Apple’s iPad 2 and iPhone 5 will include technology for wireless mobile payments, according to a new report from Bloomberg. – Apple will enable the iPad 2 and iPhone 5 to make wireless
purchases, according to an online report.
Richard Doherty, director of consulting firm Envisioneering
Group, told Bloomberg Jan. 25 that the next-generation iPad and iPhone will
feature payment technology leveraging NFC (near
field com…
Many people are so much influenced by the magic of HTC Evo 4G that they are ever willing to ignore other equally known brands like iPhone, Blackberry or Droid X. There are many stories of people giving preference to the HTC phone over the other established and popular smartphones. The reason for HTC Evo becoming [...]
Analysts taking a gimlet-eyed view of Google TV call the service promising, but are curbing their enthusiasm because the high-tech graveyard is loaded with failed Web TV services from Microsoft’s WebTV in 1996 to Intel’s Viiv entertainment platform. Google TV marries Web surfing and channel surfing on an Android 2.1-based platform with a Chrome browser on Web-connected televisions and Blu-ray players from Sony and set-top boxes from Logitech. Gartner analyst Van Baker and Envisioneering Group’s Richard Doherty discuss the service in detail. – Industry analysts are calling Google TV promising, but are guarded in their
enthusiasm because the Internet-television graveyard is loaded with services
from Microsoft’s WebTV in 1996 to Intel’s Viiv entertainment platform a decade
later.
Announced May 20 at Google I/O, Google TV marries Web su…
Google and the Dish Network are implementing Google’s Web search experience through a Google Android set-top box. Users’ search queries bring back both TV content and YouTube video content. IDC analyst Hadley Reynolds says the test runs only on Android-powered set-top boxes, for users able to use a keyboard and TV remote control to enter queries. Richard Doherty, research director for the Envisioneering Group, tells eWEEK he believes Google has at least three strategies for melding the TV with the Web. Read on to learn about them.
– Google and the Dish Network are implementing Google’s Web search experience via
a Google Android set-top box, through which users’ search
queries bring back both TV content and YouTube video content, an IDC
analyst told eWEEK.
The Wall Street Journal said Google is testing its search software o…
