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How to Use Local SEO to Boost Your Real ‎Estate Business

Has it ever occurred to you to boost your local real estate business using SEO during the COVID-19 pandemic? Many business owners, especially real estate agents, might think that there is no way to make a profit during the crisis. More importantly, many small businesses and beginners are disappointed about their future. Real estate companies, especially local ones, have suffered the most during the last year. On the one hand, the real estate competition is really fierce in major cities, a...
Tags: Google, Business, Digital, Toronto, Google Analytics, Canada, Vancouver, Ottawa, Redfin, Ontario, Local Seo, Google Search Console, YOAST, DR, Small Business Advice, SEO / Google / Organic Traffic

Best Internet Browsers that Ensure Security and Privacy

Your personal information is among the most valued assets on earth. Today, data holds tremendous value to technology firms such as Google and Facebook, as well as third parties that collect your data for a variety of purposes. For instance, Cambridge Analytica benefited from using Facebook user data to target adverts and refine messages to influence the 2016 US presidential elections. However, numerous web browsers also follow your activities in the form of cookies and other software. For ins...
Tags: Google Chrome, Firefox, Google, Facebook, US, Sales, More, Vpn, Iridium, Cambridge Analytica, Firefox Quantum, Firefox Firefox

Sync to Book Folder on Computer via Wifi ?

I know Forma has Dropbox, and there's a hack to sync with Google Drive (though I'm afraid I can't wrap my head around that one - unless there's a guide for dummies...) But, never thought to ask, are you able to wifi sync to your computer, to a book folder on your computer? Or, send books wirelessly from your computer (chromebook) to your eReader? Well, in my case it would be my Chromebook. That would be the best solution for me next to syncing through Google Drive.. Or am I in the land of pipe ...
Tags: Google, Books, Kobo Reader, Forma

After Failure to Detect Major Breaches, US Mulls Real-Time Threat Sharing with Private Sector

America is contemplating how to respond to breaches "pulled off by Russia and China against a broad array of government and industrial targets," reports the New York Times: Both hacks exploited the same gaping vulnerability in the existing system: They were launched from inside the United States — on servers run by Amazon, GoDaddy and smaller domestic providers — putting them out of reach of the early warning system run by the National Security Agency. The agency, like the C.I.A. and other Ameri...
Tags: Microsoft, China, Russia, America, Tech, United States, New York Times, Biden, Department Of Homeland Security, National Security Agency, Amazon GoDaddy

Timing the Venue Inquiry in W.D. Texas

by Dennis Crouch I wrote earlier about the Federal Circuit’s TracFone decision, calling-out W.D. Texas Judge Albright for his months long delay in deciding defendant’s motions to transfer/dismiss for improper/inconvenient venue. In its decision, the appellate court repeated a prior conclusion that Judge Albright’s approach represented “egregious delay and blatant disregard for precedent.” Egregious Delay and Blatant Disregard for Precedent The following day (March 11), Judge Albright complied...
Tags: Google, Texas, Law, Congress, Court, San Antonio, Patent, Usc, San Antonio TX, Albright, Google Inc, Federal Circuit, Raytheon Co, TracFone, Dennis Crouch, Southern District of Florida

Twitter Bug Automatically Suspends You If You Tweet the Word 'Memphis'

"If you want a 12 hour break from Twitter just tweet this city name and you will be immediately locked," Swift on Security tweeted today. "A bug on Twitter is causing users to become temporarily suspended if they tweet the word 'Memphis,'" BleepingComputer has confirmed: This bug started today after users tweeting about the Tennessee city, sports teams, or players suddenly found that they were temporarily suspended for 12 hours after Tweeting the word Memphis. Several tweets are already mo...
Tags: Tech, Tennessee, Swift on Security, Memphis BleepingComputer

Apple 21.5″ iMac Core i3 With Retina 4K Display 256GB SSD For $949.99 Or Core i5 For $1,149.99 From Amazon After $269 Price Drop!

