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Philippe J DEWOST
October 19, 2012 7:55 AM
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More mystery around the fate of Color, the ill-fated social-mobile-photo startup that became a laughingstock of Silicon Valley after raising $41 million to launch an app that proved to be a dud.
The Next Web had reported that the failed startup was getting bought outright by Apple for "double-digit millions."
Not so, says AllThingsD's Liz Gannes: Apple is paying Color a token amount, between $2 million and $5 million, to hire away 20 or so members of Color's engineering team.
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Philippe J DEWOST
October 15, 2012 12:49 PM
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Texas Instruments (TI), which recently announced that it will wind down its operations in smartphone and tablet oriented OMAP chips and instead focus on embedded platforms, is engaged in ‘advanced negotiations’ to sell that particular line of business to one of its largest customers: Amazon.com.
Such a deal would be worth ‘billions of dollars’.
The news was reported by Assaf Gilad from Calcalist.co.il (in Hebrew), but hasn’t been confirmed by either company at this point. Gilad has a track record of getting stories like this exactly right, by the way. He was first to report Apple’s interest in Israeli fabless semiconductor company and flash storage solutions provider Anobit, for example, and we know what happened next.
According to the report, Amazon.com is looking to acquire TI’s high-end processor activity so it can exert more control over the chips running its Kindle Fire tablets and the accompanying smartphones it probably has in the works.
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Philippe J DEWOST
October 11, 2012 9:58 AM
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The C-1, being built by Lit Motors, is a bike encased in a metal shell that is meant to provide the convenience of a motorcycle with the amenities of a car.
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Philippe J DEWOST
October 11, 2012 2:41 AM
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New analysis by the Telco 2.0 team shows that the mobile industry’s combined revenues from voice, messaging and data services in the EU5 economies (UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy) will drop by nearly 20Bn Euros, or 4% per year, in the next...
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Philippe J DEWOST
October 10, 2012 3:45 PM
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The UK is almost ready to flip the switch on its first LTE network, but it's determined to be at the forefront of the next-generation, setting up a "5G Innovation Centre" at the University of Surrey. The government announced it's putting up £11.6 million (around $18.6 million) in funding, but another £24 million (around $38.5 million) will be coming from an industry group comprising the likes of Huawei, Samsung, Telefonica, Rohde & Schwarz, Fujitsu and others. The money will allow research to go beyond concept and theory, with the aim that all partners work together to develop and standardize 5G technology, which the university has been looking into for a number of years already. They will focus on energy and spectrum efficiency as well as speed, and although it's early days, 10Gbps has been banded around as a per-tower target, translating to roughly 200Mbps for each connection...
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Philippe J DEWOST
October 4, 2012 5:28 PM
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Facebook announced that it now has 1 billion monthly active users. It's an incredible feat. Very few companies can say they have 1 billion customers.
Most impressive is how linear this progression is.
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Philippe J DEWOST
September 29, 2012 5:00 AM
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From PewResearchCenter — Trends in News Consumption: 1991-2012 While traditional news platforms have lost audience, online news consumption has been undergoing major changes as well. Nearly one-in-five Americans (17%) say they got news yesterday on a mobile device yesterday, with the vast majority of these people (78%) getting news on their cell phone. Among smartphone owners, nearly a third (31%) got news yesterday on a mobile device. The second major trend in online news consumption is the rise of news on social networks. Today, 19% of the public says they saw news or news headlines on social networking sites yesterday, up from 9% two years ago. And the percentage regularly getting news or news headlines on these sites has nearly tripled, from 7% to 20%.
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Philippe J DEWOST
September 29, 2012 4:36 AM
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People know about it, but they don't use it. Twitter is a wonderful, revolutionary communication tool that media organizations around the world are using. It is not, however, a mainstream product for users yet. Below you can see a chart from the Pew research just 11% of people has seen news on Twitter, versus 47% for Facebook, Google+, and other social sites.
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Philippe J DEWOST
September 26, 2012 12:38 AM
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Of the 6,613 U.S.-based companies initially funded by venture capital between 2006 and 2011, 84% now are closely held and operating independently, 11% were acquired or made initial public offerings of stock and 4% went out of business, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. Less than 1% are currently in IPO registration.
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Philippe J DEWOST
September 23, 2012 9:22 AM
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Square, the fastest-growing mobile payments company in the U.S., has just closed its latest financing round, the start-up told in a short announcement on its website. No details are provided, but according to various sources the company has raised $200 million at a $3.25 billion valuation. By comparison, in its previous funding round last year, Square had raised $100 million at a valuation of $1.6 billion. Since then, the company’s processing volume has grown exponentially and its staff has more than doubled.
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Philippe J DEWOST
September 15, 2012 1:48 AM
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A brief, visual history of the personal computing battlefield since 1975
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Philippe J DEWOST
September 11, 2012 1:01 AM
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"Mobile brings the (online store) to the store." : according to Walmart about 15% of page views for their mobile app come from shoppers in stores.
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Philippe J DEWOST
September 9, 2012 3:08 PM
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Having more data does trump a better algorithm, but it's not that simple.
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Philippe J DEWOST
October 15, 2012 1:14 PM
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Today’s workers are tech-savvy, mobile, and always-on, and they are increasingly on the move, whether roaming about on a corporate campus, visiting a branch office, working on the road, or doing their job from a home office.
