We’ve all received them: unsolicited messages about cheap prescription drugs, dating sites or business opportunities involving mysterious foreign nationals and the transfer of millions of dollars. But although it’s easy enough to hit “delete” on that spam email, each of these messages actually forms part of a major industry brewing under the surface. To shed […]
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Standalone GPS vs. Google Maps or Waze on Smartphone: Which to Use?
Not too long ago traveling by car in a new area meant consulting unwieldy print maps, stopping to ask locals for directions or even just making educated guesses and hoping you eventually reach your destination. But with the proliferation of devices that receive GPS signals, the game has radically changed. At their most basic level, […]
Godaddy vs. Bluehost: Which Web Hosting Company is Better?
When you’re looking for cheap, reliable web hosting for a self hosted website, several names inevitably come up, two of the most prominent being Bluehost and Godaddy. But at this basic level of shared hosting does it really matter that much which host you pick? Overall, although many of the features are quite similar, there […]
Facebook Now Tracking Offline Purchases: Useful Innovation or Privacy Invasion?
Facebook recently inked a new partnership deal with a data metrics company called Datalogix. The goal? To keep track of Facebook users who see ads and then later go on to purchase particular items from brick-and-mortar stores. This move represents a fascinating development in the field of advertising analytics but also a concern for privacy […]
What’s the Business Model and Outlook for Dropbox?
With just about everyone in agreement that the future of computing is “in the cloud,” the personal cloud storage market, encompassing such services as Apple’s iCloud, Google Drive and Windows SkyDrive, will only continue to heat up in the next couple of years. Although there are some distinctions, such as file clouds, device clouds and […]
What Are the Current 3G and 4G Technologies? WiMax vs. LTE
WiMax, which stands for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, is an IEEE standard for wide or metropolitan area networks (with the name of 802.16). As a wide area network (WAN), it provides network coverage to a very large area, offering high-speed data access. It uses point-to-multipoint architecture, which is a one-to-many connection. The […]