Android Wear hasn’t been shown the love it deserves, and has therefore fallen behind the pack, with both Apple’s WatchOS and Samsung’s Tizen operating system on the Gear S2 and Gear S3 being more fun, versatile, and usable. Google’s doing something about it, and ahead of next year’s Android Wear 2.0 release, it has acquired […]
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Interest in the wearable market has started to decrease drastically, as more and more users realize they don’t really need a smartwatch (including our own Henry). But Google doesn’t want to give up on Android Wear, not by a long shot. The company is looking for new ways to make wearables relevant (again!?). Its latest
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Google is still looking to improve its standing in the smartwatch industry with Android Wear . Today, it was revealed that a smartwatch startup, founded in part by former Google employees, will now be working on Android Wear directly. That startup, Cronologics, announced that its team has been acquired by Google. The company formed in 2014 and
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Android Wear has been under a fair degree of scrutiny lately and specifically surrounding the future direction of the platform, if any. This somewhat began when Google confirmed that Android Wear 2.0 was being delayed. This was also around the same time that select manufacturers were reportedly confirming that they were not bringing out anymore Android
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San Francisco, CA, 2016-Dec-12 — /EPR Network/ — With this week’s news hitting the streets that Amazon’s Alexa plans to introduce a seven-inch touchscreen display, Silicon Valley-based startup SmartBeings, Inc is glad to see the market now moving toward a position they targeted last year, effectively substantiating the fact that SmartBeings is “truly onto something
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If you build conversational interfaces and have been waiting for Google to open up Actions on Google, here is some good news. Google has recently announced that it will allow all developers to use the platform to build out conversational experiences targeted toward Google devices and services. The official blog post laid out details for initial
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of two articles extracted from a keynote speech delivered by Brien Sheahan at the recent Empowering Customers & Cities conference in Chicago. Next: Utilities in Era of Self-Driving Cars. New technologies will enable utilities and other energy sector players to bring a raft of new services to their customers,
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‘Tis the season to be careful. We live in uncertain times—made even more perilous by the specter of cyber attacks on every level of business. But there’s a lot that can be done to improve things. To dive deeper into the threats and opportunities, Xconomy convened the top names in cybersecurity from around Boston and
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Evolution inevitably involves the creation of new problems, and the big tech stories of the year show that this goes for IT just like anything else. While the internet has brought the world closer together, it also paved the way for fake news and new forms of espionage. The rise of AI has humans worried
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