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Roku’s Streaming Stick is now shipping from Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart and others in the US

Mar27
by on March 27, 2014 at 7:19 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Product Updates

Google recently launched its Chromecast streaming dongle in almost a dozen new markets, but now Roku is offering an alternative. The company’s new Streaming Stick, which plugs into the back of your TV through the HDMI port, is now shipping from Roku.com, Amazon.com, BestBuy.com, Target.com and Walmart.com. If you want to pick one up in store though, the company is sticking to its “early April” release date for now. We expect it’ll land in the next couple of weeks – Roku is also planning a launch in Europe next month, although we’re none the wiser for exactly when that will happen…

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Brain freeze: The science of procrastination and our ‘smart’ brains

Mar27
by on March 27, 2014 at 7:05 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, LifeHacks

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Denis Duvauchelle is CEO and co-founder of team collaboration tool Twoodo. How many times have you read that procrastination is just a characteristic of a lazy person? That people try to be “busy” rather than “productive”? That only happy-go-lucky hippies get to take a brain break from life? For a few people, this may be true. But if we look a little deeper into why it happens, we can begin to see that it is actually our “smart” brains that make it happen. And once you understand the true nature of the problem, you can make sense of all the…

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Staff at Mozilla call for new CEO Brendan Eich to ‘step down’

Mar27
by on March 27, 2014 at 6:35 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Mozilla employees are calling for new CEO Brendan Eich to step down over his support for the Proposition 8 campaign that opposed same-sex marriage in California. As Ars Technica reports, Chris McAvoy, project lead for Open Badges at the Mozilla Foundation, tweeted his disapproval of the appointment earlier today. It triggered a number of similar responses from other staff at Mozilla, perhaps planned, asking for Eich to resign from his new position. Have waited too long to say this. I’m an employee of @mozilla and I’m asking @brendaneich to step down as CEO. https://t.co/K3OqeImUnU — iamjessklein (@iamjessklein) March 27, 2014…

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Microsoft announces Enterprise Mobility Suite for mobile device and cloud management

Mar27
by on March 27, 2014 at 5:31 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

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At an event in San Francisco today, Microsoft announced Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS), a new service that brings together its existing enterprise management solutions, such as Intune and Azure Active Directory, into a “holistic offering.” Speaking at the event, new Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reiterated his emphasis on a mobile-first/cloud-first approach for the company with the tagline “a cloud for everyone on every device.” He highlighted the Enterprise Mobility Suite as a crucial component of Microsoft’s enterprise efforts. “[The Enterprise Mobility Suite], perhaps to me, is the most strategic piece of what infrastructure development we are doing in support of enterprises,” Nadella said. Enterprise Mobility…

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5 content distribution channels you might be overlooking

Mar27
by on March 27, 2014 at 5:20 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Social Media

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Marketers are making significant investments in content marketing, and rightfully so. According to Rishi Dave, chief marketing officer at Dun & Bradstreet, today’s consumers are entirely self-directed in their buying journeys. Content helps empower these audiences to make educated and informed decisions. The challenge with content marketing, however, is exactly what makes it awesome. The competition for eyeballs is fierce. Not to mention, human attention spans are getting shorter. According to one Web use study, the average attention span in 2012 was eight seconds. Even goldfish are easier to engage. Their attention spans? Nine seconds. Content marketing programs need more…

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