Hover Camera Passport Is The First Truly Self Flying Camera Drone

Hover Camera Passport is the brain child of Zero Zero Robotics, the forward-thinking robotics company pioneering the future of consumer-friendly flying smart robots. The camera drone is tailored for travel-focused consumers, designed to following you anywhere you want to go. With a lightweight design and the easiest storage situation of any drone on the market, the Hover Camera Passport will likely become a travel necessity for the photography-inclined. Particularly because it allows you to enjoy the moment while it’s capturing the beauty of the world around you....

December 12, 2022 · 2 min · 226 words · Holly Clark

How Google S Virtual Assistant Tackles Gender Inequality

The Perils of Gendered A.I Gender inequality is an issue throughout the tech field, and A.I is one of the most visible niches where this bias deliberately visible to all users. The problem with using female-coded products in these digital assistant roles is that it subconsciously upholds the notion of gender inequality. With a mostly-male run industry, that’s a dangerous notion of continuing to perpetuate for the market. Google’s move may be a controversial one, but it’s a direction in the right direction....

December 12, 2022 · 1 min · 110 words · Jennifer Zukof

How Keeping Focused Has Helped Bizhive

For Dave Walker and Derick Thompson, the cofounders of bizHive, focus is something that runs throughout every level of the company. It starts with their focus on small businesses. BizHive – in a nutshell – is a central resource and marketplace for small businesses who want to attract new customers or increase their sales using new media. BizHive focuses on helping small businesses find marketing solutions in new media, anything from creating Facebook business pages to setting up customer royalty programs with the help of mobile tech....

December 12, 2022 · 2 min · 287 words · Lori Barrows

How Technology Is Changing The Way We Travel

While this technology has become part of everyday life, it can be easy to forget how many companies and initiatives have made an impact on this market. The Rise of the Sharing Economy Everyone knows that Uber and AirBnB have shaken the transportation and accommodation industries to their cores. Not content with doing business in their primary industries, these titans have branched out. Uber now offers food delivery services through Uber Eats and AirBnB has recently launched bookable thematic Experiences led by locals....

December 12, 2022 · 3 min · 548 words · Mark Sprinkle

How The Linknyc Network Heralds The Rise Of Smart Cities

Cites and smart tech are a natural fit, since the jam-packed populations of any major city offer the one thing any system-wide tech advancement needs: Raw data. Here’s a look at how NYC is leading the way in creating a better connected, more efficient city than ever — and a look at the impact that a smarter city can provide. How LinkNYC Works LinkNYC offers the best municipal service for the younger city dwellers: free WI-FI broadband from a series of city-wide kiosks that also offer USB charging ports, phone calls, maps, and a built-in tablet that anyone on the street can use to surf the web....

December 12, 2022 · 2 min · 297 words · Victoria Stevenson

How The Web Is Helping To Improve Mobile Shopping

Mobile shopping has only been on the uprise with the help of advancing technology. As businesses are becoming more mobile and social media-friendly, they’re also finding that consumers respond to shopping that they can do at their convenience. But what makes mobile shopping so valuable to brands? From advertising to content creation, digital trends determine more for your brand than just what’s popular. And by utilizing what’s emerging in your field, you can determine what consumers will respond best to, and translate that to your digital platforms....

December 12, 2022 · 1 min · 153 words · Annie Rios

How To Avoid Ios 6 Facebook Contact Sync Hijacking Your Contacts

Many people will use the new Facebook contact sync feature that has been integrated into iOS 6 to pull in the photos and phone numbers of your friends. It was my understanding that the sync will swap out any exisiting contact info you have for your friends with the information that is stored on Facebook. But that does not appear to be the case. A Facebook spokeswoman explained it as follows: This summer Facebook made a change to everyone’s profiles and automatically hid your email address, replacing it with a shiny new @facebook....

December 12, 2022 · 2 min · 327 words · Alecia Youmans

How To Beat The Competition At Content Marketing

Know Your Competition “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer” – Some really smart content marketer. Your competition is trying to do the same thing you are: reach customers in the most efficient and effective way possible. You should collect data on what they are doing to find out what is working and what is not working. If you see that they are posting certain articles which are driving a lot of activity, you should try posting similar articles and see if you get the same type of results....

December 12, 2022 · 4 min · 687 words · Carolyn Hunter

How To Create Effective Communication Funnel For Distributed Teams

Let’s start by looking at a couple of brands that are perfect examples of ensuring that communication remains a strong point even between remote teams. Buffer: Combining Technology and Support Buffer’s remote teams are distributed across multiple time zones. Because of this, the company gives each team member the technical resources that they need to communicate effectively with one another. These tools include: HipChat to facilitate casual communicationTimezone.io so that everybody knows where everyone else is locatedSpeak to empower team members with video conferencing...

December 12, 2022 · 3 min · 534 words · Nellie Webb

How To Explain Influencer Marketing To An 8 Year Old Or Your Boss

You recognize Influencer Marketing is a necessary addition to your marketing budget, but how do you get buy-in from the top? It is simpler than you think. Just explain the concept of Influencer Marketing to your boss, as you would to an 8-year-old child. Tell a story As humans, we are wired to be captivated by stories and easily recall information if it is relayed to us with rich meaning and visual cues....

