Category: Technology

Easy-To-Understand Suggestions And Advice For Search Engine Optimization

May 26, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

TIP! As you build an SEO page, try not to be fooled into thinking about advertising as a primary tool. It brings in new traffic, but doesn’t affect rank. Search engine optimization techniques are vital to help your site rise above the hundreds of others you’ll be competing against. Search engines are the real information superhighway these days, and people are more likely to visit sites near convenient exits. Use this article to make sure the website they find on a search engine is yours! TIP! For a good affiliate marketing strategy set up pay-per-click advertising. It’s true that the amount paid per click is a relatively small amount, but this can quickly accumulate into sizable earnings and it’s an easy…

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Easy-To-Understand Suggestions And Advice For Search Engine Optimization

Microsoft Releases User Experience Virtualization 2.1 Beta

May 26, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

The virtual desktop solution gains Office 2013 and Windows 8 support, along with enhanced user setting roaming, backup and restore features. Following on the heels of the Desktop Optimization Pack 2014 release, Microsoft has announced a beta of the user settings management component, called User Experience Virtualization (UE-V). Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) is the software giant’s desktop virtualization and management toolset. Mainstream corporate adoption of smartphones and tablets make it less likely that users will rush to their laptops and desktop PCs for all of their computing needs. The downside is inconsistent settings across devices that can impede productivity. – See more at: http://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/microsoft-releases-user-experience-virtualization-2.1-beta.html#sthash.VhLQPWez.dpuf To learn more and to read the entire article at its …

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Microsoft Releases User Experience Virtualization 2.1 Beta

A Dog-Tracking Gizmo With a Novel Networking Technology

May 26, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

The next-gen Whistle dog tracker will be among the first products to tap into an emerging low-power cellular network. Image: Whistle Wi-Fi blankets our homes; speedy cell networks keep us connected everywhere else. Bluetooth Low Energy is poised to bring an unprecedented degree of locational awareness to our devices. Still, no single technology will be adequate for powering the whole of the internet of things. Tomorrow’s smart devices will need to be wirelessly multilingual, able to communicate not just many different networks but many different kinds of networks. They’ll need to be selective in their connectivity, tapping different technologies for different tasks to balance performance and battery life. In other words, they’ll need to be as clever as this doggie activity…

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A Dog-Tracking Gizmo With a Novel Networking Technology

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Data Discovery Technology Nets DataPad $1.7 Million

May 26, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Take a guy who literally wrote the book on Python programming tools and add some of venture capitals’ top investors and you have the recipe for DataPad, a new data discovery technology vendor that just raised $1.7 million. DataPad was founded in 2013 by Wes McKinney, who wrote “Python for Data Analysis” (believe me, it’s apparently a big deal among Python programmers) and creator of Pandas, and Chang She, who was a core developer of Pandas and a former data science instructor at Columbia University. Since its launch the two have managed to wrangle $1.7 million in very early stage funding from big name investors including Accel Partners, Google Ventures, a16z Seed Fund, SV Angel, Ludlow Ventures, and angel investors including Jeff Hammerbacher, Tom …

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Data Discovery Technology Nets DataPad $1.7 Million

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The Specs On This 1970 IBM Mainframe Will Remind You Just How Far Technology Has Come

May 26, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

IBM maintains an awesome archive of its history, collecting various documents and media it’s released since being founded in 1911. We were especially intrigued by this 1970 press release singing the praises of System/370 Model 145, a mainframe computer that was state of the art at the time of its inception. It had 500 KB of RAM, 233 megabytes of hard disk space, and ran at 2.5 MHz. It took up an entire room. Nowadays, this computer would be able to store a small collection of photos and (slowly) access them. Not much else! You could double its 32,000 characters of control storage to 64,000 by “using a portion of main memory, if needed, to accommodate optionally available functions.” Adjusted for inflation, this computer would cost you between $4.3 million and $10.8 million in …

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The Specs On This 1970 IBM Mainframe Will Remind You Just How Far Technology Has Come