http://www.thisisinsider.com/death-of-the-smartphone-and-what-comes-after-2017-3?utm_content=buffera9cb9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer One day, not too soon — but still sooner than you think — the smartphone will all but vanish, like beepers and fax machines before it. Make no mistake, we’re still probably at least a decade away from any kind of meaningful shift away from the smartphone. →
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2017/03/06/wearable-tech-a-developers-security-nightmare/?sc_cid=7016000000127ECAAY Bad wearable device security affects companies and cloud services. →
http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/wireless/stages-of-electronics This article takes a view of the steps how we got from idea of first radio to modern smart phones. →
http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/15/technology/public-ports-charging-bad-stop/index.html Your smart phone is very vulnerable to attacks through USB charge/data port. So be careful where you plug your phone to – your phone can be easily hacked with maliscious USB charge port. →
https://techspecs.blog/blog/2017/2/14/googles-not-so-secret-new-os This OS is believed to combine Android and Chrome OS together. Let’s see how this turns out. →
http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/how-mobile-health-apps-and-wearables-could-actually-make-people-sicker Many people hope that health IoT and apps make them healthier – but over-diagnosis risks making people sicker. →
http://www.cultofandroid.com/79308/researchers-hack-smartphone-fingerprint-scanners-with-inkjet-printer/ High resolution scan of your finger printed to paper with conductive ink can fool fingerprint scanners used on several smart phones. So is fingerprint safe identification method? →
http://www.open-electronics.org/soon-windows10-on-arm-based-processors/ Windows on ARM situartion has not looked pretty. Windows CE is old. Windows phones look to be on free fall out of matkets. Windows 10 IoT on Raspberry Pi is one plan for getting some life support for Windows on ARM. Microsoft has not forgotten ARM. Soon Windows 10 will run on ARM processors →
https://learntemail.sam.today/blog/my-watch-runs-gnu-linux-and-it-is-amazing/ Nice story on running Linux on smart watch. Article also compares a modern smart watch hardware to first iPhone. →
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the world’s biggest tech event. With nearly 200,000 attendees flooding into the Las Vegas strip for a week in January. Newest event CES 2017 just started. CES is often the home to consumer product announcements and demonstrations of future technologies, so it is one of the most anticipated events →