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Google Reportedly Working With Warby Parker to Make “Glass” Stylish
Google is reportedly working with Warby Parker, a popular eyeglass company that sells its trendy wares online, to design “more-fashionable frames” for its “Glass” headset, according to anonymous sources who spoke with the New York Times on Thursday.
Founded a mite two years ago, Warby Parker made its mark not only by selling its spectacles—prescription lenses and shipping included—for a then-unheard of $95, but also for its TOMS-like “one for one” business model. (To wit, for every pair of frames purchased, Warby Parker donates another to someone in need.) Google is obviously gunning to make Glass a status accessory.
The device made its New York Fashion Week debut in September when models wore colored versions at Diane von Furstenberg’s runway show.
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Google Reportedly Working With Warby Parker to Make “Glass” Stylish
Google is reportedly working with Warby Parker, a popular eyeglass company that sells its trendy wares online, to design “more-fashionable frames” for its “Glass” headset, according to anonymous sources who spoke with the New York Times on Thursday.
Founded a mite two years ago, Warby Parker made its mark not only by selling its spectacles—prescription lenses and shipping included—for a then-unheard of $95, but also for its TOMS-like “one for one” business model. (To wit, for every pair of frames purchased, Warby Parker donates another to someone in need.) Google is obviously gunning to make Glass a status accessory.
The device made its New York Fashion Week debut in September when models wore colored versions at Diane von Furstenberg’s runway show.
Google Glass To Feature Own Voice Controlled App Library
Yes, Google Glass is going to be the next potential big thing that will cause a great divide among privacy advocates, as a dive bar in Seattle has already introduced a ban on Google Glass before it has even been released officially, with very good reasons backing up that decision. Well, Google did make an appearance in Texas at South By Southwest (SXSW) on Monday, making the announcement that Google Glass will come with its very own library of apps that users are able to pick and choose from, including a voice controlled app library.
It is also emphasized that apps which were specially developed for Google Glass will be heavily condensed, stressing on the device’s voice, camera, and text-to-speech capabilities as the main strengths. For instance, news apps including The New York Times will show headlines, where you can then “read” the full story simply by speaking an instruction to Glass for it to read aloud. What do you think of such developments where Google Glass is concerned? Will it be able to take off in the big way that Google envisions, or will it be a flop like the Nexus Q?
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Google Glass To Feature Own Voice Controlled App Library
Yes, Google Glass is going to be the next potential big thing that will cause a great divide among privacy advocates, as a dive bar in Seattle has already introduced a ban on Google Glass before it has even been released officially, with very good reasons backing up that decision. Well, Google did make an appearance in Texas at South By Southwest (SXSW) on Monday, making the announcement that Google Glass will come with its very own library of apps that users are able to pick and choose from, including a voice controlled app library.
It is also emphasized that apps which were specially developed for Google Glass will be heavily condensed, stressing on the device’s voice, camera, and text-to-speech capabilities as the main strengths. For instance, news apps including The New York Times will show headlines, where you can then “read” the full story simply by speaking an instruction to Glass for it to read aloud. What do you think of such developments where Google Glass is concerned? Will it be able to take off in the big way that Google envisions, or will it be a flop like the Nexus Q?
Wireless Charging Pad!
Metrans MWT01 Wireless Charger Qi Charging Pad for Samsung Galaxy S3 i9300 with Receiver - WhiteUltimate user comfort - Phone-like size, super lightweight, super thin and comfort touchEasy to use - No cables, connectors or docking required to connect pad to device, and be freely placed on the padExtra USB output port - Charge extra device at the same time
Sustainability - Ultra low standby power, once device is fully charged, the pad automatically shuts down
For other details and purchase Please visit:http://bit.ly/Zesy4A
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Wireless Charging Pad!
