Friday, May 05, 2017

TPS Consulting Daily


TECHNOLOGY

Opinion | Is It Time to Break Up Google?

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www.nytimes.com - Could it be that these companies — and Google in particular — have become natural monopolies by supplying an entire market’s demand for a service, at a price lower than what would be offered by two...

Let The Blockmarket for Desktop Beta Release Event Begin!

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medium.com - It’s been a long road but we’re excited to kick-off the Blockmarket for Desktop Public Beta Release Event! Blockmarket for Desktop is an entirely redesigned experience for the Syscoin blockchain bu...

Google Rewrites Its Powerful Search Rankings to Bury Fake News

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www.bloomberg.com - Google isn’t planning to rid fake news from its search results -- but it’s trying to purge it from the top. The Alphabet Inc. company is making a rare, sweeping change to the algorithm behind its p...

Kodi: The copyright cops want to lock up this free and legal TV app

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arstechnica.co.uk - You know a technology's gone mainstream when the tabloids start yelling about it. This year the Sun, the Mirror, the Express,and the Daily Star have run splashes ranging from "Kodi Crackdown" throu...

| healthsystemcio.com

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healthsystemcio.com - Attend our live event and get your questions answered during our Q&A. Not sure you can make it? No worries – register today and you’ll receive an email the moment our archive is ready. Participate ...

What Yesterday’s Gmail Attack Taught Us | Spanning Cloud Apps

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spanning.com - The Internet was all abuzz yesterday when a sophisticated Gmail phishing attack hit. The rogue email, often appearing to be sent from one of your contacts, masqueraded as a Google Docs sharing requ...

The Google-phish-that-was-also-a-worm: what happened and what to do

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nakedsecurity.sophos.com - Yesterday we wrote about a “Google Docs” phishing campaign that aimed to trick you into authorising a malicious third-party Gmail app so that it could take over your email account and your contact ...

Wikimedia, Duolingo, and Headset: Gamification Examples from April Week 4

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yukaichou.com - Based on the framework by Yu-kai Chou. Written by Erik van Mechelen. Feedback from Octalysis Prime community members. Every day in Octalysis Prime, I share a game or gamification example that has c...

Vice's NewFronts Presentation Will Focus on Its High Audience Retention Rate

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www.adweek.com - During its NewFronts presentation in New York on Friday, Vice will highlight the ways its new form of advertising resonates with viewers and readers. Reducing ad load has been a goal for Viceland, ...

Google Maps gets help from Street View, Deep Learning for further enhancements - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Google Maps has definitely improved over the years. Earlier this year, the app version got more service providers and full Uber service integration. The service added wheelchair-friendly informatio...

Worldwide tablet market still going down, says IDC - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - We’ve been saying that the tablet industry is going down. It’s happening slowly but we have a feeling it will only continue to decline in the coming years. Tablets may not be extinct just yet but i...

5-Star vs. Thumbs-Up: When to Use Which Rating System

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www.appcues.com - Netflix officially ditched its classic 1-to-5-star rating system for a binary thumbs-up, thumbs-down rating system. They made the in-product announcement last month with a full-screen overlay that ...

Fender’s new connected amps will help beginners find the perfect tone

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techcrunch.com - Fender’s second app, Tone, is far more ambitious than its predecessor. In fact, it’s the first smartphone app I can recall that’s launched alongside a trio of amplifiers. It’s not necessary to oper...

Zuckerberg thinks Facebook was ‘late’ to competing with Snapchat, is now ‘ahead’

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techcrunch.com - Mark Zuckerberg believes Facebook has leapfrogged Snapchat in the race to provide visual communication thanks to the launch of Facebook’s augmented reality Camera Effects platform. On today’s stron...

Skimlinks has figured out how publishers could unshackle themselves from Facebook

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techcrunch.com - The conventional thinking about profiling online users is that Facebook (in particular) has enormous amounts of profile data about your tastes, while Amazon has equivalent quantities of data about ...

Report: Amazon’s video app is coming to Apple TV this year

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techcrunch.com - According to a report from Recode this morning, Apple and Amazon may have come to an agreement that will finally bring the Amazon Video app to Apple TV. The app is expected to be released in the th...

