Thursday, February 16, 2017

TPS Consulting Daily


TECHNOLOGY

See The World Through Pinterest Lens + Find Instant Ideas

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blog.tailwindapp.com - Building on Pinterest’s BuyablePins and visual search “Pinterest developed new experimental technology that, for the first time ever, is capable of seeing the world the way you do. Now there’s a wa...

Unable to Join a Skype for Business Meeting? Use the Web app! - 24x7ITConnection

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24x7itconnection.com - Don’t you hate it when you send a Skype for Business meeting invite out to external guests and they have trouble connecting to your meeting? I see this all the time in our day to day activities of ...

99.6% of new smartphones run iOS or Android; RIP Windows and Blackberry

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arstechnica.co.uk - Remember those crazy days in 2011 and 12 when we thought that the mobile market might become a three-horse race between Android, iOS, and Windows Mobile, with Blackberry bringing up the rear? Well,...

Egnyte launches a latency-optimizing desktop client for its file sharing service - SiliconANGLE

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siliconangle.com - The desktop applications that accompany every leading file locker are often perceived as secondary to the core cloud-based platform itself. But where most providers see little more than a frontend,...

Site Update: Thurrott Now, Improved Commenting, More - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - This week, we are proud to finally launch our Thurrott Now micro-blog for Premium members, plus improved commenting and a few other new site features. Yes, it’s been awhile since our last site upda...

Throwback Thursday: Windows Millennium Edition - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Windows Millennium Edition—or, Windows Me—is unfairly criticized for being an unexpected and unwanted extension of the Windows 9x family of products. But this innovative OS ushered in a number of t...

MassivBrand : New Innovative Home Technology - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Michelle Bair”, Owner – of the Arizona – US based start-up “MassivBrand” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and wha...

VaporWare : Building, Testing, and Running Lean Cloud Software - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Jeff Schroeder”, Co-Founder of the US based start-up “vaporware” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your...

5 Marketing Experts In Tech To Watch In 2017

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www.huffingtonpost.com - 2017 is going to be an extraordinary year for technology. And that’s going to make it an incredible year for new forms of marketing. Five platforms will move increasingly into the mainstream over t...

Dobby’s foldable pocket drone is the perfect mix of portability and functionality

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techcrunch.com - Most consumer drones available on the market today fit in one of two categories: full-fledged UAVs like DJI’s Inspire, Phantom or Mavic, or portable “selfie”drones like Hover that prioritize size a...

Facebook just changed its mission, because the old one was broken

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www.theverge.com - Facebook used to repeat its mission statement so often that most tech reporters could recite it from memory: “to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.” And it’s...

Tinder acquires Wheel, an app for creating Snapchat-like video stories

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techcrunch.com - Dating app Tinder is looking to get into video. The company announced today it’s acquiring an L.A.-based startup called Wheel, which had developed a social network for sharing “video stories” that ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s humanitarian manifesto

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techcrunch.com - “Are we building the world we all want?” That’s a question often reserved for the lips of presidents and religious leaders, and too rarely asked by CEOs. But technology has risen as a force that un...

Aston Martin will focus on cybersecurity before developing a self-driving Lagonda

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techcrunch.com - Aston Martin CEO Dr. Andy Palmer was on stage at the Canadian International Auto Show on Thursday in Toronto, kicking off the event with the North American unveil of the AM-RB 001, Aston Martin’s n...

Hivy is an office management service to manage all those startup perks

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techcrunch.com - Have you ever wondered why the snack bowls on the second floor of your fancy startup office never runs out of snacks? Your office manager is most likely in charge of all of this, and sometimes it c...

Verizon buys Skyward, a drone operations company

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techcrunch.com - Forget about Yahoo for a minute. Verizon just announced it has acquired Skyward, a drone operations and management company based out of Portland, Oregon for an undisclosed amount. Verizon says Skyw...

Facebook plans customizable filters for nudity and violence

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techcrunch.com - Facebook wants to give you the power to define what is and isn’t objectionable, and influence the local defaults who don’t choose voluntarily. You’ll be able to select how much nudity, violence, gr...