New Apple iMac Core i3 with Retina 4K Display (21.5-inch, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD Storage): $949.99 Automatically save $50 off at checkout. This was selling for $1,219 yesterday and is now the lowest price ever from Amazon. New Apple iMac Core i5 with Retina 4K Display (21.5-inch, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD Storage): $1,149.99 Automatically save […]
Tags: Apple, Amazon, Deals, Amazon New Apple

'Avatar' Reclaims Box Office Record from Marvel's 'Avengers: Endgame' After China Re-Release

ComicBook.com reports: Back in 2019, Avengers: Endgame hit theatres and after a couple of months, it ended up knocking Avatar out of the highest-grossing film spot. The James Cameron movie was number one for an entire decade before the Marvel film came along, but thanks to a recent re-release in China, Avatar is back on top... When the news broke yesterday, many people took to social media to point out that the "real" winner was actually Zoe Saldana, who plays Gamora in the Marvel Cinematic U...
Tags: Hollywood, China, Tech, Avatar, Cameron, Avengers, James Cameron, George Lucas, Marvel Studios, Steven Spielberg, Lucas, Joe, Zoe Saldana, Disney Lucasfilm, Saldana, Anthony Russo

Apple 13.3″ MacBook Pro With Apple M1 Chip 256GB SSD (Latest Model) For $1,149.99 Shipped From Amazon

Apple 13.3″ MacBook Pro With Apple M1 Chip 256GB SSD (Latest Model) For $1,149.99 Shipped From Amazon -Automatically save $50 off at checkout. Also on sale with a 512GB SSD for $1,349.99 after automatic $49.01 off at checkout. This has the new highly rated Apple M1 Chip, 4.7 star ratings from 950+ reviews, and is […]
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Google Must Face $5 Billion Lawsuit Over Tracking Private Internet Use, Judge Rules

"Google failed to win dismissal of a lawsuit alleging it collects users' data on internet activity even when they browse in a browser's private incognito mode," reports CNET: The lawsuit, filed in June, alleges Google violates wiretapping and privacy laws by continuing to "intercept, track, and collect communications" even when people use Chrome's incognito mode and other private web browser modes. A federal judge on Friday denied the tech giant's request for dismissal of the lawsuit, which see...
Tags: Google, California, US, Tech, Cnet, Alphabet, Reuters, San Jose California, Lucy Koh, Google Analytics Google, Google Must Face

America's Air Force Is Guarding Against Electromagnetic Pulse Attacks. Should We Worry?

An anonymous reader shared this report from Live Science: A U.S. Air Force base in Texas has taken the first steps to guard against an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack. But what, exactly, is an EMP, and how big is the threat...? An EMP is a massive burst of electromagnetic energy that can occur naturally or be generated deliberately using nuclear weapons. While many experts don't think EMPs pose a big threat, some people argue that these types of weapons could be used to cause widespread disr...
Tags: Texas, America, Tech, Air Force, Emp, U S Air Force, Electric Power Research Institute, Peter Pry, Congressional EMP Commission, Frank Cilluffo, Cilluffo

Stripe closes $600M round at a $95B valuation

On the heels of reports that Stripe was raising yet more money, the payments giant has now confirmed the details. The company has closed in on another $600 million, at a valuation of $95 billion. Stripe said it will use the funding to expand its business in Europe, with a focus on its European HQ, and also to beef up its global payments and treasury network. “We’re investing a ton more in Europe this year, particularly in Ireland,” said John Collison, President and co-founder of Stripe, in a sta...
Tags: Google, TC, Europe, France, Ipo, Germany, Tech, Ireland, Romania, John, Axa, EMEA, Allianz, John Collison, NTMA, Patrick Collison

Google must face $5 billion lawsuit over Chrome incognito mode tracking complaints

A lawsuit over the incognito mode in Google Chrome seeks damages over users still being tracked in the "private" mode.
Tags: Google Chrome, Google

Google Celebrates Pi Day With a Cute Calculator Easter Egg

Happy Pi Day, fellow nerds! The yearly celebration of the mathematical constant π or pi, aka the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter (and here I thought I’d never get a chance to use 9th-grade geometry in real life!). It falls on March 14 because pi written out numerically is 3.14... and then goes on…Read more...
Tags: Google, Science, Pi, Mathematics, Sine, Calculator, Pi Day, Factorial, Fields Of Mathematics, Approximations Of

