Day: February 4, 2014

Business Culture

The Next Big Thing You Missed: Online Grocery Shopping Is Back, and This Time It’ll Work

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As reported on Wired. BY MARCUS WOHLSEN Instacart shopper Laura Barnum delivers groceries to a business in downtown San Francisco. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/WIRED   Webvan is a name synonymous with dotcom failure. At the turn of the millennium, the heavily funded startup and its many investors bet that the time was right to sell groceries online. They were wrong. Very wrong. But more than a decade later, tech-savvy retailers and retail-savvy tech companies are ready to try…

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PC

Dell’s latest laptop combines OS X and Windows 8, creates ultimate marketing mistake

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As reported on The Verge. By Tom Warren Some PC manufacturers choose to imitate Apple’s MacBook line with various products, but Dell has taken a slightly different approach. In a recent marketing video, the company has raised the bar above MacBook imitation and transformed its very own Dell XPS 15 into a laptop that combines OS X and Windows 8. The entire marketing video, released in December, shows a laptop that seamlessly switches between the Windows 8 Start Screen and…

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Games

Getting Girls Into Programming, One Children’s Book At A Time

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Kim-Mai Cutler I normally dislike writing about the issue of women in the technology industry. The media either ends up treating female entrepreneurs with kid gloves or the conversation ends up in some emotionally charged place where people feel angry or violated. And then we’ve made little progress. Are there systematic biases embedded in the industry? Are women not leaning in hard enough? Do we not have enough role models? All…

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Application Business

Wisembly Raises $2 Million To Make Meetings Suck Less

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Romain Dillet French startup Wisembly just raised $2 million (€1.5 million) from Alven Capital. It’s the company’s first round of funding after three years of existence. Wisembly wants to be the only tool you ever need to keep track and streamline your meetings in your company. “Wisembly is a collaborative solution for corporate meetings,” co-founder Romain David told me in a phone interview. “It allows you to prepare, facilitate and monitor your meetings.” In…

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Android Hardware Dev

Samsung Galaxy Note Pro and Tab Pro series coming to US February 13th

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As reported on Engadget. BY BRAD MOLEN Looks like Office Depot wasn’t messing with us when it began offering pre-orders of Samsung’s brand-new 12.2-inch tablet ahead of its official US launch; it just jumped the gun a bit. As it turns out, the entire litany of Samsung’s Galaxy tablets announced at CES — which include the 12.2-inch Note Pro and all three sizes in the Tab Pro series— will be available stateside on February 13th. Just in case you’re worried about…

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