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Apple expected to ditch aluminum, release glass-backed iPhone with OLED display in 2017
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appleinsider.com - Apple expected to ditch aluminum, release glass-backed iPhone with OLED display in 2017 By Neil Hughes Sunday, April 17, 2016, 10:29 am PT (01:29 pm ET) Apple reportedly plans to shake up the mat...
Gone in minutes: Chinese cybertheft gangs mine smartphones for bank card data
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scmp.com - Gangs of online cyberthieves need just minutes to steal the pin numbers of thousands of bank cards for later sale in underground online markets, state-run CCTV reported on Sunday. The gangs also de...
Master your Mac with these tricks and shortcuts you didn't know you needed
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Jason Frovich
mashable.com - Sometimes a mouse or touchpad just isn't fast enough when you're approaching deadline. Sometimes you want to be able to quickly switch between fullscreen windows, or easily put two windows side-by-...
GM President Says Driverless Cars Coming "Sooner Than You Think"
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buzzfeed.com - The car industry is on the verge of its biggest transformation in more than a century, with a fleet of fully self-driving cars coming “sooner than you think,” according to General Motors President ...
Here's how we can make VMUG events even better - Welcome to vSphere-land!
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Gina Minks
vsphere-land.com - I was hanging out with John Troyer for a while last week at the Silicon Valley VMUG UserCon event, we were talking about VMUG events in general and he mentioned a recent blog post by Alastair Cooke...
FRUGAL BUSINESS: 8 Great Tim Cook Business Quotes
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Jason Frovich
myfrugalbusiness.com - Tim Cook had some incredibly large shoes to fill when he took over as Apple's CEO after Steve Jobs' illness and eventual passing in 2011. Cook helped Apple become one of the most valuable companies...
Xbox One hardware revisions, June announcement hinted at by FCC docs
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.co.uk - Game console revisions are pretty standard stuff, combining improved manufacturing processes, smaller form factors, and lower prices to keep sales going strong. However, rumblings about a PlayStati...
Cricket launches new unlimited data plan as it takes on T-Mobile
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slashgear.com - Cricket Wireless has announced the launch of a new unlimited data plan for $70/month. As well, Cricket — a subsidiary of AT&T — is targeting T-Mobile, saying the latter carrier costs its customers ...
Threatened by lone-wolf attacks, Marines must become true human hunters
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marinecorpstimes.com - The commandant of the Marine Corps recently talked about the need to get away from relying on “Gucci gear.” One interpretation of “Gucci gear” is all the recent technological advancements in warfig...
The digital Gilded Age: DC faces Silicon Valley's riches – and ever-growing power
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scottnewell
theguardian.com - The late 19th century was a period known as “the Gilded Age” in America. As the railroads, mining industries and factories boomed, millions of workers were inspired to migrate from Europe, yet the ...
GoPro launching new virtual reality camera, online platform
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LeVar Thomas
mashable.com - The race to create both the hardware and the software that will drive the emerging virtual reality market is heating up, and now GoPro has unveiled its latest plans to attract those VR filmmakers a...
Facebook’s Plan For Virtual Reality Is A Killer App for Social VR
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Thomas Frey
impactlab.net - What does the the largest social networking company want with a device focused on single user experience? Many eyebrows were raised when Facebook bought Oculus VR in 2014. Today at F8, Facebook rev...
10 big changes with search engines over my 20 years of covering them
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Brett Prince
searchengineland.com - Today is my 20th anniversary of covering search and search engines. To mark the occasion, I wanted to reflect on some of the big changes that I’ve seen over the past two decades of covering the spa...
Aussie commuters could soon catch the bus using a credit card
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Jefferson Faudan
mashable.com - Forget the Opal Card, soon all you'll need for your morning commute could be a credit card. At an event on the future of transport in Sydney Monday, the New South Wales Minister for Transport Andre...
Content Marketing 2015: Top Influencers and Brands
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Jonathan Gunson
onalytica.com - With a growing discussion and a solid increase in the use of content marketing across all disciplines we are asking ourselves what’s next for content marketing? The confluence (yup, pun intented) b...
Help save 17 years of PC game modding history
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - One of the Web's oldest and largest repositories for classic and current PC gaming mods will be shutting down for good later this month. GameFront announced today that its servers will be going off...
Google+ Profile and Google Brand Page Marketing
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James Hickey
sd-entrepreneur.com - When Google announced last week that they’ll be starting to roll out Search Plus your World, it became more evident that search is shifting towards a simpler way of retrieving data for their users ...
