After being the big dog of
search engines for more than a decade, Google has decided to change its
corporate moniker to Alphabet. After 17 years of building a $400 billion business
that controls everything from the world's most popular search engine (Google)
to the world's most popular video portal (YouTube), to life extension research
firm (Calico), to self-driving car developer and a host of other acquisitions,
Larry Page and Sergey Brin have decided to rename their enterprise. Add
to that the fact that CEO Page has turned the reins of Google over to Sundar
Pinchai, and many people both in the Internet and on the stock market are
wondering what's going to happen next. Even before the soup has cooled,
rumors are swirling that Google is interested in acquiring yet more companies,
including everything from Twitter to a company that makes pocket toy
satellites. So if you are wondering if Google intends to make Alphabet
Soup of their company, let’s give the pot a stir.
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How to Safely Whet Your Appetite for Smartphone Apps
By Hector
Cisneros
Does the
public’s uncontrollable appetite for free smartphone apps also make you
vulnerable? Right now there are approximately 4,000,000 apps combined that are
available in the top four app stores. Are these apps being checked before being
released to the public? Are we vulnerable as users by downloading free apps on
our smart phones? Could we be compromising our security and financial
information by using these apps? In this episode you will learn the truth about
using free apps, how to stay safe, and what to look for when deciding “to get
an app for that”. So stay tuned and turn onto this week’s Working The Web To
Win and learn “how to safely whet your appetite” for smart phone apps.
Is it Time to Fire the Postman?
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| Courtesy of pixy.org |
As far back as the 19th century, when the telegraph
came into vogue, people have been looking for a better way to deliver
information and goods more efficiently than the US Postal Service. Today's
wired world has created a myriad of electronic delivery systems that do
everything from rendering payment, to delivering messages and even packages at
the click of a mouse. In today’s blog, I intend to delve into a number of
innovative, cost effective delivery options to the USPS, as well as the
possibility that in the near future the post office could very well be as dead
as the dodo bird.
What's up With Windows 10
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| Courtesy of Microsoft.com |
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
By Hector Cisneros
Ready or not, Windows 10 is finally here. We all know that
Windows 8 was a bust. Its ill conceived design, cost Microsoft in a big way. Windows
8 was so bad that Microsoft had to re-release Windows 7 on new PC’s, even after
it had withdrawn version 7 from the market.
I am sure that Microsoft even had to back burner other initiatives while
they hurried to fix this problem. So why should you look at Windows 10? Why place
trust in Microsoft? Why not switch to Apple IOS of Google Chrome? Even the way Microsoft released their new operating
system gave cause for alarm by sneaking it in as an update that showed up on your
“Task Bar” displaying a Windows symbol! In
this article we will explore our first impression of Windows 10, uncensored. We’ll
look at the “good, the bad and the ugly” of what we have found and pass that information
on to you, our loyal readers. So let’s get started.
The Doc in the eBox
As healthcare grows ever more expensive and complicated, more and more people are turning to the Internet for everything from diagnosis to treatment options. More telling still is the fact that doctors are also using the web for everything from consultation to telesurgery. Even computer giant IBM has anted up, retooling their Jeopardy winning Watson computer into Dr. Watson the diagnostician. For those of us who lead active lives, not to mention the mobility impaired, turning to the doc in the “eBox” can not only save time, but lives.
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