Thursday, March 16, 2017

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TECHNOLOGY

Big Brands Crushing Your Small Business? How to Compete Using SEO & Social Media

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yeah-local.com - You know you’re selling a better product, one which not only performs better but has a genuine story behind it. You’re also running an ethical business. You give back to the community and truly car...

What organizations NEED to Know about Email Security SPF DMARC and DKIM

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24x7itconnection.com - Do not underestimate the power of the spammer, and others those that are trying send messages that look like they belong to your company even when they are not from you. Every day we all receive sp...

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

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www.mcsweeneys.net - The revolution will not be televised due to our blackout policy. Because the revolution is taking place in your market, you will be unable to watch the revolution. Instead of the revolution, the cl...

3 Ways Staying on the Offensive Improves Productivity

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www.entrepreneur.com - Tune in April 7 and find out how to provide stellar customer care with social media in our free webinar. Register Now » In the digital age, every day is riddled with potential distractions. That's ...

What Businesses Can Learn From the CIA Data Breach

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www.darkreading.com - Like other major data breaches, the one that allegedly exposed the CIA's entire arsenal of malware tools has raised familiar concerns about vulnerability stockpiling, insider threats, and the impor...

Twitter to open up livestreaming API so companies can bypass Periscope

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arstechnica.com - Twitter wants to make it as easy as possible for companies to live stream video on its platform. According to a report from The Information, the company is set to announce next week that it will op...

Google Classroom can now be accessed through personal Google accounts - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Google Classroom has helped schools, teachers, and students learn beyond the four walls of an actual classroom. But previously, you needed to have a G Suite for Education account in order to be a p...

I used YouTube Red for months—here’s why I cancelled my subscription

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arstechnica.com - The launch of YouTube Red last year wasn't an immediate "take my money" moment for me. YouTube's first subscription service (it costs $10 per month) offersa few features that improve the viewing ex...

Microsoft’s silence over unprecedented patch delay doesn’t smell right

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arstechnica.com - Last month, Microsoft took the unprecedented step of canceling Patch Tuesday, the company'smonthly release of security fixes for its large stable of software products. The move meant that customers...

Six months in, iMessage App Store growth slows as developers lose interest

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techcrunch.com - When the iMessage App Store first launched, it was touted asthe next big platform for apps – a new way for developers to gain users and make money, and was followed by an initial surge of iMessage ...

The Lucid Air electric car starts at just $60,000 – before tax credit

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techcrunch.com - Lucid’s first electric vehicle doesn’t cost what you think it does – the company revealed basic pricing informationfor the Air on its blog, basically just to mute speculation that its price tag wou...

Leaked internal Uber documents show rocky self-driving car progress

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techcrunch.com - New internal Uber documents leaked to Recode detail the company’s progress toward realizing itsdream of a fleet of vehicles entirely devoid of pesky human drivers. As those files reveal, Uber’s mon...

WePay now accepts Apple Pay and Android Pay on the web

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techcrunch.com - Apple Pay and Android Pay may be best known as Apple and Google’s mobile wallets, designed to expand their businessesin making payments with smartphones. But today comes an advance that underscores...

ABC News’ app adds support for multi-stream viewing on Apple TV

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techcrunch.com - News junkies, rejoice. ABC News is rolling out an updated Apple TV application, live today, which makes the news division the first to offer asimultaneous multi-stream viewing experience in its tvO...

Qualcomm doesn’t want you to call its Snapdragon processors ‘processors’ anymore

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techcrunch.com - Take note, tech writers: as of this morning, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors are no longer processors. Henceforth, the company would like you to refer to Snapdragon as a “platform.” In a post this...

Google’s fight with Uber over self-driving cars is heating up

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techcrunch.com - Google’s legal battle with Uber over the development of self-driving cars is already off to an ugly start. Lawyers for the two tech firms spent the last two days bickering over which attorneys shou...

Nvidia and Bosch team up on self-driving car AI supercomputer

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techcrunch.com - Nvidia’s new partner in bringing AI-powered self-driving tech to the masses definitely has the experience needed to go truly mass-market – it’s Bosch, leading tier one auto industry supplier. Bosch...

