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Video chat service Tango is moving in a new direction, and this week the company closed a round of $40 million in Series C funding which will take it there, it hopes. Many think of Tango’s service as an up-and-coming Skype competitor, as it, too, is about real-time communication, specifically video calling, between users http://adaptnepal.org/john-deere-party.html. But the comparison to Skype may no longer be apt. Tango is working towards becoming a more social service – something more akin to the micro social network Path, in fact.
On the roadmap are several new social features, some of which make sense for a phone replacement utility (like text messaging), others which seem more like a shift to a social network (like exchanging photos).
Tango’s co-founder Eric Setton describes his vision for Tango’s future not as a video chat service, or even a communications service, but as “a service that keeps you closer to those you care about.”
Getting there has been all about taking baby steps, Setton explains. “We’re very cautious in everything we introduce,” he says. “We first want to check with the market that everything we’re thinking isn’t just our imagination,” he says. Features don’t roll out fully baked, but are introduced, tweaked, and then expanded upon.
Case in point: the slow way that Tango has rolled out video messaging. This newer feature, which allows users to leave video messages for others, was originally introduced in December as a kind of “video voicemail” option. In January, responding to user feedback, Tango allowed users to send these messages without having to first dial the recipient’s phone. This week, the company rolled out support for one-to-many video messaging, perfect for sharing things like baby’s first steps with the entire family. Soon, Tango will add video message replies, too.
If the latter additions make you think that Tango is beginning to feel a little bit more like a social network than a utility, you would be right. Setton says the company has been asking itself, “what do we w
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Boffins at the University of Dundee in Scotland have developed an ultrasound array that can lift a 10cm (3 http://hechcoursesor.livejournal.com/122996.html.9-inch) rubber disk and spin it around without touching it, a bit like the Doctor's famous sonic screwdriver. Or to be more precise, they used a 1,000-element ultrasound transducer array to create an ultrasound vortex beam shaped of intertwined helixes to exert torque on the 3.2-ounce disk.
And open any door, we're guessing. Unless it's wood.
Read more of "Doctor Who sonic screwdriver and Star Trek tricorder are real" at Crave UK.
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- HCL Technologies verzeichnet im 3. Quartal 2012 Umsätze in Höhe von 1.048 Mio.. US-Dollar, eine Steigerung von 14,6 % gegenüber dem Vorjahr und von 2,5 % gegenüber dem Vorquartal
Umsätze in Europa steigen um 25,0 % gegenüber dem Vorjahr (auf Basis der letzten 12 Monate)
HCL Technologies Ltd. (HCL) gab heute die Ergebnisse für das Quartal zum 31. März 2012 bekannt. HCL verzeichnete Umsätze in Höhe von 1.048 Mio. US-Dollar, was einer Steigerung von 14,6 % gegenüber dem Vorjahr und von 2,5 % gegenüber dem Vorquartal entspricht. Außerdem erreichte HCL in diesem Quartal den Umsatzmeilenstein von 4 Mrd. Dollar bezogen auf die letzten zwölf Monate. Die Sparte HCL Europe meldete eine Umsatzsteigerung von 25,0 % gegenüber dem Vorjahr (auf Basis der letzten 12 Monate).
Rajeev Sawhney, President von HCL Europe, äußerte sich wie folgt zu den in Europa erzielten Ergebnissen: "Wir sind sehr erfreut, bekanntgeben zu dürfen, dass wir erneut ein positives Quartalsergebnis erzielen konnten, wobei Europa das geografische Wachstum des Unternehmens mit einer Umsatzsteigerung von 25,0 % gegenüber dem Vorjahr (auf Basis der letzten 12 Monate) anführt. Auf dem Kontinent allgemein und insbesondere auf dem europäischen Festland konnten im Hinblick auf die strategischen Investitionen, die wir vorgenommen haben, gute Resultate erzielt werden. In den letzten 2 Quartalen haben wir etliche größere Geschäftsabschlüsse in dieser Region verbuchen können, beispielsweise mit Unternehmen wie UPM, Statoil und AstraZeneca. Diese Erfolge zeugen von unserer wachsenden Bedeutung in der Region."
Höhepunkte Europa:
• UPM und HCL haben eine über fünf Jahre laufende Outsourcing-Vereinbarung über IT-Infrastrukturdienstleistungen unterzeichnet. Im Rahmen dieser Vereinbarung wird HCL für UPM Leistungen im Bereich Rechenzentrum, End-User-Support, Netzwerkleistungen sowie professionelle IT-Services erbringen. HCL wird außerdem ein Rechenzentrum in Finnland aufbauen.
• HCL hat von einem weltweit führenden Snack-Hersteller, einem Fortune-500-Unternehmen, den Zuschlag für die Erbringung von Außendienst-Betreuungsleistungen in 16 Ländern in Europa erhalten.
• HCL hat von einem der größten Anbieter von Telekommunikationsdienstleistungen in Skandinavien den Zuschlag für dessen unternehmensweite Integrations- (Middleware-)Aktivitäten erhalten.
• HCL ist eine SAP-Vereinbarung mit einem Mobilfunk-Konsortium im Vereinigten Königreich eingegangen.
