HTC and Samsung have each been hoping that their HTC One and Galaxy S4
Android flagship phones will become the gold standard for the latest generation
of smartphones, but the customizers at Goldgenie are taking the notion quite
literally.
The British company has been selling gold- and platinum-plated iOS devices
and BlackBerrys for a while now, but it seems to have decided that the HTC One
and Galaxy S4 have finally presented a pair of Android phones worth the deluxe
bling treatment.
Given the pace of device development and technological obsolescence, you
might think that adding more than a thousand dollars to the cost of a smartphone
just to slap some precious metals on it is a little silly, to say the least. But
apparently there's plenty of high rollers that disagree with you: The plated
version of the Galaxy S4 is already sold out after being available for just a
few weeks.
Fortunately for the baller in you, the gold, platinum and rose gold-plated
versions of the HTC One were just added to the Goldgenie roster today and are
still available for between roughly $3,000 and $3,300.
That steep price tag gets you a SIM-free, unlocked HTC One plated in shiny
precious metal, Beats earphones with a remote and microphone, a dock connector,
all the normal cables and papers, and it all comes in a "luxury cherry oak
finished box."
Also included is the self-assurance of knowing you probably have too much
money, but with a nagging voice in the back of your head that questions why you
apparently aren't big time enough to spring for a Vertu Android phone with
included on-call concierge service (or any of these, for that matter).
If you're still sold on the golden One, you might want to order soon, as
apparently even paying a more than $2,000 premium doesn't mean your shipping
will be expedited. The Goldgenie site claims orders can take up to three weeks
to ship, depending on demand.
2013年6月24日星期一
Microsoft may also add Infrastructure Companies situations
Microsoft and Oracle right now declared that they are placing their
dissimilarities apart to strike a strategic partnership in the cloud
organization space. The deal addresses both equally the private cloud plus the
general public cloud, encompassing numerous new alternatives.
For starters, Oracle will certify and aid consumers who previously run its application on Home windows Server to operate that same software program on Home windows Server Hyper-V or in Home windows Azure. Oracle consumers also attain the reward to run their Oracle application licenses in Windows Azure “with new license mobility.”
Hyper-V and Azure assist begins quickly, nevertheless the partnership doesn’t close there. Microsoft and Oracle have agreed to operate collectively to “add appropriately licensed, and completely supported Java into Windows Azure.”
Microsoft may also add Infrastructure Companies situations with preconfigured versions of Oracle Database and Oracle WebLogic Server for customers who do not have Oracle licenses even though Oracle will allow shoppers to acquire and start Oracle Linux images on Home windows Azure. Specifics regarding when just this integration will probably be available were not shared.
Throughout a conference phone today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talked of a “tipping point” with reference to the partnership. “A large amount has transpired and we’re planning to go on to contend in regions,” he claimed. “I assume both providers have normally, at the least quite a few a few years, have had respect for a single a further.”
Oracle President Mark Hurd agreed: “I believe it just makes sense for us to carry on to enhance our possess abilities but also enable consumers to leverage the two of our abilities together,” he explained on the identical simply call. “I feel this will make lots of feeling for the two of us…because it makes quite a bit of sense for our buyers.”
Oracle 1st hinted at today’s news in the course of an earnings connect with on Friday. The business business mentioned it experienced programs to announce new engineering partnerships with not just Microsoft, but Salesforce and Netsuite in addition.
For starters, Oracle will certify and aid consumers who previously run its application on Home windows Server to operate that same software program on Home windows Server Hyper-V or in Home windows Azure. Oracle consumers also attain the reward to run their Oracle application licenses in Windows Azure “with new license mobility.”
Hyper-V and Azure assist begins quickly, nevertheless the partnership doesn’t close there. Microsoft and Oracle have agreed to operate collectively to “add appropriately licensed, and completely supported Java into Windows Azure.”
Microsoft may also add Infrastructure Companies situations with preconfigured versions of Oracle Database and Oracle WebLogic Server for customers who do not have Oracle licenses even though Oracle will allow shoppers to acquire and start Oracle Linux images on Home windows Azure. Specifics regarding when just this integration will probably be available were not shared.
Throughout a conference phone today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talked of a “tipping point” with reference to the partnership. “A large amount has transpired and we’re planning to go on to contend in regions,” he claimed. “I assume both providers have normally, at the least quite a few a few years, have had respect for a single a further.”
Oracle President Mark Hurd agreed: “I believe it just makes sense for us to carry on to enhance our possess abilities but also enable consumers to leverage the two of our abilities together,” he explained on the identical simply call. “I feel this will make lots of feeling for the two of us…because it makes quite a bit of sense for our buyers.”
Oracle 1st hinted at today’s news in the course of an earnings connect with on Friday. The business business mentioned it experienced programs to announce new engineering partnerships with not just Microsoft, but Salesforce and Netsuite in addition.
