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Visual translator app Waygo adds Japanese to its slate

Mar18
by on March 18, 2014 at 3:44 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Asia, japanese, Product Updates

Waygo, a mobile app that instantly translates Chinese characters into English just by hovering a smartphone camera over them, has now added Japanese to its slate. This should prove useful for those who travel to Japan but get utterly lost when trying to decipher menus or instructions on vending machines for example. The Waygo app, currently only available for iOS devices, now translates Japanese characters into English text without requiring a data connection. All you have to do is simply hover over the characters. Ryan Rogowski, the CEO and co-founder of Waygo, says that the company is focusing on Asian markets…

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Why people unsubscribe from mailing lists (and how to win them back)

Mar18
by on March 18, 2014 at 3:32 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Entrepreneur, How-To's, mailchimp, Social Media

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Running a newsletter can be difficult. You put so much energy into getting people to sign up that a couple of unsubscribers may just ruin your day. Clearly, there’s a reason people unsubscribed from your newsletter: Maybe they don’t think you’re creating great enough free content, or are fed up with your shameless self promotion. Maybe you’re just sending too much? Fear not, it’s almost hardly the case. Sometimes people they just want to clear their inbox. Ask yourself the questions below and see if they may be the reason people unsubscribe from your perfectly good newsletters. If so, we’ll…

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Sky is bringing a new ‘buy and keep’ movie service to the UK and Ireland

Mar18
by on March 18, 2014 at 3:26 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, UK

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On the same day that BSkyB rolled out a brand new Sky+ EPG homepage to help push its on-demand content, Andrew Griffith, Chief Financial Officer & MD, Commercial Businesses at Sky, has let-slip on a brand new ‘buy to keep’ service that’s set to launch shortly. Griffith made the reveal on stage at the Guardian Changing Media Summit in London earlier today, and although details around the new service are scant, we do know that it will be arriving “in the coming weeks”, and will complement its existing transactional Sky Store rental service. “Having millions of our customer homes connected,…

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Mozilla and Unity bring games to the Web without plugins, achieve near-native speeds with WebGL and asm.js

Mar18
by on March 18, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider

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Mozilla and Unity today announced plans to bring Unity-authored games to the Web that can be played without the need to install anything other than a browser. Unity will be releasing a WebGL add-on as part of Unity 5.0 later this year, allowing millions of its developers to export their projects directly to the Web without the friction of plugins while hopefully still delivering smooth gameplay. Yet we’re sure you just want to see technology in action. As such, you’ll be happy to learn the duo is showcasing a preview of the popular game Dead Trigger 2 running in Firefox,…

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Vimeo acquires Cameo, a video recording, editing and sharing app for iPhone

Mar18
by on March 18, 2014 at 2:32 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Vimeo today announced it had acquired Cameo, an iPhone app for shooting, editing and sharing videos. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Vimeo says the team will continue to work on the Cameo app. It will not be shuttered, at least not for the forseeable future, and it will live alongside the Vimeo service and its dedicated mobile apps. The Cameo team will now report to Andrew Pile, the chief technology officer for Vimeo, but they won’t be contributing to any Vimeo products. As part of the deal, the startup’s co-founder and chief executive Matthew Rosenberg will transition…

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