San Francisco’s Hottest Club Is A Tech Company Cruise Ship (Kinda)
Dreamforce, one of San Francisco’s biggest tech conferences, came to town this week by way of the high seas and taught the city what it means to celebrate tech in 2015.
September 21, 2015 at 06:57PM
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To do business in China, US tech companies must do several things: find a local partner (usually a Party member), comply with ever-changing business rules, and bow to Beijing.
Yes, bow. Yield to Beijing’s formal and informal allegations of wrongdoing, and sign “pledge” documents.
But before they comply with this sort of demand from Beijing, US tech companies should take a close look at the Google way and the Qualcomm way dealing with Beijing.
When Google was faced with a mandate by the Chinese government to install filters to its search engine, the company chose to say no, and leave the world’s largest Internet market.
When Qualcomm was faced with a complaint brought by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) for violating the country’s anti-monopoly law last year, the company chose to settle, paying near-one billion dollars, and agreeing to the rules described by the Chinese government.
Which response is right? In principle, Google’s.
Its decision to stand up to China’s surveillance policies is consistent with the “don’t do evil” strategy.
Leaving China, Google has suffered a great deal in missed earnings. But that’s part of a company’s character, and character is destiny, which helped Google survive and thrive without China. Five years later, Google continues to enjoy robust revenue and earnings growth and hefty operating margins.
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With the (messy) launch and sale of the OnePlus 2 underway, we may be getting a sneak preview of what OnePlus is cooking up next. It’s not the OnePlus 3, but a device either called the OnePlus X or the OnePlus Mini.
This looks to be a second 2015 device, one lower end than the OnePlus 2. It seems to have dual cameras on the back, along with a fingerprint sensor. The OnePlus 2 home button is gone, replaced with a clean sheet of glass across the front. Though these are just renders, the device definitely looks nice.
Nothing is official, and these might not even be real, but let us know what you think of the design in the comments!
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Tomorrow, Xiaomi is set to finally take the wraps off the much talked about Mi 4c. This will basically be China’s version of the Mi 4i which debuted in India a few months back. That said, the Mi 4c does feature a couple of upgraded specs compared to the phone it’s based on.
Now that we’re less than 24 hours from the announcement, some images showing three color variants for the Mi 4c have been leaked.
At this point it’s not clear whether these three are the only hues the Mi 4c will be offered in. Chances are there will be more, however – if not initially then in time.
As you can see, the outer shell of the Mi 4c is identical to that of the Mi 4i, including the plastic it’s made from. On the inside, the Mi 4c will sport Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 808 SoC with hexa-core CPU, a step up from the Snapdragon 615 in the original. While the cheapest version will have 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage just like the Mi 4i, there will also be a more expensive Mi 4c with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of space. A 64GB model could be in the works too.
The Xiaomi Mi 4c will have a 5-inch 1080p touchscreen, a 13 MP rear camera with dual-LED flash, a 5 MP selfie shooter, LTE, as well as a 3,120 mAh battery. It’s been rumored to run Android 5.1.1 Lollipop underneath the Chinese company’s own MIUI 7…
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Un lunes más estamos por aquí con las Noticias Android, espacio en el que repasamos las noticias más destacadas de los últimos siete días relacionadas con Android. Como siempre, ha sido una semana llena de novedades, algunas de ellas muy importantes, y con el punto de mira puesto en el futuro. Si hablamos de futuro inmediato, tenemos a la vuelta de la esquina el próximo evento de Google, para el que ya han empezado a enviar invitaciones. Todo indica que los nuevos Google Nexus serán los protagonistas.
En cuanto el futuro no tan inmediato, tenemos novedades respecto al nuevo procesador de Qualcomm, el Snapdragon 820, que apostará más por la calidad de sus componentes antes que por la cantidad de núcleos, y llegará con Quick Charge 3.0, la evolución de la carga rápida de Qualcomm. También respecto a un nuevo dispositivo que a cada nueva filtración nos pone los dientes más largos, la BlackBerry Venice, primera BlackBerry con Android.
Y en referencia al futuro un poco más lejano, aunque muy cercano a la vez, tenemos Android Pay, que ya se puede descargar desde Google Play, y que aspira a ser la principal plataforma de pago en comercios de aquí a unos años. Esto es solo un avance de todas las noticias de la semana, así que para conocerlas todas y en profundidad, ¡debéis estar atentos al vídeo!
Google envía invitaciones para la más que probable presentación de los nuevos Nexus Qualcomm pasa de los 8 núcleos: calidad antes que cantidad ¡Android Pay ya está disponible para descargar desde Google Play! El BlackBerry Venice se deja ver en video, funcionando y con su teclado físico Amazon presenta su nueva gama de tablets económicas y el renovado Fire TV El nuevo Google Chromecast ya se deja ver y podría lanzarse muy pronto BQ Aquaris A4.5 4G, características y precio del primer Android One que llega a España OnePlus presenta su funda protectora de cuero italiano, un auténtico lujo en tus manos Xiaomi confirma oficialmente la llegada del Mi 4c el 22 de septiembre Quick Charge 3.0: Qualcomm presenta la evolución de su carga rápida, ¡y qué rápida!
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Can Apple succeed in developing self-driving cars given its limited capabilities in AI/machine learning? This question was originally answered on Quora by Xavier Amatriain.
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