3D touch is like a right-mouse button that provides a drop-down list of choices on a touchscreen. A light touch on a notification or icon lets the user peek at content and, with a little longer press, it pops open to an expanded view. Lifting the finger lets the view collapse back to the original view. A light touch on a link contained in a message will open it at the top of the screen in Safari.
Microsoft seeks the same acclaim from the 950 XL that it won with the Surface Pro, delivering one device that serves two purposes. The 950 XL will fall short, though. Mixing the ecosystem of a smartphone with the productivity of a desktop PC is very different than mixing a tablet with a keyboard for personal productivity.
With the release of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, Apple's new annual upgrade plan serves as an "iPhone as a Service" plan that locks in customers for two years and keeps them from defecting to Android.
A lot of data behind this story from Google and Kaspersky Lab - Often finding a corroborating time series data source limits reporting as more than hearsay; however - Google and Kaspersky's data in this case align to confirm that banking trojan apps in Russia have nearly been exterminated.
This announcement was packed with details about products for consumers - and just one for both consumers and developers - Google Voice leaped ahead of Siri with the announcement that the Google API will be opened to independent developers, letting them create voice-enabled apps.
Overall, the Moto X compares very favorably to the iPhone 6s Plus Apple announced earlier this month, but it costs a little more than half the price. Here's a breakdown of how the two compare in terms of specs:
Apple announced drastic financial incentives for its new iPhone 6s line because the devices aren’t much of a step forward technologically. Most iPhone 6 users won’t sense a dramatic difference, and maybe none at all. It leaves Apple with not much to sell other than “new” but not noticeably “improved.”
Motorola offers its Moto Maker, a website where the buyer can tweak the watch's design until they're happy with it. Now that Android Wear devices like the Moto 360 are supported on the iPhone, even iPhone users should take a look at the Moto 360, because it may be a better fit with their style and app preferences.
Apple is making its live stream available on Windows for the first time, but only for Windows 10. Here's how to watch it on Android and other versions of Windows.
Intel lets developers reuse Android Java code on iOS — Yes, you read that right the first time. And the iOS Java apps running on iPhones have native Xcode UIs.
To the astonishment of everyone seeing Multi-OS Engine for the first time, iOS apps can be developed on Windows using Android Studio and debugged on Windows using a USB tethered iPhone or the iOS emulator Intel built for Android Studio.
Home Wi-Fi routers are often designed as unattractive, dumbed-downed versions of enterprise routers. Google's just-announced OnHub router takes a different approach – designed for consumers to connect everything to Google's and other clouds, it actually looks pretty sweet.
Six months into owning a Nexus 6, I'm feeling lucky I chose it. The complaints about the battery life of the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, which can be found at the Next Web and Android Central, inspired my gratitude to this massive hunk of glass, polycarbonate, and metal frame. Now that the bloom of newness has past, I've been taking the Nexus 6's battery for granted, just expecting this phablet to perform.
Now with regular updates, Android’s security model is much better than iOS and Windows 10. Android source code is available for the security community to examine. Open source makes Android a good subject for commercial and academic researchers to test theories and postulate vulnerabilities. Google will pay a bounty for verified vulnerabilities.
Most of what was speculatively written about the Android Stagefright vulnerability it turns out was wrong. Google challenges Drake's assertion that 950 million Android devices are at risk from the exploit of the Stagefright vulnerability.
Pure Android, extensive features, top-tier differentiated design at prices below industry leaders Apple and Samsung are intended to tease consumers to look at the line up and consider a direct relationship with Motorola.
Motorola's chief designer Wicks created innovative solid phones in earlier versions of the Moto X and Moto G. He's done it again with the latest phones released yesterday. It remains to be seen if Motorola can create a direct relationship with consumers using Moto Maker for customization, online services and social media.
Data shows that new subscribers are signing up at an annualized growth rate of 480 percent each year . Between the third quarter of 2014 and the second quarter of 2015 gigabit, subscribers grew from 40,000-174,000.