How Google’s Project Loon balloons learned to loiter

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techcrunch.com - When Google launched Project Loon a few years ago, the plan was toprovide internet access to underserved areas with the help of a series of balloons that would constantly circumvent the earth. When...

Google inks third carrier, Telenor, to its Android RCS messaging play

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techcrunch.com - Another mobile carrier, Telenor, has partnered with Google to roll out a next-gen SMS tech — this time targeting Android users in Europe and Asia. The aim with the Rich Communications Services (aka...

LG reveals even more details about the G6 ahead of launch

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techcrunch.com - LG is doing a downright terrible job keeping the lid on the G6 ahead of its launch at Mobile World Congress in a couple of weeks. Numerous leaks involving the handset have popped up recently, and t...

3Doodler announces a robotics kit, Star Trek and Powerpuff Girls-themed pens

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techcrunch.com - 3Doodler’s getting out ahead of Toy Fair with the release of a whole bunch of new products, including a handful of kits and a pair of pens that mark some big licensing deals for the New York-based ...

Verbling adds native apps to expand access to its marketplace of language tutors

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techcrunch.com - YC-backed Verbling, a language learning businessthat’s been active for around five years, has finally launched native Android and iOS apps, along with a refreshed brand and look for its web platfor...

Apple’s WWDC is moving to San Jose

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techcrunch.com - Apple just announced that its Worldwide Developers Conference is going to move back to San Jose after a long run at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. It’s going to happen on June 5-9, 2017 and r...

How To Write Blog Posts That Your Audience Will Love

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www.bloggingwizard.com - As a marketer, you know that the first step in your marketing strategy is to attract business with your content. But, while up to 94% of small businessesare using a content marketing strategy, the ...

A NASA Engineer Was Required to Unlock His Phone at the Border

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www.theatlantic.com - Everything started to go wrong just after 5 a.m., when Sidd Bikkannavar scanned his passport, placed his hand on a fingerprint reader, and watched as the automated customs kiosk spat out a receipt ...

New diesel Chevy Cruze can go an estimated 702 miles on a single tank of fuel

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arstechnica.com - This week, Chevroletannounced that its new 2017 diesel Cruze will get a jaw-dropping 52 mpg on the highway, making it the car with the best fuel economy among non-hybrid and non-electric models in ...

Halo Wars 2 single-player review: Meet local units in your area

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arstechnica.com - The second thread is Atriox himself. The cinema quality of the cutscenes from the first Halo Wars makes a return this time around, and those scenes are immediately put to use setting up the alien c...

Chevrolet’s Bolt makes its ride-sharing debut in Los Angeles with Maven

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arstechnica.com - Everybody who's anybody in the car industry is getting down with mobility, and General Motors is no exception. GM's invested heavily in Lyft and it's also got Maven, an in-house mobility brand that...

Xbox Project Scorpio will be at E3

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arstechnica.com - Despite some umming and ahhing from Xbox boss Phil Spencer in January, it looks like Microsoft will showcase its upcoming 4K games console dubbed "Project Scorpio" at this year's E3. The company tw...

How to radically improve your website performance (Part 1)

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hackernoon.com - Let us have a detailed look at how we can create the most efficient website and focus on the power of web-performance. In this article you will find the most crucial points that will heavily effect...

9 rules effective “coming soon” pages follow | Webdesigner Depot

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www.webdesignerdepot.com - A lot of people have the misconception that they have to have a complete website in order to start building leads and actively promoting their business. The truth is, you can generate a lot of buzz...

How to Create a Content Calendar for Your Blog and Social That Generates More Leads

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maximizesocialbusiness.com - A very long time ago (the mid-nineties in fact), before the internet was anything special at all, Bill Gates said that content is king. As always, the founder of Microsoft, and arguably the father ...

How to get 100 Instagram Followers in 24 hours (step by step guide)

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weekhack.com - Imagine, what a hundred new targeted Instagram followers every day would do for your business? How many people would visit your website or blog? How many subscribers would join to your newsletter, ...

