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Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Vota esta app. O mejor… no lo hagas
Gruber sugirió en compañía de otros una propuesta tan ingeniosa como maléfica: ante las apps insistentes que se pasan el día pedigüeñando que por favor las votes o escribas una reseña positiva en las tiendas, hacer lo siguiente:
Ir a la tienda, votar con una sola estrella sobre cinco y dejar una reseña que diga: «Toma, una estrella por molestarme con tanto aviso para que escriba una reseña».
Lo importante es que el desarrollador de la app leerá el mensaje y «captará la idea». Un voto de una estrella es una auténtica losa para una app o un producto; varios ni te cuento. Sería una estrategia a tener en cuenta para eliminar esa mala costumbre de las apps molestas o de la gente demasiado insistente con sus peticiones en las redes sociales.
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Xbox One's first post-launch update tackles multiplayer and SmartGlass issues
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Twitter update takes on Snapchat with direct message photos, improved alerts
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NYC mayor unveils plans for massive free public WiFi network in Harlem
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Deutsche Telekom’s Hub:raum Accelerator Opens Offices In Krakow As It Welcomes Its First Batch Of Startups
Originally based in Berlin, Deutsche Telekom’s startup accelerator Hub:raum has opened offices in Krakow, Poland. What’s more, fifteen teams from ten different European countries gathered in Poland’s second largest city last weekend to attend workshops in hopes of joining Europe’s newest accelerator.
During the intensive workshops, called Hub:raum Warp, teams received much-needed mentoring and got the opportunity to work alongside fifty prominent international experts with backgrounds in financing, customer acquisition, product management and more.
“The mentoring turned out to be a great success since we got the chance to work with some of the Europe’s freshest startups coming from Central and Eastern Europe. During the past week, startups have received a great deal of knowledge which we hope they will spread onto their local communities and further fire up CEE’s entrepreneurial spirit,” said Jakub Probola, Head of Hub:raum Krakow.
At the end of the week startups pitched their ideas at Demo Day hoping to get accepted into hub:arum’s first batch of startups. From fifteen teams which attended WARP, four finalists were selected with Montenegrian TourVia.Me winning the competition and securing the best pitch award. Alongside Omnipaste from Romania, Collar Pocket from Poland and Excalibur from Slovakia, TourVia.Me was invited to join DT’s Krakow-based accelerator.
Only Excalibur – a startup developing authentication for web services – publicly accepted the offer with others hoping to join in the following weeks.
Hub:raum’s offices in Krakow are lead by a team of experienced serial entrepreneurs who’s goal is to further engage and help CEE startups develop and scale their ideas. “Our doors are always open. We can support different teams in developing their ideas and launching various products on the market,” said Probola.
Hub:raum is offering seed funding, co-working space, mentors, and DT’s assets which include access to a massive 170 million user base (both in Europe and US) as well an access to T-Venture, a 720 million euro fund run by the company.
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Coursera's iOS app expands the reach of online education
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Amazon empieza a usar los robots de Kiva Systems en algunos de sus almacenes
Aunque en la mayoría de los almacenes de Amazon son los empleados los que van a buscar las cosas para completar los pedidos, haciéndose unos cuantos kilómetros al día, en tres de ellos la empresa está usando unos 1.400 robots de Kiva Systems, la empresa que adquirió en 2012, según se puede leer en Amid Drone Talk, Amazon Has Real Robots .
Así, en estos almacenes en lugar de ser los empleados los que van a las estanterías, son las estanterías las que van a ellos, transportadas por los robots en cuestión, que se mueven por los pasillos leyendo unos códigos QR que hay en en suelo y usando sus sensores para detectar obstáculos, información que comparten con los otros robots del almacén.
Según decía Kiva en su momento este sistema permite que cada empleado pueda tener una nueva estantería a su lado cada seis segundos, y permite también ir priorizando los ítems más populares en cada momento, ajustando la cadencia de presentación de estanterías a cada empleado según su ritmo de trabajo, o llevando aquellos ítems más caros a los empleados con más experiencia en el almacén.
De nuevo según Kiva esto puede ahorrar entre un 20 y un 40 por ciento de los costes asociados a procesar cada pedido en el almacén, algo que sin duda interesa a Amazon.
Todo será que se lo gasten en drones para hacer el reparto aéreo.
(Vía Slashdot).
