Apple Maps Are Still Lost
Apple, during WWDC last week, delivered some significant updates across various parts of its business. It released, among other things, some 4,000 new APIs (and a new programming language) to developers; a renewed, more aggressive effort in cloud services; and some changes across its mobile and…
Google Reveals 3D-Sensing Project Tango Tablet Prototype
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTL1IXTDH30#t=13 Google just unveiled a $1,000 tablet prototype equipped with 3D-sensors and a motion-tracking camera. The tablet is the latest venture of Google's Project Tango initiative aimed at bringing 3D motion and depth sensors to mobile devices. The 7-inch…
The iPhone-Controlled Visiobike Will Take You For A Ride
Zoom zoom! A Croatian company wants to put your butt onto a new kind of bike, a sort of electric/mechanical hybrid that uses battery assist to help you up the hills and includes an automatic transmission system that ensures you rarely have to use the battery. Called the Visiobike, the $5,303 bike…
LinkedIn's New Profile Design Takes a Hint From Facebook and Twitter
LinkedIn is taking some design inspiration from Facebook and Twitter. The professional network is rolling out a new profile design for its premium members Wednesday, a new look that includes a larger profile photo and a customizable header image that spans the width of the screen. Users can either…
Your Next Smartphone Could Have a Holographic Projector Inside it
If you keep hold of the phone you already own until late 2015, you may have the chance to buy a new model with a holographic projector inside. That’s the vision of California-based startup Ostendo Technologies, which has been hard at work creating projectors small enough to be used in a mobile…
ASUS Introduces to the 'World's Largest' Curved LED Monitor
ASUS announced a slew of high-profile devices at its press conference yesterday, but the company's booth at Computex still turned up a few gems today. Among them: a prototype of a 32-inch curved LED monitor, which ASUS says is the largest of its kind. At least in its current incarnation, the…
Apple Officially Announced iOS 8 at the Annual WWDC Conference
Apple officially announced iOS 8 on Monday at its annual WWDC conference in San Francisco, following an annual tradition of showcasing the evolution of its software for the iPhone and iPad. Big-ticket announcements include "widgets," Touch ID for third-party apps, a brand-new keyboard that learns…
Apple Gets Into Fitness Tracking With Health App and HealthKit for iOS 8
Apple announced its foray into the fitness tracking space on Monday with its new Health app coming to iOS 8. During a keynote presentation at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference at the Moscone West center in San Francisco, the company introduced new features coming to the next-generation…
Samsung Launches Its First Tizen-Powered Smartphone
Samsung is taking another baby step away from the Android platform today, with the announcement of the first commercial smartphone powered by the open source Tizen platform, instead of Google’s Android OS. The hardware specs of the device offer little in the way of differentiation — albeit it does…
Google’s Rumored Stars Bookmarking Service Gets A Bit More Real As Chrome Extension Leaks
We’ve been hearing rumors about Google Stars — a new bookmarking service from Google — for quite a while now, but today, the project got a bit more real thanks to an extension the well-known Google watcher Florian Kiersch found earlier today. Once installed, Stars is integrated into Chrome and…