As bitcoin moves into 5 digits and Ethereum is closer and closer to half a thousand dollars, the old world is lagging behind, amid bubble claims and naysayers floating in the Twitterverse. In the meantime, ICOs, i.e. Ethereum-based token crowd sales, are making VC rounds pale in comparison. But while every holder is fighting for […]
Who owns the data has the best odds to write our future as far as AI is concerned, and what is poised to become the biggest data repository in all of history? IoT. That's why Samsung has big plans on unifying all its IoT cloud services and initiatives into one catch-em-all platform, codenamed "IoT Cloud platform". Last […]
For swimmers, Christmas comes closer this year, with Samsung announcing new promising partnerships for all the fan of the water out there. Long story short, the South Korean company has partnered with Speedo, Under Armour and Spotify in order to support Gear Fit2 Pro with three unique features, that is, one feature per partner. First […]
It's been three weeks since the latest update of Samsung Pay, and yet here we are with another update for the Indian market. The service is getting refined with the introduction of some new functionalities, especially regarding brick-and-mortar stores. The big news here is the integration with UPI. Short for Unified Payment Interface, UPI is […]
After a first timid announcement, Samsung has finally uploaded a video on its official YouTube channel that shows off more concretely what Samsung has in the pipeline for Samsung DeX and what we should expect in terms of experience. It’s flagged as a “concept demo”, but still, in about one minute of length it allows […]
On October 17 Magic Leap, the much-debated startup that promises to completely revolutionize the Augmented Reality field, confirmed a $502M Series D Round of financing, led by Alibaba Group, bringing its valuation to an astounding $4.5B. Undoubtedly a shocking figure for a hardware company that has never ever shown a single piece of hardware. Which begs […]
More and more people are getting enthused with Pocket Desktop PCs like UDOO X86 and Raspberry Pi 3. Lightweight laptops, such as Google’s Chromebook or Microsoft’s Surface Book 2, are conquering the market. Finally, projects that promise to turn your smartphone into a PC like the Superbook and the Mirabook are booming on Kickstarter and […]
We all love IoT, so what about protocols? Network protocols, for those not in the know, are set of rules for communication between network devices, compression and data packing. Thanks to these rules, devices identify and connect to each other and you can, for example, turn on the music with your phone. Cool, isn’t it? […]
As the IoT era keeps unfolding, tech molochs in Silicon Valley and everywhere else are brewing their solutions to solve the biggest problem so far: making sense of (so much) data. A huge load of. Yes, because IoT implies a mountain of data so tall that the word “Big Data” may not be enough anymore […]
During a conference in Mumbai on November 6, Ganesh Kumar, executive director of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has reportedly declared: "Our current position on bitcoin is that we will not be using it for any payments and settlements…though the technology underlying cryptocurrencies will not end". Pretty cryptic, isn't it? What are the implications? Does it […]
Samsung Pay, i.e. Samsung's flagship payment solution, is growing at a mind-boggling pace, gaining one million new users in the last one-and-half months alone. What's the rationale behind such vertical growth? The increase signs a shift in the payment ecosystem and the rise of digital payments. With their slowly - but steadily - acceptance […]
If you own a Tizen device and you are a Telegram user like me, today’s there’s a fresh update of the Telegram app waiting for you. I owe you just a clarification before going into details: I am not talking about the official Telegram app, since there is no official Telegram app - at least, […]
Samsung has published the second milestone, so-called M2, of Tizen 4.0. This is the second release for Tizen 4.0 after Samsung hit the first milestone back in June, also announcing that Tizen is the most successful Linux-based embedded OS in the whole world. As expected, Tizen 4.0 M2 comes with a bunch of new, welcome […]
For the joy of Australian tech-enthusiasts and fitness fanatics out there, Samsung Gear Sport and Gear IconX are coming to Australia, starting today. The move follows the launch of pre-orders earlier this year. As announced by Samsung Electronics Australia, Gear Sport and IconX are already on sale in Samsung retail stores, Samsung Online Store and […]
Better Mortgage, a high-tech mortgage company that has made a name for itself for being the first one to offer zero-fee, zero-commission mortgages, is teaming up with Samsung to expand its offering with Samsung Rewards. The service, introduced last November by the South Korean industry, has been put in comparison with the points-based airline’s rewards […]
Tyler Technologies, a public company laser-focused on security software for the public sector with more than 15,000 customers among local government offices and school districts, has announced to be working closely with Samsung Electronics America in the Samsung Alliance Program to provide integration between Samsung Gear S3 and Tyler’s New World Public Safety Solutions. According to Tyler’s vice […]
If you're an owner of a Samsung Galaxy J device you will be thrilled to know there are new possibilities coming for you. It shouldn't come as a surprise that Samsung is boosting its wearables department - this time with a major software release for all Samsung Galaxy J devices. For the first time ever Galaxy […]
Trick or treat? Halloween is coming! It’s a matter of just a few days and we’ll all be creatures of the night. And like every year, you want to be prepared and... scare your friends to death! Ok, sorry for the joke, death isn’t cool - seriously: play safely! - but there’s no better occasion […]
At the Samsung Developer Conference closed yesterday in San Francisco USA, Samsung depicted its ambitious strategy for AI and announced Bixby 2.0, a major upgrade to Samsung’s flagship virtual assistant. Bixby 2.0, which is meant to “start a paradigm shift” in devices”, is the second-generation version in just six months since the launch of Bixby. […]
Despite all the security issues that today data security departments have to deal with, concerns can only rise with the Internet of Things becoming widespread. From smart appliances to wearables, we’re living in a world more and more connected every day - and each connection is also a vulnerability - a passage to enter our […]
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