San Antonio is ramping up its smart city efforts in 2017 with a focus on digital services, transportation, and sustainability. The Texas city is earmarking $8 million in its 2017 budget for nine smart city projects. This is a result of the city’s decision in 2016 to escalate from trial projects to aligning tech projects with its broader organizational missions

Biometric wearables technology got a boost with the launch of a new development kit that improves accuracy and scalability. The new devkit was announced by chipmaker STMicroelectronics (ST) and Valencell, a maker of biometric data sensor technology. The development kit is aimed at accelerating the development of smart wearable and Internet of Things (IoT) products

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2017 is on the horizon and ahead of the ReadWrite team heading to Vegas, we are getting ready for another week of announcements and insights into the future of wearables. CES has always been a great event to launch new products, as seen last year with the Under Armour Healthbox, Bragi Dash, HTC Vive Pre, Misfit Ray, and Fitbit Blaze. 2017 should be no different, so expect a slew of wearable suppliers to attend the event

In a bad year for many things, technology actually had a good time - but what are the products and services really worth buying? 2016 may have been a bad year for most things, but it was actually a pretty good year for technology, with plenty of new products and services released that were worth the digital ink used to describe them. Continue reading