Metrans MWT01 Wireless Charger Qi Charging Pad for Samsung Galaxy S3 i9300 with Receiver - WhiteUltimate user comfort - Phone-like size, super lightweight, super thin and comfort touchEasy to use - No cables, connectors or docking required to connect pad to device, and be freely placed on the padExtra USB output port - Charge extra device at the same time
Sustainability - Ultra low standby power, once device is fully charged, the pad automatically shuts down
For other details and purchase Please visit:http://bit.ly/Zesy4A
LED Intelligent Bedside Lamp Sensor Night Light Desk Lamp Magic Tray Light - White Light
This is a tray that lights up, like a sheet of white paper floating in darkness. Just touch the side of the tray itself and it turns on. It makes it so easy to find your glasses or cell phone at night. You could also make it greet you at the entrance when you come home at night. For purchase and detailed specifications please visit:http://bit.ly/XqSDht
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LED Intelligent Bedside Lamp Sensor Night Light Desk Lamp Magic Tray Light - White Light
This is a tray that lights up, like a sheet of white paper floating in darkness. Just touch the side of the tray itself and it turns on. It makes it so easy to find your glasses or cell phone at night. You could also make it greet you at the entrance when you come home at night. For purchase and detailed specifications please visit:http://bit.ly/XqSDht
Neurowear Mico Headphones Plays Songs To Match Your Mood
I am quite sure that you have been impressed by us bringing news of Neurowear products in the past, and from the name of the company itself, one can easily deduce that their main expertise lies in rolling out hardware that is somehow connected to the brain, and we are able to control them to a certain degree with but the power of thought. Neurowear’s latest attempt at making more use of your brain comes in the form of the Mico headphones which will feature an integrated brainwave sensor that enables it to detect the wearer’s mood, and once that is said and done, it will comb through its database of songs and play a matching tune.
The Mico headphones do resemble your everyday, over-the-ear headphones, although certain quarters might claim that it is a wee bit more bulky than normal. Neurowear has thrown in an EEG (electroencephalograph) sensor that protrudes from the front, where it will analyze the wearer’s brain patterns, and establishing the current mood. A high tech mood ring, so to speak, but we have absolutely no idea as to when the Mico headphones will be released officially.
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Neurowear Mico Headphones Plays Songs To Match Your Mood
I am quite sure that you have been impressed by us bringing news of Neurowear products in the past, and from the name of the company itself, one can easily deduce that their main expertise lies in rolling out hardware that is somehow connected to the brain, and we are able to control them to a certain degree with but the power of thought. Neurowear’s latest attempt at making more use of your brain comes in the form of the Mico headphones which will feature an integrated brainwave sensor that enables it to detect the wearer’s mood, and once that is said and done, it will comb through its database of songs and play a matching tune.
The Mico headphones do resemble your everyday, over-the-ear headphones, although certain quarters might claim that it is a wee bit more bulky than normal. Neurowear has thrown in an EEG (electroencephalograph) sensor that protrudes from the front, where it will analyze the wearer’s brain patterns, and establishing the current mood. A high tech mood ring, so to speak, but we have absolutely no idea as to when the Mico headphones will be released officially.
Will the new BlackBerry click in the Indian smartphone market?
The Indian smartphone segment is expected to see frenetic activity this year as new BlackBerry 10 devices begin jostling for share in an Android-dominated market with the launch of the flagship phone Z10 on 25 February in India.While BlackBerry executives did not confirm the India price during their briefing on 13 February at their Waterloo headquarters in Canada, reports peg the Z10’s price at around Rs.39,000. Research in Motion Ltd. was renamed BlackBerry on 30 January.
BlackBerry has not fared well worldwide and analysts believe the steep price of the Z10 may not help in a price-sensitive market like India.
A total of 5.5 million smartphones were shipped (not necessarily sold) in the January-July 2012 period in India. Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd led with a 41.6% share, followed by Nokia India Pvt. Ltd’s 19.2% and Blackberry’s 12.1%, according to a report by CyberMedia Research (CMR) in October.
Google Inc.’s Android operating system had a 56.4% share among operating systems followed by Nokia’s Symbian with 17.4%. Apple Inc.’s iOS was way behind with a 3% share while Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Mobile (the Nokia Lumia range of phones) garnered 2.6%, the CMR report said.
