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Coursera launches a program to crowd-translate its online classes into new languages

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by on April 29, 2014 at 6:57 am
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Coursera is launching an initiative to help expedite the translation of its online learning platform into non-English languages. The Global Translator Community (GTC) is a program that essentially allow volunteers to crowdsource translated subtitles for the 600-plus video courses on its site. “Like many things here at Coursera, the GTC emerged from our learners. In classes ranging from Machine Learning to Social Psychology, we noticed learners spontaneously organizing to translate lecture subtitles for the benefit of their classmates. At the same time, we heard many Courserians asking us for even more translations,” the company explains on its blog. Initially, Coursera…

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Strategy Analytics: Samsung market share slips as Apple continues to miss out on entry-level sales

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by on April 29, 2014 at 4:50 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Mobile

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Samsung lost global smartphone market share for the first time in four years, but the company continues to lead its competitors after shipping an estimated 89 million devices during the first quarter of 2014. Those figures come from analyst firm Strategy Analytics, which released its own market figures after each vendor published their quarterly reports. Samsung’s loss of market share is perhaps surprising, since it increased its shipment numbers from 69.4 million one year ago, but fit is growing below industry rate. Apple also grew slower than the market — despite surpassing analyst expectation with 43.7 million iPhone sales last…

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Samsung forecasts revenue growth despite profits declining for a second straight quarter

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by on April 29, 2014 at 4:03 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, Mobile, samsung

Samsung is the world’s top seller of smartphones, but even that fact couldn’t stop its profits from declining for a second successive quarter. Samsung posted its latest (Q1 2014) results today, which saw operating profit fall 3.3 percent quarter-on-quarter to 8.49 trillion KRW ($8.2 billion) while revenue slipped 9 percent QoQ to 53.68 trillion (KRW). Despite the underwhelming results, Samsung is bullish on the rest of the year and it expects to see “profits rally in the second quarter and beyond” thanks to its display panel business, home appliance sales and its new flagship Galaxy S5 smartphone. “Samsung is also poised to expand its new product…

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Samsung’s Galaxy K Zoom smartphone packs a 20 megapixel camera and 10x zoom lens

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by on April 29, 2014 at 3:04 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Mobile

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Samsung made the leap into high-end camera smartphones when it launched the Galaxy S4 Zoom last year, and now it is adding to that range after it announced the Galaxy K Zoom, a smartphone that sports a 10x optical zoom and 20.7 megapixel BSI CMOS sensor. The K Zoom (Samsung says K stands for for ‘Kamera’) is much like a Galaxy S5 in many ways. It has the same look — phone on one side, camera on the other — and includes a 4.8 inch HD Super AMOLED display and Android KitKat, but it packs significantly boosted photo features. Aside from the two aforementioned headline features,…

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