Monday 29 April 2019

The Morning After: A fan-cooled smartphone

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It's Monday, April 29, 2019.

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.

Yes, it’s Monday, and we’ve already been surprised by a gaming phone that comes with its own built-in cooling fan. We’ve also got Android phone alerts on your Windows PC, and the tale of the Apple Watch’s early beginnings.

Nubia’s new phone sounds beastly.

This gaming phone has a built-in cooling fan and can record 8K video

The folks over at Nubia reckon it's about time to stuff a fan inside a phone (I mean, what else would you expect from a company that brought back the wearable phone?). Today, the Chinese brand unveiled the Red Magic 3, which not only packs a "liquid cooling" copper heat pipe but also an internal cooling fan. The bigger question is: Are there that many people chasing gaming phones?

Microsoft's Your Phone Your Phone puts all your alerts in your taskbar.

Windows preview brings Android notifications to your PC

Microsoft has fulfilled one of the larger promises behind its Your Phone software -- if you're willing to experiment a bit. The new Windows Insider Preview displays Android notifications on your PC. If you allow apps to display alerts, you can find out about an important message or status update without reaching for your handset.

The airline said they were unused and had no plans to be used.

United covers over the cameras on its in-flight entertainment systems

Some airplanes have seat-back entertainment systems with embedded cameras. They’re not plugged into any services, but privacy-conscious fliers have raised enough concern that United Airlines has used stickers to cover them. A United spokesperson said "None of these cameras were ever activated and we had no plans to use them in the future. However, we took the additional step to cover the cameras.”

It wasn't an immediate hit.

This week in tech history: The first Apple Watch hits stores

There was a lot riding on the Apple Watch when it first hit stores on April 24th, 2015. It was the first new product category Apple had entered since Tim Cook took over as CEO for the late Steve Jobs. Apple needed to prepare its next hit, beyond phones, and in the months leading up to the first Apple Watch reveal in the fall of 2014, it was obvious that tech companies big and small were betting on wearables. Much like the original iPad, though, the first Apple Watch was a classic "first-gen" product: intriguing, but rough around the edges.

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Saturday 27 April 2019

E-Commerce Minute

E-Commerce Minute: Saturday -- April 27, 2019

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How a Route Planner Can Streamline E-Commerce Operations
How Customer Expectations Contribute to Fraud and Losses
What Social Can Learn From CRM
Is Your Business Ready for a 2019 Recession?
New Apriva Partnerships Promise Mobile Shopping Innovations
E-Commerce Branding in the Time of Amazon
How to Get Smarter About Influencer Marketing
How SMBs Can Trade Stressful One-by-One Shipping for Streamlined Operations

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How a Route Planner Can Streamline E-Commerce Operations

With jam-packed delivery schedules, driver shortages, and impatient
millennials who refuse to wait three days for their goods, it's clear
that running an e-commerce company is not an easy walk in the park. It
seems the "Amazon effect" is only growing stronger and stronger. Retail
e-commerce sales are projected to surpass $735 billion in 2023. With
this growth, naturally, come several challenges.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85982.html

How Customer Expectations Contribute to Fraud and Losses

Contemporary online retail enables faster, smoother and more profitable
interactions between consumers and merchants. Individuals can shop and
make purchases at any time, from any location, with the help of the
devices resting in their pockets. Plus, with innovations like same-day
shipping, IoT-connected devices, and much more, it's never been easier
to be a consumer.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85979.html

What Social Can Learn From CRM

There's been a chorus of calls from all corners for social media
regulation -- from pundits like me to the halls of Congress and even
from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself. The social media community
seems tied up in knots over what to do about the abuse happening within
their communities, but if you look elsewhere you might see signs of
solutions that could solve some fundamental problems.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85974.html

Is Your Business Ready for a 2019 Recession?

