Friday, May 20, 2016

TPS Consulting Daily


TECHNOLOGY

Google's Chromebooks outsold Apple's Macs in the U.S. for the first time

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money.cnn.com - While Apple should be concerned about this stat, Microsoft should worry too. The popularity of Chromebooks is driven strongly by demand from K-12 schools. Chromebooks start at about $85, and they'r...

What Construction's Comeback Taught Us | Egnyte

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egnyte.com - Walking into a construction office ten years ago you’d likely see a large number of file cabinets and a lot of paper. What you wouldn’t see is data integration. Even giants in the Architecture, Eng...

3 Elements That Will Make or Break an Email Marketing Campaign

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entrepreneur.com - Let’s be honest: Marketing has become kind of a beast. With so much data, so many new channels and so much competition out there, it can be tough for today’s marketers to determine which marketing ...

Chapter 5: Maximize Your Productivity...The Bike - - Rosabella Consulting

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rosabellaconsulting.com - Wanting your business to operate like a well oiled machine is like thinking you’ll ever be done your website. Such dreams are rarely actually reached. Opportunities to improve continually pop up....

UBS Maintains Apple to Buy with Price Target $115.00 – Trade Calls

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tradecalls.org - Brokerage firm UBS Maintains its rating on Apple(NASDAQ:AAPL). In a research note issued to the investors, the brokerage major Lowers the price-target to $115.00 per share. The shares have been rat...

GaggleAMP AMPlify employee and partner engagement conference

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biznology.com - While you’re reading this on Tuesday, I am writing it on the Sunday before, since I will be mounting my 1995 BMW K1100LT touring motorcycle, donning my Shoei RF-1100 helmet and Aerostich Falstaff m...

Startup spending guide: Where to spend money

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techcrunch.com - Ryan Angilly is CEO of Ramen and author of Creating Successful SaaS. Products. We’ve all come across numerous “Top 100 resources for startups”-type posts at least once as we Google our way to entre...

BMW's 2002 'Hommage' concept celebrates 50 years of iconic coupes

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mashable.com - Fifty years ago, BMW unveiled the now-iconic 2002 model and set the stage for current German sport luxury brand that we know and love today. SEE ALSO: Que Bella! Aston Martin brings a taste of Ital...

Uber agrees to limit surge pricing in Delhi

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mashable.com - Uber has reportedly agreed to limit its fares in Delhi and abide by the rates set by the state government. The ride-hailing app said that its fares would not exceed the prescribed rates, effective...

This 1996 Sega training video is the most ‘90s thing you’ll see this week

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arstechnica.com - If you've ever wondered what Sega was like at the height of its game-making powers, wonder no more. A staff video from the Sega vaults—made in 1996, the same year that the Sony PlayStation would be...

Incensing critics, Google engineer ends push for crypto-only setting in Allo

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arstechnica.com - A co-leader on Google's product security team has waved a piece of red meat in front of already frothing privacy advocates by deleting part of a blog post saying he wished the Allo messenger app th...

Windows 10 users notice Cortana now sending them Android notifications

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androidcommunity.com - We talked about how this could happen, and some people did make this work on their systems, but a native cross-platform notification system from Android to Windows 10 is big news. Think of it this ...

Collapsible Pocket-VR with CandyShell Grip phone case now available

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androidcommunity.com - Graduating students may have started searching for that perfect gift from their parents. Good for them but not so for the adults. Gone are the days when going to the toy store is enough. In this da...

4 Clues About Apple’s Future Hidden In Its New San Francisco Store

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fastcompany.com - At a press event this morning in downtown San Francisco, Angela Ahrendts introduced Apple’s new Union Square store. The outlet, which has been in the works for over two years, is shimmery and new i...

Nokia confirms another 1,000 layoffs in Finland

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techcrunch.com - As a late Friday coda to this week’s news of Nokia’s old feature phone business getting sold once again, today Nokia quietly confirmed it is laying off 1,032 employees in its home market of Finland...

Google demos Project Ara developer unit, plans for a 2017 commercial release

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techcrunch.com - It’s been a little while since we’ve heard much about Project Ara, but Google wasn’t going to let an I/O go by without shedding a little more light on the much discussed (and formerly Moto-centric)...

