Snowden: The Year’s Most Influential Tech Figure (via slashdot)
Lots of CEOs, entrepreneurs, and developers made headlines in 2013—but in hindsight, Edward Snowden will likely stand as this year’s most influential figure in technology. In June, Snowden began feeding top-secret documents detailing the National…
How safe are your online memories? (via Pando Daily)
By Stuart Jeffrey On December 27, 2013 How many of your cherished memories, and even important work documents, only exist online? Taken together, photo and video sharing sites, blogging and microblogging sites, as well as social media, have formed an…
NSA diverted computers and laptops from shipping facilities to install spyware (via Raw Story )
Der Spiegel reported on Sunday that the NSA’s “Tailored Access Operations” (TAO) has been diverting desktops and laptops shipped to U.S. consumers and installing spyware on them. According to the report, the process, which TAO calls “interdiction…
The combination of various marketing automation tools provides a comprehensive solution for marketing and sales in a business. These tools provide a high degree of automation and are highly effective in obtaining and moving leads through the sales cycle. However, the business has to make the optimum use of this technology to achieve the best results.
Marketing automation tools are able to automate largely many important tasks, which are quite labor intensive. The automation process usually comprises of building targeted lists, identifying quality leads, executing email-marketing campaigns, measuring behavior of leads, segmenting leads according to scores and activity, routing best leads to CRM, nurturing warm leads, and analyzing the marketing and sales performance along with ROI. [Read more…] about What Do Marketing Automation Tools Entail?
Telepathwords Makes Passwords Hard to Guess (via slashdot)
Microsoft has posted a free online tool designed to check the security of passwords, or recommend more secure passwords that are also easier to type. Traditional rules requiring that “secure” passwords be case sensitive, include upper- and lower…
From the ashes of Nokia, Jolla emerges with a new mobile offer (via Pando Daily)
By Barry Avery On November 29, 2013Starting a new mobile phone company in today’s competitive market could be seen as a suicidal business plan, but a new smartphone announced this week may have some features that make it appealing. Finland’s Jolla…
