Tesco has become the first major UK retailer to launch an app for Google Glass. The new app allows shoppers to browse goods, view nutritional information and add items to the basket and is voice activated like the rest of the Glass experience.
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News from the Connected World
Yesterday at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Verizon announced Verizon Vehicle, a powerful new connected-vehicle service available directly to consumers in the U.S., which aims to modernize traditional roadside assistance offerings – while enhancing driver safety, convenience and savings.
ASUS is offering designers a chance to win a smart watch by coming up with a new face for its ZenWatch smart watch range As part of its Face the Future competition, running from 10 January till 10 February.
Healthy Strings a Grand Rapids, Michigan based startup, is helping bring the Internet of Things to the world of music. The most dangerous threat to wooden instruments is the environment to which they are exposed.
Qualcomm Technologies developed its new Qualcomm SafeSwitchâ„¢ technology - to address the mobile security threat with a superior kill switch solution.
EE added 5.7 million 4G customers in 2014, which it boasts makes it the largest 4G network in Europe. This 5.7 million figure includes 1.7 million added in the last two months of 2014.
The Internet of Things (IoT) and connected devices pose huge risks to privacy and security, allowing a "deeply personal" picture of every consumer to be grabbed by futuristic smart gadgets.
Vuzix Corporation has announced that it has signed a licensing agreement with HERE to incorporate maps and location platform services from HERE as the primary mapping services in Vuzix M100 Smart Glasses.
MediaTek has announced its MT2601 System on Chip (SoC) for wearable devices based on Google's Android Wear software. By enabling Android Wear on MT2601, MediaTek is offering a comprehensive platform solution for device makers to implement their own hardware and software.
Intel have disclosed plans for the Intel Curieâ„¢ module, a tiny hardware product based on the company's first purpose-built SoC for wearable devices: the Inte Quark SE SoC.
Viper has announced that Viper SmartStart, the app that gives users the ability to start, lock, unlock and track their car from virtually anywhere in the world with their smartphone, will integrate Android Wear and Apple Watch accessibility in early 2015.
iHeartRadio, iHeartMedia's all-in-one streaming music and live radio service, has kicked off 2015 by announcing multiple new integrations at CES 2015.
