The e-commerce platform giant has taken a financial liking to a mesh Wi-Fi network company. How will Amazon acquiring eero help its own position?
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Samsung demonstrates Infinity Flex Display with One UI
That foldable Galaxy smartphone will be coming fast and furious at us, but before that, let's get to know the display that will be on it.
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The Alexa microwave and all the other new Echo products from Amazon’s show
A myriad of speakers, plug-ins and other smart home appliances were shown off as Amazon slams hardware down for the fall season.
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T-Mobile Nest Secure pack available from November 10
The system costs $480, but customers pay it off on an EIP with a $240 down. Nest sensors, tags and a camera get help with cellular backup.
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Qualcomm releases new parts to add to Snapdragon chips to support 600MHz
This portfolio of amplifiers, duplex filters and other microcomponents are in testing now and should be out to serve T-Mobile customers next year.
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Two new Samsung ISOCELL cameras debut for tiny and fast needs
Better, more powerful cameras in a smaller package. That's what Samsung hopes to bring with the Fast 2L9 and the Slim 2X7.
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You can win an HTC U11 with a smart home kit — a $1,500 value
HTC is putting on a sweepstakes for the first few weeks of September with prize packages about $1,500 in value. And you don't need to buy anything to enter.
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Samsung working towards 4nm lithography and the step ahead of FinFET
Silicon may be a boring topic for consumers, but smaller and more efficient chip processes mean that device OEMs can fit more into phones.
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Expect an LTE-only T-Mobile by 2019 if the carrier can peel legacy clingers
Speaking at an Ericsson event at MWC 2017, T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray said that the carrier will have to work on converting every last call onto VoLTE.
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SK Telecom 5G tests put 3.6Gbps through to a hurtling car
How fast? Try breaking the 100mph mark. Testing was done in conjunction with BMW and Ericsson and, in fact, improves on a prior test done just months ago.
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Mozilla cuts 50 jobs in connected devices, Firefox OS falls to IoT focus
Firefox has not been working out on televisions, phones and tablets. Heck, web browsing is suffering, too. But aims are high for IoT.
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2G will die in Singapore throughout 2017
HMD Global has brought Nokia’s name back to mobile, but it won’t be able to sell its new Nokia 150 starting January 1 in Singapore.
The city-state’s Infocomm Media Development Authority has proclaimed that it will de-register 2G-only devices for sale in Singapore starting in the new year. While exports are still allowed, devices for domestic use will not be sold.
Furthermore on April 1, operators in the area will have shut down their last 2G towers. M1, Singtel and Starhub will restack the spectrum with 3G or 4G solutions while customers with 2G phones will be protected from any service plan shuffling, though they will have to eventually get a 3G phone and are advised to do so as soon as possible.
For AT&T in the US, it’ll be a similar, yet difficult task to say goodbye to EDGE and the like on the first of the year, especially as T-Mobile and Verizon have protracted plans to keep 2G alive in the US for a while. Reasons differ between the difficulty of customer migration and Internet of Things appliances’ reliance on the network.
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Google’s new Android Things OS brings a more-practical approach to IoT
It seems Google and Microsoft decided to talk about the future of IoT at the same time. The difference with Google is that what started as Weave and Project Brillo a couple of months ago has now evolved into a new product called Android Things. This doesn’t mean that the Brillo and Weave are necessarily dead, as Android Things is a very interesting new approach.
So the idea behind Android Things as an OS is to make building code for smart appliances as easy as building a mobile application. To build code for these, you use ordinary developer tools like Android Studio and the SDK, and you also have access to Google Play Services and the Google Cloud Platform. There’s also a new device developer kit on Weave that helps you tap into basic hardware like lights, switches, thermostats, and then lets you connect these for commands from the Google Assistant. Android Things already works with Intel’s Edison, Raspberry Pi 3 and NXP’s Pico, so there’s already a back bone set for people to get started and develop with minimal effort.
It’s hard to tell how early we’ll be able to see products running as part of Android Things, but given the ease provided, it should only be a matter of time.
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Microsoft’s plans for Cortana on IoT involve talking to your fridge
The latest boom, if we could call it that, is the whole concept of a smart home. The idea that you can control your home appliances from your mobile devices, and in a way, have these be smarter about the specific tasks that they do. Microsoft has just announced how it plans to innovate in making homes even smarter, and Cortana plays a big role.
At the moment, smart home appliances involve some sort of hub, be it a speaker, a smartphone or tablet, and sure you can tell Siri to turn on the lights, but you can’t tell the light switch to turn itself on. Microsoft has just announced the new Creators Update to air in mid-2017, and the idea is to build Cortana into your appliances. This provides some added functionality to these, meaning you’ll be able to give commands to your fridge or thermostat directly, and also be able to set a calendar appointment from any of these, as they’ll sync with Cortana like your smartphone, tablet or laptop can.
Is this a little on the science fiction side? Yes. We also know that appliances won’t be ready to support this until months after the Microsoft Creator’s Update go live. Still, if Redmond can pull this off, it might end up being very cool, and hopefully, not as pricey as it sounds.
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Qualcomm expects $47 billion NXP acquisition to close by the end of 2017
This would be industry-shattering news if it didn’t make perfect sense and wasn’t already previewed in recent media speculation. Still, no one could have predicted Qualcomm’s desire to snag fellow semiconductor veteran NXP is so fervent that the San Diego-based tech giant agreed to cough up a whopping $47 billion.The Dutch company, founded way back in 2006, and the generator of $1.4 billion net income on $6.1B revenue last year, is currently “only” evaluated at around $33.5 billion. But ...
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