Nextbit has been one of the more interesting smartphone companies of late. Its head-turning Robin has a striking industrial design, but the company hangs its hat on the unique software features it adds to Android. Its initial trick, Smart Storage, promised to eliminate worries ab … | Continue reading
BitTorrent is coming to your TV, smartphone, and tablet — though not in the way you might expect. It's launching an app today called BitTorrent Now that basically sounds like a bizarro mashup of Netflix and Spotify, offering on-demand streaming of videos and music, but largely fr … | Continue reading
You might not need an iPhone SE if you want a phone you can use with one hand. An Apple patent (first reported by Apple Insider) describes how in the future your iPhone could detect how it’s being held, and automatically move interface elements for optimal thumb reach. Using your … | Continue reading
Kobie Fuller, who has worked as a principal with Accel Partners since 2013, is joining L.A.-based Upfront Ventures as general partner. Previously, Fuller was CMO at Revolve, a fashion-ecommerce company in L.A. He also spent several years as an associate with Insight Venture Partn … | Continue reading
Two years ago, I wrote a story about Nextdoor, a private social network that requires users to register with proof of both their identity and address. Once accepted, you belong to a neighborhood and can see and speak with any nearby users who have signed up. It's trying to build … | Continue reading
Aeroflot: Moskau (ots/PRNewswire) - PJSC Aeroflot (Tickersymbol Börse Moskau: AFLT) ist sehr erfreut, dass die Firmentochter Pobeda ihre Position im weltweiten Ranking der Billig- und Ferienfluggesellschaften des Magazins Airline Business deutlich verbessert ... | Continue reading
Express Drive, the car rental service created by General Motors and Lyft, is launching in three US cities today: Baltimore, Boston, and Washington, DC, according to Recode. The short-term rental program, which first launched in Chicago in March, is designed for people who want t … | Continue reading
The European session is about to draw to a close, it’s time to take a second look at the action seen in the bitcoin price market today. In this morning’s analysis, we noted that price has declined considerably across the last few days (when looked at in comparison to last week’s … | Continue reading
SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced by Neumob. I’m a pretty careful and annoyingly methodical pre-planner of my family’s vacations. So I was relatively stupefied when apps for “last-minute” flights and hotel bookings took off in a big way over the last several years. The m … | Continue reading
Need an affordable PC that won't take up much space? Dell is currently selling the dual-core Inspiron Small 3000 desktop PC for 17% off. With a Skylake CPU, a streamlined design, and tiny price tag, this tower is a perfect fit for everyday computing needs. | Continue reading
Sentry, a real-time crash reporting tool for web, mobile and games, has come a long way from its roots in being an internal tool used at the blog comment hosting service Disqus. The startup has since been adopted by a number of big names in the tech industry, including Square, St … | Continue reading
In March of last year, shortly after live-streaming via smartphones became a genuine phenomenon, Dan Pfeiffer declared that 2016 would be "the Meerkat election." "Whether it is Meerkat, Periscope or someone else," wrote Pfeiffer, a former senior adviser to President Obama, "the p … | Continue reading
Each year since 1997, the Goodwood Festival of Speed has been graced by a Central Feature, a grand sculpture celebrating a particular marque and its latest anniversary or celebration. In 2016, the honored carmaker is BMW, which is marking 100 years in business by taking a trio of … | Continue reading
Xiaomi erweitert unermüdlich seine Produktpalette, nach Quadcopter und Akku-Ventilator folgt nun ein Klapprad mit Elektroantrieb zum vergleichsweise bescheidenen Preis: Das Mi QiCycle kommt mit Shimano-Dreigangschaltung, 2900-mAh-Akku, der voll... | Continue reading
Will voice replace our thumbs? Will brands drown out our friends? Are chatbots the future if nobody wants them? TechCrunch Disrupt SF will get the answers from David Marcus, Facebook’s head of Messenger. Get your tickets to see him live on stage Sept 12th to 14th. Formerly the fo … | Continue reading
In space no-one can hear you scream - unless you're in a Call of Duty spacesuit, that is.The next Call of Duty game, Infinite Warfare, takes the first-person shooter series into the future and up into space, where soldiers fight in zero gravity on the hulls of huge spaceships.In … | Continue reading
Android Marshmallow is finally making its way to the original Galaxy A7 from 2015. The update is currently only rolling-out to customers in Russia who are using an unlocked variant. | Continue reading
The Site:1 wireless speaker from Wisconsin-based Princeton Audio wants to be an alternative to plastic speakers, so it relies on wood. It comes in four different types of wood, actually: mahogany, black walnut, maple, and black cherry. Design is the big selling point for the Site … | Continue reading
Twilio is now trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol TWLO. It started trading today about an hour after the NYSE opened, at a price or $23.99 per share. That’s nearly 60 percent above its IPO price of $15. And the price is still climbing. If the stock cont … | Continue reading
Twilio (TWLO) today entered a new phase of the company’s history. The cloud-based telecommunications platform provider is now a public one after shares in it began trading at $23.99. It’s currently valued at more than $1.97 billion. During early trading hours, the stock has jumpe … | Continue reading
From: Digital-Preservation Announcement and Information List [mailto:DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Sarah MiddletonSent: 23 June 2016 12:59To: DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UKSubject: A catalyst for action: New Handbook provides practical guidance in Digital … | Continue reading