2013年6月18日星期二
The Series A Round Is The New Series B Round
Editor’s note: Jeff Jordan is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and is on
the boards of Airbnb, Belly, Fab, Circle, Crowdtilt, Lookout and Pinterest, as
well as Wealthfront and Zoosk. Previously, Jeff was president and CEO of
OpenTable, which he took public in 2009. Before OpenTable, Jeff was president of
PayPal, and he was previously the SVP and general manager of eBay North America.
Follow him on his blog and on Twitter @jeff_jordan.
The venture industry is awash with talk of the “Series A Crunch”, where it’s getting progressively more challenging for seed companies to land follow-on financing. In my short two-year tenure as a full-time investor, I’ve seen this crunch hit very hard at a number of quality, early-stage consumer companies. Why is this happening? A number of factors are coming together to create this crunch.
A significant supply/demand imbalance has emerged between seed and Series A financings coming out of the economic near-meltdown of 2008-2009. In 2009, there were about the same number of seed and Series A financings, but the number of seed deals have exploded since then while the number of A rounds grew only modestly. In 2012, there were 2.5x as many seed financings as A-round financings, whereas historically these were more in balance. This suggests something like 60 percent of seeds could be stranded.
Investor expectations have expanded substantially. It’s become steadily less expensive to launch many consumer-oriented Internet businesses over the years due to things like Moore’s law, improving programming tools, the cloud and the ability to access users from multiple large platforms. Now we often see the kind of traction that we used to expect from Series B companies in Series A companies, and from Series A companies in seed companies. For example, a number of our recent Series A investments built multi-million dollar revenue run rates on their seed rounds. We’re getting spoiled. Combine this with the above supply/demand imbalance and you’ve got a situation where the bar is being raised exactly when the competition for the A round is becoming particularly fierce.
The source of seed capital has been changing. In recent years, the amount of seed investment from non-traditional institutional sources has increased dramatically. More and more seed capital is coming from sources like angels, “super angels,” micro-VCs and incubators. To under-score this point, we have close to a thousand separate angels as co-investors in the consumer companies in our less-than-four-year old portfolio. This influx of new capital has arguably had an inflationary impact on seed valuations, which obviously has an initial attraction to many entrepreneurs but can create challenges in a “crunch” scenario. These non-institutional sources of capital are not inclined or structured to potentially help a company secure additional capital in a crunch. And the higher valuations provide a higher hurdle that must be overcome by potential new investors in a crunched company.
The number of potential Series A investors appears to be contracting. The venture business is showing early signs of a significant consolidation. The amount of capital invested has trailed the amount raised for a number of years, and the capital that is being raised is increasingly consolidating among fewer, larger firms. The number of investors who can write that Series A check is starting to fall.
The impact of these factors is playing out before our eyes. We’re seeing more and more potentially promising companies who have spent much of their seed rounds to generate solid early traction, but not the kind of traction that sets them up well for a Series A financing these days given the higher bar. These companies face a brutal situation. They are running low on money. Prospective new investors want more proof, particularly given the higher seed valuations. And many of the existing investors, particularly on the angel side, become “tapped out” or “want to stay diversified” when approached for bridge financing. These companies’ futures are rapidly called into question. It’s been very painful to watch.
So here are a few suggestions for entrepreneurs who are trying to start consumer-oriented Internet businesses:
The venture industry is awash with talk of the “Series A Crunch”, where it’s getting progressively more challenging for seed companies to land follow-on financing. In my short two-year tenure as a full-time investor, I’ve seen this crunch hit very hard at a number of quality, early-stage consumer companies. Why is this happening? A number of factors are coming together to create this crunch.
A significant supply/demand imbalance has emerged between seed and Series A financings coming out of the economic near-meltdown of 2008-2009. In 2009, there were about the same number of seed and Series A financings, but the number of seed deals have exploded since then while the number of A rounds grew only modestly. In 2012, there were 2.5x as many seed financings as A-round financings, whereas historically these were more in balance. This suggests something like 60 percent of seeds could be stranded.
Investor expectations have expanded substantially. It’s become steadily less expensive to launch many consumer-oriented Internet businesses over the years due to things like Moore’s law, improving programming tools, the cloud and the ability to access users from multiple large platforms. Now we often see the kind of traction that we used to expect from Series B companies in Series A companies, and from Series A companies in seed companies. For example, a number of our recent Series A investments built multi-million dollar revenue run rates on their seed rounds. We’re getting spoiled. Combine this with the above supply/demand imbalance and you’ve got a situation where the bar is being raised exactly when the competition for the A round is becoming particularly fierce.
