for all! The luxury electric carmaker Tesla confirmed in Autoexpress that an incredibly affordable sedan called the Tesla Model 3 is in the works.In the world of Tesla, affordable means under $35K, which cuts the price for...
ReadWriteDrive is an ongoing series covering the future of transportation.The smartphone revolution has relatively little to do with using your mobile device as a phone. Arguable, the killer app of mobile computing is the camera: the ability to take and share photography. Now that cars are increasingly becoming computers on...
ReadWriteDrive is an ongoing series covering the future of transportation.Most cars on the road will soon be smart enough to detect and avoid collisions—with little or no help from drivers who all too easily get tired, drunk, or distracted by incoming texts. And that could radically change a lot of things...
ReadWriteDrive is an ongoing series covering the future of transportation.Google might eventually disrupt the auto industry with self-driving cars, just as Tesla plots its threat with long-range electric vehicles. But the more immediately transformative influence over the driving experience will likely come from a surprisingly old school technology company: Xerox.See also:...
Salesforce finally connected the powerful Heroku cloud application platform to its own database layer on Tuesday with the release of the Heroku Connect tool. The move was promised last year when the company debuted its Salesforce1 mobile app, which was designed as a mobile one-stop shop for all of Salesforce's various business application...
The Internet may not agree on much. But if there’s one idea its citizens can get behind, it’s that nothing like the Heartbleed bug should ever happen again.And so the Linux Foundation—backed by Google, Amazon Web Services, Cisco, Dell, Facebook, Fujitsu, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NetApp, Rackspace and VMware—is launching a...
ReadWriteDrive is an ongoing series covering the future of transportation.Here’s something gruesome to consider: More than 200 people are killed every year when cars are reversing—most of these deaths are children. Back-up accidents also injure more than 15,000 people each year.These factoids get more tragic when you consider that it’s usually...
Apple has released iOS 7.1, the latest version of the operating system that powers iPhones and iPads. In addition to fixing security vulnerabilities and other bugs, it provides several interesting new features.iOS 7.1 formally introduces CarPlay, Apple’s new vehicular infotainment system for new cars in 2014. With CarPlay, Apple is...
I feel bad for anyone who actually bought a Galaxy Gear, the smartwatch Samsung just made obsolete with two new models of its second-generation Gear smartwatches. Obsolescence may be an indelible part of technology, but even here, five months is a whiplash-worthy product cycle. Fast as their introductions may be, the...
You may worry about the number of horses, cylinders or doors but what really matters isn't under the hood but under the CPU box. Cars will be more of a computer with wheels than even before and software developers are scuttling around to get as many patents as they can...
Editor's note: This post was originally published by our partners at PopSugar Tech.Pinterest, the web's fastest growing content-sharing platform, is home to some of the Internet's most stunning images and most clever hacks. The It Girl of social networking isn't just full of mason jars and wedding dresses—as the most repinned...
ReadWriteDrive is an ongoing series covering the future of transportation. In December, this series is presented by Buick Regal.Watching a car drive or park itself is a dramatic sight. It conjures images of a Jetsonian future, in which mobility robots whisk us to desired locations with a voice command.But for the people...
ReadWriteBuilders is a series of interviews with developers, designers and other architects of the programmable future.Talk to Broadcom’s Henry Samueli, and you get the sense of a man who knows exactly how lucky he is. The son of immigrant parents, Holocaust survivors, the current chairman and chief technology officer grew up...
ReadWriteDrive is an ongoing series covering the future of transportation. In December, this series is presented by Buick Regal.Nvidia, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker, is well known for inventing the graphics processing unit, or GPU. Its chips have long souped up gaming PCs, laptops, workstations and supercomputers. But you might...
Guest author Michael O’Shea is the president and CEO of Abalta Technologies. Apple VP Eddy Cue unveiled "iOS in the Car" at the company's developer conference last June, announcing that nine-plus automakers would support its integration of a driver's iPhone into a car's information systems. Still, he took less than 90 seconds to...
The Internet of Things promises to make life easier in countless ways. But don't make it angry. You won't like it when it's angry.Rise Of The MachinesScene: New York City in mid-July, not too many years from now—the first day of a new war.The Holland Tunnel connecting New Jersey with...
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