Photocopiers suck. They’re always breaking, needing new toner, or just a pain to figure out how to use – I never thought I’d be writing about them, let alone blown away by one. Xerox, however, has done something interesting: its photocopiers are literally like Google Translate IR … | Continue reading
We could all use a productivity boost from time to time, whether to free you from distractions or sluggish system functionality. With these four great offers from TNW Deals, we’re taking the guesswork out of streamlining your workload and bringing you the best procrastination-fig … | Continue reading
Wikipedia is probably one of the best resources on the Internet — a mountain of facts that most people who use it barely ever see. Today, the company has a newly re-designed app for iOS that takes advantage of the information you don’t normally see on Wikipedia, by utilizing the … | Continue reading
At one time or another, almost all organizations seek media coverage. Most businesses, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies strive hard for positive media attention. Whether with in-house PR staff or a PR agency, they use many avenues to gain media coverage, ranging f … | Continue reading
Twitter's #GIFParty produced great examples of how clever brands can use GIFs to drive social media engagement. | Continue reading
Nest's products are about to get better at telling when you're out of the house and when you're about to come back home. An update to Nest's iOS and Android app today will allow it to start monitoring your phone's location. When it sees you leaving the house, it'll be able to set … | Continue reading
If you work for a larger organization and you have launched a new product, you might be a bit envious of the explosive growth that you see from startups. Companies like Slack, Twitter, Mint, Instagram and others have embraced a form of building growth into the product called grow … | Continue reading
As bitcoin use keeps growing and gaining public attention, the question naturally arises: will it replace fiat currency? Bitcoin’s price gains in 2015 and the current emergence of two competing bitcoin versions – Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Classic – have raised expectations in some … | Continue reading
The answer to this question is simple. There is really one ultimate reason why oral surgeons should use newsletter marketing to build their practice―to generate a reliable and ongoing stream of professional referrals. This is a more important objective than ever before. Oral surg … | Continue reading
Law enforcement is catching up with criminals who use bitcoin to escape detection for their crimes. | Continue reading
Among women in the typical age range with children younger than 18, most use the internet, smartphones and so on. Thus, one must look more closely to see what is special in the ways mothers in particular use digital to meet the demands of their role and, at times, to escape from … | Continue reading
There is no one-size-fits-all marketing strategy when it comes to building your audience and growing your sales using social media. Use these tips and insights to choose the right network to have conversations and maximize engagement with your audience. | Continue reading
Gene editing outfit Editas has been one of the most successful tech IPO’s of 2016 so far with shares skyrocketing up 130 percent shortly after the company’s public debut. But the stock has now plummeted nearly 26 percent in after-hours trading over concerns it might not be able t … | Continue reading
The forthcoming Samsung Bluetooth C-Pen is for use with the Windows-powered Galaxy Tab Pro S, and we just got some more info on it. | Continue reading
mBit Casino is one of the leading online casino specifically dedicated to bitcoin players. The site offers the best prizes in the gambling industry and has a cool and nice design that enables an easy to use interface. mBit aims to be the preferred bitcoin online casino for playe … | Continue reading
Sygic, a GPS app that stores maps on your smartphone for offline use, announced today that it has added 88 new maps to its portfolio, allowing the developer to now brag that it's app "is now available to users in every United Nations recognized state." That means Sygic's user fri … | Continue reading
Google just announced that a preview of its next version of Android, known as "N" for now, is now available for developers. The preview is packed with new features, including split-screen multitasking and new notification management, but there are other, smaller features that mig … | Continue reading
This post was brought to you by Telefónica.Technology is increasingly seen as an essential component of our daily lives, and so too are the global tech companies ushering us into the digital age. Google, Facebook, Apple, Uber and AirBnb are just a few of the companies shifting th … | Continue reading
Use of the recently-banned drug meldonium among top athletes is "alarmingly high," according to new research published online by the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Tennis player Maria Sharapova admitted earlier this week to taking meldonium, leading to a provisional ban, but … | Continue reading
The Division players have hit a bottleneck in the game's beginning sections, in an area where lots of other players gather.We wrote about this area yesterday and advised how to get past players who are griefing by blocking its entrance and exit doorways.But people are still havin … | Continue reading
Wearables cannot be used for monitoring staff, even with their explicit permission or when done anonymously, so says The Netherlands’ Data Protection Authority in a new ruling against two companies. That could put a pin in the future of the quantified self at work, particularly a … | Continue reading
Pinterest is that fun platform where people plan unrealistic weddings, right? They can do that, but they can also do more. They look for recipes, plan their homes and so … | Continue reading
If you’re a developer, you’ve probably heard a little bit about ECMAScript 6 (ES6) already, though at first glance it might seem a little confusing. What it really boils down to is this: it’s the next version of JavaScript, which delivers new language features you’ll be able to u … | Continue reading
Learn how to use video content to captivate an audience, with these examples of video marketing campaigns done right. | Continue reading
