You’ve probably dealt with pushy retail salespeople before, the ones who make you feel uncomfortable because they keep asking you to buy stuff even though you’ve said you’re not interested. You know how it feels, and that it usually sends people searching for the nearest exit. So, if you work in retail, don’t be anything like that.
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A recent article in The Economist noted that fintech is “arguably the hottest spot in a bubbly funding environment for startups.” For the last few years, investors have dumped remarkable amounts of money into fintech startups. From payments to lending and investing, these smaller companies have caught the attention of industry incumbents, who have also been pouring money into these… Read More
Acer probably isn’t a name you instantly associate with smartphones, but it’s been churning out Android devices left and right for many years now. And it turns out the Taiwanese company is currently working on a new phablet.
It will be called Liquid Z630, and most of its specs have been leaked by a benchmark database. This obviously means someone with a prototype took the time to run said benchmark on it.
So, the Liquid Z630 is unashamedly a midranger. It sports a 5.5-inch 720p touchscreen, an 8 MP rear camera with LED flash, an 8 MP selfie snapper too, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of built-in storage, Bluetooth, a compass, GPS, Wi-Fi, and a gyroscope. It runs Android 5.1 Lollipop.
At the helm we find MediaTek’s MT6735 chipset, boasting a 1.3 GHz quad-core Cortex-A53 CPU and ARM Mali-T720 GPU. Since the SoC supports 4G LTE connectivity, we assume the Acer Liquid Z630 will come with that too.
These are all the details we have for now, but we obviously expect this phone to be pretty cheap, considering the specs.
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s once-mighty electronics makers have lost billions of dollars from TVs but Sony Corp and Panasonic Corp won’t quit, saying retreating from the world’s living rooms would close the door to more promising businesses.
Technology is transforming fitness.
It used to be that fitness apps were primarily used to count calories, and check in after workouts. That’s no longer the case. There are dozens of fantastic apps out there, and they cater to what you are specifically looking for. Whether you’re always looking for a fun app to help motivate you along, or you’ve never been inclined to look at them at all, fitness apps should be a part of your day.
LogMeIn wants to give away a Meldium license and a MacBook Air to a TechCrunch reader. Meldium is a single sign in password manager that helps large teams access the cloud services they need securely. They’re giving away a free 1 year premium license (an $800 value) to 1 winner – and the license will be usable for up to 100 of your team members. This is what it looks like:… Read More
The sneaky designers at Beats by Dre employ a clever trick to make you think that the company’s plastic headphones are durable products worth the premium price. [Gizmodo
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As the number of connected mobile gadgets — from smartphones and watches to cars — continues to grow, the market is heating up for accurate location data to serve those of us who use these devices. That fact is being played most expensively at the moment with the sale of Here, the mapping and location services division of Nokia. The deadline for bids is today, June 18, TechCrunch… Read More
Samsung has released an app to the Galaxy Apps store that should replace missing quick toggles on the Glaxy S6 and S6 Edge.
Samsung has released an app called QuickPanel Restore on the Galaxy Apps store that should restore toggles for certain settings in the quick settings panel that mysteriously went missing from some users’ Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge devices.
Regardless of what general seasoning you use in your burger patty recipe, salt is probably involved. If you want to cook a tender, juicy burger, wait to add salt to your patty until right before you start cooking.
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Founders Forum, the 10-year-old gathering of international entrepreneurs, started in London, but has now expanded to several international gatherings. Sometimes (mistakenly) confused with the F.ounders event run by the guys from WebSummit, FF (as it’s known to its friends) is a highly select invitation-only gathering of serial entrepreneurs and many of Europe’s hottest new… Read More
Whether you’re in the midst of a debate, or just trying to earn somebody’s trust, prefacing your statements with the phrase “to be honest” can damage your credibility. Here’s why it’s best not to use it.
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Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri (pictured below) seems to have finally given up on saying that his company will not return to the smartphone market. Following one denial last year and another in April of this year, Suri now says the company is in fact planning on putting its name on new smartphones starting in 2016.
There is a catch, however. Nokia will use the same strategy for its re-entry in the smartphone space as it did for creating the N1 tablet. Namely, while the Finns will design the devices and the company’s name will be used, Nokia won’t actually be producing the handsets.
That task will be fulfilled by “suitable partners” Suri is hoping to find from this point on. That said, given how much brand recognition Nokia still has, this should not be an issue. Foxconn, which is the licensee for the N1 tablet, could be one interested party.
Nokia can’t even do this licensing dance before the second half of next year because of the terms of the deal through which it sold its mobile division to Microsoft in 2013.
Since the N1 tablet runs Android, we assume future Nokia-branded phones will go the same route. While Microsoft hasn’t been able to grab any significant smartphone market share after acquiring Nokia’s mobile business, maybe Nokia itself will once again rise in that space even without any production capacity of its own.
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