Saturday, July 09, 2016

TPS Consulting Daily


TECHNOLOGY

Pokemon GO rollout ‘paused’ while server woes are fixed

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slashgear.com - If you're located in a nation where Pokemon GO hasn't yet launched and you're chomping at the bit to get access, we've got some bad news for you: the game's international rollout has been 'paused' ...

SPS Events - Toronto 2016 - Sessions

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spsevents.org - Building​ fully interactive electronic forms and apps can be a complex undertaking. Power user tools such as Nintex Forms or Microsoft InfoPath can be great for non-developers, but often do not tak...

Why I deleted the Twitter app from my phone and now use the dashboard app - The Authentic Storytelling Project

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Yu-kai Chou


authenticstorytelling.net - In early July 2016 I deleted the Twitter app from my iPhone. Completely. I was quitting cold turkey. And I love Twitter. Ha. Well, Twitter wasn’t completely getting rid of me. Just the app was get...

This battery pack is the perfect buddy for your laptop

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mashable.com - Battery packs are incredibly useful for keeping your gadgets charged when they're running low on juice. But what about your laptop? MacBook users can pick up the HyperJuice, but it requires a littl...

Dear Apple, please don't make the best iPhone 7 features 'Plus only'

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mashable.com - The wait for the iPhone 7 is killing me. My bruised, worn and cracked iPhone 6 is barely hanging on and I'm not dumb enough to buy a new iPhone when I know the next model is right around the corner...

Current State of Customer Experience and Personalization: Not a Pretty Picture

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loyalty360.org - During the May 26 session titled, “Today’s Personalization is Broken. Learn the Breakthroughs that Work!” at the 9th annual Loyalty Expo, presented by Loyalty360 – The Association for Customer Loya...

The reality of AR/VR survival

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techcrunch.com - Tim Merel is the founder and CEO of Eyetouch Reality and Digi-Capital. VR will be big, AR will be bigger (and take longer). But as in most early-stage tech markets, growth will be curved, not strai...

Eyefluence shows us how we’ll be able to navigate screens with our eyes

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techcrunch.com - What if you could control a computer screen with just your eyes? Well that’s the vision of Eyefluence, a Silicon Valley-based startup that is working on technology for hands-free navigation. The te...

Which Social Media Networks Should My Business Invest In? - BruceClay

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bruceclay.com - Are you evaluating the many social media networks and aren’t sure which would return the most benefit for your investment if you were to build an active presence for your business? With so many cho...

13 Best Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses

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wordstream.com - Whether you have just started a small consulting business, run a local consignment shop, or opened a café, you are constantly looking for ways to attract business without breaking the bank. Here ar...

What is Growth Hacking? Here are 15 Examples | Marketing Technology

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marketingtechblog.com - The term hacking often has a negative connotation associated with it as it refers to programming. But even people that hack programs aren’t always doing something illegal or causing harm. Hacking i...

How to Live-Stream Like a Pro on Facebook Live

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Reg Saddler


socialmediatoday.com - Right now, the vast majority of Facebook users streaming live video content are using Facebook's Live app. And while the quality of the video content created in Live looks acceptable when displayed...

Citymapper adds Seattle and Baltimore to their transit app

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androidcommunity.com - If you travel to a lot of major cities or if you’re planning to do so sometime soon, you probably need a navigation app to help you get around. But if you want to have the full city experience, whi...

KnowRoaming International Roaming Service Review

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androidcommunity.com - Mobile phone roaming charges suck. Leaving home with phone in tow for a foreign land typically means either paying your carrier for an over-priced package of varying quality, or picking up a SIM ca...

Campbell Ready to Add More Excitement to Chunky Soups Category for Greater Customer Engagement

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loyalty360.org - Denise Morrison, President and CEO of Campbell Soups, realizes the company needs to add some more spark and excitement to its Chunky soups category to drive enhanced customer engagement and greater...

14 A/B Tests to Optimize the Referral Funnel

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loyalty360.org - On the surface, A/B testing your website or app looks incredibly simple. All you do is send half your users to Variation A, half to Variation B, and see which one drives more conversions. But if yo...

