You might have heard the terms "assembly language" and "machine code" but what exactly do they mean? Let's find out. | Continue reading
Battle of Livorno, 14 March 1653, an incident from the First Anglo-Dutch War, anonymous. Rijksmuseum, public domain. At first, the painting above looks like many you’ve seen before. A grand, naval scene with clouds billowing above inflated sails. But hang ... | Continue reading
Nike is yet to deliver on its promise to bring us the self-lacing MAG shoes made infamous by Michael J Fox in Back to the Future II, but it’s done the next best thing. The company’s new HyperAdapt 1.0 tightens around your foot as soon as your heel slips into the shoe and activate … | Continue reading
Quadcore? Octacore? Leckt uns doch am Silizium, sagt MediaTek, und hat die Verfügbarkeit des Helio X20 für den kommenden Monat angekündigt. Damit ist nicht die Herausgabe weniger Prototypen an interessierte Hersteller gemeint, im Geg... | Continue reading
Adam New-Waterson, CMO at LeanData, joins the Content Pros Podcast to comment on educational content, ABM strategy, and drawing content inspiration from data with one particular success story involving synonyms and a dress. | Continue reading
For National Pancake Day 2016, IHOP upped its social media ante by inviting 7.3 million of their closest Twitter friends—by name. | Continue reading
For those who may be wary of native advertising, here are a few common myths and concerns around native, as well as the counterpoint that may change your mind: | Continue reading
Nintendo has also revealed the first set of rewards available via its new customer loyalty programme, My Nintendo.Free game downloads and discounts can be acquired in exchange for Points - which you'll earn for buying games, setting up your Nintendo Account and playing Miitomo, t … | Continue reading
The latest beta release of WhatsApp features some basic text formatting options including bold and italics. | Continue reading
According to industry sources, Google’s cloud data platform has secured a major customer this week - its tech rival Apple. | Continue reading
Startup finance gets complicated if you are not very sure of how to go about getting things done. Here are a few tips for you to navigate the tricky landscape of startup taxation better. | Continue reading
Channel 4 has teamed up with agency Chillsauce to launch The Hunt Live, a live event based on the company's Hunted reality show. | Continue reading
Discover How to Blog for Money. Learn the winning strategy to monetize your blog effectively for a high income, plus ten top bloggers share how they do... | Continue reading
SeaWorld announced today that it will stop breeding captive orcas, commonly known as killer whales, marking a major shift for the 57-year-old company. In a statement released Thursday, SeaWorld said that the 24 orcas currently under its care will be last generation of the animals … | Continue reading
The Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are incredible devices, but they're far out of the range of an impulse purchase for most of us. However, provided that you already have a smartphone, there's a less expensive way to get a taste of VR. | Continue reading
As Apple continues to battle the US government’s desire to workaround the security of its mobile operating system, European encrypted email startup, ProtonMail, is choosing the latest skirmish in the crypto wars to launch its end-to-end encrypted email service out of beta — switc … | Continue reading
People in China are paying $1,000 for a selfie camera that captures their “true beauty." Quartz ran an article about it this week, and it’s pretty fascinating. The camera is officially known as the Casio Exilim EX-TR70, but in China, it’s more commonly referred to as zipai shenqi … | Continue reading
China’s Tencent Holdings said today that it saw a big surge in revenue for the fourth quarter but missed profit estimates as its investment in video and other content ate into the bottom line. Most notably, however, Tencent’s chief executive Ma Huateng told reporters that the com … | Continue reading
Brands should create emotional content in order to connect with their audience. But which emotions are best? This post looks at when to use which emotions. | Continue reading
The vernee Apollo, recently announced in China by a company founded just last month, looks like a cross between the HTC One M7 and a recent Huawei phone. But it's what's inside this phone that has us interested. | Continue reading
Ubitquity LLC, a real estate blockchain based company in Dover, Del., has launched a prototype platform for secure document storage and integration with the title insurance industry and county clerks in the U.S., according to the International Business Times. The system uses Colu … | Continue reading
If you reckon you’ve got the skills to weaponize your household appliances, the US military wants to know. Instead of trying to stop people turning their toasters into deadly weapons, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is now encouraging it. Known for its off p … | Continue reading
By Gillian Doyle Nowadays more content is accessible, in more formats, on more devices, for more people than ever before. But, as media companies make the journey from being single sector to digital multi-platform suppliers of content, this transition has entailed numerous manage … | Continue reading
Google is taking the lead on trying to move the whole Web over to ‘secure’ HTTPS browsing – indeed the company rather bravely admitted that even it’s falling short for its users – but there’s another snag. Lots of researchers are already using machine learning techniques to demon … | Continue reading
Schon die zweite Smartwatch der besonderen Art heute, auch wenn die Vorzeichen gänzlich andere sind. Samsung hat gemeinsam mit de Grisogono eine diamantene Gear S2 angekündigt. Das Luxus-Modell soll im Sommer in den Handel kommen, in begr... | Continue reading