Class action lawsuit targets LG over legendary G4, V10 bootloop issues

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arstechnica.com - Here's some good news for Android fans who bought one of two bootloop-ridden LG flagships: a handful of upset owners of the LG G4 and LG V10 have lodged a proposed class-action lawsuit in a Califor...

RunIQ review: New Balance goes after runners with Android Wear and Strava

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arstechnica.com - New Balance and Intel have teamed up to releaseone of the first new Android Wear watches of the year. The RunIQ fitness watch is a runner's companion that features built-in support for Strava, as w...

When home Internet service costs $5,000—or even $15,000

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arstechnica.com - When Cathy Corman bought a house in 1998, she didn’t mind that it had no cable service. Corman was finishing a dissertation, her husband was starting a new job, and they were raising five-year-old ...

Microsoft is getting ready to block Windows updates for old Windows on new chips

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arstechnica.com - A recently published Knowledge Base article suggests that Microsoft is going to block Windows Updates for owners of the latest Intel and AMD processors if they try to run Windows 7 or 8.1. Last yea...

Amazon brings mobile Alexa to iOS devices through its shopping app

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arstechnica.com - Move over, Siri, there's a new voice assistant coming to iPhones and iOS devices. Amazon announced today that its digital assistant Alexa will be integrated into the Amazon Shopping app for iOS. Th...

Google launches new Family Link app to help parents manage kids’ tech usage - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Parenting is difficult. It’s true. It can be emotionally rewarding but more often than not, it is stressful. Just ask all the parents you know out there and they will tell you the same thing. Adult...

Arrow Launcher brings tablet support, utility page, more backup options - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Arrow Launcher, a side project of Microsoft Garage’s experimental studios, is actually one of the best launchers that you can find out there in the wide world of launchers. Every update brings some...

Rumors point to upcoming Nokia 7 and Nokia 8 as midrangers, Snapdragon 660 inside - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Here are the facts we know. First, that brand license owner HMD Global will be releasing around 6 to 7 Nokia Android smartphones in the year 2017 as per a presentation slide that leaked some time a...

Tabletop Dungeons & Dragons RPG to get digital help with D&D Beyond app - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - It’s inevitable – although purist tabletop gamers might have something to say about this – that traditional role-playing games (RPG) would somehow be affected by digital technology. Traditional tab...

GetQuantify.com: A Real-Time Online Collaboration Application for Small Businesses - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Getquantify is real-time online collaboration application for small businesses. Organize your tasks into projects and keep your team up to date. “GetQuantify.com” is areal-time online collaboration...

Picovico : Cloud Based Service To Convert Photos Into Videos - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Yogesh Aggrawal”,Global Marketing Associate of the Kathmandu Nepal-based start-up “Picovico” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly...

HireOwl : Connects Startups to Talented University Students for Internships - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “John Lidington”, Founder of the NY – United States based startup “HireOwl” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do an...

WhyWaitTheApp.com: A Mobile Discovery App that Allows Users to Find a Plethora of Info Related to Restaurants & Bars - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - WhyWait is a discovery app that allows users to find the following for restaurants/bars: Happy Hours, Deals, Events, Menus, Images and Social Media Integration. “WhyWait”is a discovery app that all...

Lapkin : Biodegradable Laptop Keyboard Cover - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Mihaela Muruianu”, Co-Founder of the London based start-up “Lapkin” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1.What is it exactly that you do and what your...

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

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www.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...

EzyOnlineBookings.com: An Online Booking System that Allows Businesses to Take Appointment Bookings Right on their Existing Website - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - EzyOnlineBookings.com is an online booking system that allows businesses to take appointment bookings right on their existing website. According to Mr. ‘Gol'; EzyOnlineBookings.com is an online boo...

Android for the Windows Guy: Microsoft Outlook Alternatives - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Yesterday’s post about Outlook for Android generated a lot of discussion about that app’s shortcomings. Here are some alternatives to consider. To be clear, however, some readers misunderstand what...

Swiss Brand Cheers Its Country's Skiers by Carving Fan Tweets Into a Giant Snowfield

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www.adweek.com - The execs at Swiss telecom provider Swisscom and agency Heimat wanted to find a unique way to cheer on the country’s athletes at this year’s FIS Alpine World Ski Championships. So they decided to w...

Mobile Marketers Are Starting to Only Charge Brands for Ads That Drive Foot Traffic to Stores

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www.adweek.com - Four screens mounted to the walls of xAd’s headquarters in New York’s One World Trade Center flip through the location-based advertising player’s 100 million mapped stores and locations, constantly...

iHeartMedia Launches Programmatic Advertising for Stations and Podcasts

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www.adweek.com - Radio is“a tale of two cities,” according to iHeartMedia chairman and CEO Bob Pittman. “There is the consumer side, and then there is what the advertising agency and community thinks of it, and the...

Google Algorithms Now Target Offensive, Upsetting, Inaccurate & Hateful Results

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www.seroundtable.com - Yesterday, Google released a new quality raters guidelines PDF document that was specifically updated to tell the quality raters how to spot and flag offensive, upsetting, inaccurate and hateful we...

This is how Russian hackers broke into thousands of Yahoo accounts without passwords, according to the FBI

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uk.businessinsider.com - Russian spies and hackers teamed upto break into thousands of Yahoo accounts, the US Department of Justice alleged on Wednesday. You can read the indictment here. The breach involved more than 500...

How Artificial Intelligence Will Change Everything

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www.wsj.com - Artificial intelligence is shaping up as the next industrial revolution, poised to rapidly reinvent business, the global economy and how people work and interact with each other. Andrew Ng, chief s...

New bus stop design with digital screens, Wi-Fi, phone chargers all powered by solar panels | Springwise

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www.springwise.com - We’ve seen some interesting developments in civic technology. A while back we wrote about these LED lights that are embedded in the road at busy intersections to warn cars about approaching bikes. ...

The Epic Battle For Social VR - VR Voice

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vrvoice.co - Pitfalls, Promises, Phones, Known Unknowns & Big Predictions Digital products succeed because they make something we are already doing better, cheaper, faster and/or easier. The success of social m...

Your World is Full of Placebo Buttons (and That's a Good Thing)

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www.nirandfar.com - All products and services, everything we buy and use, havebut one job—to modulate our mood. The fundamental reason we use technology of all sorts, from stone tools to the latest iPhone, is to make ...

iLuv Creative Technology Now Shipping WiFi Enabled, Apple Homekit Certified Multicolor LED Smartbulb

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globenewswire.com - PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y., March 16, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IoT developer iLuv Creative Technology announced today that they will be shipping the Rainbow8, a Wi-Fi enabled Multicolor Smart LED Light ...

The Biggest Obstacle to Financial Success

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www.entrepreneur.com - In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Brian Tracy discusses how a lack of self-belief is the biggest obstacle to becoming wealthy. If you've had negative experiences in your childhood, or if ...

Apple Latest News: High-End iPhone 8 OLED Variant Will Have Samsung’s Curved Display

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www.isportstimes.com - The evolution of Apple's smartphone, the iPhone, is expected to bring amazement to the eyes of the beholder as the Cupertino-based company plans to integrate organic light-emitting diode (OLED) scr...

18 Ways to Make Your Online Accounts More Secure

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fieldguide.gizmodo.com - Your existence is scattered across the internet. You likely have accounts at forums you haven’t been to in a decade, and social media services so bereft of users they resemble graveyards. And each ...

The iPhone 8 is causing problems months before it’s even announced

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bgr.com - For every year in recent memory, the iPhone has been the phone to beat. Some years Samsung pulls it off, other years their ambitions, uh, go up in flames. Things are looking even more critical than...

The Future of Shopping | Saudi Gazette

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saudigazette.com.sa - Digital innovations in advertising could significantly impact the future of consumerism, according to Panasonic representatives who are leading in this innovation with their latest LinkRay Light ID...

10+ iPhone Compatible Smart Door Locks - iPhoneNess

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www.iphoneness.com - Our homes are going to be much smarter in the future. You don’t need to be a genius to get started with home automation. In fact, we have already covered plenty of ways you can make things in your ...