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Thursday, April 13, 2017

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What To Do After You've Helped The Customer

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www.inc.com - All successful businesses start the same way. Whether it's an ice cream store or a cloud storage company, all good companies have the same foundation: they solve a problem for customers. Can't find...

Public voting for VMworld 2017 sessions is open through April 13th » Welcome to vSphere-land!

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vsphere-land.com - Public voting for VMworld 2017 sessions is now open through April 13th. The public voting is just one part of a whole scoring process that includes also content committee voting and sponsor voting....

Qoros' Koenigsegg-Powered Supercar Concept Revealed Ahead Of Shanghai Debut

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www.carscoops.com - Just the other day, Chinese-Israeli automaker Qoros previewed a new concept it's been preparing for the Shanghai Auto Show. Those dark renderings gave us little to go on, but this latest (albeit so...

Moto Z2 Force leaks with dual rear cameras in press photo - SlashGear

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www.slashgear.com - Motorola has a hit on its hands with the Moto smartphone lineup, and a few new models are about to be announced for it. Among those phones is a newly leaked Moto Z2 Force, an Android handset that —...

Why smart stores don't check out

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www.computerworld.com - Cash registers are dumb. Why do we still have them? Invented in 1879 to keep saloon employees from stealing, the cash register combines the functions of a calculator to add up the purchases and a l...

Superlightingled Optoelectronics (ASIA) Co., Ltd. presents extensive range of LED lights for different using - Press Release - Digital Journal

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www.digitaljournal.com - LED lights are a hot favourite when it comes to home and commercial lightings. They are not only energy efficiency but are available in attractive designs too. China is a leading exporter of LED li...

Microsoft + Android: It's Time - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - I’ve long felt that Microsoft should sell its own Android handsets, replacing the Lumia lineup with devices that customers actually want. But there’s one crucial missing piece. And that piece could...

Pay It Forward Cards

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www.kickstarter.com - People want to be kind, and people want to be inspiring. But with busy schedules, we may not think we have the time to impact others. The messages on Pay It Forward Cards are an inexpensive and sim...

Google deprecates Octane JavaScript benchmark, because everyone is basically cheating

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arstechnica.com - Google has announced that its widely used Octane JavaScript benchmark is being retired, with Google saying that it's no longer a useful way for browser developers to determine how best to optimize ...

A radio signal hack is what made those Dallas warning sirens go nuts

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techcrunch.com - When outdoor warning sirens in Dallas cried wolf last Friday, Twitter sleuths concluded that a hacker hijacked the alarms through a vulnerable computer network. As it turns out, the sirensaren’t co...

Microsoft is holding a big education event in New York on May 2

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techcrunch.com - Invites have just dropped for Microsoft’s latest press conference. Details are scant for the “Learn What’s Next” event happening May 2 in New York City, but between the title and the big #Microsoft...

Android Pay now works in Bank of America, USAA, Discover & other mobile banking apps

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techcrunch.com - Android Pay, Google’s answer to Apple Pay and other mobile payment technologies, today unveilednew partnerships with a handful of banks from around the world, who will integrate the service into th...

TheWaveVR is a mesmerizing, trippy take on the future of music festivals

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techcrunch.com - If the prospect of joining a virtual music festival and dancing around in a VR headset and controllers sounds pretty geeky… you’re not wrong. But it’s also, like, incredible. TheWaveVR will remind ...

Meet 3 of the companies in the Disrupt NY Startup Spotlight

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techcrunch.com - Disrupt NY is but a month away, and we’re more excited than ever about our brand new Startup Spotlight. The Startup Spotlight gives young but provenstartups the chance to tell their origin story, f...

Facebook Moments’s standalone website doesn’t do much

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techcrunch.com - Late last year, Facebook brought its mobile photo-sharing application Moments to the web in a limited capacity by adding a link to the service in the desktop version of Facebook. We’ve spotted that...

Don’t run commercials designed to trigger smart assistants

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techcrunch.com - A well-known fast food chain – let’s call them Kurger Bing – is debuting a new 15 second ad today set to start running nationally. It starts off simply enough, some dude standing behind the counter...

Google Home has stopped answering to that annoying Burger King ad

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techcrunch.com - The internet barely had time to be annoyed for that new 15 second Burger King ad before Google shut the whole thing down. A little over two hours after the fast food giant took the wraps off of a T...

