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Tech 101
10 Signs You're Computer Illiterate
Computing and the web are changing at a rapid pace. The vast expanse of the digital world can be tough to tackle when there’s so much material to know. Chances are...
By: Michelle Greenlee | Contributor
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Emerging Technology
What the $#@! Is Fintech?!
Fintech, a portmanteau of “financial technology,” has been disrupting the financial services domain for some time. While for the smartphone-savvy, it means a new and...
By: Kaushik Pal | Contributor
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IT Business Alignment
What You Should Know About Service-Level Agreements
A lot of individual consumers have never heard of a service-level agreement (SLA), or if they have, it’s been hidden, unnoticed, in the fine print of a signup form...
By: Justin Stoltzfus | Contributor, Reviewer
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Internet
Web Analytics: Terms You Need To Know
There's an old saying in advertising: "Half of all advertising is wasted. You just never know which half." Traditionally, it's been hard for businesses to know when...
By: Techopedia Staff
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IT Business Alignment
The Awakening of Ambient Intelligence
Ambient intelligence (also known as "ubiquitous computing") refers to electronic network technology that pervades physical environments to the extent that they...
By: Colyn Emery
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Emerging Technology
The 10 Most Important Hadoop Terms You Need to Know and Understand
Big data, the catchy name for massive volumes of structured, unstructured or semi-structured data, is notoriously difficult to capture, store, manage, share, analyze and...
By: Kaushik Pal | Contributor
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Emerging Technology
5 Nature-Imitating Technologies
There are many different ways that one can define art. But, above all else; art is artificial. And since its origins, art has always reflected or symbolized nature in...
By: Colyn Emery
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Emerging Technology
5 of Technology’s Most Beautiful Mistakes
She or he who has never fallen has never climbed. It’s a saying that rings truer and truer the more life experience one gains. We live in an age of technological marvel,...
By: Colyn Emery
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Tech 101
Tech Terms You Ought to Know
Norman Rockwell’s nostalgic vision of the American Dream calls for the nuclear family and a roast chicken on every Sunday dinner table. Turns out it wasn’t...
By: Melissa Rudy
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Cryptocurrency
What the $#@! Is Bitcoin?!
What other currency garners as much attention as bitcoin? Chances are you don’t hear that much about the U.S. dollar or China’s renimbi, but bitcoin news seems to have a...
By: Robert Springer
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Emerging Technology
10 Tech Acronyms You Must Know
The technology industry loves its acronyms. Terms like HTML, GUI, SSL, HTTP, Wi-Fi, RAM, and LAN have been so common for so long that even the average user understands...
By: Melissa Rudy
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Personal Tech
How to Cut the Cord - Illegally
While there are plenty of ways to get TV and movies legally on your devices, there are some reasons why you might want to resort to getting illegal copies of them. Or,...
By: David Delony | Contributor
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