Tuesday 27 March 2018

The Morning After: The first Chrome OS tablet and a new 'Fortnite' record

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It's Tuesday, March 27, 2018.

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.

While we prepare for Apple’s field trip event (starts at 11 AM ET), you can check out the first Chrome OS tablet and our review of Fitbit’s latest smartwatch.

A stylish smartwatch at the right price.

Fitbit Versa review

The Fitbit Versa is a prettier, cheaper version of the company’s first true smartwatch, the Ionic. It lacks built-in GPS and NFC payments, but you’ll save $100 if you opt for the new watch over the original. Fitbit promises you'll get "four-plus" days out of its battery, and, indeed, the watch only conked out after close to five days of use, during which it tracked at least two workouts and four nights of sleep.

Chromebook Tab 10.

Meet the first Chrome OS tablet

Acer has unveiled the first Chrome OS tablet, the Chromebook Tab 10, and there's nary a keyboard to be found. The 9.7-inch slate is aimed squarely at education, where the all-touch input and light weight (1.21 pounds) could make it a better fit for younger students. For now, Acer is only making the $329 tablet available to commercial and education customers.

And Linksys, and WeMo and Phyn.

Foxconn buys Belkin

Prepare for another significant smart-home entrant: Foxconn. Its ticket to the event is an $866 million purchase of Belkin. Belkin not only makes its own devices and accessories, it also owns other brands you may be familiar with, like Linksys (routers), WeMo (home automation) and Phyn (water monitoring). Of course, we won’t call it done until the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States approves -- just ask Broadcomm how that can go.

Here are 8 Raspberry Pi projects you can learn today

The 2019 Insight.

Honda unveils its new upscale hybrid sedan

The new Insight has very little to do with the funky original Insight (1999 to 2006) and a later model produced between 2009 and 2014, other than they're all hybrids. It's a sedan rather than a hatchback, for one, and looks much more, er, conventional than the others. With 151 total horsepower and a lightweight structure, it offers the best power-to-weight ratio in its class, Honda says, along with a 55 mpg city mileage rating.

Take that, Ninja.

'Fortnite' hot streak grows with a record-breaking YouTube stream

YouTube’s Ryan Wyatt revealed that a Fortnite Battle Royale event set a record for the largest single live game stream, with 1.1 million simultaneous viewers watching ElrubiusOMG in action.

It’s $3,744 cheaper than the hardware version.

The revolutionary Minimoog Model D synth is now available as an iOS app

The $4.99 (for a limited time) iOS app faithfully recreates the physical version of the Minimoog down to the wood beam that separates the knobs and the keys.

Musk: Consider it a ‘mature beta.’

Tesla’s overhauled navigation system will roll out this weekend

Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla's new navigation system should be rolling out this weekend.

But wait, there's more...

1. What's on TV: 'Final Four,' 'Far Cry 5,' 'Alex Inc.,' 'The Last Jedi,' 'Rapture' and 'The Titan'

2. The Boring Co. will sell giant 'Lego-like' building bricks

3. A viral photo of Parkland survivor Emma Gonzalez is the latest fake news

4. Arizona governor suspends Uber's self-driving car tests

5. Cambridge Analytica accused of violating US election laws

6. Apple's big push into original TV could start next March

7. 'Pokémon Go' fetch quests could bring you closer to Mew

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Monday 26 March 2018

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E-Commerce Minute: Monday -- March 26, 2018

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Zoho VP Rodrigo Vaca: AI Can Help Salespeople Seize the Moment
Salesforce's Latest Big Gamble: APIs
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Brit Lawmakers Want Cambridge Analytica's Nix to Explain a Few Things
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Facebook Swelters in Cambridge Analytica Heat

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Zoho VP Rodrigo Vaca: AI Can Help Salespeople Seize the Moment

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Vaca, vice president of marketing for CRM at Zoho. If you think of CRM
as the centerpiece for your company, and you marry that with the
escalating amount of data that each company is gathering each day, ...
you can do any sort of analysis on it."
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85214.html

Salesforce's Latest Big Gamble: APIs

Anyone who has attempted to adopt Salesforce cloud solutions in an
enterprise environment knows that it may not be as easy as expected
because of the additional effort typically required to integrate data
sources. This is a common problem that has plagued the enterprise
application industry since its inception. In fact, it spawned an entire
subsegment of integration vendors and service providers.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85225.html

The Social Utility

If you study economic cycles, you can watch the evolution of a
disruptive technology throughout its lifecycle, from a specific product
to a competitive industry. The last phase in the evolutionary chain is
the formation of a utility. For example, over a couple of centuries
we've seen the evolution of electricity from a curiosity, to a business,
to a group of public companies.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85224.html

Brit Lawmakers Want Cambridge Analytica's Nix to Explain a Few Things

British lawmakers want Alexander Nix, the suspended chief executive of
Cambridge Analytica, to return to Parliament for additional questioning
in its fake news inquiry. The Parliament's probe led to disclosures that
Facebook had allowed Cambridge Analytica unauthorized access to up to 50
million user records, igniting a firestorm over user data privacy and
possible U.S. voter manipulation.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85223.html

Google Makes It Super Easy to Subscribe to Premium Content

Google has launched Subscribe with Google and several other journalism
initiatives. Subscribe with Google lets consumers store credit card
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Facebook Swelters in Cambridge Analytica Heat

CEO Mark Zuckerberg broke Facebook's mysterious silence following news
of investigations into Cambridge Analytica's access to personal data
belonging to 50 million Facebook users. Facing the wrath of everyone
from U.S. and European regulators to shareholders, customers and
employees, Zuckerberg conceded that Facebook must make several changes
if it expects to be taken seriously in the future.
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If you study economic cycles, you can watch the evolution of a disruptive technology throughout its lifecycle, from a specific product to a competitive industry. The last phase in the evolutionary chain is the formation of a utility. For example, over a couple of centuries we've seen the evolution of electricity from a curiosity, to a business, to a group of public companies. [More...]

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