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Friday, 16 August 2013
This week on gdgt: NVIDIA's Shield, Samsung's S4 mini, and camping tech
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Leaked NSA audit shows privacy violations in cellular and fiber optic surveillance
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Motorola Skip Unlocks Your Phone With Just a Tap
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Un largo día
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Withings Pulse review
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Jetstar's Former Head Of Strategy Joins Adioso As The Intuitive Flight Search Engine Preps Its First Localized Product Launch
Adioso, the flight search engine for flexible travelers, has hired former Jetstar head of strategy Azim Barodawala as its CEO. The Melbourne-based startup is getting ready to raise new capital as it prepares the global rollout of its first localized product.
Founders Tom Howard and Fenn Bailey say that Barodawala’s guidance will help Adioso cement relationships within the airline industry.
“We really try to understand problems from both a consumer and airline point of view, but, not being airline people, we can only make the best guess. We can develop things in accordance with economic principles and what we want to make out of the commercial realities, but I thought that since we are not natives of the airline industry, there would always be limits to how we do things,” says Howard.
“It’s refreshing to have Azim on the team to identify the primary airline needs we should focus on and start some of those conversations.”
Barodawala’s understanding of the airline industry will be valuable as the startup prepares the global rollout of its new localized product in October. Adioso isn’t ready to reveal too many specifics about the product, which will first launch in Australia, but says that it will be tailored for customers in different cities and be much faster than current flight search platforms. Adioso’s localized product will make it faster for consumers to find information about fares to the most popular destinations from their area, with search response times under a second.
As its localized product gains traction, Barodawala will guide Adioso as the company establishes partnerships with airlines, tourism boards and other organizations in the travel industry.
“There are regional differences. How we talk to airlines in Australia is different than how we talk to carriers in the U.S. Asia is completely different as well,” says Barodawala.
When we first profiled Adioso back in 2010, the company faced the same problem as much of the travel industry: it had to rely on data powered by products that were first developed in the 1960s and 1970s. There was no complete, real-time database of fares and availability.
As a result, Adioso’s team had to build its own search technology so users could enter queries like “New York City To London In December For 10 to 15 days.” That meant destinations were limited, Howard explains.
“You mentioned the coverage we had on TechCrunch. The most striking feedback in the comments, the biggest objection, was that our destination coverage was so poor. That was totally valid. That was a given due to the industry constraints on the availability of data at that time.”
He adds: “The reason all travel agency and airline Web sites work the same way is that they were built to fit in with the way the tech works. Sabre is the biggest product along with Amadeus and one or two other companies that control the distribution of flight data. Everything is constrained in this idea that if you do a search for flight prices, you have to know where to go and your departure and return dates, plus or minus three days.”
Now Adioso has access to more flexible search infrastructure that didn’t exist when it was founded and its taking advantage of those resources. Over the past six months, Adioso has seen a 127% increase in the gross value of leads referred to airlines and online travel agencies, which is now at just under $6 million a month. Initial consumer revenue started flow to Adioso in the past three months.
Since online travel agencies are charged per user query by the databases that fuel their flight search engines, Adioso has to roll out its localized search product gradually in order to break even. Its founders say a slow and deliberate approach, however, will have the benefit of allowing them to build stronger user communities in each city by offering events and other promotions. As Adioso localizes, it will be able to use its data to help travel verticals reach new customers.
“We’ve been trying to expand the concept of travel search products beyond being specifically about travel,” says Howard. “They can see how to get their travel products in front of people and where their interests might be. For example, they may be traveling to see their favorite football team or go surfing. We’ll allow them build something more engaging and exciting. We can partner with surfing Web sites, sports leagues, promoters of music festivals because of the tech we built.”
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Where to Find Free Wi-Fi at U.S. and International Airports
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CIA documents tip Area 51 as Cold War surveillance site, definitely not an alien cover up
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Verizon's HTC One starts shipping on August 22nd for $199 on contract
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Stratasys/MakerBot Deal Closes, Giving Stratasys A High-Profile Consumer Brand
Toward the end of June, 3D printing companies Stratasys and MakerBot confirmed what TechCrunch had already uncovered, the former would be acquiring the latter for $403 million (or 4.7 million shares) in exchange for 100 percent of MakerBot’s outstanding capital stock.
Stratasys has long been a dominant force in 3D printing, long before we were buying 3D printers for our homes. The company specializes in factory-level printing and prototype printing for designers and manufacturers.
But as is made crystal clear with the entry of companies like MakerBot, FormLabs, and other consumer-facing 3D printing companies, there is most certainly a demand for at-home 3D printing.
MakerBot was one of the first companies to offer an affordable 3D printer for your home, selling more than 22,000 MakerBots since 2009. That said, the merger truly signifies one of the first time a 3D printing firm will be offering both enterprise and consumer-facing products simultaneously.
