Steve Jobs, the late co-founder of Apple, indicated that when he started the company, he would have been happy selling a mere 1 percent of the world’s mobile phones. As Apple creeps up in popularity and now dominates 14 percent of the smartphone industry, the company is thriving more fiercely than Jobs could have ever imagined.
Google has introduced a new feature that harnesses the power of a fully integrated platform-to-platform system. As long as your smartphone is running Android and has GPS location enabled, you can now Google “where’s my phone?” and get an accurate answer.
Since Apple and Microsoft both launched their latest products, comparisons have been inevitable. The two tech giants are slowly moving toward the middle, with laptops like the Surface Pro becoming more like tablets, and tablets like Apple’s iPad becoming more like laptops.
October 2015 marked the start of a new era in the world of payment by card. The switch to EMV cards is well underway, and it’s important to be aware of what they are and why the change is being made.
What Does EMV Mean?
EMV stands for EuroPay, MasterCard and VISA. EMV cards are equipped with computer chips that are used for transactions instead of using the traditional strip-swiping method.
On average, it takes less than half a minute for an audience to gauge the worth of a presentation. You heard it right: if people aren’t interested enough, they stop listening before the end of an introduction. When it comes to presentations, first impressions matter.
There are two key advantages to online backups, and whether or not you ultimately need one will depend on how important these two key advantages are to you. For a significant portion of internet users, “The Cloud” represents something hazy and unknown.
Are you one of the users who updated your computer to Windows 10 when you got the offer to get the new OS for free? If you did, you’re not alone. More than a hundred million people around the world have adopted the new platform, making it the fastest adoption of any version of Windows in history.
If you’re scratching your head wondering what to get the gadget lover in your life, check out the ideas below. You’ll be impressed and amazed, and whomever you’re buying for will be blown away by any of the following fantastic gift ideas!
The Amazon Fire HD Tablet
Amazon’s Fire tablet got a lackluster reception when it was first released, and that’s a real shame, because it is an underappreciated device with a lot to offer.
If you’re not a Comcast customer, you may not have heard, but recently, a list of more than half a million Comcast user logins and passwords was found for sale on the Dark Net. Fortunately, a significant portion of those user id’s and passwords were for defunct accounts, but more than 200,000 of them were still active, which prompted Comcast to force a password reset on every account that appeared on the list.
Did you know that Facebook has more than 728 million daily users? They have roughly 1.44 billion monthly active users on top of that as well.
Yeah, that’s quite a breathtaking amount of people, especially if you consider how small they were just a few short years ago.
