Saturday, June 11, 2016

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TECHNOLOGY

NSA Looking to Exploit Internet of Things, Including Biomedical Devices, Official Says

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theintercept.com - The National Security Agency is researching opportunities to collect foreign intelligence—including the possibility of exploiting Internet-connected biomedical devices like pacemakers, according to...

Buying a smartphone? Understand these features

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usatoday.com - If you’re shopping for a new smartphone, you might feel like you need a geek-to-English dictionary just to understand the lingo. Megapixel this, gigahertz that, terabyte this. It could make your he...

Soon Your City Will Know Everything About You

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foreignpolicy.com - They call it “the Internet of Things” — the rapidly growing network of everyday objects equipped with sensors, tiny power supplies, and internet addresses. Within a few years, we will be immersed i...

16 Key On-Page SEO Factors That Search Engines & Users Love [Infographic]

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socialmediatoday.com - WEBINARS SOCIAL NETWORKS 5 Super-Simple Strategies to Attract Leads on Twitter Facebook Introduces 360 Photos – The Next Step in the VR Shift Login Details of 32 Million Twitter Accounts Leaked Onl...

Tesla Model S Suspension Failures Under Scrutiny by Safety Agency

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nytimes.com - Tesla Motors, the maverick electric-car maker, is under scrutiny from federal regulators over suspension failures attributed to its biggest-selling model — along with reports that it had asked owne...

DOJ Announces First Declinations After Implementing FCPA Pilot Program | JD Supra

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jdsupra.com - JD Supra provides users with access to its legal industry publishing services (the "Service") through its website (the "Website") as well as through other sources. Our policies with regard to data ...

Here's how an online backup got a woman her computer back after 17 months of hell

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thenextweb.com - We’ve all been there: you leave behind something important like a phone or laptop, and the panic sets in. If you don’t find it, the typical response is to give up and think about buying a new devic...

Creating Context to Attract the Connected Customer

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blogs.cisco.com - A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to lead a session at the SAS Global Forum, along with Intel VP Steve Brown and Lori Schafer, SAS Retail Executive Advisor, on how retailers can create b...

What Pinterest learned in two years working on its search engine

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techcrunch.com - About two years ago, Pinterest launched a different flavor of search engine called Guided Search. Instead of relying on deep data on the user, it would create a network of related topics that users...

How to prepare for AdWords' expanded text ads and device-based bidding

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searchengineland.com - By now, you’ve heard about all of the latest Google AdWords and Google Analytics updates announced at Google’s Performance Summit. The two main changes coming to AdWords include expanded text ads a...

Google spokesperson: Google Autocomplete does not favor any candidate or cause

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searchengineland.com - A Google spokesperson has given us a statement on the claims surfacing today around Google allegedly manipulating their auto-complete search suggestions in favor of presidential candidate, Hillary ...

The app boom is over

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recode.net - The mobile app boom kicked off in July 2008, when Apple introduced the App Store. Now it is over. People are still making plenty of apps, of course. And many people are still downloading them. But ...

E3 2016 Gaming extravaganza boots up in LA - BBC News

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bbc.co.uk - This year's E3 could prove to be a turning point - not just for gaming, but for the event itself. Traditionally a place for studios to show off what they have been working on, this year the gaming ...

Top 10 TED Talks for Entrepreneurs

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inc.com - TEDGlobal 2014 kicked off this week in Rio de Janeiro with panels focusing on how ideas, both good and bad, spread across borders. If you've yet to accumulate enough frequent-flier miles to dash o...

Meem backs up your phone every time you charge it

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techcrunch.com - Forgot to back up your phone again? Meem‘s new product might be just the solution to your woes. The company creates power cables for iOS and Android that back up your device every time you plug it ...

Samsung’s Gear Fit2 brings welcome upgrades to the amped up fitness tracker

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techcrunch.com - The first Gear Fit wasn’t a bad product. It was just one that wanted to be something for everyone, disappointing most in the process. Of course, 2014 was a few lifetimes ago. Much has happened in t...

I played the new Pokemon Go for iPhone/Android and it’s awesome

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techcrunch.com - It’s 2pm on an SF day so perfect that I’m actually a little tired of small talk about how nice the weather is. We’re down on the Embarcadero, where the Bay Bridge dominates the horizon. To my left,...

