Sunday 31 March 2013

Deal of the Day – 23″ Dell U2312HM UltraSharp 1080p IPS-panel LCD monitor

LogicBUY’s Deal for Thursday is the 23″ Dell U2312HM UltraSharp 1080p IPS-panel LCD monitor for $219.99.  Features: Anti-glare screen with hard-coat 3H surface LED backlit 8ms response time, 2,000,000:1 typical dynamic contrast ratio, 300nit brightness 4-port USB 2.0 hub, DVI and VGA connections EPEAT Gold rated Height-Adjustable stand with tilt and swivel adjustments and built-in cable management [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2013/03/28/deal-of-the-day-23-dell-u2312hm-ultrasharp-1080p-ips-panel-lcd-monitor/

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You'll now have to wait until at least June to not buy the HP Slate 7

HP Slate 7

Look the HP Slate 7 Android tablet didn't exactly bowl us over when it got a look at it at Mobile World Congress in February in Spain. OK, the industrial design was actually pretty good -- along the lines of a nicely done Nexus 7-type tablet -- but the internals and display should have been enough to make even a first-timer think twice. The $169 tablet was supposed to go on sale sometime in April, but HP's microsite apparently has pushed that launch to June. 

The Slate 7 ain't getting any younger, folks. While there's a place for budget tablets, an extra $30 would get you a base Nexus 7. There's no contest there. And considering that we're very likely going to see an updated 7-incher (or thereabouts) at Google I/O in May, the prospect of an even older Slate 7 just isn't tempting at all.

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Fuel may be the world’s tiniest phone backup battery

The Fuel backup power source is a Kickstarter project from Devotec Industries, a maker of backup batteries and Bluetooth speakers.  (Is it just me, or does it seem like a lot of companies are looking to expand their product lines through crowd-funding projects lately?)  The Fuel is a 220mAh emergency power source for any phone that [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2013/03/27/fuel-may-be-the-worlds-tiniest-phone-backup-battery/

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Ingress doles out new-player invites to L6 and up

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If you've been dying to try your hand at Ingress -- the AR game run by the Niantic Project and Google -- but haven't been able to get your hands on an invite yet, it's time to make friends. Ingress this morning announced that any current player Level 6 and up (which means Levels 7 and 8 as well) should now have a single invite to bestow on a lucky newcomer. 

Ingress centers on the idea that there's this magical "XM" or "Exotic Matter," which lies in wait, hidden from casual view. But it affects everything around it. You use your phone or tablet to view the XM and the portals that harness it. Two sides -- the Enlightened and the Resistance -- are battling for control over the portals, linking them together and creating protective fields and capturing mind units in the process. 

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8 Random Celebrities Who Are Getting Google Glass

When Google started its Glass-giving spree, it picked out some odd picks. It got so bad that some of those offers got pulled. But you can bet these celebrity winners will get their copies. More »


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The Terrible Truth About Toddlers and Touchscreens

The Terrible Truth About Toddlers and Touchscreens
Fisher Price Apptivity Case is your baby’s gateway to the iPhone. I want my 2-year-old to be smart and healthy and well-adjusted. I don't know how smartphones and tablets fit into that. Worse, it seems like there is simply no ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/03/the-terrible-truth-about-toddlers-and-touchscreens/

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The Terrible Truth About Toddlers and Touchscreens

The Terrible Truth About Toddlers and Touchscreens
Fisher Price Apptivity Case is your baby’s gateway to the iPhone. I want my 2-year-old to be smart and healthy and well-adjusted. I don't know how smartphones and tablets fit into that. Worse, it seems like there is simply no ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/03/the-terrible-truth-about-toddlers-and-touchscreens/

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Even Grandma Could Tell This Isn't How Hacking Works

It's a common little meta-game for those of us who are technically competent: keep your eye out in the movies for the most egregious technical misrepresentation you can find. And while its one thing to just keep tossing of reference after reference to "the mainframe," this complication of hacktastic scenes put together by the folks at Hack a Day is particularly cringe-worthy. More »


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Saturday 30 March 2013

Bing Gordon's Founder Checklist: Animal Energy, Blind Confidence, And A Toupee.

Screen Shot 2013-03-30 at 12.09.31 AMEditor’s note: Derek Andersen is the founder of Startup Grind, a 40-city community bringing the global startup world together while educating, inspiring, and connecting entrepreneurs. As an Electronic Arts’ intern eight years ago, I asked Bing Gordon then the chief creative officer and the only remaining early founding team member, a question about vision. “How can I know where the puck is going to be?” While he delivered a satisfactory response, two weeks later I received an email from Bing saying, “I answered that question poorly a few weeks and I wanted to try again.” A few weeks ago Bing joined me at Startup Grind in Silicon Valley where he delivered some great advice that has become one of his trademarks. In 2010 Mark Pincus called KPCB general partner Bing Gordon (look for a bald guy on the front row) one of the world’s “great CEO coaches” supporting founders on the boards of companies like Amazon, Zynga, Klout, and Zazzle. Here are some excepts from our recent interview. Derek: Tell us about your family and where you grew up? BING: So I grew up in a suburb of Detroit.  My dad was a first generation Scotsman and his dad was a janitor.  And he was somebody that believed the grass was always greener and didn’t have, kind of, context or resources.  Thanks, Dad!  We were the first to move in to a subdivision built out of farmlands surrounding Detroit, so I grew up kind of in the creek.  Playing sports with my brother who remembers growing up in the House of Pain.  So I had a good Midwestern upbringing.  I didn’t work in an office before going to Stanford business school, but I did think I was a pretty damn good teenage caddy. I played hockey and lacrosse at the university level and played both, kind of, for most of my adult life. Derek: What was your plan heading to college? BING: Well I went to Yale thinking I was going to be a math major and a writer, and I got there and Yale was lousy at math and it seemed socially irrelevant, so I kind of became an athlete-near-college-dropout.  I realized I was flunking a third of my classes going into the final.  My proud accomplishments in college other than sports achievements was I wrote poetry.  Kind of light verse, in a coffee shop, and Peter Faulk when he was doing Columbo came, and liked it so much he took

