Vizio Enters PC Business, Ships Ivy Bridge Systems Starting at $898 | Report: Google's Chromebooks Account For Less Than .02% Of All Desktop Traffic | How to actually get things done in virtual meetings | Bed Battles wants to make waking up ... social? | Russian WiMax Pioneer Yota Had to Turn on LTE Networks Overnight

Vizio Enters PC Business, Ships Ivy Bridge Systems Starting at $898

Posted by PCWorld
Vizio, known for its TVs, entered the PC business Thursday, announcing new laptops and all-in-ones that all start at the same price, $898[...]
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Report: Google’s Chromebooks Account For Less Than .02% Of All Desktop Traffic

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Google has been putting quite a bit of its weight behind its Chromebook initiative, but it’s been rather quiet about how well these browser-centric laptops have been selling. Judging from the latest data from online advertising firm Chitika, Chromebooks remain a novelty. Across Chitika’s network, just 0.019% of all traffic comes from ChromeOS. To put this into perspective, Sony’s PlayStation, which isn’t exactly a web browsing powerhouse, easily beats ChromeOS with a usage share of 0.042%.
This data, Chitika told us, includes all ChromeOS traffic from all ChromeOS versions currently in use (given that ChromeOS updates itself, we can safely assume that most users are c[...]
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How to actually get things done in virtual meetings

Posted by VentureBeat
Forget the company conference room. Coworkers no longer need to be in the same office space — let alone the same time zone — to hold a productive progress reports or brainstorming session.�We asked nine young entrepreneurs about how they conduct virtual meetings between their startup teams, and actually get things done while doing so. (Share your own thoughts in the comments.)
Since it?s incredibly easy to get off task in a virtual meeting, it?s important to have an agenda, listing only a few goals of the meeting and complete with an overall time limit. Designate someone to lead the meeting and hold that person accountable for making sure everyone stays on topic to move the meeti[...]
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Bed Battles wants to make waking up … social?

Posted by Gigaom
Can you be social before you have your first cup of coffee? Bed Battles thinks so, and it wants you to enlist your friends to get out of bed sooner. The web app lets friends challenge each other to wake up on time by sending each other text messages. The message will prompt you to visit the Bed Battles website and play a little game to prove you’re actually awake.
At least that?s the theory. Bed Battles is one of many projects coming out of this weekend?s Hack & Jill hackathon in New York. The project was still in development when I stumbled across it on Twitter Saturday afternoon, so I couldn?t really test it in action yet. But the concept alone sounded too much fun to not at leas[...]
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Russian WiMax Pioneer Yota Had to Turn on LTE Networks Overnight

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Russian mobile operator Yota bravely stepped out with one of the world's first large-scale WiMax networks in 2008. Making the switch to LTE four years later, when the whole world had already signed on to that technology, may have taken even more courage.
That's because Yota had to turn on its first big-city LTE networks without any testing. The carrier is still trying to optimize its networks to gain the speeds it expected from LTE. But it's still committed to the technology.
Vartan Khachaturov, Yota's chief quality officer, described the company's LTE adventure at the Next Generation Mobile Networks conference in San Francisco on Thursday, where carriers and vendors discussed the promise an[...]
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