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Friday, March 24, 2017

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CIA’s NightSkies tool can hack, remotely control iPhones without user knowing

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www.rt.com - The revelation is part of WikiLeaks’ latest Vault 7 release named ‘Dark Matter.’ NightSkies works in the background and grants “full remote command and control,” to the CIA, allowing it to upload a...

Corsair One review: The best small form factor PC we’ve ever tested

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arstechnica.co.uk - It's hard to believe that the Corsair One comes from the same company that designed the Bulldog, a small form factor PC so monstrously ugly that the mere thought of placing it in a living room was ...

How To Sell Your IoT Device to the US Market — Chat with Kyle Schutter from b8ta

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blog.hwtrek.com - At this stage of the game, how interested would you say US consumers are in IoT products? IoT is at its very early stages. Probably less than 1% market penetration (finger in the air estimate). The...

FI.co: Pro Tips From The Most Successful Kickstarter Campaigns

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fi.co - Launching a company is a daunting process, especially if you’re trying to manufacture a product. It can cost huge amounts of capital and you may not even know if it’s a viable idea. Luckily crowdfu...

WikiLeaks’ ‘Dark Matter’ Dump Shows CIA’s iPhone, MacBook Hacks

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www.infowars.com - CIA documents published by WikiLeaks Thursday reveal hacks used by the agency against Apple cellphones and computers. Dubbed “Dark Matter,” the documents, a new addition to WikiLeaks’ ongoing “Vaul...

Wall to Wall: Egnyte Tops the Charts from SMB to Enterprise

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www.egnyte.com - Our focus on business has been razor sharp from day one, and today we cemented the title. After a decade of relentless dedication to meeting our customers’ evolving demands, Egnyte has been recogni...

Zero Motorcycles CTO Abe Askenazi on the future of two-wheeled EVs

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techcrunch.com - Electric cars and buses have already begun to take over the world, as evidenced by daily sightings of EV brands like Tesla, Prius, Bolt and Proterra on U.S. roads. But two-wheeled EVs are still a r...

Fossil Group launches hybrid analog, Android Wear 2.0 smartwatches in Basel - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - In what seems like a bold attempt to take on the smartwatch arena, Fossil has just introduced over 300 new watch styles. Errr, there aren’t exactly hundreds of new smartwatches being offered but th...

Google takes Symantec to the woodshed for mis-issuing 30,000 HTTPS certs

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arstechnica.com - In a severe rebuke of one of the biggest suppliers of HTTPS credentials, Google Chrome developers announced plans to drastically restrict transport layer security certificates sold by Symantec-owne...

Acer’s S 13 makes the case for the inexpensive ultrabook worth having

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techcrunch.com - Looking at the Acer S 13 from an aesthetics point-of-view, the lack of eye candy can be attributed to price and less so lack of ingenuity from Acer. It feels better to hold than tolook at it, to be...

New augmented reality visualization app Dotty has launched in the app store

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techcrunch.com - As augmented reality continues its march into the workplace, new tools are emerging to integrate collaboration and visualization tools into virtual and augmented reality. One application, which rec...

WikiLeaks releases new CIA documents describing Mac exploits

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techcrunch.com - WikiLeaks just shared a few new documents as part of the CIA Vault 7 data dump. These documents describe hacking methods allegedly used by the agency to access Apple devices and upload data. Most o...

Apple says recent Wikileaks CIA docs detail old, fixed iPhone and Mac exploits

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techcrunch.com - Apple says that its preliminary assessments of the Wikileaks documents released today indicate that the vulnerabilities it details for iPhone and Mac were fixed years ago. The documents, which orig...

Instagram begins blurring some sensitive content, opens two-factor to all

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techcrunch.com - Instagram is already doing a lot to spot and censor posts that violate its community guidelines, like outright porn, but now it’s also taking steps to block out potentially sensitive material that ...

Twitter remembers it owns Tweetdeck

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techcrunch.com - It’s been six years sinceTwitter acquired Tweetdeck, but the company might finally bring new features to the client. In a survey sent to some power users today, Twitter asked which features they wo...

