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TalentZoo's DigitalPivot
A Lead Blogger for DigitalPivot, Jessica N. Abraham provided Talent Zoo’s tech-centric portal with fresh news on technology, digital gadgetry and mobile technology trends, introducing the world to innovation and tools that have since shifted the world as we know it!-
The First Smart Teddy Hits the Markets
Previously Published to TalentZoo’s Digital Pivot Ted…Snuggles…Teddy Ruxpin…The Care Bears. We all fell in love with these popular teddies because they had minds of their own, they spoke to us, and they “wanted to be our friend.” While Ted’s fictional role in two movies allowed him to completely speak his mind and interact with humans as Snuggles did in laundry commercials, most of our other furry friends were one-way speakers and nothing more than a novelty. We could tell our teddies all the secrets in the world, and they would never tell. They had no other function aside from a pull string or the flip of a cassette tape. After…
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Facebook Announces Major Design Changes
Previously Published to TalentZoo’s Digital Pivot Stay tuned. Facebook is getting a major facelift, and we will start seeing some of those changes within the next few weeks. According to Wednesday’s public announcement on Facebook’s blog-style newsroom, Facebook is changing the way that we currently view Facebook pages…especially on a mobile device. With a claim that Facebook profile pages are accessed over four billion times daily, it’s no wonder that they would want to keep their users engaged and open to new experiences. They realized that accessing a standard Facebook page has led to a very limited encounter and not-so-intimate experience. Fed up, they went back to the drawing boards.…
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‘Paws’ For a Minute: New App Makes Owning a Pet Just a Little Bit Simpler
Previously Published to TalentZoo’s Digital Pivot Proving there is an app for everything, a new pet-sitting and dog-walking app has launched in the greater Los Angeles area and is making life just a little bit easier for the average pet owner in the region. As Los Angeles continues to be one of the top cities to relocate to for career opportunities, there continue to be pet owners who are in need of a little help when work responsibilities overlap personal lives. Ensuring a quality life for our furry-footed loved ones could be not only beneficial to them but also guilt-free for us. Walkio, a web-based mobile application and database, provides instant…
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App Introduces the Globe to New Multi-layer Video Editing Features
Previously Published to TalentZoo’s Digital Pivot Only available on high-end smartphones, KineMaster, a premium mobile application for video editing, is now toting new and exciting features that will set them even further apart in the digital video marketplace. Sure to beat out any chance at competition, NexStreaming announced late last night that KineMaster “now supports video layer features for creating picture-in-picture and split-screen effects with the newly released version 3.1. While KineMaster 3.0 was released last August, featuring a new UI design concept and support for multi-layer text and images, the new video layer feature can display multiple videos at the same time on a single screen and is widely…
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Microsoft Releases Office 2016 Today, New Features Aimed at Collaboration
Previously Published to TalentZoo’s Digital Pivot Microsoft Office 2016 is released today, September 22, 2015, aimed at staying ahead of trends relating to virtual workers and globally dispersed teams. Their reason: “How people work has changed dramatically. But, one constant is that everyone wants to get more out of every moment of their life — after all, our time is the scarcest commodity.” Thus, the “reinvention of productivity,” as they proclaim it. Understanding that most professionals are mobile and that many are even workaholics, Microsoft has vowed to continue making allowances for cross-device platform access in allowing freedom from previously bound means of productivity. No one will be stuck “waiting to get…
