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With tales of phone hacking making their way into the news cycle recently, improving online and mobile security is once again at the top of everyone’s to-do list. Phone hacking can involve hacking into your voicemail, your live conversations, or the data stored on your phone. Malicious phone hacking software can gather your bank account details, personal emails, or other ...

In 2009, an electronic currency named Bitcoin was created to make online transactions that much safer and smoother. After years of expansion and support for the idea, there are now Bitcoin ATM machines in areas of Canada and major retailers accept Bitcoin as an acceptable method of payment. The influx of support over its introduction to the world five years ...

Sony created ripples in the tech world after it announced the launching of its new “smartphone for selfies”, a new phone with a 5 megapixel front-facing camera including a soft flash along with a usual 8 megapixel back camera. This phone is clearly targeted at the new selfie culture and Sony, with its advanced digital imaging technology and enhanced camera ...

The great majority of the world’s electricity supplies around the globe are still generated from traditional energy sources such as coal, oil and natural gas. With an ever increasing population and greater than ever reliance on fossil fuels to power our modern lives, the need for clean energy technologies has never been so great. This is why environmentalists are urging ...

With today’s innovation in technology and office solutions, there are a lot of ways to improve business productivity while saving the environment. With the looming threat of Global Warming, corporate social responsibility is now a priority for all large businesses and the market for eco-friendly office solutions has never been so packed with options. ENERGY STAR, a U.S. Environmental Protection ...

Before you sell or dispose your computer, you should clean it of sensitive documents and data. To be 100% safe, you should wipe your computer even if you plan on keeping it around in your closet or garage to guard against the risk of information theft in case your computer falls in the wrong hands. Deleting sensitive documents, reformatting your ...

by Unhindered by Talent Is there anything that modern technology doesn’t affect? It was a question prompted by our recent piece on how technology is moulding the modern office [an internal link might be useful here]. I mean, if businesses can be made more efficient, if people can have mechanical hearts implanted in to their bodies, if 3D printers can produce ...

Marketing is an integral part of building a business and is focused entirely on communication. In fact, it has the power to make or break a brand entirely depending on the approach or rather lack of thereof. Traditional marketing strategies have evolved over time to adapt to the needs of the consumers and technology has played a huge role in ...

 by  twm1340  The Terminator needs no introduction to gamers. Since Arnold Schwarzenegger first hit our screens as the cyborg assassin sent from the future (2029 to be exact) to assassinate Sarah Connor, the whole thing has grown into a genre all of its own it seems. In fact, “The Terminator” wasn’t really expected to do all that well at the box ...

Amazon Web Services Gateway Amazon Web Services (AWS) are hailed by some as the new wave in application design and information management. These web services provide clients with access to Amazon’s full network, and they provide simple building blocks that anyone can use to customize the right technological package they need. With high speed computing, a huge amount of storage ...