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Thursday, 4 April 2013
Google Drops WebKit for 'Blink' as Engine Powering Chrome
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Probamos el cargador universal Idapt i4
El Idapt i4 en uso
A poco que empieces a juntar gadgets en casa, y hoy en día no hace falta ser nada geek para eso, te encuentras con el problema de los líos de cables y de los adaptadores que chocan unos con otros y que utilizan algunas de los enchufes de los que dispones.
Para acabar con todo esto, o al menos para paliarlo un poco, Idapt tiene varios cargadores múltiples que con enchufar un solo cable a la toma de corriente permiten cargar 2, 3 ó 4 dispositivos a la vez.
En mi caso he podido probar el que llaman cargador universal i4 , que es el que permite cargar cuatro dispositivos.
Según Idapt esto los hace compatibles con más de 4.500 dispositivos distintos.
Además, tanto el i4 como el i2+ incorporan un puerto USB en un lateral que permite cargar otro dispositivo con su propio cable para el que no tengas la clavija en cuestión siempre que, obviamente, acepte carga por USB.
Casi todas las clavijas salen por 8 euros, salvo las que se usan para productos de Apple, que salen por 10 euros la que sirve para iPod, iPhone, e iPad si te atreves, y por 20 la que incorpora un conector Lightning, y unos adaptadores para carga por inducción que estarán disponibles en breve por 50 euros.
También hay un accesorio que cuesta 15 euros y que permite utilizar uno de los puntos de carga para cargar dos baterías recargables AA o AAA.
Lo de que si te atreves con el iPad es porque son las propias clavijas las que soportan el peso del dispositivo a cargar, con lo que en el caso de un iPad la cosa parece cuando menos arriesgada, aunque físicamente sea posible enchufarlo y dejarlo en equilibrio sobre el cargador.
Incluso con dispositivos más pequeños que el iPad a veces conseguir un buen contacto y que quede estable es complicado, sobre todo si llevan una funda o carcasa protectora; de hecho la Blackberry que se ve arriba está calzada con una moneda para que cargue, pues de lo contrario por la distribución de su peso queda inclinada y no lo hace.
La moneda en cuestión
La disposición de los receptáculos para las clavijas determina también qué combinaciones de cacharros puedes cargar a la vez, ya que uno especialmente ancho como una Nintendo DS o una Blackberry con el conector en un lado, por poner un par de ejemplos, pueden bloquear la clavija de al lado.
Esto queda mitigado en parte por la disposición de estos receptáculos, ya que va uno delante y dos detrás, lo que permite moverlos según lo que necesites, pero a veces simplemente no se pueden poner a la vez según qué cacharros, te pongas como te pongas y pongas las clavijas como las pongas.
Cada uno de los receptáculos en cuestión tiene además un LED que se ilumina en rojo para indicar que el proceso de carga está en marcha y que se pone verde cuando este está terminado.
Teniendo en cuenta que todos los cacharros que compramos suelen venir con su propio cargador y que el i4 cuesta 55 euros acabado en blanco o negro (hay otros colores y diseños disponibles, pero se pagan extra) y con el pack por defecto de seis clavijas (Nokia 2, Sony Ericsson 2, Samsung 4, iPod-iPhone, microUSB y miniUSB), o en 60 euros con un pack personalizado de 4 clavijas a lo mejor no es una compra muy obvia si sólo necesitas cargar tus cacharros en un sitio.
Pero si vas a estar cargándolos en casa y en la oficina, si quieres evitar tener que llevártelos de viaje, con el peligro de que no tengas el suficiente número de enchufes libres disponibles allá a donde vayas, o si simplemente quieres tener las cosas mejor organizadas, el i4 o el i2+ empiezan a parecer una idea cuando menos interesante, aunque no hay que olvidar las peculiaridades citadas en cuanto a la forma en la que se conectan los dispositivos.
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Bill Gates and Microsoft Co-Founder Recreate Iconic Photo
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Toshiba adds 6-inch BookPlace Mono to its Japan e-reader lineup
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With SteelHouse Slingshot, Advertisers Can Customize Their Websites For Visitors Who Saw Their Ads
With a new feature called Slingshot, marketing tech startup SteelHouse wants advertisers to look beyond the click.
President and CEO Mark Douglas told me that he’s trying to tackle the problem of “viewthroughs” — people who see an ad and, even though they don’t click on it, are prompted to visit the advertiser’s website.
By the traditional digital ad measurement of clickthrough rates, those visitors aren’t being counted when determining an ad’s effectiveness. Douglas said that even worse from an advertiser’s perspective is the fact that they aren’t seeing the custom landing pages that are usually created for people who arrive via an ad.
“Not everyone clicks,” Douglas said. “In fact, hardly anyone in the ad tech industry clicks.”
To solve that problem, SteelHouse is combining retargeting technology with on-site offers. So if when someone sees an ad, SteelHouse uses a tracking pixel to identify them. Then, if they visit the advertiser’s website within the next hour, the company can not only know that the visit happened, but also reinforce the ad by presenting the visitor with a custom message or offer.
