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Nanu is an Android app taking on Skype with free calls via 2G and to landlines or mobile phones

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by on August 5, 2014 at 5:41 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, calls, Product Launches

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There’s yet another calling app on the market that’s out to challenge dominant player Skype. Nanu, an Android app that was launched today, touts the ability to make free calls even via a sluggish 2G network connection, and to non-Nanu users including landlines and mobile phone numbers. The catch? Ads. While waiting for your call to be picked up, a short ad will play over the ringtone. The ad will end immediately once your call is connected to the other person. The revenue from the advertisers helps to subsidize the cost of the call, so users don’t have to pay…

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Report: Xiaomi overtook Samsung to become top smartphone vendor in China in Q2 2014

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by on August 5, 2014 at 2:56 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, Insider

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Popular Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi is hogging the limelight after several analyst reports have pointed to its rapid growth — among them Kantar and Strategy Analytics. Now another research firm, Canalys, has offered up even more evidence of Xiaomi’s popularity — in the second quarter of 2014, it found that Xiaomi recorded a 14 percent market share in China on the back of 240 percent year-on-year growth, overtaking Samsung in terms of volume of smartphones. This was the first time Samsung slid to second place in China since Q4 2011 and came after a 15 percent year-on-year decline. Shanghai-based Canalys…

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Required reading from Adobe on how to move from Aperture to Lightroom

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by on August 5, 2014 at 12:37 am
Posted In: Around the Web

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You may have plenty of time to think about how to handle your Aperture library once Apple transitions to its new Photos app next year. But Adobe isn’t about to leave money on the table. Today, the company emailed folks in the photo community with a message bearing information on how to get started migrating your photo library away from Apple’s ecosystem into Adobe’s own. Nestled at the bottom of a page containing links to Creative Cloud, the new Creative Cloud Photography Program, and how-to pages with videos is a six-page PDF guide with step-by-step instructions on how to move from Aperture to Lightroom. While Adobe…

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