Chrome OS Update Adds Traditional Desktop Feel
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The problem Google faces is that its Web-centric laptops have not caught on with regular users in any significant way[...]
Continue ReadingBadgeville Levels Up With $25M From InterWest & More To Gamify The Enterprise
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When Badgeville launched at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco back in 2010 and took home the “Audience Choice Award,” its mission to help companies big and small leverage gamification elements like leaderboards, badges, leveling-up, experience points, etc. to increase customer engagement seemed intriguing — if not a little gimmicky.
Fast forward to today, and some may still cringe at the word (and its overuse), gamification is reaching the tipping point. As Mayfield Fund Managing Director Tim Chang recently wrote in a must-read post, gamification is now moving beyond its early adopting verticals, like media and fitness, and is no longer content to just play in the realm of c[...]
Continue ReadingFast forward to today, and some may still cringe at the word (and its overuse), gamification is reaching the tipping point. As Mayfield Fund Managing Director Tim Chang recently wrote in a must-read post, gamification is now moving beyond its early adopting verticals, like media and fitness, and is no longer content to just play in the realm of c[...]
Updated: Baby Steps To NFC: PayPal InStore Hits The UK, With Barcodes, No NFC, In Sight
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Today PayPal opened up a new front in its strategy to expand its role in mobile payments, a business PayPal projects will generate it $7 billion in revenue this year. The eBay-owned payments company today launched a new retail mobile payments app for iOS and Android devices, PayPal InStore, where users can create barcodes that get scanned to deduct payments from users’ PayPal accounts. Available only in the UK, clothing chains Coast, Oasis, Warehouse, and Karen Millen are the first to sign on to the service, and PayPal tells me there are no plans to add NFC to the app any time soon.
PayPal InStore underscores some of the challenges that remain with NFC technology. Yesterday, Gartner pr[...]
Continue ReadingPayPal InStore underscores some of the challenges that remain with NFC technology. Yesterday, Gartner pr[...]
RIM halts trading on awful financials, hires banks for ‘strategic review’
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BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion temporarily halted stock trading 15 minutes after the market closed today, and issued a “business update” where it admitted it will “likely have an operating loss” for its fiscal first quarter.
“RIM is going through a significant transformation as we move towards the BlackBerry 10 launch, and our financial performance will continue to be challenging for the next few quarters,” relatively new RIM CEO Thorsten Heins said in the update. “The on-going competitive environment is impacting our business in the form of lower volumes and highly competitive pricing dynamics in the marketplace, and we expect our Q1 results to[...]
Continue Reading“RIM is going through a significant transformation as we move towards the BlackBerry 10 launch, and our financial performance will continue to be challenging for the next few quarters,” relatively new RIM CEO Thorsten Heins said in the update. “The on-going competitive environment is impacting our business in the form of lower volumes and highly competitive pricing dynamics in the marketplace, and we expect our Q1 results to[...]
New smartphone can measure radiation (but not its own)
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You can finally put your radiation fears to rest and check your Twitter feed at the same time. Japanese cellphone carrier Softbank has unveiled a new smartphone that can detect radiation levels with a built-in sensor, Wired is reporting.
Manufactured by Sharp, the Pantone 5 107SH has a built-in Geiger counter that measures radiation within 20 percent accuracy. The feature is sure to be a hit in Japan, where citizens have become more concerned with nuclear radiation ever since the Fukushima earthquake and subsequent nuclear meltdowns.
Users press a button on the front of the phone to measure radiation levels around them. If you were hoping to find out once and for all how likely it is that yo[...]
Continue ReadingManufactured by Sharp, the Pantone 5 107SH has a built-in Geiger counter that measures radiation within 20 percent accuracy. The feature is sure to be a hit in Japan, where citizens have become more concerned with nuclear radiation ever since the Fukushima earthquake and subsequent nuclear meltdowns.
Users press a button on the front of the phone to measure radiation levels around them. If you were hoping to find out once and for all how likely it is that yo[...]
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