Google acquired Wildfire a few months ago. Wildfire is one of the leaders in social media marketing for all the worlds big and small brands. 30 of the world’s top-50 brands use wildfire for their social media marketing campaigns. For example when Coca-cola does something on Facebook, there is a good chance that they are using Wildfire’s software and solutions.
Paypal Check In and Pay demonstrated at LeWeb 2012
Posted by – December 7, 2012
Paypal launches a new way to pay for things easily and quickly using a check-process on your smartphone or tablet. Go to the restaurant, launch check in on your paypal app, it launches the restaurant’s menu, you click on the app to order, the server comes with the food, you leave, you’ve already paid. This removes 66% of the waiters effort. Go to a cafe, check-in on paypal, they know you want a cappuccino, you get it quickly and leave, no cash, no confirmation, no anything. You park your car, check in on paypal, that’s it, you’re paying for your car park until you check-out, take the car and leave.
You can watch Paypal CEO, David Marcus’s keynote at LeWeb 2012 here:
Augment app at LeWeb 2012
Posted by – December 7, 2012
Augment is a free application for Android, iPad and iPhone to visualize any 3d model in Augmented Reality. Print the marker, select the model you want to see and the augmented reality happens in front of you. You can upload your own 3d model or visualize one of the 3000 already present in the galleries. You can get the app there: http://augmentedev.com
$249 Nokia Lumia 620, 3.8″ WVGA Windows Phone 8
Posted by – December 7, 2012
Nokia just launched the cheapest Windows Phone 8 device on the market yet. It’s Qualcomm S4 (I guess S4 Play Cortex-A5), 3.8″ WVGA, HSPA+, NFC, Bluetooth and a ton of other features.
Interaxon Muse Headset for brainwaves monitoring, Ariel Garten, CEO of Interaxon
Posted by – December 7, 2012
Interaxon releases the Muse Headset. it monitors your brainwaves and connects to your smartphone using bluetooth. The combination allows for potential brain control of your embedded devices. Are you interested in thought control computing? You can pre-order your brain control accessory on Indiegogo here.
Here’s her keynote launching the device at LeWeb 2012:
Best LeWeb keynotes: Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress and Om Malik
Posted by – December 6, 2012
Category: Exclusive videos, LeWeb
WordPress powers now 17% of the top 1 million websites, including http://ARMdevices.net, next up the open source free WordPress platform may power more and more types of web apps to use on mobile devices.
Best LeWeb keynotes: Marcus Schappi, CEO, Ninja Blocks
Posted by – December 6, 2012
Ninja Blocks makes open source hardware and software to the enable the Internet of Things.
Best LeWeb keynotes: Henri Seydoux, Founder & CEO, Parrot
Posted by – December 6, 2012
Category: Exclusive videos, LeWeb
Parrot is one of the few successful consumer electronics companies in France and Europe. Here’s Parrot’s CEO doing a very fun performance talking about Things for the Internet.
Archos Gamepad $149/149€ being released now in Europe
This is the coolest Android tablet for gaming, Archos releases it imminently in Europe for 149€, US availability to be confirmed. Here I’m demonstrating some of the latest advanced Android games called Dead Trigger, Rip Tide and a couple other.
Archos 80 XS, now launched for $199
Posted by – December 5, 2012
Archos launches this new cool 8″ 1024×768 Tablet on Rockchip RK3066, super slim and light design, for $199 without the $49 Keyboard Coverboard dock.
Amber Case, Cyborg Anthropologist and Former CEO, Geoloqi
Posted by – December 5, 2012
We are all Cyborgs.
you can also watch her keynote at LeWeb 2012 here:
SmartThings CTO, Jeff Hagins, platform for the Internet of Things
Posted by – December 5, 2012
SmartThings launches on Kickstarter, building a Hub using RF, Zigbee, WiFi, Bluetooth and other wireless technologies to connect all lights, heaters, doors, windows, cubboards, etc in your home to the Internet, you can remote control everything on your smartphone and tablet.
You can watch his keynote at LeWeb 2012 here:
Nokia Lumia 920 on Windows Phone 8 at LeWeb 2012
Posted by – December 5, 2012
Here’s probably the top latest Nokia Windows Phone.
Team Blacksheep quad-copter drone
Posted by – December 5, 2012
Swiss Team Black Sheep shows their quad-copter drone, does 1080p aerial video.
Check out their video filmed in New York:
and in London:
and their keynote at LeWeb also featuring footage from their airplane:
HP Envy Spectre XT Laptop at LeWeb 2012 #hpleweb
Posted by – December 5, 2012
Here’s HP’s latest 1600 Euro Windows 8 laptop. 13.3″ touch screen, probably there’s a fast Intel processor inside.
Best LeWeb keynotes: Ben Gomes, Google Vice President in charge of the future of Search
Ben Gomes talks about Google’s launch of the Knowledge Graph, implementing artificial intelligence, clever algorithms to analyse the worlds information to display facts on the right side of a growing number of search queries, including voice search used in Google Now.
Best LeWeb keynotes: Benjamin Cichy, NASA Software Architect for Curiosity, the Mars Exploration Rover
Posted by – December 5, 2012
Category: LeWeb
Check out this awesome keynote from the guy that lead the team that build the embedded software to land and run the Curiosity Mars Exploration Rover on Mars, totally awesome.
Live stream from LeWeb 2012
Posted by – December 4, 2012
Category: LeWeb
I’m at LeWeb in Paris, you can watch the live stream from the main stage here, check the program. The theme is the Internet Of Things, I expect to be able to find some cool devices and to film some interesting interviews here.
Google also has a workshop here: http://paris.leweb.co/2012/agenda/google
Let me know in the comments if there are some speakers and participants and companies here at LeWeb that you think that I should video-interview.
$149/149€ Archos 80 Cobalt
Posted by – December 4, 2012
Here’s Archos new cheaper 8″ Rockchip RK3066 1024×768 4:3 tablet with smooth Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, thus being released by Archos in January for $149/149€. Consider that european prices always include about 20% VAT taxes which are never included in US dollar prices thus $1 = 1€.
$299/299€ Arnova FamilyPad launched
Posted by – December 4, 2012
Archos releases the worlds largest tablet at an affordable $299/299€ price. Right now available in Europe for 299€ with the Allwinner A10 processor and with a 1280×800 wide view capacitive screen.
