You can now record and stream live TV via Aereo's service to your Chromecast device. But Aereo's very approach to streaming is still awaiting a Supreme Court ruling.
Can you really be forgotten on the Internet? The European Union (EU) believes so, and recently ordered Google, Bing, and Yahoo to make it happen. The court's decision could fundamentally remake search engines, impact journalism and lead to all manner of thorny issues related to censorship, privacy, and the public’s right to know.
Although the memory of a bad date can take a lot longer than 24 hours to truly fade, the dating app Tinder has decided that’s plenty of time for its users to share photos with their matches. The company Tinder’s app lets its users quickly swipe through other members’ profiles, using basically nothing more than the person’s photo to decide whether to swipe right signifying they “like” the person or a left swipe to indicate rejection. If both members “like” each other, Tinder calls that a match.
Europeans can continue browsing the Web without fear of breaking copyright law, Europe’s top court has determined in a landmark ruling. The legality of this common practice came into question in Europe as a result of a years-long tussle involving U.K. newspaper publishers, a public relations association and a company that aggregates and redistributes news articles. The intent of the legal challenge was never to target individuals who browse the Web and read periodicals online, but, as the legal strategy was formulated, that ended up being the possible consequence. Luckily for European Internet users, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)
Microsoft has made good on its The drivers are currently available The use of MicroUSB is big improvement over the wireless Xbox 360 controller, which doesn't support a wired connection to the PC. To use an Xbox 360 controller with a PC, users either had to purchase a separate wireless dongle or a separate wired controller.
It’s also the first incarnation of NVIDIA’s quad-core mobile processor.
The FCC filing gives us a look at the device's tweaked shape, but not much else.
Every Internet communication from your home goes through your Internet Service Provider (ISP). It knows your IP address (actually To use a term we’ve all heard a lot recently, they have your metadata.
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If the thought of a humanoid robot in your home makes your skin crawl, meet the friendly Pepper. Pepper is a cute, wisecracking personal robot designed to bring joy to everyone, and Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank wants people to start buying it next year for the price of a high-end PC. The phone giant unveiled the autonomous, sophisticated machine on Thursday along with partners Aldebaran Robotics of France and China’s Foxconn, the world’s largest manufacturer of electronics. Equipped with an array of audio, visual and tactile sensors, Pepper is 120 centimeters tall and weighs about 28 kg. It has two arms and rolls around on a wheeled base, with a lithium-ion battery that can power it for at least 12 hours.
The future of wearables is still anyone’s guess. But at this year’s Computex show, more Taiwanese vendors are embracing the gadgets, and hoping to bring some clarity to a market that could lift the local tech industry. On display at the annual trade show are exercise shirts that can track a user’s health,
When Google believes a site will redirect a mobile visitor to a homepage, rather than the actual page shown in search results, Google will tell searchers that clicking the link "May open the site's homepage" with an option below it to "Try anyway."
What is the most common SEO mistake, according to Google's Matt Cutts? Not having a website. "If you don’t have a website, you're kind of invisible on the web, and you really don’t want to be invisible on the web," he explains a new video.
Bing has fine-tuned their music discovery functionality. Bing will display a "dynamic carousel" on searches for an artist, band, album, or song. You can then browse the artist's other music videos from within the carousel.
How does Google determine that content is quality, when there aren't many links pointing to it? Or how is it determined that the content is spammy or thin, when there are a lot of links pointing to it? Google's Matt Cutts explains.
Kenshoo has announced "Intent-Driven Audiences," which gives advertisers the ability to create custom audiences made up of people who have clicked search ads, and are then are targeted to receive ads across Facebook's ad inventory, including mobile.
Starting a new SEO project, or want to check ongoing projects? Use the following approach, which includes a mix of specific keyword research, testing important assumptions, and growing traffic and rankings with link building and copywriting.
You're going to have to use every bit of your community management savvy to crank up your Google+ following to 1,000 and beyond. If you don't yet have 1,000 followers on Google+, here's how to go back to basics and grow that fan base.
For global corporations, the move to international SEO is inevitable. Despite these challenges, companies can't afford to avoid international markets, regardless of the difficulty. Each of these difficulties can be overcome.
Device targeting on Bing Ads is getting a big overhaul. The goal is to bring Bing Ads in line with what Google AdWords, with the ability to target specific devices – desktop, tablet, and smartphone. The changes will rollout over the next year.
WordStream's free new tool lets marketers grade their landing pages against industry benchmarks and best practices with the "AdWords Landing Page Grader." Advertisers can use this data to improve landing pages and get more from their PPC investment.
Google's Panda 4.0 was a major algorithm update. There were many examples of websites recovering, as well as many examples of sites getting crushed. Here are some SEO findings based on an analysis of 41 websites impacted by Panda 4.0.
What happens if your site gets hit by Penguin or a manual penalty, you lose rankings for your main keywords, and you can't get traffic back? Whether you endure is entirely dependent on your willingness to do more with less and evolve your business.
Consumers expect to have access to the same content regardless of device. Meeting this expectation can result in better brand perception and increased sales, while failing to meet this expectation can result in just the opposite.
The third annual Mobile Path to Purchase report by xAd and Telmetrics studied mobile device usage across categories such as auto, restaurants, entertainment, and telecom to help establish the state of mobile device behavior and conversions.
Today marks the fifth birthday of Microsoft's Search Engine, Bing. Here's a brief look back Bing, from its launch in 2009, how it has grown to adapt to mobile and social media, and how the search engine sees itself evolving in the near future.
Privacy-focused DuckDuckGo received a huge boost yesterday from Apple when it was announced at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) that the startup search engine will be included in Safari in the new OS X Yosemite, coming this fall.
Stop trying to salt your content and meta data with keywords, thinking that's all you need to get to the top of search engines. And that doesn't mean just concentrating on synonyms, either. Instead, focus on conveying the concept of your pages.
There's much to like about Twitter ads – good targeting, message amplification, innovations, and campaign control. However, we also have to deal with the bad – date ranges, display of active promoted tweets, campaign editing, and navigation.
An effective community manager will engage your followers/customers, amplify the visibility of your content, drive more traffic to that content, and send the right social signals to search engines. Here are the key elements of community management.
If you use the popular "All in One SEO Pack" WordPress plugin, you should update immediately. Vulnerabilities have been discovered that could get you kicked out of Google's search results, or leave you open to JavaScript injection attacks.