December 12, 2022 · 5 min · 868 words · Nancy Sparkman

How To Make The Most Of Your Old Iphone

There’s the 5C, which Apple’s chief designer called “beautifully, unapologetically plastic.” It comes in five nearly-neon colors – blue, green, pink, yellow and white – and has all the capabilities of the iPhone 5. An added bonus? It starts at only $99. And then there’s the 5S – the real upgrade. Starting at $199, the iPhone 5S is equipped with an A7 processor, making it twice as fast as the iPhone 5....

December 12, 2022 · 4 min · 752 words · Stephanie Smith

How To Protect And Monitor Your Identity After The Equifax Hack

According to their press release, Equifax states that there is no evidence of unauthorized access to its core credit reporting databases, but is offering consumers identity monitoring services, which is run by Equifax, to all who wish to take advantage of it. These services include copies of your Equifax credit report, the ability to lock your Equifax report, monitoring of all three credit bureaus for changes in your report, scanning of the Internet for your Social Security number, and identity theft insurance....

December 12, 2022 · 4 min · 830 words · Dorothy Murray

How Virtual Reality Is Helping Veterans Overcome Ptsd

According to the US Department of Veteran’s Affairs about 11 out of every 100 veterans who served in Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom have PTSD in a given year as well as about 12 out of every 100 veterans who served in Desert Storm. To help our American heroes, medical professionals and VA hospitals are turning to virtual reality to help heal them through gradual exposure therapy. At the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies, Bravemind is a virtual reality exposure therapy system has shown to reduce symptoms of PTSD with veterans....

December 12, 2022 · 2 min · 330 words · Bridget Kampman

How You Can Improve Your Work Relationships

Write a Positive List I know this sounds cheesy, but remembering what you value most about a person can help you be more appreciative. When you are appreciative, you are more likely to like the person. So why not write a list of your colleagues, and next to each name, write down what it is that you value about this person. Be a Team Player Positive relationships are based on interdependence between the two parties....

December 12, 2022 · 2 min · 321 words · Pamela Grier

If You Can T Pivot Your Startup Is In Trouble

There are plenty of reasons to pivot when it comes to your startups goals. Whether the market has completely changed on you, or the investors have decided you need a different angle, keeping abreast of your viable options can be the difference between Series A and serious problem. Even going with your instinct can be the best way to gauge whether or not you need to make a change in your business model....

December 12, 2022 · 2 min · 264 words · Roy Stpierre

If You Don T Break Rules You Won T Be Creative

It’s no surprise that the startup community has embraced the term “hacker,” which once referred to illegal activities. Programmers spend their days hacking, marketers are now growth hackers, and you can even hack PR. Startups may be following the laws these days – or so they claim – but they’re not following the rules. Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham defines a hacker as a great programmer, but also someone who does something clever to thwart the rules of the system....

December 12, 2022 · 3 min · 584 words · Joseph Casler

Iphone 6 Bending What To Do How To Prevent Bendgate

Your mobile device is one of your most used devices, so it shouldn’t bend after a week of use. Since many people carry them in their pocket, they definitely shouldn’t bend from your backside either. That said, it’s not a bad idea to create a bendable or flexible phone – the Motorola Razr had a good run as a top-selling flip phone, and LG created the LG G Flex, the phone with a curve so you can view the screen from every angle....

December 12, 2022 · 2 min · 330 words · Margaret Howell

Is The Best Candidate Wrong For Your Startup

Your startup team is important. So why shouldn’t you hire the person with the most impressive resume or the biggest skill set? The reason is because cultural fit, passion, and loyalty are actually more important than concrete skills for a fledgling startup–and the repercussions of hiring the wrong person for your startup can be devastating in the long run. When Good Hires Go Bad Most startup companies, especially tech startups, are looking to fill open positions with all-star talent....

December 12, 2022 · 5 min · 912 words · Christina Elson

Junowallet Gift Cards Go Mobile

Currently on version 4.2.6, JunoWallet’s free application supports importing plastic gifts, mobile marketing campaigns offering over $300M in mobile promotional gift cards/gift certificates, mobile gift cards with a bonus for sale and a “Mobile Gift of the Day” campaign allowing users to purchase special offers and drive down the price with volume buying. JunoWallet has also integrated with Bump Technology and offers “Bump-A-Gift” allowing iPhone to iPhone mobile gift card sharing....

December 12, 2022 · 2 min · 222 words · Karina Pomerleau

Just 19 Percent Of Small Business Owners Market With Google Adwords

Which is why the latest stat on small business’s internet chops, from software review company G2 Crowd’s third quarterly research report “Crowd Views,” is a little sad: Digital marketing does not appear to be a priority for many. The best option for a better digital media presence is probably looking towards a third-party service or individual to keep a small business’s social feeds packed: 51 percent of the survey’s respondents noted that outsourcing was “an important part” of their business plan....

December 12, 2022 · 2 min · 248 words · Donald Tully