“The introduction of the Apple iPhone 4S in Beijing turned ugly Friday morning when Apple failed to open its flagship store and a frustrated crowd responded by pelting the store’s gleaming glass walls with eggs.” 1000 persons in front of an Apple Store with -10 celsius degrees outside. Crazy when you know that the price [...]
Written on 13 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbrySony Xperia S has almost the same specs as its big brother Xperia Ion, except it has no LTE and it has a smaller screen : 4.3-inch. It will be available in March Worldwide. Specifications : 1.5 GHz dualcore processor, 1Go RAM, 32 GB internal memory, 4.3 inch screen HD Bravia 720p 1280×720 pixels, 12 [...]
Written on 12 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbryNot only Google, italians, germans or british people can develop a robot car. Now french self-driving car is already on the road! “The car was developed by a team from IFSTTAR, a French R&D organization, and the Embedded Electronic Systems Research Institute at ESIGELEC. By using a driving robot the researchers can control the exact [...]
Written on 12 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbryGoogle just rolled out two updates on Google + Hangouts (=video-chat). First, a new updated application for iOS (iphone/ipad/ipod touch) is now available on iTunes. Second update : screensharing and bigger video player. “- Screensharing: share what’s on your computer screen with everyone in the hangout. This is the first of many extras we’re graduating [...]
Written on 12 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbryFacebook IPO will occur probably between april and may 2012. This will be the biggest IPO in tech/internet industry (10 billion dollars) : 6 times more than Google in 2004 (1.67 billion). Only 3 other US companies had 10billion+ IPOs : AT&T 10.6 billion (2000), General Motors 18,1 billion (2008) and Visa 19,7 billion (2010). [...]
Written on 12 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbryFacebook just started to roll out ads in news feed. And it’s written “Featured” instead of “Sponsored” as initially planned. Facebook says it’s because the term “Sponsored” is already used for advertising in right sidebar. Besides as you can see, the word is not above the ad but below, on the right : Facebook says [...]
Written on 11 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbryAn old dream comes true : decoding human genome for only 1000 dollars in less than 1 day. Life Technologies unveiled the Benchtop Ion Proton Sequencer, a $149,000 machine designed to decode a Human Genome at this price and in a few hours. That’s ridiculous when you know that Human Genome Project started in 1990, [...]
Written on 11 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbryTheVerge ‘s Team is reporting a video and photos about the new Windows 8 Operating System by Microsoft. Windows 8 OS second beta release will be available for download at the end of february, 5 months after first initial release. “Microsoft is demonstrating some of the latest features to the crowd of attendees. The most [...]
Written on 11 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbryAdding Social Sharing buttons inside your emails when you are doing a marketing campaign (or newsletter) will boost the CTR (click-through rate) up to 115%. This is huge. That’s the results of a study conducted by autoresponder Getresponse. Unfortunately, only 18,3% of marketers use social reshare buttons in their emails… Bad ! If like me, [...]
Written on 11 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbryA genius found a way to transform every woman in a beauty and a Hollywood star. No more fitness, diet or a lotion. Note : it works also for men. Warning : don’t go outside it won’t work… just stay at home and send your photos by email. just in case you don’t understand this [...]
Written on 10 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbryTo protest against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act), Reddit.com will be offline on January 18th from 8am–8pm EST (1300–0100 UTC). “The freedom, innovation, and economic opportunity that the Internet enables is in jeopardy. Congress is considering legislation that will dramatically change your Internet experience and put an end to reddit and many other sites you [...]
Written on 10 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbryInvention of the Century. ^^ (ok… it’s a bad joke ladies!) [via]
Written on 10 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbryGoogle just unveiled Social Search : an integration of Google Plus directly in search engine results pages. To activate it when it will be available in a few days (on google.com) you will need to click this icon to start to see social results (you need to have a google account and to be connected) [...]
Written on 10 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbryCrowdfunding website Kickstarter get 100 million dollars in pledges for projects last year. “2011 was a year of milestones. In April we celebrated our second birthday by announcing $50 million in pledges. In July we reached 10,000 successfully funded projects. And in October we reached $100 million in pledges and had our one millionth backer. [...]
Written on 10 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbryThis Lego Television is actually a Superman animated with pixels and the background is scrollable. “The TV features a scrolling backdrop which makes the Man of Steel soar through the skies over Metropolis. The backdrop is built of alternating 1- and 2-brick width columns, mounted on a loop of bulldozer treads which allows it to [...]
Written on 10 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbryPinterest, a strange name that our brain has some difficulty to read, was created in 2010. May be you never heard about it but in 2012 this social network with Images will definitely grab our attention. This new social and sharing tool is a mix of Delicious (bookmarks), Reddit (buzz) and Google +. It’s a [...]
Written on 10 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbrySony just unveiled its first LTE smartphone at Consumer Electronics Show. Specifications : 4.6-inch screen HD Bravia (1280 x 720 pixels), 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 16 GB internal memory, 1 GB RAM, 12 MP Camera and 1.3 MP frontal 720p HD camera, Playstation certified (video games), Wi-Fi, HDMI, GPS, Bluetooth. OS will be Android 2.3 Gingerbread. [...]
Written on 09 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbryNokia just unveiled the Lumia 900 at CES, its first LTE smartphone and 3rd Windows Phone. Specs : 4.3 inch AMOLED screen 800 x 480 pixels (European Lumia 800 has 3.7-inch), 1.4 GHz processor, 512 MB RAM, 8 Megapixels Camera + frontal 1.3 MP camera, HD 720p video recording, and 1830 mAh battery. This smartphone [...]
Written on 09 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbryLuis Von Ahn, founder of Duolingo and co-inventor of Captcha wants to translate every web page on every single site in the world in all the languages the earth has. How it works ? This is the users who want to learn a new language who translate some pieces of sentences that are extracted from [...]
Written on 09 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbryA new Fujitsu technology allows you to put your tablet or smartphone under water for 30 minutes. Very nice if you want to take a bath, drop it in the toilet or walk in the rain. :-) Look at the demo video below at Consumer Electronics Show 2012 in Las Vegas. The japanese manufacturer did [...]
Written on 09 Jan 2012 by Vincent Abry