With hybrid IT, enterprises can run their existing legacy system along the cloud-based services, saving on expenses. | Continue reading
Comcast and security company Alarm.com have entered into agreements to divvy up and acquire Icontrol, an 11-year-old Internet of Things and home-security company founded in Palo Alto and now based in Austin, Texas. Comcast has invested more than $100 million into Icontrol to date … | Continue reading
Need a social media crash course? Here are five major takeaways from marketing experts at The Incite Group’s Corporate Social Media Summit 2016 (#CSMNY). | Continue reading
The Incite Group’s Corporate Social Media Summit (#CSMNY) proved to be a fascinating experience for those who were able to make it. The two-day conference became a social media crash course of sorts, with marketing leaders across a range of companies sharing their views on social … | Continue reading
The update to Snapseed v2.6 adds several new advanced features, including a neutral color picker in the RAW editor (along with eight new presets) as well as a new blue color filter for B&W photo editing. | Continue reading
ZDF: Mainz (ots) - In einigen Bundesländern beginnen an diesem Wochenende bereits die Sommerferien - passend dazu klärt das ZDF-Magazin "Länderspiegel" am Samstag, 25. Juni 2016, die entscheidende Frage: Rügen oder Sylt - Ost- oder Nordsee? Im Vorlauf ... | Continue reading
Dafür sind Kreative in Werbeagenturen da: Als sein Arbeitgeber neulich zur Verbesserung des Betriebsklimas einen Billardtisch spendierte, brainstormte Texter Jean-Baptiste Le Divelec aka JB prompt drauf los, baldowerte ein Emoji-Kugelset aus und... | Continue reading
Poland's Ministry of Digital Affairs is taking steps that may find it promoting digital currencies and blockchain technology. | Continue reading
Being a teenager is a rough ride at the best of times, and even the most confident of youngsters could do with a bit of a confidence bump. This is the market Shine has in its crosshairs, with an SMS and a brand new Facebook messenger bot aiming to help teens keep a sense of persp … | Continue reading
As we approach a new era in computing in which thinner, lighter, and presumably more hostile devices become the norm, let’s look back on some ports we have all known and loved and that are now gone to that great e-waste yard in the sky. Read More | Continue reading
The video game birthdays keep on coming: now Quake is 20 years old.id Software's hugely popular PC first-person shooter came out in the US on 22nd June 1996, courtesy of publisher GT Interactive.In a Quake retrospective published in 2011, Jim Rossignol discussed the influence of … | Continue reading
Noodlecake just launched the Super Stickman Golf 3 beta, and if you didn't sign up, then you might be wondering what's up with this game. I've gotten to play the game – about a month or so ahead of release – and what I'm seeing is a game that is familiar, but with some small | Continue reading
At The Next Web (TNW), we’re excited about technology finding a way into every aspect of our lives. Today, we’d like to share how we’ve integrated gadgets, apps and custom code into our office(s) to help improve productivity and make work easier. Using the low cost, credit-card s … | Continue reading
In a wold where Old Media is locked in a perma-battle against New Media, the Matter Ventures accelerator is an interesting play. A startup accelerator aiming at the media, Matter has been based in San Francisco to date, but is now opening a space in New York in collaboration with … | Continue reading
Are you tracking the appropriate content marketing metrics? Check out these tools CopyPress suggests incorporating into your metric tracking... | Continue reading
Amy Ingram is a whiz at coordinating schedules and conference calls, and she works for free, because she's a personal assistant unlike any other. | Continue reading
UK retailer British Home Stores has deployed a bold guerilla marketing campaign to save the company from going out of business. | Continue reading
Social Media - Facebook is a powerful social media outlet, even for B2B marketers. But how can you make use of Facebook when organic reach for B2B seems to be declining? The answer, ... | Continue reading
Marketing Strategy - A well-rounded SEO strategy can earn a far higher ROI than any other strategy in the long term. Here's the proof. | Continue reading
Imagine how much easier your life would be if you could just update all social media at once… And what if you could go beyond that to simply schedule social … | Continue reading
Today is the day the UK decides whether or not to leave the European Union. It's a big moment for us. Life-changing if we leave, life-remaining-broadly-the-saming if we stay. It's also the culmination of a political campaign that has been one of the nastiest in recent British his … | Continue reading
Three weeks ago, scientists announced a controversial plan to create synthetic human genomes from scratch. The paper — which they published following reports about a private, off-the-record meeting — outlined an ambitious plan to build human genomes with various, medically releva … | Continue reading
Facebook now lets you Like, Wow and Love (plus the other new reactions the social network launched in February) 360-degree videos you watch on your Gear VR. | Continue reading
The R3 Consortium is a collection of several dozen financial institutions all over the world looking to explore blockchain technology. But the group continues to expand, and Toyota Financial Services is their latest member. Merging distributed ledgers with automotive financial se … | Continue reading
YouTube is the fastest growing marketing channel in 2016. Here are 6 Q&As to help you know why it's important for your business growth. | Continue reading
Bots can be useful little pieces of technology to help you work smarter, and in Slack they can help make the communications tool a kind of centralized enterprise application dashboard. The trouble is that they also can generate lots of unwanted noise in the form of over-messaging … | Continue reading
If you’re a blogger aiming for more exposure, your next step might be blog syndication. Here are 6 tips for syndicating your blog. | Continue reading