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Alibaba Files For Massive IPO With 9-Month Revenue Of $6.51B(techcrunch.com)
1 points by stoev 12y ago|0 comments
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Logitech Just Entered The Smartphone Accessory Market In A Big Way(techcrunch.com)
1 points by stoev 12y ago|0 comments
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Nod Gesture Control Ring Starts Selling Today For $149(techcrunch.com)
2 points by stoev 12y ago|0 comments
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The PiPhone Is A DIY Cellphone Powered By Raspberry Pi(techcrunch.com)
2 points by stoev 12y ago|0 comments
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by stoev 12y ago
"I don't understand why Microsoft took so long to do this." Skype had free video group calls long before Google Hangouts even existed. If I remember correctly, they forced their users to pay for it a few months or a year afte
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by stoev 12y ago
"It's not doing that just by introducing new ad space" Maybe, but just a bit over a year ago they used to have two ads on the right hand side of their desktop version. Now they have seven ads in the same space. They also use
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by stoev 12y ago
This reminds me of FBs ad business - they keep introducing new ad spaces, expanding their offering to more platforms, introducing logout ads, video ads, scrollable install ads, an ad platform, etc. With all of that they are just masking the
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by stoev 12y ago
Yes, the problem won't be solved completely and you will still end up reading the same content more than once. But at least, by analysing the text the search engine could detect which articles are coming from the same source (e.g. insp
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by stoev 12y ago
I've only used DDG a few times in the past. Could you refer me to a link with some more information on this? Thank you.
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by stoev 12y ago
How about a search engine that bases its results on how unique the information is on every one of them. Every time I try to do an in-depth research on Google about some topic I open up 10 or 20 of the most relevant results, only to discover
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by stoev 12y ago
Somebody is also working on this and has made very impressive progress: http://tactustechnology.com They are also planning to release it for in-car displays.
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by stoev 12y ago
A carrier would give a lot more thought to disrupting a competitive voice service provided by FB (who already have many agreements with carriers worldwide regarding data usage) than an independent and not particularly well funded (by carrie
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by stoev 12y ago
I don't see it that way. After selling to FB it became clear that hey intended to launch VoIP. If they actually wanted to launch a high-quality product, better voice service than the one offered by carriers (and therefore much better t
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by stoev 12y ago
While I strongly support any business model that tries to escape from the typical ads monetisation strategy, we can see (two years after this post was published) that not relying on ads has not been the best long-term strategy for WhatsApp
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How Synchronized Hammer Strikes Could Generate Nuclear Fusion(ted.com)
2 points by stoev 12y ago|0 comments
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3 Amazing Aspects Of Google's Modular Phone That No One Is Talking About(businessinsider.com)
4 points by stoev 12y ago|0 comments
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by stoev 12y ago
Has anyone seen this before? The app doesn't seem to have any reviews. I wonder if it could be a bug due to the App Store's recent update to include the "In-App Purchases" tag.
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Paid App in App Store's Free Top Charts(imgur.com)
1 points by stoev 12y ago|1 comments
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by stoev 12y ago
The Brief by Time is also a very useful news email. You'll have to create an account on their website to get it.
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Air-powered leopard robot doesn’t need a complex brain to walk(extremetech.com)
2 points by stoev 12y ago|0 comments
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OpenWorm: A Digital Organism In Your Browser(kickstarter.com)
6 points by stoev 12y ago|0 comments
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Low Voltage Metal Sensor for use with Arduino type boards(kickstarter.com)
2 points by stoev 12y ago|0 comments
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New Details On Tactus’ Funding(techcrunch.com)
1 points by stoev 12y ago|0 comments
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by stoev 12y ago
This article is disappointing - the first two thirds explain why we need better batteries, as if it was not already painstakingly obvious, and then the last bit mentions three technologies without actually saying much about any of them.
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by stoev 13y ago
Not if you only allow the phone to mine when you are not using it, when it is charging, connected to WiFi, and when the temperature sensor is being monitored. The user could also only give permission for mining in short periods of time.
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Ask HN: Design a Cryptocurrency that Could Only Be Mined by Phones / Tablets?
1 points by stoev 13y ago|4 comments
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by stoev 13y ago
So, in practice, what is the probability that a transaction would really be cancelled if the issuer of the payment uses this service approximately two minutes after initiating the transaction? (I assume that two minutes are a realistic esti
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by stoev 13y ago
Kickstarter's core goal was to help inventors bring their ideas to life and help them fund initial production. It has since evolved into a platform that often helps their most engaged users find new ideas and get early access to new t
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by stoev 13y ago
Because it is a lot easier to attract new customers and do a free PR campaign this way. It doesn't prevent them from selling the technology later on.
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by stoev 13y ago
That's better, cheers.

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