Saturday, 29 October 2016

Editor's Pick: Bot Armies Boost Candidates' Popularity on Twitter

Bot Armies Boost Candidates' Popularity on Twitter

John P. Mello Jr.
Oct 29, 2016 6:00 AM PT

Internet bots have many useful online purposes, but they have a dark side, too, as three researchers demonstrated in their analysis of Twitter traffic during the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Bots are used to automate functions on the Net. For example, if you belong to several social networks, you could use a bot to post a photo to all of them at once. [More...]

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Apple Brings a Surprising Touch to MacBook Event
Apple on Thursday unveiled two new MacBook Pro laptops, adding a touch more power to the line. Both the new 13-inch and 15-inch models will be offered in silver and space gray. They have a Touch Bar that replaces the row of function keys found on laptops, as well as a Touch ID fingerprint scanner incorporated into the power button. They sport a Force Touch trackpad that's twice the size of the trackpad in previous models. [More...]

Should Salesforce Buy NetSuite?
The recently released spreadsheet hacked from Salesforce board member Colin Powell's email names multiple companies that Salesforce was at least considering acquiring. In the aftermath of the initial reports, it's worth noticing that there were at least two enterprise resource planning/back office companies on the list: Workday and NetSuite. There are plenty of reasons to dismiss acquisition talk. [More...]

Stock Price Rises as Twitter Slashes Jobs, Uproots Vine
Twitter shares were up Friday following a third-quarter earnings report that beat Wall Street estimates despite declining revenue growth. Twitter also announced a widely expected round of job cuts and the unexpected shutdown of Vine. Twitter has been on financial oxygen in recent weeks, after failing to find a buyer. Investors applauded the news that it will slash 9 percent of its workforce. [More...]

Microsoft Open Sources AI Toolkit
Microsoft has released an updated version of its Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit as an open source Beta. The deep learning system is used to speed advances in areas such as speech and image recognition and search relevance on CPUs and Nvidia GPUs. It also works with Microsoft's Azure GPU offering. The toolkit's developers initially were looking for a tool to speed up and improve their own research. [More...]

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Friday, 28 October 2016

E-Commerce Minute

E-Commerce Minute: Friday -- October 28, 2016

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Stock Price Rises as Twitter Slashes Jobs, Uproots Vine
IBM's Watson Smartens Up iOS Enterprise Apps
The End of Marketing
Google's Jamboard Aids Enterprise Brainstorming Sessions

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Stock Price Rises as Twitter Slashes Jobs, Uproots Vine

Twitter shares were up Friday following a third-quarter earnings report
that beat Wall Street estimates despite declining revenue growth.
Twitter also announced a widely expected round of job cuts and the
unexpected shutdown of Vine. Twitter has been on financial oxygen in
recent weeks, after failing to find a buyer. Investors applauded the
news that it will slash 9 percent of its workforce.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84042.html

IBM's Watson Smartens Up iOS Enterprise Apps

IBM has announced that it will incorporate its IBM Watson cognitive
capabilities into the MobileFirst for iOS ecosystem to help boost the
productivity of the global workforce. It was a little more than two
years ago that the company entered a groundbreaking partnership with
Apple to enhance the mobile enterprise space. The move is part of an
overall rollout of enhancements to IBM's Watson tech.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84036.html

The End of Marketing

This is going to be political but you won't be able to tell which side
I'm on. You might ask, why on Earth would I get involved even
tangentially in politics right now? The simple answer is that it impacts
CRM and I have a viewpoint -- but as I say, I'm not picking or revealing
a side. I've been doing research in business agility lately -- a
fascinating area that soon will impact CRM.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84038.html

Google's Jamboard Aids Enterprise Brainstorming Sessions

Google on Tuesday announced Jamboard, a digital whiteboard for
collaboration in the cloud. It's compatible with G Suite and Google
Search, as well as Google Drive. Users can collaborate and broadcast
their work globally through Google Hangouts. Jamboard has a 55-inch 4K
display with touchscreen functionality, a built-in HD camera, speakers,
and WiFi connectivity.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84033.html

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The Morning After: Apple's new MacBook Pro, no more Vines and more!

It's Friday, October 28, 2016.

It's The Morning After Apple tried to kill standard USB ports

Apple's big MacBook event introduced a new family of Pro machines, with nary a mention of the MacBook Air. The company also expelled standard USB 3.0 ports in its new range, replacing them all with (USB-C-shaped) Thunderbolt 3.0 ports -- but hey, at least there's a fancy OLED "Touch Bar." Meanwhile, Turkey's government shut down internet across 11 cities in the Kurdish area of the country, Oh, and Twitter killed Vine. (Image credit: @Darth)

There's still a headphone jack.

Apple's thinner MacBook Pro comes with an OLED touch strip, different ports again.

An even richer Retina display, more processing power, and a smaller Pro model along with it: Apple's newest MacBook (like its newest iPhones) is a possibly divisive upgrade for the company's faithful. The new OLED Touch Bar on the 15-inch model had some compelling use cases from Apple, but we're still waiting to see how it all handles during a review.

Dongles for days.

Your new iPhone and new MacBook will need a new cable to connect to each other.

Apple went all in on Thunderbolt 3.0 for its new MacBook Pro. But while it's evolving its ports , it also just made every iPhone owner who wants one of these computers buy a new dongle. Sold separately.

Just ask first.

The FCC has some new privacy rules to help protect your data from internet providers.

If internet service providers want to collect data about what you do and where you go on the internet, they'll have to ask first, thanks to some new rules approved by the FCC today. That's a change from before, when ISPs only had to offer a way to opt out of tracking behaviour like browsing habits, app usage and location or financial data. Expect to see an updated TOS from your internet provider any minute now.

Add 128 GB to your iPhone with the iKlips

Is this what a modern TV guide looks like?

The Apple TV gets a guide, but it's missing something.

Finding something to watch on streaming services isn't quite easy enough, even with that new Siri Remote, so Apple's TV solution is … TV. Really, that's the name of its TV guide app, which detects the services you're signed into and lets you browse through their content all in one place. TV works on the iPhone and iPad too, but at least so far, it doesn't work with Netflix or Amazon. We'll see if that changes before it launches on Apple TV in December.

Gone in six seconds

Twitter killed Vine because it doesn't fit

Twitter announced that it's killing its six-second video app in the next few months. There are many reasons why, but perhaps the strongest is that it didn't really fit with CEO Jack Dorsey's vision of "the people's news network."

But wait, there's more...

1. Watch Apple's MacBook event in less than nine minutes

2. The original emoji character set is going to MoMA

3. Turkish government cuts off internet access in 11 cities

4. Alphabet's experimental companies are getting better and losing less money

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