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Most modern technology isn’t designed with senior citizens in mind! Most tech gadgets, software, and apps are all created for young people and early adopters. Your grandma isn’t exactly the target market! However, there are certain technological developments that are assisting the care giving industry. In fact, this technology is helping your elderly relatives live longer. It’s also helping them support a better quality of life, and receive adequate health care. In this post, we’re exploring more about this fantastic new lease...

The statistics relating to identity theft paint a grim picture. According to the Federal Trade Commission, identity theft has been the top consumer complaint for 15 years running. Overall, around 7 percent of people aged 16 or older are victims of identity theft, and the FTC receives a whopping 2 million-plus complaints every year. While many people can resolve their cases fairly quickly, 29 percent of victims needed a month or more to take care of the situation, and around 14 percent had an out-of-pocket loss greater than $1. Fortunately,...

Technology is moving at a break-neck speed.  If you think being a master of Java or PowerBuilder is enough and you are safe in your shell coding for your clients, then you are wrong! Being up to date with up and coming technology is a must for any self-respecting programmer and also the only way to move forward in your career. And one such technology that is making a splash is Hadoop. While there may be several other technologies that can be learnt, Hadoop Training is more market relevant than any other. There are quite a few factors...

Data storage can take place in many different shapes, depending on who uses it and for what purpose they are using it for. Whilst individuals will often use their personal hard drives or even cloud storage to store their most important files, businesses have higher needs; often requiring more complex methods of data storage. It is very important for a business to never lose its data, and that data needs to be accessed by different people without getting compromised. In other words, businesses have higher safety and access needs than individuals,...

There are benefits and drawbacks to having a franchise. On the upside, you’re selling goods and services that are instantly recognizable to the consumer. That familiarity means that you have a lighter burden in terms of achieving brand recognition and reputation. Furthermore, you have the support system courtesy of the parent company, so you’re not going it alone. On the downside, franchise contracts can be tough. After all, you’re representing a brand, so you have to make sure that you are conforming one hundred percent...

When a concept comes along that takes the world by storm, there is always the risk of things getting blown out of proportion. It’s easy to take the latest and greatest new technologies and innovations and declare them to be the end all, be all of our existence. And the more traction the subject in question gets, the bigger the stories and misconceptions grow, until an entire mythology builds around it. That’s when things get silly and out of hand, and the world needs someone to come along and pop the balloon, restoring perspective. Well,...

Minimizing system uptime is perhaps one of the biggest concerns of system administrators. The disruption caused and possible costs incurred when a system partially or totally goes down can be a constant worry; equipment and systems falling behind the demands being made on them intensifies the likelihood of downtimes. Steps to take with hardware Preventative maintenance is like having a car inspected and checked over periodically to prevent problems further down the line. Slight costs in maintenance now could prevent larger costs later. A...

Can you remember a time you couldn’t pick up your phone and Google anything? Obviously, that time did exist, but it seems so long ago. That long ago that it is hard to even imagine what life is like. Although it is in the past, looking back and reflecting is sometimes an important process. It keeps us humble and reminds us of what we have now. Regardless of whether that is a positive or negative experience, it is an important one. You No Longer Get Lost With satellite navigation systems, or sat navs as they are more commonly known, it...

In our ever-evolving high-tech world of new concepts, ideas, innovations, and buzzwords, Big Data ranks right up there as one of the more ubiquitous terms. Whether it’s the government, big industries, the world of retail, even the individual or the home-based business, it seems you can’t get away from Big Data. Big Data is, well, big. But when a new concept comes around, it creates two distinct types of people. First you have the people who know what’s going on, the champions of the concept, the ones who understand its...

We are all awaiting the arrival of autonomous cars with excitement. What we once could only imagine when dreaming about the future could soon become a reality. Would you dare to drive in self-driving car? Certainly you would not want to miss opportunity of becoming the part of the future? Even true fans of driving are interested to find out what would it be to let the car be in charge. Just imagine how much more relaxing the driving would be. You could drink coffee, read the newspaper, play games on your smartphone or even put on make-up...