Buzzwords and Jargon

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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 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 Rockwell, but...

  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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  Personal Tech

  How to Cut the Cord on Cable TV - Legally

  If you want to cut the cord and don't want to be a pirate, what can you do? It turns out that there are plenty of ways to get your TV fix without forking over the money...

  By: David Delony | Contributor