Hardware Review

The Snapdragon 835 promises in almost everything, but it has an ace well kept in the sleeve

Posted on by Gabriel Lowell
Snapdragon 835

Qualcomm has been expecting something more than normal this year with its Snapdragon 835. Some models like the LG G6 have in fact had to give it up to launch as soon as possible, but soon will begin to arrive smartphones based on a SoC that again promises to be the king of performance in 2017.

We already have the first preliminary analysis of the performance of the Snapdragon 835, and everything points to the fact that we are facing a good evolution of Snapdragon 821. Many lights, some shadows and an important feature that could be the really important of this new SoC: its energy efficiency.Continue reading →

Tech News

Nokia 1100, the best-selling mobile phone in history

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Nokia 1100

Today tends to blind us, and the market has such a short memory does not help to remember great successes of the past unless they triumph with a proper name associated with certain movements. This is the case of Nokia, whose best known phone may be the Nokia 3310, so often mentioned with jokes about its indestructibility.

However, at the time Nokia dominated the market, something that we mentally associated with the dinosaur era, there was a phone that made the difference to such an extent that today has not yet been surpassed. Before Nokia abandoned the throne of mobile telephony to make way for smartphones, its Nokia 1100 entered the history books. A record phone.Continue reading →

Tech News

Factors That Will Determine E-Commerce Success Or Failure

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Most of the online revenue generated at the moment comes through selling services and soft goods, like premium memberships and e-books. E-commerce is combining new technology with traditional business, making it possible for an online store to sell even physical goods without relying on the use of a brick and mortar location.

E-commerce is not that hard to understand but being successful with an e-commerce business is difficult. We see businesses from all around the world using e-commerce from huge companies like NetBet to small neighborhood shops. What factors determine failure or success? Those below are the main ones to consider.

Conversion Rates

Conversion rate can be defined as being how many of the visitors complete a financial transaction after visiting the e-commerce site. It is expressed in percentages. Conversion rates are normally really low in online shopping, with the average being no higher than 3%. Knowing the conversion rate is very important for creating an e-commerce site that generates profit.

Acquisition Costs

Before you think about conversion rates you have to be sure that you get visitors to actually see the products you sell. Direct traffic is only possible for the larger, well-known brands. It is really important that you consider how much money is necessary to drive traffic to the site in the first place. When this factor is not considered it is possible that costs end up being way too high. Profit is thus not generated and businesses end up losing money. Generally speaking, investing in SEO for the long term is a very good idea to deal with acquisition costs.

Shipping Costs

Some time ago it was the buyer that paid shipping costs. These days there are many large e-commerce stores that introduced really cheap or free shipping in order to attract the customer. Because of this, shipping costs can easily make or break the success of any site that sells something. Free shipping is very common so it has to be seriously considered or at least a cheap alternative to the regular shipping fee has to be offered. When offering free or cheap shipping the profit the store generates drastically goes down and it can even disappear.

Brand Loyalty

It is usually hard to attract customers to an e-commerce website and to convince them to make a purchase. That is why you do want to develop brand loyalty, so that repeat business can appear. A shopper that has the best possible experience with the e-commerce site is going to keep coming back for more transactions. This is really important for the brand as it lowers running and acquisition costs while increasing overall profits.

Conclusions

A really important thing with online stores is to perfectly manage cash flow. The owners have to calculate everything and reduce the acquisition costs while increasing conversion rates. At first glance, this looks simple. However, when you start to do the work that is needed everything becomes complicated. It is very important to treat the business with the same seriousness as the regular stores and not assume it is easier online.

Smartphone Review

Sony’s latest patent looks like science fiction: Transferring power from one mobile to another wirelessly with NFC

Posted on by Gabriel Lowell
Sony charge wirelessly

R & D departments of technology companies are constantly producing ideas, and the most interesting ones, those in which a company sees that it could take advantage of others, end up in patents. Making sure that the competition will not reach the same place in the same way is essential to try to get several extra centimeters when crossing the finish line.