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The After Math: a million Z10s, the UnCarrier's new plan and a 16-button controller

Welcome to The After Math, where we attempt to summarize this week's tech news through numbers, decimal places and percentages

The After Math Blackberry ships a million Z10s, more PlayStation 4 details and a 16button controller

This week, there's been a mixed bag of interesting news numbers, from T-Mobile's New York event and the company's new perspective on the phone network business, to San Francisco (again) for the Games Developers Conference. We also got to take a look at BlackBerry's first financial results since the name change and its BB10 launch.

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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/29/the-after-math-blackberry-financials-ps4-ouya/

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Which comes first – the accessory or the phone?

Remember waiting for weeks for accessories to be available for your new phone?   Being extra careful not to scratch your new gadget until some company had time to get the new device, finalize their case design, produce it, and get it ready to ship it?  Apparently those days are gone, and accessories are available [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2013/03/26/which-comes-first-the-accessory-or-the-phone/

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Bourbon Chocolate Bunnies: Make Your Easter Basket Boozy

Easter egg hunts were fine and good when you were a kid and sugar was the only rush you needed. But it's time to set the Peeps aside. It's time to get drunk the Easter way. More »


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Mercedes-Benz Goes Electric With New B-Class Sedan

Mercedes-Benz put its B-Class Electric Drive sedan on display at the New York Auto Show this week and said it would be the company's first electric vehicle entry into the U.S. market when it arrives in showrooms in 2014. This is a version of the B-Class vehicle that debuted as a 5-door hatchback in Europe with traditional gasoline and diesel power plants.

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Tasker app for Android on sale

Julie mentioned this app in her article on using NFC tags and promised a followup review. Well at the moment it’s on sale on the Google Play Store for $1.99. That’s 69% off it’s normal price of $6.49. I’ve played with Tasker and it’s a fantastic and powerful program allowing you to automate and manipulate all sorts [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2013/03/29/tasker-app-for-android-on-sale/

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Iterate 43: Pocket Casts and going Android first

Iterate 43: Pocket Casts and going Android first

Russell Ivanovic, Philip Simpson, and Matt Kelsh of Shifty Jelly talk to Marc, Seth, and Rene about being indie in Australia, making Pocket Weather, and why they decided to go Android first for Pocket Casts. Note: All accents in this show are, we assume, fake.

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Ask A VC: AngelList's Naval Ravikant On The Currency Of Silicon Valley And More

naval-1AngelList’s Naval Ravikant joined us in the TechCrunch TV studio for our Ask A VC series, where we put VCs in the hot seat. Ravikant talked about the currency of Silicon Valley, which he says is deals shared, talent referred, and acquirers introduced. He explains that AngelList, a service he co-founded that matches early-stage startups with investors, puts these transactions online. We also chatted about his secret to picking the right startups for angel investments (Ravikant invested in Twitter, Foursquare, BranchOut, Codecademy, Uber, Heyzap and Disqus). Check out the video above for more!

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Friday 29 March 2013

Tasker app for Android on sale

Julie mentioned this app in her article on using NFC tags and promised a followup review. Well at the moment it’s on sale on the Google Play Store for $1.99. That’s 69% off it’s normal price of $6.49. I’ve played with Tasker and it’s a fantastic and powerful program allowing you to automate and manipulate all sorts [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2013/03/29/tasker-app-for-android-on-sale/

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BlackBerry Ships 1 Million Z10s, Actually Makes Money

BlackBerry Ships 1 Million Z10s, Actually Makes Money
So, how’s BlackBerry doing? Not too bad, actually. The company formerly known as Research in Motion posted fourth-quarter results (.pdf) Thursday and boasted that it shipped approximately 1 million Z10 smartphones as of March 2 and brought in $114 million. ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/03/blackberry-quarterly-results/

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Are Hackers Heroes?

"Hacker" is one of the most loaded Internet words getting thrown around these days. To many (hi cable news), the label is inherently malicious, and goes hand in hand with threats to blow up the interwebs. Others who self-identify as such, will never ever stop whining about how it means just the opposite. But are hackers of either flavor heroes? Can they be? More »


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The First Honest Cable Company Commercial

Cable companies are universally regarded as only slightly more popular than evil dictators, and a little less fashionable than certain strains of STDs. How do you fix something like that? Honesty! We're awful; we're unstoppable; you'll hate us; deal with it. That's something you could respect (and which would be applicable basically everywhere in the world but east Asia). Hell, I'd probably switch to this company if it were real. [YouTube] More »


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