Samsung's Rewards Program was started with the goal of encouraging Samsung's users to engage the OEM's software services such as Samsung Pay, its new AI Bixby, along with its Internet Browser and Samsung Health. The Korean giant issued a news release this week, stating that its Rewards Program has seen...
Every day, countless children across the globe turn up for school on an empty stomach, which makes it hard to focus on lessons. Many simply do not go, as their families need them to help in the fields or around the house. For all of them, a daily school meal can...
The Indian Institutes of Technology are autonomous public institutes of higher education, located in India. IITs are one of the most prestigious educational institutions in India. This also shows that Samsung is committed to working in the field of next-generation technology development. IIT Kharagpur and Samsung India IIT Kharagpur has now signed...
Bulk TV & Internet is trying to diversify its product by collaborating with Samsung Electronics America to offer services to Samsung Hospitality TVs. With this partnership, hoteliers will get a huge benefit whenever they purchase the Samsung Hospitality TV with a DirecTV Technicolor COM2000 headend system coupled with the Samsung Reach 4.0...
The smart home revolution is still in its early days. Even with the programmable devices that exist already — the thermostats that learn your patterns, the voice-controlled assistants and the lighting that can be customized according to your needs and daily routines — there is still a large unexplored vista...
Drive.ai and Lyft have announced a partnership to test self-driving cars in the San Francisco Bay Area. The trial will look into how Lyft can optimize the passenger experience, and expand Drive.ai’s technical capabilities with thousands of autonomous miles. Lyft has made a few big self-driving announcements in the past...
Digital technology giants 20th Century Fox, Panasonic Corporation, and Samsung Electronics have announced a new tripartite partnership which would see them creating an open, royalty-free dynamic metadata platform for High Dynamic Range (HDR). The platform would be created through an associated certification and logo program which is tentatively called HDR10+....
Samsung has partnered with popular file transfer app Xender to produce a native Tizen version of the Xender app. This collaboration will give users a suitable platform to transfer files over short distances. Officially, the Tizen version of Xender app was unveiled on the 8th of May and it can be downloaded from Tizen...
Seattle, one of the finalists in the Department of Transportation’s Smart City Challenge, is on the hunt for a smart city coordinator to oversee the city’s strategy and start dialogues between the city and private partners. The coordinator will also be responsible for making sure smart city programs across multiple...
Ten American cities have been shortlisted for the Smart Cities Council Readiness Challenge Grant program, the winners of which will be announced next week. The Smart Cities Council has released a short list of cities that will be competing for the grant program. Winning cities have access to smart city-related...
Lucid Motors, a luxury car manufacturer from California, has chosen Mobileye as its main supplier for camera, radar, and lidar sensors, which will enable self-driving. The automaker is preparing to launch its first car, the Lucid Air, which will be fitted with eight cameras, radar and lidar sensors. Lucid will...
Ofgem, the U.K. government’s regulator for gas and electricity, has revealed that projects trialled under the Low Carbon Networks Fund (LCNF) could save 215 tonnes of CO2. The program ran for six years, ending in 2015, with the aim of helping Distribution Network Operators (DNOs) develop cost effective and energy...
The future-friendly city of Bristol received a notable Internet of Things (IoT) award for its programmable city initiative. Globe Newswire said that the southwest U.K. city recently won the Smart City Award at the World Communications Awards & Internet of Things Awards in London. The city was recognized for its Bristol...
Twenty years ago I was approached by a vending machine company that wanted to remotely monitor and record the temperature of their vending machine compartments to the nearest tenth of a degree. I understand that no one wants a warm soda, but the data the company wanted to record was...
Ingenu has debuted its Smarter City program, offering a ready-to-use, beginning-to-end smart city platform that is based on the firm's patented RPMA (Random Phase Multiple Access) communication technology and innovations from its various partners. The program will give access to municipal applications, offering solutions for the best deployment of smart parking, water...
If you own a Tizen-powered Samsung smart TV or hope to buy one soon, then this news should get you elated. Samsung has teamed up with eLearning company Ascendia to bring eLearning games to the EduPedia app on Tizen TV right from its edutainment portal. Ascendia announced the partnership and...
Two more partners have joined Microsoft in developing a $500 million smart city 30 miles northwest of Washington, DC – the first of its kind in the area. The Washington Business Journal reports that the Gramercy District smart city project in Ashburn, Virginia has attracted two additional partners. Private equity...
myDevices and Arduino announced on Tuesday a partnership that connects Cayenne, a drag-and-drop Internet of Things (IoT) project builder, with Arduino’s large open-source hardware developer boards. Developers are now able to use Cayenne to visualize sensor data and control components of the Arduino board. myDevices claims the partnership will expedite...
Earlier this year, Samsung launched the Connect Auto- A smart Automobile accessory that connects to a Car's OBD II port (any vehicle with a OBD II port actually). This accessory provides features like On Board Diagnostics, in Car LTE-WiFi, a Virtual assistant that monitors the condition of the Vehicle and...
Sensity Systems is teaming up with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to help lower air pollution and congestion levels in China’s cities, alongside providing video surveillance technology for the government. The two companies launched a joint venture spin-off, which will have its own IoT platform for Chinese Smart Cities....
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