How activist DeRay Mckesson’s Twitter account was hacked

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techcrunch.com - Even though several huge data breaches have recently exposed hundreds of millions of social media login credentials online, users aren’t re-setting their passwords — which means you’ll probably con...

What to expect at Apple’s WWDC keynote

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techcrunch.com - Apple is about to kick off its annual developer conference in San Francisco on Monday. As usual, the company will get things going with a good old keynote filled with secret and not-so-secret annou...

13 TechCrunch stories you don’t want to miss this week

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techcrunch.com - Gawker files for bankruptcy, Verizon inches closer to buying Yahoo, what to expect at Apple’s WWDC conference next week and more headlines to stay on top of this week’s tech news. 1. Apple is about...

Whatever happened to MCNs?

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techcrunch.com - Peter Csathy is Chairman of CREATV Media, a media innovation and advisory firm. Remember MCNs? Those quaint multi-channel networks — aggregators of YouTube channels — that generally focused on a sp...

The future of the IoT job market

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techcrunch.com - Since the dawn of technology, we’ve been afraid of technology eliminating our jobs. Look at the birth of the steam engine. When it was invented in the late 1700s, people believed its arrival signal...

Mozilla’s multi-process architecture project cleared for takeoff

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techcrunch.com - Attention. Project code-name Electrolysis is a go. Mozilla’s long-running project to bring multi-process architecture to hundreds of millions of Firefox users has finally met release criteria for a...

Appeals court rules cops can legally search a seized credit card with no warrant

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arstechnica.com - A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that law enforcement can legally scan or swipe a seized credit card—in fact, it is not a Fourth Amendment search at all, so it doesn’t require a warrant. In ...

What to expect when you’re expecting E3 2016

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arstechnica.com - From Dead Rising 4 to a new Red Dead Redemption, we try to glean truth from leaks. This year's E3 has the added potential of a heavily rumored new console announcements from Microsoft (and an actua...

We were promised flying cars, and Larry Page wants to deliver

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arstechnica.com - Like the robber barons of the Gilded Age, some of the tech billionaires of Silicon Valley are using their vast wealth to try to transform the world according to their vision(s). Bill Gates has his ...

The Warcraft movie is ill-conceived propaganda for the Alliance

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arstechnica.com - Garona is a half-orc slave of Gul'dan who knows how to slice a man in two with a sword, but decides to join the humans because they have warm, fluffy blankets. Garona is a half-orc slave of Gul'dan...

Tesla denies suspension issue and accuses blogger of lying

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arstechnica.com - The feud between Elon Musk’s company Tesla Motors and an auto blogger has sparked an indignant open letter from the company. Elon Musk writes a scathing review of the review and consumers get left ...

Sony confirms “high-end” PS4 Neo, but it wont be at E3

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arstechnica.com - Ahead of the start of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, Sony president and CEO Andrew House has confirmed the long-rumored existence of a more powerful PlayStation 4, codenamed Neo, that will be s...

Google is offering app developers the same revenue-sharing terms Apple just announced — with one big advantage

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recode.net - On Wednesday, Apple detailed major shake-ups coming to its powerful app store. Those include a new revenue-sharing model that would give developers more money when users subscribe to a service via ...

Flash is dead (in Chrome), and we really mean it this time

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webdesignerdepot.com - Despite the somewhat ironic tone of the title, this is exactly what’s happening. People have predicted the inevitable collapse of Flash ever since Apple kicked it off the iOS platform, but now Goog...

Tesla’s Plan to Rule the Auto Industry? In-App Purchases

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wired.com - Introducing a new Tesla Model S with a 60 kilowatt-hour battery, a 200-mile range, and a lower price didn’t require redeveloping the pack, revamping the assembly line, or reconfiguring the supply c...

This Startup Trains Africa's Elite Coding Apprentices For Giants Like IBM & Microsoft

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fastcompany.com - As a teenager growing up in Lomé, the capital of Togo, Faiçal Tchirou taught himself to code at a cyber-café. He wanted to help his mother manage the small pharmacy she owned. Prescription orders, ...

