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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

No More Pink Skis: Women?s Snow Gear Jumps Ahead

As is the case with most action sports, it took a while for the ski and snowboard industries to start cranking out women's gear at the same rate and quality as the men's stuff.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/winter-camp-womens/

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Inside the Nexus 4 and LTE, with AnandTech's Brian Klug

Podcast MP3 URL:

http://traffic.libsyn.com/androidcentral/nexus4-lte-special.mp3

The background: The Nexus 4 technically is not supposed to be an LTE-capable device. Only, if you're in Canada (or anywhere with Band 4 LTE), you can pick up an LTE data signal by changing a simple setting. That's pretty cool, but it's not supposed to happen, especially seeing as how the phone's not certified with the FCC to do LTE. And that's a bit deal.

So to clear up some of the confusion around LTE on the Nexus 4, we turned to Brian Klug of AnandTech. I've had the pleasure of learning from Brian on two continents now, and Jerry and I had the privilege of sitting down with him to talk the tech behind LTE on the Nexus 4, and whether it's something we should expect to last.

As you listen along, I urge you to refer to Brian's "Nexus 4 Includes Support for LTE on Band 4 (AWS)" post at AnandTech. And mad props to Brian for learnin' us a thing or three.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/androidcentral/~3/BqGNPXyTufQ/story01.htm

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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

7 Essential Self-Heating Garments To Keep You Warm This Winter

Just because the weather outside is frightful, doesn't mean you have to stay indoors huddled close to a delightful fire. There's plenty of things to do in the winter that don't involve shovels or shopping. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/MhbJ63TxI5c/7-essential-self+heating-garments-to-keep-you-warm-this-winter

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Make Your Mac Keyboard Better With Wood

Whether you're sick of looking at the same silver letters on your keyboard every day or you're just a fan of an all-natural look, Lazerwood's keys for your Mac are pretty awesome. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/ihOAbd1eF5A/make-your-mac-keyboard-better-with-wood

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PeaceQuilts and Levenger introduce an iPad sleeve that gives back

Do you need a new cover for your full-sized iPad? �Why not help others as you protect your iPad. �PeaceQuilts, a humanitarian, economic-development organization working with women in Haiti, has designed and created beautiful, quilted iPad sleeves that are sold exclusively through Levenger. �Each sleeve is handcrafted and signed by a woman in Haiti, so [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2012/11/27/peacequilts-and-levenger-introduce-an-ipad-sleeve-that-gives-back/

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iPhone and iPad once again lead web usage metrics, this time for Thanksgiving and Black Friday sales

Continuing the confusing trend of Android dominating in market share but iOS continuing to lead -- by huge margin -- in mobile web usage share, both Apple's iPhone and the iPad reportedly eclipsed Google's Android in Thanksgiving and Black Friday online shopping use over the last few days. This according to IBM Digital Analytics Benchmarks:

Mobile Shopping: Mobile purchases soared with 24 percent of consumers using a mobile device to visit a retailer's site, up from 14.3 percent in 2011. Mobile sales exceeded 16 percent, up from 9.8 percent in 2011.

The iPad Factor: The iPad generated more traffic than any other tablet or smartphone, reaching nearly 10 percent of online shopping. This was followed by iPhone at 8.7 percent and Android 5.5 percent. The iPad dominated tablet traffic at 88.3 percent followed by the Barnes and Noble Nook at 3.1 percent, Amazon Kindle at 2.4 percent and the Samsung Galaxy at 1.8 percent.

We've seen this again and again, iOS web usage reports that dwarf the competition. Tablets, of course, are understandable. Apple is the market leader. The iPhone, however, while often the best selling phone in many markets, doesn't outsell all other phones -- or all Android phones -- combined in the market.

So what explains the discrepancy? Do people upgrading from feature phones to a cheap or big screen Android simply keep using it as a feature phone and not bother with things like web browsers? Is the web browsing experience on Android somehow less discoverable or enjoyable? Do expert users simply not care to use the web?

None of those explanations make sense. Chrome on Android is easy to find and easy to use. So why aren't Android users using it?

Maybe that's the wrong question. Maybe the right question is why are iPhone and iPad users using the web so much? What is it about Apple's products that make using the web so much more discoverable and enjoyable?

IBM via Fortune:

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/fuNcBH-FCZQ/story01.htm

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PSA: Nexus 4 returns to Google Play at 3PM ET

Google's been emailing some good news for those that didn't snatch up its new smartphone within minutes of its online launch a few weeks back. Anyone that asked to be kept up-to-date with Nexus 4 news has been told that new phone stock will be available starting at 3PM ET (Noon PT) -- for US customers only. We've also heard rumors that customers will be limited to ordering up to two phones each, but at these prices, there's likely to be plenty of online traffic jostling for this 4.7-inch slab.

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