According to research firm Convergence Catalyst estimates, BlackBerry’s smartphone market share fell from around 15% in 2011 to less than 8% in 2012 in India.
Globally, the scene is worse. Research firm Gartner Inc., which predicted sales of worldwide smartphone sales to end- users would touch 1 billion units in 2013 in its 13 February report, revealed that Samsung was the leader in both worldwide smartphone and overall mobile phone sales in the December quarter.
Moreover, in the smartphone operating system market, Android captured more than 50%, growing 87.8% in the December quarter, while RIM declined 44.4%, primarily because companies allow employees to “bring your own device”(BYOD), which allows employees to use their personal cellphones for office use by implementing certain levels of security.
Regardless, Thorsten Heins, president and chief executive officer of BlackBerry, believes the Q10 and the Z10—smartphones based on the new BlackBerry 10 platform—will help resurrect the company’s fortunes. While the Z10 is a touch-based phone, the Q10 is Qwerty-based.
“You cannot win in a mature market if you’re a ‘Me Too’ (referring to the strategy of competitors). Our 80 million subscribers want us to be successful and this new platform will help us do so by making us a leader in the mobile computing segment,” he said. Reiterating that India “is one of our very important growth markets”, he said “India is not only about cheap phones.”
Kristian Tear, chief operating officer, said India is roughly a $4 billion market for smartphones that cost over $500 even though it pales in comparison with China (pegged at $40 billion) and the US (around $60 billion).
“BlackBerry remains the most secure platform for enterprises. With Balance (the ability to segregate user and enterprise information), it is resonating with individual users too in the BYOD era,” Tear added.
Without giving numbers because of the company is in the so-called silent period ahead of its earnings announcement, Heins said the launch (of Z10 and Q10 in the Canadian and UK markets in January) “was very successful and better than expected”.
Executives also say they have taken steps to make BlackBerry devices more appealing.
Vivek Bharadvaj, head of software at BlackBerry, said, “We have understood that BlackBerry is not for everyone, all of which helped in designing the new platform (BB10). We had to retain our loyal users, hence the thumb was the unifying factor. We moved away from the common smartphone experience of one app at a time. Now you can continue to open up apps just like you would do it on your computer to another to offer a hyperconnected experience”.
He added that when users buy a BB10 device and set up their email box, “we index the email messages and learn the vocabulary to predict common usage of words”. BB10 also has multilingual prediction, he said, adding, “We have a personalized language model, which is agnostic to language. You can enable up to three languages. A road map is being drawn up for Indian languages too.”
To strengthen the app ecosystem, Marty Mallick, vice president, global alliances and business development, said the company has more than 1,000 global alliances.
“Two years back, we had nothing. Now we have 70,000 apps. In March, we will have beyond 100,000 apps,” said Mallick, adding that the key app categories include gaming, multimedia, published media, business and productivity, social, sports and lifestyle.
BlackBerry’s app ecosystem pales in comparison to Apple’s more than 700,000 apps and Android’s 675,000 but Mallick countered that “very few apps succeed. Around 95% of usage is spent on the top 5% of apps. Hence we focus on the important few.”
BlackBerry has also “enhanced real-time engagement with BBM (BlackBerry Messenger)video that allows for face-to-face conversation as also a group-facing camera with screen share to create a more engaging user experience”, according to Sumit Parab, senior product manager.
Todd Wood, senior vice president of design, added that the overall aim was to “create a cinematic experience with minimal design”, which Don Lindsay, vice president of user experience design, explained was “not about movies but something that fills the screen and every pixel of display.”
BlackBerry has also integrated fragmented regional marketing units under the global leadership of Frank Boulben, the company’s chief marketing officer. “You will soon see the results of this effort,” said Heins.
BlackBerry has simultaneously strengthened its enterprise offering. “BB enterprise service 10 is fully ready at launch. It supports iOS and Android devices, and with Balance, it secures corporate data without restricting a user’s personal experience (to counter the BYOD trend),” said Bob Dawson, vice president of enterprise software programmes.
