a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

Will.i.am introduces the Puls smartwatch

Oct16
by on October 16, 2014 at 12:20 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider, Mobile, Product Launches, wearables

1015_puls

When you think wearables, you don’t usually think international superstar or Salesforce. Push aside that old way of thinking aside because Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am just unveiled his Puls smartwatch at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Pronounced “pulse,” the smartwatch is voice controlled via a Siri-like feature called Aneeda (get it? Aneeda. I need a…). It ships with Instagram, Facebook, Twitter (called Twitrist. get it? Twit wrist. Puns!), and Salesforce. It also has the expected photo, email, contacts, call, texting, calculator, music and fitness functions. The watch will be released under the i.am+ brand and it took a team of 35 engineers two and…

This story continues at The Next Web

The post Will.i.am introduces the Puls smartwatch appeared first on The Next Web.

└ Tags: ,
a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

Google introduces Google Translate Chrome Extension for inline translations of text

Oct15
by on October 15, 2014 at 11:09 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google

Today Google introduced a new Chrome extension that will help you when you hit a site in a language you don’t speak. The new Google Translate Chrome Extension lets you highlight just the text you want to translate. Just select the text and either click the Translate icon or right click on the selected text and select “Google Translate.” If you click on the translate button in the upper right hand corner of Chrome the extension will translate the entire page. The Google Translate Chrome Extension is available now on the Chrome Web Store. ➤ Translate web pages more easily with the new Google Translate…

This story continues at The Next Web

The post Google introduces Google Translate Chrome Extension for inline translations of text appeared first on The Next Web.

└ Tags: 
a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

Why your startup isn’t making any profit

Oct15
by on October 15, 2014 at 8:19 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

broken piggy bank

Callum Laing is the CEO of Entrevo Asia and the founder of Fitness-Buffet, an employee fitness business in 11 countries. When you first start pitching your business idea to the world, there is no worse feeling than someone telling you they don’t think it will work. Since that is your deepest fear, when someone articulates it, as someone invariably will, it will rip to your very core. It happened a lot when I was starting out. To feel better, I would tell myself that they were idiots who just didn’t understand my industry as well as I did. Any success they…

This story continues at The Next Web

The post Why your startup isn’t making any profit appeared first on The Next Web.

└ Tags: 
a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

Facebook doubles bounties on ad code bugs until the end of 2014

Oct15
by on October 15, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider, Social Media

facebook_like

The holidays are coming up and that means shopping for presents. If you’re a whitehat hacker looking to earn some cash, Facebook might be able to help you out. Facebook announced today that it will double the cash given to hackers that find bugs in the social network’s ad code. To help steer the whitehats to what they should be looking for, Facebook posted the following: At this stage of our bug bounty program, it’s uncommon for us to see many of the common web security bugs like XSS. What we see more often are things like missing or incorrect…

This story continues at The Next Web

The post Facebook doubles bounties on ad code bugs until the end of 2014 appeared first on The Next Web.

└ Tags: , ,
a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

Apple has leaked details of the iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 on iTunes

Oct15
by on October 15, 2014 at 5:21 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

As if it wasn’t clear enough, we’ve gotten about as good confirmation as any that there are new iPads on the way. The iOS 8.1 user guide for iPad just showed up on iBooks and shows images of the new iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3. The images show off a new Touch ID home button, which should make logging in easier. They also confirm burst mode for the cameras, taken by holding down the shutter button as on an iPhone. Be sure to stay tuned tomorrow as we find out more about the new devices. ➤ ‘iPad Air 2′ and…

This story continues at The Next Web

The post Apple has leaked details of the iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 on iTunes appeared first on The Next Web.

└ Tags: