Forget Apple vs. the FBI: WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People
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wired.com - For most of the past six weeks, the biggest story out of Silicon Valley was Apple’s battle with the FBI over a federal order to unlock the iPhone of a mass shooter. The company’s refusal touched of...
Here's how to find out if your partner is secretly using Tinder
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thenextweb.com - Have you ever wondered if your significant other might be playing away on Tinder? Well, now you can find out once and for all. A new website called Swipebuster is letting people pay $4.99 in exchan...
HTC Vive Review – the Holodeck you always wanted
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slashgear.com - Virtual Reality is finally coming of age, and with Vive, HTC and Valve believe they have the finest and most flexible interpretation of next-generation gaming. A surprise announcement just a year a...
Tracking Your Walks
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mydaily10000.com - Do you really know how far it is to walk your regular route? How many steps do you achieve? What about if you vary the walk and take different routes? Knowing the answers to some of these questions...
Medium is becoming the publishing platform for The Awl and a dozen other websites
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theverge.com - When Medium announced in February that it would become the home of sports writer Bill Simmons' new media venture, The Ringer, it was the start of something bigger. The amorphous publishing platform...
How to Become the Ultimate 'Digital Nomad' Right Now
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inc.com - Entrepreneurs like myself are born with the travel bug, but some prefer to keep their actual home temporary, too. Tech expert Mike Elgan knows the digital nomad life well after spending years livin...
Microsoft's Surface Phones could be delayed until 2017
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Jefferson Faudan
mashable.com - As Microsoft’s mobile platform continues to bob aimlessly in an ocean of iOS and Android, the company may be delaying its rumored Surface Phone devices until 2017. At least, that’s what a report fr...
Amazon Tap is like an Echo that's hard of hearing [REVIEW]
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Jefferson Faudan
mashable.com - The Amazon Echo is an incredible device, mostly because it lets you use voice commands to do everything from playing music to calling up an Uber to controlling your lights and thermostat. Shrink th...
Loyalty360 - Catalina’s My Favorite Deals Program Goes Omnichannel to Bring Customer Engagement Beyond the Grocery Store
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loyalty360.org - Catalina Marketing’s My Favorite Deals program, already an established tool for customer engagement, is expanding to include additional channels of interaction. By bringing the program to email, mo...
Productivity at Work: How to Cut Your Week In Half | Process Street
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process.st - Everyone on the 9-5 grind fantasizes about working fewer hours. It’s one reason why Tim Ferriss’ The 4-hour Workweek shot to the top of the bestseller list when it came out in 2007. It offered peop...
Why Microsoft needed to make Windows run Linux software
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arstechnica.com - Perhaps the biggest surprise to come from Microsoft's Build developer conference last week was the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). The system will ship as part of this summer's Anniversary Updat...
Virool raises $12M for native video ads
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techcrunch.com - Video ad startup Virool has raised $12 million in Series A funding. The company works with publishers including Mashable, Adweek and The Onion. It offers what it calls an Inline video ad unit, whic...
The HP Spectre is an ultrabook design achievement at 10.4 mm thin
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techcrunch.com - Its thickness (or lack thereof) is rivaled only by Apple’s Macbook, but that’s still thicker, being 13.2 mm at its thickest point. Mike Nash, VP of Customer Experience and Portfolio Strategy at HP,...
Why Facebook failed with Free Basics
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techcrunch.com - Land grab! Net neutrality! Imperialism! There was a lot of justified outrage (and perhaps delight) when Mark Zuckerberg’s dream of bringing the Internet to rural Indians came crashing down recently...
Roku debuts a new Streaming Stick with a quad-core processor, support for private listening
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techcrunch.com - Roku this morning introduced the third generation of its lower-cost streaming service, the Roku Streaming Stick, priced at $49.99, and a competitor to other sticks and dongles, like Google’s Chrome...
Google search now provides access to basic healthcare information in India
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techcrunch.com - Google’s latest move in India may help increase access to healthcare information among millions of people. The company added healthcare information to its knowledge graph in the U.S. last year, to ...
No matter how you slice it, Apple and WebRTC need each other
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techcrunch.com - Itay Rosenfeld is the CEO of Voxbone and has more than 15 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. The open source VoIP engine and standards initiative, known as WebRTC, is finally s...
