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Apple Watch is the smartwatch market, accounting for 75% of shipments

Jul22
by on July 22, 2015 at 3:14 pm
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We still don’t really know how much of a hit the Apple Watch was, but Strategy Analytics says it’s dominating the market at over 75 percent of all smartwatches shipped. According to its latest research, global smartwatch shipments grew 457 percent annually to 5 million, from just 1 million units last year. That’s a lot of smartwatches, considering it was still a nascent category just last year. The report says that the Apple Watch saw 4 million units shipped last quarter, compared with 0.4 million by Samsung. “Other” smartwatches made up just 0.9 million devices. Notably, Kickstarter darling Pebble is missing…

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See your Instagram photos on a giant screen made of 6,400 spools of thread

Jul22
by on July 22, 2015 at 3:04 pm
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Forever 21 is a clothing brand that young people wear and which confuses me.* Still, its latest marketing stunt is one I can get behind. Yeah, okay, sometimes brands sucker me in too. Tag your Instagram photos with #F21ThreadScreen and they’ll be displayed on a huge screen in New York city. And it’s not an ordinary screen by any means. The device built by the fashion retailer is a 2,000 pound machine with 6,400 mechanical spools of colored thread being turned to reproduce the Instagram images sent to it. Forever 21’s thread screen is very spool…get it? Spool? Oh forget it.…

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See your Instagram photos on a giant screen made of 6,400 spools of thread

Jul22
by on July 22, 2015 at 3:04 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

F21Threadscreen
Forever 21 is a clothing brand that young people wear and which confuses me.* Still, its latest marketing stunt is one I can get behind. Yeah, okay, sometimes brands sucker me in too. Tag your Instagram photos with #F21ThreadScreen and they’ll be displayed on a huge screen in New York city. And it’s not an ordinary screen by any means. The device built by the fashion retailer is a 2,000 pound machine with 6,400 mechanical spools of colored thread being turned to reproduce the Instagram images sent to it. Forever 21’s thread screen is very spool…get it? Spool? Oh forget it.…

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Microsoft’s new Send app makes email more like WhatsApp

Jul22
by on July 22, 2015 at 2:48 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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Microsoft wants to streamline email. Today’s it’s launching a new app called Send – iOS only for now – that makes email more like SMS by removing the subject line and taking you directly to your contacts list. Microsoft thinks email can be a bit too cumbersome by modern communication standards; you have to open the app, open a compose window, type your contact into the recipient field, and then write a subject line before you even really get to your message. On the other hand, you probably have many email contacts without a phone number logged in your address…

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Microsoft’s new Send app makes email more like WhatsApp

Jul22
by on July 22, 2015 at 2:48 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

Send Microsoft iOS
Microsoft wants to streamline email. Today’s it’s launching a new app called Send – iOS only for now – that makes email more like SMS by removing the subject line and taking you directly to your contacts list. Microsoft thinks email can be a bit too cumbersome by modern communication standards; you have to open the app, open a compose window, type your contact into the recipient field, and then write a subject line before you even really get to your message. On the other hand, you probably have many email contacts without a phone number logged in your address…

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