9 Instagram Tips and Tools for Marketers : Social Media Examiner

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socialmediaexaminer.com - Improving your Instagram content and boosting engagement can be as simple as adding a few tactics and tools to your marketing routine. In this article you’ll discover nine tips and tools to improve...

People are now spending more time in Snapchat than Instagram

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businessinsider.com - Snapchat has overtaken Instagram in the amount of time users spend in the app, according to a new report from app analytics company, App Annie. In fact, Snapchat sits above three of Facebook's prem...

For One Police Force, Body Cams Are Critical—Not Annoying

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wired.com - About one third of the 18,000 law enforcement agencies nationwide require officers to wear body cameras. The small devices attach to their chest, and record every interaction with the public, no ma...

Should You Use Emoji in Your Branded Communications?

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socialmediatoday.com - Do you use emoji in your marketing efforts? To some, they fit in naturally and have become an organic extension to their communication and outreach efforts. To others, they’re unprofessional – how ...

Knowing Your Audience is Key to Content Marketing Success

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socialmediatoday.com - We’ve all been there before at one time or another. You pour hours and hours of your time into writing a great piece of content in the hope that it will drive scores of new readers to check out you...

Samsung Pay arrives in Singapore, available startinG June 16

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androidcommunity.com - As promised, Samsung Pay has come to Singapore. Next to South Korea, it is the first in Asia to offer the new mobile payment service. Samsung Pay first launched in its native country and soon was l...

U.S Bank and MasterCard now lets users go on Android Pay, Samsung Pay

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androidcommunity.com - The secret to “converting” more people to using mobile payment gateways is to have more banks supporting the platform. And while most major banks in the US are already in, we of course need even mo...

Facebook launches 360 Photos, lets you show off your panorama images

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androidcommunity.com - Fast forward to ten years later, Facebook has become the top social network all over the world. It's not just a website where people can communicate with those on the other side of the planet. It h...

Android developers to get 85/15 profit sharing with Google

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androidcommunity.com - It sometimes is a hard life for developers out there, as it is not that lucrative of a job to be putting out apps, especially if you’re dependent on how many people will download and pay for in-app...

Dead Island, Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Editions now available on GeForce NOW

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androidcommunity.com - The NVIDIA SHIELD is getting new games from Deep Silver--Definitive Editions of Dead Island and Dead Island: Riptide. These games are not actually new. They've been remastered already and we noted ...

Stolen LinkedIn Data Used in Personalized Email Attacks

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securityweek.com - Last month, information associated with more than 100 million LinkedIn accounts has emerged online, and malicious campaigns that abuse this user data have started to appear. Stolen account informat...

Tom+Chee Launches Loyalty Program within New Mobile App

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loyalty360.org - Tom+Chee is not a typical sandwich shop: the Cincinnati-based chain offers a variety of twists on classic grilled cheese, and is now setting its sights on the mobile app space. The brand launched i...

Dunkin’ Donuts Evolves Customer Loyalty Experience Through Mobile

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loyalty360.org - After Dunkin’ Donuts launched its mobile app in 2012, the attendant success from that formed the basis for the DD Perks loyalty program that began in 2014. But, as Paul Murray, Senior Manager Digit...

Newegg, American Express Team Up to Incorporate Loyalty Program

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loyalty360.org - In a move to benefit both parties, American Express will be integrated into the checkout process of Newegg. With the integration, American Express will tap into the enormous number of Newegg users ...

Mazda Takes New Approach to Customer Loyalty

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loyalty360.org - Mazda wants to elevate its customer engagement, heighten its customer loyalty, and spark its brand advocacy. As a result, it has taken a new approach to these critical customer engagement pieces. T...

Time Warner Cable Provides Heightened Customer Experience

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loyalty360.org - Anyone who has an appointment to repair anything wrong with their cable television wants anything that can make the customer experience better. Time Warner Cable customers will soon receive just th...

Samsung Pay Adds Loyalty Program Functionality

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loyalty360.org - Samsung sent shockwaves through the mobile wallet market on Wednesday, announcing that its payment technology, Samsung Pay, is now compatible with membership and loyalty cards. This is in addition ...