Technology

Les petites balises permettant d’interagir avec les consommateurs via leurs smartphones, prennent peu à peu leurs marques au sein de la distribution traditionnelle. Aux États-Unis ou au Royaume-Uni, de grands noms de la distribution les ont déjà adopté.

Investments in renewable power surged in 2014 after several years of decline, driven not by the US or Europe, but adoption in developing markets. Has the momentum shifted to Asia, Africa, and the Middle East?

The new generation of music fans buys an album once or twice a year, usually from artists who withheld their latest releases from Spotify (Beyoncé, I’m looking at you). They have no use for a giant library of songs, preferring … Continue reading →

Streaming movies from mobile devices onto TVs isn’t as easy as it seems. Samsung hopes to make that easier with its new line of 4K Smart TVs, which have the brand-new Tizen operating system. Samsung has started shipping some of … Continue reading →

When Microsoft announced its newest operating system, the surprise was not that it was coming, but that Windows would be skipping 9 and headed straight to 10. So why, exactly, is Windows 10 getting the nod instead of 9?

Microsoft isn’t happy about people modding the unreleased Halo Online to work outside of Russia.

It looked like an April Fool’s joke, even though the page went live on March 31: Amazon would let brands send you stick-on Wi-Fi buttons that, when pressed, would automatically place a re-order for commonly used items like diapers, trash … Continue reading →

Philips has achieved no small measure of success with its Hue LED lighting system, which is controlled by Philips’ own Wi-Fi bridge and can be integrated into other connected-home systems, such as the Wink and Wink Relay. Now the company … Continue reading →

A year introducing  the Almond—the world’s first touchscreen wireless router—Securifi decided to go one better by adding home-automation features to its follow-up product. It turned to Kickstarter, where many deemed the idea of a router/connected-home hub good enough to pour … Continue reading →

The terms UHD and 4K have become so conflated that TV makers, broadcasters, and tech blogs are using them interchangeably — but they’re not the same thing.