Customers Looking for More Social Loyalty Programs

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loyalty360.org - In the age of social media and digital connection, customers everywhere are looking to connect with one another more than ever before. From linking social accounts, to competing with friends to see...

Five Steps to Keep Customers Loyal

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loyalty360.org - Customer loyalty is the goal for any marketer, but maintaining that brand loyalty is crucial to the long-term success of any brand. Here are five key steps to keep customers loyalty, provided by th...

Mobile Customer Engagement A Critical Ecommerce Component

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loyalty360.org - Mobile customer engagement has emerged as a critical component for ecommerce, according to a new study from LogMeIn. Respondents reported that 27% of all of their purchases in the past year were ma...

Interactive Personalized Video Can Trigger Better Customer Experience, Customer Engagement

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loyalty360.org - Interactive personalized video is a great way to create a better customer experience and better customer engagement. That’s according to Scot A. Laudicina, Vice President, Cross Sell, Pitney Bowes ...

New App from Penn Station East Coast Subs Includes Reward-Laden Loyalty Program

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loyalty360.org - Fans of Penn Station East Coast Subs and its signature sandwiches, fries, and lemonade have reason to celebrate, as the company launched its new app last week, complete with a full-featured loyalty...

Unique Customer Experience Keeps Dave & Buster’s Rolling Along

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loyalty360.org - Dave & Buster’s CEO Steve King believes that the company’s successful first-quarter performance can be attributed to a unique customer experience offered at all restaurants. “I think this is due to...

Imboard : Event Discovery and Promotion App - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Dominic Smith”, CEO of the Baltimore USA-based start-up “Imboard” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your ...

SkilledWizard.com: A Professional Social Network Platform Dedicated Exclusively to Skilled Workers - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - SkilledWizard is a platform for Skilled Workers Worldwide. They set out to erase the void that currently exists today. “SkilledWizard.com”‘s mission is to unite skilled / blue collar workers worldw...

EQNS : Advanced Education In The Sciences - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Ilya Uts”, CEO & Founder of the New York – USA based start-up “EQNS” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what yo...

Fanaka : Automates Sales, Projects and Accounting - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Michael Mbugua”, Founder and CEO at the Nairobi, Kenya based start-up “Fanaka-Hybrid” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that y...

BigMarker.com: A Global Network of People and Communities that Meet Face-to-Face Online - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - BigMarker offers a community based management platform for teams, groups and organizations to video conference and collaborate online. “BigMarker” enables anyone to host webinars and video conferen...

Fripito : Up-To-Date Travel Guides - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Irma Stastova”, Marketing and Sales Manager of the Nevada- USA based start-up “Fripito” Below is the interview we conducted with her: 1. What is it exactly that...

Fitnescity : Allows Users To Connect With Personal Trainers - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Leila Zemrani”, Founder and CEO of the New York – US based start-up “Fitnescity” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you d...

XLR8 : Social Matching and Communication Platform for Entrepreneurs - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Rick Duree”, Chief Firestarter of the Missouri- United States based startup “XLR8″ Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that ...

Ven.io: A Comprehensive Healthy Lifestyle Solution which Generates a Nutritional Plan that is personalized for You - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - Venio provides a comprehensive healthy lifestyle solution, which generates an interactive meal-plan that is personalized around your taste, health goals, and dietary preferences. Below is the full ...

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...

8 Best Managed WordPress Hosting Companies Compared (July 2016)

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wpkube.com - Running a WordPress blog or site is no easy game. You have to take care of all the content, marketing, site design, social media, and so forth. But before you do that, you have to make sure your Wo...

Internet Marketing Consultant - New Career Choice

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sd-entrepreneur.com - Internet Marketing has been an extremely vast field with constant evolution. An answer to the need of businesses that want to grow their business in the web world, this marketing is growing leaps a...

