Spotify this morning is announcing a change to its service designed to appeal to families with small children: it’s relaunching the app’s Kids category to include new playlists focused on vocabulary and language-development activities, as well as voiceover prompts in between song … | Continue reading
The beta for PlayStation 4’s 4.00 operating system arrives tomorrow for those enrolled, and Sony wants to give everyone a preview of what it brings to the table. The most noteworthy features are improved library organization, as well as UI tweaks that mean the Share and Quick Men … | Continue reading
Those are words I never expected to write – certainly not in that order, at least. But the journey to reintroduce the once-mighty Nokia brand back into the ever-competitive mobile market has been a strange one to say the least. It all started when a struggling Nokia went ahead an … | Continue reading
We’ve had an idea that HTC would make two Nexus phones this year, which we’ve been referring to by their supposed Google codenames Marlin and Sailfish. Today Ausdroid reports that the FCC approved the two phones and is listing them online. Though the phones aren’t explicitly ref … | Continue reading
Once Restack's founder decided his firm would provide tech support instead of software, a new company name became mandatory. He turned fo... | Continue reading
Chinese tech giant Gionee has released a teaser of its upcoming S6s selfie-centric smartphone, which will be launched in India on August 22. | Continue reading
Workday announced a 7-year cloud infrastructure deal with IBM Softlayer today to run their development and testing services on IBM’s cloud, handing IBM a huge win in the process.The Wall Street Journal first reported the news.It’s a big deal from a number of perspectives. First o … | Continue reading
Mixing up precisely controlled, strobing LED lights and finely timed good vibrations, Slow Dance is aiming to bring a slice of science to a living room near you. Blending high-tech with organic materials and the aesthetic of optical illusions, the kinetic sculptures are launching … | Continue reading
Wer einmal einen Köpper vom Dreier verbockt hat, weiß wie schmerzhaft ein Bauchklatscher im Schwimmbad sein kann. In Norwegen wurde daraus eine Tugend gemacht und in der Stadt Frogner fanden am vergangenen Samstag die Meisterschaften im Dødsing... | Continue reading
If there’s one thing that makes Pokémon Go particularly annoying, it’s gotta be the despondent feeling of anger that a missed Pokéball throw instills – and avid trainers oughta know this best. Fortunately, a Redditor by the name of homu has developed a new throwing technique that … | Continue reading
Here’s something I asked myself a lot last weekend: Am I really a serious Star Trek fan? The obvious answer: Well, sure. I’ve watched hundreds of hours of Star Trek on TV, I’ve seen all of the movies multiple times and I pride myself on being able to recall more random Star Trek … | Continue reading
One of the most important facets of any marketing campaign is ensuring that you’re getting as much out of your data as possible. Do you know if your data is actually providing insights as to...read moreThe post TRKS.IT: A Link Tracker On Steroids appeared first on Social Media Ex … | Continue reading
One of the most important facets of any marketing campaign is ensuring that you’re getting as much out of your data as possible. Do you know if your data is actually providing insights as to...read moreThe post TRKS.IT: A Link Tracker On Steroids appeared first on Social Media Ex … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: The internet is a beautiful thing. It has the power to change the world on both a global and a local scale. But anonymity — on social networks and in anonymous social apps — has created some of the most toxic, heinous environments known to woman and man. It seems that … | Continue reading
Seven strategies to kick-start the creative process and break through topic block. | Continue reading
All the Princess can do is dance, but while she dances she is untouchable. Tap X and she launches into a grand jeté, toes scissoring the air in a mesmerising reinvention of a ubiquitous video game action. Hit square to make her pirouette, or do it while running to execute a sinu … | Continue reading
Metrics & ROI - MMM and attribution measure the value and performance of your marketing activities. Both are sophisticated models for measuring cross-channel marketing activities, but they work in different ways, for different reasons. | Continue reading
General Management - Your data needs to stop being surrounded by some modeled dataset with an unknown collection method that isn't even fresh. Consider instead the following (more helpful) example of what would ... | Continue reading
On-demand restaurant food delivery startup Deliveroo is facing more protests in London this week over a new pay structure it’s trialling in the U.K. capital that seeks to switch drivers to a fixed fee of £3.75 per delivery, rather than the £7 per hour plus £1 per delivery they ea … | Continue reading
Life imitates tech. Or, perhaps it's the other way around.Reddit user xbshooter was traveling near Santa Cristina, Italy, when he stumbled upon a familiar sight: the same view that he had set as his phone background.SEE ALSO: Challenge of the day: Find the cell phone in this pict … | Continue reading
No Man’s Sky is an almost impossibly huge game, an entire virtual universe filled with 18 quintillion planets, each one different from the next thanks to the powers of procedural generation. Instead of a typical review, I’m going to be writing daily dispatches from No Man’s Sky, … | Continue reading
Project collaboration just got a serious upgrade. Set your team up with Droplr Pro, a convenient file-sharing service that uploads any files to a remote server, for access by anyone you designate. For a limited time, a lifetime license to Droplr Pro is only $21.99 on TNW Deals. D … | Continue reading
Google has a new operating system called Fuchsia in development, with the early results publicly available on Github (and you can even compile and run it yourself, should you feel daring. The new OS differs from both Android and Chrome OS since it doesn’t run on a Linux kernel, a … | Continue reading
