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Friday, 19 April 2013

The After Math: Intel's revenue billions, Android's active millions and a few new Earth-like planets



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This week on gdgt: Razer's Edge isn't quite sharp enough



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Engadget Mobile Podcast 177 - 04.19.13



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Graphics chip designer Raja Koduri heads back to AMD after four-year stint at Apple



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BBC iPlayer viewing on tablets overtakes that on phones



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Editor's Letter: Google glass gone wild



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Adorable Robots Ask Personal Questions for Documentary



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10 Cases to Shield Your New HTC One



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Proposal from Google and Duke Energy lets companies buy renewable power



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Game on! Razer to honor fake 90 percent off coupon



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FAA approves Boeing 787 battery fix, gives the green light for repairs



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Want to work at Engadget? We're hiring a social media manager!



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Mobile Accelerator Tandem Doubles Partner Team With Rohit Bhagat And John Ellis, Announces New Startups

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Doug Renert told me yesterday that his firm Tandem, which backs early-stage mobile startups, is about to expand in a big way. The first step is bringing in more people, starting with two new partners that Tandem is announcing today — Rohit Bhagat, formerly chairman of Asia Pacific for investment firm BlackRock, and John Ellis, co-founder and executive vice president of product and technology at ad tech company Turn.


Tandem is currently investing in three startups a quarter, but Renert said he’s hoping to do much more. At the same time, he doesn’t want to change the firm’s hands-on approach. He describes it as an accelerator with “muscle capital.” Like other startup incubators, it mentors batches of startups and offers them office space. However, it makes a bigger investment than most — $200,000 to start, and follow-on investments if the company is successful.


Bhagat has experience scaling companies globally, Renert said, so he can not only help Tandem’s startups grow, but also do the same for the accelerator itself. Meanwhile, Ellis’ technical background means that he can help companies with product and infrastructure. Together, they effectively double the Tandem team, which until now consisted of Renert and Sunil Bhargava.


I asked Bhagat over email why he’s jumping from a giant firm to a (relatively) tiny one, and he responded:



I moved to Tandem because it is ideally positioned at the confluence of the rising tides of mobile, social media and cloud computing. Relative to large firms, I felt confident that Tandem’s model of “hands on” seed stage investing would spur more disruptive innovation, create stronger investment returns, and allow me to work more directly with smart people working on truly ground-breaking ideas.



There will be more expansion news in the near future, Renert said. And yes, that will probably include more funding (Tandem announced a $32 million fund last year), although he said it’s too early to talk about specifics.


As for the companies that he wants to invest in, Renert said Tandem’s strategy is to target startups before they would normally raise money — when they’ve built a product but don’t yet have traction. He said many of the current opportunities lie in emerging markets — not just copying successful American products, but figuring out what makes them work and how to transfer that to other geographies.


Renert actually wrote a guest post for us in February outlining the areas in mobile that he thinks have become too crowded (location-based social networking, photosharing, workplace collaboration), are still too nascent for successful companies (in-car apps and services, mobile wallets, integrated TV apps), and are just right for launching now (everyday apps, mobile developer platforms, rich messaging/SMS marketing).


“At the same time, we want to make sure that we’re not just trying to build companies around our ideas,” Renert said. “We’re very open to entrepreneurs’ ideas. We want to back their ideas.”


Tandem is also announcing the three latest startups that it’s backing:


Tile — Tandem’s first hardware company, which helps users find and track lost items

Swoopt — mobile fantasy sports tournaments

HomeTapper — real estate browsing for tablets

The deadline to apply for Tandem’s next class is May 1.








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T-Mobile Announces Pricing for HTC One



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Love Home Swap, The Members Club For Swapping Houses, Gets Into Rentals

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Love Home Swap, a U.K.-based startup that appeals to homeowners that want to trade their places, is getting into proper rentals.


The company, which launched about a year and a half ago, was operating on a member subscription model. People would pay to get access to a network of homeowners that were open to swapping residences across 150 different countries, plus a travel team, personal concierge and travel guides.


Now the company, which just raised $1.3 million from MMC Ventures, is offering rentals along with swaps. Swaps are, of course, free to members. With rentals, Love Home Swap will take a 12 percent service fee. If you’re a gold member, it’s 11 percent and for Platinum members, it’s 10 percent. On the hosting side, the company will take a 3 percent service fee, which drops to 2 percent for Gold members and 1 percent from Platinum members. Love Home Swap also pairs each transaction with an insurance policy from Hiscox to protect members against damages or theft.


Rentals are a natural move for the company, as nearly two-thirds of members said they would be interested in rentals. It adds a different revenue model to the subscription business. Normally, Love Home Swap charges anywhere from roughly $15 a month to $42 per month to belong to its club, depending on the tier of service you want. At the top level, they get a concierge service that helps with restaurant and flight bookings.


That business has helped Love Home Swap grow revenues by 37 percent and triple traffic since funding was closed in December of last year. The company just acquired 1stHomeExchange, to add 23,000 listings.


Love Home Swap doesn’t really consider itself a direct competitor to San Francisco’s Airbnb. It positions itself as a service that caters to higher-end customers that are a bit older, own property and have the ability to go on holiday more often. The company points to listings like a six-bedroom house in Koh Samui, Thailand or a five-bedroom chateau in Brittany.


The average age of their customer is 46 and they’re predominantly female. It’s split 50 percent between families while 21 percent are couples with no kids and 18 percent are empty nesters. The rest are independent travellers. About a third of the properties on the site are vacation homes, not primary residences.


Another competitor in an even higher tier of the market is Inspirato, which charges around $9,500 to join, plus $2,500 per year. They rent luxury properties that they let out for a few hundred dollars per day to a few thousands to members. OneFineStay is another higher-end competitor too.


The 12-person startup has raised $2.4 million to date.









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OUYA shows up at the FCC, has its guts splayed for the world to see



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Geeksphone Keon takes Firefox OS to the FCC



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Apple Doesn't Need an iCar to Rule the Road



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Time's Harry McCracken on the battery life mystery and Polaroid Super Shooters



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Microsoft: Windows Competitor to iPad Mini Coming Soon



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Reddit Under DDoS Attack, Some Site Functions Disabled



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LulzSec Member Sentenced to Year in Prison for Sony Hack



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Adolescentes y redes sociales, un vídeo más que recomendable sobre el tema


Si tienes hijos o trabajas con niños y/o adolescentes, no te puedes perder Adolescentes y redes sociales , un vídeo que aborda este delicado tema con mucha ecuanimidad sin caer en el mensaje apocalíptico que muchas veces se le asocia.


Al contrario, hace un enfoque muy positivo sobre el asunto, aún sin olvidar los peligros que por supuesto entraña, y como dice Luis García Campos, psicólogo y orientador educativo, es algo que nos toca vivir y no podemos mirar para otro lado sino que tenemos que acompañarlos, aunque nos cueste un cierto esfuerzo.


Son algo más de veinte minutos, pero merecen la pena.


Recomiendo, de todos modos, acompañarlo de la visión del vídeo con la charla de Juan @blogoff de Adamaweb en el Foro Internet Meeting Point 2012 sobre educación en nuevas tecnologías porque, lo creas o no, los nativos digitales no existen, por muchos iPads que nos empeñemos en meter en el aula.











Te voy a contar una historia. Educación en nuevas tecnologías


Adolescentes y redes sociales es una producción de Lynx video para CEAPA.


(El vídeo de la CEAPA vía Víctor Cuevas).


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DARPA flaunts HD heat vision camera small enough to carry into battle



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Meet Genesis Angels, A New $100M Fund For AI And Robotics, From Investor Kenges Rakishev And Chaired By Israel's Ex-PM

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For those startups in newer areas like robotics, artificial intelligence and augmented reality who complain that VCs are too focused on consumer internet companies, help is at hand: Genesis Angels is a new VC that has raised a fund of around $100 million, with a large chunk coming from co-founder and serial investor and Kazakh petrochemical mogul Kenges Rakishev, which it plans to use for early stage investments in emerging areas like these and others. Based in Israel, but looking for startups worldwide, Genesis launched just this week, naming ex-Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert as its chairman.


