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What You Should Know About Portable Auto GPS Features

Posted by on Thursday, 27 October, 2011

Its never that easy to look for the best auto GPS.With your hunt for the best, you should check out first for portability. Portable auto GPS navigators are flexible, easy to transfer and packed with features. As a driver, you should know what you need, and not purchase what the market says is cool. Make sure that with the money you are spending, you get all the necessary features that you need. 

The top manufacturers in the market are Mio, Garmin and Tom-tom. Features should always precede the brand that you are purchasing.. 

Screen size and brightness matters because during that split second when you have to take your eyes off the road and look onto your portable auto GPS screen, you need to get as much info as possible. Too small a screen may require you to squint your eyes or may take longer for you to decipher what you’re looking at. Clarity and brightness are important aside from screen size.

Comprehensive detailed digital maps are what you need if you’re going cross country. Driving across country or outside of the borders is an adventure and most of the time will leave you clueless on where to go about. It’s a tad easier to learn where you need to go. Of course you need great reception so that wherever you are, you will always have signal for your GPS app. 

Graphic users interface is very important again because of that need for split second access. Instant access to information is important when driving and have an easily manageable interface will allow you to navigate your screen in split seconds while driving. 

Battery life is very important especially for long drives. That’s the only drawback with portable auto GPS. They run on batteries. When looking for the best auto GPS, ask yourself first what you need.  Aside from what’s mentioned above, there are a lot more other features that you need to consider.


Siri gets lost internationally, promises to do better next year

Posted by on Saturday, 15 October, 2011
Siri gets lost internationally, promises to do better next year

The iPhone 4S’ Siri integration may be a potential game changer, but she’s not quite the world traveler some of us would like her to be. In fact, it seems she’s as lost outside of US borders as any unprepared tourist. Looking for a pub in London? Better find a traditional map. Need to know the time of day in Canada? Siri admits she has no idea, go buy a watch. Business search (via Yelp), directions, traffic data, and Wolfram Alpha search all appear to be US-only features for now. The automated assistant’s international failings aren’t too big of a surprise, however — Apple’s own Siri page outs the service as a beta, noting that some features may vary by area. Stuck with sub-par international support? Sit tight, it’s coming: Apple’s Siri FAQ states that additional language support (including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Italian and Spanish), maps and local search content are set to go international in 2012.

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Highly Resistant Salmonella: Poultry, Antibiotics, Borders, Risk

Posted by on Thursday, 4 August, 2011

If you’re a strain of Salmonella, it’s a very good week. If you’re a human, not so much. Superbug blogger Maryn McKenna reports.



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China Accused of Spying on Drivers Across Borders in Hong Kong [China]

Posted by on Wednesday, 15 June, 2011

Crush or Get Crushed: Why B&N Needs to Be a Publisher

Posted by on Friday, 25 February, 2011

Talk about frustrating: This week Barnes & Noble announced topline growth year over year and its first profit in four quarters, and how was it rewarded for its hard work?

With a pounding by Wall Street.

The drubbing was due in part to the news the company was eliminating its dividend in order to invest more in its digital business, but there’s no doubt the recent Borders bankruptcy filing weighed on the minds of investors. After all, B&N is the Coke to Borders’ Pepsi, and it’s easy to assume what happens to one will eventually inflict the other.

But as this excellent answer on Quora by former Borders employee Mark Evans points out, Borders failed for numerous reasons, the most important of which was its outsourcing of online to Amazon. What B&N realized — and Borders didn’t — was you don’t become a true online retailer by outsourcing the business, especially to what may be your number one competitor.

B&N’s strategic decision to build its own site was critical, and the same can be said for its decision to create its own e-reader, the Nook. The company is making good headway, claiming this week it owns 25 percent of the e-book market. That’s impressive (if true) in a market that includes what may be the two most fearsome competitors in the digital media space — Apple and Amazon.

But as I discuss in my weekly analysis at GigaOM Pro (subscription required), they must do more. Let’s face it, the total pie in books is going to shrink, and the long and unwieldy value-chain from writer to customer is going to collapse. Amazon knew this a long time ago, and that’s why they’ve been moving to disintermediate the publisher and the wholesaler in the e-book world by becoming, essentially, the entire value chain themselves.”

B&N should do the same, and do it quick. Sure, like Amazon, it launched its own self-pub platform in PubIt!, and it tinkered around with a few imprints on the print side for some time. But in the collapsing world of books, it’s every man for himself, and its time for B&N to accelerate its push into becoming a digital publisher.

Longtime agent and e-book pioneer Richard Curtis suggested that maybe it’d be a good idea for one of the big publishers to pick up Barnes & Noble. Maybe, but I think things might make more sense the other way around, with B&N either acquiring a publisher or, perhaps more likely (and more wisely), investing more in an organic effort to become a leading publisher of e-books without the legacy cost-burden of New York based publishing.

Will the publishers complain? Of course, but there’s nothing they can do about it. In the end, publishers have to work with B&N and, as Amazon has shown, not being liked has nothing to do with how successful you will eventually be.

Image courtesy of flickr user JustinLowery

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Sunday At Borders (Photo Gallery)

Posted by on Sunday, 20 February, 2011

Borders, which pioneered the idea that a bookstore could be more like a combination of a library and your living room — a welcome place to hang out and browse and relax and not just buy — filed for bankruptcy protection last week. The chain is a victim of the harsh realities of operating a massive bricks and mortar operation as your product turns to bytes.



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