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HTC announces the Desire 820, a mid-range smartphone for people who tinker with selfies

Sep04
by on September 4, 2014 at 8:13 am
Posted In: Around the Web, htc, Mobile

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HTC has joined the legions of tech companies that are revealing new products at IFA in Berlin, after it announced the mid-range HTC Desire 820. The 5.5-inch phone weighs in with a Qualcomm Octa-Core 64-bit processor — HTC’s second new device to sport 64-bits, but first to support Android L — 1.5GHz of RAM, and support for LTE networks. Strangely, HTC’s press materials make no mention of which version of Android that the device runs, but we know that it is Android 4.4, aka KitKat. The Desire 820 has an eight-megapixel front-facing camera and a 13-megapixel rear camera. Photography, well consumer camera features, are…

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Rocket Internet merges five of its e-commerce services to create a global Amazon rival

Sep04
by on September 4, 2014 at 7:25 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Rocket Internet has made a major move ahead of its upcoming IPO in Germany after announcing that it will merge five of its global e-commerce services into one single business. Dafiti (Latin America), Jabong (India), Lamoda (Russia and CIS), Namshi (Middle East) and Zalora (Southeast Asia and Australia) will henceforth be known as GFG. The business will cover five continents, but Rocket Internet says that it will maintain separate inventories, business models and other tweaks within each market. This move — which I have to say I saw coming when I predicted it earlier this year — gives the entity vast scale…

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Seahorse takes a new angle on mobile photo sharing with image co-ownership

Sep04
by on September 4, 2014 at 7:01 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Launches

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Who owns the photos that you shoot and share as a family or circle of friends? Oskar Hjertonsson, CEO and co-founder of Seahorse, thinks that they should be mutually co-owned by all participants and interested parties rather than simply being shared by an individual. Seahorse, a new photo app released today after a public beta, aims to facilitate that vision. Seahorse, which is free for iOS and Android, focuses on what it calls the co-ownership of scenes — scenes being collections of photos and videos contributed by participants in a group activity or event. Co-ownership differs from traditional photo sharing in that it gathers together discrete sets…

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Seahorse takes a new angle on mobile photo sharing with image co-ownership

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by on September 4, 2014 at 7:01 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Launches

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Who owns the photos that you shoot and share as a family or circle of friends? Oskar Hjertonsson, CEO and co-founder of Seahorse, thinks that they should be mutually co-owned by all participants and interested parties rather than simply being shared by an individual. Seahorse, a new photo app released today after a public beta, aims to facilitate that vision. Seahorse, which is free for iOS and Android, focuses on what it calls the co-ownership of scenes — scenes being collections of photos and videos contributed by participants in a group activity or event. Co-ownership differs from traditional photo sharing in that it gathers together discrete sets…

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