Moshe Hogeg, the other co-founder behind Genesis Angels (and founder and CEO of mobile video/photo startup Mobli, pictured here with Rakishev, left, and Olmert, center), says that the idea for Genesis came out of his and Rakishev’s observation that while the market for consumer internet services is saturated with a lot of me-too companies, there is a flourishing world of R&D in areas like robots and artificial intelligence that is not getting enough attention. It’s mostly giant tech companies like Google and Microsoft and academic institutions that are putting money into the very cutting edge of technology.


(Indeed, it was just yesterday, during Google’s earnings call, that CEO Larry Page talked about the “big bets” that Google wants to make on new technology. Google is not afraid to make big investments, he said, because the fear is that if it doesn’t it may miss out on the next big thing.)


The problem with this is that it leaves little room for startups. And although more recent developments like Kickstarter and Indigogo are creating a new groundswell of interest and financial support for some of these projets, there are yet others that will not want that kind of public profile for what they’re working on.


Hogeg describes Genesis’ role as something between the concept stage and when a VC may typically become interested in a company working on cutting-edge technology. “You can send the most brilliant scientist to a VC, but often it might take that scientist and his startup five years to create their products,” he explained in an interview. “VCs will say, ‘No problem, come back in four years.’ Genesis will invest in those companies in the meantime.” Typical investments will be in the range of $200,000 and $2 million.


If you visit Genesis Angels’ site, you will see that it already lists a number of companies in its portfolio, including Hogeg’s. These are listed, he says, because they are some of the investments Rakishev himself has made. Genesis, he notes, is still raising money for its first fund, with the total in play currently close to $100 million. Among those contributing to the fund are merchant bank Forbes & Manhattan, as well as private individuals who are well-known in the space of angel investments specifically around areas like hardware and new technology. The first three investments that are being made out of the new fund, Hogeg says, will be coming out shortly.


Ehud Olmert’s appointment as chairman is about laying the groundwork for the kind of assistance that Genesis Angels will be able to offer its portfolio companies, Hogeg says.


“He is a big believer in technology. Irasel invested the most in this area when he was still prime minister,” he notes. The relatively small country currently has some 3,000 tech companies, according to this report from the AP on the launch of the new VC.


Olmert took office in 2006 but left in 2009 under a corruption scandal cloud that he is still fighting. But that, apparently, has not affected his wider influence. “Mr Olmert is a very powerful man and he can use his contacts to help us and our companies, for example in partnering and joint ventures. He can open any door in the world.”


There have been other VC funds focused on these emerging areas. Dmitry Grishin, for example, the CEO of Mail.ru and founder of Grishin Robotics, last year started a $25 million fund dedicated to investing in other robotics companies (examples of his investments here, here and here).


It may be that Genesis teams up with people like this to cooperate on investments. “He shares a vision with us about this space,” says Hogeg.








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NBN bringing 1Gbps network to Aussies by the end of 2013



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Kepler localiza los planetas extrasolares similares a la Tierra más pequeños hasta la fecha

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Representación artística de Kepler-62f, que es la estrella de esta nueva hornada de exoplanetas


La NASA acaba de hacer público que dos nuevos estudios de los datos obtenidos por el observatorio espacial Kepler, diseñado para localizar planetas extrasolares, acaban de identificar otros tantos sistemas planetarios.


Los dos tienen la peculiaridad de que incluyen planetas similares a la Tierra, aunque una vez más hay que resaltar la palabra similares: NASA's Kepler Discovers Its Smallest 'Habitable Zone' Planets to Date .


Uno de los explanetas en cuestión, que ha recibido el nombre de Kepler-62f, da una vuelta alrededor de su estrella cada 267, y tiene un tamaño superior en un 40% al de la Tierra, lo que lo hace el más pequeño de los localizados hasta la fecha de los que se pueden considerar similares a la Tierra.


Por si fuera poco este exoplaneta está dentro de la zona habitable de su estrella, aquella en la que de darse las condiciones necesarias podría tener agua líquida en su superficie.


Y de nuevo ese podría es muy importante pues por el método utilizado para detectarlos, el de los tránsitos, mediante el que se detecta su presencia por la disminución en la cantidad de luz que nos llega de la estrella cuando el planeta pasa por delante, lo único que sabemos con certeza acerca de ellos es su tamaño y la duración de su órbita, por lo que su masa y posible composición las inferimos a partir de modelos.


