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Google launches Glass open beta: Anyone in the US can now buy the Explorer Edition for $1,500

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by on May 13, 2014 at 10:35 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Google, Insider

Google today opened its Google Glass program to all in the US. Americans can now buy the Glass Explorer edition at google.com/glass for $1,500 without needing an invite. Less than a week ago, Google said it was accelerating “new ways to expand the program in the weeks and months ahead.” Now the open beta is here, with the wider consumer launch still slated for later this year. It appears the company’s one-day sale went well enough for Google to decide that the device is ready for a broader test. To mark the occasion, Google has also posted a thank you video…

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Google launches Glass open beta: Anyone in the US can now buy the Explorer Edition for $1,500

May13
by on May 13, 2014 at 10:35 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Google, Insider

Google today opened its Google Glass program to all in the US. Americans can now buy the Glass Explorer edition at google.com/glass for $1,500 without needing an invite. Less than a week ago, Google said it was accelerating “new ways to expand the program in the weeks and months ahead.” Now the open beta is here, with the wider consumer launch still slated for later this year. It appears the company’s one-day sale went well enough for Google to decide that the device is ready for a broader test. To mark the occasion, Google has also posted a thank you video…

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Research project Cider brings iOS apps to Android devices

May13
by on May 13, 2014 at 9:59 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Google, Insider, Mobile

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Six PhD students at Columbia University‘s Department of Computer Science have developed Cider, an OS compatibility architecture capable of running iOS apps on Android. Rather than using a strict virtual machine, they achieved the feat by running domestic and foreign binaries on the same device. They leverage binary compatibility techniques such as compile-time code adaptation and diplomatic functions. This means Cider can copy the libraries and frameworks it needs and convince an app’s code that it is running on Apple’s XNU kernel rather than Android’s Linux kernel. A video of the Cider proof-of-concept shows off their work – a Nexus…

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Why transparency is the next killer feature in mobile

May13
by on May 13, 2014 at 8:19 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Entrepreneur, Mobile

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Ted Muething is a PR and marketing consultant at Jones-Dilworth Inc., a boutique agency in Austin focused on bringing early-stage technologies to market. Every day we vote with our dollars how we want the world to be. By deciding what to buy, and what not to by, we shape strategies in the boardroom and control the fate of large corporations. Tech companies know this well, and it’s why they fight desperately to predict what the next big trend to sweep the industry will be. Smart watches. Fingerprint sensors. Max-sized phones. Mini tablets. More than seven years after the debut of the iPhone,…

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3 unconventional content marketing strategies you should try

May13
by on May 13, 2014 at 7:28 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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Danny Wong does marketing at Shareaholic, is the co-founder of Blank Label and likes to write every once in a while. Feel free to find him lurking on Google+ or Twitter. Building a venerable brand through content has become an exercise in pointless posting, unsubstantiated claims and newsjacking. Admittedly, readers and search engines are smarter than that. Though many of the more successful content marketers may tout their list of “best practices,” in today’s digital age, many traffic-generating secrets quickly become yesterday’s tired tactics. When you swim with the current, you get caught up in the never-ending battle of who can create content in the…

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