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• Prototyping, Libraries on Sketch Cloud and more in Sketch 49

  01-03-2018 23:48 via blog.sketchapp.com
  https://blog.sketchapp.com/prototyping-libraries-on-sketch-cloud-and-an-official-ios-ui-kit-in-sketch-49-bf090c70796c
  
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• Introducing the #CodePenChallenge

  01-03-2018 23:21 via blog.codepen.io
  https://blog.codepen.io/2018/03/01/introducing-the-codepenchallenge/
  
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• VMware reports strong Q4 as AWS partnership pays off in hybrid cloud

  01-03-2018 23:13 via zdnet.com
  VMware continues to deliver strong growth as it is a go-to vendor in hybrid cloud deployments.
  
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• Pure Storage surpasses $1B in annual sales

  01-03-2018 22:58 via zdnet.com
  The enterprise storage provider posted better-than-expected fourth quarter financial results.
  
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• Pure Storage surpasses $1 billion in annual sales

  01-03-2018 22:58 via zdnet.com
  The enterprise storage provider posted better-than-expected fourth quarter financial results.
  
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• Splunk reports strong Q4, ups outlook after Phantom deal

  01-03-2018 22:48 via zdnet.com
  Spunk's fourth quarter revenue was up 37 percent from a year ago and sees strong growth ahead.
  
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• Nutanix to buy Minjar, makers of cloud management service Botmetric

  01-03-2018 22:44 via zdnet.com
  The deal was announced in tandem to Nuntanix's second quarter financial results.
  
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• Uber partners with health care organizations to get you to the doctor

  01-03-2018 22:09 via zdnet.com
  Uber Health represents the latest expansion of Uber's enterprise-facing business
  
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• Using ancient mathematics to enrich your design skills

  01-03-2018 22:06 via medium.freecodecamp.org
  https://medium.freecodecamp.org/using-ancient-mathematics-to-enrich-your-design-skills-ac360a83d297
  
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• Verizon, FCC reach $614M settlement over Straight Path spectrum

  01-03-2018 21:46 via zdnet.com
  The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) alleged that Straight Path failed to use spectrum that it was awarded before the Verizon acquisition.
  
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• Verizon, FCC reach $614 million settlement over Straight Path spectrum

  01-03-2018 21:46 via zdnet.com
  The FCC alleged that Straight Path failed to use spectrum that it was awarded before the Verizon acquisition.
  
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• Friday - Measure employee happiness & build better teams

  01-03-2018 21:25 via friday.work
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• Tech M&As continue to rise in Brazil

  01-03-2018 20:10 via zdnet.com
  Transaction volume increases in January and sector leads deal activity, says PWC
  
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• The Typographic Details Behind Typewolf’s Favorite Sites of February 2018

  01-03-2018 19:27 via typewolf.com
  https://www.typewolf.com/blog/favorite-sites-of-february-2018
  
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• Mujjo's leather iPhone X cases are tough to beat

  01-03-2018 19:26 via zdnet.com
  Looking for a high-quality leather case to protect your iPhone X? Read this.
  
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• Design Week Awards 2018 entry extended

  01-03-2018 19:23
  
  You now have a few more weeks to enter the Design Week Awards. We are pleased to announce that the entry deadline has been extended until 27 March – it’s time to get entering.
  The Design Week Awards gives designers the chance to be recognised for achieving design excellence.
  Last year we launched a new format awards, introducing new categories and this year we’re building on that in recognition of the breadth of the industry.
  This year there are 23 categories sorted into five
  
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• Design Week Awards 2018 entry deadline extended

  01-03-2018 19:23
  
  You now have a few more weeks to enter the Design Week Awards. We are pleased to announce that the entry deadline has been extended until 27 March – so it’s time to get entering.
  The Design Week Awards give designers the chance to be recognised for achieving design excellence.
  Last year, we rethought our format for the awards by introducing new categories, and now we’re building on that to recognise the breadth of the industry.
  This year, there are 23 categories sorted into fi
  
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• Microsoft announces new updates to protect against Spectre and Meltdown attacks

  01-03-2018 19:08 via zdnet.com
  Additional versions of Windows 10 are now protected from these attacks, and the company announced Intel microcode updates for a small number of vulnerable devices. But incompatible antivirus software remains a problem.
  
