Millions of consumers in Western Europe have significant disposable income, and most are attracted to some extent by upmarket goods and services. Yet many high-end brands are just starting to appeal successfully to affluent consumers on digital platforms. | Continue reading
Overall, just 12% of internet users in Japan say they use paid over-the-top (OTT) video services, according to March 2016 research. Though that figure seems low, it’s just 10% less than the respondents who said they use cable TV, and only 5% less than those who use paid sat … | Continue reading
A growing percentage of American households are cutting the cable TV cord each year, per eMarketer estimates. According to January 2016 research from Salesforce, cost is one of the top reasons. | Continue reading
Dr. Thomas Trautmann, certified neuromarketing instructor and business partner at SalesBrain, an advertising agency that uses neuromarketing to tap into the consumer's mind, talks about how the personal nature of mobile devices allows marketers to connect with the pain points of … | Continue reading
This infographic illustrates what citation inconsistency is, how it can negatively influence your local business and ultimately, provides suggestions on how you ended up suffering from inconsistencies in the first place. | Continue reading
The FCC has approved a proposal to help people with disabilities use telephone services more easily through real-time text technology. Real-time text, or RTT, is a replacement for TTY typewriter devices that work across conventional phone lines and help people who have difficulty … | Continue reading
Bitcoin Price Key Highlights Bitcoin price recently made a sharp drop, breaking below several key support zones. Price bounced off the $435 area and appears to be making a pullback from its recent dive. Bitcoin is testing the resistance at the area of interest and 38.2% Fibonacci … | Continue reading
Things just keep getting worse for Yahoo.In case Yahoo's short-term outlook wasn't bleak enough, the company has now been listed in for sale ad on Craigslist.SEE ALSO: We're approaching the end of Yahoo as we know itThough hilarious, the fake ad — posted to Craigslist Thursday — … | Continue reading
Google's wireless router OnHub now has IFTTT support, bringing you an array of new recipe possibilities. | Continue reading
Microsoft has quietly rolled out a new service called Microsoft Flow that people can use to create workflows that automatically take action in response to certain events. The service, which would seem to directly compete with existing tools like IFTTT and Zapier, is currently in … | Continue reading
Epic Foundation is a nonprofit aiming to improve charitable giving — an approach that encompasses the way people select, monitor and “experience” their donations. Founded by serial entrepreneur Alexandre Mars (among other roles, he was CEO at Phonevalley, a mobile marketing agenc … | Continue reading
Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the RPG Reload, the weekly feature where we always seem to be starting from scratch. Each week, we take a look at an RPG from the App Store's past to see how it holds up in the futuristic, post-apocalyptic world we inhabit. It's a chance to r … | Continue reading
Waze has responded to security concerns raised yesterday in a Fusion report documenting an exploit found by UC Santa Barbara researchers. In short: it’s legit, but not as dire as it’s made out to be. The exploit leverages the Waze feature that shows you nearby users, showing that … | Continue reading
Hey, well wouldn't you know it was one of those weird weeks where a ton of games came out, but there was still a significant number that trickled out after the usual weekly time. So! Here we are with our second edition of Out Now for this week, with a handful of pretty noteworthy … | Continue reading
In the world of engineering, you can usually trust nature to have done it first, and better.A newly-developed fuel cell technology looks to the cactus to solve a problem involving this promising but complex form of clean energy, which generates power without emitting planet-warmi … | Continue reading
A new Apple patent could fix a major pain point when texting — autocorrect. While autocorrect has never been annoying enough to actually pick up the phone and call someone, it’s the sort of minor annoyance that sometimes made you reminisce about being left to your own devices for … | Continue reading
Look out, Tesla and Chevy: Ford is working on a 200-mile EV, too.SEE ALSO: Tesla planning cheaper EV that 'most people can afford'Ford CEO Mark Fields confirmed on Thursday during the company's first-quarter earnings conference call that the carmaker is indeed working on a long-r … | Continue reading
GUEST: The GamesBeat Summit is the is one of the most important gaming conferences. And since the launch of Oculus Rift earlier this year, count on plenty of excitement in the world of virtual reality at this year’s event. Working in virtual reality, specifically in the education … | Continue reading
The Santa Clara County coroner’s office identified the man found dead at Apple’s Cupertino headquarters on Wednesday as 25-year-old Edward Mackowiak, Reuters reports. Read More | Continue reading
Date: 29/04/2016Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, and Hunter Tootoo, the Canadian Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, agreed today in Brussels to further align funding and pool resources dedicated to innovative rese … | Continue reading
Snapchat may have started out as the ephemeral messaging and photo-sharing app, but a majority of users now consume video there too, according to a report from Bloomberg today. Daily video views on Snapchat have spiked to 10 billion, the report said. That’s up from 8 billion vide … | Continue reading
Vevo just redesigned its Web presence to reflect the same smooth, slick interface you’ll find via mobile. The company says it underwent a complete UI overhaul on the desktop that aligns it more closely with the mobile and Apple TV variants. Onboarding is also similar to the mobil … | Continue reading
Ex Machina and The Danish Girl star Alicia Vikander will play Lara Croft in the next Tomb Raider film.As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, the next Tomb Raider movie will be directed by Roar Uthaug (Cold Prey, The Wave). It will follow a younger Lara as she embarks upon her ear … | Continue reading
We're streaming live on Mobcrush right now. There's a couple different ways you can watch the stream, and they all work equally well and it's really just a matter of personal preference as to which method you prefer. The easiest way to watch is just watching the embedded player r … | Continue reading