Microsoft brings Skype to businesses’ iOS and Android apps

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techcrunch.com - Microsoft is further opening up Skype to businesses. On Thursday, the company launched its Skype for Business SDK – tools which allow iOS and Android developers to integrate Skype’s messaging, audi...

Purism builds a secure tablet with physical wi-fi and camera switches

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techcrunch.com - Purism, proud makers of one of the first truly open laptops, is moving into the world of pro-level tablets. Their latest product, the Librem 11, is a tablet that runs any GNU/Linux version (they re...

Amazon will reportedly soon sell its own private-label groceries

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techcrunch.com - Amazon will soon roll out its own private-label brands of common household items like coffee, diapers, and other perishable groceries, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The offeri...

OneCore to rule them all: How Windows Everywhere finally happened

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arstechnica.com - The Windows 10 Anniversary update, due later this summer, represents a major landmark for Microsoft. As well as being a significant update for Windows 10 on the desktop and Windows 10 Mobile on pho...

Homefront: The Revolution review: Blood-spattered banner

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arstechnica.com - Homefront: The Revolution captures the compromised morals dead-on. Given the haphazard execution, though, I’m not sure that’s intentional. In this guerrilla war, you play as Ethan Brady, a recent r...

Oculus workaround to play on HTC Vive rendered inoperable by app update

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arstechnica.com - Currently, only two virtual reality platforms exist on Windows PCs: the Oculus Rift and the SteamVR-powered HTC Vive. Each set has its strengths and weaknesses, but until recently, they at least bo...

CEO Larry Page defends Google on the stand: “Declaring code is not code”

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arstechnica.com - SAN FRANCISCO—Alphabet CEO Larry Page testified in federal court this morning, saying that he never considered getting permission to use Java APIs, because they were "free and open." The CEO of Alp...

The Nonda ZUS Kevlar cable is not bulletproof—we checked

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arstechnica.com - Attention PR folks: On average, I get about 100 pitch e-mails a day, and most of them get ignored. But this is how you get my attention: SUBJECT: What do bulletproof vest and our charging cable hav...

30+ Places to Promote Your Blog On The Web

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smallbiztrends.com - Even if you’re the best blogger in the world, you’ll lack readers if folks can’t find your posts online. How do you lead readers to your posts? By promoting your blog in as many ways as possible. I...

Hacker Steals Money from Bank and Donates $11,000 to Anti-ISIS Group

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thehackernews.com - Meet this Robin Hood Hacker: Phineas Fisher, who breached Hacking Team last year, revealed on Reddit Wednesday that he hacked a bank and donated the money to Kurdish anti-capitalists in Rojava auto...

Facebook Sued for illegally Scanning Users' Private Messages

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thehackernews.com - Facebook is in trouble once again regarding its users' privacy. Facebook is facing a class-action lawsuit in Northern California over allegations that the company systematically scans its users' pr...

26 Inspiring Quotes From Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg

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inc.com - You would think that wisdom comes with age and most often it does. But there are a few people who seem to learn faster and know more than the average folks. Some of these people explode on to the s...

Samsung Pay teams up with Alipay to expand mobile payment market in China

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androidcommunity.com - China is a tough market to crack for some tech brands but it is something that they need to do given that it has the world’s largest population and the digital market is continually growing there. ...

Rhapsody is first music streaming service to have VR content

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androidcommunity.com - Virtual Reality is here to make a statement and hopefully, it is here to stay. Well, until another new, more awesome video tech comes along of course. But for those who are still trying to grasp th...

Android Marshmallow comes to Samsung Galaxy Tab A, S5 LTE-A (SoKor)

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androidcommunity.com - While some Samsung owners are already comfortably embracing their Marshmallow-updated devices, some are still waiting, hopefully not in vain. For this round of who’s-getting-Marshmallowed next, we ...

Drop test: HTC 10 vs Samsung Galaxy S7

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androidcommunity.com - We're no longer interested in watching drop tests because such can be heartbreaking. However, there's a new kid on the block and we want to see if the HTC 10 survives a drop test. PhoneBuff, the sa...

Pay what you want for expert MS Office training [DEALS]

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androidcommunity.com - Master popular Microsoft Office applications like Word and Excel with the Pay What You Want: A to Z Microsoft Office Training Bundle, available to Android Community readers for a limited time. Ther...