The source of seed capital has been changing. In recent years, the amount of seed investment from non-traditional institutional sources has increased dramatically. More and more seed capital is coming from sources like angels, “super angels,” micro-VCs and incubators. To under-score this point, we have close to a thousand separate angels as co-investors in the consumer companies in our less-than-four-year old portfolio. This influx of new capital has arguably had an inflationary impact on seed valuations, which obviously has an initial attraction to many entrepreneurs but can create challenges in a “crunch” scenario. These non-institutional sources of capital are not inclined or structured to potentially help a company secure additional capital in a crunch. And the higher valuations provide a higher hurdle that must be overcome by potential new investors in a crunched company.
The number of potential Series A investors appears to be contracting. The venture business is showing early signs of a significant consolidation. The amount of capital invested has trailed the amount raised for a number of years, and the capital that is being raised is increasingly consolidating among fewer, larger firms. The number of investors who can write that Series A check is starting to fall.
The impact of these factors is playing out before our eyes. We’re seeing more and more potentially promising companies who have spent much of their seed rounds to generate solid early traction, but not the kind of traction that sets them up well for a Series A financing these days given the higher bar. These companies face a brutal situation. They are running low on money. Prospective new investors want more proof, particularly given the higher seed valuations. And many of the existing investors, particularly on the angel side, become “tapped out” or “want to stay diversified” when approached for bridge financing. These companies’ futures are rapidly called into question. It’s been very painful to watch.
So here are a few suggestions for entrepreneurs who are trying to start consumer-oriented Internet businesses:
Movie Moments allows you to edit videos from a touch-friendly interface
Microsoft is tweaking a number of its built-in apps for Windows eight.one,
although the Tunes application seems to include the most changes. A freshly
redesigned copy of the Home windows Retail store in leaked builds of Windows 8.1
has uncovered the new person interface for Xbox Songs. Microsoft formerly
exposed to your Verge that the aim together with the new New music application
is on actively playing music about surfacing new material, noting you can now
perform music in two clicks rather than six.
Screenshots of the new Xbox Songs update display a two panel interface that seems to further improve discoverability of audio and the ability to quickly obtain a collection of tracks. Xbox Music initially launched in Oct for Windows eight and Home windows RT devices, with the power to accessibility tunes from an Xbox 360 also. Despite the fact that the provider consists of hottest tracks and albums, the interface has typically been slow and clunky on Home windows eight and Windows RT units. The current app clearly aims to further improve that, having a "simplified structure and layout" in accordance to Microsoft. There's also a persistent in-app research box with enhanced search results, support for audio documents on SD playing cards, and Participate in To assist for tunes outside from the Xbox New music catalogue.
Microsoft can be incorporating several new built-in apps, together with Calculator, Seem Recorder, Scan, Reading through Checklist, Film Times, and Assist & Tips. Movie Moments allows you to edit videos from a touch-friendly interface, and Studying Checklist acts as a super clipboard to retail store URLs and other snippets from applications. The Seem Recorder, Calculator, and Scan apps are all simplified touch-friendly versions to replace the legacy desktop variants. Aid & Tips will contain many tutorials for new Windows 8.1 users that should make improvements to some of your associated confusion together with the new interface.
Alongside the Xbox Audio redesign and additional apps, the brand new Home windows Store interface has also been spotted in Windows eight.one builds. Microsoft appears to be altering the design of its Keep, alongside improvements to your top paid and top free sections, new releases, and a "picks for you" section that suggests applications based on an existing library. Similar applications are also suggested within app pages, that has a general concentrate on app discoverability. The new Home windows Shop also works well in portrait mode, designed for upcoming 7- and 8-inch tablets. All the improvements will be made available in Windows eight.one, an update that Microsoft will release as a preview version on June 26th alongside its Build developer conference.
Screenshots of the new Xbox Songs update display a two panel interface that seems to further improve discoverability of audio and the ability to quickly obtain a collection of tracks. Xbox Music initially launched in Oct for Windows eight and Home windows RT devices, with the power to accessibility tunes from an Xbox 360 also. Despite the fact that the provider consists of hottest tracks and albums, the interface has typically been slow and clunky on Home windows eight and Windows RT units. The current app clearly aims to further improve that, having a "simplified structure and layout" in accordance to Microsoft. There's also a persistent in-app research box with enhanced search results, support for audio documents on SD playing cards, and Participate in To assist for tunes outside from the Xbox New music catalogue.
Microsoft can be incorporating several new built-in apps, together with Calculator, Seem Recorder, Scan, Reading through Checklist, Film Times, and Assist & Tips. Movie Moments allows you to edit videos from a touch-friendly interface, and Studying Checklist acts as a super clipboard to retail store URLs and other snippets from applications. The Seem Recorder, Calculator, and Scan apps are all simplified touch-friendly versions to replace the legacy desktop variants. Aid & Tips will contain many tutorials for new Windows 8.1 users that should make improvements to some of your associated confusion together with the new interface.
