SAN FRANCISCO — Android may have dominated Samsung’s developer conference, but that sure didn’t stop Tizen from making its quiet pitch. Samsung hosted it first conference for app makers on Monday and Tuesday in San Francisco. The vast majority of sessions and talks focused on Android-based devices, but Tizen, the open-source operating system being developed …
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Now playing: Watch this: Meet the Samsung Galaxy Gear 2:40 SAN FRANCISCO — Wonder why the Samsung Galaxy Gear has so few apps? The answer is simple — the Gear app store is still invite-only for developers. Gear debuted last month with about 70 apps.Since that time, one of the biggest criticisms of the smartwatch is that there aren’t a …
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SAN FRANCISCO — For Samsung, courting developers isn’t just a nice side project. It’s a push that’s vital to the company’s future. The Korean company is the world’s biggest mobile phone and TV vendor. It sells more Android smartphones than LG, Lenovo, Huawei, ZTE, and Motorola combined, and many consumers equate Samsung’s Galaxy brand with Google’s operating system. As a …
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Nvidia has opened its Shield gaming device up to the universe of Android games, adding console support to thousands of games originally designed for touch screens. The Santa Clara, Calif., graphics chipmaker said the Shield “Gamepad Mapper” allows users to create their own custom controls for thousands of games in the Google Play store, or users can use Nvidia’s default …
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SAN FRANCISCO — Samsung on Monday rolled out five software development kits to make it easier for developers to create apps for its various devices. The new SDKs include one for multiscreen capabilities and another for multiscreen gaming. Samsung also streamlined its mobile SDK, released a new version of its smart TV SDK, and updated its enterprise SDK. The SDK …
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Now playing: Watch this: Nokia Lumia 2520: Nokia’s Windows RT Surface rival 2:07 Nokia’s new Windows RT tablet turns the Finnish handset maker into Microsoft’s rival, but at least one Nokia partner says there’s really no competition. Nokia earlier this week unveiled the Lumia 2520, the company’s first tablet and the second current device in the market to run Windows …
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Taiwan on Thursday hit Samsung with an approximate $340,000 fine for bashing rival HTC through fake Internet posts. The Taiwan Fair Trade Commission launched an investigation in April into allegations that Samsung was paying studentsto post negative online comments about HTC devices. At the same time, Samsung allegedly paid the students to recommend Samsung cell phones. The commission said that …
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Nike on Tuesday said its new FuelBand SE fitness tracker will only work with Apple devices, dealing a blow to Android users who expected support with the newest device. Nike’s previous FuelBand device also worked only with iOS gadgets, such as the iPhone 5. The company on Tuesday said if users don’t have Apple devices, they can track their progress …
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BlackBerry on Monday launched a new ad campaign to reassure its jittery customers that it’s here to stay. The Canadian smartphone maker, which has been struggling in recent months and recently reached a deal to go private, published an open letter to its customers and partners on social media and in 30 newspapers in nine countries, seeking to reassure them …
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Prepaid carrier Cricket next week will become the latest wireless carrier to offer Apple’s iPhone 5S and 5C. Cricket Communications, which is owned by Leap Wireless and is about to be purchased by AT&T, will offer Apple’s newest smartphones to its customers starting October 25, Cricket said Monday. Customers can preregister their interest at Mycricket.com/register. It’s unclear how much the …
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