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HTC Loses Another Senior Exec As COO Steps Down – But May’s Phone Sales Are One Bright Spot Amid The Gloom
Author: Angela Chin
Troubled Taiwanese mobile maker HTC, which has seen its profits plummet as it struggles to compete in an Android mobile space dominated by its Galaxy-spewing rival Samsung, is losing (yet) another senior executive. Bloomberg reports that Chief Operating Officer Matthew Costello will step down after less than three years at the company. Costello joined HTC in December 2010, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Bloomberg reports that Fred Liu, currently HTC’s president of engineering and operations, will “take on Costello’s responsibilities in an expanded role covering operations, quality, sales operations and services”. The details were in an email to employees obtained by the news agency, which also notes that despite stepping down as COO Costello will stay on as an executive adviser after moving to Europe. We’ve reached out to HTC for comment and will update this story with any response.
Costello’s departure is the latest in a string of senior exec loses at HTC, including its Senior Vice President of Global Marketing Greg Fisher, Chief Product Office Kouji Kodera, Global Communications VP Jason Gordon, Global Retail Marketing Manager Rebecca Rowland, digital marketing chief John Starkweather and Eric Lin, manager of product strategy — all within the past three months. Last November the company also announced the appointment of a new Chief Marketing Officer, Benjamin Ho, to replace John Wang from January, with the aim of turning the marketing noise up on HTC’s innovations.
The company’s prior ‘quietly brilliant’ marketing messaging has fizzled against the onslaught of Samsung’s well-oiled and funded marketing machinery — which is pretty much the opposite of quiet. So it barely seemed to matter that HTC made a cracking Android flagship in the HTC One, arguably the best Android flagship on the market, because selling smartphones has become a game of who can shout the loudest for the longest. A game of brash tones, if you will.
But there’s one bright spot amid all this gloom for HTC. The company has just posted monthly revenues for May showing a 48.03% surge in sales — its best uplift all year (it has, however, been a terrible year for HTC). It’s still 3.35% down year-on-year but considering April’s revenues were down 36.87% that’s a substantial improvement. May’s revenues were NT$ 29 billion ($ 970 million).
Whether HTC can claw back from the brink with one star phone in its portfolio is, however, debatable. Its Facebook Home gamble, with the HTC First, looks to have backfired, as that device has been withdrawn pre-sale in Europe and its position in the U.S. looks perilous. Meanwhile Samsung keeps on firing forth iterations of its Galaxy flagships aimed at saturating the market with differed sized and priced versions of its hardware, leaving even less wiggle room for HTC.
Still, another quietly positive note for HTC is that Google looks to be stepping in to try to help out a little, by offering a Google Edition of the HTC One for sale on its Play Store. After all, an Android ecosystem dominated by Samsung is not without problems for Mountain View — for Android ecosystem health/biodiversity reasons — but also because of the risk that Samsung starts to hold too many of its cards. Whatever Google’s motives, HTC could certainly do with a few friends in high places right now.
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FCC Chair Julius Genachowski steps down today, but what will he leave behind?
Author: Tiffany Shoman
After four years in office, FCC Chair Julius Genachowski is stepping down today. Genachowski pioneered an ambitious plan for rural broadband and a shift towards net neutrality, but his leadership was also seen by some as plodding and ineffective. Regardless, in a candid interview with The New Yorker, Genachowski says he remains an optimist, though he acknowledges limits to how far he was able to change national policy during his tenure. He also touches on some of the most controversial decisions made under his leadership, from rejecting an AT&T / T-Mobile merger but approving an NBC / Comcast one to absolving Red Sox player David Ortiz for using profanity on the air during a memorial speech after the Boston Marathon bombings. After his…
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3D-printed firearm plans downloaded 100,000 times, State Department steps in
Author: Angela Stephens
That didn’t take long — just days after its first test fire, the Liberator, a 3D-printed pistol designed by Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson, has caught the attention of the federal government. It’s hardly a surprise: the arm’s blueprints were downloaded more than 100,000 times since going live on DefCAD this week. It’s not the amount of downloads that’s causing trouble, though, it’s who is downloading them. In a letter from the US State Department, Wilson was told that it’s a violation of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations to “export any defense article or technical data for which a license or written approval is required without first obtaining the required authorization from the DDTC (Directorate of Defense Trade Controls).”