Alongside the Xbox Audio redesign and additional apps, the brand new Home windows Store interface has also been spotted in Windows eight.one builds. Microsoft appears to be altering the design of its Keep, alongside improvements to your top paid and top free sections, new releases, and a "picks for you" section that suggests applications based on an existing library. Similar applications are also suggested within app pages, that has a general concentrate on app discoverability. The new Home windows Shop also works well in portrait mode, designed for upcoming 7- and 8-inch tablets. All the improvements will be made available in Windows eight.one, an update that Microsoft will release as a preview version on June 26th alongside its Build developer conference.
2013年6月7日星期五
Forget Your Fitness Gadget, Whistle Wants to Track Man's Best Friends' Activity
Whistle is jumping into the smart dog collar market with a new device
that tracks your dog's activity and rest patterns. The $99.95 device
works a lot like the ones for humans -- a small wireless device with
sensors clips to your dog's collar. It passively collects data about the
pups' activity and rest throughout the day and then syncs wirelessly
with a smartphone or web app.
The idea is to keep an eye on your dog when you aren't home, but not just for fun. The purpose, the creators say, is to help improve and monitor the health of your dog. The creators say they believe the technology can add years' to a dogs' lives.
"While you might be taking your dog for a walk, his ambient activity when you are away is decreasing. That slight decrease could indicate a health issue depending on the dog," Whistle CEO and co-founder Ben Jacobs told ABC News. Jacobs said that Whistle's secret sauce is in the science running in the background, which can analyze that canine activity.
"We can use Whistle to monitor the impact of a treatment, too. Say your dog has a front line tick, you can see if the dog is scratching less, you can see if the dog's rest is interrupted," Jacobs explained.
The company is working with vets and will provide a portal for vets to log in and see information about their patients.
But just as there are products competing to track your health and fitness, the dog tracker market is no different.
Last year Snaptracs, a subsidiary of Quallcomm, introduced the Tagg dog fitness and GPS tracker. Jacobs says the Whistle, however, is focused primarily on health and working with vets to build the database.
"Their core interest [Snaptracs] is the location feature and the carrier tracking so you don't lose your pet. They are providing an important utility, but the core differentiating factor for us is that science," Jacobs said. "The most important thing to do is provide a comparative database with veterinary backing -- that's what we bring to the table."
Snaptracs' Tagg also costs $99.95, but has a $7.95 monthly data service charge.
The Whistle collar will be available for pre-order today and will ship later this summer. The iPhone app will be available first, with an Android app coming soon after that.
The idea is to keep an eye on your dog when you aren't home, but not just for fun. The purpose, the creators say, is to help improve and monitor the health of your dog. The creators say they believe the technology can add years' to a dogs' lives.
"While you might be taking your dog for a walk, his ambient activity when you are away is decreasing. That slight decrease could indicate a health issue depending on the dog," Whistle CEO and co-founder Ben Jacobs told ABC News. Jacobs said that Whistle's secret sauce is in the science running in the background, which can analyze that canine activity.
"We can use Whistle to monitor the impact of a treatment, too. Say your dog has a front line tick, you can see if the dog is scratching less, you can see if the dog's rest is interrupted," Jacobs explained.
The company is working with vets and will provide a portal for vets to log in and see information about their patients.
But just as there are products competing to track your health and fitness, the dog tracker market is no different.
Last year Snaptracs, a subsidiary of Quallcomm, introduced the Tagg dog fitness and GPS tracker. Jacobs says the Whistle, however, is focused primarily on health and working with vets to build the database.
"Their core interest [Snaptracs] is the location feature and the carrier tracking so you don't lose your pet. They are providing an important utility, but the core differentiating factor for us is that science," Jacobs said. "The most important thing to do is provide a comparative database with veterinary backing -- that's what we bring to the table."
Snaptracs' Tagg also costs $99.95, but has a $7.95 monthly data service charge.
The Whistle collar will be available for pre-order today and will ship later this summer. The iPhone app will be available first, with an Android app coming soon after that.
Attraction keys suggest you can obtain to look
It has been in excess of a year due to the fact I first installed a
establish of Home windows 8 over a take a look at device. Given that then, I've
run it on the big selection of components, such as slate-format tablets, hybrid
touch/pen/keyboard pill PCs, common laptops and multi-monitor desktop PCs ¨C
hardware that mixes the old (with Vista and XP-era products) as well as new (a
just lately upgraded Core i5 desktop program). It has been on Intel processors,
on AMD, on physical, on virtual: on pretty a great deal just about every device
I could obtain while in the business office.
Testing and benchmarking is all quite effectively, however, you only truly get to know an OS by dwelling with it, making use of it each and every day to complete daily duties on your own each day Pc. For me, which means the great old-fashioned desktop Pc.