Review: Boosted Board Dual+ flourishes in the streets of NYC
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techcrunch.com - The result of a Stanford project, the Boosted Board Dual+ is an electric skateboard with a top of speed of 22mph — I’ve nearly gotten killed plenty of times riding it, mainly because it’s insanely ...
Skype offers free calls to Japan and Ecuador following earthquakes
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androidcommunity.com - Over the past week and just this weekend, we’ve seen reports of devastating earthquakes in the Kyushu region in Japan and in the South American country of Ecuador. One of the most difficult things ...
Be kind to artificial intelligence
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techcrunch.com - Mike Finley is a co-founder of AnswerRocket in charge of natural language processing and machine learning. Big innovations come in unexpected bursts. We grow accustomed to life and work as we know ...
For VR walking, forget treadmills—just stick a Vive wand down your pants
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - As much as we love the latest virtual reality rigs for Windows PCs, playing a game doesn't always feel realistic. The Oculus Rift and HTC Vive track head motion incredibly well, and the Vive adds s...
How To Master The Digital First Impression [Infographic]
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Reg Saddler
socialmediatoday.com - It takes just 90 seconds for a potential employer to decide whether to give you the job, according to career experts – and these days, that first minute and a half is likely to be spent checking yo...
Why Social Media Marketers Fail to Innovate and What to Do About It : Social Media Examiner
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Reg Saddler
socialmediaexaminer.com - Do you sometimes feel like a gerbil in a cage, watching the world of social media change as you’re stuck in place? Are you looking for a solution to fast-track your social media marketing skills? U...
Huawei decouples Backup app from their EMUI
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androidcommunity.com - The growing trend among OEMs nowadays is to bring their proprietary apps to the Google Play Store so they can update them individually (and sometimes faster) and then just focus on updating the cor...
Top 5 Android Apps That Are Fun to Use
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androidcommunity.com - Apps are designed for special purposes. Most of the apps we use are those created for particular reasons that are common to majority of the mobile consumers all over the world. Need to do something...
Canadian police have had master key to BlackBerry's encryption since 2010
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theverge.com - Canadian police have been in possession of a BlackBerry master encryption key since 2010, according to a pair of blockbuster reports today from Vice News and its sister site Motherboard. The report...
A court is about to make one of the most important decisions in the history of the Internet
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washingtonpost.com - (bakaotaku / Flickr) If you thought the battle over net neutrality ended when the Federal Communications Commission slapped a series of unprecedented rules on Internet providers last year, think ag...
Loyalty360 - Lifetime Value Triggers Key Ingredient for Long-term Customer Loyalty
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loyalty360.org - Creating practical customer engagement habits that benefit both business owners and their employees usually helps lead to long-term brand loyalty. Pamela Herrmann and Patty Dominguez cofounded CREA...
Loyalty360 - Wireless Providers Need to Listen to Customers to Gain Brand Loyalty
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loyalty360.org - Digital customer engagement is such a critical piece of the customer loyalty puzzle for marketers today. But, if customers aren’t happy with their wireless providers, brand loyalty goes out the win...
Loyalty360 - Weeklong Promotion Builds on 7-Eleven Loyalty Program
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loyalty360.org - Members of 7Rewards, the loyalty program from popular convenience store 7-Eleven, are getting an extra treat next week for what the company is simply calling “7Rewards Week.” During the week of Apr...
Loyalty360 - Mobile Customer Engagement Preferred Method of Service-based Messages
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loyalty360.org - Mobile customer engagement is huge these days and, according to a new Vibes study, consumers expect service-based communications from companies. Whether it’s an alert that their payment has been pr...
Loyalty360 - The Association for Customer Loyalty
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loyalty360.org - Quick Service Restaurants (QSR) and Fast Casual restaurants have virtually written the playbook about how to deliver quality to millions – and billions – of customers across all aspects of the dini...
Loyalty360 - SparkPost Elite Gets Most Out of Email Engagement
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loyalty360.org - Customer engagement has become a moving target in recent years, with channels of communication rising and falling in popularity seemingly every day. One channel that has seemed to stand the test of...
Loyalty360 - Better CX: Understanding (and Breaking Down) Cross-Org Silos
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loyalty360.org - Managing the customer experience is often thought of as the domain of those parts of the business that deliver the experience. Those with the greatest intimacy or connection with customers on a day...