Samsung is aiming to widen access to contactless payments

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techcrunch.com - While Samsung’s most high profile contactless payment push is the eponymous Samsung Pay— aka its mobile payments product, which competes with the likes of Apple Pay and Android Pay — the company is...

Facebook Messenger rolls out mention alerts and message Reaction emoji

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techcrunch.com - Group chat will get a bit less chaotic with the global rollout of two Facebook Messenger features it was previously testing in Vietnam. Users can now @mention friends in a group chat to send them a...

Facebook introduces a new ad format — product-focused ‘collection’

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techcrunch.com - Facebook is introducing a new ad format that should help retailers showcase their products. The last big addition to Facebook’s ad lineup came last year, with the launch of Canvas, a fast-loading, ...

Samsung’s pocket watch is a weird concept that raises interesting questions about wearables

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techcrunch.com - Samsung’s hybrid pocket watch concept raises a lot more questions than it answers. That’s due, in part, to the fact that the company isn’t offering all that much information about what appears to b...

Post Intelligence says it can make your tweets better

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techcrunch.com - I’m not speaking hypothetically here. There have definitely been days where I’ve thought, Shoot, it’s been way too long since I’ve posted on Instagram or Twitter — and then completely failed to pos...

Walmart’s Vuvu app now converts your physical movies to digital for $2 each

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techcrunch.com - Want to build a movie library without having to re-purchase all the DVDs and Blu-rays you already purchased? Walmart’s streaming video service Vudu has you covered, with a new featureavailable via ...

Tencent leads $350M investment in Chinese photo/streaming app Kuaishou

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techcrunch.com - Earlier this month, we reported that China-based photo app firmKuaishou is gearing up for an IPO in the U.S. later this year. Well the company, which also offers live-streaming video in its service...

Ripcord gets $9.5 million Series A for its corporate file digitization service

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techcrunch.com - The way Ripcord CEO Alex Fielding discusses chief competitor Iron Mountain, the record keeping company sounds like it runs the warehouse from the last scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The startup ...

Super Mario Run hits Android, rolls out version two on iOS

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techcrunch.com - Super Mario Run hit Android a day early. Originally expected today, March 23, per Nintendo’s earlier announcement, the game arrived on the Google Play Store yesterday instead, along with an update ...

Apple snaps up Workflow, an iOS automation app for power users

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arstechnica.com - Late yesterday, Apple closed a deal to acquire Workflow, an app for iOS power users that lets you string a series of repetitive actions together to make them easier and quicker to accomplish. In ma...

New WikiLeaks dump: The CIA built Thunderbolt exploit, implants to target Macs

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arstechnica.com - WikiLeaks today dumped a smaller subset of documents from its "Vault 7" collection of files from a CIA software developer server. Yet again, these documents are more important from the perspective ...

Hands on with Android O—Snooze that notification and customize everything

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arstechnica.com - Android O is actually here! After diving into Google's blog post, we fired up our developer tools and got Android O loaded on a sacrificial device. There are a few new interesting features, lots of...

Senate votes to let ISPs sell your Web browsing history to advertisers

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arstechnica.com - The US Senate today voted to eliminate broadband privacy rules that would have required ISPs to get consumers' explicit consent before selling or sharing Web browsing data and other private informa...

Integrating Social Media Across the Enterprise at Adobe

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www.socialbusinessengine.com - Lauren Friedman is Head of Social Business Enablement at Adobe. Sheruns Adobe’s enablement infrastructure programs to establish integrated social media strategies that empower business functions, u...

Alertan por timadores que te hacen creer que debes dinero al gobierno

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www.telemundo.com - -Cada día más personas caen víctimas de fraudes monetarios -Muchos de los fraudes están relacionados a supuestos reintegros del gobierno federal -Existen líneas de ayuda para reportar estas trampas...

Google: Hacked sites increased 32% in 2016

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searchengineland.com - Google published its State of Website Security in 2016 today, reporting that there was a 32 percent increase in the number of hacked sites in 2016 compared to 2015. Google added that it doesn’t exp...