- Los caóticos pero bien organizados almacenes de Amazon, en los que todavía dominan la mano de obra y los pies humanos.
- Así es el mega-almacén de Amazon.es por dentro, todavía sin robots.
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Narrative Clip lifecasting camera finally heading toward a lapel near you
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Aereo could be next on Google Chromecast's support list
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Skype for Windows Phone comes to China with app upgrades in tow
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32GB Nexus 7 now available in white for $270
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Google Glass mod gives you control over home appliances with one touch pairing
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Sony Xperia Z Ultra and LG G Pad 8.3 Google Play editions coming to Play Store today
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Mars One to send unmanned probe to Mars, broadcast mission live on earth in 2018
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How Matternet Wants To Bring Drone Delivery To The People Who Need It Most
Last week, the media world was abuzz with the news that e-commerce giant Amazon was experimenting with a new program dubbed “Amazon Prime Air,” which would use small automated “drone” aircraft to make customer deliveries. But while Jeff Bezos’ primetime television announcement of Amazon’s drone ambitions certainly attracted a lot of attention, it’s important to note that he is not the first person to express interest in the drone delivery space.
A small Silicon Valley startup called Matternet has been developing drone delivery technology for several years now. The company’s co-founder and CEO Andreas Raptopoulos’ TED talk from this past summer about the potential to use small drones for delivery purposes has garnered more than 200,000 views since it was posted online last month — and perhaps helped to inspire Bezos himself, as Bezos used some of the same language used in Raptopoulos’ TED talk when unveiling the concept of Amazon Prime Air on 60 Minutes.
An image from Matternet’s drone delivery pilot in Haiti
One very interesting thing about Matternet is that the company believes drone delivery technology should be first used in the developing world, to deliver food, medicine, and other necessities to areas that are less accessible by car or truck. Often, consumer technologies start by serving a higher end market and trickle down to attain widespread utility — think computers, cell phones, automobiles, and the like. Matternet says its approach is to introduce drone delivery technology to the “people who need it the most,” and build the network from there.
It was a pleasure to have Raptopoulos and his Matternet co-founder Paola Santana stop by TechCrunch’s San Francisco headquarters last week to talk more about how their technology is progressing, the unique technical and regulatory challenges that drones face, and their reaction to learning that Amazon is working in the space as well. Watch that in the video embedded above.
And in the video embedded below, you can see footage from one of Matternet’s drone delivery pilot programs in Haiti.
Matternet in Haiti from Matternet on Vimeo.
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PS4 creates 100,000 new users, 10 percent of Twitch traffic
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Completed Firefox 26 brings a new Android home screen (video)
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It's Only a Matter of Time Before Samsung Fridges Talk to Sony TVs
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LG working on Google Play edition of the G Pad 8.3
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With $3M From Andreessen And Others, Doctor On Demand Launches To Bring A $40 (Virtual) House Call To Healthcare
Adam Jackson and former Stanford physician and White House fellow Dr. Pat Basu want to help modernize healthcare by bringing back a type of care that was a fixture in the 1960s: By bringing the house call back to healthcare — mobile-style. To do that, today, they’re officially launching Doctor On Demand, a service today that aims to connect consumers to a licensed U.S. physician via app on iPhone, Android or tablet — from anywhere.
Well, in saying “anywhere,” that’s the eventual goal. For now, at launch, the service is available in 15 U.S. states for a price of $40 per video call — a price the co-founders believe puts Doctor on Demand on par with most insurance co-pays and cheaper than most urgent care. The idea is to make a quality, experienced physician available to any consumer for just $40.
Because this model is not without its antecedents, Doctor on Demand is looking to remove as much friction as possible from the process, allowing patients to connect with a doctor in real and pay with their Health Care Spending Account, Flexible Spending Account or any major credit card. The other, ancillary benefit (so to speak) of this is the ability to reduce wait times at doctor’s offices and practices across the country, and allow patients to receive quality medical care from the comfort of their couch.
To do that, Doctor on Demand uses a HIPAA-secure network and synchronous video chat to allow patients to communicate with doctors. However, there is a caveat: Doctor on Demand is to be used for “non-emergent clinical issues that do not immediately require a direct presence, lab work or imaging.”