NoScript and other popular Firefox add-ons open millions to new attack
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arstechnica.com - NoScript, Firebug, and other popular Firefox add-on extensions are opening millions of end users to a new type of attack that can surreptitiously execute malicious code and steal sensitive data, a ...
How to share content to 50 locations in 2 minutes - Shushnote - You Cannot Ignore Us
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blog.shushnote.com - Not too long ago, I discovered a neat little trick that will save you a lot of time. It helps you to promote your content – fast. I’m talking, share your content to 50 locations in less than 2 minu...
The beginner’s guide to UX prototyping
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webdesignerdepot.com - Prototyping, as a concept, has been around since before the Internet. Typically, people developing a new physical product would first build the thing, and make sure that it worked as intended. The ...
LAST DAY: Fluid Mask 3 - Professional Image Masking Tool - only $49! - MightyDeals
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mightydeals.com - Masking can be really time consuming and challenging work for designers. Some images may be easy to cut out, but what if there are tons of different colors, a busy background, and some real fine de...
WhatsApp turns on End-to-End Encryption by default for its 1 Billion Users
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Reg Saddler
thehackernews.com - WhatsApp is updating its messaging app so that every text message and voice call will be encrypted for the company’s one billion users. Yes, Whatsapp has finally implemented full end-to-end encrypt...
April Android distribution check: Marshmallow doubles to 4.6%
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androidcommunity.com - Back in January, we noted how Android 6.0 Marshmallow was moving slowly in its journey towards market adoption. Since then, however, the softy candy has proven us wrong, nearly doubling its territo...
BlackBerry receives monthly Android Security update
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androidcommunity.com - BlackBerry isn't only busy working on the Android 6.0 Marshmallow version for the Priv. The smartphone pioneer has just rolled out its monthly security update for the Android-powered device. This u...
Revolv will cease to exist starting May 15
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androidcommunity.com - Remember the Revolv home automation setup? Nest bought the startup and then Nest was later on acquired by Google. The smart home hub will soon meet its end as Alphabet, the parent company of Google...
Let’s Try the new Google Play app icons
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slashgear.com - This week the folks at Google have released a set of new icons for Google Play and the full collection of Google Play apps. Unfortunately you're going to have to wait to use them - unless you're cr...
WTF Is MRR? Tech’s Most Jargony Acronyms Explained.
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recode.net - In the 1987 film “Good Morning, Vietnam,” the late Robin Williams butts heads with a grouchy lieutenant over his irritating knack for abbreviations. “Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn’t w...
Loyalty360 - Genesys Customer Experience Platform Creates ROI Impact
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loyalty360.org - Omnichannel customer experience is something that all companies strive for, and a powerful technology solution is a necessary first step for organizations that are looking to create connected, effe...
Loyalty360 - Content Gallery
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loyalty360.org - Millennial consumers, aged 18-34, are continuously changing the way U.S. retailers think, sell and measure success. Retail competition is tough. Pricing is continually competitive. A whole new and ...
Harlequin My Rewards Delivers Tangible Business Results with Receipt-Scanning and Personalized Recommendations
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loyaltyexpo.com - How do you build 1:1 relationships with your consumers when you do not have the benefit of direct consumer interaction? How can you tailor personalized offers if you do not have purchase and prefe...
Count.ly: An Innovative, Open Source, Real-Time Mobile Analytics Platform - Start-Ups.Co
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start-ups.co - Countly is an innovative, open source, real-time mobile analytics platform intended for game studios, marketers, agencies, operators, and pretty much everyone with an aim to increase loyalty, user ...
716Labs : Helps App Developers In The Marketng Validation stage - Start-Ups.Co
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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Scott Falbo”, Co-Founder of the Buffalo – USA based start-up “716Labs” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what ...
Plink.com: A Facebook Credits-Based Loyalty Program - Start-Ups.Co
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start-ups.co - Plink is a Facebook Credits-based loyalty program that rewards Facebook members for dining and making purchases at their favorite restaurants and stores. As per Mr. Stratz; Plink is a Facebook Cred...
ClearChat picks a heavily-encrypted fight with Slack
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techcrunch.com - Slack has a lot of functions, but end-to-end encryption isn’t one of them, which makes the platform a no-go for some users. Launching to the public today, ClearChat comes along to save the day, ser...
