Month: January 2017

5 Reasons Ecommerce Brands Should Leverage User-Generated Content

Do you know how many sites there are in the ecommerce universe? According to Lemonstand , there are 12 to 24 million online stores — and counting. As an ecommerce entrepreneur you may find it tough to position yourself successfully in front of your target customers, while knowing that tons of brands are also competing for their undivided attention.

E-COMMERCE: Alibaba Finds Friend In Trump, Quagmire In Intime

A meeting between Jack Ma and Donald Trump is a major coup for Alibaba and bodes well for its US relations. E-commerce giant Alibaba is wasting no time making big headlines in the New Year, starting with a major coup that has seen founder Jack Ma become the first big Chinese business leader to score a meeting with incoming U.S. President Donald Trump.

On management technologies and the potential of Web services

To insert individual citation into a bibliography in a word-processor, select your preferred citation style below and drag-and-drop it into the document. From the early days of management research and standardization in the late 1980’s, there has always been a quest for a management technology that would be general enough to be used for network, system, service, and distributed application management; efficient in terms of information retrieval time, computational resources required, and management traffic incurred; and easy to use in order to reduce development time and operational costs.

Davis: Kelowna’s movie news and reviews

While you may be favouring your pocketbook looking at the expenses you incurred over the Holiday Season, it does not mean you must forego the movie experience. If you head over to Landmark Cinemas Encore in West Kelowna you can get some great deals on recent movies.

Italy arrests suspects who tried hacking Draghi, Renzi

Italian police have arrested two suspects, a brother-and-sister team, for trying to hack the personal email accounts of leading public figures, including reportedly those of former premier Matteo Renzi and European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi . The police said Tuesday that, with the help of the FBI, they cracked a “cyberespionage headquarters” that for years had attempted to hack, sometimes successfully, into 18,000 accounts.

China Curbs Ambitions to Challenge World’s Top Grain Traders

Anyone seeking signs of shrinking Chinese ambitions in world agriculture markets need look no further than the inaugural speech of Jingtao Chi, tapped to run the global trading unit of the nation’s biggest food company. While Chi, 53, vowed to serve clients both in China and globally during a live video beamed to Cofco International Ltd. offices from Kiev to Connecticut and Sao Paulo, he did so through an English interpreter.

A Double Record for FTSE 100 Completing 9th All-Time High

The FTSE 100 Index has closed at a record every session since U.K. markets reopened after Christmas — that’s nine trading days — marking a record streak of consecutive all-time highs. Coming on the heels of its best annual performance relative to the Stoxx Europe 600 Index in three decades, the FTSE 100 has climbed 1.9 percent in 2017 as a further slump in sterling boosted its exporters, and commodity producers rallied.

MacBook Pro battery retested as Consumer Reports tries Apple’s fix

Consumer Reports is re-testing battery life on the latest MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, after Apple released a software update intended to address wildly varying runtimes. The patch, which is being released to the macOS beta channel today and will eventually be included for all users of the software, focuses on a buried setting in Safari, the browser which Consumer Reports used for its controversial testing back in December .

Seth Meyers Slams Trump’s ‘Unhinged’ Tweeting: He’s…

Seth Meyers kicked off a new year of Late Night on Monday, and the show’s first order of business was taking a “Closer Look” at Donald Trump ‘s need to seemingly tweet about every little thing in the world. Even though Trump’s top priority is to focus on his upcoming presidency, Meyers noted that the mogul has managed to find time to get on Twitter and complain about trivial matters like the new Celebrity Apprentice and what Meryl Streep had to say about him .

Hacker publishes 1.5M users’ information after esports site refuses ransom demand

Personal information for more than 1.5 million accounts maintained by the E-Sports Entertainment Association was stolen and published online after the company refused the cyber-ransom demands of hackers, the ESEA confirmed yesterday . ESEA has been updating its community in a timeline of events dating back to Dec. 27, and recommends that users change passwords and security questions in all other accounts where they used the same credentials.

