Monday, May 09, 2016

TPS Consulting Daily


TECHNOLOGY

Apple Watch and Me

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bhphotovideo.com - When the Apple Watch first launched in 2015, the rumors surrounding it had reached such a fever pitch it was difficult to discern fact from fiction; to parse all the buzz and marketing buildup from...

General Stan McChrystal on Eating One Meal Per Day, Special Ops, and Mental Toughness

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fourhourworkweek.com - Stanley McChrystal (@stanmcchrystal) retired from the U.S. Army as a four-star general after more than 34 years of service. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates described McChrystal as “perhaps t...

GeoOrbital Wheel | Make your bike electric in 60 seconds

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kickstarter.com - The Patent Pending GeoOrbital wheel is an evolution of the orbital wheel (the wheels on the TRON Motorcycles). The GeoOrbital wheel replaces a standard bicycle front wheel to turn your bike into a ...

Word, PowerPoint and Excel for iOS get Egnyte and Learnium integration - MSPoweruser

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mspoweruser.com - Microsoft today released a new update for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel on iOS. The latest update is not a major release for any of these apps, but it brings a nice new feature: integration...

IDC Energy Insights Reports on the State of Digital Transformation in North American Power

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idc.com - Critical investments continue in Asset Management, Energy Trade/Risk Management, and Network Management Systems Framingham, Mass., May 9, 2016 – The power sector is currently undergoing a digital t...

The Importance of Digital Transformation

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huffingtonpost.com - In his post last month, Tom Lounibos wrote that "it is increasingly clear that we are at the beginning of a massive, disruptive digital transformation that is fundamentally changing the way we live...

Facebook responds to claims of biased Trends, says it has neutrality guidelines

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techcrunch.com - Facebook says it’s against the company’s curation policy to suppress or prioritize specific political views in its Trending topics, and that it has guidelines in place to preserve consistency and n...

Picturesqe uses AI to help professional photographers cut through the dross

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techcrunch.com - The word AI is increasingly banded about with notable abandon. And, as I like to say, AI is the promise that keeps on promising. So I’m always encouraged when I see a humble but viable use of artif...

Why Programmatic is the Future of Digital Display Advertising (Infographic)

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adweek.com - Advertisers always seem to be chasing the next big thing. The current emerging trend is programmatic buying–data-based, highly targeted, automatic ad buys and placements–and marketers are starting ...

New Yorker cover brings Manhattan to life in augmented reality

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mashable.com - The New Yorker's latest cover is designed to literally leap off the page. The esteemed 91-year-old magazine is taking a step towards the future with its first-ever augmented reality cover this week...

Google is messing around with the color of its search results links

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mashable.com - Google is testing out a new color for its search result links, and it's not a shade of the tried-and-true blue. It's black. The tech giant is currently experimenting with black links in search resu...

Why a dedicated HomeKit app in iOS 10 is exactly what Apple needs

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mashable.com - There's a handful of Apple-compatible smart home products already on the market, but as of right now, you can't control them via one master app or hub. This is one of the biggest disadvantages of A...

Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News

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gizmodo.com - Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending” news section, according to a former journalist who worked on ...

The Internet of Things is a security nightmare, warns EFF

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techcrunch.com - A panel discussion on finding a balance between security and privacy here at Disrupt New York 2016 touched on various aspects of a complex topic, including strategies for securing customer data and...

Microsoft enters the “Super Mario” business with new Minecraft skins

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arstechnica.com - The release of yet another bit of cosmetic DLC for one specific version of Minecraft isn't usually the kind of thing we'd take the time to write about at Ars. But the latest skin pack for the game ...

HTC’s revenue plunges 64% as the struggling firm reports another quarter in the red

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techcrunch.com - HTC is officially struggling once again. The Taiwan-based tech company’s latest financials show its sales dropped a staggering 64 percent over the past year. Revenue for Q1 2016 came in at NT$14.8 ...

Introducing the Startup Battlefield companies of Disrupt NY 2016

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techcrunch.com - TechCrunch is pleased to announce the 20 startups selected to participate in the Disrupt NY 2016 Startup Battlefield. Over the next two days, these companies will compete on tech’s biggest stage fo...

