Why Startup Mattresses Cost Less
While claims that mattresses like Casper, Leesa and Tuft and Needle offer the perfect mattress for everyone are a bit suspect — their crusade against Big Mattress really is based in reality.
Apple currently owns the premium mobile consumer device space and is even the preferred premium BYOD mobile device in the enterprise. However, this doesn’t mean that enterprises have signed up to ditch their PCs or Macs and Apple knows this. Apple is on a long-term journey, though, by striking strategic agreements with enterprise players to adopt a new, more modern workstyles on their devices and software. On the heels of Apple’s IBM and Cisco announcements, today Apple announced a partnership with SAP to bring a series of iOS native applications that leverage capabilities of the SAP HANA platform. SAP HANA is a sophisticated in-memory relational database management system that was partly built, bought, and integrated by SAP around 2013. SAP is under pressure to compete with mobile-first SaaS companies and, quite frankly, needed a lot of work on their user experience for millennials. The two companies say they will provide a series of cloud-based SDKs to allow developers create native applications that combine capabilities of SAP HANA’s cloud platform with SAP S/4HANA and iOS.
After several years of trials, British Airways parent company IAG has announced it has reached a deal with Chicago-based Gogo to install its high-speed 2Ku system on 137 long-haul aircraft.
What’s Up With All These New Bots?
Bots are all the rage these days. With Facebook’s recent launch of a series of bots that can do everything from tell you the weather to give you the news, it seems like people can’t stop talking about them. But what exactly are these things, and why are they gaining such a large amount of traction?
Verizon has started rolling out the Marshmallow update to LG G Pad X8.3 units on its network. The update brings Android 6.0, and bumps the software version to VK81522A.
The Verizon support page (hit the Source link at the bottom) for the update lists all the changes included in the update such as Now on Tap, Runtime Permissions, Silent Mode, Do Not Disturb, Direct Share, and Screenshot Deleting.
Given that the update has just started rolling out, it may take some time for the OTA notification to pop up on your device. However, if you are feeling impatient, you can manually check for…
Last month a leak showed us the upcoming Samsung Gear Fit 2 fitness tracker, and also the Gear IconX fully wireless headphones that are probably going to get announced alongside the new Fit. And now it looks like someone was able to spot official images of the two devices on Samsung’s own SHealth website.
Unfortunately no details about the Gear Fit 2 or the Gear IconX were published with the pictures, but at least we can now be sure what these products will look like.
The Gear Fit 2 (seen above) comes with a new textured strap and looks a tiny bit more like a smartwatch than its…
Era un secreto a voces. Y es que desde hace ya algún tiempo, uno de los servicios de streaming de series y películas más utilizados en todo el mundo, Netflix, estaba realizando algunas pruebas en el canal beta de su aplicación, que permitía a los usuarios ahorrar datos, gracias a la reducción en la utilización de ancho de banda a la hora de visualizar vídeo.
Esta vez, tal y como la propia compañía ha anunciado mediante su blog oficial, esta nueva versión de la aplicación, la cual incorpora el modo de ahorro de datos anteriormente descrito, ya está disponible para descargar de manera global.
Gracias a este nuevo modo de ahorro, y según los datos proporcionados por Netflix, el consumo de datos se verá reducido considerablemente según el modo que elijamos, los cuales ofrecerán diferentes medidas de compresión que se verán traducidos en mayor o menor calidad a la hora de reproducir vídeo. Entre los modos que encontramos en el menú de ajustes de Netflix, podemos elegir entre los siguientes:
Un modo automático, que seleccionará automáticamente la calidad según el ancho de banda disponible.
Modo de calidad baja, el cual nos ofrecerá el mayor ahorro, y nos permitirá ver alrededor de 4 horas de vídeo con tan solo 1 GB de datos.
Modo de calidad media, que nos permitirá ver la mitad de horas que en el modo anterior, 2, utilizando 1 GB de nuestra tarifa de datos.
Modo de calidad alto, el cual, en este caso, solonos permitirá ver alrededor de una hora de streaming utilizando 1 GB de datos.
Modo ilimitado, el cual, como su propio nombre indica, no tendrá en cuenta el ancho de banda, sino que se centrará en mostrar el vídeo con la mayor calidad posible.
Tal como vemos, este método de ahorro, está orientado a los usuarios que utilizan el servicio mediante una tarifa de datos móviles, aunque puede resultar muy útil, a quienes, por cualquier motivo, no puedan disfrutar de una conexión WiFi de alta velocidad.
Tal como afirmábamos, la nueva versión ya está disponible en el Google Play Store de manera global, y por lo tanto, ya puede ser descargada de manera gratuita en todo el mundo.