Gamification Defined

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Mellanox Ethernet Solutions Selected to Accelerate Baidu’s Machine Learning Platforms

Technologies, Ltd. , a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced that Ethernet switches and ConnectX-4 100Gb/s Ethernet adapters have been selected by Baidu, the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, for Baidu’s Machine Learning platforms. The need for higher data speed and most efficient data movement placed Spectrum and RDMA-enabled ConnectX-4 adapters as key components to enable world leading machine learning platforms.

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The number of consumers who said they are very familiar with virtual reality almost doubled between September of last year and January, according to a new study. The study by ReportLinker comprised a survey of 700 U.S. adults in January 2017 and the same survey of 600 adults in September 2016.

Yahoo to be named Altaba, Mayer to leave board after Verizon deal: Reuters

Yahoo Inc said Monday that it would rename itself Altaba Inc and Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer would step down from the board after the closing of its deal with Verizon Communications Inc. Yahoo has a deal to sell its core internet business, which includes its digital advertising, email and media assets, to Verizon for $4.83 billion. The terms of that deal could be amended – or the transaction may even be called off – after Yahoo last year disclosed two separate data breaches; one involving some 500 million customer accounts and the second involving over a billion.

Gildan wins American Apparel auction with $88 million bid: Reuters

Canadian apparel maker Gildan Activewear Inc has won a bankruptcy auction for U.S. fashion retailer American Apparel LLC after raising its offer to around $88 million, a person familiar with the matter said Monday. Gildan’s takeover marks the end of an era for the iconic Los Angeles-based company, which was founded in 1998 by an eccentric Canadian university drop-out and grew to become a part of U.S. popular culture thanks to its racy advertising.

Design follows technology

To learn more about wearable tech, check out Darrin Caddes’ session Making wearable tech wearable at the O’Reilly Design Conference, March 19-22, 2017, in San Francisco. With all disciplines of design, as technology progresses, the restrictions become fewer and fewer until they get to the point at which a wave crashes and there’s nothing holding you back from making anything you can dream of.

Yahoo to change name, trim board if Verizon deal gets done

Yahoo will adopt a new corporate identity and slash the size of its board if the proposed $4.8 billion sale of its digital services to Verizon Communications goes through. The company plans to change its name to Altaba Inc. after it turns over its email, websites, mobile apps and advertising tools to Verizon.

Recording Functioning Muscles to Rehab Spinal Cord Injury Patients

They devised a system that records and interprets muscle signals from the physiotherapist and then stimulates specific muscles, in the patient, via an electro-stimulator. The acquisition system is based on a BITalino board that records the Surface Electromyography signal from the muscles of the physiotherapist, while they perform a specific exercise designed for the patient’s rehabilitation plan.

Trudy Rubin: Russian efforts to undermine democracy clear

Why on Earth would you side with an anti-American, former KGB colonel over your own intelligence community? I know you say you have “tremendous respect for the work and service” done by this community, but much damage has been done. Even many GOP senators were disturbed when you rejected the firm conclusion of top U.S. intel officials that Vladimir Putin’s team used leaks and hacking to interfere with the U.S. election.

How to take control of BYOD bandwidth use

The trend for increasing numbers of employees and customers bringing their own devices into a workplace can seriously impair a businesses’ access to the Internet. The problem is that as more mobile devices connect to the network, a business can quickly discover that its cloud-based applications, payments systems, accounting, stock control, customer relationship management and business applications have become hopelessly sluggish.

Why artificial intelligence is the future of

A man waits as Turkish Airlines planes are stuck on the tarmac during heavy snowfall at the Ataturk international airport in Istanbul, on Jan. 9, 2017. The days of journeying to a travel agency and sitting at the desk of an agent just to book a trip have all but disappeared, but technology is increasingly putting that level of personalized service in the palms of our hands.