The vast majority of my time is put in before a multi-monitor desktop device, accurately the configuration that a lot of folks have worried about in comments to varied Windows 8 posts. While desktop end users may well soon be within the minority, there are even now a good amount of us close to. I count on instruments like Business office and Adobe Lightroom they usually count over the desktop ¨C and that?ˉs unlikely to alter right until the equipment improve. So for my desktop Pc, there?ˉs little or no transform amongst seven and eight in the way I work.
Another thing I?ˉve noticed in the months considering the fact that Windows eight attained RTM, its evolution hasn?ˉt ended ¨C and it?ˉs nevertheless recuperating. After i upgraded my desktop from Windows seven to 8 just right after RTM it was to all extents and reasons only a somewhat speedier Home windows 7 machine which has a new UI. But together with the latest 160MB post-RTM update, and using the arrival of some new gadget drivers along with a few of latest pieces of components, it?ˉs becoming one thing alternatively distinctive.
The just one huge modify, not surprisingly, may be the Commence Monitor. As alterations go, it?ˉs an enormous 1, but it?ˉs not the showstopper that some have created it out to generally be. I?ˉve wound up treating it as being a entire display edition from the previous Start out menu, and use it in a great deal a similar way. Much like the start off menu, the beginning Display ends up packed with applications I?ˉve put in, and i sometimes tidy it up. There was a bit work in acquiring it how I preferred to start with, but all over again, starting which has a clean put in of Windows XP or 7 I?ˉd be undertaking substantially the exact same issue ¨C grouping purposes and eliminating references to capabilities or applications I don?ˉt plan to use.
Launching apps is not difficult sufficient. Faucet the Home windows important and begin typing, as soon as the phrase wheel filter reveals your application, just pick and click ¨C or strike return. You?ˉre immediately back on the desktop as well as in the applying you want to use. That?ˉs all there is certainly to it, and if you made use of Vista or 7?ˉs look for box as your primary system of navigation you?ˉll locate the Get started Monitor slightly additional productive as you don?ˉt ought to click on in the research box to begin locating applications or information.
The arrival of the new Microsoft Sculpt Comfort and ease keyboard designed some operations even easier. Whilst Windows 8?ˉs Charms are just a mouse gesture absent, getting them on the keyboard is way less complicated. 4 separate Attraction keys suggest you can obtain to look, Share, Gadgets and Options while not having to move your fingers absent from your keyboard. If you?ˉre employing a Home windows 8 Store-style application, the keyboard also includes four keys that replicate the primary Home windows eight touch gestures. 1 handles a still left swipe software swap, while another toggles the Snap watch for that jogging software. The opposite two start the start Monitor undertaking switcher and open up the app bar.
Testing and benchmarking is all quite effectively, however, you only truly get to know an OS by dwelling with it, making use of it each and every day to complete daily duties on your own each day Pc. For me, which means the great old-fashioned desktop Pc.
The vast majority of my time is put in before a multi-monitor desktop device, accurately the configuration that a lot of folks have worried about in comments to varied Windows 8 posts. While desktop end users may well soon be within the minority, there are even now a good amount of us close to. I count on instruments like Business office and Adobe Lightroom they usually count over the desktop ¨C and that?ˉs unlikely to alter right until the equipment improve. So for my desktop Pc, there?ˉs little or no transform amongst seven and eight in the way I work.
Another thing I?ˉve noticed in the months considering the fact that Windows eight attained RTM, its evolution hasn?ˉt ended ¨C and it?ˉs nevertheless recuperating. After i upgraded my desktop from Windows seven to 8 just right after RTM it was to all extents and reasons only a somewhat speedier Home windows 7 machine which has a new UI. But together with the latest 160MB post-RTM update, and using the arrival of some new gadget drivers along with a few of latest pieces of components, it?ˉs becoming one thing alternatively distinctive.
The just one huge modify, not surprisingly, may be the Commence Monitor. As alterations go, it?ˉs an enormous 1, but it?ˉs not the showstopper that some have created it out to generally be. I?ˉve wound up treating it as being a entire display edition from the previous Start out menu, and use it in a great deal a similar way. Much like the start off menu, the beginning Display ends up packed with applications I?ˉve put in, and i sometimes tidy it up. There was a bit work in acquiring it how I preferred to start with, but all over again, starting which has a clean put in of Windows XP or 7 I?ˉd be undertaking substantially the exact same issue ¨C grouping purposes and eliminating references to capabilities or applications I don?ˉt plan to use.
Launching apps is not difficult sufficient. Faucet the Home windows important and begin typing, as soon as the phrase wheel filter reveals your application, just pick and click ¨C or strike return. You?ˉre immediately back on the desktop as well as in the applying you want to use. That?ˉs all there is certainly to it, and if you made use of Vista or 7?ˉs look for box as your primary system of navigation you?ˉll locate the Get started Monitor slightly additional productive as you don?ˉt ought to click on in the research box to begin locating applications or information.
