Wednesday 15 May 2019

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E-Commerce Minute: Wednesday -- May 15, 2019

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Walmart Enters High-Stakes Next-Day Delivery Game
Flexa Launches Crypto-Based Payment App
Technology Is Filling a Need in Philanthropy
Online Shopping Gets Real: The Rise of Interactive Product Visualization
What Happens to Sprint if T-Mobile Merger Fails?

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Walmart Enters High-Stakes Next-Day Delivery Game

Walmart has announced free one-day delivery for 220,000 of its most-
frequently purchased items. The service will be available first in
Phoenix and Las Vegas, because "these locations are major metro markets
served by our fulfillment center in Southern California ... where we
expect strong customer adoption of our NextDay delivery offering," a
Walmart spokesperson said.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/86018.html

Flexa Launches Crypto-Based Payment App

Flexa has launched a new digital payment network that uses
cryptocurrencies to cut processing costs, eliminate fraud and preserve
users' privacy. The network uses Flexa's Spedn app to process consumer
transactions at cooperating merchants. The new payment platform makes it
possible to spend Bitcoin, Ether, Bitcoin Cash and the Gemini dollar at
any of the merchants currently accepting payments.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/86014.html

Technology Is Filling a Need in Philanthropy

It's surprising that philanthropy as an industry has gotten by for so
long without technology. That's changing, however. The cost of
technology has dropped at the same time that philanthropic organizations
have been discovering an acute need for it. Of the more than 1.5 million
charitable organizations in the U.S., it's not a stretch to say that the
vast majority of them are small and underfunded.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/86013.html

Online Shopping Gets Real: The Rise of Interactive Product Visualization

The shopper's desire to touch, feel, see and hear is what interactive
product visualization is all about. In a world dominated by digital
interfaces, interactive product visualization gives consumers the
opportunity to experience, see, and understand products before buying
them. Interactive product visualization brings products closer to the
people interested in purchasing them.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/86012.html

What Happens to Sprint if T-Mobile Merger Fails?

Sprint's best shot at success is to merge with T-Mobile. Without the
merger, I see the company continuing to struggle as a weak player in the
competitive wireless battle. Then again, this is nothing new. Sprint has
been limping along for decades, for many different reasons. If this
merger fails, will Sprint carry on as before? The reality is that Sprint
is in trouble.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/86008.html

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Mercedes’ all-electric EQC is luxury first, EV second

The EQC 400 4Matic will arrive in US showrooms sometime in 2020, at which point, it will join a growing number of luxury SUVs and crossovers vying for customers in the market for high-end, eco-conscious vehicles. After taking a test drive, Roberto Baldwin called this the "uncompromising Mercedes" many of them are looking for.

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OnePlus 7 Pro review: The first true OnePlus flagship

OnePlus reversed most of its mistakes with the 6T and brought out a surprisingly ambitious OnePlus 7 Pro, packing several rare components that barely anyone else has procured. The result is a device that delivers fantastic mobile cinematic plus gaming experience, and one that’s in a well-designed package.

The unlucky customers who experienced the phones' mic issue twice will get the largest payout.

Google will pay owners of faulty original Pixel phones up to $500

A group of OG Pixel and Pixel XL owners filed a lawsuit against Google back in 2018, accusing the company of knowingly selling devices with faulty microphones. The tech giant has agreed to settle the class-action complaint and will pay those customers up to $500. Some early adopters of the first Google-branded smartphones started reporting that one or more of their device’s three mics stopped working shortly after the devices were released. The company admitted in early 2017 that users were experiencing problems due to a "hairline crack in the solder connection on the audio codec."

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Stop what you’re doing and update everything.

Serious security flaws uncovered in Intel CPUs, as well as Windows 7 & XP

Patch Tuesday was busier than usual, as multiple vulnerabilities were exposed. A potentially "wormable" exploit in Windows that could lead to more WannaCry-style attacks prompted Microsoft to release a patch for older operating systems like 7, XP and Server 2003.

Meanwhile, Intel disclosed four exploits that could target most of its CPUs made since 2011. Whether you’re running Windows, macOS, Linux or ChromeOS, you’ll want to make sure you have the latest updates installed to ward off Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) attacks like Zombieload.

Being constantly connected and surrounded by screens poses a serious challenge.

The dos and don'ts of helping your kid to sleep

Getting kids to sleep in a world with so much to distract them is even tougher. With devices in our homes and pockets designed to stimulate, excite and command our attention, we’ve crafted a guide to how to steer young ones away from screens and into the land of nod.

The Big Picture

The Large Magellanic Cloud comes alive in a 240-megapixel image

The Large Magellanic Cloud is just one percent the Milky Way's size, and over 63,000 light-years from Earth. You might think it would take a space telescope like Hubble or a huge observatory to do it justice. But the 240-megapixel image was shot by a small group called Ciel Austral using a telescope in Chile just 160mm (6.3 inches) across.

Stitched together from nearly 4,000 separate images, it took 1,060 hours (6.3 weeks) of exposures shot from July 2017 to January 2019 and two computers eight days to stitch together the photos. But what a beauty.

That’s one way to declutter your main screen.

HP's Omen X 2S is a dual-screen gaming laptop

The primary 15-inch panel is a 1080p 144Hz G-Sync IPS (or optionally, a 240Hz G-Sync or 4K) model, which is pretty standard on high-end gaming laptops. However, the second 6-inch, 1080p display located above the keyboard lets you watch streaming videos, play music, monitor system performance or chat on your favorite platform.

But wait, there's more...

1. 'World of Warcraft Classic' debuts on August 26th

2. Google Assistant finally controls Sonos speakers

3. Alexa Guard is ready to turn your Echo into a home-security device

4. Adobe warns Creative Cloud users with older apps of legal problems

5. Burger King's Impossible Whopper is available in three more cities

6. Disney takes full control of Hulu in deal with Comcast

7. Watch the OnePlus 7 Pro's pop-up camera lift 49 pounds of cement

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Tuesday 14 May 2019

Editor's Pick: SCOTUS Greenlights Apple App Store Antitrust Lawsuit

SCOTUS Greenlights Apple App Store Antitrust Lawsuit

John P. Mello Jr.
May 14, 2019 5:00 AM PT

The U.S. Supreme Court has given thumbs up for a class action antitrust lawsuit to proceed against Apple for alleged monopolistic practices at its App Store. In the case, Apple Inc. v. Pepper et al., the consumer plaintiffs maintain the Cupertino, California, company has monopolized the retail market for the sale of apps, and that it used its position to charge higher-than-competitive prices. [More...]

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Google, Microsoft In Step in New Era
Apple, Google and Microsoft are three very powerful companies. Two of them had big events last week -- Google I/O and Microsoft Build. What I found interesting was that both Google and Microsoft largely were on the same page about focusing on the customer. Both Google and Microsoft have been making massive advancements with AI. Both have increased their efforts to make the world a better place. [More...]

Microsoft Becomes Master of Its Own Linux Kernel
Microsoft has announced that its own full Linux kernel will power WSL2, the newest version of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This marks the first time that Microsoft will include the Linux kernel as a component in Windows. Microsoft also introduced a Windows command line terminal that will add functionality to PowerShell and WSL. Both are intended primarily for developers. [More...]