1-800-FLOWERS Leads Customer Engagement Charge with Facebook Messenger Bot

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loyalty360.org - In an innovative move, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM is expanding their customer experience presence to Facebook Messenger. On the heels of the social media giant’s announcement at its F8 Developer Conference ...

The Simplicity of Delivering on Complex Customer Expectations

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loyalty360.org - A recent study entitled Real-Time Data Drives the Future of Retail and commissioned by RetailNext and conducted by Forrester surveyed 500 consumers and 150 retail decision-makers. The report reveal...

Customer Experience Rises Positively for Canadian Wireless Users

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loyalty360.org - Autonomy is an omnipresent trait in wireless customers in Canada, most notably Millennials (born 1982-1994), and this has led to a hands-on approach to resolving issues with their respective carrie...

Sears Tests Home Appliance Store Concept and Seeks Elevated Customer Engagement

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loyalty360.org - Last week, Sears announced the May 19th opening of its first 10,000-square-foot Sears Appliance store in Fort Collins, CO. If this test goes well, this will be the first of what is expected to be a...

Online Customer Experience at Lancôme Gets a Boost to Personalization

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loyalty360.org - Top beauty brand Lancôme is taking its digital customer experience to a new high through a partnership with Edgecase Product Intelligence Platform. In a consumer landscape that demands immediacy, o...

Disney-backed Littlstar can map virtual-reality viewership

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marketingland.com - It’s not hard to call the 360-degree video ABC created for Lexus a success. In the two months since it premiered in early March, it’s racked up more than 2.2 million views on Facebook and almost a ...

3 ways to improve B2B lead quality

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marketingland.com - According to a recent eMarketer article, obtaining high-quality leads continues to be a challenge for B2B marketers. Along with measuring ROI and long sales cycles, difficulty obtaining enough qual...

MarTech Today: Google Daydream VR headset, Invoca's "missing channel" & Bing's UET Tag Helper

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marketingland.com - Here’s our daily recap of what happened in marketing technology, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Google will build its own Daydream VR headset & ...

Paul Thurrott's Short Takes: May 20 - Petri

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petri.com - Because Google is apparently taking over the world, this edition of Short Takes focuses on Microsoft’s Bing Concierge Bot, two weeks of Google v. Oracle at trial, Google claims that Chromebooks out...

Mobile Game Roundup: One Tap Tennis, Monster Builder and More

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adweek.com - Are you looking for a new mobile game to play this weekend? As usual, there are lots of new games available for you to try, like Britney Spears: American Dream, the latest celebrity game from Glu M...

The Golden Age of x86 Gaming

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blog.codinghorror.com - I've been happy with my 2016 HTPC, but things have been changing fast, largely because of something I mentioned in passing back in November: The Xbox One and PS4 are effectively plain old PCs, buil...

Chat Bots Have Marketers Talking, and It’s Not Why You Think

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adweek.com - Over the past few months, there has been a media swarm around chat bots. Some wonder if the simulated computer software programs (most recently popularized within messaging applications like Facebo...

Soon, you might be able to unlock your MacBook with your iPhone

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mashable.com - Passwords are a nuisance — especially in a world that constantly demands us to remember a dozen (or several dozen) different ones. One way to alleviate the issue is to use one unlocked device to au...

Battle of the smart speakers: Google Home vs. Amazon Echo

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money.cnn.com - Google is building a smart speaker to take on Amazon's surprise hit, the Echo. The Google Home, announced Wednesday, isn't ready for demos, doesn't have a price, and won't be available until later ...

Lamborghini's crisp, wild Huracán LP 580-2 is the most fun raging bull yet

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mashable.com - Lamborghinis are for making statements. They can say anything from "I'm richer than you" to "I'm Batman" — and everything in between. Specifically, the Huracán Spyder tells onlookers you care for s...

Microsoft to crack down on content promoting extremist acts

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reuters.com - SAN FRANCISCO With the world growing more concerned about attacks by militant groups on civilians, Microsoft Corp on Friday outlined new policies to crack down what it called "terrorist content" on...

8 Extra To-Dos for Better Content Distribution (With Examples)

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meltwater.com - You just poured everything you had into an epic piece of content. You spent hours Googling information and examples. You toiled over the perfect way to organize and present the information. You fig...