Kevin Smith/Business Insider Samsung’s big keynote presentation at the Consumer Electronics Show this year was all about TV. It’s a big theme for 2013, and Samsung has shown us the best anyone has to offer so far. The new Samsung TVs use a special new interface called Smart Hub that sucks in data about...
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Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley’s tech analysts and retail analysts came together and published a big presentation on the eCommerce revolution. The Morgan Stanley team expects the eCommerce opportunity – “retail sales disruption” – to get even bigger in the next few years, and says global eCommerce sales could top $1 trillion by 2016. The...
If the connected home is all the rage then the connected car is what’s next. We have seen limited offerings from a number of players, bringing apps like Pandora and Google Maps to the car but the scope has been small compared to the potential. Today at CES in Las Vegas, Ford has announced...
Storify has hired Don Loeb, a former Adobe business development executive, to help the company generate revenue from its story-telling service. The hiring of Loeb marks a major point in the company’s history as he becomes the first sales person within the company. With the hiring of Loeb, the company has brought on board...
Sony has announced the Xperia Z, its newest flagship smartphone with a 5-inch, 1,920 x 1,080 display and 13-megapixel camera. The device, which was unveiled during the company’s CES press conference, is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 1.5 GHz S4 Pro processor and 2GB of RAM and features 4G LTE connectivity. It also includes a new Battery...
On Monday, Apple announced that its iOS App Store has reached 40 billion downloads. Nearly 20 billion of those downloads came in 2012 alone. The App Store also had a record-breaking December 2012, with more two billion downloads. Apple said that iOS developers have built 775,000 apps for the platform (includingiPhone, iPad and iPod...
Solid-state storage has become ubiquitous in mobile devices and increasingly in laptops as well. But it’s also revolutionizing storage in corporate datacenters, cloud computing services and beyond. Forget the portability factor, solid-state drives, or SSDs, are finding massive growth potential as a way for companies to speed up large-scale storage systems. Historically, storage devices...
This year at CES 2013, it seems that Samsung might actually be in touch with what real people are looking for in their cutting-edge new gadgets. With its “see what sticks” approach – an you name every Galaxy Tab form factor? If you said. “Yes,” you’re lying – the company commands a massive empire of...
ATT usually uses CES and its co-located developer conference as a launch pad for new gadget announcements, but apart from the new Pantech Discover, new phone announcements are scarce. Instead, ATT spent its first day at the Las Vegas showcase focusing on the content and services side of business. ATT revealed it is exploring...