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Monday, 5 August 2013
Must See HDTV (August 5th - 11th)
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Tor browser for Windows exploit discovered, malware may be gathering info for Uncle Sam
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Jeff Bezos buys The Washington Post for $250 million in cash
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High fidelity: Inside John Vanderslice's Tiny Telephone analog studio
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Evacuados en combate, jugándose el pellejo para salvar vidas
El Escuadrón de Rescate 38 de la Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos tiene como misión evacuar soldados y civiles heridos aún bajo el fuego enemigo, con el objetivo de llevarlos a un hospital dentro de la hora siguiente a haber sido heridos, ya que a partir de entonces sus probabilidades de sobrevivir bajan drásticamente.
Para ello están entrenados no solo como médicos de combate sino también como combatientes para poder defenderse ellos mismos y a sus pacientes; es un entrenamiento duro que pocos voluntarios pasan, del estilo de aquel al que se someten los miembros de la Delta Force o similares.
Evacuados en combate, Inside combat rescue en inglés, es una serie documental de seis capítulos que narra cuatro meses de despliegue de esta unidad a Afganistán, tiempo durante el que hasta 40 cámaras de National Geographic los siguieron en sus misiones a bordo de sus Sikorsky HH-60 Pave Hawk.
Es la primera vez que la Fuerza Aérea autoriza que unas cámaras recojan a una de estas unidades en acción, y lo cierto es que las imágenes son duras, pues a menudo salen personas con graves heridas y amputaciones.
Los PJ en acción
Los documentales cubren no solo las misiones de combate sino la vida en la base, lo que supone dejar atrás a sus familias, y cómo los miembros de la unidad se las apañan para afrontar lo que ven en sus misiones.
El lema de las unidades de rescate es «para que otros puedan vivir» y los miembros del 38 lo viven; a mi me parecieron unos documentales muy interesantes –si eres de los que son capaces de ver documentales en los que salen imágenes de este tipo– pero inevitablemente me recordó algo que me dijo una vez un veterano de la segunda guerra mundial: «nunca jamás penséis que la guerra mola».
National Geographic los estrena en España a partir del martes 6 de agosto a las 22:35.
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Feedly RSS Reader to Launch Paid Pro Version
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Time Warner Cable CEO vows to end CBS blackout, proposes a-la-carte pricing
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Battlefield 4's Battlescreen map exclusive to next-gen and PC, Battlelog now fully web-based
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Spotify Browse Brings Themed Playlists to Your Smartphone
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Moto X review
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MSI unveils lightweight GS70 gaming laptop, hopes to take Razer's crown
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IRL: Mint.com and Incipio's Feather case for the Retina MBP
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The 10 Most Frequently Used Smartphone Apps in the World
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YouView adds World TV Boosts for Afrikaans, Arabic and Japanese
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Hackers Expose Security Holes That Allow 'Free Rides for Life'
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Unofficial Amber ROMs emerge for Nokia Lumia 820 and 920
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Microsoft Slices $100 Off Surface Pro
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4 Ways to Recycle Your Old Gadgets
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Samsung to Unveil Galaxy Note 3 on Sept. 4
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gdgt's best deals for August 5: Dell Inspiron Laptop, 22-inch LG LED 1080p HDTV
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Lovefilm UK adds more content for kids with films and TV from NBCUniversal
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LinkedIn Lets You Apply for Jobs on Your Phone
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Netflix profiles won't work via Windows Media Center plugin
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Lab-grown burger tasted at event in London, said to require ketchup
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Adidas miCoach X_Cell hits FCC, looks ready to track your sporting life
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Samsung 'Unpacked Episode 2' scheduled for September 4th in Berlin
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First Canon 7D RAW video shown courtesy of Magic Lantern
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Amid Speculation That Yahoo Was Sniffing Around, Blinkx Acquires Video Content Syndication And Ad Platform Grab Media
Amid speculation that online video syndication and advertising platform Grab Media could be on Marissa Mayer’s Yahoo acquisition list, AIM-listed Internet Media platform Blinkx has moved to acquire the property in an “all cash transaction” with Grab Network Holdings Inc. Terms of the deal remain undisclosed, though in a statement Binkx CEO S. Brian Mukherjee tellingly calls the acquisition “modest in size”.
Fitting in with Blinkx’s own mission to connect consumers with advertisers through “professionally generated content” online, founded in 2008, U.S.-based Grab Media helps syndicates video content, helping premium video producers find an audience on an array of smaller network sites, and in turn align that content to relevant advertisers. It claims an audience reach of over 35 million viewers, and stresses the quality not quantity of that viewer reach, in terms of its monetization.
That the terms of the deal are implied to be modest, it doesn’t look like a home run for Grab Media’s backers. According to CrunchBase, the company has raised $34.5m in from VCs including Longworth Venture Partners, SoftBank Capital, and Court Square Ventures. It was known to be on the hunt for a sale after it hired investment bank Mesa Global to look for potential buyers.
Blinkx saus that the specific assets acquired in the transaction will enable the company to add incremental audience and augment its relationships with advertisers, publishers and content providers. However, it also says that the purchase will not have a material impact on its revenue or cost base in the near term.
Along with acquiring the platform — technology and customer relationships — Blinkx says it plans to hire the existing Grab Media team, described by Mukherjee as “a talented, multi-faceted group with extensive experience and relationships in online video content syndication and advertising”.
