Daily Archives: August 14, 2015

HTC sigue sin levantar cabeza y despedirá a un 15% de su plantilla

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Mientras algunas compañías como Samsung nos presentan sus últimos tope de gama con los que quieren comerse el mercado —Samsung Galaxy Note 5 y Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+-, otras como HTC siguen a la deriva, sin saber muy bien cómo recuperarse y con malas noticias para sus fans.

La que fue antaño una de las marcas más importantes para el sistema operativo de Google, no consigue dar con la tecla del éxito. Sus dispositivos, a pesar de ser en general bastante correctos y con buen diseño, no consiguen atraer a los clientes, y no sabemos si es por los elevados precios de éstos o por los graves errores que algunos poseen –hablamos de los problemas de calentamiento del HTC One M9-.

Sea la razón que sea, los números de los taiwaneses se alejan de los deseados, y ante tal lamentable panorama, a los jefes de HTC sólo se les ha ocurrido una drástica solución, despedir al 15% de su plantilla. Según leemos en el diario Expansión, esta reducción de pantilla se traduce en echar fuera a unos 2.250 empleados de los 15.000 totales. Todo con el fin de alcanzar un plan de reorganización que solvente la crisis.

Con todos estos despidos, la firma taiwanesa espera reducir sus gastos un 35% y de esta manera, alcanzar un crecimiento significativo y rentable con un modelo operativo más ágil y ligero. Según la presidenta y consejera delegada de HTC, la señora Cher Wang, “la compañía necesita de una organización dinámica para aprovechar las ventajas de los nuevos mercados a los que se dirigirá tras diversificar su producción más allá de los teléfonos inteligentes”.

“Esta realineación estratégica de nuestro negocio asegurará que cada grupo de producto tiene la concentración adecuada, los recursos adecuados y la experiencia adecuada para imponerse en los nuevos mercados”, añadió Wang.

Respecto a su situación en la bolsa taiwanesa, las acciones de HTC cayeron este jueves un 7,82%, su nivel más bajo de la historia, 50,7 dólares taiwaneses (1,52 dólares estadounidenses). La situación no pinta del todo bien para HTC y aunque los despidos colectivos nunca son plato de buen gusto, esperemos que sirvan para que la firma vuelva a levantar el vuelo.

¿Y tú que piensas? Pásate por HTC sigue sin levantar cabeza y despedirá a un 15% de su plantilla para dejar tu huella.

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Watch the entire Samsung Unpacked 2015 event here

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Yesterday, Samsung announced the new Galaxy S6 edge+ and the Galaxy Note5 at the company’s Unpacked 2015 event. But just in case you missed the livestream, you can now watch the entire 43 minute keynote here.

The Galaxy S6 edge+ and the Note5 are the company’s latest big screen smartphone. The S6 edge+ is literally just the S6 edge upsides, with a 5.7-inch dual edge QHD display, 4GB RAM, and a 3000mAh battery with fast wireless charging. The Note5 meanwhile has a traditional display with the same size and resolution but comes with a new S Pen and improved software features.

You can read more about them in our hands-on…

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10 Years Later, Did We Learn Anything from Hurricane Katrina?

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It is hard to believe that 10 years ago this week, the tropical depression that would become Hurricane Katrina formed. According to NOAA, Katrina killed over 1200 people, resulted in $108 billion in property damage, and happened within a year in which we literally ran out of storm names. When you compare $108 billion to the National Weather Services’ roughly $1 billion budget, the investments in weather prediction are a bargain.

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Xur Is Finally Selling Gjallarhorn, The Most Powerful Weapon In ‘Destiny’

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Xur, Destiny’s weekly exotic item merchant, has something special this weekend. He’s selling Gjallarhorn, the near-game breaking rocket launcher that’s coveted by all who have it and lusted after all that don’t. Now, anyone with 17 strange coins can feel the power of wolfpack rounds. Xur can be found in the tower bar, back behind the hangar, and is also selling An Insurmountable Skullfort, Acylophage Symbiote, Light Beyond Nemesis, and an Exotic Glove Engram. According to Kotaku, Xur has only ever sold Gjallarhorn once before, shortly after launch. At the time, many didn’t how important the weapon would become.

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Google Aims Chromebooks At The Enterprise Again, But Would You Buy One ?

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Google’s own Chromebook Pixel when it was launched represented a step towards a completely cloud-based future run entirely from a browser.
The original Pixel was a gorgeous looking machine, powered by the Chrome OS which was an enriched version of the Chrome browser. With a terabyte of cloud storage on offer with the purchase it’s enough to temp people from their aging laptops and desktops. The touchscreen is a miss, in fact Steve Jobs famously said that a touchscreen used on a laptop was not the way to go, it’s counter-intuitive.
The biggest downside was the price, at $1299 it’s just too prohibitive a price point to make it an attractive alternative to an iPad, MacBook Air, even a Surface. This year Pixel 2 was released, with beefed up specs up to an Intel i7, 64Gb SSD and 16Gb RAM, enough speed for many a road warrior.
But despite the price it was a clear statement of intent. From an average prosumer point of view, Pixel represent a future where mobility and cloud would become the norm, not a privilege, once it hit mainstream. The average user doesn’t need the power of a MacBook Pro for example, desktops are becoming obsolete in households and are replaced with tablets, phones and laptops. Those tools are perfect for light use, browsing, file sharing and storage, and social networking…even homework. Google’s strategy would work over time. And patience has paid off somewhat.

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LG G Pad II 8.0 slate quietly goes official

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LG launches an updated LG G Pad II 8.0 slate in South Korea. The first look through its specs sheet reveals minor upgrades over its predecessor, but once we dig deeper we found some interesting new features.

The G Pad II 8.0 packs the same 8″ 1280 x 800 px IPS display as its predecessor, protected by a piece of Gorilla Glass 3. It is powered by the same old Snapdragon 400 chipset with a quad-core 1.2GHz Cortex-A7 CPU and Adreno 305 GPU, but comes with 50% more RAM at 1.5GB.

The internal storage of the new G Pad II 8.0 is also doubled at 32GB and there’s microSD expansion up to 128GB. The tablet also comes with GSM/3G/LTE support and has an embedded thin capacitive stylus.

The rest of the specs include a 5MP main camera, a 2MP front snapper, a 4,200 mAh battery and Android Lollipop.

One of the new G Pad II 8.0 key features is the full-sized USB 2.0 port, which can handle external keyboards, mice and flash drives. No adapters required.

LG is promising full-blown Microsoft Office suite for the G Pad II 8.0 as well as enhanced Quick Memo app, Knock Code and Qpair, among others premium software features.

LG G Pad II 8.0 will hit the shelves in South Korea very soon. There is no word on an international release, but since its predecessor went global there is a good chance the sequel does it too.

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El despiece del OnePlus 2 desvela que es fácil de reparar

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Un teléfono como el OnePlus 2 no podía faltar en los tradicionales despieces de iFixit, por lo que los chicos de dicha web no se lo han pensado más y nos han deleitado con un desmembrado por derecho del nuevo teléfono chino. Si tienes curiosidad por …

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