“We are excited for the future,” said MakerBot founder Bre Pettus in the press release. “Full steam ahead!”
On the one hand, Stratasys is obviously aggressively entering the consumer space, but this acquisition is also a huge resource to MakerBot. Since 2009, the company was working in its own factory in Brooklyn off of $10 million in venture funding.
Having Stratasys’ 25+ years of experience and resources will surely accelerate innovation and growth at MakerBot.
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Distro Issue 103: Inside South Africa's TV white spaces experiment
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Building a Moto X with Moto Maker (hands-on video)
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Moto X Skip NFC smartphone key official, ships free with Moto Maker orders
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Microsoft to stop selling PC games on Xbox.com on August 22nd
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Researchers Teleport 10,000 Bits of Information in 1 Second
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Samsung smartwatch may start ticking as early as September
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British canal boaters, welcome to Google Street View
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Lost and Font: fotos y letras
Lost and Font es un proyecto tipográfico consistente en recopilar imágenes que recuerden a las letras – una especie de alfabeto colectivo. Los formatos que se pueden usar son muy amplios: se pueden usar fotografías, ilustraciones o vídeos.
Además del propio proyecto artístico hay un concurso al respecto, con el 30 de septiembre como fecha límite para presentar los trabajos. Así que los amantes de la tipografía ya tienen algo con lo que entretenerse este verano.
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Houston Texans' new HD scoreboard is even wider than the Cowboys'
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What to Do When Your iPhone Freezes
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Programador ayuda a programador: EntreDesarrolladores.com
Si conoces Stack Overflow en inglés no se te hará difícil de entender EntreDesarrolladores.com , una idea similar con un diseño prácticamente igual, en la que los desarrolladores participan en formato «preguntas y respuestas» consiguiendo votos y popularidad a cambio de nada.
Además del propio área de contenidos también cuenta con un blog sobre el proyecto y la comunidad.
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Ubuntu Edge raises record-breaking $10 million, enters Guinness Book of Almost
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Benchmarks hint at Snapdragon-based Kindle Fire HD with 2,560 x 1,600 display
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El telescopio aerotransportado SOFIA termina su primera campaña en Nueva Zelanda
La cabina de SOFIA durante el vuelo de vuelta a su base - Foto vía @SOFIATelescope
Una de las ventajas de tener un telescopio montado en un avión es que te lo puedes llevar allá a donde quieras hacer una campaña de observaciones.
SOFIA, el telescopio aerotrasportado de la NASA y la DLR acaba de terminar su primera campaña de observaciones desde Nueva Zelanda, tal y como se puede leer en SOFIA in New Zealand—Much Attempted, Much Achieved.
He aprovechado para escribir una pieza sobre este telescopio para RTVE.es publicada como Observatorios astronómicos que vuelan en avión .
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Syfy Now app streams full episodes to iOS today, Android next month
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PasswordCard, una solución de seguridad para usos domésticos
PasswordCard (TarjetaClave) es una idea ingeniosa aunque como solución de seguridad no ofrezca altas garantías – pero vamos, que no está mal para andar por casa. Básicamente permite generar una tarjeta de claves como la de los bancos a partir de una ristra de letras y números tecleadas por el usuario.
La versión generada se puede imprimir y llevar en la cartera. Es cómodo que incluya símbolos en las columnas y números en las filas, a modo de coordenadas. Mentalmente se puede entonces utilizar una pauta para recordar las contraseñas, por ejemplo «5 dólares y 10 caracteres» que en este ejemplo sería la quinta fila y la sexta columna con el signo del dólar ($); a partir de ahí se usan los 10 caracteres que aparezcan, mRwEtAwjMR (o los que se deseen).
Los fallos del sistema son (a) que le estás dando la clave de generación de la tarjeta a una web que no conoces de nada (y luego alguien podría generar usar y usarla contra ti con muy pocas variantes que probar) y (b) que el sistema no es realmente aleatorio sino pseudoaletorio: alguien interesado en atacar a quien use esta tarjeta podría generar una tarjeta de este tipo podría generar todas las tarjetas y probarlas. Además de eso, (c) el algoritmo de generación es secreto y desconocido para el usuario… ¡Alerta! Ya sabemos que la seguridad-mediante-oscuridad no funciona.
Curiosamente lo que no es inseguro es llevar la tarjeta impresa en la cartera. Es el método que utiliza el experto Bruce Scheiner y el tío es el Chuck Norris de la seguridad moderna. Se basa en la premisa de que si llevas tus claves encima y pierdes o te roban la cartera te darás cuenta enseguida y podrás anular o cambiar las claves.
(¡Gracias por la pista, HombreLobo!)
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