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Social media continues to be a massive opportunity, but the landscape is evolving quickly, and true success is difficult to find, even for experienced marketers. Whether you are struggling with what channels to focus on this year or how to optimize content creation and paid media, 2016 is a...
We track all sorts of metrics for our SEO clients, but what about for ourselves? Columnist Janet Driscoll Miller discusses what agencies should be measuring in order to ensure efficiency and profitability. The post Search Agency Metrics That Matter appeared first on Search Engine Land.
January US desktop search rankings from comScore were released yesterday. There was almost no movement in the numbers from the previous month; Bing and Ask gained a tiny fraction of a point each. For the major search engines, total query volume was up slightly across the board, but volumes were...
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Once predicted to challenge Apple in the smartphone market, Windows phones have sunk to barely 1 percent of the world's smartphones, according to new data released by Gartner. Meanwhile, Android's market share now tops 80 percent. If you're a Windows Phone or Windows 10 Mobile owner, the news is grim: Microsoft and its partners sold 4.3 million phones worldwide during the fourth quarter, good for a 1.1 percent market share. That's less than half of what the platform sold a year ago, when Windows phones owned 2.8 percent share. Only BlackBerry, Tizen, and other has-been operating systems are lower; BlackBerry's share fell to 0.2 percent. As it has for years, the smartphone market is dominated by Android phones, which collectively sold 325 million units during the fourth quarter, an 80.7 percent share of the market. Android's share increased just over four percentage points from a year ago, apparently stealing customers from Apple. The number of iOS phones dropped 2.7 percent to 71.5 million units during the fourth quarter, giving Apple a 15.9 percent share in the market.
After a long wait, Microsoft is giving Windows Insiders some The company released build 14267 to early adopters who are a part of the Windows Insider Program’s Fast ring on Thursday morning, offering new features in Cortana, Microsoft Edge and Skype. Cortana now has a dedicated button in the assistant’s right-hand corner that people can use to detect what music is playing around them at any given time.
Smartwatches like the Apple Watch can do just about everything—push notifications from your phone to your wrist, send texts, and track your workouts—but they’re not as stylish as high-end analog timepieces. Tech companies like The
Twitter has notified 10,000 users that their email addresses and phone numbers may have been exposed due to a bug in the website's password recovery feature. The incident happened over the course of 24 hours on an unspecified day last week, but the company alerted affected users on Wednesday. "Any user that we find to have exploited the bug to access another account’s information will be permanently suspended, and we will also be engaging law enforcement as appropriate so they may conduct a thorough investigation and bring charges as warranted," Twitter said in a
Microsoft’s Bing has weighed in on the Academy Awards, applying its predictive powers to pick the big winners. And if the search engine is right, this is the year of Microsoft has already set up a site to cover the
The Federal Communications Commission has taken another step toward making the cable box obsolete, voting to approve a proposal that will open up pay-TV programming to more devices. Under the FCC’s proposal, any device maker would be able to grab a TV signal coming over a cable and integrate it with their device’s own apps and interfaces. Apple, for instance, could design its own software and hardware for watching live TV and DVR content, and Google could do the same with its Android TV platform. The FCC wants to create an open standard that makes this possible in a secure way. Still, the proposal is far from final. It now enters a comment period, allowing business and customers to respond in hopes that the FCC will make revisions. A final set of rules and vote is likely months away,
The WebKit rendering engine used in many Linux applications is a complete security mess. That’s the takeaway from Most web browsers issue regular security updates to their users. But, if you’re using a WebKit-based browser, or email client, or any other application that uses that rendering engine, on Linux, you almost certainly aren’t getting security updates. WebKit is a large open-source project. Apple uses WebKit for Safari on Mac and iOS, and those versions of WebKit receive regular security updates. But the WebKit port used for Linux does not.
Google Using Google Cloud Vision, developers can manipulate images in several ways, such as running optical character recognition to pull text out of images, or using the technology that powers Google’s SafeSearch feature to detect inappropriate images. Google launched the service in private beta last year, and it is now available for public consumption. In addition to making the service publicly available, Google also revealed the pricing. Developers will be able to run up to 1,000 images through Google services for free, and then pay a flat fee for each group of 1,000 images they upload after that. Developers will get discounts for sending large volumes of pictures through the service.
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai has lent support to Apple in the debate over encrypted iPhones—sort of. In While Pichai noted that Google provides data access to law enforcement when legally required, that’s different from making tech companies enable hacking of customers’ devices and data. “Could be a troubling precedent,” Pichai added.