This may sound relatively straightforward, but Douglas argued that it’s hard to pull off — unless, like SteelHouse, your technology is integrated with both ads and websites.
“The reason this has been ignored is because the ad industry generally doesn’t know what’s happening on their advertiser’s website,” he said. “The site doesn’t know who was presented the ad, and the ad doesn’t know who went to the site.”
This tracking also works on mobile, Douglas said. It doesn’t yet work between devices, but he hinted that’s something SteelHouse will be tackling later this year.
Douglas also noted that even though Slingshot is currently limited to visitors who show up within an hour of seeing an ad, the tracking data is probably relevant for up to 72 hours. He’s sticking to such a short time window for now, so that the results are very clear — if someone comes to your website one day after seeing an ad, you might argue that the ad wasn’t responsible. But if it’s only 30 minutes later, the causality is pretty inarguable.
The startup already ran a Slingshot campaign with entertainment hardware company Creative Labs, resulting in an 87 percent improvement in conversion, a 332 percent lift in overall revenue per visitor, and a 27 percent increase in average order value.
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Engadget Giveaway: win one of two iPad minis, courtesy of TurboTax!
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Visualized: an Earth-year through stunning NASA imagery (video)
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Sonnet Echo 15 Thunderbolt dock piles on 15 ports, optical drive, disk bay for $400
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Google Introduces Blink and Other News You Need to Know
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GE and StartUp Health Select 13 Companies For Its Three Year Health Entrepreneurship Program
Back in January, we reported that GE would be partnering up with healthtech startup incubator StartUp Health and selecting 13 consumer healthcare startups (originally 10) to participate in a three year program designed to nurture and accelerate their growth. After a two month screening process, today they’re announcing those 13 finalists.
The application process, which began in January, took in more than 400 applications from 22 countries. The 13 companies that were selected will then be closely mentored by GE and StartUp Health over the next three years.
The companies will participate in the program for free, in exchange for 2 to 10 percent equity ownership by GE and StartUp Health’s Innovation Fund. They’ll each be partnered with a GE executive that will help them get in touch with experts and resources within GE. GE and StartUp health also promises that the selected companies will receive plenty of exposure to potential investors and VC’s.
We’ve listed the 13 companies along with short bios below:
Arpeggi is a company based in Austin, TX that specializes in affordable genome data translation and analysis.
Aver Informatics is a big data platform for healthcare data from Green Bay, WI.
Care At Hand is a mobile early warning system for elderly home care aides based in Boston, MA.
Caremerge is a company from Chicago, IL that provides apps that coordinate communication between seniors living in homes and their families.
Cerora is a company from Philadelphia, PA that delivers diagnostic data on brain health and function to patients and doctors.
Doctor.com is a database that connects doctors with patients based in New York, NY.
GetHealth is a company based in Dublin, Ireland and New York, NY that offers an online platform that encourages employee involvement in corporate wellness programs.
GoGoHealth is a company from Atlanta, GA that allows patients to get a diagnosis or a subscription from their health provider through their computer or smartphone.
IntellgentM is a company based in Sarasota, FL and New York, NY that specializes in hand hygiene monitoring in hospitals and other healthcare environments.
itMD is a company from Miami, FL that hosts medical records in the cloud that can be accessed, sent, and shared to anyone in the iTMD network.
Oxitone Medical is a company from Ashkelon, Israel that develops wearable pulse oximeters.
TalkSession is a platform that connects patients to mental health professionals based in New York, NY.
WalkJoy is company from Long Beach, CA that develops a wearable device that aids in the restoration of gait and balance disorders.
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Chalkfly Wants To Become The Zappos Of Office Supplies, With A Charitable Spin
When it comes to office supplies, companies like Office Depot, OfficeMax and Staples have long owned the majority of mind-share and brand recognition in the market. But, with the recession, the rise of eCommerce and the growing ubiquity of devices like the iPad, business has been in steady decline for many big-box chains, forcing them to make big cuts to brick-and-mortar operations.
Some have been able to turn those household names into online success — according to the WSJ, Staples, for example, has become the second largest online merchant behind Amazon and 40 percent of its sales are now online — but, overall, the bigs have been slow to adapt.
Andrew and Ryan Landau look at the office supplies market and are willing to go a few steps further. They see an industry that has been subject to very little innovation over the last two decades, and, particularly because it’s “not exactly a sexy space,” they think it’s in need of some remodeling — and a web-only approach. (It also helps justify going up against names like Staples when one considers that office supplies is a $30 billion industry.)
With this firmly in mind, the brothers Landau quit their jobs at Google and IBM last year to launch Chalkfly, a web-only eCommerce platform dedicated exclusively to office and school supplies. From the outset, the founders have been focused on developing partnerships that would allow the site to offer enough supply (and a wide enough range of products) to make it an appealing alternative to the big-boxers.
