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Presenting yourself in the best light: How to properly set up for a video meeting

Oct23
by on October 23, 2014 at 4:42 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, How-To's

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Yoav Hornung is an award-winning young filmmaker and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Veed.me, a video production marketplace. We all know that there’s nothing like a face-to-face meeting. Actually, at Veed.me, when we say “face-to-face,” we actually refer to meeting in person while in reality, we find ourselves holding more and more video calls. From what I’ve researched, I found out that most people don’t really think about the video part of their call. And that’s a shame. Remember this rule of thumb: when you have a webcam meeting — you’re shooting a video. So set it up like one. Here are a few…

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LG G Watch R to go on sale from beginning of November in Europe, US and others to follow

Oct23
by on October 23, 2014 at 4:36 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider

LG has announced that its new circular G Watch R announced in August will go on sale in France, Italy, Spain and the UK “in the beginning of November”. The 1.3-inch device will then go on sale in North America, Asia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) “soon after”, LG said. Key specs of the device include a 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor, 4GB of on board storage and is water and dust resistant. Handily, it can also be used with any standard 22mm wide watch strap. Under its diminuitive bonnet, it will run the most recent version of Android Wear and…

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Charlie connects to your Google Calendar to prep you for meetings

Oct23
by on October 23, 2014 at 4:21 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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If you’re OK with the idea of letting yet another service access your Google Calendar information and are frequently finding yourself walking into meetings with new people without knowing what they actually do, then Charlie might be worth checking out. Chicago-based Charlie’s task is simple: to give you a single page of information about anyone you’re meeting an hour ahead of your scheduled rendez-vous. It achieves this by sifting through social data from places like LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Google News and more (“100,000’s of sources”) to identify topics of conversation, and to work out what that person really cares about most. All of this…

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Non-friction: Blloon brings a novel approach to e-book subscriptions

Oct23
by on October 23, 2014 at 4:14 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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There’s no shortage of apps to help you read on the move, and we’ve seen a real rise in recent times of subscription e-book services, with Amazon launching its Unlimited monthly offering, adding to existing platforms such as Scribd and Oyster. Then there’s the likes of Total Boox, which adopts a pay-per-page ethos. Ultimately, such services are striving to remove the friction from reading, delivering e-books on tap similar to what Netflix does with TV shows and movies. Now, a German startup is introducing its own take on this burgeoning subscription trend with the launch of Blloon, kicking off in…

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Android Wear gets its first big update with offline music syncing and GPS

Oct23
by on October 23, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Google, Mobile, Product Updates

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One of the issues with wearables is that many of them need to stay connected to a smartwatch at all times. Android Wear has been no different. But an update for Android Wear just made smartwatches a little more independent. Android Wear now supports GPS sensors and syncing music to watches that support Bluetooth headsets for untethered listening. If you work out, this means you can track your run while listening to music without having to drag your smartphone with you while you exercise. One watch that will benefit from today’s update is the Sony SmartWatch 3 that ships with GPS sensors. Now those sensors…

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