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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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The team behind dubious projection watch Ritot: ‘If all goes according to our plan, then it’s real’

Aug04
by on August 4, 2014 at 10:43 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets

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Last week, we cast doubt on the Ritot projection watch Indiegogo campaign, which we had previously written about, after learning more about the technical hurdles and shifting identities behind the project. In spite of growing concerns from backers, the campaign has continued to raise money, surpassing $750,000 without a working prototype in sight. While digging for information about the project, we offered the Ritot team a chance to defend their work. Founder Michael Medvid has promised to share more detailed technical information with backers later this week, but in the meantime, we’ve published the entirety of his responses to our…

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Rhapsody snaps up music startups SoundTracking and Exfm

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by on August 4, 2014 at 9:43 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Mobile

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Music-streaming service Rhapsody is gobbling up music-related startups today. First music discovery service Exfm announced it was being acquired and then SoundTracking dropped the news its parent team, Schematic Lab was joining Rhapsody. With today’s acquisitions, the 14-year-old streaming music service gets two features that could help the international company grow beyond its 2 million subscribers. Exfm tracks your web traffic to determine what songs you play on various sites and uses that data to surface songs and artists you may like. Apple’s Beats Music launched touting its human and computer curated discovery system, but that information is tracked inside Beats Music….

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Eventbrite and Swiftly offer event organizers a $19 professionally designed banner for their events

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by on August 4, 2014 at 9:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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If you’re an event organizer you understand the power of a well designed flier, poster or event page banner. But if you’re not a designer, your stab at creating art usually ends in a mish-mash of fonts and images. Global self-ticketing service Eventbrite and on-demand design service Swiftly want to help solve your design problem. Now when you create an Eventbrite event, you have the option to have a banner designed for $19 via 99designs‘ Swiftly service. Event organizers can describe what they want on Swiftly’s site and a designer will create the banner in an hour. The finished design…

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