ICA announces new president and CEO

The Marketing Agencies Association's Scott Knox takes on new combined role

The iPhone 7's new A10 Fusion: quad-core, high-efficiency, and a more powerful GPU

Apple's new A10 Fusion core is a significant step forward for the company on several fronts. It's Apple's first stab at a big.Little concept, with dedicated cores for high performance and high efficiency sharing space on a single SoC.

Redesigning SGS' Seven-Level Navigation System: A Case Study

SGS (formerly Société Générale de Surveillance) is a global service organization and provider of inspection, verification, testing and certification services across 14 industries. SGS' website (along with 60 localized websites) primarily promotes the organization's core services, as well as provides access to a multitude of useful services, supplementary content and tools. Our goal was to transform sgs.com from being desktop-only to being responsive.

This presented a unique set of challenges, especially around the legacy navigation system, which in areas was up to seven levels deep (divided into two parts) and which consisted of some 12,000 individual navigable items.

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Everything you need to know about the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 recall

Even though the chances of fire are small, you should swap out that defective Note 7.

Welcome to the Cyborg Olympics

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Inside H&R Block's summer-long agency search

Sid Lee gets the nod on a brand in transition

The Building Blocks Of Progressive Web Apps

The common wisdom for most companies that set out to build an app is to build a native Android or iOS app, as well as a supporting website. Although there are some good reasons for that, not enough people know about the major advantages of web apps. Web apps can replace all of the functions of native apps and websites at once. They are coming more and more to the fore these days, but still not enough people are familiar with them or adopting them.

Here, you will be able to find some do's and dont's on how to make a progressive web app, as well as resources for further research. I'll also go into the various components and support issues surrounding web apps. Although not every browser is friendly to them, there are still some compelling reasons to learn more about this technology.

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