Samsung patents smart contact lenses with a built-in camera
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Travis Wright
mashable.com - In the future, we could all be wearing smart contact lenses, like the ones secret agents use in movies. Samsung has been granted a patent in South Korea for contact lenses with a display that proje...
Virtual vs. augmented reality and Apple Watch for your face
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marketingland.com - Google Glass was probably about five years ahead of its time. Beyond the fact that it was priced incorrectly and looked goofy, use cases hadn’t yet been developed or established in the culture. It ...
Drake’s iTunes Sales Shot Up 431 Percent After Taylor Swift's Memorable Apple Music Ad
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adweek.com - Taylor Swift's epic treadmill fall in Apple Music's new ad was no April Fools' joke—it actually had been in the works for months. On Friday, the singer posted the funny spot, which shows her workin...
Skulls in the living room? Intel's NUC brings the pain with powerhouse internals
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Earl Castro
yahoo.com - Although it might technically have missed its announced first-quarter launch window by a few days, nobody is going to argue that Intel’s uber-powerful Skull Canyon NUC isn’t an impressive piece of ...
Are We Becoming A #hashtag World?
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James Hickey
sd-entrepreneur.com - With all the different Social Media Platforms out there like the ones named above, marketers and businesses are looking for ways to curate content and reach a target market of group of people via #...
Jukely Updates Concert Subscription Service With Collectible Cards, More
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Tom Maduri
adweek.com - Concert subscription platform Jukely has updated its iOS app, introducing a new experience points system and collectible cards to users. With Jukely, users pay $25 per month to access tickets to co...
As Apple plots India push, Samsung stakes turf with revamped phones
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Jefferson Faudan
reuters.com - MUMBAI/SEOUL Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) is regaining smartphone share in India with a revamped line-up packed with special features including a safety mode for motorcyclists, as rival A...
FIR #29: Communications and Cancer - FIR Podcast Network
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firpodcastnetwork.com - Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:41:10 — 41.4MB) | Embed Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS Today’s panel includes Doug Haslam, senior consultant at Boston-based digital marketing...
The Race Is On to Control Artificial Intelligence, and Tech’s Future
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Swanepoel
nytimes.com - At the University of Toronto, IBM pursued a start-up called Ross Intelligence that makes a smart legal assistant, and extended a free offer to use its A.I. software, called Watson. For IBM, the fin...
How to Print to a Google Cloud Printer from iOS
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SandyMorris
howtogeek.com - Apple’s own AirPrint printing is deeply integrated into iPhones and iPads. The “Print” options you see throughout the operating system will only print to AirPrint-enabled printers. You can still pr...
Changing the World, One Broadcast at a Time
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LeVar Thomas
huffingtonpost.com - It seems these days that anyone and everyone is going LIVE from their smart phones or tablets. Live-streaming apps are giving us the ability to be our own broadcaster to share our stories and our v...
Jeff Bezos: There are two types of decisions to make and don't confuse them
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Marcus Mavakala
businessinsider.com - Amazon's Jeff Bezos just published his annual letter to shareholders, and new this year is a lot of talk about how Amazon calculates big risks. He first notes that Amazon is the best place in the w...
Smart homes more hackable with weak IoT security - ReadWrite
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Tamara Dull
readwrite.com - Smart homes’ connected technologies are leaving homeowners vulnerable to data and privacy theft, according to a new study that examined several common IoT consumer devices. IoTTech News reports tha...
Here's how much Tesla's $35,000 Model 3 will really cost
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fool.com - Tesla Motors' Model 3 is a big deal for the Silicon Valley automaker -- and arguably, for the entire auto industry. It's the next step in CEO Elon Musk's famous "secret plan" to bring affordable, s...
Sigfox's slow but thrifty IoT network is going Down Under
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computerworld.co.nz - The Sigfox low-power IoT network is due for an expansion that may not be game-changing in practical terms but will certainly look good on a map. Sigfox announced a deal on Tuesday with a partner th...
Many Industries can Benefit From a Dynamics GP Consultant
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abouttmc.com - Effective business management is essential for any organization to be successful and it doesn’t just apply to organizations within the fortune 500 structure or other businesses that are profit driv...