A falta de saber más cosas de él Kepler-62f tiene un Índice de Similitud con la Tierra (ESI, Earth Similitude Index) de 0,82, siendo, lógicamente el de la Tierra 1 y el de Marte, por ejemplo, 0,64.


Exoplanetas y ESI

Los nueve planetas extrasolares potencialmente habitables conocidos en abril de 2013 ordenados por su ESI. La lista incluye a Gliese 581g, Tau Ceti e y HD 40307g, cuya existencia en realidad está aún por confirmar - PHL @ UPR Arecibo


En general se considera que los planetas extrasolares con un ESI superior a 0,5 podrían ser potencialmente habitables, al menos para vida microbial, y que sólo aquellos con un ESI superior a 0,8 podrían albergar formas de vida más complejas, aunque el ESI no es el único valor a tener en cuenta para incluir un exoplaneta en la lista de potencialmente habitables.


Los otros dos planetas «similares» a la Tierra encontrados en esta tacada son Kepler-62e, en el mismo sistema planetario, y Kepler-69c, con 1,6 y 1,7 veces el radio de la Tierra respectivamente.


Kepler-62 tiene en total cinco planetas y Kepler-69 dos, al menos que hayamos detectado. La primera está a en la constelación de Lira, a unos 1.200 años luz de la Tierra; la segunda está en la constelación del Cisne, a unos 2.700 años luz de nosotros.


Observaciones posteriores con otros instrumentos podrán ayudar a determinar mejor las características de estos nuevos planetas extrasolares, pero lo que parece claro es que cada vez falta menos para que encontremos un planeta extrasolar del tamaño de la Tierra.


Y sí, es poco probable que nunca lleguemos a viajar a ninguno de estos exoplanetas, pero el convencimiento de que tiene que haber vida en el universo más allá de la Tierra es cada día mayor.


A fin de cuentas, según los datos de Kepler se calcula que una de cada seis estrellas tiene planetas orbitando a su alrededor, y nuestras estimaciones indican que sólo en la Vía Láctea, nuestra pequeña esquinita del universo, hay ya 100.000 millones de estrellas.





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Man who sold up to four million counterfeit headphones gets two years in jail



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Engadget Podcast 340 - 04.19.13



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HTC One available on T-Mobile's website today, arriving in stores April 24th



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Amazon reportedly launching in Russia, goes on Kindle-related hiring spree



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Amazon unleashes 'Pilot Season' with 14 original shows



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Hate Keeping Up With Home Maintenance? Brightnest Can Help

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Brightnest’s co-founder Justin Anthony describes his startup as “a digital dashboard for your home.” And after using the service that past few weeks, I understand that analogy. Brightnest brings not only home maintenance, but home ownership, into the Internet age.


Brightnest launched in early 2012. The company has since raised just over $1 million in funding led by TechStars’ David Cohen. 500 Startups, OCA Ventures, Quotidian Ventures and a handful of angels also participated. A graduate of 500 Startups, the company’s genesis came after the two co-founders were driving around and released that a car has an information display that can tell the owner all sorts of things. But a house doesn’t.


Now 18 months and one slight pivot later, Brightnest is, as Justin told me, serving its users with a very relevant, personalized experience through an engaging and smart signup process.


It takes about a minute to sign up for Brightnest through the website or app. After connecting with Facebook or using a traditional signup form, the system learns about the user’s home. Where does the user live? What sort of household chores/activities are they interested in? Does the user have pets? Kids? Lastly, the system asks simple questions about the house involving the exterior construction, HVAC system, and inquires about extras like if there is a pool or garage.


This is where the startup thrives. Not only is the signup process quick, but it’s smart, allowing Brightnest to tailor the experience differently for each user.


I live in Michigan. It’s cold in the Winter and humid in the summer. Brightnest wisely created a system that allows my content and home maintenance items to fit my situation — mostly.


As I told Justin during our chat, I’m an avid home improvement nut. Minutes before I started writing this article, I was setting bricks in mortar for our new front steps (because I learned the hard way that I should use an angle grinder to remove loose bricks rather than trying to smash them out with a sledgehammer ’cause that just makes a bigger mess and makes the wife really mad). Brightnest isn’t completely for someone like myself. It’s for the person that’s looking for guidance as much as motivation.


