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Police are outsourcing criminal-catching to IoT in Dutch ports

Nov01
by on November 1, 2018 at 8:29 am
Posted In: Around the Web, The Next Police


The Internet of Trucks is here. Or, to be, more specific: the internet of tarpaulins. Industrial textile company Sioen is currently developing smart truck tarpaulins that notify security when someone tries to cut through it. It’s one of three new innovations created for the project PASSAnT, a Dutch-Belgian initiative by Interreg to deal with crime in Dutch and Belgian harbors. With an increasing number of illegal immigrants trying to make their way to the UK, people smuggling has drastically increased in harbors near the Dutch-Belgian border. New Calais The Dutch city of Moerdijk, already dubbed “the new Calais” by some,…

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Mobile e-commerce mistakes all entrepreneurs should avoid to stay relevant

Nov01
by on November 1, 2018 at 8:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors


Mobile management is the way of the future. Statista estimates that by 2021, mobile e-commerce will make up 54% of U.S. e-commerce sales, making effective mobile sites a vital element for e-commerce companies. To find out which e-commerce mobile mistakes should be avoided to stay relevant, I asked a panel of entrepreneurs from YEC the following question: What’s one mistake you often see on mobile e-commerce sites that companies must work on fixing to stay in the game? Their best answers are below: 1. Ignoring the one-finger rule If your add-to-cart or checkout buttons are so small that they require the user…

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Twitter is finally giving our chronological timelines back

Nov01
by on November 1, 2018 at 7:53 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider


We might finally get what’ve been asking for from Twitter: a chronological timeline. The company tweeted saying it’s testing a button to display tweets by post time, instead of showing an algorithmically picked feed. According to Jack Dorsey, the company’s CEO, this feature is currently available to only a small number of iOS users and all Twitter employees. The button will appear on the top right corner of one’s feed. Upon clicking it, one will see options for ‘switch to latest tweets’ and content ‘preferences’ @Twitter employees: this is now on for 100% of you, in production and earlybird. Please…

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