A new project spear-headed by the NextGen Committee – part of the American Chamber of Commerce in France – is mobilizing the country’s fledgling entrepreneurs.
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Daily Archives: January 25, 2016
TotalBiscuit Is Leaving Social Media
The popular YouTuber says dealing with internet drama while fighting terminal cancer isn’t worth the stress.
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Buy Nexus 5X for just $299 in US and get $20 Visa gift card as well
If you are in the US, and are planning to purchase the LG-made Google Nexus 5X, here is a deal for you: BuyDig (via eBay) is offering the 16GB model for just $299 and the 32GB model for $349.
And that’s not it. Those purchasing either of the models will also get a $20 Visa gift card, which will arrive in 6-8 weeks. The models on offer are North American variants, meaning they’ll work with all major US carriers.
Close to 200 units of each have been sold at the time of writing, and the seller says the models are available in limited quantities. So, make sure you act fast if you want to purchase the handset.
Officially, the 16GB model is being sold for $349, while the 32GB iteration will set you back $399.
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Samsung Galaxy Tab E 7.0 leaked, specs revealed
Just a week after the Samsung Galaxy Tab E 8.0 with 4G LTE support launched in Taiwan, there are reports that the South Korean company is also working on a 7-inch variant, which carries a model number of SM-T280.
SAMSUNG Galaxy Tab E 7.0 WiFi, 8.0GB, Black (SM-T280NZKA)
1.3GHz, 1.5GB RAM, 8GB Flash 7.0″ (18cm), 1280×800 Pixel. 4G model is (SM-T285) Roland Quandt (@rquandt) January 25, 2016
Specs-wise, from what has been leaked, the variant will be powered by a 1.3GHz processor, and have a 7-inch display with 1280×800 pixel resolution. There will be 1.5GB of RAM and 8GB of expandable internal memory. The device will also have a model (SM-T285) offering 4G connectivity.
In addition, reports say that a Lite variant (SM-T113) of the Galaxy Tab E as well as its Kids version are also in the works.
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M 5.2 – 119km E of Ndoi Island, Fiji
- Time
- 2016-01-26 03:46:36 UTC
- 2016-01-25 15:46:36 -12:00 at epicenter
- Location
- 20.566°S 177.553°W
- Depth
- 508.35 km (315.87 mi)
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Amazon looking for tighter integration with Android smartphone OEMs
Amazon’s initial foray into the smartphone market went up in a fiery blaze with a $170 million writedown for the Fire Phone. While the hardware was better than most gave it credit for, and features like Firefly that identified a variety of media or physical objects and directed you to purchase them on Amazon were interesting, the overall package simply couldn’t hold up to mid-range offerings with Google software.
The price certainly didn’t help the Fire Phone, either. It started at an insane $650 and could not remotely compete with high-end offerings from Samsung, LG or HTC at the time. It fairly quickly fell to $449, but even this was a steep ask compared to, say, the Moto X, and the price freefall continued on until we eventually saw the Fire Phone at $130. It didn’t move that well even at that price, despite offering a year of Amazon Prime ($99 value).
Well, Amazon has learned its lesson and seemingly won’t be returning to the market with a Fire Phone 2, but they aren’t giving up on mobile completely. If a report from The Information is correct, Amazon is trying to convince some smartphone OEMs to more tightly integrate Amazon software beyond the simple inclusion of some Amazon apps that we see today.
While I can see why Amazon would vastly prefer this tact to risking its neck on another Fire Phone, it seems like a project that is ultimately doomed to failure given that any significant Android manufacturer will pass, as such a device would almost assuredly violate the agreement with Google necessary to ship devices with Google services. I don’t question that Amazon will be able to find some smartphone OEM that will do this, but for a company the size of Amazon, anything less than 1 of the top 10 Android OEMs (heck, probably the top 5) is going to be meaningless market share.
With that said, it is hard to bet against Amazon completely, so perhaps they have figured something out that we are missing.
What would you need to see out of a device with Amazon services tightly integrated to make you consider it?
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M 5.8 – 96km S of Taron, Papua New Guinea
- Time
- 2016-01-26 03:10:23 UTC
- 2016-01-26 13:10:23 +10:00 at epicenter
- Location
- 5.331°S 153.168°E
- Depth
- 43.85 km (27.25 mi)
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M 5.3 – Fiji region
- Time
- 2016-01-26 02:31:48 UTC
- 2016-01-25 14:31:48 -12:00 at epicenter
- Location
- 17.025°S 177.005°W
- Depth
- 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
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Peerio Co-Founder On Why He Left The Company (Hint: It Had To Do With Admin Backdoors)
Nine months after former CSO Nadim Kobeïssi quit the company he co-founded, the 25-year-old programmer and privacy advocate took to Twitter to share the reason he left—big money interference and pressure to create custom versions of the app with administrative backdoors. It’s an accusation the company, both on its own blog and in an interview with me, denies.
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One More Round of What You Missed at CES
At CES there was so much to see and hear and feel (including Samsung’s virtual reality roller coaster ride) that another installment is warranted.
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