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Oura Ring 5: Smart-Ring wird kleiner und teurer
Oura hat die fünfte Generation seines Smart-Rings vorgestellt. Das neue Modell ist 40 Prozent kompakter, bietet neue Tracking-Funktionen und kostet 429 Euro.
Etwa anderthalb Jahre nach Vorstellung des Oura Ring 4 folgt der Oura Ring 5. Laut Hersteller ist die neue Generation 40 Prozent kleiner als der Vorgänger, soll aber dennoch eine Woche Akkulaufzeit liefern.
„Der Ou...

Lukasz beschäftigt sich seit über 15 Jahren als Redakteur mit Smartphones, Apps, Gadgets und Content-Marketing. Seit 2021 arbeitet er für Heise Medien und ist derzeit leitender Redakteur bei Heise Bestenlisten. Der studierte Historiker aus Tübingen begeistert sich sonst für Fitness, Fußball, Fotografie sowie basslastige Musik.
Apple, Samsung, Google oder doch Xiaomi? Wearables ergänzen das Smartphone ideal. Wir zeige...

StumbleUpon, a Web browsing recommendation site, said Tuesday that it will begin offering new tools designed to generate more page views within a Web site.
StumbleUpon, which currently has over 15 million active users, generates traffic to Web sites, blogs and news article online, but publishers have struggled to keep users on a site after they land there. Most users just continue to stumble somewhere else on the Web...

Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, took the stage on Wednesday at the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., to talk about upgrades to the company’s iLife and Mac OS products, and to unveil two new MacBook Air models. Our live updates from the news media event, including color commentary from Sam Grobart, our personal tech editor, are below.
2:29 P.M. Wrapping Up
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Noahpinion gets what I’ve been trying to say, and says it better than I do in his post, “Are we replacing robots with Chinese people?” Here’s a meaty extract :
I’ve been critical in the past of Mike Mandel’s thesis. After all, productivity gains from outsourcing are real. Suppose I am a guy who designs and builds widgets. Hiring cheap Chinese workers to make my widgets more cheaply boosts my productivity almost the s...

But this Tyler Cowen article was too good to pass up. I just had to blog it. The article is about new data that show that productivity growth has stagnated since 2009. There's lots of good stuff in the article, but I want to focus on one part that really caught my eye:
One problem may be offshoring by American companies, as stressed in a study by Michael Mandel, chief economic strategist of the Progressive Policy Ins...

Personally Yours on the Go - Personalized Recommendations in Google Maps 4.7
Monday, November 15, 2010 | 7:30 PM
Google Maps on Android just got even hotter with Hotpot, our new local recommendation engine that helps you discover places you’ll love based on opinions from you and your friends. Here’s how to get the benefits of Hotpot on your phone:
Rate places on the go — Now you can write and publish ratings and revi...

The Wall Street Journal's news pages and its editorial page don't always see eye to eye, but on this they can agree: Other news organizations are out to get Rupert Murdoch, the Journal's owner, and that's why they're making such a big deal of the hacking scandal that has engulfed Murdoch's News Corp.
Robert Thomson, the Journal's managing editor, delivered the keynote address at Columbia Journalism School's annual Kn...

We are happy to announce the first version of such an API as part of the latest Android release (Donut). This new API is now available within the Android 1.6 SDK , and we welcome developer feedback. The Android Access framework generates android.view.accessibility.AccessibilityEvent in response to user interaction events; the event payload contains additional details about the event, e.g., the user interface control ...

Ross Levinsohn, the new publisher of the Los Angeles Times as of last Monday, wrapped up his first week in the newspaper business with a rah-rah cheerleading note to the staff on Friday afternoon. In it, he thanked the Times staff for its support. Levinsohn also announced the banishment of one of the unnecessary, slow-loading widgets that has helped make LATimes.com one of the least pleasant reading experiences among...

Got Android? Start Rating Even Faster!
Wednesday, December 22, 2010 | 3:59 PM
Labels: Hotpot Blog, how to, mobile
Ever felt the need to leave a Hotpot review as soon as you’ve put down your silverware or signed the bill? You can on your Android-powered device with the Google Rate Places Widget!
You may have heard of the recent changes we’ve made to Google Maps for mobile on Android. While the new 3D and caching featu...

Jens and Lars Rasmussen, the two brothers who created what would become Google Maps, have spent the last couple of years holed up in Google’s offices in Sydney, Australia, dreaming up a new tool for communicating over the Web. On Thursday, at a Google conference for developers in San Francisco, they showcased the fruits of their work: Google Wave.
Google Wave is an application running in a Web browser that creates a ...

Unwrapping Ice Cream Sandwich on the Galaxy Nexus
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 | 7:08 PM
(Cross-posted on the Official Google blog)
Beaming a video with a single tap or unlocking a device with only a smile sounds like science fiction. Now, you can actually do these things (and more) with a phone that fits in the palm of your hand.
Wednesday morning in Hong Kong—together with Samsung—we unveiled Galaxy Nexus, the first p...

If you are a small-cap CEO, then you are going to be very interested in a profound statistic that came out of CNBC just a few minutes ago. Specifically, CNBC ran a poll and determined the profile of the most bullish investor today is a 28-year old male. The most bearish are 57-year old females.
POLL SERVES AS FURTHER EVIDENCE OF POWER OF ONLINE INVESTOR RELATIONS
CNBC’s conclusion that 28-year old males are most bull...