A global hardware hackathon is asking entrants to “Build the Future,” without placing restraints on what that means apart from a short list of qualifying rules. The 40-day About 250 entries have
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It's time to strap on your digital boxing gloves—Evo, the massive annual fighting game tournament, is this weekend in Vegas. If you're not going, you can always watch the action on Twitch, or just sit inside and read about this week's video game news. The last Halo 3 Easter Egg is found, new games were announced by Cliffy B and Gearbox, and EA says it innovated "too much" with Dungeon Keeper—this is your gaming news update for the week of July 7. Why were you upset about EA's shoddy Dungeon Keeper sequel released on mobile earlier this year? Was it because of the stilted gameplay? Or maybe because of the ludicrous number of microtransactions—an amount so impressive, the UK recently proclaimed EA
Toshiba is not the only company selling a 4K laptop anymore; Lenovo has finally shipped its first 4K laptop, sporting a 5.6-inch screen, after months of delays. The The Y50 is cheaper than Toshiba’s Satellite P50T, which starts at $1,499.99. The P50T started shipping in April, but was temporarily pulled from Toshiba’s website, and is now
If you think pledging to help a guy make potato salad is a waste of money, wait until you get a load of these projects that sought backing from the crowd.
Netflix and Verizon reached an interconnection deal in April. But while the companies put their plan into action, many subscribers are still complaining about poor streaming speeds.
Cybercriminals are trying to create a new botnet based on what is likely a modification of Gameover Zeus, a sophisticated Trojan program whose command-and-control infrastructure was taken over by law enforcement agencies at the beginning of June. The Gameover Zeus malware is designed to steal log-in credentials, as well as personal and financial information from users when they access banking and other popular websites. According to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, which took part in
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That you can buy a capable gaming platform such as the Digital Storm Vanquish II Ultimate for a mere $1269 speaks well of the GPU industry. With Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 770 and its 2GB frame buffer on board, Digital Storm’s Vanquish II Ultimate blazed its way through our 1920x1080 gaming tests, and even had enough juice to maintain playable (if not optimal) frame rates at 2560x1600. The only area where this PC will fall short for some is expansion: It doesn’t have enough memory slots, PCIe slots, or SATA ports. Styled in an attractive combination of gray with blue lighting, the Vanquish II Ultimate, sports a mid-range Intel Core i5-4570 CPU. A Core i7 would be nice to have, but with 8GB of memory on board a Core i5 feels about the same subjectively, once Windows has done its caching thing. Besides, most games rely more on the GPU than the CPU.
On Thursday, Satya Nadella charted Today you’ll still buy Office, Windows, Windows Phone, and other Microsoft products and services. But within the next decade, your Microsoft experience could be radically different.
Samsung Electronics has updated and rebranded its app store, in an apparent bid to cut into Google’s revenue from its Play store for apps running on Android devices. The new Samsung Galaxy Apps store has “hundreds of apps” exclusively available to users of Samsung Galaxy mobile devices, the company said Friday in a The revamped app store has a redesigned user interface to display apps in three categories: Best Picks, Top, and For Galaxy. Best Picks lets users find recommended apps and promotions, while Top displays the most popular apps which can be viewed by their popularity, date, and price.
MonkeyParking, an app that lets people bid on public parking spaces, said Thursday it will suspend its service in San Francisco to avoid a potential lawsuit from the city attorney. The app, developed by a company in Rome, lets people bid on parking spots that other users of the app are about to vacate. It’s meant to reduce the headache of finding parking, but critics said it also forced people into paying for a free public resource.
YP, the local search site that says its apps and website are used by more than 70 million visitors each month, has updated its mybook experience to allow users to share their mybook collections via email, SMS, Facebook, and Twitter.
In its latest report, “How Search Marketers Engage on Twitter,” social insights company Leadtail looked at hundreds of U.S. search marketers (SEMs) on Twitter to discover what topics they talked about and which content they consumed and shared.
Inspired by Groupon deindexing itself from Google and finding 60 percent of their direct traffic was actually organic search, Conductor reveals data showing that organic search is actually responsible for driving 64 percent of traffic to websites.
How does Google's Panda algorithm work? No doubt things have changed since the Panda patent was written, but it provides some valuable insight in URL- and group-level ranking factors to consider, and how to avoid and overcome Google's Panda.
Mobile is big, and getting bigger. But are mobile search ads a good investment for your site? Ask these questions to help determine your potential for mobile success, and Google Analytics reports you can run to help answer those questions.
How many times have you heard that finances are dull and boring and no one wants to read about them? Wrong. It doesn't have to be that way. Here's how to create engaging content surrounding the financial industry.
Generating positive returns and getting things done should be motivation for brands and agencies. Ensuring this happens involves effort from both sides. Sometimes a little relationship maintenance is needed to take things to the next level.
Stone Temple Consulting released findings of research today that showed indexation of Twitter pages was low in Google search results overall, but that influential Twitter accounts with specific types of tweets were indexed more.
This detailed step-by-step guide will teach you how to install publisher-centered Google Analytics custom variables using Google Tag Manager. Here's how to install the Category, Content Type, Publication Date, and Author customer variables.
If you push to learn and test new ideas, you will diversify your campaigns, which will help your overall performance. But through this process you will grow as a campaign manager as you expand your knowledge and experience. Here's how to get started.
If you aren't doing mobile, your site will be left behind in the search results. Here's how to decide which type of configuration to use for your mobile site (responsive, dynamic, or redirection to mobile URLs) and avoid common obstacles.
Google AdWords changed terminology within its interface that replaces most instances of the word "delete" with "remove," as in advertisers will remove campaigns, not delete them. Google said it will help people remember items are not gone forever.
Google's Matt Cutts is taking a break until November to spend quality time with his wife, he says, but don't panic - he's leaving webspam in the capable hands of the team at Google and offered up resources for people to learn and stay informed.
The back-to-school and back-to-college retail audience spent an estimated $72.5 billion in 2013. Here's a look at how word choice in retail PPC ads during the back-to-school season (July 15 to September 15) can impact your campaign success.
Some organizations may continue to view mobile as an "add-on" or supplementary effort. However, those who embrace the shift in behavior and deliver what their customers want and need to make a purchase decision will likely be the ultimate winners.
DuckDuckGo continues to grow its user base, passing 1 billion searches early this year, and continues to integrate into our lives, with the news Apple will support it as a default search engine in OS X Yosemite. What's next for the search engine?
ClickZ wants to bring out your inner child, by launching a Vine competition that encourages you to show off your favorite action figure. The winner will be whisked away to San Francisco for our upcoming event.
An in-depth look at everything you need to know about an SEO website audit, from the differences between tools-based audits and human audits to how much you can expect to pay for the service.
Brands are doubling down on content and becoming publishers. With all this investment in content creation, it’s become critical to have internal processes to ensure content is optimized before it goes out the door. Enter the SEO Quality Gate.
Content marketing is a core facet of the digital marketing industry, yet there are still some facts about this strategy that may surprise or even shock you.