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• Mobile app helps first responders quickly and safely assess rail accidents

  01-03-2018 19:03 via zdnet.com
  This program enables firefighters and others to quickly determine if rail cars have potentially hazardous, explosive, or flammable materials.
  
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• Apple takes the lead in wearables market

  01-03-2018 19:01 via zdnet.com
  As Fitbit struggled through its business transformation in Q4, Apple gained momentum with the Series 3 Watch, IDC reports
  
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• GitHub hit with the largest DDoS attack ever seen

  01-03-2018 18:41 via zdnet.com
  DDoS attackers have found a new way of magnifying their attacks, with experts warning that bigger attacks are likely.
  
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• Add a Qi charging mount to your car for $20.99

  01-03-2018 18:23 via zdnet.com
  The best of both worlds: a phone mount and wireless power!
  
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• Optimising the smart office: A marriage of technology and people

  01-03-2018 18:17 via zdnet.com
  As employees become increasingly 'plugged in' to their workspaces and interact with AI-driven systems as part of their jobs, businesses need to ensure that humans are not overwhelmed by all the technology.
  
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• Free PDF download: How to Optimize the Smart Office

  01-03-2018 18:17 via zdnet.com
  This special report from ZDNet and TechRepublic takes a look at how connected devices are changing and improving work spaces. Download the entire report as a free PDF ebook.
  
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• Survey: Smart office tech is widely adopted, but results are mixed for many professionals

  01-03-2018 18:16 via zdnet.com
  In a recent Tech Pro Research poll, 76 percent of respondents said they use some kind of smart office tech, but 35 percent said at least one product didn't meet expectations.
  
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• ​The spy on the corner of your desk: Why the smart office is your next security nightmare

  01-03-2018 18:14 via zdnet.com
  Smart office devices could create a major security headache: do you really know what those gadgets can do?
  
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• Is the logo still the most important part of a brand’s image?

  01-03-2018 18:08
  
  Courtesy of GooglePeople don’t really care about logos anymore, do they? Well, over 18,000 page views might tell a different story.
  I recently shared a post on LinkedIn, which showed the changes to four leading brands’ logos – Google, Airbnb, Spotify and Pinterest – which had previously been shared on Twitter by Oh No Type Company.The recent rebrands of all these companies seemingly followed a trend of moving from characterful to clean, sans-serif styles. I compared
  
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• Microsoft makes more AI programming interfaces available to developers

  01-03-2018 18:03 via zdnet.com
  Microsoft is making available new vision, face recognition and entity search interfaces to developers who want to add more AI smarts to their apps and services.
  
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• Microsoft Brazil changes billing currency to reais

  01-03-2018 18:03 via zdnet.com
  The company wants to make spending "more predictable" to its channel partners
  
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• How To Design Winning Email Newsletters

  01-03-2018 18:02 via webdesignerdepot.com
  https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2018/03/how-to-design-winning-email-newsletters/
  
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• How to write good content as a mediocre UI/UX Designer

  01-03-2018 18:01 via medium.com
  https://medium.com/weareevermore/how-to-write-good-content-as-a-mediocre-ui-ux-designer-design-case-study-f299fcdb199d
  
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• Dropbox inks integration pact with G Suite

  01-03-2018 18:00 via zdnet.com
  Dropbox said it will develop a series of cross-platform integrations that connect G-Suite's cloud tools with the Dropbox collaboration platform.
  
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• 5 design things to look out for in March 2018

  01-03-2018 17:54
  
  Festival: Offset DublinWhat: Three-day design festival Offset Dublin has been running since 2009, and sees 2,500 attendees every year. This time round, visitors can expect to see talks by a wide variety of speakers, including Pentagram’s brother design duo Luke Powell and Jody Hudson-Powell, freelance illustrator Peter Donnelly, who has created folk-art inspired designs for the likes of Zizzi and Mcdonald’s, and The New York Times Magazine’s design director Gail Bichler. Design
  
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• GIF'ted - Turn your movies into animated GIF's

  01-03-2018 17:43 via bitfield.se
  http://www.bitfield.se/gifted/
  
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• Equifax says millions more Americans affected by hack than first thought

  01-03-2018 17:35 via zdnet.com
  An additional 2.4 million Americans have been identified as victims of the company's 2017 breach.
  
