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Tuesday 16 April 2013
Eric Schmidt: Android on Track to Cross 1 Billion Mark This Year
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Evernote Launches Accelerator Program to Woo Developers
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Microsoft Cuts Prices of Cloud Services to Match Amazon
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Microsoft may bring back start button and boot to desktop for Windows 8.1
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Facebook considered building an operating system for Facebook Home, but wanted greater reach
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Facebook reportedly launching 15-second autoplaying ads this summer, taking over the space around your news feed
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Telenav announces Scout for Cars: Built In, brings together phones and in-dash systems in navigation harmony
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Facebook updating iPhone and iPad app to add chat head support... today
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CyanogenMod 10.1 nightlies reach Xperia Z and ZL, other recent Sony models
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Outlook.com app update for Android brings that fresh, clean Windows Phone 8 look
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Engadget Giveaway: win one of five Linksys router bundles!
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No, You Can't Use Google Glass While Scuba Diving
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Leap Motion Control Coming to HP Devices
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Kobo Aura HD Is a High-Res Kindle Killer
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Apple's Budget iPhone Could Nab 11% of Low-Cost Market
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HP to bundle Leap Motion on select products, incorporate the tech in future devices
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Snapchat CEO: Delete Is the Default
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Eric Schmidt: Google now at 1.5 million Android activations per day
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Google Glass Specifications and Other News You Need to Know
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Alleged 'iPad 5' case spotted in Hong Kong, hints at slimmer and narrower body
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Liveblog: Google's Eric Schmidt at Dive Into Mobile 2013
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Microsoft's Terry Myerson senses urgency with iOS, calls Android 'a mess,' says WP8 is most successful in non-subsidized markets
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Purdue University's ReadingMate makes the classic reading-running combo a little easier
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R.BOT shows off Synergy Swan, a phone- or tablet-powered telepresence robot (video)
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'World's fastest' home internet service hits Japan with Sony's help, 2Gbps down
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Adzuna Rolls Out Its Jobs Search Engine In Brazil, South Africa, Australia And Canada
Following expansion into Germany last month, Adzuna, the UK startup that operates what it calls a next generation jobs search engine, is taking its wares even further afield today. The London-based company has rolled out dedicated sites for Brazil, South Africa, Australia and Canada. That’s an interesting mix of countries and territories — the U.S., for now, is still notably missing in action — but, nonetheless, we can safely now call Adzuna a startup with global ambitions.
Like its UK and German versions, the new localised sites feature the same job search functionality by indexing job vacancies found on classified ads and job boards around the web, and mining that data for its search engine and to provide free access to labour market trends, such as tracking salaries for a particular vocation and region.
Adzuna’s social features have made the flight, too. Dubbed Adzuna Connect, users can sign in to Adzuna via Facebook or LinkedIn to leverage their social graph to help them get an in at a particular company which has a job vacancy they wish to apply for.
In addition, in a move that could be seen as partly cheeky PR but also has some genuine utility, Adzuna co-founder Andrew Hunter says that the startup is offering to build an employment market data dashboard to be used by the governments of each of the newly supported countries, similar to the one it currently powers for the UK’s Number 10 and Prime Minister’s own iPad web app, which we’re told has been well-received.
“The feedback we’ve had from Number 10 is that the PM uses the app regularly,” says Hunter, “and that there are discussions happening at the moment around rolling out the dashboard to wider government. The opposition have not approached us asking for an app yet, but in the interest of open data, we’d happily talk to them about providing something similar.”
Back to today’s international expansion. I asked Hunter why, for example, Canada was chosen before the U.S. “Don’t worry, U.S. is coming,” he says. “We’re generally really excited about the Canadian market because job seekers clearly aren’t satisfied with any of the job search engines currently there.”
He also says that he and co-founder Doug Monro, having been at eBay Classifieds for a number of years, previously worked “very closely with the folks at Kijiji.ca” (the craigslist or Gumtree of Canada), so they already had the required business relationships and market knowledge in place. “That always helps”, he says.
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Viajes en el tiempo en las películas, en modo «elige tu propia aventura»
¡Cuidado que hay spoilers!
Si te gustan los viajes en el tiempo y todas sus variantes en el blog de Mr. Dalliard han publicado este diagrama de flujo sobre los viajes en el tiempo [zoom] que te va dirigiendo a todas las películas de esta temática según vas eligiendo: ¿Con paradojas o no? ¿Con multiversos o sin ellos? ¿Con paradojas causales o no? En fin, viajes a medida.