Today, the site offers over 50,000 products, ranging from pens and pencils to classroom decorations and surge protectors. But, to stand out from the big guys, Chalkfly wants to keep things simple, which is apparent when one compares its online storefront to that of, say, Office Depot. Going web-only isn’t enough when Staples is already doing $10 billion in annual revenue online, so the startup wants to offer a better customer experience, too, by keeping its storefront uncluttered and easy-to-navigate.
By focusing on e-tail, Chalkfly doesn’t have to manage the high overhead and huge sales floors that bog down its big chain competitors, allowing it to invest in customer experience. Chalkfly has a 365-day return policy, for example, and offers free overnight shipping for all of its products, along with 24-hour customer service.
The key, Andrew says, is making the whole process easier and faster, removing the friction that many customers experience when shopping for office supplies — something that’s pretty painful by nature.
Beyond investing heavily in improving customer experience online (relative to its competitors), Chalkfly also wants to differentiate itself by creating a brand that is about something bigger than just office supplies. In practice, this means that Chalkfly donates 5 percent of every sale to a school or teacher of the customer’s choosing. Teachers can sign up on Chalkfly to include their names or their schools in its online registry of those that are eligible to receive donations, or customers can add their own.
If a user doesn’t select a recipient, Chalkfly automatically makes a donation to a school or teacher in the customer’s proximity. Because schools are underfunded enough already and teachers often have to pay for school supplies out-of-pocket, the founders tell us, Chalkfly wants to do its part to make those supplies more affordable. What’s more, with the Web having reduced the barriers to entry for vendors, consumers are faced with a surplus of choice when it comes to shopping. Given two vendors offering the same product, the founders believe that most people will be more likely to choose the option that allows them to do some good while shopping for pencils.
And so far, it seems to be working. Just a little more than six months in, Chalkfly has already seen over 1,000 teachers opt in to receive donations, who are in turn helping to spread the word. What’s more, Landau says that the site has attracted “thousands of users and clients” and is on pace to do $2 million in revenue this year.
As a result, investors have started to buy in as well. The Detroit-based company recently raised $750K in seed funding from a handful of investors, including Detroit Venture Partners, Ludlow Ventures, Griffon Ventures, Start Garden and Bizdom. The founders tell us that they will put their new capital to work by doubling their team of five over the next three months, along with investing in technology and resources that can help improve the ordering process, customer service and reduce the friction inherent to the shopping experience.
The goal is to offer the same kind of customer experience that made Zappos so popular, while combining that with the charitable ethos of companies like TOMS. It still has a long way to go, but Chalkfly is already off to a good start.
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A Brief History of 'Facebook Phone' Rumors
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Rovio to Bring Angry Birds Friends to iOS and Android
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Oakley gives Bubba Watson a hovercraft to replace his golf cart (video)
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Samsung's WiFi-only Galaxy Camera ships this month for $450
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Cyberlink's PowerDVD 13 universal media player for Windows 8, iOS, and Android has an improved UI and 4K support
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Netflix confirms May 26th launch date for new Arrested Development season
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UK's online music royalties generate more cash than radio for the first time
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La distancia entre la Tierra y Marte representada en píxeles
How Far is it to Mars? es una brillante represetación gráfica —usando píxeles como unidad de referencia— de la enorme distancia que nos separa de Marte, destino previso para la década de 2030 y que requiere unos 150 días de viaje para llegar hasta él con la tecnología espacial actual.
Puedes intentar hacer scroll con el dedo para recorrer los 428.000 píxeles que separan la Tierra de Marte, pero por el bien de tu nervio mediano es mejor pulsar la flecha en la parte inferior para iniciar el trayecto a unos 7.000 píxeles por segundo (equivalente a 200.000 km/h). Mientras tanto, te da tiempo a ir a por un refesco.
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ASUS unveils GeForce GTX 670 DirectCU Mini graphics card destined for little rigs
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Samsung Galaxy Win hopes for Chinese smartphone success with a mixed bag of specs
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Samsung partners with Best Buy to bring Experience Shops to 1,400 stores
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Historia de los auriculares
La historia de los auriculares , en Nokia Conversaciones,
La idea de crear un auricular es original de Nathaniel Baldwin, un estudiante de la Universidad de Stanford a quien se le atribuye la invención de toda una serie de dispositivos eléctricos. Por allá por el año 1910 nadie estaba interesado en la producción en masa de esta extraña herramienta de comunicación. No fue sino hasta el estallido de la Primera Guerra Mundial —cuando el Ejército de los EE.UU. compró un centenar de estos dispositivos para sus pilotos— que la historia de los auriculares despegó, literalmente.
Baldwin nunca patentó los auriculares al considerar que su invento era trivial.
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LG Optimus G Pro Now Available in Japan
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Google's BufferBox delivery lockers to arrive in San Francisco 'very soon'
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Angry Birds Friends coming to Android and iOS, brings the franchise full circle
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Google Chrome for Android Updated With Autofill and Password Sync
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T-Mobile reports 'first positive branded (customer) growth in four years'
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Samsung Gets Its Own 'Stores' Inside Best Buy
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Blackberry shutting down BBM Music on June 2nd, points users to Rdio
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