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Samsung enhances its product offering with Artik, its entry into the IoT space

Samsung has launched a new IoT (Internet of Things) platform, called Artik, with three ‘building blocks’ which bundle CPUs, GPUs, memory, and storage with wireless network, sensors, video decoding, and other components in a single package to help developers and IoT enthusiasts with an end-to-end solution for making interconnected applications, from low-power wearables to high-end smart homes. Take a look at Artik projects done by early adopters and get Inspired.

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Facebook Starts Hosting Publishers’ “Instant Articles”

Facebook today unveiled a new program named “Instant Articles”,that natively hosts publishers’ content, and offers to share analytics data with the publishers, in its app’s News Feed so users don’t have to click out and wait for websites to load. Instant Articles debuts today with rich-media stories from The New York Times, BuzzFeed, National Geographic, and six other outlets that will be globally visible from Facebook’s iPhone app. Read More

Facebook’s React Native: Learn Once, run Everywhere

Facebook’s has announced an open-source project called React Native that builds on its successful React project for Web development. Facebook claims that React Native will let engineers build applications using a common Javascript code base for both iOS or Android. React Native is a learn-once-run-everywhere (LORE) app development tool. Even Chrome Web Tools can be used to write and debug apps running on an attached iPhone. Read more

Windows 10, The OS Becomes A Service

During the company’s Ignite conference last week, Microsoft revealed that Windows 10 would be the last numbered launch and offer regular incremental updates, with the latest version arriving on most of the eligible devices. Satya Nadella’s has put Microsoft on a path to become a more services oriented company and looks to be moving its flagship OS to a similar model. Read More

Mobile’s influence on bricks-and-mortar sales rose to 28 percent in 2014 – Deloitte

A new report from Deloitte notes that mobile use by shoppers continues to become more sophisticated with its influence on brick-and-mortar increasing to 24 percent in 2014. One key finding noted in the report is that mobile is influencing bricks-and-mortar sales via the growing use of beacons and indoor technology more broadly to engage with shoppers’ smartphones on a hyperlocal basis. Read More