SmartHome | Netatmo Thermostat: heating control via app – even from a vacation

March 24, 2015

SmartHome | Netatmo Thermostat: heating control via app - even from a vacation

The smart home specialist Netatmo has upgraded the functionality of its heating control system. With the Thermostat app what you can do: when you are not at home, you can make a comfortable heated home with this new function of this app on your back home. Read more

Smartwatch | Swatch adds NFC payments to make it smarter #video

March 17, 2015

Smartwatch | Swatch adds NFC payments to make it smarter #video

Here we go, ladies and gentlemen: This is the next round of the battle for the crown between smart and Apple to get the pole position in the watch business of the future.

The Swiss watchmaker is trying to slow down the Apple Watch fever and will upgrade their watches with NFC payments function – but bring no phone on your wrist. Read more

SmartHomeTech | Samsung builds high-tech dog house – for $300,000

March 14, 2015

SmartHomeTech | Samsung builds high-tech dog house - for $300,000

You can start a lot of things with $ 30,000. For example, buy a dog house – High Tech from Samsung.

Where “doghouse” it is virtually completely unsuitable to describe the object as a concept. Read more

Apple Watch smashes watch industry

March 11, 2015

Apple Watch smashes watch industry

Apple has already shaken up some industries in recent years. After the music, film and mobile industry, now the luxury business is a target of Apple’s agenda. Whether this concept works or not, it has yet to be proved.

A wrist watch is the price of a small car and a dainty notebook, which is also available in gold look – now Apple has scattered also Luxury Fashion providers on Monday. Read more

MWC | Lenovo saves 500 million in smartphone development by Motorola

March 7, 2015

MWC | Lenovo saves 500 million in smartphone development by Motorola

The Chinese company Lenovo can reduce costs in the smartphone business massively with the acquisition of the mobile phone business of Motorola: “We started with the integration of procurement and production,” said Lenovo Manager Liu Jun on the obile World Congress (MWC) to the German business newspaper “Handelsblatt” in Barcelona. Read more

MWC | Ford goes mobile: New Apps for Ford SYNC 2 and AppLink

March 5, 2015

MWC | Ford goes mobile: New Apps for Ford SYNC 2 and AppLink

Ford has announced new apps for users of communications and entertainment system Ford SYNC 2 with touch screen and AppLink at the Mobile World Congress 2015.

This technology allowed while driving voice-controlled access to selected smartphone apps. Read more

Samsung Mobile CEO received $5.8-million salary last 2013

April 5, 2014

Steve Jobs only received $1 salary annually. The former Apple CEO was only one of the elite group of CEOs who receive such salary. We also know Mark Zuckerberg received such small amount. But that’s for them who don’t need more money. For some executives though, they still need millions. Tim Cook, the current CEO of Apple, received $4.25 million last year. That’s higher than his previous year salary of $4.17 million. Read more

HTC One M8 mini to arrive this May

April 3, 2014

htc one m8 mini

Wow. HTC has got as all crazy over the One M8. The All New One has been the subject of many blogs all over the Internet. It’s being compared with the latest flagship Android phones already. It’s officially official and we’ve got photos to show you. Read more

Apple sold 1.3 million iPhones in China

March 31, 2014

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Android may be King and Samsung may be No. 1 but you can’t neglect the fact that the Apple iPhone is revolutionary. Millions of iPhones are being sold and in China, as reported by China Mobile, about 1.3 million 4G iPhones have been sold since the first month of the year 2014. From January to March, in just one quarter, more than a million iPhones have landed in China. (Well, that last statement was kind of untrue since the iPhone is actually made in China.) Read more

BlackBerry lays off 120 employees

March 20, 2014

I’d like to think BlackBerry is still doing okay but recent reports and even rumors are not doing the smartphone pioneer any good. CEO John Chen may be doing his best but looks like it’s not enough to get BlackBerry out of its rut. To make things worse, about 120 employees are about to lose their jobs with the company this week. What a sad scenario: pink slips being given away at the Waterloo office. Read more