While this limits the network’s utility to some degree, it still covers a significant portion of medical issues. For instance, you could talk to a doctor about symptoms of common colds, fevers, coughs, sinus infections, allergies, upset stomachs, fevers, rashes, eye problems and so on. You can even get your prescription refilled, and upload high-res images during the call so that, say, a busy parent can give the doctor a sense of how their child’s symptoms appeared at their worst.
But today, the team includes the support of people like former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, who serves on the company’s board of directors and co-founder Jay McGraw, an Emmy Award-winning executive producer of The Doctors. To support its launch in 15 states today (which, by the way, include California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Washington), Doctor on Demand has raised $3 million in seed funding from Venrock, Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, Lerer Ventures, Shasta Ventures and Athena Health CEO Jonathan Bush.
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iBeacon Pioneers Estimote Raise $3.1M Seed Round
Jakub Krzych, founder of Estimote, has announced a $3.1 million seed round raise from Innovation Endeavors, Betaworks, Bessemer Venture Partners, Birchmere Ventures, Valiant Capital Partners and others. The company is already shipping its small Bluetooth products, called Beacons, to retailers and they expect a huge rush in orders as they line up large clients next year.
“In the future apps will not be designed just for smartphones. They will also be developed and installed on top of retail stores and other real world locations – like airports, museums or hospitals,” said Krzych. “We are shipping thousands of beacons per week and more than 10,000 developers around the world are already experimenting with Estimote beacons in contextual computing applications.”
Macy’s is already experimenting with the technology while Apple plans to add iBeacon to 254 of their retail stores. Estimote is poised to grab hundreds of those locations with its low-cost devices. They are also building a digital platform for handling iBeacon interaction with cellphones as well as improved wireless payment solutions. Estimote won Best Hardware Startup at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco.
“Estimote is Steve Cheney as SVP of Business Operations, who will open a New York office and build out Estimote’s business and operations teams,” said Krzych. The company already has headquarters in Krakow, Poland and San Francisco. The company hopes to announce further partners over the coming months.
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Songza, Vevo, Revision3 and More Come to Chromecast
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NimbleTV launches in New York City, streams paid TV starting at $4 per month
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HP intros EliteBook Folio 1040 G1 business Ultrabook, refreshes its Revolve convertible with LTE
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Cross-Cultural Mobile Games Publisher Yodo1 Raises $11M Led By GGV Capital
Yodo1, a Beijing-based mobile games publisher that has gradually built a business that helps take games from the West to Asia and vice versa, has raised $11 million in funding led by GGV Capital.
This is the company’s second round, and brings their total funding to $18 million. Other new investors including Pavillion Capital and Iris Capital participated. The previous round was led by Singtel Innov8.
Henry Fong, Yodo1′s CEO, said that GGV made sense as a fit because of their cross-border strategy with investments in both China and the U.S.
“They were the ones that were the most passionate, proactive and they literally moved the quickest,” he said.
GGV’s Jenny Lee, who has seen at least four exits over the last two years including the IPO of China’s video-based social network YY, is the one joining Yodo1′s board.
Yodo1 started out by helping Western developers break into the Chinese market by co-producing localized games that had art and music tailored to local tastes.
Their belief is that you can’t just translate copy inside games if you want to succeed in China. They take a more hands-on approach where they access the game’s underlying code and may change the art or characters to fit local tastes.
Through their 30 published games, they reach about 90 million monthly actives in China and are adding about 10 million users per month. After signing deals with developers like Cut The Rope-maker Zeptolab and Germany’s HandyGames, they started to take their model to South Korea, with a local studio in Seoul that just opened up.
The company will use the funding to expand its model to Japan and Korea, which are the biggest markets in the world by revenue for Google Play developers.
“Android is definitely where the money is in the foreseeable future,” Fong said.
The round comes just as China’s mobile gaming market is heating up. There are more than a half-billion Android and iOS devices circulating in China, according to the country’s leading mobile app analytics company Umeng. That number is expected to swell to more than 800 million next year.
Those rising adoption numbers are fueling growing revenues for game makers in the country. Top grossing Android games in China can make anywhere from $5 to 10 million per month when you add up all their revenues from the top app stores there, Fong said. (Unlike in the U.S. where there are the two official iOS and Google Play app stores, China has scores of independent, third-party app stores.)
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Microsoft updates Photosynth with ultra high-resolution and 360-degree objects
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Google Chromecast adds ten new apps to its streaming arsenal
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Google's Open Gallery lets others create online exhibitions, but is it art?
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