(Vía Taxi)
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Stanford's NovoEd Brings Collaboration And Group Learning To MOOCs To Help Fight Attrition
What is it with Stanford professors and Massive Open Online Courses (a.k.a. MOOCs)? For those who have no idea what I’m talking about, two of the three most popular MOOCs — Udacity and Coursera — were both founded by Stanford professors. Then there’s Class2Go, an open-source MOOC platform created by a team of Stanford engineers and professors, which recently “merged” with edX (the third member of that aforementioned MOOC trifecta) to help it create an open-source platform.
But the university’s MOOC contributions don’t end there. In early 2012, Stanford professor Amin Saberi and PhD student Farnaz Ronaghi created a project called Venture Lab to offer Stanford courses for free on the Web, with its first class on technology entrepreneurship attracting 40,000 students from over 150 countries. But, rather than simply creating another MOOC platform, the startup wants to solve a big pain-point for MOOCs — to make it easier to break down those huge classes of 40,000 into smaller groups.
So, Venture Lab is officially re-branding and re-launching today as NovoEd to not only offer courses online for free, but to offer a MOOC platform that focuses on collaboration and project and team-based learning. Beginning next week, the startup will offer seven Stanford courses to the general public as well as 10 private courses available only to Stanford students. Going forward, NovoEd plans to partner with other universities and build out a roster of classes on a range of topics, from creativity and entrepreneurship to medicine.
And that’s really the key differentiator for NovoEd. Saberi and Ronaghi founded Venture Lab to help teachers who found that current MOOC offerings didn’t cater to their style, working better for mastery-focused courses than those that are more open-ended — or focused on teaching creative disciplines. Unlike, say, Mathematics or Computer Science which may work best in the lecture format, or one in which students study and practice by themselves, the founders wanted to create a MOOC platform for courses that demand more group interaction and peer-to-peer collaboration.
After signing up for NovoEd, students are assigned to groups of 10 or fewer peers, based on their location or similar interests and backgrounds. As they study, students can then rate each other, with the rankings compiled at the end of the course to form a student’s “Team Score,” which then informs student decisions when they’re later allowed to form groups on their own.
The idea is to create a dynamic in which students are accountable to their peers, and feel, perhaps, a bit of social pressure to perform to keep their rankings up — ultimately creating an experience that’s more engaging. Many MOOC platforms suffer from high attrition rates, so NovoEd is hoping to solve that problem by creating a social incentive system that aims to keep students from falling through the cracks and dropping out.
Not only that, but the founders say that the system is designed to help students improve their group learning skills, like virtual team management, the ability to better negotiate and understand one’s role in the team, leadership and communication. These are the kind of skills one traditionally learns in the group-based environs of offline, in-class activities but have largely been missing from MOOCs and this new form of online education at scale.
To help it seek partnerships with other universities and expand its course catalog, NovoEd has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from investors like Costanoa Ventures, Foundation Capital, Kapor Capital, Learn Capital, Maveron, Ulu Ventures, as well as a handful of angel investors.
For more, find NovoEd at home here.
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Dell unveils business- and school-friendly 13.3-inch Latitude 3330 notebook
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BitTorrent Surf plugin launches in beta on both Chrome and Firefox
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Google Glass: las especificaciones técnicas
Gracias a que han tenido que presentar las Google Glass a la FCC (la Comisión Federal de Comunicaciones) para su homologación, ya tenemos las especificaciones de las «gafas del futuro» tal y como publica The Verge:
- Pantalla: 640×360 («equivalente a a un monitor de 25" a 3m»)
- Cámara de 5 megapíxeles con vídeo 720p
- 16 GB de almacenamiento (con 12 GB libres)
- Sincronización con la nube de Google (obviously)
- Batería: un día «de uso normal»
- Micro USB para recarga de la batería
- Bluetooth
- Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
- Software para teléfono inteligente Android 4.0.3
- GPS y SMS a través del «teléfono inteligente asociado»
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Titan supercomputer to be loaded with 'world's fastest' storage system
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Tokyo court fines Google for not censoring defamatory instant search results
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Una interfaz táctil y visual para transferir datos
Una interfaz muy ingeniosa para transferir datos con solo mover los dedos. Funciona con una cutre-webcam (320 × 180) y un proyector, pero es totalmente genial. Los documentos en papel pueden moverse por la mesa y el proyector sirve de ayuda, para dibujar los iconos y ayudar en todo el proceso. Al parecer tiene muy alta precisión a la hora de distinguir la posición exacta de los dedos, de ahí su «suavidad».
Apropiadamente lo llaman Una interfaz táctil para transferir datos entre los mundos reales y virtuales . Es un desarrollo de los Laboratorios Fujitsu.
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