It’s not unusual to hear of vulnerabilities in smart-home security systems these days, as security researchers turn their attention to the Internet of Things. It’s worrying, though, when a modern security system turns out to be vulnerable to a so-called replay attack, the kind of thing that worked against garage door openers back in the 1990s. The latest example is SimpliSafe, a wireless alarm system that’s marketed as cheaper and easier to install than traditional wired home security systems. Its manufacturer claims that the system is used in over 200,000 homes in the U.S. According to Andrew Zonenberg, a researcher with security consultancy firm IOActive, attackers can easily disable SimpliSafe alarms from up to 30 meters away, using a device that costs around $250 to create a replay attack.
Twitter just added two handy new features to its network, and both are about the miracle of the moving image. The company is currently rolling out the ability to send videos via direct message (DM) in Twitter for mobile, as well as a searchable GIF library to spice up your tweets on most platforms.
Skype announced Thursday that iOS and Android users in the U.S. and Western Europe can expect to start making group video calls from their smartphones and tablets in the coming week. The feature will allow users to hold conversations with up to 25 friends at once. Skype designed two new views for group video conferences: the first allows users to see one another in a grid, and it's designed for calls with a handful of people. A second active speaker view shows a big picture of the person talking by default, along with a small, scrollable row of other participants. In that view, users can also "pin" someone, so they can always see a large view of the most important person in the conversation for them. Users can change who they've pinned during the call, or remove the pin and go back to Skype's default mode of primarily showing the person talking.
A security company recently laid tempting bait online in order to see how hackers would react. The findings aren't surprising but show how quickly leaked data is used by shady characters. California-based Bitglass, which specializes in cloud-based security, created a fake digital identity for an employee of a non-existent bank. The details included credentials for a Google Drive account, complete with real credit card details, fake corporate data and personal data, according to Bitglass' The files were tagged with a tracker so Bitglass could obtain some technical data on systems that accessed it. They also created a fake banking site portal.
Does the U.S. government have the right to examine any of our private information, no matter how it’s stored, with a properly executed warrant? That’s the crux of the latest battle between Apple and the FBI. As you can But I’d like to hone in on a couple of things Tim Cook
In Barcelona, you really can buy happiness. (It's called Iberico, a delicious Spanish ham.) But you can't buy unlicensed spectrum, and yet it's going to be the hottest thing at Mobile World Congress next week. Commercial mobile operators, which for years relied on exclusive frequencies doled out through auctions or competitions, are now looking toward bands that anyone can use. Not only is unlicensed spectrum free, it may also become available with less time-consuming red tape. And there's a lot of it. Consumers choose unlicensed spectrum every day when they let their phones switch over to Wi-Fi at home or in a coffee shop. (Wi-Fi is the biggest unlicensed success story.) Carriers encourage this because it means less traffic on their cellular networks. But there are a lot of other ways in which cellular devices, as well as the Internet of Things, are starting to take advantage of this kind of spectrum.
Nothing is foolproof. But, by taking the correct precautions beforehand, you can reduce the likelihood of crooks accessing your data, and make it easier to find your phone’s location. You can even make the phone itself pretty much useless to the thieves or anyone they sell it to. I’ll stick to Android here, although the basic information, if not the exact instructions, should work with any phone or tablet.
Hulu has been firing on all cylinders lately, so of course the service’s pay-TV overlords are scheming the best way to ruin it. Late last month, the Apparently Time Warner feels that Hulu is too attractive to
Chip company Marvell Technology Group has settled with Carnegie Mellon University to end a long-standing patent dispute over chips used in hard disk drives. Under the agreement announced Wednesday, Marvell has agreed to pay CMU US$750 million, with no ongoing royalty payments, which is far lower than the $1.54 billion that a court in Pennsylvania had awarded the university. The two patents in the seven-year-old suit relate to methods to improve accuracy in the detection of recorded data when certain types of errors are likely due to the recording medium and reading mechanism. They were U.S. Patent No. 6,201,839, titled “Method and Apparatus for Correlation-Sensitive Adaptive Sequence Detection,” and related No. 6,438,180, titled “Soft and Hard Sequence Detection in ISI Memory Channels.”
The White House said it is not the aim of the government to compromise the security of Apple’s iPhone, as it only wants the company to help in the case of one phone that was used by a terrorist in the San Bernardino, California, attack on Dec. 2. Google, Mozilla and some other tech organizations and civil rights groups have meanwhile supported Apple’s stand. An order by a judge in California on Tuesday triggered off a