James Hickey Internet Marketing Blog: 15 Steps For Making Money From A Blog

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jameshickeyblog.com - Bloggers need to understand their target audience, be knowledgeable about their subject, and be proficient at SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and properly utilizing Social Media. Here are 15 Steps...

What is Pokémon Go and why is everybody talking about it?

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recode.net - That’s the question I’ve been asking myself after navigating a PokĂ©mon-related social media hailstorm the last few days, complete with witty tweets and jokes, and even great videos, like this one o...

Dynamics 365 Unveiled, Skype Meetings Launched: Microsoft Roundup - InformationWeek

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informationweek.com - Microsoft had plenty of news for the enterprise this week with the release of Dynamics 365 and Skype Meetings. The company also announced leadership changes and an update of Windows 10 Mobile. On J...

Indian company finally delivers $5 smartphone

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digital.asiaone.com - An Indian phone-maker has started shipping what it said was the world's cheapest smartphone after months of criticism that the offer was a scam. Ringing Bells had announced it would sell the phone ...

Social Media Success Summit 2016: Largest Online Event

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socialmediaexaminer.com - Looking to quickly improve your social media tactics? Look no further… Join 4,000 fellow marketers at the online mega-conference designed to empower and inspire you with social media marketing tact...

CTF365 turns IT Security into Epic Battles ?with Training Gamification

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Yu-kai Chou



yukaichou.com - I receive tons of emails from around the world regarding gamification, asking me for feedback or share their story. I read all of them and many of them are interesting but because of my 24/7 limite...

50 Years Of Speed! Chevy To Honor 50th Anniversary Of Camaro – stupidDOPE

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stupiddope.com - The good folks over at Chevy are back in the news, this time around celebrating 50 years of iconic power and design. Today the word comes down that Chevy To Honor 50th Anniversary Of Camaro, doing ...

Pokemon Go: Still can't catch 'em all (in the UK)

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bbc.co.uk - Pokemon Go is not going to be released officially in the UK any time soon. That's what one of the brains behind the game has suggested in an interview. Excited fans had been waiting for the title t...

Check out the new “school” for app developers that Apple is opening on the coast of Italy

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businessinsider.com - The combination of Apple hardware and the Italian coast sounds like the ingredients for a luxury vacation. And for 600 aspiring programmers, the idyllic package will become reality thanks to the n...

Coping with the big data management challenge – it’s all in the mind - Data Matters

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Tamara Dull


computerweekly.com - This is a guest blogpost by Miriam Fois, general manager, for UK & Ireland, WhereScape If you think we’re in the age of big data, think again. As the phrase has it, “you ain’t seen nothing yet”, be...

Will the Internet of Things be bigger than the Industrial Revolution?

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businessinsider.com - The Internet of Things (IoT) has been labeled as "the next Industrial Revolution" because of the way it will change the way people live, work, entertain, and travel, as well as how governments and ...

iBlazr 2 review: A more powerful and more versatile LED flash for your phone

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androidpolice.com - I never thought I needed more LED flashes in my life. My phone, whichever model it happened to be, came with at least one and that was supposed to be enough for those instances when I was in dark s...

IoT and Blockchain: A disruption or a transformation?

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Tamara Dull



forbesindia.com - I have come across the term Blockchain more than a hundred times in the context of Internet Of Things (IoT) in the last one year. When someone tells how great an innovation Blockchain is, people ha...

20 App-enabled Smart Home Appliances & Gadgets - iPhoneNess

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iphoneness.com - Our homes are going to become a lot smarter in the future. There are already plenty of app-enabled products you can pick up to make your life easier. Here are 20 smart home appliances and gadgets y...

India's $4 Smartphone Seems Too Good to Be True

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bloomberg.com - In the next few weeks, the world’s cheapest smartphone will meet the world’s fastest-growing smartphone market. In theory, at least. A little-known Indian company called Ringing Bells Pvt is set to...

The Bias in Our Software

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fusion.net - Your software is not neutral. Whether you’re Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb, or any other web-based service, you are not an unbiased third-party to the users of your software. It’s time to stop pretendi...