Samsung Developer Conference 2014
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The Samsung Developer Conference wrap-up!
... And that's it for us from San Francisco. We spent the week at Samsung's second developer conference, by all accounts an upgrade from last year's inaugural event. Bigger, having moved from a Union Square hotel — where you'd find yourself hustling up and down what felt like back staircases from the floor to the sessions — to the much more spacious Moscone West, home of the likes of...
Samsung's after party was as awesome as you'd think
We'll just leave it with this: Great food and drink. Music I'm told the kids enjoy. (A little Glenn Miller wouldn't kill anyone. Just sayin'.) And too many awesome developers to count. Here's a good three minutes of what it was like last night at the Samsung Developer Conference party.
Yumi Huh from Nuance tells us how developers are using voice
We all know Nuance for its self-branded services with voice and the Swype keyboard, but it's also opening up its systems for developers of all kinds to use. And with a partnership with Samsung, even more people have access to the great tools Nuance provides to make their apps and services even better. We caught up with Yumi Huh, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Nuance, at the...
The AT&T Developer Program
There's more than one way to conference with developers, and every January we spend some time at the AT&T Developer Summit in Las Vegas, which piggybacks on CES. It's actually a pretty fun mini-event, giving developers yet another chance to show their stuff. And this year promises to be another good one. We caught up with John Hsia from the AT&T Developer Program at the...
Better Health with Uptick
Most of us could stand to improve our health somehow. Even if we don't admit it, there's no escaping it these days. Every phone and every manufacturing is integrating some sort of health functionality into their product. Uptick is trying to make it a little more personal, using your data to tailor a program designed by experts. We caught up with Uptick at the Samsung Developer...
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Flow is Samsung's new cross-device sharing platform
Samsung brought out folks during its SDC 2014 keynote to cover a whole host of areas that the company is focusing on, and one of the more interesting ones for the Android crowd is a new sharing platform called Samsung Flow. Landing somewhere between Apple's new Continuity features and our current system of manually sending content links between devices, Samsung Flow builds on Android's...
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Samsung's Curtis Sasaki and the growth of the dev con
Starting a developer conference — and attracting developers from throughout the world — is quite the endeavor, as anyone who's ever been to a dev con knows. The logistics alone are are daunting, to say nothing of the services and products that will be showed at an event. And Samsung in its second year has grown from a Union Square hotel to none other than Moscone West, home for the...
Innovator Edition
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Gear VR is coming in December
[UPDATE] Oculus has confirmed the price of the Gear VR Innovator Edition in a blog post here. It will set you back $199 for the standalone headset, or $249 when bundled with a Bluetooth gamepad. It's been a while since we first tried out the Samsung Gear VR, and now we finally know when it's going to be available: early December. Powered by the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and using that...
Live from SDC14: The connected home with SmartThing
The connected home is becoming a reality, and although we don't all have robot maids and remote controlled lawn mowers, we're getting there step by step. SmartThings is at the forefront of the push for the connected home, and after joining forces with Samsung it has a lot of big ideas about how this is all going to work together. We caught up with Jeff Hagins, CTO and co-founder of...
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Interview with Andrew Dickerson, lead Gear VR developer
Samsung's Gear VR is one of the leading products on showcase here at SDC, and development is just getting started. With the Innovator Edition of the Gear VR ready to hit the hands (well, faces) of developers, more people are getting excited. Big names in media, gaming and entertainment are creating not only games but also virtual reality experiences for Gear VR, and it's all happening...
PayPal and Braintree making payments ever easier
Those of us of a certain age remember life before PayPal. But as we continue to pay for more and more things digitally, it's increasingly important to have a safe and secure — and easy — way to do it. PayPal, of course, is one of the biggest names in that space. But another that's been mostly behind the scenes is Braintree. It's used as a facilitator for credit card transactions. If...
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Hands-on with the Babolat Play Pure Drive tennis racket
Work on your swing and technique with modern technology We've seen fitness trackers, but what about a connected tennis tracker? Babolat's Play Pure Drive is a connected tennis racket that gives you more information on your tennis skills than you could ever imagine, and we've had a chance to use it here at SDC 2014. Working with its massive experience in making tennis rackets, the...
A smarter home from Samsung
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Samsung talks up Smart Home initiatives
Samsung has launched the beta of its Smart Home SDK, first unveiled back in September at IFA 2014. The SDK allows appliances developed with it to be controlled from Samsung Smart TVs and smartphones. The beta is currently available for device developers, as well as service partners. Samsung also says that they are committed to an open connected home platform through its investment in...
Wrist apps
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Gear S SDK available for app makers
Samsung's recently-launched Gear S smartwatch now has a software development kit that will allow third-party developers to make apps for the Tizen-based devices. The announcement was made as part of the company's Samsung Developer Conference in San Francisco today. Samsung said: The Gear S SDK enables developers to create exciting, unique applications that harness network and...
Samsung gets healthy
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Samsung announces new efforts in health and wellness
Samsung has introduced a number of new tools for developers at the second-annual Samsung Developers Conference, including a new platform and SDK around health. Samsung Digital Health (SDH) and allows for the tracking of personal fitness data, including activity, food consumption, and workouts. They are also providing an open hardware reference design, the Simband, which can integrate a...