“This transaction, while modest in size, enables us to meet growing consumer demand for online video, and provides us with an established platform to distribute and monetize these interactions across desktops, tablets, smartphones and connected TVs,” he says in a statement.
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Nintendo gobbles up $4 million in a month with new 3DS StreetPass games (video)
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GaymerX panel reflects on LGBTQ themes in video games, overcoming public reaction
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Leaked manual for LG G2 confirms nano-SIM slot, no fingerprint reader
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Google adds touch controls to experimental version of Chrome
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10 Top Cases for the Samsung Galaxy Note II
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The Five Fists of Science, una batalla novelada entre los primeros genios del siglo XX
Pude por fin conseguir esta pequeña joya steampunk: The Five Fists of Science 
El bueno de Samuel Clemens arrastra casi todo el protagonismo y el devenir de la historia es una auténtica delicia – al menos si se deja volar la imaginación y no se busca la precisión histórica sino la fantasía. Tenemos a un Tesla auténticamente obsesivo-compulsivo con todas sus anécdotas, a un Edison malo malísimo, a una Bertha von Suttner cañera y a un Marconi un tanto zampabollos y bobalicón.
Tiene unas 100 páginas, editadas a todo color en papel de estupenda calidad y por unos 10 euros creo que pocas cosas mejores se pueden pedir para pasar un buen rato. Altamente recomendable para los fans de Tesla y de las historias steampunk en general.
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Rocket's Africa Internet Holding Launches Hotel Booking Site Jovago To Put The Heat On Local Players
It’s often said that the question, ‘what if Google launches something similar?’, is the kind of thing that keeps entrepreneurs up at night. But if you’re a burgeoning e-commerce startup in an emerging market, the same could also be said of the Samwer brothers’ Rocket Internet. In the last few years, the German startup factory has ventured outside of its European roots to aggressively focus on emerging markets, such as Latin America, Asia, and Africa, to the chagrin of local players.
Today sees Rocket launch its first hotel booking site in Africa, via Africa Internet Holding, its Joint Venture with telecoms operator Millicom. Headquartered in and initially targeting customers in Nigeria, Jovago launches with an inventory of 140,000 bookable hotels online, but only lists 200 locally. That’s because each local hotel is vetted in person by the startup’s staff to ensure details are accurate and the quality of the hotel’s service and provision can be ensured, which also points to the specific market problem that Jovago is aiming to solve.
In the words of the company, the hotel-booking market in Nigeria is “unsorted”, and lacks a convenient way for travellers to book hotel accommodation online (though local player Hotels.ng might have something to say about that). Instead, the norm, says Jovago, is to use “time-consuming” booking agencies, or to simply book a hotel face-to-face at the point of arrival. Likewise, credit card penetration is lower in Africa, so, perhaps unsurprisingly, Jovago offers customers the option to choose between paying at the hotel or using the secure online payment option. Interestingly, it doesn’t pass on a booking fee to consumers, even though it does take commission on each transaction from the hotels it’s signed up to its platform, which is the standard agency model.
When questioned about Jovago’s competitive advantages over local players, Africa Internet Holding is talking up its online marketing experience. “Plus we visit personally every hotel listed on our website to ensure our customers about the quality of information about the hotels,” says Africa Internet Holding co-founder Jeremy Hodara. “Soon we’re gonna have the widest range of hotels available for booking in Africa thanks to our local sales teams.” To that end, Jovago says it currently has a head-count of about 50 people.
In contrast to the 200 or so local hotels available to book through Jovago, the current number one player in the country, Hotels.ng, lists over 4,000. Mark Essien, Chief Product Officer at Hotels.ng, tells me that’s out of almost 10,000 hotels that are in existence in Nigeria alone. “To get this inventory, we have 40 people across Nigeria visiting hotels and striking deals with the hotels,” he says. “It’s long, grueling work, and in some cases quite dangerous. It’s worth it though, because we have been able to outstrip all incumbents in terms of inventory and bookings.”
Essien says that in the last 4 months, Hotels.ng has locally outgrown international brands such as Expedia, and Bookings.com, along with local competitors Wakanow, and Nitestay. However, with rumours of Rocket’s imminent arrival, he’s already had to field questions on how the company plans to stand up to its new rival. “Rocket Internet have deep pockets and are good in executing in emerging markets,” he concedes, but argues that Hotels.ng can hold its own.
“We have quickly become the biggest Nigerian hotel booking site by rapid and efficient execution in a way that works for Africa,” says Essien. “We think we will out-execute Rocket in Nigeria and Africa. Moving this business online has to be done manually and via direct negotiation. This is a hard problem, but it’s in the hard problems that opportunity lie.”
Meanwhile, the hotel booking site is more evidence of Rocket Internet/Africa Internet Holding bedding down in Africa. Other properties in its African portfolio include Jumia (online retailer), Hellofood (online food delivery), Kaymu (online marketplace), and Vamido (real estate market place). Africa Internet Holding currently employs more than 1,500 staff through its incubated startups.
Finally, I’m told that, along with rapidly expanding the number of local hotels it lists, Jovago plans to also introduce bus ticket and flight ticket booking and car rentals.
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WSJ: China investigating Foxconn and others over river pollution
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