The update cycle of consumer electronics can make a mess of your Kickstarter plans, but one new project that just launched is designed to provide a useful products that remains useful no matter what changes come down the road, in terms of modes of connectivity or hardware design.
The company, which was founded by classmates at a computer engineering college program in Singapore, indexes several dozen of the top e-commerce sites online and provides a self-serve API so developers can tap into its constantly updated database of consumer products.
Italy's Autorità garante della concorrenza e del mercato, roughly equivalent to this America's FTC, has fined Apple and Samsung a total of $15 million for the companies' practice of forcing updates on consumers that may slow or break their devices.
So Pinterest needs to continually update its array of consumer and advertiser products in order to keep advertisers spending money on Pinterest campaigns — and not just from their "innovation" budgets.
As Variety noted, before these most recent MoviePass updates, 49percentt of consumers felt positively about the company, but by last week, the figure had risen to 59 percent a sign that, after digging its own grave, MoviePass might somehow actually be crawling out of it.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York just released updated statistics: "About $1.12 trillion of consumer debt is currently delinquent, with $824 billion seriously delinquent".
Apple also updated just about every piece of consumer software it makes, and all those updates were available today, and they were all free for existing users and anyone buying a new Mac or iOS device.
This update actually introduces a number of consumer-facing updates that finally bring some of Firefox's features up to par with Google's Chrome.
"We found it to be particularly useful for banks because they have a large amount of data that is rapidly updating and there are a lot of consumer security concerns with online banking that make it a good fit for automatic vulnerability mitigation software like CLEAR," says Jacobs.
