| Footwear Retailer Schuh Kicks Online 'Hijackers' Off Its Site
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 As many as 19% of online customer journeys for UK footwear retailer schuh used to get interrupted by various forms of injected ads, often from competing brands. These ads, generated when consumers unknowingly infected their browser or smartphone with malware, were not visible to schuh's online team — but they were definitely a visible distraction for shoppers. Namogoo alerted the schuh team about the extent of the online hijacking problem in June 2014, according to Stuart McMillan, Deputy Head of eCommerce at schuh. "I was a bit surprised about the extent of the problem, but given the diversity of users on our web site it made sense," McMillan said in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. "The biggest surprise was that I hadn't even considered the problem until Namogoo came along." The retailer used Namogoo's solution to block unauthorized ads, generating results including: • A nearly 15% increase in average conversion rate; • A 29% decrease in checkout abandonment rates for infected users; and • An ...
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| Windows 10 users can now try Microsoft's Your Phone app to mirror phone content to a PC
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 Microsoft started testing its Your Phone app with Windows 10 Insiders last month, and now the company is making it available to all Windows 10 users. If you're running Windows 10 with the latest April 2018 Update, Your Phone is available to install from the Microsoft Store. The app mirrors phone content to a PC, but currently only supports Android devices and the ability to drag and drop photos from a phone to a PC. Microsoft is also planning to add support for text message sync and notifications from Android phones to mirror to a PC at some point in the future. Microsoft had been testing Your Phone as part of the company's upcoming Redstone 5 update for Windows 10, but it now appears it will be made broadly available without the...
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| Spotify now displays songwriter and producer credits for iOS users
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 Spotify first added the option to check out a track's songwriter and producer credits back in February — and now, the feature is being rolled out onto iOS. On the desktop application, where the feature was first available, listeners could right-click a track and hit "Show Credits" from the menu to read up on a song's performers, songwriters, and producers. Now, as spotted by Music Business Worldwide, those listening on the go can access these same credits by hitting the ellipses button that appears next to each song, and clicking on "Song Credits" at the end of the list. These details aren't available for every song just yet Right now, these details aren't available for every song — the option will only be available if this information...
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| Best smartwatches for Android you can buy [August 2018]
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 With new hardware and software options that continue to get better and better, there's no time like now to buy a smartwatch. While iOS users are pretty limited in what they could buy, Android users have too many choices to count. Not sure where to start looking? Let's go over some of the best options… more…
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| iOS 12 beta 7 pulled after reports of bugs, crashes
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| Beta software always presents a risk going in. Companies usually recommend not installing it in primary devices for that very reason. For those who like to live on the edge, however, the latest beta of iOS 12 presented some very real issues. Reports of buggy performance lag, freezes and crashes were pretty widespread for the seventh beta of the upcoming mobile operating system, causing some pundits to recommend skipping the install outright. It's a marked change over previous builds, which largely seemed to run fairly smoothly. Seems there were enough reports to cause Apple to pull the over the air update, however, less than 24 hours after it first started hitting devices. All of this doubly surprising, given the fact that iOS is likely near final, at this point, with the public version of the software expected to arrive at some point next month (along with, one hopes, some new hardware). We've reached out to Apple to find out when we can expect beta 7 to rise again.
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| How To Get An Open Source Developer Job In 2018
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 83% of hiring managers say open source is a high priority today, up from 76% in 2017. Linux is the most in-demand open source skill category, considered a must-have for nearly all entry-level open source careers. Demand for open source developers with container expertise is soaring in 2018.
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