Brand Fonts: Why Some Website Typeface Combinations Look So Stunning

Your “brand voice?” It start with your brand fonts! And the #1 place to start using your brand fonts is on your website. There are two companies offering you the ability to customize the typefaces on your website, and they’re easy — and often free — to use. In this post, you’re going to get the resources you need to use beautiful brand fonts on your website — plus five tips that will show you how to combine website typefaces like a pro. Google Fonts is free and offers a robust collec...
Tags: Google, Design, Small Business, Typography, Marketing, Georgia, Typefaces, Fonts, Consistency, Branding, Don, Google Fonts, Visual Brand, Adobe Fonts, Visit Google Fonts

Google Can Be Sued for Tracking Users in Private Browsing Mode, Judge Says

A U.S. district judge in California has stated that Google can be sued for collecting data on users even when they use “private browsing mode” on their selected browsers. Read more...
Tags: Google Chrome, Google, Science, California, Web Analytics, Web Browsers, Google Analytics, Software, Computing, Tracking, Alphabet Inc, Jose, Lucy Koh, Internet Privacy, Web Browsing History, Private Browsing

Google must face $5B lawsuit over tracking private internet use, judge rules

Judge finds tech giant didn't notify users their data could still be collected in incognito mode.
Tags: Google

The Roblox final fantasy

Hello friends, and welcome to Week in Review. Last week, I talked a bit about NFTs and their impact on artists. If you’re inundated with NFT talk just take one quick look at this story I wrote this week about the $69 million sale of Beeple’s photo collage. This hype cycle is probably all the result of crypto folks talking each other up and buying each other’s stuff, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be lasting impacts. That said, I would imagine we’re pretty close to the peak of this wave, with ...
Tags: Iphone, Apple, TC, Facebook, Twitter, Technology, Microsoft, China, Tech, Smartphones, Software, Zynga, Computing, Sony, Dropbox, Seth Rogen

SpaceX Rocket Successfully Completes Record 9th Launch and Landing

The Verge reports: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the latest batch of 60 Starlink satellites into orbit Sunday, and returned to Earth successfully, landing on its Of Course I Still Love You drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean, the company announced. Sunday's mission marked a record ninth flight and landing for this Falcon 9 booster, SpaceX said... Sunday's launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center was the second in the past few days for SpaceX, which sent another of its Falcon 9 rockets skyward...
Tags: Spacex, Tech, Nasa, Earth, Cnet, Falcon, Atlantic Ocean, SpaceX Falcon, Kennedy Space Center, StarLink, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Google Celebrates Pi Day With This Cute Calculator Easter Egg

Happy Pi Day, fellow nerds! The yearly celebration of the mathematical constant π or pi, aka the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter (and here I thought I’d never get a chance to use 9th-grade geometry in real life!). It falls on March 14 because pi written out numerically is 3.14... and then goes on…Read more...
Tags: Google, Science, Pi, Mathematics, Sine, Calculator, Pi Day, Factorial, Fields Of Mathematics, Approximations Of

New Decentralized Routing Protocol Aims To Replace BGP

"The Border Gateway Protocol was first described in 1989...," according to Wikipedia, "and has been in use on the Internet since 1994." But now long-time Slashdot reader jovius reports that a startup named Syntropy "aims to replace BGP as the default routing method of the internet, by using nodes around the world to constantly gather data of the inefficiencies of the current network." The intelligence is then used to route data via the most efficient routes. Actual tests with hundreds of serv...
Tags: Verizon, Microsoft, Wikipedia, Tech, Slashdot, SVP, Equinix, Shawn Hakl, Bill Norton Syntropy

Pet Food Brand Finn to Boost Dog Adoptions ‘To the Moon’ with Dogecoin Cryptocurrency

Today, Ogilvy Social.Lab launches #AdoptaDogecoin, a digital campaign that harnesses the power of cryptocurrency, and dog memes, to encourage adoptions amongst future pet owners.     Dogecoin (DOGE) is a cryptocurrency that has surged in popularity after getting public coverage and support from celebrities like Elon Musk and Snoop Dogg. It was created in 2013 based on the popular “doge” meme and uses its face as logo and namesake.    This campaign content promotes man’s best friend as th...
Tags: Elon Musk, Technology, Advertising, Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban, Costa Rica, Snoop Dogg, Finn, Justin Jackson, New York City Los Angeles, Dogecoin, Tolga Büyükdoganay, Ogilvy Social Lab, Ogilvy Social Lab Amsterdam, European Business Review Dogecoin, Ogilvy Social Lab Amsterdam ECD

