Inspired by a recent presentation at SMX West, columnist Sherry Bonelli discusses why small businesses and local search marketers need to be thinking about voice search. Sherry Bonelli on May 1, 2017 at 10:32 am The way people search for information online is changing. Increasingly, people are using voice search on their smartphones, tablets or voice […]
Everyone can agree that technology is exploding at an exponential rate. It is changing so fast, and from so many directions, we can’t really tell how, when, or where, it is going to impact us. One thing is for sure, winter is coming. In the copier business they talk about the decline in print. Decline […]
Buy a single item at CVS and you can end up with a 4′–6′-long ribbon of register tape, a kind of orgy of coupons and come-ons. The phenomenon of the farcically long CVS receipt goes back to 2008 or so, when the company started buying data-mining services to plumb its customer loyalty card data, generating coupons […]
Michael E. Porter Victor E. Millar HBR Harvard Business Review FROM THE JULY 1985 issue The information revolution is sweeping through our economy. No company can escape its effects. Dramatic reductions in the cost of obtaining, processing, and transmitting information are changing the way we do business. Most general managers know that the revolution is […]
By Jacob Kastrenakes@jake_k Mar 7, 2019, 10:15am ESTSHARE Five paragraphs into the monster blog post that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg published yesterday afternoon, he makes a damning, strangely understated admission: “frankly we don’t currently have a strong reputation for building privacy protective services.” That one line is the context for the rest of Zuckerberg’s 3,500-word post in which he discusses […]
For 2019, Apple is expected to continue with the same iPhone lineup as 2018. This means we are going to see three different iPhones catering to three different price points. The iPhone XR successor, iPhone XI (iPhone 11), and the iPhone XI Max (iPhone 11 Max) — the successors to iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max. There’s no confirmation […]
Bringing the Internet of Things into your workplace can bring new opportunities — and some risks too. By Steve Ranger | March 28, 2018 — 10:00 GMT (03:00 PDT) | Topic: Internet of Things What is IoT in the workplace? The Internet of Things sees everyday objects being connected to the internet, allowing them either to be controlled remotely, or to collect […]
The Week in Breach: 05/28/19 – 06/04/19 By Kevin Lancaster on Jun 5, 2019 3:59:56 PM This week, malware infects POS systems of US fast-food chain, ransomware continues to impact local governments, and a phishing scam tricks Office 365 users. Dark Web ID Trends: Top Source Hits: ID Theft Forums (99%) Top Compromise Type: Domain (99%)Top Industry: Finance & InsuranceTop Employee Count: 11 – 50 […]
Apple kicked off its annual Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose this morning with a two-and-a-half hour keynote, showing off everything the company has been working on for the past many months. Want to know everything they announced, but don’t have time to watch the whole thing yourself? We’ve wrapped it all up for you in an easily […]
John R. Quain@jqontechPOSTED ON11.5.18 – 3:00AM PSTEMERGING TECH In the sunny climes of Tel Aviv, Israel, the Smart Mobility Summit, held from October 29 to 30, brought together city administrators from across the globe, research institutions, major car companies, and stealthy startups. They all came not just for the balmy weather but to exchange ideas and […]