This morning at the Google I/O developer conference, Google announced a number of initiatives that look to increase the connection between its Android devices and the objects in the world around us. ReadWriteWeb’s Audrey Watters took a look at how Google’s Open Accessory initiative will bring Android-controlled robots to the world in the near future and allow developers to create apps that connect Android phones and tablets to the devices around them. While the Accessory Development Kit has just hit [...]

Android@Home is a new Google framework, announced today, that will allow you to control everything in your home from an Android device. It’s an exciting development from Google, which up till now has been on the periphery of the Internet of Things – the fast-evolving trend where real world objects are connected to the Internet. Microsoft has been active in Internet of Things, with its various ‘smart home’ initiatives over the years along with more recent success with its Kinect [...]

A person is transparently competitive when they: * Visit someone’s home to attend a network marketing event and they promote their own networking business to the participants. * Visit another person’s business (brick and mortar, or online) and they promote their own product or service… without shame. * Disagree with the other guy in an attempt to demonstrate their own superiority. And while their intentions may be noble (in their mind), their actions say otherwise. I mean, they may have [...]

A question I’ve been asked fairly often is “will there be a version of Whiist for Vail?”. Before yesterday, my reply has been along the lines of: Absolutely! Infact there’s going to be two versions “Whiist Classic” will essentially be the current version of Whiist, upgraded to Vail and with some usability and feature tweaks. “Whiist XXXXX” (where XXXXX is a designator I haven’t thought of yet) is a different take on the same concept. It still solves the same [...]