Interactive Adverting Bureau CEO: AdBlock Plus is an extortion-based business

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techcrunch.com - Today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, we had both the founder of AdBlock Plus Till Faida and Interactive Advertising Bureau CEO Randall Rothenberg on our stage — but not at the same time, mostly because ...

Laugh.ly aims to be the Pandora for stand-up comedy

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techcrunch.com - A company called Laugh.ly wants to make streaming sets from the best comedians as easy as streaming music on Pandora. Though not yet available to the public, Laugh.ly’s iOS application will allow u...

Virtual reality will revolutionize media content but VR headsets need to evolve

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techcrunch.com - Virtual reality can deliver on its promise to bring new and immersive experiences to the masses, but the current iteration of hardware will need to evolve first. That’s the view shared by NextVR co...

AdBlock Plus closes in on a billion downloads

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techcrunch.com - Ad blocking software’s usage on the web, and now mobile, has forced the media and publishing industry to look to new revenue models. And one of the most notable players in ad blocking is German fir...

Twitter tells US intel agencies to do their own data mining

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arstechnica.com - In another sign that tensions between Silicon Valley and the US government are strong, Twitter is now barring US intel agencies from a service that analyzes the micro-blogging service's entire feed...

Court forces woman to provide fingerprint to unlock her iPhone

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bgr.com - Earlier this year, the FBI and Apple found themselves embroiled in a contentious legal dispute regarding the locked iPhone of Syed Farook, one of the San Bernardino terrorists. Unable to access the...

Google is quietly making progress on one of its most jaw-dropping tech projects

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businessinsider.com - Google's Project Soli was one of the highlights of the company's developer conference last year, but there's been little news about it since then. The technology uses special radar sensors packed i...

Surface Book 2 release date: Microsoft waiting for Intel's upcoming chip, resulting in delay of device

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vinereport.com - Microsoft's introduction of the Surface Book last year has been lauded by a lot of tech buffs given its portability without compromising workload. Hence, it was no surprise when the company announc...

How to Set Up your AdWords Campaign Settings

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portent.com - This post is the second in a six-part series written by Portent’s small business team outlining the fundamentals in building your first PPC account through Google AdWords. Follow along in our six-p...

Personalizing Your Marketing? You're Gonna Need Bigger Data

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marketingprofs.com - In an increasingly saturated marketplace with a growing number of offline and online advertising channels, how can you, as a marketer, expect to cut through all the noise and reach your target audi...

How MaroPost Cost Me Tens Of Thousands Of Dollars

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shoemoney.com - In April of 2016 I was finalizing the sale of my email marketing agency – PAR Program and was looking for something new. Long story short I came up with an educational product to actually pay peopl...

Opera VPN For iOS: Access Blocked Sites With iPhones, iPads - InformationWeek

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informationweek.com - Opera announced Monday the Opera VPN app for the iPhone and iPad. The app, says Opera, can protect users' online privacy and allow them to access blocked or region-locked content. From an IT perspe...

Acura charts a new course with 2017 NSX supercar

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freep.com - THERMAL, Calif. – With a full-throated roar, the supercar that Honda hopes will breathe new life into its Acura luxury brand is finally ready. The next generation of the sexy NSX supercar heads to ...

Despite ‘Street Fighter 5’ Missing Sales Goal, Capcom Reports Increased Profit

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ibtimes.com - "Street Fighter 5" missed the mark for Capcom, the Japanese video game maker whose fiscal year ended March 31. "SFV," as the game is called, was expected to sell at least two million copies by the ...

Fitbit Strives to Escape the Shadow of Apple

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nytimes.com - Competing with Apple, whose cash hoard exceeds the size of many countries’ gross domestic product, is also not easy. Although Apple last week reported its first sales decline ever in iPhones, Apple...

Here’s How Amazon, Uber, Apple Beats and ESPN Are Using Snapchat

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cta.tech - Snapchat isn’t just for millennials anymore. A number of brands have taken to the mobile messaging app to reach the 100 million daily users on Snapchat. Check out how some of our Consumer Technolog...

Why most marketers should ignore A-List bloggers - Biznology

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biznology.com - Admit it. You look at those stories in Huffington Post and Mashable and ask yourself, “Why isn’t my company getting their message in there?” It does seem tempting. And it feels tantalizingly possib...