You’re probably well familiar with Google’s Chrome Experiments that show off the cool things you can pull off with a Web browser these days, but a new collection launched today touts the cool musical possibilities you can build too. Google Music Lab is a small collection of inter … | Continue reading
Sony has added a new health and safety notice to the PlayStation 4, and in the process updated its guidance for virtual reality headset use by children.Reddit user KGrizzly spotted a new virtual reality safety notice had been added in the 3.5 beta firmware health and safety secti … | Continue reading
On the anniversary of Malaysia Airline’s flight MH370’s disappearance, the United Nations Aviation Agency has announced changes that will require aircraft to report their location in real-time. The agency says it’s making three major amendments to the Chicago Convention that spec … | Continue reading
Less than a year after it introduced the ability to automatically upload photos from your hard drive, Flickr is removing the feature from free accounts. Flickr users will now need to pay a monthly subscription fee to Flickr Pro to use the Flickr Uploadr desktop tool, a move that … | Continue reading
There are a ridiculous number of apps and websites that will help you plan and book a vacation. There are so many, in fact, that choosing which to use can be overwhelming. Search behemoth Google would like to change that.Google launched "Destinations" on Wednesday to provide all … | Continue reading
January 2016 research found that 37% of kids and teens in France who use social networking sites cited Facebook as their most frequented platform. | Continue reading
We know it can be a bit hard to find a battery pack that has both plenty of power and an accessible price point. Today we bring you a pretty neat deal on an AUKEY 10,000 mAh battery pack. | Continue reading
VB EVENT: Two years ago, TurboTax had fewer than 200,000 customers filling out their taxes on their mobile phone. It was a tiny percentage of its 31 million users — and completely unsatisfactory for Nat Rajesh Natarajan, senior VP for product and engineering at Intuit, the parent … | Continue reading
An AirBnB exec has indicated that the renting service is open to investigating potential blockchain applications related to user trust. | Continue reading
Emoji have taken the marketing world by storm. Or to use another analogy, a tsunami of emoji has hit digital marketing. Emoji offer several important marketing advantages. They can pass through ad-blocking software. Ad-adverse millennials love them. Because they are visual, they … | Continue reading
How you design a survey or a form will affect the answers you get. This includes the language you use, the order of the questions, and of course the default values and ranges you use. This article will focus on response scales. This could be in a survey (1-5 vs 1-10 scale, etc) o … | Continue reading
Vessel, the video subscription startup headed by former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar, announced today that it’s moving in a new direction in terms of the advertising displayed on its service. In a move that recalls YouTube’s venture into ad-free viewing with the debut of YouTube Red, Ves … | Continue reading
In this series of blog posts, I’ve enjoyed shedding some light onto how we approach marketing at The Next Web through Web analytics, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), social media and more. This piece focuses on what data we use from Google Sea … | Continue reading
Paper presented at TEI ’16: Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (Eindhoven, February 2016). This paper presents the design, creation and use of tangible smart replicas in a […] | Continue reading
Connected objects are proliferating throughout our homes, even extending into the kitchen, all with the aim of making our lives easier. A new entrant into this space is Tovala, which seeks to use technology to make our food not only better, but healthier. Today the it launched a … | Continue reading
The blockchain is being looked at as a great way to transform finance as we know it to this very day. Although there is a genuine use case for distributed ledger technology in the monetary system, its use cases transcend the borders of payments and settlement. The Ethereum develo … | Continue reading
A new product being teased by Google simple called ‘posts’ appears to be a social network that lets you post thoughts directly into search results. It’s being tested for US presidential candidates in ‘real time’ over the coming months, and will allow them to use a mobile app to p … | Continue reading
You can now use Apple Pay to buy gas at 6,000 ExxonMobil locations across the U.S. The transactions can be made through the free Speedpass app, meaning that customers won’t have to get out of the car to fill their tank, if they’re at a full-service station. Even if you have to le … | Continue reading
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Samsung, Sony, Apple, Microsoft, LG, and others regularly use product placement to get their phones into movies and TV shows. While established companies have long used this as a method to improve brand recognition, a number of Chinese companies are now using product placement in … | Continue reading
Let’s Encrypt’s SSL certificate service launch marked a milestone for the open Web last year when it became the first major service to offer valid certificates for free. Now, just a few months past general availability, the group has passed more than 1 million issued certificates … | Continue reading
Google Photos on iOS just became a whole lot useful for iPhone 6S users. The new version of the software now lets you view and back up Live Photos, the short animated clips you can take with an iPhone 6S. Since a lot of folks use Google Photos for backing up all their photos and … | Continue reading
While Fintech has had most of the limelight when it comes to controlling the future revolutionary applications of blockchain technology, there are still several massive industries ripe for disruption that will potentially be able to use blockchain for their business models. In an … | Continue reading
Managing a business’ social media accounts can be quite problematic. For proper social media marketing, you need to have a goal and a compass to help you achieve the goal. The social metrics are the compass that you will use while you are on this journey. | Continue reading