Will these measures be enough to help BlackBerry regain its stature in a highly competitive smartphone market in which companies such as Apple (iPhone), Samsung (S3 and Note), Google (Nexus4) and Nokia Lumia 920 are gaining ground in the enterprise space—once BlackBerry’s stronghold?
“BlackBerry enjoys a relatively (compared to global markets) strong brand equity in India. BB10 and Z10 could potentially re-strengthen its brand but RIM has a lot of work to do,” said Jayanth Kolla, founder and partner at research firm Convergence Catalyst.
He pointed out that Apple recently stepped up marketing efforts in India, especially with the iPhone 5—appointing distributors, increasing marketing and sales besides offering equated monthly instalments or EMI-based purchase options for the iPhone 5 and iPads.
Besides this, “BlackBerry will also have to compete with the increasing significance of Indian device brands in the smartphone space, especially, in the $150-250 price range. We estimate that the total smartphone share of Indian brands, which was a mere 1-2% in January 2012, has shot up to 25-30% in the December quarter. We see their influence and market share growing into 2013,” Kolla said.
(Author: Leslie D’Monte. Link:http://www.livemint.com/Consumer/r4a43IP9ciFkAGODJFJe9I/Will-the-new-BlackBerry-click-in-the-Indian-smartphone-marke.html. The author’s trip to Waterloo was sponsored by BlackBerry)
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Will the new BlackBerry click in the Indian smartphone market?
The Indian smartphone segment is expected to see frenetic activity this year as new BlackBerry 10 devices begin jostling for share in an Android-dominated market with the launch of the flagship phone Z10 on 25 February in India.While BlackBerry executives did not confirm the India price during their briefing on 13 February at their Waterloo headquarters in Canada, reports peg the Z10’s price at around Rs.39,000. Research in Motion Ltd. was renamed BlackBerry on 30 January.
BlackBerry has not fared well worldwide and analysts believe the steep price of the Z10 may not help in a price-sensitive market like India.
A total of 5.5 million smartphones were shipped (not necessarily sold) in the January-July 2012 period in India. Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd led with a 41.6% share, followed by Nokia India Pvt. Ltd’s 19.2% and Blackberry’s 12.1%, according to a report by CyberMedia Research (CMR) in October.
Google Inc.’s Android operating system had a 56.4% share among operating systems followed by Nokia’s Symbian with 17.4%. Apple Inc.’s iOS was way behind with a 3% share while Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Mobile (the Nokia Lumia range of phones) garnered 2.6%, the CMR report said.
According to research firm Convergence Catalyst estimates, BlackBerry’s smartphone market share fell from around 15% in 2011 to less than 8% in 2012 in India.
Globally, the scene is worse. Research firm Gartner Inc., which predicted sales of worldwide smartphone sales to end- users would touch 1 billion units in 2013 in its 13 February report, revealed that Samsung was the leader in both worldwide smartphone and overall mobile phone sales in the December quarter.
Moreover, in the smartphone operating system market, Android captured more than 50%, growing 87.8% in the December quarter, while RIM declined 44.4%, primarily because companies allow employees to “bring your own device”(BYOD), which allows employees to use their personal cellphones for office use by implementing certain levels of security.
Regardless, Thorsten Heins, president and chief executive officer of BlackBerry, believes the Q10 and the Z10—smartphones based on the new BlackBerry 10 platform—will help resurrect the company’s fortunes. While the Z10 is a touch-based phone, the Q10 is Qwerty-based.
“You cannot win in a mature market if you’re a ‘Me Too’ (referring to the strategy of competitors). Our 80 million subscribers want us to be successful and this new platform will help us do so by making us a leader in the mobile computing segment,” he said. Reiterating that India “is one of our very important growth markets”, he said “India is not only about cheap phones.”
Kristian Tear, chief operating officer, said India is roughly a $4 billion market for smartphones that cost over $500 even though it pales in comparison with China (pegged at $40 billion) and the US (around $60 billion).