The letter goes on to explain that these downloads legally count as exports under the law, telling Wilson to remove the plans from public access immediately. “That might be an impossible standard,” Wilson told Forbes. “But we’ll do our part to remove it from our servers.” As it turns out, most of the gun’s downloads were served via Mega, making full removal near impossible. Still, Wilson seems optimistic about the situation, explaining to Forbes that conversation will help mold the discussion on 3D printed weaponry. “Is this a workable regulatory regime? Can there be defense trade control in the era of the internet and 3D printing?” We’re looking forward to discovering the answer ourselves.
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Via: Vice
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No Comments »Zipcar CEO steps down in wake of acquisition by rental-car giant Avis
Author: Tech Blogger
When Avis Budget Team revealed it would be getting car-sharing service Zipcar earlier this year, the business said it expected vital members of the Zipcar team to remain on to run the service– however Zipcar’s CEO Scott Griffith won’t be one of them. Fortune reports that the Griffith has actually stepped down from the business, simply a day after Avis officially finished its acquisition. Taking his location will be Zipcar’s chief operating policeman Mark Norman.
In a letter to Zipcar workers today, Griffith writes that “Zipcar will require a fully-committed leader to open the power of the merger,” which “it’s best if I step back and give someone else the chance to put the pedal down and take Zipcar to the next level.” The Boston Globe‘s Scott …
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Founder James Park Reports That Fitbit Users Average About 6,000 Steps A Day, Introduces Us To The Flex
Author: Tiffany Shoman
The Fitbit pedometer is a fun way to track your everyday perambulations. They ’ ve introduced a number of products over the past year consisting of the One and the Aria scale.
At CES company just announced the Fitbit Flex, a small wrist-worn pedometer that syncs wirelessly with your phone or PC and, in a globe apparently loaded with pedometers these days, is a cool little gadget.
We rested with James Park, founder, and discussed the service and the brand-new pedometer. He kept in mind that numerous users are amazed by how few steps they take each day which the average energetic Fitbit individual hits about 6,000 steps a day.
The Flex will be delivering later this year for $ 99.
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That’s Like, Two Steps: The World’s Shortest Escalator
Author: Jade Kim
This is a short video tour of the world’s shortest escalator, located in Kawasaki, Japan. The escalator has a vertical rise of only 83-centimeres (~33-inches) and should have probably been a ramp instead. This video already has 5-million views on Youtube though, so I’m not going to spend any more time on it because you’ve probably already seen it. You never sent it to me though, so really this was all your bad.
Hit the jump for a video of Spencer Pratt demoing the thing.
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Google general counsel Kent Walker’s three steps to fixing the patent system
Author: Brittany Turner
Large corporations like Google and Apple aren’t the only ones being attacked by patent trolls, smaller groups and people are also under fire. In a guest column uploaded by Wired, Kent Walker, senior vice president and basic counsel at Google, highlights numerous of the issues that small and big software companies have actually faced since the 1990s, while supplying up a few solutions. Head to the source to see how revisiting past rulings, re-working the approval process, and clarifying penalties could possibly assist companies get out of courtrooms and back to innovating.
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Were in USA I can make bachelor of robotics engineering? Or what are the steps to get their?
Author: Natalie Wood
Question by z_coldfusion: Were in USA I can make bachelor of robotics engineering? Or what are the steps to get their?
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Answer by FifaMan
Start with electrical enigneeing, thats pretty much the only way!!!
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Microsoft takes first steps towards a browser-based version of Skype
Author: Randy Miller
A browser-based version of Skype now seems inevitable as Microsoft has taken the first steps towards its support of the web Real Time Communication (WebRTC) HTML5 standard. GigaOm reports that Microsoft submitted its own proposal for WebRTC today, as Customizable, Ubiquitous Real Time Communication over the Web (CU-RTC-Web). The standard, essential to a plugin-free video and audio communications in HTML5, will likely be used in future browser-based versions of Skype — something we’ve seen hinted at previously in Skype job listings.
Although Microsoft will implement a browser-based version of Skype video calling in its Outlook.com webmail client soon, we understand this particular implementation will require a plugin and will not use…
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Two Steps From Hell – “Skyworld” Demo (2012 – Public Album)
Author: Buck Howard
Buy now Two Steps From Hell’s official app (0.99 $ ) for iPhone/iPad & Android to take pleasure in “Daemon’s Dance”, a special cd with unreleased music. AppStore – bit. ly – Play Store – bit. ly Demo of their future third public release, “Skyworld”. The album will definitely feature over 20 new epic keep tracks of by Thomas Bergersen & Nick Phoenix. The recording will definitely be released after summertime 2012.
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