Electronics

Samsung Electronics launched the first phone running its homegrown Tizen operating system on Monday morning. The Samsung Z, as it is called, will go on sale in Russia in the third quarter. Samsung currently sells more smartphones than any other company, but the vast majority of those handsets run Google’s Android operating system. Tizen, which Continue Reading →

Fresh off its $3 billion deal to buy headphone maker and streaming-music service Beats Electronics, Apple takes the stage Monday at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco. The annual gathering of Apple’s developers – starting with the keynote speech at 10 a.m. local time – offers the company an opportunity to strengthen ties Continue Reading →

When Apple dropped $3 billion on Beats this week, it was pretty clear Cupertino was more interested in the software and people than the hardware. That’s no surprise. From the get-go, Beats cans have been almost universally maligned in the tech press as poor performers, both for their low fidelity and their cheap build quality. Continue Reading →

Here’s my short list of awesome gifts for dads and grads: If you need a smartphone today… HTC One M8 (MSRP $199 w/ 2-Year Contract) Apple and Samsung have held the “best smartphone” crown for several years, but the best all-around phone on the market right now is the HTC One M8. It’s got an Continue Reading →

Elvis Costello once sang of watching detectives, an act that, to most of us, has been difficult. Now with the always-on, always-recording wearable NewViewWear camera, however, you can see them “shoot, shoot, shoot” and them “red dogs under illegal legs” no matter how they try to hide. Lifecasting waned in popularity when people realized it Continue Reading →

“I was in early morning traffic when an inattentive driver hit me from behind and I was thrown from my motorcycle.” Ryan Shearman, founder and CEO of Fusar Technologies, tells me at Augmented World Expo 2014. It’s the kind of thing that could happen to any motorcyclist — and indeed, happens too often — but Continue Reading →

On January 2nd, 2013, David Eckart lived through a nightmare. After being stopped in a Walmart parking lot, New Mexico police asked Eckart to step out of his car, and patted him down. They searched his car without his consent. He was handcuffed, arrested, and eventually a search warrant was issued that allowed police to Continue Reading →

Last week we told you about Samsung’s unannounced virtual reality headset: a peripheral that enables VR interaction for flagship phones from the world’s largest phone manufacturer. This week we’ve got far more details. First things first, Samsung’s headset is the fruit of a collaboration with Oculus VR, the Facebook-owned virtual reality startup that both literally Continue Reading →

Microsoft is the latest technology giant preparing to jump into the wearables market, with plans to offer a sensor-rich smartwatch that measures heart rate and synchs with iPhones, Android phones and Windows Phones, Forbes has learned. It’s a surprising development in the ongoing conversation about wearables that till now has been dominated by Samsung and Continue Reading →

OS X users digging through Thursday’s beta update to the system have discovered what appears to be a reference to an as-of-yet unannounced version of the iMac. The model, dubbed iMac 15,1 could be shown off next week at Apple’s WWDC conference, where we’ve heard that there will likely be some new hardware announcements. The Continue Reading →