Google has finally launched Android Wear in India, with the LG G Watch, which has gone on sale and will start shipping from tomorrow, July 8. The Samsung Gear Live will start shipping later this month in India and this will likely be followed by Motorola with its Moto 360. So Android Wear is well…
Google, which already runs the world’s busiest search engine, is mapping/photographing the world and building driver less cars, is now moving into the homemade television-content business among a few other markets. Consumers will soon be able to connect their televisions and Android devices to form de facto home television studios. And that’s not all, at…
Google Inc.’s Nest Labs is acquiring Dropcam Inc. for $555 million to boost its offerings for the connected home. The deal will be in cash and subject to adjustments, Nest said in a statement yesterday. Dropcam makes in-home cameras that can be checked from a smartphone anywhere in the world, an offering that would broaden…
Still not sold on smart watches, but want to know what’s going on with your phone without taking it out of your pocket? Maybe Matilde’s Fun-iki glasses, spotted at CNET Japan’s Live 2014 event, will do the trick. Connecting to smartphones through WiFi, a trio of LEDs above each lens will glow (or pulse) when…
Amazon got its start selling books, and it’s still largely a content retailer, selling a lot of music and movies as well as books. And increasingly, people are purchasing those products not as old-fashioned physical media like hardcover books and CDs, but as digital files or subscriptions. Of course, Amazon doesn’t need to create its…
Oracle is announcing the latest in its line of workload-specific, enterprise-class servers, the Sun Server X4-4 and Sun Server X4-8. Co-engineered with Oracle software, these servers are the first to include elastic computing features, maximizing performance by adapting to different workload demands in real time. The Sun Server X4-4 is designed specifically for business intelligence…
Samsung on Thursday rolled out a pair of high-end, Android-based tablets that have a more sophisticated look and feel, with a brighter, thinner and lighter screen than previous models. It is branding the tablets as an extension of that premium Galaxy S line, by adding an “S” to the end of the Galaxy Tab name…
TrueCrypt remains the only option for securely importing and exporting data to and from the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) two weeks after the popular encryption software was abruptly discontinued by its creators, supposedly for security reasons. According to Amazon Web Services (AWS) online documentation, “TrueCrypt is the only device encryption supported by AWS Import/Export.”…
Qualcomm is bringing 4G coverage to offices and homes with a low-cost chip that will power wireless routers with both Wi-Fi and LTE. The introduction of the FSM90xx SoC (system-on-a-chip) is a change of pace for Qualcomm. When the company entered the small cell sector it did so with high-performing products, but has now started…
Facebook’s becoming almost as notable for its adventures with open source projects as it is for its social network of more than 1 billion users. The company’s latest experiment: revising one of Hadoop’s key components to make it more reliable in data centers. Apache HBase, a project spun off from Google’s Bigtable, is used in…
Google just unveiled tablet prototype equipped with 3D-sensors and a motion-tracking camera. The tablet is the latest venture of Google’s Project Tango initiative aimed at bringing 3D motion and depth sensors to mobile devices. The gadget is in connection with Google’s Project Tango, an initiative to push the bounds of virtual experiences and realistic mapping…
Google will begin publishing details of the proportion of encrypted emails transmitted to and from its Gmail service, including naming the domains that it communicates with, as part of its ‘Transparency Report’ privacy initiative. Called Safer Email, the project aims to encourage email providers to encrypt messages by default, instead of sending them in clear…