The arrival of the new Microsoft Sculpt Comfort and ease keyboard designed some operations even easier. Whilst Windows 8?ˉs Charms are just a mouse gesture absent, getting them on the keyboard is way less complicated. 4 separate Attraction keys suggest you can obtain to look, Share, Gadgets and Options while not having to move your fingers absent from your keyboard. If you?ˉre employing a Home windows 8 Store-style application, the keyboard also includes four keys that replicate the primary Home windows eight touch gestures. 1 handles a still left swipe software swap, while another toggles the Snap watch for that jogging software. The opposite two start the start Monitor undertaking switcher and open up the app bar.
2013年6月3日星期一
Google says 'no' to sexually explicit content on Glass
Google Glass can, in theory, be used for lots of things, but sexually
explicit material is one area now off limits to developers.
“We don’t allow Glassware content that contains nudity, graphic sex acts or sexually explicit material,” according to Google’s Glass platform developer policies, which were updated Saturday to offer more information about what developers can and cannot do with the software they make for Glass, which Google refers to as “Glassware.”
Google’s clarified stance comes just as a Glass pornography app, called “Tits and Glass,” made by four developers at MiKandi, a mobile app store for adult content, launched Monday. Prior to Monday, Google’s glass developer policies did not specifically address sexual content.
The app, which purports to be the first adult software for Glass, lets users “share racy content from their devices directly to other Glass users and online” at the app website, its developers said. The software also comes preloaded with “premium adult photos,” with more adult content recorded using Google Glass on the way, Seattle-based MiKandi said in an announcement.
MiKandi only became aware of the new developer policies after its app was launched. As of press time, they had not been directly contacted by Google. As for whether the updated policies may change the company’s plans, “we’re discussing that right now,” said MiKandi co-founder and Glass porn developer Jesse Adams.
Google Glass is worn like regular glasses. The device, which currently is in the hands of several thousand people who paid $1500 to be among its first testers, includes a small, square display that hangs in front of the wearer’s right eye, next to a tiny camera.
The device has not been released to the general public, but critics have raised questions about privacy, such as the extent to which Glass is capable of gathering personal information about people nearby.
The company so far has largely stood back to let developers shape the direction of Glass applications. But some of the controversy surrounding Glass, including the recently updated developer policies, shows that, in some areas at least, Google will step in to draw more lines in the developer sandbox.
“Google must be afraid of how powerful their own Glasses are,” MiKandi’s Adams said.
Even without developers steering Glass into risque territory, the product is already feared by some as a tool for stalkers, perverts and pedophiles.
Several weeks ago, members of a U.S. congressional group on privacy wrote to Google CEO Larry Page requesting information about a host of issues, such as whether the company is considering revising its privacy policy to account for the sensory functions present in Glass.
In addition to sexually explicit material, Google also bans violence, bullying, hate speech, deceptive behavior, gambling and outright illegal activities, among other content types, on Glass.
Violations of its developer policies are violations of Glass’ API terms of service, Google says, “and can result in the disablement or removal of your application, being prohibited from providing future applications, or termination of your Google account.”
Still, MiKandi hopes to stay in the adult content space on Glass. “We’re not going to just stop,” Adams said. “We have to think about our next strategy.”
“We don’t allow Glassware content that contains nudity, graphic sex acts or sexually explicit material,” according to Google’s Glass platform developer policies, which were updated Saturday to offer more information about what developers can and cannot do with the software they make for Glass, which Google refers to as “Glassware.”
Google’s clarified stance comes just as a Glass pornography app, called “Tits and Glass,” made by four developers at MiKandi, a mobile app store for adult content, launched Monday. Prior to Monday, Google’s glass developer policies did not specifically address sexual content.
The app, which purports to be the first adult software for Glass, lets users “share racy content from their devices directly to other Glass users and online” at the app website, its developers said. The software also comes preloaded with “premium adult photos,” with more adult content recorded using Google Glass on the way, Seattle-based MiKandi said in an announcement.
MiKandi only became aware of the new developer policies after its app was launched. As of press time, they had not been directly contacted by Google. As for whether the updated policies may change the company’s plans, “we’re discussing that right now,” said MiKandi co-founder and Glass porn developer Jesse Adams.
Google Glass is worn like regular glasses. The device, which currently is in the hands of several thousand people who paid $1500 to be among its first testers, includes a small, square display that hangs in front of the wearer’s right eye, next to a tiny camera.
The device has not been released to the general public, but critics have raised questions about privacy, such as the extent to which Glass is capable of gathering personal information about people nearby.
The company so far has largely stood back to let developers shape the direction of Glass applications. But some of the controversy surrounding Glass, including the recently updated developer policies, shows that, in some areas at least, Google will step in to draw more lines in the developer sandbox.