BlackBerry’s stock had a great day after the company won a big dispute with Qualcomm

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techcrunch.com - Earlier today, BlackBerry’s stock hit its highest point more than a year, and all it took was a lousy $814.9 million arbitration win. It’s a healthy bounce back for the embattled company, which has...

Amazon FreeTime gets a Parent Dashboard, Discussion Cards & more

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techcrunch.com - Amazon FreeTime, the subscription service offering kid-friendly books, videos, apps and games, is today rolling out afeature called Discussion Cards that will help parents better understand the con...

Can a startup make money sharing GIFs? Tenor wants to find out.

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techcrunch.com - Over the past several years, GIFs have emerged asa pervasive form of visual communication and self expression across multiple communication channels: They have found their way into our texts, our T...

Boomerang launches a $5 per month cartoon streaming service

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techcrunch.com - Time Warner’s Turner and Warner Bros. have joined the now-crowded market of subscription-based streaming services with the launch of Boomerang,a $5 per month service that streams both classic carto...

Toyota’s FT-4X concept is your ‘millennial casualcore’ dream SUV

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techcrunch.com - Yes, Toyota used both “millennial” and “casualcore” to dreadful effect in the press release for the new FT-4X crossover SUV concept it revealed during the New York International Auto Show. But I st...

Renesas aims its chip-making business at self-driving cars

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techcrunch.com - Like other chipmakers, Japan’s Renesas is putting focus on an emerging industry: autonomous cars. The Tokyo-based company announced the R-Car Consortium at a trade fair in the city this week, highl...

How One Tech Start-Up Ditched Its Brogrammers

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www.vanityfair.com - Google has struggled. Facebook hasn’t cracked the code. And Uber, which released its first diversity report last month, certainly hasn’t figured it out. So how is it that Zymergen, a 272-person sta...

Here's something that should scare cable TV: the steadily growing indifference of teens

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uk.businessinsider.com - 55% of US teens don't see the need for a cable or satellite TV subscription, and that number has been steadily rising since 2012, according to new research by Piper Jaffray. On Monday, Piper Jaffra...

Dealmaster: Get $10 when you sign up for a 30-day Amazon Music trial

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arstechnica.com - reader comments 19 Greetings, Arsians! Courtesy of our partners at TechBargains, the Dealmaster is here with a big list of deals for your shopping needs. The top item this week is a $10 promo credi...

“All eras” of Star Wars come together in revealing Battlefront II trailer

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arstechnica.com - A new cinematic trailer for the next announced Star Wars video game, Battlefront II, was briefly advertised on an official EA Twitter account before being deleted. As of press time, mirrors of the ...

I designed the single-border feature for Sketch – Prototyping: From UX to Front End

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blog.prototypr.io - I started using Sketch two years ago when one of my professors introduced the new software to our class. Since then, I spent more than eight hours a day working with Sketch, and I can only describe...

Google’s AI doodle bot will transform your crude drawings into glorious clip art

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www.theverge.com - Google’s latest AI toy may be its most clever: an automated drawing bot that analyzes what you’re doodling in real time to suggest a more polished piece of clip art to replace it. Called AutoDraw, ...

Ladies That UX on women in design and diversity – uxdesign.cc

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uxdesign.cc - Mariah shares a quote to describe her sentiments. “Myra Pollack Sadker once said “Each time a girl opens a book and reads a womanless history, she learns she is worth less.” The same is true for ea...

How to Better Serve Customers With Twitter Direct Messages : Social Media Examiner

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Looking for ways to improve customer care on Twitter? Do your customers tweet you for support? Moving customer service discussions to private Twitter Direct Message (DM) threads can help your suppo...

“Unenforceable”: How voluntary net neutrality lets ISPs call the shots

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arstechnica.com - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai reportedly wants to get rid of the FCC's net neutrality rules and replace them with "voluntary" commitments from ISPs. The theory goes something ...

Motorola may replace the Moto G series with Moto C as low-cost phone - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - The Moto G has always been known as one of Motorola’s more affordable lines. We have no details on how many millions of Moto phones the Lenovo-owned company has sold already but looks like business...

