mardi 19 juillet 2016
Behind a Bill Clinton speaking engagement: A $1,400 hotel phone bill and $700 dinner for two
Wen former presidents and other dignitaries traveled to California to wax nostalgic on the speaking circuit, they may have been demanding, but none insisted on being flown from San Francisco by private jet to a venue just 70 miles down the freeway.
That was before Bill Clinton came along.
Clinton changed the rules of political speech-making for cash. He would push not just corporate hosts but also nonprofits and universities to pay fees well beyond what they were accustomed to. His aides would turn what had been a freewheeling format into tightly scripted events where every question from the audience was screened. He and Hillary Clinton would become so skilled at churning profits out of their lectures that they would net more than $150 million from speaking alone after he left the White House.
lundi 18 juillet 2016
Top smartphone offers this week
- Samsung Galaxy S7
Operating system
The Samsung Galaxy edge S7 and S7 are both running Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow, accompanied by the latest version of TouchWiz. The latter still has rounded icons, highlights Microsoft services (including Skype and OneNote), and lightens the bar frankly colored notifications qu'arborait TouchWiz version Lollipop. Instead of a blue background, there is therefore a blue display on white background.
Screen size and resolution
Galaxy S7 features a 5.2 inch screen definition QHD, it comes to a Super AMOLED. The screen of the two S7 also benefits from improved glimpsed through a patent: its screen is "Always On". It therefore appears, choice, white (and some rare colors) on the slab off AMOLED useful information: clock with information on notifications, calendar and even purely decorative visual.
LG G5
Holder of a technology hope and a vision of the mobile world where one could so slightly smartphone call his desires, yet modular LG G5 arrives in his almost nude, almost high-end smartphone " lambda ". So in the meantime that one day, perhaps, the G5 is free and actually brandish the concept of multiple mobile he has sold a time, judge it for what it is today: an excellent cameraphone , a very good smartphone, but certainly not a revolution.
- HTC 10
After One M9 clearly weighed down by its SoC S810, HTC back in 2016 with a smartphone simply called "10". On paper, the new Taiwanese flagship has serious advantages and returns to a semblance of logic, especially in terms of the picture. Unfortunately, a Samsung Galaxy and S7 have already been there and placed the bar very high. Too high for the HTC 10.
jeudi 14 juillet 2016
Apple Watch sales estimate: 7 million after six months
Apple is smoking the smartwatch rivalry, yet not exactly meeting expert desires.
fficially, Apple won’t say what number of smartwatches it’s sold. Be that as it may, informally, the Apple Watch is as of now leaving the opposition in the dust.
As indicated by statistical surveying firm Canalys, the Apple Watch has transported about 7 million units in its initial two quarters of accessibility, with shipments relentlessly expanding. We can in this manner accept that no less than 3.5 million Apple Watches transported last quarter, and presumably more.
By correlation, Canalys claims that no other smartwatch producer transported more than 300,000 units last quarter. The firm particularly gets out Pebble as having dispatched an insignificant 200,000 watches (however in reasonableness the organization battled with assembling issues as it attempted to satisfy Kickstarter requests.) Sales of Samsung’s Gear smartwatches have additionally hindered in front of the especially enhanced Gear S2. While Canalys didn’t give specifics on Android Wear, the firm already noticed that 720,000 watches running Google’s product delivered in all of 2014.
Rivalry aside, are 7 million shipments a win by Apple guidelines? The organization assumes along these lines, with CEO Tim Cook saying in July that Apple Watch deals “surpassed desires.” Cook has additionally said that business expanded last quarter, while refering to consumer loyalty rates of around 97 percent.
Investigators’ Apple Watch deals assessments have shifted uncontrollably, with a normal of 4.07 million units in the first quarter of accessibility, and 3.95 million units last quarter. The figures from Canalys, then, are around 1 million units lower than the examiner agreement.
Why this matters: With other smartwatch creators neglecting to increase much deals footing, the sum total of what eyes have been on Apple to set up the class. Apple is unmistakably improving occupation on this front, however despite everything it has far to go in persuading the normal iPhone client that a smartwatch is something they have to wear.
jeudi 9 juin 2016
A selfie
A selfie is generally made with a digital camera, a mobile phone (smartphone or camera phone) and even a webcam. It is then often shared with others via MMS or uploaded to social networks to, among others, attest his presence on a place or with someone (especially during a photo stolen or willing to sides of a celebrity), fill their user profile or avatar on a social network, share their status update or publish some particular scenes (such as sexting / selfie Anthony Weiner in 20112). Usually taken from life, this type of photography is done with a device worn at arms, or using a mirror when it has no front camera, or with a Selfie stick. Originally, the selfie means the self-portrait made by the holder of the digital camera but, by abuse of language, it can also refer to photos showing the person in question made by someone else, even the cliché another person (youie, classified as a term Retronym) group photos (selfie group, groupie or ussia) or even simple objects (shelfie) 3. Although an English neologism, the word selfie is integrated Larousse 2016
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