“Google must be afraid of how powerful their own Glasses are,” MiKandi’s Adams said.
Even without developers steering Glass into risque territory, the product is already feared by some as a tool for stalkers, perverts and pedophiles.
Several weeks ago, members of a U.S. congressional group on privacy wrote to Google CEO Larry Page requesting information about a host of issues, such as whether the company is considering revising its privacy policy to account for the sensory functions present in Glass.
In addition to sexually explicit material, Google also bans violence, bullying, hate speech, deceptive behavior, gambling and outright illegal activities, among other content types, on Glass.
Violations of its developer policies are violations of Glass’ API terms of service, Google says, “and can result in the disablement or removal of your application, being prohibited from providing future applications, or termination of your Google account.”
Still, MiKandi hopes to stay in the adult content space on Glass. “We’re not going to just stop,” Adams said. “We have to think about our next strategy.”
Microsoft built Home windows 8 to make sure that it could electrical
While Web Apps refers to its month to month quantities as “market share
studies,” they definitely characterize utilization share, which is not similar
to industry share. Market share measures income and/or shipments in a provided
period of time. It’s a snapshot on the getting decisions people make in
aggressive marketplaces.
Utilization share actions the actions on the set up base. Inside the experienced Computer system market place, which consists of approximately 1.5 billion desktop and portable PCs, newcomers have an uphill fight to even get around the board. Measuring utilization share offers an oblique evaluate of sales, but it surely requires get the job done to tease out the bigger tendencies.
Home windows eight is slowly and gradually but steadily growing its share of utilization around the globe. In Could, based on the NetMarketShare stats, Windows eight usage amplified from three.eight p.c to 4.3 %. That rate has remained with regards to the same given that February, the 1st whole month after Microsoft’s discounted upgrade offer you finished. Since then, NetMarketShare suggests Home windows 8 use has improved by a mean of about 0.5 percent per 30 days.
Windows seven advancement stopped on the dime using the release of Windows 8. In Oct 2012, Windows 7 use was at 44.seven p.c. In Could, seven months afterwards, it is up an inconsequential quantity, to forty four.eight %. Before this yr I named Windows 7 the “Long-Term Guidance edition of Windows.” I forecast it will eventually stay well known, specifically in enterprises, for years to come back.
Home windows Vista and Home windows XP are declining little by little. Collectively, these two versions shared about 46.five percent on the worldwide use share in October of final yr, prior to Home windows eight released. 7 months later on, they stand for 42.two p.c. That provides nearly a 4.three % fall, which just comes about to match the share of Windows eight properly.
Home windows customers are not deserting the platform for OS X and Linux. Previous Oct, OS X and Linux utilization extra as many as eight.3 p.c. 7 months just after the start of Windows eight, the put together share hasn't budged and is also nevertheless at eight.3 percent.
Desktop browser utilization shares (which are not as closely tied to new Pc purchases) have also remained typically unchanged in new months. For May well, NetMarketShare reports that Net Explorer held a fifty six p.c share, in comparison to twenty.six % for Firefox and fifteen.seven percent for Chrome. In comparison to final October, that is a slight favourable shift for World-wide-web Explorer, which was at 54.one %, and for Firefox, which amplified from an excellent 20 per cent. NetMarketShare stories a visible fall in around the globe use for Chrome, which experienced been at 18.six per cent.
Are this month’s figures great news or terrible news for Microsoft? Neither, actually. The preliminary bump from early adopters and lovers occurred within the initially a few months following the start of Home windows eight, when Microsoft presented a significantly discounted enhance to Windows eight Pro.
Nearly all people who supposed to upgrade to Home windows 8 has previously done so. That leaves the substitute Personal computer market. Approximately 650 million people today who personal Home windows 7 PCs which are a few many years outdated or more recent have no designs to alter their components or software any time quickly. Those that are changing more mature PCs are, on the whole, shopping for new equipment with Windows eight preinstalled, whilst they’re grumbling a bit more than regular.
Heading ahead, the fate of Windows eight is tied to sales of new hardware, which includes each regular PCs and new mobile equipment like tablets, hybrids, and Ultrabooks.
The normal Laptop market is, to place it mildly, not executing nicely. During the very first quarter of this year, Pc gross sales dropped by fourteen % in contrast to your similar period past yr. Men and women remain buying PCs, but they’re keeping on to them extended and ever more selecting smartphones, tablets, along with other cellular units to take care of computing duties they made use of to complete using the Computer system.
Microsoft built Home windows 8 to make sure that it could electrical power all those nontraditional mobile devices, calculating that it could make up to the decrease in traditional Laptop profits with shipments of latest Home windows 8-powered products inside the pill class. But touch-enabled Windows laptops and tablets are just beginning to seem on the market, they usually even now make up much less than thirty p.c of Home windows PCs over the sector.
