Daily Archives: October 7, 2015

SwingTracker: Enhancing Your Little Leaguer’s Batting Ability

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Any parent with a child playing Little League baseball knows the cost and random process of buying a new bat: Go into a store, try swinging random bats in slow motion — so as to not hit nearby displays, and be expected to pay upwards of $450 for a new non-returnable, composite baseball bat that may or may not be the right size for your child. Oh, and even if it is the right size, it may feel top-heavy in real action or just plain vibrate too much at impact. But your kid will never know until he or she has used it against live pitching. And by that time, it’s too late to do anything but suck it up and keep it. What’s a parent to do?

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The Four Essential Truths Of Real-Time Customer Engagement: The First Truth

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Let’s face it: Not all customers are created equal. Some customers are your lifeblood; others seem to drain the life out of you. Different customers drive different degrees of revenue, just as they require varying costs to serve. Understanding these distinctions, and adapting your interactions and the offers you extend, can determine how much incremental revenue/profit you’re able to realize from each customer engagement.

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No, Sony Isn’t Forcing You To Download ‘Destiny’ To Your PS4 Against Your Will

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A story going around earlier today said that Sony was pushing downloads of Destiny’s The Taken King to people’s PS4’s whether they bought the game or not, creating problems for people without capless Internet, and just generally irking people who didn’t want to download a 17 gb game. Luckily, this didn’t happen. Sony did in fact put in ad for Destiny in some people’s UI, but nothing got downloaded. Here’s what a Sony representative told me when I asked:

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WhatsApp content backup to Google Drive finally becomes official

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A new feature of WhatsApp that lets you back up all your content from the messaging app to Google Drive has been in testing for many months now. It worked for some people on certain versions of WhatsApp back in April, for example, but not everyone got this ability enabled. Now it turns out that those who did may have either used beta versions of the messenger, or were simply lucky to be randomly selected to test this feature.

That’s because WhatsApp content backup to Google Drive only (finally) became official today. What’s even stranger is that this has happened through an announcement by Google, not WhatsApp – and not Facebook, the owner of the messenger.

Anyway, as you’d expect the feature lets you back up all of your WhatsApp content to Google’s cloud service. So when you change your phone you’ll be able to pull all your past chats from Google Drive and use WhatsApp as you did on the old device. For an online service, this is one thing that has surely been missed so far.

You can choose whether the backups should contain videos, but chat history, voice messages, and photos are always included. You pick the frequency from daily, weekly, or monthly. Oh, and there’s a “never” setting too in case you simply don’t want to back anything up.

Unfortunately the rollout for this is expected to take several months for whatever reason. So we may be well into 2016 when you can finally take advantage of the backup option, depending on how lucky you are (or…

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LG V10 arrives in South Korea first, available tomorrow for $693

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After many leaks and rumors, LG finally made the V10 official at the beginning of this month, and now it’s almost ready to become available.

The smartphone with two screens and two front-facing cameras will go on sale in LG’s native South Korea first, starting tomorrow. It will be priced at KRW 799,700, which right now translates into $693 or €616. That makes it a premium offering when it comes to price, but given how things work in the mobile world we wouldn’t be surprised if it was going to be slightly cheaper in the US.

Speaking of which, there’s still no telling when the V10 will arrive in any market outside of South Korea. In LG’s home country there will be a version of the V10 on offer from each of the three carriers over there. And if you buy one before October 31, you’ll get some freebies such as a second battery and a battery charger. Perhaps this promotion will make its way to other countries too when the V10 launches.

The LG V10 has a 5.7-inch QHD touchscreen, a 2.1-inch 160×1,040 secondary display, a 16 MP main camera with OIS, laser autofocus, and LED flash, two 5 MP cameras for selfies, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 808 at the helm, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of expandable storage, and a 3,000 mAh battery. It runs Android 5.1.1 Lollipop.

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