From the millennial masses up through the C-suite, employees are using personal technology—be it laptops, tablets, smartphones, or cloud computing services accessing their companies’ networks—at work, fueling the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend.
It’s generating a lot of buzz about BYOD, and depending on who’s doing the talking, conversations tend to center around productivity (end-users), security/privacy (CIOs and IT departments), or cost (finance folks).
SummaLogic’s Robert Keahey chummed the BYOD waters recently at focus.com when he wrote: “We’re a couple of years into this new paradigm, and with the use of SaaS, cloud-based integrated business suites and digital supply chains on the rise, we should step back and see what we’ve learned.
Has BYOD helped or hindered your business model? Has IT been able to respond to this challenge/opportunity? … What are your experiences (or those of the companies with which you work)? Success stories? Horror stories?”
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Philippe J DEWOST
October 15, 2012 12:07 PM
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A $20 billion deal....expected to be announced Monday morning and while certain details are still being worked out, the boards of both companies have signed off on a transaction under which Softbank will buy $8 billion worth of shares directly from Sprint [S 5.73 -0.03 (-0.52%) ] and tender for another $12 billion worth of the shares from existing holders.
The price of the tender offer is $7.30 a share, a large premium to Sprint's current price. Given the deal's structure, it will not require a shareholder vote.
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Philippe J DEWOST
October 11, 2012 9:20 AM
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A German electronics company called Txtr has unveiled the Beagle, what is almost certainly the cheapest (if not the tiniest) E-Ink reader in the world. The Beagle weighs just 4.5 ounces; has a small 5-inch Electronic Ink screen; and costs just -- are you ready for this? -- 10 Euros, or about $13 U.S.
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Philippe J DEWOST
October 10, 2012 4:09 PM
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Interesting cross-pond analysis of the "pigeons revolt" by Jean-Louis who writes that "Considering sex and money, Americans and French cultures exhibit truly polar opposite behaviors. The French see nothing wrong with a President having a wife, a mistress and a love child, they revel in sexual and often sexist jokes. But, if you ask someone how much they paid for their apartment, they’ll react as if you’d touched them in boundary-breaking ways. Conversely, they perceive us Americans as demonizing sex — think a past President and his “oral” office — while being obscene with money."
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Philippe J DEWOST
October 8, 2012 8:42 AM
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The company had losses of $60 million in 2011, which is up from $38 million the year before. Revenue increased to $245 million, up from $97 million in 2010.
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Philippe J DEWOST
October 3, 2012 3:26 AM
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Lexar Media says its industry-first 256GB SDXC UHS-I memory card provides the largest capacity for capturing, storing, and transferring high-quality images, as well as extended lengths of 1080p HD and 3D video content.
The UHS-I technology enables 60 megabytes per second minimum guaranteed sustained read transfer speed.
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Philippe J DEWOST
September 29, 2012 4:52 AM
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Alvarion demonstrates ultra-dense small cell platform to push towards gigabit networks at affordable cost
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Philippe J DEWOST
September 26, 2012 4:56 AM
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Ce tour de table doit permettre d'alimenter l'impressionnante croissance du groupe. Créée en 2005, la start-up a généré un chiffre d'affaires de 9 millions de dollars en 2009, puis de 60 millions en 2010, et de 200 millions l'année dernière. Et le rythme devrait se poursuivre cette année, avec en plus un plan de recrutement de 250 salariés, qui permettra d'étoffer une structure aujourd'hui composée de 700 salariés. La raison de ce succès : une solution de « publicité display à la performance ». La société propose ainsi aux annonceurs des espaces publicitaires personnalisés en fonction des habitudes de navigation de l'internaute qu'elle recueille de façon anonyme et qu'elle exploite via un algorithme développé spécialement. Une solution qui lui permet de revendiquer un taux de clic dix fois supérieur au marché, aux alentours de 0,6 %. De quoi lui permettre d'envisager l'avenir avec sérénité, et notamment une introduction en Bourse. « On se met en ordre de bataille», commente sobrement Jean-Baptiste Rudelle.
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Philippe J DEWOST
September 25, 2012 6:53 AM
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According to Gene Munster, opening weekend sales grew 70 percent between the 3GS and the iPhone 4, and then an astounding 135 percent between the 4 and the 4s. That's acceleration. iPhone 5 sales, meanwhile, grew only 25 percent. That's massive deceleration.
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Philippe J DEWOST
September 16, 2012 3:45 AM
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Apple thankfully didn't obscure the details of its A6 slide at the launch event, which gave us a Samsung part number: K3PE7E700F-XGC2. Through crafty navigation of Samsung's product guide, Brian Klug got us the details. The K3P tells us we're looking at a dual-channel LPDDR2 package with 32-bit channels. The E7E7 gives us the density of each of the two DRAM die (512MB per die, 1GB total). The final two characters in the part number give us the cycle time/data rate, which in this case is 1066MHz.
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Philippe J DEWOST
September 12, 2012 4:59 PM
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Philippe J DEWOST
September 10, 2012 5:45 PM
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Price and shipping might not seem like the traditional remit of a user experience team, but they should be. .../... If you look at it from a customer perspective, there's no mystery to the success of the iPhone: it fits your life better. It only seems mysterious when you can't understand why someone would choose a slower processor, smaller screen and fewer megapixels. The mystery comes from measuring the wrong metrics and, indeed, trying to measure intangibles which can't be calculated in a spreadsheet.
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