In the past, people who are in need of a huge sum of money to fund a startup, a huge project, or a brand new commercial product, would have no other options besides applying for a loan or shopping their ideas to investors. But with the advent of crowdfunding, even college students who are coding…
#prayforkobe trended the day Kobe Bryant tore his Achilles. At least a several hundreds of thousands of Lakers fans vowed to pray everyday for Kobe until he recovers from what has been determined to be the worst injury of his career. Bryant, through the post game interview, said he knew immediately it was a torn…
There used to be a time when Global Positioning System (GPS) was a technology exclusive to the military. Even when they opened it up for public use, only the really experienced navigators and travelers had any use for them. But nowadays, the technology became more mainstream and people started finding new uses for it. Like…
The cloud is proving to be one of the technologies that have a potential to change a broad range of industries for the better, as the cloud has applications – both practical and functional – for just about anything that relies on data and its access. The TV Industry has only recently started to realize…
Facebook seems to have two different timeline layouts now. My professional FB account has all the updates on the right and the basic info on the left. My personal account still uses the very controversial two column timeline. I am not sure what exactly is going on but I am sure that this is all…
Over the past few decades, there have been many attempts to adopt various technologies for tourism development, but very few have managed to become successful. Most of them are mostly limited to pilot projects or uncompleted prototypes. But one key sector in tourism that has been largely receptive to new technology is the hotel industry,…
Now that cloud computing technology has already gone past the infancy stages, many industries have already realized the benefits it provides, and have already started adopting and integrating the technology to their businesses. One key sector that stands to benefit a lot from the cloud is marketing, as it has the ability to drastically change…
For the United Arab Emirates, the main type of risk being associated with cloud technology is legal risks, which basically means issues that could expose a provider or user to legal liabilities as it pertains to the country in which they operate. While the UAE doesn’t really have an extensive set of laws, policies,…
Cloud technology is already past the infancy stage, and is now being used by many companies in optimizing their asset utilization and flexibility while also reducing operating costs in manpower, hardware, and software areas of the business. Unlike many technological advancements in the IT sector during the past couple of decades, Cloud technology is more…
Israel has always had a great reputation as one of the best hubs of software innovation in the world, and so it is not a surprise that Israeli companies are also some of the early entrants into the cloud computing space. The cloud computing scene in Israel is made up of traditional fields of expertise…