WeChat, China’s smash hit messaging app, has long been a bellwether for the future of mobile messaging. It was first to popularize putting brands in chat and integrating third-party services, two trends Facebook-owned WhatsApp and Messenger and others are jumping on, and it looks … | Continue reading
Spray paint manicures — yeah, we're intrigued, too.Whether the technology will catch on is still questionable, but products are heading stateside. And they seem promising.After launching aerosol nail polish in London last November, Nails Inc is bringing its product to North Ameri … | Continue reading
Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak took part in an AMA session on Reddit yesterday, during which he conceded that Apple’s current approach to hardware and product fit isn’t what he and Steve Jobs intended necessarily. The comments came in response to a query about the Apple Watch, … | Continue reading
Handshake, a New York-based startup aiming to ease the ordering process between manufactures and distributors, announced today that it closed a $14 million investment led by Sozo Ventures. The funds from the investment will be used to expand Handshake’s technology to an omni-chan … | Continue reading
For quite some time now, developers and digital currency enthusiasts have been looking for a way to run smart contract technology on top of the Bitcoin blockchain. Although this service is provided by BitHalo already – and soon by Rootstock as well – Counterparty was among the fi … | Continue reading
This is a case study from Dawn Baldwin, Director of Sales, Halifax Convention Centre. More information about Event Manager Blog’s case studies. One of the objectives of the 2015 Canadian Medical Association Annual Meeting was to create the greenest event going. So what can other … | Continue reading
When it comes to content marketing, it's all about having that right mix of content to achieve the most optimal results for any type of business. | Continue reading
The UK government has announced a little extra tax relief aimed at encouraging what the chancellor termed ‘micro-entrepreneurs’ in yesterday’s budget — albeit the other beneficiaries here are likely to be gigantic tech platforms like Airbnb if Brits take up the invitation to rent … | Continue reading
Twitter’s new algorithmic timeline was heralded as the end of the service by many, but when it launched, it amounted to nothing more than the natural evolution of the prior ‘while you were away’ feature. The algorithm now appears to be enabled by default across the social network … | Continue reading
Steve Wozniak has a love-hate relationship with Apple Watch.In a Reddit AMA (ask me anything) session Wednesday, the Apple co-founder criticized the soon-to-be-slightly-updated gadget, saying it's undermining Apple's core values. SEE ALSO: Steve Wozniak on Apple vs. FBI: I'm with … | Continue reading
Factory Reset Protection (FRP), a protection measure that’s supposed to prevent thieves from using stolen Android devices, is easy to bypass on some Nexus devices running on unpatched versions of stock Marshmallow or even Android N preview. | Continue reading
When I was 25, my friends set me up on a date with a girl that sounded perfect. Before meeting her I thought “Wow! This could really be something special.” Keep in mind, this was before the advent of Facebook (yes, there was a time without social media) so I had to patiently wait … | Continue reading
Luxury vodka brand Absolut Elyx has teamed up with chef Anna Barnett for a supper club event next Tuesday (22 March) to mark World Water Day. | Continue reading
So you've had a few too many. Everyone in your crew is either in the bathroom or at the bar, ordering more drinks. With nothing else to do, you whip up your phone, fire up Twitter, and start typing: "Thifs isz the best bar evah! The DJ hhere is, like, so goopd!"Chances are, a com … | Continue reading
The third concertation meeting for on-going PCP projects in DG Connect, organised by the European Commission in Brussels on 10 March 2015, gave the opportunity to the attendees to network and share experiences on common issues that they face while implementing PCPs. PREFORMA part … | Continue reading
NeuCoin, known as the “2nd Generation Peercoin Fork,” says it has reached over 275,000 users three months after launching its consumer apps and is acquiring more than 8,000 users a day, on track to acquire 2 million users by year-end 2016. The company also announced it will elimi … | Continue reading
lastminute.de: München (ots) - Von stilvollen Farbkombinationen zum verrückten colour blocking: Ostern ist farbenfroh - und dieses Jahr sind nicht nur die Ostereier bunt, sondern auch ganze Hotelzimmer. lastminute.de, der Experte für Online Reise und Freizeit, hat ... | Continue reading
Learn how to use data to make better informed marketing decisions with this new book from Russell Glass & Sean Callahan of LinkedIn. | Continue reading
Micro ads deliver macro results, according to a new study by IPG Media Lab . When viewed on smartphones, micro ads—videos 5 to 15 secon... | Continue reading
Es wird noch rund sieben Monate dauern. Dann jedoch, wenn das Wetter wieder schlechter wird, die Tage kürzer, der Regen heftiger, dann soll "The Mission" in den Handel kommen, die erste Smartwatch von Nixon, die mit Android Wear läuft. Di... | Continue reading
Nike made a number of new product announcements at a glitzy event in New York yesterday, but perhaps the most exciting revelation was that the company is finally bringing a pair of self-tying sneakers to market — just like in that movie. While Nike has teased prototypes and versi … | Continue reading
ADAC: München (ots) - Wein- und Obstplantagen, sanfte Hügel, wilde Schluchten und der Blick auf die Alpen: Besonders Genusswanderer kommen am Bodensee auf ihre Kosten. Der neue ADAC Wanderführer Bodensee bietet mit 40 geprüften Touren für jeden etwas. ... | Continue reading