How do you choose a CDP that fits your business? Let’s explore what a CDP is and how it can propel business growth. A Primer on Customer Data Platforms That Can Help Your Business Thrive in 2023 : What is a Customer Data Platform? A customer data platform or CDP is software that collects customer data from multiple sources or tools and creates a persistent, centralized, and holistic customer database....

An interesting occurrence happened this morning: In a run up to Apple’s Q1 2012 earnings call, and amid a steady flow of 2012 Consumer Electronics Show announcements where Apple traditionally does not exhibit, the company’s share reached an all-time high by passing $427 a share for a market valuation of $398 billion (Exxon Mobile is at $408.86 billion). As noted by Fortune’s Philip Elmer-Dewitt, the company passed the $426.70 mark it hit briefly one day in mid-October...

Accessory companies are deep into the process of preparing for Apple’s forthcoming AirTag item trackers. Newly leaked images from Evan Blass show how Apple accessory maker Nomad is planning to release an array of products to complement Apple’s item trackers. Accessory maker Spigen is also preparing for AirTags, as are other companies. Update #2 January 31, 2021: Accessory maker Cyrill has also now debuted new AirTag accessories, as reported and visualized by Yanko Design....

Back in May, we told you all about Adobe’s brand new Creative Cloud suite and its decision to end support for CS6 following its presentation at the MAX 2013 Creativity Conference in LA. Adobe introduced big updates and new features to just about every app in the CC suite, including updates to its design apps like Illustrator, a new Kuler iPhone app, revamped web tools such as Dreamweaver and Edge Animate, and updates to just about every other app it makes....

Netflix’s After Life was an incredible hit that showcased a new side to Ricky Gervais. While the comedian brought out his classic controversial comedic style still, the show was also incredibly emotional. Everything about the show was superbly done, and fans are eagerly anticipating the second season that will be coming this year. Following Gervais’ character, Tony, who is dealing with the recent death of his wife, the show tackles some really heavy topics....

According to local media reports, Iran is preparing to allow local retailers to import iPhones legally for the first time. Just last month, the country was threatening to ban the devices in what it was calling an anti-smuggling move. All that threat did in turn, however, was drive up the price of iPhones already in the country and actually increase smuggling. The trade ministry in the country has gone to the Traded Promoting Organization and requested licenses for nine Iranian companies to import Apple’s smartphone....

You may not know much about drag queens, but you’ve no doubt heard of RuPaul Charles, self proclaimed queen of the world. You may have seen him as the host of eleven year running hit show RuPaul’s Drag Race, but RuPaul has been up to something new - a scripted comedy-drama series. AJ and the Queen premiered on Netflix this past January, and it stars RuPaul along with newcomer Izzy G, who plays ten-year-old AJ....

If you look at your February Sprint bill via your online account that there has been a Discount Policy Change Notice. Fortunately for us, this change in policy constitutes a material change in our Sprint contracts. Who does this affect? Family PlansCorporate Share PlansNOT individual lines (only 1 person and number on the account). You can still try but it probably won’t work. How exactly is my contract changing? The plan (line 1) is going from $129....

In this tutorial, we will show you how to bypass Google Account Login or the FRP Unlock on all Samsung devices running Android 10. For the unawares, FRP or Factory Data Protection is a safety mechanism put in by Google to protect your device from being reset in an unauthorized environment. As soon as you set up your device using a Google ID, the FRP kicks in and will be enabled as soon as someone tries to reset your device in a non-conventional method....

Twitch is a leading livestreaming platform. Think YouTube, but with only live videos. If you’ve never heard of it, don’t worry. That’s normal. Twitch has a niche audience of online gamers. In fact, the majority of Twitch users are gamers who host and share eSports events and challenges on the platform. In fact, it is the world’s largest online game streaming platform. But that doesn’t mean that Twitch has nothing to offer to other content creators....

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This enticing musical romantic drama has been produced four times. Its most recent remake intrigued the public, showcasing the talents of Lady Gaga in a completely fresh light, with her starring as the humble brunette Ally. It premiered at the 75th Venice International Film Festival and was a huge commercial success. It drew over $434-million worldwide and skyrocketed the careers of Lady Gaga and co-star Bradley Cooper. While fans of all ages flocked to the theatres and read reviews, there are certain details about the main characters which might have been missed....

Adobe announced this afternoon that Adobe Photoshop Lightroom has been updated with Retina graphics to support the Retina MacBook Pro. The update comes in the way of the Lightroom 4.3 Release Candidate — RV label indicating it’s being tested before going to the — available through Adobe Labs this afternoon. Additionally, Adobe added 13 new cameras and a slew of bug fixes in the update. We’ve listed them below: New cameras:...

XSS is one of the most common vulnerabilities that exist in many web applications today. XSS is a technique through which the attacker tries to compromise the web application by executing a malicious script in the website. The attacker does this by breaking the “Same-Origin” policy of the web application. The “Same – Origin” policy states that the script which is coming from the foreign site or the script that doesn’t belong to the same domain (i....

Adding Inhumans from the Marvel comics to the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. series created a new and exciting layer to the show’s characters and plot. When Skye underwent Terrigenesis and became Daisy “Quake” Johnson, she rocked the world of S.H.I.E.L.D., further after learning about HYDRA’s infiltration of their organization. While some Inhumans created a lackluster impression on the audience, others shined and left fans excited and wanting more. Teams of Inhumans working the sides of both good and evil made for the ultimate battle that the superhero genre thrives on....

Apple has been slowly restoring various services and overhauling its Developer Center since the company shut down all services to investigate an attempted breach into the system late last month. After outlining its plan to restore remaining services earlier this week, today the few developer services that remained down are now back online. That includes the Member Center, Program Enrollment and Renewals, and Technical Support. In addition, Apple has extended all developer memberships by one month as a result of the service interruption....

Drop-tests are always fun to watch, but I’ve always felt that the reliability of most of them is suspect simply because there are so many variables. Most involve someone dropping a phone by hand, and the distance is often as imprecisely measured as ‘waist height’ or ‘head height,’ making it hard to be sure both phones experienced exactly the same force. Dropping a phone from a hand can result in differences in initial angles, and releasing one side of the phone a fraction of a second before the other can impart a rotation to the device....

With another chapter of Takeshi Kovacs’ life concluded, here’s what we know so far about Altered Carbon season 3. Developed for TV by Laeta Kalogridis and based on the books by Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon debuted on Netflix in 2018. Joel Kinnaman starred in the first season of the sci-fi series, with Anthony Mackie taking over the role of Takeshi in season 2. Altered Carbon is set in a world where humans are implanted with a “stack” in their spine when they are babies, which stores their mind and memories and can be transferred from one body to the next, granting potentially eternal life....

The constantly expanding cast of surreal fantasy drama American Gods has added rock star Marilyn Manson to its ranks. The Starz series, based on the acclaimed novel of the same name by Neil Gaiman, follows ex-con Shadow as he is recruited by the enigmatic Mr Wednesday – in reality the Norse god Odin – and the pair travel across the country as Wednesday seeks to gather support in the looming conflict between the old gods of faith and tradition clinging to life by the few who still believe in them, and the new gods of technology, media and globalization drawing strength from humanity’s increasing reliance on them....