Cassandra Daily: Prismatic is a news aggregation and recommendation engine that generates a personal newsfeed filled with wide-ranging news that might otherwise go unnoticed. The app achieves this by basing recommendations on what’s trending across entire social media platforms instead of generating content based on an individual’s social networks. Skimming from the top of Twitter […]
Entrepreneur: Spooky noises keeping you awake? Wishing you could call Ghost Busters? Roto-Rooter, one of several franchisors embracing Halloween as a marketing opportunity, suggests you contact one of its plumbers to take on those things that go bump in the night. As part of this year’s campaign, the company says “crashes, clanks and bumps” are
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Springwise: Japan-based NTT DOCOMO is launching its Hanashite Hon’yaku app, which offers real-time translation of phonecalls. Rather than making a call through the standard phone app, users select a contact through Hanashite Hon’yaku if they will be talking to a foreign language speaker. The app then automatically detects what languages are being spoken before providing
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There’s a arms race on in the automatic traffic camera world. As better and better camera technology is developed for the police, industrious inventors crank out products to defeat them. Ethical problems? Maybe for some, but you know what they say: “Find a need and fill it.†Wired has more: Traffic-light tickets have ticked off
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BusinessNews Daily: With increasing numbers of consumers using mobile devices to make their holiday purchases, smartphones and tablet computers may be elbowing aside elves as Santa’s helpers this year, experts predict. But small businesses remain woefully unprepared to attract and engage these holiday shoppers, several new studies show. They’ve yet to climb aboard the mobile
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Although, texting (also called text messaging or SMS) was originally thought of as another avenue for teen communication, it has caught on with adults as well and is now a reputable part of the business world. According to Pew Research, nearly half of all American adults own smartphones. What happens if a business prospects logs
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Did you know that NFL teams are franchises? Perhaps you already knew they were called franchises. But did you understand that they were actually franchises? They are. Bill Bradley explains.
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WSJ: U.S. oil production is undergoing a renaissance, driven by the same technologies — hydraulic fracturing chief among them — that upended the gas industry. Domestic production is up some 20% since 2008. To put that into perspective, production had fallen by more than a third in the prior 20 years, and most experts figured
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