“BlackBerry remains the most secure platform for enterprises. With Balance (the ability to segregate user and enterprise information), it is resonating with individual users too in the BYOD era,” Tear added.
Without giving numbers because of the company is in the so-called silent period ahead of its earnings announcement, Heins said the launch (of Z10 and Q10 in the Canadian and UK markets in January) “was very successful and better than expected”.
Executives also say they have taken steps to make BlackBerry devices more appealing.
Vivek Bharadvaj, head of software at BlackBerry, said, “We have understood that BlackBerry is not for everyone, all of which helped in designing the new platform (BB10). We had to retain our loyal users, hence the thumb was the unifying factor. We moved away from the common smartphone experience of one app at a time. Now you can continue to open up apps just like you would do it on your computer to another to offer a hyperconnected experience”.
He added that when users buy a BB10 device and set up their email box, “we index the email messages and learn the vocabulary to predict common usage of words”. BB10 also has multilingual prediction, he said, adding, “We have a personalized language model, which is agnostic to language. You can enable up to three languages. A road map is being drawn up for Indian languages too.”
To strengthen the app ecosystem, Marty Mallick, vice president, global alliances and business development, said the company has more than 1,000 global alliances.
“Two years back, we had nothing. Now we have 70,000 apps. In March, we will have beyond 100,000 apps,” said Mallick, adding that the key app categories include gaming, multimedia, published media, business and productivity, social, sports and lifestyle.
BlackBerry’s app ecosystem pales in comparison to Apple’s more than 700,000 apps and Android’s 675,000 but Mallick countered that “very few apps succeed. Around 95% of usage is spent on the top 5% of apps. Hence we focus on the important few.”
BlackBerry has also “enhanced real-time engagement with BBM (BlackBerry Messenger)video that allows for face-to-face conversation as also a group-facing camera with screen share to create a more engaging user experience”, according to Sumit Parab, senior product manager.
Todd Wood, senior vice president of design, added that the overall aim was to “create a cinematic experience with minimal design”, which Don Lindsay, vice president of user experience design, explained was “not about movies but something that fills the screen and every pixel of display.”
BlackBerry has also integrated fragmented regional marketing units under the global leadership of Frank Boulben, the company’s chief marketing officer. “You will soon see the results of this effort,” said Heins.
BlackBerry has simultaneously strengthened its enterprise offering. “BB enterprise service 10 is fully ready at launch. It supports iOS and Android devices, and with Balance, it secures corporate data without restricting a user’s personal experience (to counter the BYOD trend),” said Bob Dawson, vice president of enterprise software programmes.
Will these measures be enough to help BlackBerry regain its stature in a highly competitive smartphone market in which companies such as Apple (iPhone), Samsung (S3 and Note), Google (Nexus4) and Nokia Lumia 920 are gaining ground in the enterprise space—once BlackBerry’s stronghold?
“BlackBerry enjoys a relatively (compared to global markets) strong brand equity in India. BB10 and Z10 could potentially re-strengthen its brand but RIM has a lot of work to do,” said Jayanth Kolla, founder and partner at research firm Convergence Catalyst.
He pointed out that Apple recently stepped up marketing efforts in India, especially with the iPhone 5—appointing distributors, increasing marketing and sales besides offering equated monthly instalments or EMI-based purchase options for the iPhone 5 and iPads.
Besides this, “BlackBerry will also have to compete with the increasing significance of Indian device brands in the smartphone space, especially, in the $150-250 price range. We estimate that the total smartphone share of Indian brands, which was a mere 1-2% in January 2012, has shot up to 25-30% in the December quarter. We see their influence and market share growing into 2013,” Kolla said.
(Author: Leslie D’Monte. Link:http://www.livemint.com/Consumer/r4a43IP9ciFkAGODJFJe9I/Will-the-new-BlackBerry-click-in-the-Indian-smartphone-marke.html. The author’s trip to Waterloo was sponsored by BlackBerry)
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