Everything could change later this yr. The following wave of Home windows 8 equipment will be manufactured up of smaller sized tablets much like the Acer Iconia W3-810, which sporting activities an 8.1-inch display screen. Home windows eight was built with 10-inch screens in your mind, using a sturdy bias in favor of landscape orientation. Windows 8.1 specially supports lower resolutions and choice element ratios. Furthermore, it will make other alterations into the habits of apps that should help it become a good range for anyone mini-tablets.
If all those devices are priced right, they could be considered a big achievements. Within the meantime, nothing is likely to alter upcoming thirty day period, or even the month immediately after that.
Utilization share actions the actions on the set up base. Inside the experienced Computer system market place, which consists of approximately 1.5 billion desktop and portable PCs, newcomers have an uphill fight to even get around the board. Measuring utilization share offers an oblique evaluate of sales, but it surely requires get the job done to tease out the bigger tendencies.
Home windows eight is slowly and gradually but steadily growing its share of utilization around the globe. In Could, based on the NetMarketShare stats, Windows eight usage amplified from three.eight p.c to 4.3 %. That rate has remained with regards to the same given that February, the 1st whole month after Microsoft’s discounted upgrade offer you finished. Since then, NetMarketShare suggests Home windows 8 use has improved by a mean of about 0.5 percent per 30 days.
Windows seven advancement stopped on the dime using the release of Windows 8. In Oct 2012, Windows 7 use was at 44.seven p.c. In Could, seven months afterwards, it is up an inconsequential quantity, to forty four.eight %. Before this yr I named Windows 7 the “Long-Term Guidance edition of Windows.” I forecast it will eventually stay well known, specifically in enterprises, for years to come back.
Home windows Vista and Home windows XP are declining little by little. Collectively, these two versions shared about 46.five percent on the worldwide use share in October of final yr, prior to Home windows eight released. 7 months later on, they stand for 42.two p.c. That provides nearly a 4.three % fall, which just comes about to match the share of Windows eight properly.
Home windows customers are not deserting the platform for OS X and Linux. Previous Oct, OS X and Linux utilization extra as many as eight.3 p.c. 7 months just after the start of Windows eight, the put together share hasn't budged and is also nevertheless at eight.3 percent.
Desktop browser utilization shares (which are not as closely tied to new Pc purchases) have also remained typically unchanged in new months. For May well, NetMarketShare reports that Net Explorer held a fifty six p.c share, in comparison to twenty.six % for Firefox and fifteen.seven percent for Chrome. In comparison to final October, that is a slight favourable shift for World-wide-web Explorer, which was at 54.one %, and for Firefox, which amplified from an excellent 20 per cent. NetMarketShare stories a visible fall in around the globe use for Chrome, which experienced been at 18.six per cent.
Are this month’s figures great news or terrible news for Microsoft? Neither, actually. The preliminary bump from early adopters and lovers occurred within the initially a few months following the start of Home windows eight, when Microsoft presented a significantly discounted enhance to Windows eight Pro.
Nearly all people who supposed to upgrade to Home windows 8 has previously done so. That leaves the substitute Personal computer market. Approximately 650 million people today who personal Home windows 7 PCs which are a few many years outdated or more recent have no designs to alter their components or software any time quickly. Those that are changing more mature PCs are, on the whole, shopping for new equipment with Windows eight preinstalled, whilst they’re grumbling a bit more than regular.
Heading ahead, the fate of Windows eight is tied to sales of new hardware, which includes each regular PCs and new mobile equipment like tablets, hybrids, and Ultrabooks.
The normal Laptop market is, to place it mildly, not executing nicely. During the very first quarter of this year, Pc gross sales dropped by fourteen % in contrast to your similar period past yr. Men and women remain buying PCs, but they’re keeping on to them extended and ever more selecting smartphones, tablets, along with other cellular units to take care of computing duties they made use of to complete using the Computer system.
Microsoft built Home windows 8 to make sure that it could electrical power all those nontraditional mobile devices, calculating that it could make up to the decrease in traditional Laptop profits with shipments of latest Home windows 8-powered products inside the pill class. But touch-enabled Windows laptops and tablets are just beginning to seem on the market, they usually even now make up much less than thirty p.c of Home windows PCs over the sector.
Everything could change later this yr. The following wave of Home windows 8 equipment will be manufactured up of smaller sized tablets much like the Acer Iconia W3-810, which sporting activities an 8.1-inch display screen. Home windows eight was built with 10-inch screens in your mind, using a sturdy bias in favor of landscape orientation. Windows 8.1 specially supports lower resolutions and choice element ratios. Furthermore, it will make other alterations into the habits of apps that should help it become a good range for anyone mini-tablets.
If all those devices are priced right, they could be considered a big achievements. Within the meantime, nothing is likely to alter upcoming thirty day period, or even the month immediately after that.
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