This could be Amazon’s Echo with a built-in display

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techcrunch.com - Rumor has it that Amazon has been working on an Echo device with a touchscreen for a while. AFTVnews spotted an image on Amazon’s own servers. And it looks like a device we’ve never seen before. As...

Homey’s PowerUp is the MacBook charger Apple should have made

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techcrunch.com - Trust Apple to be courageous enough to strip away all the old-fashioned USB ports. And trust the rest of us to realize that 90 percent ofour peripherals still run on the old standard. Apple’s retor...

Weekly Roundup: Elon Musk’s Boring Company revealed, Google Docs phishing scam strikes

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techcrunch.com - This week, we got to see what Elon Musk’s Boring Company is all about, Google Docs users were targeted in a phishing attack and Apple, Facebook and Tesla reported earnings. These are the top storie...

Mobile First, Desktop Worst – Prototyping: From UX to Front End

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blog.prototypr.io - An op-ed from the front lines of product design at MetaLab. First, a disclaimer: the subject of this article is Mobile First in the context of design process, not development. We cool? Okay, nice. ...

How to Create and Manage SVG Sprites | Webdesigner Depot

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www.webdesignerdepot.com - SVG is winning the race when it comes to graphics that scale on the web. Designers and developers are choosing SVG in lieu of icon fonts, raster images, and raster sprites. The benefits of using SV...

Modern Phishing Attempts Look More Legit, but the Methods Haven't Changed Much

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lifehacker.com - You get a new email that looks like it’s from a friend, a company, a government official, or even a family member. All that’s in that email is a link. You click it, because, of course you do. You’r...

Unpatched Wordpress Flaw Could Allow Hackers To Reset Admin Password

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thehackernews.com - WordPress, the most popular CMS in the world, is vulnerable to a logical vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to reset targeted users’ password under certain circumstances. The vulnerab...

Apple’s Billion-Dollar Investment Provides a Blueprint for US Manufacturing

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www.wired.com - Add Apple to the list of companies trying to make nice with the Trump administration. Yes, even the richest company in the country, which rarely backs down from a fight with Washington, sometimes s...

Spaceplan’s incremental clicker game now available for Android devices - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - If you’ve always dreamt of launching a potato in space due to a “total misunderstanding of Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time”, the game for you has finally been created (and launched). Spac...

Moto tablet with productivity mode rumored to be in the works - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - The last tablet we remember from Motorola was the XOOM a few years back. The last time we heard about it was in 2015 when it received Android 5.1 Lollipop. Since then, no tablet has been introduced...

OPPO F3 debuts as the newest Selfie Expert with Dual Selfie Camera - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - We’ve been waiting for the OPPO F3 phone since we mentioned that it would have a dual front camera setup and would be the nextultimate selfie phone. Specs were leaked, teased, but then the OPPO F3 ...

AIY Projects launched by Google for do-it-yourself artificial intelligence - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Google wants to help developers build better ways to interface with devices, and of course, proliferate the usage of Google Assistant, Google Things, and other Google projects in the process. With ...

Why You Really Need to Stop Using Public Wi-Fi

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hbr.org - In today’s busy world, convenience seems to outweigh consequence, especially with how people use their mobile devices. Using free public Wi-Fi networks, for example, comes with any number of seriou...

Personalization Puts Penn Station Subs Ahead of the Customer Loyalty Curve

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loyalty360.org - Personalization might be a challenge for most loyalty marketers, but for officials at Penn Station Subs, they embrace it. “Penn Station has prided ourselves on personalization since our inception,”...

26 Digital Marketing Tips from Fiverr's Growth Department | The Do List

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blog.fiverr.com - There are other websites related to your niche that will help you get more customers and boost revenue. Affiliate and partnerships are about finding those websites and closing deals that will be be...

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...

KindCritic.com: A Social Platform that Allows you to get Crowdsourced Feedback on your Creative Projects - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - KindCritic is a social platform where creatives can give and get crowdsourced constructive feedback on their creative works from real experts in their field of interest. “KindCritic” isA Social Pla...