That does not mean that each patent ends up in a finished product, but it reflects where the research of one and the other is progressing. The latest patent presented by Sony is quite relevant, as it talks about how to emit energy from one smartphone to succeed in loading another. Charge wirelessly from the phone itself, not from the charger, and for this you want to use the NFC chip.Continue reading →

Gadget

LG Watch Sport and Style, first impressions with one you forget you carry it, with the other you remember your superiority

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LG Watch Sport

We knew about them and the new version of the system not long ago, in a timid announcement by Google and LG, and the MWC 2017 has been the opportunity to get closer to try them out. After a LG G6 that starred the stand and accompanied them, we were able to try them and have our first impressions of the LG Watch Sport and Style.

The challenge this time is somewhat greater, since after knowing that we would not see new watches of various brands with Android Wear in 2016 expected both new models and a new version of the system with many additions. Confirming some rumors, Google finally released system with the watches and in the MWC; we could try Android Wear 2.0 with the new LG watches.Continue reading →

Smartphone Review

HTC U Ultra, ultra in size and sound, but very fair in everything else

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HTC U Ultra

Renew or die, or at least not grab the attention of the technological media. Perhaps that was the idea of HTC in 2017 when they try to overcome a bad stretch too long and the reason to surprise with a new line of mobiles, the U, which we have been able to prove now in the MWC, having already a first impressions The HTC U Ultra.

As we saw at the time of its presentation this is the most powerful of the two, opting for a Snapdragon 821 and 4 GB of RAM and highlighting the design especially in terms of finish and colors, varying a lot with respect to the line that had Followed in the extinct range One and the Desire. On the paper, it promised quite a bit and in a way, it was a top of bridge range until we knew the “HTC 11”, and now we have finally been able to verify if it is so in our opinion. We will tell you in as much detail as possible.Continue reading →

Tech News

BugDrop, the awesome operation that took control of PCs to steal more than 600GB of information

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BugDrop

Security company CiberX has just announced the results of an investigation that points to one of the biggest and most sophisticated hacks of the last year. The operation called BugDrop attacked about 70 targets, from industries, infrastructure companies, scientific researchers, and even journalists and media, most of them based in Ukraine.

It is believed that BugDrop was able to obtain more than 600 GB of data including audio recordings, screenshots, documents and passwords. All of this was done by malicious Microsoft Word files, which after stealing the information was uploaded to Dropbox, later to be recovered by the attackers.Continue reading →

Gadget

Amazon Echo and Google Home want to replace the fixed home phone with VoIP calls

Posted on by Gabriel Lowell
Google-Home

Are you still using the landline? Chances are, but the truth is that more and more users have these devices almost at home. Mobile phones have also conquered the home, but other solutions now attack the relevance of lifelong telephones.

This is Google Home and Amazon Echo, which according to the Wall Street Journal will pose short-term support for making voice calls directly. The option would turn these “connected speakers” into an interesting alternative to the fixed-line phone of a lifetime, which would once again be displaced by new technologies.Continue reading →

Hardware Review

Razer Blade 14 is one of the best laptops to play: It is updated with 4K screen, Nvidia GTX 1060 and Kaby Lake

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Razer Blade 14

Of the best teams to play and also have to pay a lot for them, but their arguments have to quote high: few brands are like Razer, try to balance performance with a somewhat more discreet design and a measured dimensions. Usually a gaming laptop sells us like something like a fair, and they are not exactly small.Continue reading →

Hardware Review

The Lenovo ThinkPad P are fantastic portable workstations: Nvidia Quadro, Ultra HD and Thunderbolt 3

Posted on by Gabriel Lowell
Lenovo ThinkPad P

We spend a lot of time on the latest laptops with minimal thickness and gaming aspirations, but if what you are looking for are really powerful equipment that can be transported, then there are few brands that offer us what we need. We could say that Lenovo, HP, or MSI are some of those that have authentic portable workstations.

Today we are going to stop in the renewal of Lenovo laptops, in the ThinkPad P family, which is composed of the P51, P51s, and P71. They are characterized mainly by bringing the latest Intel and Nvidia inside, in addition to offering a maximum degree of resistance: Lenovo says it is military level.

Presented at Solidworks World 2017 we can say that the three teams are well staggered, starting with the most portable P51S, and ending with a monster like the P71, with a 17-inch screen. As usual in this type of notebook, there is a lot of configuration to choose, but try to understand what are the highlights.Continue reading →