Apple is screwing you by making third-party repairs hard and expensive

If Apple and other tech companies have their way, it will only become harder to have our phones and other devices repaired by third-party businesses. Smartphones and many other tech devices are increasingly being designed in ways that make it challenging to repair or replace individual components. This might involve soldering the processor and flash memory to the motherboard, gluing components together unnecessarily, or using non-standard pentalobe screws which make replacements problematic. Man...
Tags: Apple, Startups

Xiaomi Wins Court Ruling Blocking US Restrictions On It

"A federal judge in Washington blocked the Defense Department from restricting U.S. investment in the Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi Corp," reports Bloomberg: In the final days of the Trump administration, the Defense Department placed Xiaomi on a list of companies with alleged links to the Chinese military, triggering financial restrictions that were scheduled to go into effect next week. But on Friday, U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras put a temporary halt to the ban, siding with ...
Tags: Washington, Tech, Bloomberg, Xiaomi, Defense Department, Apple Inc, Trump, Contreras, Rudolph Contreras, Xiaomi Corp, International Data Corporation Read, Xiaomi Wins Court Ruling Blocking US

Sunday's Best Deals: Hisense 70" 4K TV, The Child Backpack and Lunchbox Set, KN95 Face Masks, Gillette Razor Refills, Noco Boost Plus Jump Starter, and More

A 70-inch Hisense smart 4K TV and a 25-pack of KN95 masks lead Sunday’s best deals.Read more...
Tags: Google, Amazon, Ipad, Facebook, Asus, Newegg, Macys, Kindle, Samsung, Walmart, Best Buy, Netflix, Cuisinart, Liberty, Nba, Logitech

3 ways the global semiconductor shortage is hitting the US hard

President Joe Biden’s executive order calling for a review of supply chains for critical products put a spotlight on the decades-long decline in U.S. semiconductor manufacturing capacity. Semiconductors are the logic and memory chips used in computers, phones, vehicles, and appliances. The U.S. share of global semiconductor fabrication is only 12%, down from 37% in 1990, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. It might not seem important that 88% of the semiconductor chips used by U...
Tags: Startups, US, Tech, Joe Biden, Semiconductor Industry Association

Gig Economy Shift: Spain Declares Delivery Drivers are Employees

"The Spanish government on Thursday announced legislation that classifies food delivery riders as employees of the digital platforms they work for, not self-employed," reports the Associated Press: The Minister for Labor, Yolanda Díaz, said the new law is "pioneering" and is part of "a modernization of the labor market" in Spain, updating regulations in accordance with technological developments to ensure workers' rights are upheld... The legal changes are the latest affecting companies and w...
Tags: Tech, Spain, Britain, Associated Press, Yolanda, Association of Service Platforms

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Our scale, after it tells you your weight, tells you the weight of the person who last stepped on the scale. Who thought this would be a good idea??— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) March 14, 2021 [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]
Tags: Technology, Law, Fat, Ann Althouse

After 20 Years, Have We Achieved the Vision of the Agile Manifesto?

"We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it," declared the Agile Manifesto, nearly 20 years ago. "Through this work we have come to value..." * Individuals and interactions over processes and tools * Working software over comprehensive documentation * Customer collaboration over contract negotiation * Responding to change over following a plan Today a new ZDNet article asks how far the tech industry has come in achieving the vision of its 12 pr...
Tags: Tech, Morris, Ritchie, Zdnet, Bob Ritchie, Brian Dawson DevOps

Judge Rules Google Must Face Lawsuit Alleging Chrome Tracks Users in Incognito Mode

A judge in California has ruled that Google must face a class action lawsuit alleging that it secretly tracks the online activity of Chrome users even when they're using the browser in its privacy-oriented Incognito mode (via Bloomberg). The lawsuit was filed in June by three plaintiffs alleging that Google hoovers up user data through Google Analytics, Google Ad Manager and other applications and website plug-ins, including smartphone apps, regardless of whether users click on Google-supported...
Tags: Chrome, Google, Lawsuit, California, Bloomberg, Lucy Koh, Google Analytics Google