ServiceSutra.com: An Online Marketplace to Hire Quality Service Providers - Start-Ups.Co
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start-ups.co - ServiceSutra helps consumers compare price from Trustworthy, Qualified and Verified Local Service Providers in India. As per Mr. Chaudhary; ServiceSutra helps consumers compare price from Trustwort...
Ubooly: A Voice Interactive Stuffed Animal Smart Toy Powered by your iPhone or iPod Touch - Start-Ups.Co
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start-ups.co - Ubooly is a stuffed animal powered by your iPhone or iPod touch. We use voice recognition and ongoing updates to make the world smartest toy. According to Mr. ‘Gloge'; Ubooly is a stuffed animal po...
‘Should I Put the Beer Down?’ This Mark Zuckerberg Interview From 2005 Is Super Chill, Bro (Video).
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recode.net - The Mark Zuckerberg of 2016 talks a lot like a politician: He’s taking on Donald Trump! Dreaming of the future of human-computer interaction! Making it … easier to buy flowers? Sure, whatever. This...
Why visuals are the most important element of content marketing
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Jonathan Gunson
convinceandconvert.com - This is the fifth in a series of videos culled from an interview about content marketing I did with Terry Foster of Cision Canada. Cision (the USA version) is also a sponsor of Convince & Convert a...
Intel NUC Mini-PC Review Follow-Up - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
thurrott.com - In the several weeks since I first purchased, assembled and then started using an Intel NUC mini-PC as my primary desktop, I’ve received a number of questions from readers about this setup. Was Ire...
Obama urges more consumer choices for cable TV set-top boxes
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yahoo.com - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Friday weighed in on the debate over allowing consumers to switch from pricey cable television boxes to less expensive devices, urging regulators ...
A man accidentally deleted his entire company with one line of code
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digitaljournal.com - As The Independent reports, Marco Marsala detailed his predicament on a forum called Server Fault. The forum aims to help server administrators resolve problems and software issues but it quickly b...
Our Garage: Top 10 Rides For 2016 – stupidDOPE
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LeVar Thomas
stupiddope.com - Let’s talk rides for a minute. We’ve all got our favorite rides, two or four wheeled, and we’d certainly love to have a garage full of unique and dope creations. Well today at stupidDOPE we’ve deci...
iPhone SE vs. iPhone 6: How Apple's cheaper, more powerful phone shakes things up
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Jason Frovich
appleinsider.com - iPhone SE vs. iPhone 6: How Apple's cheaper, more powerful phone shakes things up By Roger Fingas Sunday, April 17, 2016, 02:51 am PT (05:51 am ET) Although they're still on sale, and potentially...
OS X El Capitan 10.11.4 Hasn't Been All That Reliable for Me
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Jason Frovich
iphonehacks.com - When it comes to Apple products, there tends to be this goal from other manufacturers, and from a lot of people writing about those companies, to find the perfect product to beat whatever it is tha...
Mastering mobile marketing: Three best practices
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Tamara Dull
sas.com - Journey maps are visual representations of interactions as customers move through the buying cycle. They highlight touchpoints, customer objectives and possible outcomes while providing a great way...
Manios Digital & Film To Show CARTONI’s New FOCUS Range at NAB
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shootonline.com - At the 2016 NAB Show (Booth C9039), Manios Digital & Film and CARTONI is introducing FOCUS, a new range of fluid heads. The four new dynamic heads, FOCUS 8, FOCUS 12, FOCUS 18 and FOCUS 22, are de...
Twitter sees China ad opportunities
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warc.com - HONG KONG: Despite being banned from mainland China since 2009, US social network Twitter has appointed a new managing director for greater China as it seeks to increase its investment in the count...
5 Top Tips for Driving Piles of Free Traffic Using Twitter
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Franco Gonzalez
attractionlistbuilding.com - By Jeff Bullas: Twitter has been my secret sauce to building an online brand. It became obvious to me early on that Twitter had the potential to drive traffic to my blog. So I started growing my fo...
iPhone 7S Latest Leaks of Features and Improvements
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Future Lighting
neurogadget.com - Apple and Samsung have joined forces in creating and OLED – organic light emitting diode display for the Apple iPhone 7S smartphones line, as stated by a couple of Korean news publications, Hankyun...
iPhone 7S to reportedly sport Samsung's OLED display
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christianpost.com - When it comes to up and coming smartphones, nothing is more highly anticipated than a new version of the Apple iPhone. And just like the previous ones, the next in line, which is reportedly going t...
