Foxconn CEO mocks curved displays on smartphones

What happened to smart homes, Glass and robots at Google I/O? How Samsung's Gear Live shrinks Android for the wrist IT News Daily June 26, 2014 Share this email Foxconn CEO mocks curved displays on smartphones The curved displays on new smartphones coming from Korea were the target of a joke by Foxconn Technology Group's CEO, who mocked the products as phones designed to fit the rears of consumers. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. What happened to smart homes, Glass and robots at Google I/O? 2. How Samsung's Gear Live shrinks Android for the wrist 3. Samsung Gear Live unveiled as latest Android Wear smartwatch 4. Like other tech giants, Facebook is very white and very male 5. From Android L to Google Fit: All the new products and features from Google I/O 6. Owler uses crowdsourcing for competitive intelligence What happened to smart homes, Glass and robots at Google I/O? Of all the things Google officials talked about during the annual developers conference keynote, the things that had a lot of people buzzing were those the company didn't mention. READ MORE How Samsung's Gear Live shrinks Android for the wrist Google has unveiled the first three smartwatches that will run Android Wear, a cut-down version of Android for wearable devices, and we got our hands on one of them: the Samsung Gear Live. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Radiant Logic Secure Cloud Applications Without Disrupting Your Enterprise Discover how a virtual identity service enables you to federate your identity, delivering a single point of access for all your applications, no matter what they do or where they're located. Read now! Samsung Gear Live unveiled as latest Android Wear smartwatch Google gave about 6,000 developers attending its I/O conference on Wednesday two Android Wear smartwatches -- one for now and one for later -- as a not-so-subtle invitation to get developers to build more apps for those devices and their connected smartphones. READ MORE Like other tech giants, Facebook is very white and very male Facebook has followed Google and Yahoo in revealing just how diverse its workforce is, and just like the other two tech giants, it's a whole lot white and a whole lot male. READ MORE RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IDG TV IDG.tv is now live! Watch all the latest videos from IDG's global network of technology experts, all teed up in searchable channels with a fun, fresh look. Click to continue From Android L to Google Fit: All the new products and features from Google I/O This year's Google I/O wasn't as dramatic as the I/Os of yesteryear. Nobody jumped from a blimp with a radical new face computer strapped to his face, and Larry Page neglected to step foot on stage, much less wax poetic about the infinite sadness in the world. But despite the lack of theatrics, this year's I/O was still pretty exciting, thanks to the glimpse Google offered us into its future. The tech giant unleashed a slew of updates, synergies, and even whole new platforms designed to weave computing into our everyday lives in--Google hopes--a seamless way. READ MORE Owler uses crowdsourcing for competitive intelligence Jim Fowler first took on the likes of Dun and Bradstreet as CEO of Jigsaw, which used crowdsourcing to collect and curate business contact data, and now, after selling the company to Salesforce.com in 2010, he has launched Owler, which wants to take on competitive intelligence providers through -- you guessed it -- crowdsourcing. READ MORE Follow IT News Share this email You are currently subscribed to itnews_daily as garn14.tech@blogger.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy If you are interested in advertising in this newsletter, please contact: sean_weglage@itworld.com To contact IT News, please send an e-mail to online@itworld.com Copyright (C) 2014 IT News, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham, MA 01701 ** Please do not reply to this message. To contact someone directly, send an e-mail to online@itworld.com. **