Get Ready For Your Computer To Be Taken Hostage

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www.fastcompany.com - Your computer has been locked. To unlock it, you are obliged to pay a fine of $500. A day-ruining phrase like this is coming to a screen near you, and sooner than you might expect. One recent estim...

A Simple JavaScript Exploit Bypasses ASLR Protection On 22 CPU Architectures

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thehackernews.com - Security researchers have discovered a chip flaw that could nullify hacking protections for millions of devices regardless of their operating system or application running on them, and the worse — ...

Moto G5 and G5 Plus listings briefly go live early with pictures, specs

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Reg Saddler





arstechnica.com - Mobile World Congress is right around the corner, and all sorts of smartphones are expected to be announced. Apparently, Motorola has a bit of an untended leak on its hands—Spanish retailer Ktronix...

Meizu releases the M5s, a sleek mid-range beauty with competent specs - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Meizu is looking serious this year to improve on their relatively great 2016 when they sold over 22 million smartphones in the global market. The strategy it seems is to deliver competent and very ...

Google expands fact-check label for news in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - In this age of information and disinformation, it’s pretty crucial not just for news agencies but also for digital companies like Google to ensure that people are getting the right information, sin...

Amazon Echo, Google Home may turn into home phones - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - So who here still uses a landline? We know a few who do and we still have one at home. We rarely use it because there’s the smartphone and the Internet already. We know that someday soon, they will...

Google says major bugs like Stagefright had little to zero ‘real life’ effect on Android users - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - A lot of people bash Android for the lack of security and privacy in the platform. Google would be first to admit that it is complicated work securing a platform that was designed to be open source...

Huawei reportedly developing its own voice assistant - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - While Siri (Apple), Alexa (Amazon), and Google Assistant (well, Google) are still waging battle over which digital voice assistant is the best, the other OEMs are actually thinking of developing th...

The Facebook products Mark Zuckerberg thinks could help save the world

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www.recode.net - Mark Zuckerberg posted nearly 6,000 words today outlining his vision for Facebook’s future, which includes a lot of ways he thinks Facebook can help solve some of the world’s most pressing problems...

Render.st: An Easy to Use and Affordable Online Render Farm, with a Great Customer Support - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Render Street is an easy to use and affordable render farm for 3D projects with very good customer support. “Render Street”is a global provider of rendering services. Below is the full interview th...

AppAppeal.com: Finding Web Apps Made Easy! - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - AppAppeal reviews and compares web applications to help people find the best web app for their needs. Our quality reviews are comprehensive, objective, and created by professional writers. We do no...

Adlet: Advertising Platform for Bloggers - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had a nice chat with Ms. “Emma Coles”, CEO of the UK-based start-up “adlet.co” about his Company. 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your start-up is all about? Adlet is an online advert...

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

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www.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 conferenc...

SpyderMate: A Suite of Five Unique and Powerful SEO Analysis Tools that Allows you to Manage any Number of Internet Marketing Campaigns Easy - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - SpyderMate is a suite of unique and powerful internet marketing tools structured to make managing any number of internet marketing campaigns easy. “SpyderMate” is a suite of five powerful SEO analy...

SPI 253: How to Build Relationships with Influencers with Selena Soo - The Smart Passive Income Blog

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www.smartpassiveincome.com - I’ve talked about relationship building a lot on the Smart Passive Income Podcast. It’s an essential—and potentially life-changing—aspect of growing your business and your reputation as an entrepre...

Gartner: In 2016, Android and iPhone Killed Off All Smartphone Competition - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - While I generally like to wait for IDC to chime in as well, Gartner paints an incredible picture of why Microsoft abandoned the smartphone market: Android and iOS now account basically 100 percent ...

Former Trump adviser Roger Stone calls for investigation of alleged Russia links

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www.theguardian.com - Roger Stone, a longtime adviser and confidant to Donald Trump who has been named in news reports as one of at least four individuals under FBI observation over alleged contacts with Russian intelli...