We got to see Noodlecake's Caterzillar back at GDC, and if the game intrigued you, well, good news: we now know that the game's going to release on May 12th. This platformer has you playing as Bob the Caterpillar, trying to eat all the fruits, while exploring twisty and turny wor … | Continue reading
Microsoft is betting big on Cortana, so naturally, it isn’t very happy that some people have been using the assistant with Chome and Google, instead of Edge and Bing. Solution? Don’t let people use anything other than Edge and Bing. That’ll surely to go over well. Here’s Microsof … | Continue reading
Facebook’s latest transparency report is out covering the second half of 2015 and the social networking company says it continues to see an uptick in government requests for user data worldwide. In fact, authorities have requested information about account data 46,763 times, a 13 … | Continue reading
Hair dryers are everywhere. Bathrooms. Gym locker rooms. Open a drawer in your hotel room — boom, free hair dryer. It usually requires a lot to get me to really notice a hair dryer. But Dyson has succeeded, and all it took was $71 million and four years of development. Read More | Continue reading
We live in a world where, because of technology and access to information, people can cultivate expertise and contribute on projects or in industries where previously they would have needed formal schooling. Today’s movement is something we’re calling “citizen development,” meani … | Continue reading
Ambient Display is usually for AMOLED devices - this Android customization uses Tasker to put it on all our Android phones and tablets. | Continue reading
Apple updated iMovie for the Mac today, making it a lot more like the iOS version. First, the ‘New Project’ button is now easier to track down in the projects browser. It’s basically the first option in the library. Apple also increased the thumbnail views for all movies, and let … | Continue reading
Venmo, the hugely popular peer-to-peer payments service owned by PayPal, is under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. Its parent company acknowledged the situation today in an SEC filing. "On March 28th, 2016, we received a Civil Investigative Demand (CID) from the Fed … | Continue reading
Today Google and HP jointly unveiled the newest Chromebook, the Chromebook 13, featuring an Intel Core M chip, 16GB of RAM, a 32GB hard drive, a touchscreen, and a starting price of $499. What wasn’t loudly announced was that the Google Store also today stopped letting people pur … | Continue reading
The U.S. Air Force has awarded SpaceX a $82.7 million contract to launch their GPS-3 satellite into orbit. This is the first National Security Space (NSS) contract for SpaceX, who won essentially by default since ULA, the only other viable competitor, declined to bid in the compe … | Continue reading
Across East Africa more than 300,000 households previously without electricity are powering homes and devices with solar panels and using mobile money to pay for it. Read More | Continue reading
Any company can make a connected thermostat, but only Johnson Controls made a connected thermostat with hexagons on it. The York Touchscreen Thermostat, which was announced today, is a Wi-Fi thermostat with one really standout feature: a "patent-pending hexagon interface."Let me … | Continue reading
Wire, a minimalist messaging app created by old Skype team members, is rolling out encrypted file sharing to all its users. The update follows the app’s adoption of encrypted messaging; Wire was was the first major messaging platform to roll out end-to-end encryped messages for a … | Continue reading
In February, YouTube came under heavy criticism from some of its most popular creators for denying them revenue whenever a copyright claim was made against one of their videos. In many cases those videos were found to have made fair use of copyrighted material, but only after wee … | Continue reading
Autocorrect failures are a great source of internet schadenfreude, but they typically come at the expense of a texter's mental anguish for having tapped send one second too soon. According to a new Apple patent, the iPhone maker is looking into a way to notify a text recipient of … | Continue reading
Cortana is Microsoft’s version of Google Now and Apple’s Siri digital assistant. It’s built right into Windows 10 and, while I’ve generally not found it all that useful, it’s a core component of Microsoft’s attempt at making its operating system smarter. Starting today, whenever … | Continue reading
We’re one step closer to email being treated as private communication, a distinction that would require government entities acquire a search warrant to read emails — even those older than 180 days. The 180 day mark is currently the point where the federal government insists that … | Continue reading
A new version of the Apple Music app for Android was released today, and Android users who haven't already pledged their allegiance to Google Play or Spotify might find the Apple Music update intriguing.The new version of the app gives Android users access to music videos inside … | Continue reading
Ethereum inventor Vitalik Buterin addressed the Hyperledger blockchain project technical steering committee earlier today. | Continue reading
Charlie Brown and his friends will make their way back to American TV sets next month. Variety reports that Peanuts will make its debut on Boomerang, the Cartoon Network offshoot that specializes in kids' programming, on May 9th.This series of animated vignettes were produced by … | Continue reading
Super Phantom Cat delivers all the trigger-happy action you crave with stylishly retro graphics. | Continue reading
Microsoft is closing off one of the easiest ways to Google search in Windows 10. The company has announced in a blog post that starting today, it will block the ability to perform third-party searches through the Cortana digital assistant, as part of an effort to maintain an "int … | Continue reading
Gameloft has released what they are calling the biggest update to Dungeon Hunter 5 [Free] yet, with the Guild Wars update. This new PVP mode has you fighting with your guild, and taking on players from other guilds, trying to help your guild become the greatest in the world. Spec … | Continue reading
TL;DR: If you don't want to find out the solution by running over 40 Ubuntu installations with several desktop environments on AWS, read on. On a current project the idea came up to put Ubuntu Desktop developer environments into AWS EC2 instead of local installations (VMs) and R … | Continue reading