Small businesses that sell physical goods online are struggling to delight customers and fulfill orders in an era where Amazon Prime sets an expectation for affordable, same- or next-day delivery. While the largest e-commerce players can leverage economies of scale to give their customers affordable rapid delivery options, small businesses are stuck with standard rates at USPS, FedEx and UPS.… Read More
Samsung likes to try new things with the J-series, like the Galaxy J3 (2016) with S Bike mode. The still-unofficial Samsung Galaxy J2 (2016) will have a Smart Glow feature, which redesigns the notification LED.
Artist’s impression of the Smart Glow ring
A leaked manual shows Smart Glow is a ring around the camera on the back of the J2. The ring can light up in different colors, which are user configurable – a different color for different apps.
You can also set Usage alerts. They track battery, data and storage and can change the color of the Smart Glow ring after these pass a…
Ever since it rolled out in the US and Canada back in April this year, BBM’s video chat feature has been launched in a whole lot of territories worldwide – the functionality arrived in Latin America on June 1 and Middle East on June 8.
The latest markets to get BBM video are Europe and Africa (a total of 109 countries), where the feature started rolling out just a couple of days ago. All this was announced by BlackBerry in an updated blog post.
Keep in mind that the feature – which is available for both Android as well as iOS – is currently in beta phase, meaning it may have some…
Pebble has announced two new finishes for its Time Round smartwatch: gold and grey. Carrying a $199 price tag, the new variants can be ordered through the company’s Kickstarter campaign.
“Backers who pledge for Pebble Time Round on Kickstarter will have these new models before anyone else and receive an exclusive laser engraving when they start shipping in September,” the company said on its kickstarter page.
While each unit costs $199, a combo that includes the Pebble Time Round and the newly-unveiled Pebble 2 will set you back $298. You have until June 30 to make a…
NEW YORK — Ann Morgan Guilbert, beloved as the next-door neighbor on The Dick Van Dyke Show and seen recently on CBS’ comedy Life in Pieces, has died.
Guilbert died of cancer in Los Angeles on Tuesday, her daughter Nora Eckstein said. She was 87.
Recent TV appearances included a starring role on the hospital comedy Getting On and a guest shot on Grey’s Anatomy. She was a regular as feisty Grandma Yetta on the 1990s sitcom The Nanny, and in the early 1960s, played Millie Helper, Laura Petrie’s gabby pal, on the acclaimed Van Dyke series.
She starred in Nicole Holofcener’s 2010 Sundance Film Festival selection, Please Give. …
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Fleksy is a pretty popular alternative keyboard, as alternative keyboards go. Unfortunately, the fate of the app is up in the air right now. After a long stretch of silence, Fleksy has come out of hiding to let its fans know what is happening and the news is … strange to say the least. The first word out was that the app and team had been bought by Pinterest.
This alone was news that confused us all. Pinterest is essentially a social network all about sharing “ideas”, which more often than not means fashion, design, arts and crafts, or fancy foods. Why such a project would … – Source
We’ve become accustomed to staying connected whenever and wherever we are. All this connectivity is great, but it has also blinded us to the associated risks of being online at all times. Connected devices — especially smartphones — are vulnerable to cyber attacks, so security is of the upmost importance. Just a little further down the road is the next major connected device:… Read More
In these earliest days of commercial viability, virtual reality is running up against the same wall as so many technologies before it: how does a company translate it for the majority of consumers who won’t be able to demo it in the wild?
HTC’s mixed reality is an interesting sort of work around, adding augmented reality to the equation, in order to offer a sort of voyeuristic… Read More
Sometimes, when a couple confirms their breakup via a coordinated, PR friendly tweet claiming the end of their relationship is totally amicable, there’s more to the story.
Tweet by tweet, the fairy tale love of Calvin Harris and Taylor Swift is currently unravelling as Harris not only deletes all mentions of Tay from his accounts, but also blocks Swiftie accounts.
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Harris unfollowed Swift, and in a now-deleted Tweet, he made it clear that he means business.
Image: mashable/liz pierson
He also deleted …
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Since 2011 the FBI has used facial recognition software to identify people during criminal investigations. The agency combs through a database of over 411 million photos, including everything from mugshots to driver’s licenses. Today, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report that’s …
