Blu Life Pro is a selfie phone
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The Blu Life Pro with a 5 megapixel, 1080p front-facing camera targets selfie addicts.
For $299 only, you can take selfie that is theoretically better in quality compared to other smartphones.
The huge gap in developer revenue between Android and iOS
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Business Insider with a chart to show the difference in monetisation between Android and iOS.
For every 0.19. No wonder developers tend to prefer launching on iOS first.
Google Street View goes indoors
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The Guardian reports that Google is bringing its Street View indoors.
Google has added 16 international airports and 59 train and subway stations to Street View, including a number of British locations.
They include Gatwick Airport and train stations in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds, as well as a (nearly) full set of London mainline stations: Paddington, Victoria, King’s Cross, St. Pancras, Charing Cross, Waterloo, London Bridge, Cannon Street, Fenchurch Street and Liverpool Street.
It was never a matter of whether Google would do this, but simply when it would.
In case you missed it: Windows Phone gets essential apps, Yahoo employees reject company’s email system; a gold HTC One; and more?
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Not a bad week for Windows Phone users.
Windows Phone finally gets Instagram
It’s here. Windows Phone users rejoice.
Om Malik predicts that Instagram will be introducing a messaging system as a new feature.
Waze joins Instagram on Windows Phone
Instagram and Waze on the same day? Definitely a good day for Windows Phone users.
The new iOS 7-inspired design is gorgeous.
Your typing pattern can be used to identify you
SC Magazine reports that researchers have developed a way to identify users based on the way they type.
Only 25% of Yahoo staff are willing to dogfood Yahoo Mail
If Yahoo Mail is going to be a competitive product again, the Yahoo employees had better start picking it up.
HTC introduces gold-colored HTC One for the masses
This, coupled with the Galaxy S4 gold edition, should silence the mocking of the gold iPhone 5s.
Apple acquires PrimeSense for $360 million
Apple spokeswoman Kristin Huguet has confirmed that Apple acquired PrimeSense in deal rumoured to be worth $360 million
18 months of research to switch to e-books ended in a disaster
Fail?
Is Amazon winning the cloud battle?
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Everybody knows that Amazon’s AWS is the major player in the cloud computing game, but did we stop to consider how big it actually is?
Amazon Is Crushing IBM, Microsoft, And Google In Cloud Computing, Says Report
For the last quarter of this year, Synergy estimates that Amazon grew cloud revenues by over $700 million and that makes Amazon bigger than all the other major players combined including Microsoft, IBM, Google and Salesforce.com … by 15%, Synergy finds.
Is Fab.com doomed to repeat the mistakes of Jobster?
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Even with a billion-dollar valuation, without a strong leader, a company is going to suffer. Will Fab.com be able to get back on track?
Demolition Man: why does Fab’s CEO keep building big companies that suddenly implode?
Traffic to Fab’s website and mobile apps peaked in November of 2012, according to ComScore, just before Goldberg announced the pivot away from flash sales. In the 10 months that followed unique visitors fell from 5,275,000 to around 1 million in total this September, a drop of roughly 75 percent. The decline in visitors has been mirrored by a slowdown in sales growth. When asked to comment on the sharp dip in traffic, Fab says that it doesn’t share internal numbers, but that the company is more profitable than ever. “That’s a little confusing,” jokes a source familiar with the company’s finances. “Maybe they mean less not profitable?”