Good manners will get you everywhere – as long as you know what you're doing. If your goal is to get more links, more retweets, more guest blogs, and more shares…then you need to use a lot of honey and pour out the vinegar when asking for a content share. It's a busy marketing wo … | Continue reading
Nothing says “professional business document” quite like finger drawn scribbles. Sure, it’s not likely to become anyone’s default method of expressions for Microsoft’s various iPhone Office apps, but when it comes to doing things like highlighting tidbits and adding notes on the … | Continue reading
When natural disasters occur, our first reaction may be to send things. First, send money.Related posts:When disaster strikes “someplace else,” first send money (continued) When disaster strikes “someplace else,” first send money (continued) When disaster strikes “someplace else, … | Continue reading
In six short years, Web Summit has grown from a tiny and local 400-person gathering to the “most important event in technology”, “Davos for geeks”, “Glastonbury for geeks” and all those other nice things the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and the Guardian have noted.The post … | Continue reading
US billionaire Warren Buffett likes to note how little advantage his considerable wealth secures him over the average person. He still wears pants like everyone else, lives in a modest house, and uses the sort of technology that’s accessible to the masses. The only thing, Buffett … | Continue reading
Gute Nachricht für Besitzer einer Oculus Rift. Die VR-Brille wird demnächst (nächste Woche, um genau zu sein) auf der Windows 10 Beta Edition des Kultspiels Minecraft unterstützt. Das tweetete Tommaso Checchi von Mojang auf seinem... | Continue reading
It seems everyone’s taking some “inspiration” from Snapchat nowadays – with the recent launch of Twitter’s Stickers, it comes as no surprise that the service will now work with brands to offer promoted stickers as a “visual hashtag.” The promoted stickers will work just like regu … | Continue reading
Sony’s latest software update to the PlayStation 4 is now coming to beta users. Unlike the last major update, which added support for remote streaming to Macs and PCs, the 4.00 firmware beta (codenamed Shingen) is mostly focused on tweaking the PS4’s user interface. One of the bi … | Continue reading
Details and code names for not one but two HTC Nexus smartphones have just passed through the FCC. | Continue reading
Here's a puzzle: Google appears to have started work on a completely new operating system, but no one knows quite what it's for. The project's name is Fuchsia, and it currently exists as a growing pile of code on the search giant's code depository and on GitHub too. The fledgling … | Continue reading
Just in time (fingers sweatily crossed) for it to start being a little less excruciatingly hot outside, Jabra will be offering up refreshes to its line of fitness-tracking wireless headphones. The higher-end Sport Pulse bring VO2 Max tracking to the proceedings. What, you ask, is … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go players have found a way to permanently win a gym for themselves - by placing an egg in the location instead of a Pokémon.Numerous gyms in the Ne… | Continue reading
According to Internet Retailer 2016 Mobile 500, app-based sales are soaring. Purchases through mobile apps increased from $35.48 billion in 2014 to $59.86 billion in 2015. That’s a staggering 68.7 percent growth. But that doesn’t mean everything is rosy in the app sales garden. O … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Casinos are full of the same old slot machines that don’t always appeal to young people. Gamblit Gaming wants to change that by taking new kinds of skill-based games that will take casinos into the modern age. So the Glendale, Calif.-based company is announcing a partn … | Continue reading
The benefits of an event app are clear for attendees, sponsors, planner and everyone else involved. However, how can reap these benefits everyone is buzzing about? You’ll need to market your event … | Continue reading
The NFL is well into its first week of preseason, and Microsoft is celebrating the return of football to our TV screens with some new Surface Type Covers. There are 32 designs to pick from, featuring all the team logos, and the Type Covers will work with a Surface Pro 3 or Surfac … | Continue reading
Follow these 30 marketing plan samples to piece together your own detailed marketing strategy document, with three free downloadable templates to use. | Continue reading
Henneke shares how to harness the power of visual language, which makes readers not only remember -- but also love -- your ideas. | Continue reading
Are you using Pinterest for business? If not, here's why you should and 9 tips to help you get started today. | Continue reading
SEO and SEM are changing more rapidly than ever. Here's how marketers can prepare for the ongoing evolution of search. | Continue reading
Social Media - Which social networks do consumers use most to share third-party articles? Are the most shared text pieces on social media generally positive, negative, or neutral in tone? | Continue reading
Four lucky Uber users and their plus ones will be whisked-off on a private jet to a secret party hosted by vodka brand Absolut on Friday (19 August). | Continue reading
Popular Bitcoin exchange Kraken has issued a warning regarding a potential phishing website. Various company users have reported this fictitious platform, which seems to be appearing in advertisements across all the main search engines. Internet criminals are working hard to stea … | Continue reading
Salesforce’s efforts to turn its Inbox app into a central resource for salespeople has a new trick: An integrated calendar built from its acquisition of Tempo that pulls in contact data from your Salesforce database, giving you a way to quickly find out more about the people you’ … | Continue reading
The PlayStation 4's next big update adds a folders option.The beta for PS4's upcoming 4.00 update, codenamed Shingen, rolls out tomorrow for everyone included in the public beta program, Sony said.The update refreshes the user interface, adds the aforementioned folders and update … | Continue reading