How to Use Facebook Messenger for Business : Social Media Examiner

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socialmediaexaminer.com - Wondering how you can help people find you on Messenger? Recent updates make it easier for businesses to communicate with customers via Messenger’s private, one-to-one messages. In this article you...

Viesearch Friends of Viesearch - Some of our Lastest Referrers

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viesearch.com - Carpet Cleaning Orange County | 949.436.7768 | Natural Stone... Residue Free a premium high end provider of residential and commercial carpet cleaning services & natural stone care. We service Oran...

How Facebook decides what's trending

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recode.net - Update: This story was based on a conversation we had in August with Facebook about how its trending feature works. A Gizmodo story published in May reports that human editors have suppressed certa...

Using Email Promoting To Your Best Advantage

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marketingpromotion.biz - It is important that you don’t bombard your consumers with a lot of unwanted emails. Your marketing campaign should be clear and call attention to products as appropriate. The more often your email...

Big Periscope updates: Streaming from drones, videos won't disappear

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mashable.com - Facebook Live might be the hottest live-streaming app right now, but Periscope is raising its game to meet the new challenge. The Twitter-owned streaming app gave Mashable a look at three new featu...

A Test Drive! The 2016 Honda Accord 4DR Touring Edition – stupidDOPE

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stupiddope.com - The good folks over at Honda are no strangers to crafting stunning, durable rides for our transportation needs. Well today they are back, as they recently let us behind the wheel of the sleek and s...

Spotify's Growth has Sped Up Since the Launch of Apple Music

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iphonehacks.com - Despite the fact that streaming music has been around for awhile, apparently Apple had to get into the game to raise awareness. And help Spotify out, too. Reuters spoke with one of Spotify’s Vice P...

Lighten Your Burden with the Letgo App’s Commercializer – stupidDOPE

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stupiddope.com - I tend to move around a lot and I think I may have wanderlust. Maybe I should seek counsel for it. In the process of moving around though, I end up having items that cannot fit at my new place, too...

The Facebook News Scandal Explained

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huffingtonpost.com - News organizations are biased. Sometimes bias is obvious or proudly displayed. HuffPost, for example, publishes a disclaimer at the bottom of articles about Donald Trump explaining that he is a rac...

Are Your iPhones Safe? FBI and Apple Wage War Over Encryption

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huffingtonpost.com - I like Apple Inc. For one, it makes some pretty handy devices I use. For two, they've got guts. It takes a lot to tell the federal government to shove it where the sun don't shine, and that's exact...

Test Drives! The 2016 Mazda CX-5! – stupidDOPE | Art, Travel, Culture, Design, Music, Lifestyle

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stupiddope.com - The world of automobiles is forever changing and evolving right along with technology. Recently we had the chance to get behind the wheel of a 2016 Mazda CX-5 to experience the new updates and upgr...

Sound Like No Other | Cowin Ark Speaker – stupidDOPE

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stupiddope.com - In a wireless world where we chill harmony, there is no other speaker system currently available that handles surround sound in a modular manner like the Ark by Cowin. The Ark is both a powerful an...

Kiddicare customer data stolen from 'test' website - BBC News

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bbc.co.uk - Parenting retailer Kiddicare has suffered a data breach that exposed the names, addresses and telephone numbers of some of its customers. The company said it had emailed 794,000 people who may have...

South Korea's biggest petrochemical company was duped into paying $21 million to a fake Saudi Aramco

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oilprice.com - After making a $21-million wire payment to a fraudulent company account claiming to be that of Saudi Aramco, South Korea’s largest petrochemical company, LG Chem, is now seeking a full investigatio...

Analyst: Live video holds promise for Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter

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americasmarkets.usatoday.com - SAN FRANCISCO — Live video is the ticket for Internet companies and Facebook is the early front-runner. That’s according to Scott Kessler, head of technology research at S&P Global Market Intellige...

VW's mysterious new SUV is one step closer to hitting the market

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businessinsider.com - Volkswagen's new mid-size SUV is progressing towards production. The company's Chattanooga factory has completed the first test body used to calibrate the SUV production line's tooling and procedur...