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• Turn your iPad or iPod Touch into a dual-SIM mobile phone

  01-03-2018 17:19 via zdnet.com
  The SIMore E-Clips Box is a 3G dual and triple SIM adapter which also allows to use two or three phone numbers active at the same time on your iPhone.
  
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• “Winning a Design Week Award helped us recruit new talent and reach new clients”

  01-03-2018 17:18
  
  The Design Week Awards is open for entries and submitting could help you to recruit top talent, win new business and give your work the credit it deserves.
  We spoke to Method – winners of the Design Week Award 2017 in the website design category – which designed a new digital platform for San Francisco Ballet.
  Method was tasked with creating an online destination that recognised the legacy of what is the longest standing professional ballet company in the US and reconciling this wit
  
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• Trustico compromises own customers' HTTPS private keys in spat with partner

  01-03-2018 17:17 via zdnet.com
  The controversy affects over 23,000 certificate and website owners -- and threatens to undermine trust in the certificate issuing industry.
  
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• What Is the Perfect Color Worth?

  01-03-2018 16:57 via nytimes.com
  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/magazine/what-is-the-perfect-color-worth.html
  
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• Which brands are most successful with everyday influencers?

  01-03-2018 16:53 via zdnet.com
  Engaging with everyday influencers, not celebrities -- but friends, family and colleagues -- is one of the most successful ways to increase brand awareness.
  
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• Samsung Galaxy S9+ beats iPhone X and Pixel 2 to claim top smartphone camera DxOMark Mobile score

  01-03-2018 16:50 via zdnet.com
  According to DxO, the Galaxy S9+ camera "hasn't got any obvious weaknesses and performs very well across all photo and video test categories."
  
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• QVC, HSN, Liberty Interactive's retail brands become Qurate, aim for 'third way to shop'

  01-03-2018 16:37 via zdnet.com
  Liberty Interactive formed Qurate to focus on melding video commerce with other sales channels.
  
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• The uncertain activism of Silicon Valley CEOs

  01-03-2018 16:27 via zdnet.com
  Corporate social responsibility is making a comeback and CEOs have to lead the way according to surveys that show it is very important in retaining workers and customers.
  
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• That London Tube typeface? Look again

  01-03-2018 15:40 via medium.com
  https://medium.com/@glennf/that-london-tube-typeface-look-again-8beaf0d89abb
  
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• Alibaba puts 11-qubits quantum power on public cloud

  01-03-2018 15:11 via zdnet.com
  Together with Chinese Academy of Sciences, Alibaba Cloud has unleashed superconducting quantum computing services on its public cloud, running on a processor with 11 quantum bits of power.
  
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• Egg Shape Background Gradients

  01-03-2018 14:50 via eggradients.club
  http://www.eggradients.club/
  
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• Google spinoff Waymo's 360-degree video: See what it's like to be a self-driving car

  01-03-2018 14:20 via zdnet.com
  Waymo releases video to assure people its autonomous-vehicle technology is safe.
  
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• How to Free Up Hard Disk Space Without Deleting Anything Important

  01-03-2018 14:01 via hongkiat.com
  I once wanted to install a 9GB game on my 20GB system drive with just 1GB free space (was the requirement of the game). With little to no room for deleting any data, I had to look for ways to free up...Visit hongkiat.com for full content.
  
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• Pay What You Want for the Complete iOS 11 Developer Bundle

  01-03-2018 14:00
  Times are tough and everyone is looking for ways to make some extra money. Some people would get a second job while others would do freelance work. But what if we tell you that you can make money by creating an app. Lots of money. The Complete iOS 11 Developer Bundle will guide you through […]
  The post Pay What You Want for the Complete iOS 11 Developer Bundle appeared first on designrfix.com.
  
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• Deciphering SAP's Amazon strategy

  01-03-2018 14:00 via zdnet.com
  With its multi-cloud strategy, the burden of proof is on SAP to demonstrate that its platforms and databases are optimized the cloud that the customer chooses. In recent years, SAP has significantly ramped up its engagement with Amazon to deliver better fit for purpose.
  
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