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COUPONS 
October 18, 2016 Join me for a Webinar: Keep Customers Loyal With Coupons and Using Social Media to Spread
The cost of acquiring new customers is “typically three to six times that of retaining existing ones,” says Lawrence Friedman in his book The Channel Advantage. According to Bain & Company, just a 5% increase in your customer retention rates will increase your average lifetime profits per customer. With those kinds of numbers, there are […]
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CLOTHING 
October 17, 2016 ‘A jerk in bad clothing’ – Steve Jobs’ first boss on how the Apple CEO would be seen today
‘A jerk in bad clothing’ – Steve Jobs’ first boss on how the Apple CEO would be seen today When Steve Jobs adopted “think different” as Apple’s mantra in the late 1990s, the company’s ads featured Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan, Amelia Earhart and a constellation of other starry-eyed oddballs who reshaped society. Nolan Bushnell never […]
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CLOTHING 
October 17, 2016 Wearable Robots Could Be a Reality Soon
Wearable Robots Could Be a Reality Soon Researchers are developing a robotic fabric that moves and contracts and is embedded with sensors, an approach that may lead to “active clothing” and a new class of “soft” robots. Such an elastic technology could make possible robots that have sensory skin, stretchable robotic garments that people might […]
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NEWS 
October 16, 2016 iPhone 7 Not a Game Changer, Say Analysts
Not even Chief Executive Tim Cook singing “Sweet Home Alabama” on Carpool Karaoke could get Wall Street excited about the launch of Apple Inc’s iPhone 7. The new iPhone, which features a high-resolution camera and the option of a jet-black glossy finish but notably lacks the traditional analog headphone jack, is not revolutionary, analysts said. […]
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ALL DEALS 
October 16, 2016 Xiaomi India Claims It Sold Half a Million Smartphones in 3 Days
Xiaomi India Claims It Sold Half a Million Smartphones in 3 Days HIGHLIGHTS The company sold Xiaomi and Redmi devices during the festive season sales The Redmi 3S was the top-selling product on Flipkart Last month, the Redmi Note 3 became the bestselling online phone in India The October festive sales in the country have […]
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ALL DEALS 
October 14, 2016 Apple Watch Series 2 Teardown Reveals a Larger Battery and That It’s Nearly Impossible to Repair
Apple Watch Series 2 Teardown Reveals a Larger Battery and That It’s Nearly Impossible to Repair HIGHLIGHTS Apple Watch Series 2 has battery capacity of 273mAh The components have been put together in a compact manner Apple Watch Series 2 has GPS and a brighter display Apple prefers to not reveal certain specifications of its […]
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NEWS 
October 13, 2016 Apple takes a pass on NFC in iPhone 5
eBay Inc Chief Executive John Donahoe often quotes a merchant saying NFC stands for “Not For Commerce” and dismisses the prospects of Near Field Communication technology used to turn cellphones into mobile wallets. He got some support this week from Apple Inc, which did not embed NFC chips into the iPhone 5. NFC proponents […]
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COMPUTERS 
October 11, 2016 What to Wear to Work? Soon, a Tiny Computer
The wearable technology startups that get attention make products a Silicon Valley executive or journalist might use – fitness trackers, virtual-reality gaming headsets, jewelry that delivers text-message alerts. It’s lifestyle stuff. But wearable development in the near future depends on more workaday equipment. Call them work-wearables: computers worn on the body that help get the […]
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ELECTRONICS 
October 11, 2016 LeapPad Inventor Wants to Turn Your Eyes Into a Mouse
HIGHLIGHTS Eye-based technology is key to improving and popularizing VR technology System designed to help alleviate the nausea experienced by some VR users Eyefluence is currently hammering out licensing deals with headset makers First came the computer mouse. Then the touchscreen. Now the tech industry is looking for a new human-machine interface-this time, one that […]
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ELECTRONICS 
October 3, 2016 How a Computer Helped a Paralysed Chimp Walk Again
How a Computer Helped a Paralysed Chimp Walk Again In a first, Japanese researchers have rehabilitated a paralysed chimpanzee through interaction with computers and touch screens. The case of Reo, a male chimpanzee that learned to walk again after being paralysed due to illness, shows how much can be done to rehabilitate animals injured in […]
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COMPUTERS 
October 3, 2016 Putting a Computer in Your Brain Is No Longer Science Fiction
Putting a Computer in Your Brain Is No Longer Science Fiction Like many in Silicon Valley, technology entrepreneur Bryan Johnson sees a future in which intelligent machines can do things like drive cars on their own and anticipate our needs before we ask. What’s uncommon is how Johnson wants to respond: Find a way to […]
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ELECTRONICS 
October 3, 2016 Star Trek at 50: A Look Back at How It Helped Inspire Todays Tech
Star Trek at 50: A Look Back at How It Helped Inspire Todays Tech HIGHLIGHTS The show was one of the influences behind the creation of mobile phones The PADD looks similar to today’s tablet computers Digital sImulation seen in The Next Generation similar to virtual reality Star Trek first took viewers on a voyage […]
