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Google’s Kit Kat update for Glass is coming later this week, but video calling is out for now

Apr15
by on April 15, 2014 at 12:09 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

Google has announced a major update to its Glass firmware coming later this week, but the move to Kit Kat also leaves behind a key feature: video calls. The Glass team said the decision didn’t come lightly, but it decided to pull video calls because they weren’t living up to standards. Even so, the company says only 10 percent of Glass Explorers use the feature. Google didn’t provide a timeline on when it expects to re-introduce the feature, but it noted that some third-party developers should have their own streaming video solutions coming out soon. Dropping support for video calls…

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Giant art works inspired by HBO’s Game of Thrones, Girls, and Oz engage Israel’s shoppers

Apr14
by on April 14, 2014 at 11:38 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

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Sure, everyone loves sitting down to their favorite HBO drama—Oz, Game of Thrones, The Wire, Girls, True Detective, Sex and the City—on a widescreen TV. But here’s a high concept: Artist renditions of selected characters and scenes from your favorite series as larger-than-life gallery pieces. That’s the idea behind an interactive art exhibition-slash-ad campaign for yes, Israel’s satellite television operator, in conjunction with HBO, the series’ sponsor. The initiative, designed to generate publicity for yesOh, a channel that broadcasts mostly HBO series, was launched by the creative team at D/TALES, a Tel Aviv-based ad agency. “We wanted to do an artistic…

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TransferWise lands on Android to help you transfer money to friends and family anywhere

Apr14
by on April 14, 2014 at 11:01 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

TransferWise, the London-based startup that wants to make transferring money between currencies effortless and inexpensive, has finally launched a native Android app. TransferWise is a peer-to-peer service that sidesteps bank fees and lets you switch money directly to users in other countries. Though it has previously had an app available on Google Play, it was actually just a shortcut to its website and lacked any real ‘native’ functionality. Today’s news comes six months after it rolled out a version for iPhone-users. The free app is compatible with Android 2.3+, and lets you transfer money to anyone, anywhere in the world.     In…

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Why entrepreneurs shouldn’t shoot down ‘bad’ ideas

Apr14
by on April 14, 2014 at 8:19 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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Rahul Varshneya is the co-founder of Arkenea Technologies and a mobile strategy advisor. He can be contacted via Twitter @rahulvarshneya. Ever noticed that whenever Facebook implements a new design change on their website, just how many people crib and rant about the change? Most people are habituated in the way they use products and services and any change, even the slightest brings about a sudden reaction of resistance. When you introduce your new path-breaking, never been done before idea to these people, would you expect a different response? When you’re talking to people about your ideas, you’re typically looking for a positive response…

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Why entrepreneurs shouldn’t shoot down ‘bad’ ideas

Apr14
by on April 14, 2014 at 8:19 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

coffee ideas
Rahul Varshneya is the co-founder of Arkenea Technologies and a mobile strategy advisor. He can be contacted via Twitter @rahulvarshneya. Ever noticed that whenever Facebook implements a new design change on their website, just how many people crib and rant about the change? Most people are habituated in the way they use products and services and any change, even the slightest brings about a sudden reaction of resistance. When you introduce your new path-breaking, never been done before idea to these people, would you expect a different response? When you’re talking to people about your ideas, you’re typically looking for a positive response…

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