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Buying technology from startups: what marketing execs look for before they take the plunge

Debbie Landa — Tue, 21 May 2013 22:13:45 +0000

Sponsored Post We spoke to Aubrey Sabala, VP of marketing for "smart data" company Sailthru, to find out how she's experiencing the shift from CIO to CMO-driven sales.

How the web & apps are changing your brain

Jolie O'Dell — Tue, 21 May 2013 22:00:41 +0000

If you've ever spent more than 30 seconds thinking about it, you probably already assume that Google sort of acts as an external hard drive for your own gray matter. But does that mean we're getting dumber? Or just that we're thinking smarter, not harder?

For startups, health care reform is a huge opportunity, HHS tech guy says

Dylan Tweney — Tue, 21 May 2013 21:45:29 +0000

The Affordable Care Act, aka health care reform, aka Obamacare, is spurring a massive creation of new business opportunities, according to the HHS chief technical officer, Bryan Sivak.

Avoiding sucking: How to make an app people actually want to use

Derek Henninger — Tue, 21 May 2013 21:42:56 +0000

Guest Post Ultimately, the world is witnessing a fundamental phase shift in the way applications are built and designed. Keeping these new basics in mind will let you create and deploy robust apps that people actually want to use -- and can use, crash-free.

Twitter granted pull-to-refresh patent that everyone already uses (and sort of gives it away)

John Koetsier — Tue, 21 May 2013 21:28:53 +0000

The developer of pull-to-refresh was so concerned about how Twitter would use his patent that he asked Twitter to agree with him -- as part of the terms of the sale of his company -- that it would never use the patent offensively.

Qualcomm Life is building the future of health care

Lauren Wagner — Tue, 21 May 2013 21:13:15 +0000

Qualcomm Life is committed to on-demand healthcare (like what we expect from our technology) and plans to pilot ideas for the future of health systems on their employees.

Xbox One trailer roundup — see the system, games, and more

Jeffrey Grubb — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:59:38 +0000

All of the videos from today's Xbox One event.

Pandora starts playing music from unreleased albums

Tom Cheredar — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:48:16 +0000

The new station marks an important step in Pandora's attempt to become just as vital to the music industry as the traditional radio stations were decades earlier.

Ingress app gets a major update

Jerry Hildenbrand — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:43:13 +0000

Major update delivers new features and support for new animations, notifications, bug fixes

Ingress, everyone's favorite sci-fi virtual reality simulation game, got a major update this afternoon. Everything you love about the game is still there, with less bugs, but a couple very nice features were added.

Portal health and faction control info on Portal Keys in the Inventory carousel.
Android Notifications for "Portal under attack," "Portal neutralized," and "@<codename>" messages.
Support for Jarvis Virus and ADA Refactor objects.
New Recharge visual animation.

The new notification system will get all the attention, but the new information displayed about your Portal keys in inventory is probably the change people will use the most. The Jarvis Virus is something new started earlier this month, and it will flip an infected Portal to the opposing faction.

You can get today's update from the Google Play link above, and learn more about Ingress (and try to score an invite) in the Ingress forums.

Via: +Ingress

25 Suggestions For How To Improve Tumblr From Tumblr Users

Heben Nigatu — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:40:25 +0000

Listen up, Yahoo .

Sometimes it's hard to tell what's going on at Tumblr...

Source: reapersun.tumblr.com / via: wretchedoftheearth.tumblr.com

Is this satire or a real life tumblr change?

Ok, it's satire. But admit it, you had to think about it.

And this news about Yahoo acquiring Tumblr has everyone nervous...

Source: eggs-benedict-cucumber-patch.tumblr.com

...to put it gently.

Source: xomkcxo.tumblr.com

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CTIA 2013: Nvidia Tegra 4i reappears at CTIA with 4G LTE-Advanced

Luke Brown — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:39:00 +0000

When it debuted at Mobile World Congress back in February, Nvidia's Tegra 4i mobile processor impressed with its ability to reach speeds of 100mbps.

Nvidia returned with the Tegra 4i at CTIA 2013, and somehow managed to boost those speeds even further without altering the structure or hardware of the chip.

Thanks in large part to its i500 LTE modem, Nvidia was able to update the chip's software to push the capabilities to Cat 4 150mbps.

Even though no marketed phones currently house the Tegra 4i chip, Nvidia demonstrated the full power of the processor while also making calls and streaming video over AT&T's LTE network.

Little chip, big power

At 40 percent of the size of a traditional LTE modem, the Tegra 4i packs a lot of punch into a diminutive chip.

Nvidia attributes this to the Deep Execution Processors design, which offers "fast, high performance" in a highly adaptable modem.

During the demo, Nvidia's Phoenix concept smartphone was also tested to show off the LTE-Advanced prowess with special emulation, as there are currently no such networks available.

Though the Tegra 4i will be compatible with LTE-Advanced, the chip has also been designed to be backwards compatible with earlier cellular networks.

This means you'll be able to use any Tegra 4i device on LTE Cat 3, 3G, and 2G whenever 4G isn't available, providing an incredible amount of flexibility for any phone housing the processor.

Qualcomm hasn't truly been challenged by another processor in the mobile space as of yet, and it will be interesting to see how the competition heats up as the cellular market expands.

How long it will be until the first true smartphone with Tegra 4i arrives remains to be seen, but the quicker it's certified, the sooner we'll get to use the impressive chip ourselves.

Laptop Week Review: The 13-Inch MacBook Pro With Retina Display

Darrell Etherington — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:31:47 +0000

If I could only have one MacBook (which is usually the case for your average laptop-buyer), this is the one I'd pick, without hesitation. Fewer issues than its 15-inch cousin, which pioneered the Retina line, combined with a much lighter design with a smaller desktop footprint for a display that can still give you crazy amounts of screen real estate all adds up to a sure-fire winner.