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Samsung, Intel, Dell and others team up to help your gadgets talk to each other

Jul08
by on July 8, 2014 at 5:16 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Mobile

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There’s yet another tech industry group focused on the internet of things in town. Samsung has partnered with Atmel, Broadcom, Dell, Intel and Intel-owned Wind River to launch the Open Interconnect Consortium, an organization aiming to create engineering standards to help electronic devices ‘talk’ to one another — e.g. controlling your Samsung fridge from an Intel-powered smartphone. Consumers can already control their smart (Nest) thermostat from their phone or message their LG washing machine, but the internet of things promises to make this kind of activity possible across any platform and using devices from different companies. Already we have the Industrial Internet Consortium, which was founded…

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LG’s Android Wear-based G Watch is now on sale across the world on Google Play and key retailers

Jul08
by on July 8, 2014 at 2:49 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, G watch, Gadgets, Google, lg, Product Updates, smartwatch

LG took the wraps off the G Watch in March, a smartwatch powered by Android Wear, Google’s platform for wearables. Now the G Watch is finally available for purchase worldwide on Google Play and at select retailers — though we noted that not only is it not something you want to tote around town, it also has a couple of technical shortcomings. The G Watch can be bought both online and offline in 12 countries: the US, Canada, France, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, Australia, India, Japan and South Korea. It will be available only at retailers in 15 other countries,…

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LG G Watch Review: The wearable you want to leave at home

Jul08
by on July 8, 2014 at 1:57 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Google, Insider, Mobile

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The wearables revolution isn’t going as planned. By now we’re supposed to all be tracking our steps via our wrist, checking our social feeds with head-mounted computers and basically using our smartphones as modems for our body-mounted technology. It hasn’t worked like that. So Google is stepping in with Android Wear a smartwatch variant of Android that ties watches to phones and makes them notification centers. Unlike Google Glass, it’s the wearable the search giant could get the public to actually buy. The LG G Watch is one of the first watches (along with the Samsung Gear Live and Moto 360) to…

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