Google Glass is expected to hit the retail market in 2014. It is a device intended to help all parts of our daily lives. Doctors can wear it while doing surgery and…
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Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud at a fraction of a cost for traditional computing
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is part of Amazon Web Services (AWS). It allows users such as small CPU and memory instances to rent virtual computers at a cost of approximately $15…
What is going on with Google Wallet?
Many expect mobile payment will grow to about $90 billion by 2017 from last year’s estimated use of $12.8 billion. Successful players in the mobile payment market include PayPal and Square. In…
Google’s Android is everywhere
A recent publication revealed that Google’s Android is the No. 1 operating system in smartphones and tablets worldwide. When it comes to mobile handsets, devices more specifically smartphones that runs on Android…
Booming cybersecurity business
Among security threats faced by the nation terrorism and cyberattacks by anonymous hackers are considered as most concerned events. Among these two threats, cyberattacks are costing the nation over $250 billion a…
The U.S. Government to help low-income households to connect to the Internet
In 2010, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) estimated that two-thirds of the country has been provided with broadband and challenged the industry to connect the rest of the country. It also…
Instagram new policy prompt outrage
Instagram, the online photo-sharing site’s new user agreement is scheduled to go into effect on January 16, 2013. When Instagram announced in mid-December that it is changing provisions of its user agreement…
Google+ Local to replace Google Places
Google recently replaced Google Places with Google+ Local. Local businesses should become familiar with the new service and learn how to use it. Google+ Local can be found on “Local” tab in…
Amazon Prime to Compete with Netflix
The online retail and marketing behemoth, Amazon.com has started a new $7.99 a month service called Amazon Prime, a service mainly to compete directly with Netflix Instant, and to some extent with…
Battle to grab a domain name heating up
More than a decade ago, the U.S. government privatized the responsibility to issue domain names. The Los Angeles, California based non-profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) assumed the responsibility…