The proposed breakup of Qualcomm by activist investment firm Jana Partners, as reported by the Wall Street Journal this week, would be a blunder of biblical proportions. The equivalent of Delilah cutting off Samson's hair while he slept, dividing Qualcomm into separately traded semiconductor and technology licensing businesses would produce two companies of lesser value than the former whole.
Slice Intelligence's Apple Watch estimates confirm that Apple needs a different narrative for innovation in new product categories. The company's Wizard of Oz –like assertion that it knows everything that consumers might ever want hamstrings its ability to introduce an Apple version of an evolving product category that's not perfect.
Using the playbook she brought from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Regina Dugan drives rapid technology innovation at Google’s ATAP group.
Dugan joined Google to create the ATAP group, where she could apply the DARPA model to speed Google’s strategic research projects. She traded the Department of Defense’s deep pockets for Google’s, and exchanged fighting America’s adversaries for fighting perplexing product development challenges.
If the U.S. Supreme Court rules for the plaintiff later this month in the case of King v. Burwell, 7.5 million Americans stand to lose their Obamacare tax credits. Such a ruling would make it illegal to sell subsidized Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage on the federal healthcare.gov insurance exchange website that runs on an Amazon EC2 cluster. But it will still be legal (read: ACA-compliant) to sell subsidized Obamacare insurance on a state run exchange using the same SaaS exchange application on a separate EC2 cluster. http://www.cio.com/article/2933561/legal/cloud-tech-can-make...
Android Auto, a product that up until now was only talked about by industry insiders and journalists, just shipped this week.
Well, it didn't really ship, because it is being released as a software update to the 2015 Hyundai Sonata that existing owners can download. It will also be factory-installed on new models. Android Auto is an attempt to incorporate the convenience and safety of pairing a smartphone to a car without the distraction. It also points out that the car has become a software-driven mobile device, not unlike computers and smartphones.
Google will celebrate independent software developers that build software with its products and services with two days of tech talks from the company's top technologists at the upcoming Google I/O conference. It's the one conference where developers get better seats at the keynote talks than the press. Google will surprise, delight, and throw a couple of haymakers at its competition.
With its recently announced acquisition of AOL, Verizon now stands with the television disruptors attacking this $400 billion market in opposition to incumbent television networks and entrenched ratings service Nielsen. Telecom giant Verizon's move signals an uptick in the rate of television disintermediation.
Consumer market researcher Nielsen leads the pack, with patents describing ways to detect brain activity with EEG and translate it into what someone truly thinks about, say, a new product, advertising, or packaging. Microsoft Corp. holds patents that assess mental states, with the goal of determining the most effective way to present information.
Contrary to reports, Google didn't become a mobile carrier with the introduction of Google Fi. Google Fi was launched to prove that a network-of-networks serves smartphone users better than a single mobile carrier's network. Patents related to Google Fi, filed in early 2007, explain Google's vision – smartphones negotiate for and connect to the fastest network available. The patent and Google Fi share a common notion that the smartphone should connect to the fastest network available, not a single carrier's network that may not provide the best performance. It breaks the exclusive relationship between a smartphone and a single carrier.
Apple, Google and automakers have reached a standoff—a demilitarized zone drawn at the dashboard. This is where Google’s Android Auto and Apple’s CarPlay vie for control of the dashboard console to display messages, navigation and entertainment apps. Recent statements by German automakers portray an industry wary of Apple and Google that contradicts the cooperation represented by the many Android Auto and CarPlay partnerships announced over the last year.
Facebook’s solution is an open-source project called React Native that builds on its successful React project for Web development. Facebook claims that React Native will let the same set of engineers build applications in the same way for either iOS or Android. This time the company has set its sights a little more realistically than it did with HTML5. React Native is a learn-once-run-everywhere (LORE) app development tool.