Buzzwords and Jargon

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  Internet

  Jedi Strategies for Social Media Management

  Whether you call it social media management (SMM) or social media marketing (also SMM), many businesses are very interested in having it. Creating and maintaining a...

  By: Andrew Beattie

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  Personal Tech

  An Introduction to Application Software

  Whether creating a presentation for work, searching for a mate or just wanting to find out where to buy a box of Girl Scout cookies, there’s probably an app out...

  By: Tara Struyk

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  Technology Trends

  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

  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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  IT Business

  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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  Technology Trends

  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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  Technology Trends

  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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  Watercooler

  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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  Technology Trends

  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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  Technology Trends

  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