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Automate Content Marketing with Scoop.It Content Director

If you struggle with having a steady flow of relevant, fresh content for your website, you are not alone. Perhaps one of the easiest and best ways to overcome this challenge is through editorialized content curation and this is whereScoop.it comes in. Scoop.it is a marketing and content delivery platform that is aimed towards three specific users: knowledge managers, thought-leaders ... Read More »

New Promo Feature from Slidely Aims to Make Every Marketer Into a Video Creator: But Does it Succeed?

Usefulness Functionality Price Summary Promo by Slidely brings video content to any business, small, medium or large, to help them participate in the video age. With Promo it is now possible to effortlessly create instant, affordable promotional videos with access to premium footage from Getty Images – the same premium footage used by the biggest name brands. The current surge ... Read More »

Overwatch, E-Sports, and Cybercafes: How Nvidia Wants India to Play

HIGHLIGHTS Nvidia claims India has 25 to 30 million people interested in gaming According to the company, cybercafes are crucial to get people playing It’s also targeting tier-II cities like Jaipur and Mangalore After launching the GeForce GTX 1080, 1070, and 1060(with a rumoured 1050 in the works), Nvidia India has announced the country’s inaugural GeForce Cup, an e-sports tournament ... Read More »

‘Research Allows You to Take Risks,’ Says Microsoft Research’s Sriram Rajamani

HIGHLIGHTS Microsoft Research is separate from Microsoft R&D Its researchers publish peer reviewed papers like any research body Some of the work that it does may not be seen by consumers for years One of the tech veterans at this point, Microsoft has remained an important player over the years even if it doesn’t get the same kind of attention ... Read More »

Apple Still a Star Without Steve Jobs, but Doubts Linger

Five years after the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, the Silicon Valley tech giant is bigger and stronger, despite lingering doubts over its future without the visionary leader. In financial terms, Apple has been an unstoppable juggernaut: Its profit for the 2015 fiscal year was a whopping $53 billion (roughly Rs. 3,52,647 crores) on revenues of $234 billion (roughly Rs. ... Read More »

Spotify Free Users Complain of Malware-Infested Ads; Company Addresses Issue

Some Spotify Free users were treated to malware-infested ads with their ad-supported music streaming service. Some users have reported on the company’s forum that random, malicious ads pop-up on the default browser while running Spotify’s freemium service. The Next Web reports that while the original report was based on a Windows 10 machine, the malware also seems to pop up ... Read More »

Asus Launches New ROG Laptops With Nvidia GeForce GTX 10-Series GPUs in India

HIGHLIGHTS The Asus ROG Strix GL502VS is priced at Rs. 1,81,990 The Asus ROG G752VS is priced at Rs. 2,47,990 Both the laptops come with the new NVidia 10-series graphics card After launching the Asus ZenBook Flip UX360CA, the company has now introduced two new Republic of Gamers (ROG) laptops in India. Expanding its lineup, the new ROG Strix GL502VS ... Read More »

Microsoft Releases Fix for Users Affected by Windows 10 Cumulative Update Issue

Last week, Microsoft released Cumulative Update KB3194496 for users running Windows 10 Anniversary Update (version 1067), and, this caused problems for some users – trapping them in a loop after the installation failed. The issue only affected those who were previously on the Windows Insider Program before migrating the the public branch earlier this year, as well as some users ... Read More »

Apple Is Said to Plan Improved Cloud Services by Unifying Teams

Apple Inc. plans to unify its separate Internet services groups into a single campus to better compete with Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Amazon.com Inc. in the cloud, according to people familiar with the plans. Apple cloud services teams run by executive Eddy Cue, including Siri, Maps, iCloud, Apple Pay, Apple News and parts of iTunes and Apple Music, will move ... Read More »

Windows 10 Preview Build 14936 Brings the Ability to Uninstall Preloaded Apps

HIGHLIGHTS The feature is active only for a few apps You still cannot uninstall Alarm & Clock, and Cortana The feature is still in preview, and is expected to hit all users in 2017 Windows 10 comes with many preloaded apps that users may not be too keen on utilising. Now, Microsoft has introduced the ability to uninstall these apps ... Read More »