For those of you who have an ear to the ground on American economic
trends, you've probably heard the whispers of a recession heading our
way, starting as early as this year. Everyone remembers how hard their
finances were hit back in '08 -- no one better than small business
owners, some of whom lost everything during that time. Even top
economists cannot predict how big an impact the next recession will
have.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85975.html

New Apriva Partnerships Promise Mobile Shopping Innovations

Apriva has announced partnerships with AveriGo and Vagabond to offer
innovative mobile shopping and payment solutions. Apriva offers an
adaptive platform for secure mobile communications and omnichannel
payments. Both its new partners are in the vending and F&B service
industries. AveriGo offers the Averiware business platform. Vagabond
offers technologies for the convenience services industry.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85976.html

E-Commerce Branding in the Time of Amazon

I recently made two major additions to my life -- a second dog and a
lake house. On weekends, I need to transport all my stuff and my two
dogs to the lake, so I decided to upgrade my SUV to a larger model with
an additional row of seats and more cargo space. When I began looking
around at available models, I was stunned. The amount of competition in
the SUV marketplace is astounding.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85971.html

How to Get Smarter About Influencer Marketing

Marrying technical rigidity with unrestrained creativity? Due to its
ability to transform brand engagement with creators on social media,
programmatic influencer marketing is here to stay. Millennials have been
abandoning traditional media channels and instead becoming increasingly
invested in social media. However, marketers may find that PPC ads may
not reach the desired performance levels.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85965.html

How SMBs Can Trade Stressful One-by-One Shipping for Streamlined Operations

E-commerce continues to grow at an unprecedented pace. Total retail
sales, excluding the sale of items not normally bought online -- like
fuel, automobiles, and food at restaurants -- hit $3.628 trillion last
year, up 3.9 percent year over year from $3.490 trillion. E-commerce
accounted for a 14.3 percent share of that total, and 51.9 percent of
all retail growth. That is substantial.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85949.html

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It's Saturday, April 27, 2019.

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.

Welcome to your weekend! While the weird situation around Samsung’s Galaxy Fold dominated things this week, there were other notable stories. Check out a few of them below, along with news from Friday including a Gmail extension you might like and an Avengers: Endgame Easter Egg in Google search.

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Snap.

There's a Thanos-themed Easter egg hiding in Google Search

Open the Google homepage and search for "Thanos." Then, click the Infinity Gauntlet that appears in the supervillain's Knowledge Graph card.

Wait for it.

Galaxy Fold review: A lot of money for a prototype

After spending a week with the Galaxy Fold, Christopher Velazco found a lot to love about its groundbreaking design. The only problem is it comes with so many compromises that he concluded “almost no one should consider buying one.” We couldn’t score the $1,980 device without testing a US production unit first (ours was a European model), but as we found out a few hours later -- that might not happen for a while.

Nothing to see here.

iFixit pulls its Galaxy Fold teardown at Samsung's request

Remember iFixit’s teardown of a pre-release Samsung Galaxy Fold? Great, now forget it. Samsung requested -- via the “trusted partner” that provided the donor device -- that iFixit pull its teardown, and the site complied voluntarily. Of course, the Internet Archive is still there if you really want to see the Fold’s hinge undressed, or you could wait for a new release date so iFixit can grab a retail model and find out what, if anything, is different.

Explains why it’s skipping E3 this year.

Sony says its new PlayStation is more than a year away

Sony's Interactive Entertainment (SIE) arm has commented on the PlayStation's future, in that there's no chance of seeing the successor to the PlayStation 4 in stores any time between now and April 2020.

An alternative vision.

Former Gmail designer builds Chrome extension to declutter your inbox

Michael Leggett has launched Simplify, a free Chrome extension meant to streamline your inbox. Simplify moves all of Gmail's sidebar icons to discrete drop-down and pull-up menus. It relocates the search feature to a less prominent location and moves core functions, like delete, to the top bar. It also eliminates color-coded labels and places the create new mail button in the bottom right corner, where the new mail window opens.

Pick your next upgrade.

These gaming laptops pack Intel’s 9th-generation CPUs and new NVIDIA hardware

It’s the most wonderful time of the year -- if you like nanometers, clock speeds and laptop refreshes. Intel’s 9th-generation chips have arrived, while NVIDIA has unveiled its GTX 16-series mobile GPUs to bring more performance punch to your next laptop. We’ve summarized all the new models, but it’s worth paying attention to some more interesting options like Razer’s upgraded Blade series.

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