Samsung has announced a new Smart TV user experience and Smart Hub for its Tizen 2016 TV range and also a new Samsung Smart Control remote. The new Smart Hub interface promises to more tightly Integrate with your existing content and services, allowing you to easily switch between them....
Tizen 2015 Year in Review This year has unquestionably been a great year for Tizen in terms of Product, Operating System and Software Development Kit (SDK) Releases. Now lets have a look at some of the highlights of the year, and fasten your seat belts as there have been quite a few....
Samsung Electronics is looking at upping its security game when it comes to its 2016 range of Smart TVs and beyond. Introducing GAIA, a security solution aimed specifically for its Smart TVs. Smart TV is an Important platform for Samsung to implement their Tizen TV solution on. User will...
Samsung has confirmed that it's upcoming 2016 SUHD Smart TV range will be compatible with SmartThings, the companies home automation platform. The Smart TVs will have the Internet of Things (IoT) hub technology built in, and will easily provide Smart Home control features to millions of consumers. The TV...
Philips was forced to reverse recent software updates this week when it was revealed that updates to its Philips Hue wireless lighting system cut off access to previously supported light bulbs made by other companies. Here's how Philips explained the decision: While the Philips Hue system is based on open technologies we...
CES 2016 Invites Samsung are getting ready for the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2016 event and are sending out Press Invites. This is an Annual event that is held in Las Vegas where Samsung are expected to showcase lots of their upcoming tech to the tens of thousands...
The Samsung SmartThings Hub is designed to make it easy for you to connect devices to your connected home. The Hub also comes with the SmartThings mobile app which allows you to control all your smart devices, right from the palm of your hand. Below is an Infographic that...
Fresh out of the Samsung Accelerator startup program is Perch, an innovative app and back-end system for monitoring homes through existing hardware. It launches in open beta today as an Android app, but more integrations and iOS support are promised soon.See also: Smart Homes: How To Keep From Missing The...
Samsung Electronics’ new smartwatch, the Samsung Gear S2, combines a touchscreen with an innovative hardware bezel and buttons for a completely new and unique user experience. Now, Samsung are reminding us that as well as outstanding hardware, devices also need a strong list of partners that take it to...
Both Apple and Google have television on their minds: The tech titans have updated their streaming devices, the Apple TV and Chromecast. But soon, neither will find a home on Amazon.com, where those devices had been selling like hotcakes.According to Bloomberg, the retailer plans to effectively pull both devices off its...
Google teased its smart home initiatives Weave and Brillo earlier this year at I/O, and now the tech giant's Nest division is pushing its own smart home standard out into the real world. Nest Weave, announced Thursday, is a protocol for Internet of Things gadgets that lets them communicate with Nest...
Since Apple announced its HomeKit smart home initiative last year, it's been mostly quiet about just how iPhones and other Apple gadgets will wrangle those connected devices. Now, however, the company may have a fancy new app in the works—complete with virtual rooms, a clever and apparently easy-to-grasp metaphor for...
With Google's I/O developer conference around the corner, you can expect the rumors to start coming thick and fast, and The Information has the scoop that the Mountain View company is working on a new OS for the Internet of Things.It's codenamed "Brillo" for now, though it emerge under the...
Samsung’s new software development kit for its homegrown mobile OS Tizen offers a few hints about its upcoming Gear A smartwatch (codenamed Orbis)—namely, that it will probably sport a round display and a rotating bezel for taking a spin through the interface.More important, though, the SDK also suggests that Samsung is...
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...
Wireless charging technology goes back a long, long way—all the way back to 1891, when Nicola Tesla successfully transferred power wirelessly. More than 100 years later, the tech still remains a non-starter.Samsung wants to change all that. A post by its top engineer for IT and mobile, Seho Park, suggests that the...
Four years ago, consumer electronics company Xiaomi didn’t even have a smartphone product. Now the former startup is worth $45 billion and has become one of the three top phone makers in the world.If you keep up with the job-hopping antics of tech execs, then you might have come across...
Last year, it looked like Russia would be the recipient of Samsung’s first Tizen smartphone, but now India gets the honor instead. Meet the Z1, the South Korean tech company’s first smartphone powered by its own open-source, Linux-based software.Unsurprisingly, the dual-SIM $92 budget device comes with middle-of-the-road hardware on board—including...
At the Consumer Electronics Show on Monday, Samsung Electronics CEO B.K. Yoon talked up his company's strategy to connect everything in your life. "The Internet of Things is ready to go," he said in his keynote address. Turns out, Samsung's latest and perhaps boldest IoT campaign is already underway. The not-so-secret ingredients: Its big...
ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year. Wearables come in lots of shapes and sizes for limbs, fingers and faces now. All the choices and options speak to the same thing: Very soon, mainstream consumers will use and relate to their technologies...
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