HCL Technologies - Höhepunkte
Umsätze in Höhe von 1.048 Mio. US-Dollar; eine Steigerung von 14,6 % gegenüber dem Vorjahr und von 2,5 % gegenüber dem Vorquartal auf US-Dollar-Basis EBIT in Höhe von 164 Mio. US-Dollar; eine Steigerung von 24,6 % gegenüber dem Vorjahr Nettoertrag in Höhe von 121 Mio. US-Dollar; eine Steigerung von 17,1 % gegenüber dem Vorjahr Geschäftsabschlüsse mit einem Gesamtauftragswert in Höhe von über 1,5 Mrd. US-Dollar HCL übertrifft Umsatzmarke von 4 Mrd. US-Dollar bezogen auf die letzten 12 Monate Zahl der Mitarbeiter insgesamt 82.464Europa - Finanzielle Höhepunkte
Umsatzsteigerung in Europa von 25,0 % gegenüber dem Vorjahr (auf Basis der letzten 12 Monate) Umsätze in Europa im 3. Quartal 2012 steigen um 5,5 % gegenüber dem Vorquartal Europa trägt 27,6 % zum gesamten Umsatz von HCLT während des Quartals beiZukunftsgerichtete Aussagen und weitere Einzelheiten sind unter folgender Website nachzulesen: http://www.hcltech.com/sites/default/files/hclt-q3-2012-jfm12-ir_release.pdf
Ansprechpartner Ranjana Sharma HCL Europe Tel.: +44-7921699137 Ranjanas@hcl.com
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With so many great tablet screens out there, you can afford to be picky.
When you look at the success of Amazon's low-cost Kindle Fire tablet, it's easy to fixate on all of the features that were gutted to achieve its jaw-dropping price tag.
But the often overlooked secret to the Kindle's success (or at least its critical success) is that Amazon was smart enough not to skimp on screen quality http://onlinedegreespro.onsugar.com/Recommendations-Advises-Different-Blood-Groups-22453802. For a product that couldn't spare the extra nickel for volume buttons, the Kindle Fire's IPS screen is a relatively extravagant expense.
The takeaway here is that tablet screen quality matters more than ever. So much, in fact, that Apple's new iPad practically sells itself on its screen alone.
In this article, I'll round up my favorite tablets that are pushing the envelope on screen quality.
Apple's new iPad doesn't look much different from the last, but its screen puts it above all the rest.
Apple iPad (third-generation) If you haven't heard by now, the Retina Display on Apple's new iPad uses an unreal 2,048x1,536 resolution packing 264 pixels per inch. The screen also happens to be one of the brightest we've tested (at maximum brightness, at least).
On the downside, the iPad's contrast ratio isn't as stellar as that of the Asus Transformer Prime (in Super IPS mode) or the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, and its 4:3 aspect ratio isn't a natural fit for HD videos. Still, if you want a gorgeous screen and the best selection of apps and media to run on it, the new iPad has the lead.
Read the full review of the Apple iPad (third-generation).
The Galaxy Tab 7.7 uses vibrant AMOLED screen technology with crisp image detail and deep blacks.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 For a more portable option, Samsung's Galaxy Tab 7.7 packs the 1,280x800-pix
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Remember Batch, the photo-sharing app that lets you share iPhone photos on Facebook, Twitter, and via email? Wait, before you roll your eyes - photo-sharing app? Sigh… – let me stick up for Batch: it’s one of the good ones. But today’s update makes Batch even better than before because it addresses one of the major pain points I had in using the app – something that I’ll admit led me to drop it after initial tests – Facebook album support.
Prior to the newly updated version, Batch allowed you to create albums and share them on Facebook, but the photos themselves remained within Batch’s service. When users clicked a shared link, they were taken to Batch, not a Facebook album. But with the update, that has changed. Batch now uploads all of the photos to Facebook for you. And it does so incredibly fast.
I also have to point out that Batch actually lets you name the Facebook albums whatever you want. It doesn’t just lump all the photo uploads into a bucket called “Batch Photos,” or something dumb like that (which I’ve seen other apps do).
The change may finally allow Batch to live up to Mike Arrington’s earlier suggestion that Batch “may be the perfect mobile photo sharing app.” I’ll admit, it definitely had a lot going for it when it launched last fall, but I (like many of Batch users, apparently), found that I still wanted to share photos directly on Facebook. That is, I wanted the photos to reside on Facebook itself, not within a third-party service.
Batch’s lack of support for that particular option, had even allowed newcomers to come in and try to fill that need. For example, with Popset, a new YC-backed mobile app, one of the app’s key selling points was its support for exporting entire albums to Facebook.
Says Batch CEO Brian Pokorny, the latest update is in line with the company’s orginal direction.
“We always have allowed users to share links to Facebook and Twitter, and heard from our users they’d like to be able to upload the entire album as well. We found this to be a better experience that enables users a more robust utility to share multiple photos from their phone,” he explains.
Batch’s update now fleshes out what was already a well-built service. Working on top of Facebook’s social graph, the app would automatically match you up with your Facebook friends upon first launch, and with its year-end update, it even took pains to make the entire onboarding experience clever and inviting.
The app also supports thumbs up/down, comments, private sharing, automatic album updates, a news feed of shared photos, and more.
The new version has added support for photo tagging, too, including photo tag notifications, but these appear to work in-app only. I tagged folks in my latest batch, shared to Facebook, but those tags didn’t copy over. Surely that’s coming next, though. (And sorry, I’d link, but my photos are private. Just try it yourself.)
The new version of Batch is available now. For our earlier review, check out the Fly or Die episode here.
...Source: YES! Batch’s Photo-Sharing App Finally Supports Facebook Album Creation
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