CodePen Projects Is Here! - CodePen Blog

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blog.codepen.io - If you're familiar with the term, you can think of it as an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for building websites. Like all of CodePen, you use it right in your web browser. You have a sid...

Group that found VW cheating says costs of fuel efficiency have been overstated

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arstechnica.com - It won’t cost automakers nearly as much as they say it would to fit new cars with carbon-saving technology over the next decade, a nonprofit transportation research group says. The analysis comes a...

OPPO F3 Plus with Dual Selfie Camera announced in India - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - The new Selfie Expert has finally and officially launched. OPPO just rolled out the F3 Plus. It’s expected to ship beginning April 1 while pre-order starts in India today. The phone stands between ...

LG Pay mobile payment service launching this June in South Korea - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - LG is set to launch a new mobile payment service this coming June. It’s expected to rival Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, and Android Pay. This isn’t the first time we’re hearing about LG Pay. In fact, we’...

Limited Edition Casio Pro Trek Smart WSD-F20S sports a more luxurious design - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Casio is more than just a watch company. It has ventured into the smartphone game back in 2012 and then joined the smartwatch market in 2016 with the WSD-F10 Smart Outdoor Watch as the first ever s...

Google brings improved services to Brazil and the world - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - If you didn’t know it yet, Brazil is apparently one of the biggest users of the Internet in the world. In fact, it is one of the top 5 internet populations currently, also probably because it’s the...

Prosecutors think they can extract data from phones seized during Inauguration Day protests

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www.theverge.com - Court papers filed today indicate that prosecutors are trying to break into locked smartphones seized during arrests made on Inauguration Day. According to a report from BuzzFeed, there are more th...

Facebook struggles to prevent violence on Facebook Live

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mashable.com - Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly said that live video is the future of Facebook, but what if that future is terrifying and full of violence? What happens when one of the largest proponents of live vi...

Truly Listening Leads to Engagement, Customer Loyalty

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loyalty360.org - Robert Kobek, president of CustomerCount, a cloud-based customer feedback management system, knows how crucial listening to customers is for any brand to forge true customer loyalty. CustomerCount ...

Digital Transformation of Businesses Significantly Impacts Customer Loyalty

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loyalty360.org - Digital transformation among loyalty marketers has been an ongoing process and one that sparks considerable and sustainable customer loyalty. What’s more, digital transformation has been a “game-ch...

Kobie Earns Recognition for Its Customer Loyalty Strategies

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loyalty360.org - At the recent American Advertising Awards (ADDYs), Kobie Marketing, a global leader in loyalty and rewards program design, management, and consulting, earned 12 ADDYs from the American Advertising ...

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

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www.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 do...

Ubooly: A Voice Interactive Stuffed Animal Smart Toy Powered by your iPhone or iPod Touch - Start-Ups.Co

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www.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...

BlackBox-BI: A French Start-Up that Provides Easy to Use Affordable Business Intelligence for Companies of all Sizes - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - BlackBox-BI makes creating business dashboards easy. From data load to dashboard creation, BlackBox-BI focus is to make each step as easy as possible without compromising on functionality. “BlackBo...

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...

The Conversion Journey: Lead Generation

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lps.leadpages.net - The Five Stages of the Conversion Journey. In order to turn more leads into customers, you have to understand the path taken by visitors to your website. We’ll break down each of the 5 stages of th...

Cibos : Sports Fan Mobile App - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Start-Ups.Co really enjoyed interviewing the brilliant entrepreneur; Mr. ‘Rick Gehman'; President of thePennsylvania – USA start-up “Cibos”. Below, is the full interview that we have conducted : 1....

Conversion In A Box : Web Based Niche Marketing Tool - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Start-Ups.Co really enjoyed interviewing the brilliant entrepreneur; Mr. ‘Mark La Fay'; Founder of the – USA start-up “Conversion In A Box”. Below, is the full interview that we have conducted : 1....

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...