Tagattitude Introduces Mobile Banking for Rural Areas
At a recent Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona, Spain, the old and obsolete Nokia mobile phone took center stage. A small French firm explained that this type of cellular phone is being used for mobile bankingin areas [...]
Intel Includes Apache Hadoop in Their Product Offering
Intel has recently made available Apache Hadoop for organizations who want to take advantage of a secure, hardware-accelerated, and open-source big data analysis foundation. The said software is intended for global release.
In a press conference, Intel VP and GM of the Intel Architecture Group’s Datacenter [...]
If All You’re Doing In The Cloud Is Saving Money, You’re Doing It Wrong
By Nelson Nahum
Many people look at the cloud as a way of reducing costs (no capital expenses, no real estate, no hardware management, etc.) While the cloud does offer real advantages when it comes to cost reduction, the real game-changers in the cloud are how expenditures are used and the agility the Cloud [...]
Advantages and Disadvantages of BYOD
For those who follow the latest technology news, it is very common to read “BYOD” or Bring-Your-Own Device. The term has become popular due to the proliferation of mini-laptops, tables, and smartphones in the market today. Business owners are even mulling the idea of implementing their own Bring-Your-Own Device policy because a lot of [...]
Overcoming Limitations and Exploiting Opportunities of Crowdsourcing
Over the past few years, crowdsourcinghas received a lot of attention as it proved to be a solution for business and organizational needs in a geographically-unaffected distributed workforce that can complete any task on demand and at scale. There have been numerous examples of paid crowd work being able to improve [...]