Flipit : Global Couponing Environment in Australia - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Start-Ups.Co really enjoyed interviewing the brilliant entrepreneur; Mr. ‘Jochem Vroom'; Founder of the Netherlands start-up “Flipit”. Below, is the full interview that we have conducted : 1. What ...

Contus : Mobile App Development Company - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Today, we had an in-depth and very interesting interview with Mr. ‘Sriram Manoharan'; Founder of Contus at Tamil Nadu – India. “Contus” is a leading mobile app development company Below is the full...

SmartUse: Mobile Application To Handle Construction Projects - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Start-Ups.Co really enjoyed interviewing the brilliant entrepreneur; Ms. ‘Lucie Perrier'; Marketing Director of the New York-based start-up “SmartUse”. Below, is the full interview that we have con...

HeadFunder : Social Crowdfunding Platform - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Start-Ups.Co really enjoyed interviewing the brilliant entrepreneurs; Mr. ‘Nolan Thompson and Mr. Chris LaBonty'; Partners at the Start Up “HeadFunder”. Below, is the full interview that we have c...

Vertical Method : Posture Strength For Techies and The Desk-Bound Workforce - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Jennifer Davis”, Founder and CEO of the San Francisco- United States based startup “Vertical Method” Below is the interview we conducted with her: 1. What is ...

betternet :Provides Parents With Information About Their Kids' Online Behavior - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Colton Shields”,Co-Founder of the Provo – USA based start-up “bettrnet” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and wh...

SPI 223: Over the Shoulder—How John Lee Dumas Launched a Successful Kickstarter Campaign - The Smart Passive Income Blog

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www.smartpassiveincome.com - John Lee Dumas is back!And this time, he’s here to share the incredible story of how he raised half a million dollars with his latest Kickstarter campaign. John is the host of the hugely popular En...

3 Tech Innovations That Will Make Mobile Messaging Real for Social Customer Care in 2017

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www.adweek.com - Ask any transformation-driven company which technologies they’re exploring for delivering quality customer care, and many will probably tell you that mobile messaging applications look most appeali...

Augmented Reality vs Virtual Reality - What's the Difference

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www.wonderoftech.com - Q. What’s the difference between virtual reality and augmented reality? These tech terms seem interchangeable to me, but I found out the hard way that they’re not. I used the term virtual reality w...

Google Analytics and Social Media: What Marketers Need to Know : Social Media Examiner

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Do you track the return on your social media activity in Google Analytics? Want to discover some valuable shortcuts? To explore cool hacks for Google Analytics, I interview Annie Cushing. The Socia...

Customized Landing Pages Matter: How The Vita Companies Increased Marketing Qualified Leads by 250%

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instapage.com - Not all landing pages are the same. Take, for example, webinar and custom client landing pages. Both require unique messaging and a premium level of customization to satisfy their respective conver...

Tips To Make Web Marketing More Effective

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duracmarketing.com - Many have found affiliate promotion. If you learn all about online marketing, you can make money too. This article was made to help you maximize your potential in affiliate promotion business. Try ...

The Best Tips For Beginning Website Marketing

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firstadsense.com - Internet marketing is quite interesting. There are a great many different ways to customize it for different business types. This can be challenging for you if you are a novice who has no idea wher...

Check Out These Tips To Master Your Iphone

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iphonefindmyphone.com - Most people own a smartphone, or it seems so; however, most don’t know how to really use it. You aren’t alone if you don’t think you’re getting everything you can out of their iphone. Read this art...

Important Information You Need To Know About Laptops

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laptopsandnotebook.com - There are lots of options since computers these days. Read on to find the best one for your needs. Know your new computer before you head out to buy a laptop. Do you want a PC or a PC? Macs offer t...

Xscape | Michael Jackson Reminiscence

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michaeljacksonreminiscence.com - The Xscape Reunion Really Happened + Big Tigger !! Amazon Price: $8.99 (as of May 5, 2017 11:42 am – Details). Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date/time indicated and are sub...

Polaroid Tabletop Photo Studio Kits | PhotographyBLOG

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www.photographyblog.com - Mac users, we're pleased to announce Macphun's all-in-one photo editor Luminar is now available for just $69£52, and now comes with 12 portrait presets created by Scott Kelby, plus 1 month of acces...