Think Pinterest meets a handy dad. Brightnest displays household projects — chores, maintenance items, and crafty projects — in a grid layout. Each project is clearly labeled with how long it takes to complete and the supplies needed. All the content is created in-house, thus allowing the team to test and verify everything before passing it along to their users.


Items on my landing page includes “Clean your toilet (15 min.)”, Save money in the bedroom (30 min.)”, “Make a DIY animal coat rack (60 min.)” and “Inspect your air ducts (30 min)”. The idea is to present a low friction way to improve a house. The site has successfully created a way to make me want to inspect my air ducts. Essentially, if I know it will only take 30 minutes to inspect my air ducts, then that’s something I’m likely to at least attempt.


Moreover, owning a house comes with a lot of regular maintenance. Brightnest has its users covered there too. This is where I’ve started using the service.


Some tasks, for instance fertilizing your yard or testing smoke detectors, should be done several times a year on a regular basis. Just click the schedule button and up pops a menu that lets the user select a future date. Notifications can be emailed to the user and are also available through the iOS app. You know, just in case you want your email to nag you about chores, too.


Brightnest has seemed to create a helpful mix of tools and content. It might not have the depth of Pinterest or, likewise, Bob Villa, but the service has found a fantastic medium. As long as the site can continue to provide its users with fresh content and home improvement tips, Brightnest’s future is, well, bright.


Look for Brightnest’s Android and iPad app in the coming months.








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Amazon's Exclusive Comedy, Children's Pilots Are Available Now For Your Viewing And Judging Pleasure

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Back in March, Amazon Studios announced that it had ordered six comedy series pilots to debut on Amazon Instant Video, further proof that the current television model is desperate for disruption. Today those pilots are finally available, released into the hands of viewers here in the US and the UK.


Based on user feedback, Amazon will decide which of the pilots will be ordered for a full season available exclusively on Amazon’s Instant Video network in the US and LoveFilm in the UK. In fact, Amazon surprised with two extra comedy pilots, as well as the simultaneous launch of six children’s series pilots which were ordered back in January.


While competitors like Netflix and Hulu are working on their own exclusive content offerings, Amazon has taken a different route. Hulu has been offering exclusive content for more than two years with a broad range of different offerings, whereas Netflix has gone big with one drama, House of Cards, delivered binge-style with a full season available at once.


Amazon, on the other hand, has decided to leave the power in the hands of consumers. User feedback will determine which of the total 14 pilots will become a real-life TV show based on ratings and reviews. Amazon will also monitor a number of other metrics like chatter on social media, focus group responses, and the general voice (or lack thereof) of the internet.


There are no hard and fast rules about how many series will be built into full seasons — it all depends on user feedback.


At first thought, I had some pretty serious reservations about this pilot-first, season-later ploy from Amazon. For one, it’s tough to fall in love with a show after 28 minutes, and only 28 minutes. And let’s say you do fall in love with Tallahassee, just a young guy in love in the middle of Zombieland, or the three charming young high school teachers in Those Who Can’t. How, then, do you stay interested while Amazon takes these shows back to the drawing board for full season production and development.


Yet, after speaking with the company about the reasons behind the decision (and seeing the content myself), it actually makes sense.


“To pick just one show would mean that we’re rejecting many other shows,” said Roy Price, Director of Amazon Studios. “We’re doing it this way presumably because we don’t believe in the guru model of television where we should just make decisions using our great wisdom. When you have the internet as a platform for your service, the right way to do this is to give people a sample and see what they like.”


As it stands now, a very small group of old rich people are the ones deciding which scripts become the shows we watch on Primetime and beyond. But what do they know? They might see me on the streets, but homie, they don’t know me. That’s why Amazon Studios deliberately wanted to do multiple series pilots at once, to offer a breadth of potential content to its users.


If you’re interested in checking out Amazon’s new comedy and children’s series, head on over to Amazon Instant in the U.S. or LOVEfilm in the UK and grab a bowl of popcorn. And be sure to tell Amazon what you think, lest you find yourself five months down the road wondering what became of your favorite characters.


We’ll be hitting you with a full review of the comedy pilots a little later in the day, but for now you can head on over to Amazon Instant to check them out yourself.








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Apple confirms it keeps Siri data for up to two years



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