Sony president says virtual reality is the future of tech - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Year 2016 had Sony watching its mobile business very closely. The Japanese company said that it would be a make-or-break year. Looks like Sony made it alright as the company has unveiled several ph...

Wileyfox Swift phones now ready to receive Android 7.1.1 Nougat - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - In case you’ve forgotten, your Wileyfox phone is switching from Cyanogen OS to Android–specifically Nougat. We learned about this last December and we know you’ve been waiting for the update rollou...

Fitbit watch supposedly delayed due to production mishaps - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Fitbit was supposed to have released their first full smartwatch this spring, but it may have been pushed back to fall. Sources are saying these are due to some unforeseen production problems that ...

Instagram enhances Direct for more “fun, visual conversations” - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - While most of the stuff that you post on Instagram is for public (or at least your public) consumption, there are still some things that you’d just want to share directly to your friends. That’s wh...

Huawei starts tinkering on Android O version for the Mate 9 - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - It hasn’t been a month yet since Google officially released the Android O Developer Preview but we’ve heard quite a few related news already. We were reminded that it is exclusive for the real Deve...

Design A Professional Campaign Page in Minutes - Indiegogo Blog

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go.indiegogo.com - We’re making it easier than ever to polish your campaign and attract new backers. Indiegogo is teaming up with the expert visual storytellers at Piktochart to offer entrepreneurs a new, slick templ...

Securing Driverless Cars From Hackers Is Hard. Ask the Ex-Uber Guy Who Protects Them

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www.wired.com - Almost exactly a year ago, Chrysler announced a recall for 1.4 million vehicles after a pair of hackers demonstrated to WIRED that they could remotely hijack a Jeep’s digital systems over the Inter...

Airwalk Design : Pinterest For Designers - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Start-Ups.Co really enjoyed interviewing the brilliant entrepreneur; Mr. ‘Daniel Schwarz';Founder & CEO of the London-based start-up “Airwalk Design”. Below, is the full interview that we have cond...

StoryMarkLife.com: A Mobile and Tablet Applications Company for Lifestyle and Business that’s Redefining the Way we Capture and Share Experiences - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - StoryMark Life is a mobile and tablet applications company for lifestyle and business that is redefining the way we capture and share experiences. “StoryMark Life” is a mobile and tablet applicatio...

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...

Scoopinion.com: A Web-Based Application that Turns Your Browser into a Learning Magazine - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Scoopinion builds your personal magazine by matching what people like you have read well and you haven’t. It’s an effortless way to make the news good for yourself and the community. As per Mr. Kos...

LivingJunction.com: A Drag-and-Drop Social Publishing Platform to Create Social Magazines Around your Hobbies and Interests - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Living Junction is a social publishing platform that let’s you drag-and-drop rich media content to the pages of your own gorgeous magazine to bring your favorite topics alive. “Living Junction”is a...

Peoplegeist: A 100% Free Social People Search Engine that Puts You in Complete Control of What Others See and Learn about You Online - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Peoplegeist is, simply put, designed to make it easier to find information about people for the purpose of forming and maintaining stronger relationships. “Peoplegeist”is a social people search eng...

Bitrix24: A United Work Space which Handles the many Aspects of Daily Operations and Tasks that Allows you to Create your Own Social Intranet in Minutes! - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Bitrix24 is a comprehensive business collaboration platform. It contains robustly constructed tools like a CRM, calendars, file sharing, tasks, and project groups that are enhanced and unified by a...

Speechless: Galaxy S8 to Launch Without Bixby Voice in the U.S. - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - In its first major misstep in an otherwise stellar Galaxy S8 launch, Samsung admitted this week that the flagship handset will not include full Bixby personal digital assistant functionality in the...

How To Use Social Media To Grow Your Website Traffic

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over60andactive.com - Social media is a fantastic inexpensive traffic generator. But you have to sit down and understand what it takes to use social media as a real traffic generator. Otherwise, you might be wasting tim...

Aerial Photography Soared on Facebook in March, Joining E-Commerce, Streetwear as Topics to Watch

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www.adweek.com - Aerial photography took flight on Facebook in March, especially among millennial men, topping the Topics to Watchspotlighted by Facebook IQ. Other topics to make the cut for February were e-commerc...