During the California gold rush there were essentially two type businesses; the people who flocked to the state to discover gold and the businesses that supported them. Mining for gold was considered to be the more exciting of the two and provided the possibility for overnight riches, which drew ... Views: 1972
The challenges facing the citizens that want to take action on global warming are many. First and foremost, there’s the fossil fuel industry, which is the single most profitable enterprise in human history. Challenges dovetail off from the industry due to its money to advance their political ... Views: 1767
Each year, government agencies and corporations around the globe step up their efforts to fight malicious code activity. Although this threat has been a problem since the inception of the Internet, the newest trend shows a shift in activity to emerging countries as their Internet infrastructure ... Views: 1564
The powers that be in China, after seeing growth heat up to 11.9 in the first quarter of the year, decided that is cooling down the economy with lending and investment curbs was needed to prevent overheating. These curbs went to work immediately, slowing the growth rate more sharply than ... Views: 1541
A severe drought in the Amazon rain forest last year was worse than the "once-in-a-century" dry spell in which damaged the forest 2005 and may ultimately have a bigger impact on global warming than the United States does in a year, British and Brazilian scientists said on Thursday.
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Since its beginning, the US has led innovation on the internet. In many ways, this spirit of innovation can be used both to maintain our leadership in this area as well as in other areas of high tech and beyond. Despite some of the calls that the internet is destroying businesses, (like music) ... Views: 1521
It wasn’t long ago that start-ups looking for funding would start with the “Big Three” of venture capital firms; Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, and Benchmark and then work down the line until they were able raise the money they needed. While other VC firms have risen to the top shelf, the bigger ... Views: 1509
Just when you thought you had your company resources locked down tight, a new type of security breach rears its ugly head. Social engineering is taking corporate theft to a personal level. Unlike a traditional hacker who works from a remote area to slip through your electronic defenses without ... Views: 1491
The national debt is the amount that the United States has borrowed and is currently paying interest on. The national debt of the U.S. is now over $14 trillion, a number that is larger than the gross domestic product of China, the United Kingdom, and Australia combined.
Here’s a list stats ... Views: 1474
In an age of data explosion, adequate storage is essential. However, finding the right balance between reliability, cost, and performance is difficult. As technology continues to evolve, trends in storage media are moving from localized storage units to distributed arrays that better support ... Views: 1465
We probably didn’t see it coming but the decline of education in the U.S has been crystallized by a book titled “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” written by Amy Chua. The book and its author have come under intense criticism for a tough love on steroids stance on parenting. The book’s premise is ... Views: 1459
The changes being forced on to our economy via the recession and globalization are creating and destroying jobs. The job destruction aspect tends to dominate the headlines due to the fact that there are a many industries where it appears that the jobs that have left are not coming back any time ... Views: 1459
Just a few years ago, both large and small IT departments thought nothing of purchasing expensive equipment at the drop of a hat. A healthy economy and well-funded budgets meant that additional storage space was never a primary concern. In the current business climate, the situation has come ... Views: 1408
As IT best practices are rapidly transitioning from good ideas to legal requirements, companies are finding that retaining and archiving business-related communications is a necessity as opposed to a nice-to-have. To be clear, archiving is not the same as backing up your email server. A backup ... Views: 1351
Selecting a satellite provider to meet your telecommunication needs can be a complicated process. Because this market satisfies a diverse set of requirements, it’s important to carefully evaluate each option before making a final decision. Here is a set of considerations to keep in mind when ... Views: 1350
The people at Google, who have always bent over backward to avoid the “evil” tag applied to Microsoft, have apparently decided that a little evil is ok if it means control of the internet. As announced with Verizon, the policy framework they are proposing would be the first giant step toward the ... Views: 1345
The importance of setting goals when you start your own venture will play a critical role in determining whether the business you are launching succeeds or fails. It’s the same for top athletes, people that are successful in business and anyone else that has reached the top of their field. In ... Views: 1335
As any refined collector will tell you, collecting is not about quantity; it’s about quality. Collecting gold coins is as much an art as acquiring rare paintings or furniture. It requires a knowledge not only of the market, but the items themselves. Pre-1933 gold coins are not only the best ... Views: 1330
It’s hard to imagine which statistics U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was looking at when he wrote an article for the New York Times called "Welcome to the Recovery". The article pointed to improvements in the U.S. economy was making while ignoring a host of statistics which show a ... Views: 1267
It’s not over yet in housing as the recent July sales reports of new and resale homes hit lows not seen for three years. The July numbers were off by twenty percent from the previous month in Southern California with other reports showing similar declines as new and re-sale home sales fell ... Views: 1219
Even the most innovative computer system accomplishes nothing without an application to run. However, the programs that make up any application can make the enterprise vulnerable to either internal or external security risks. Implementing solid software security assurance (SSA) plans allow ... Views: 1129
If you have been pitched on variable annuities by your broker, financial advisor, or life insurance agent, you’ve already heard everything that is good about them. The sales pitch normally includes benefits such as tax deferral, income for life, and downside protection from market fluctuations. ... Views: 1106
Since its beginning, the US has led innovation on the internet. In many ways, this spirit of innovation can be used both to maintain our leadership in this area as well as in other areas of high tech and beyond. Despite some of the calls that the internet is destroying businesses, (like music) ... Views: 1045
While the hardware required to store massive amounts of data becomes cheaper with each passing year, the resulting explosion of stored data content means that companies are forced to devise innovative new ways to meet the challenges of processing this ever-growing wealth of information. Simply ... Views: 1002
Each year, government agencies and corporations around the globe step up their efforts to fight malicious code activity. Although this threat has been a problem since the inception of the Internet, the newest trend shows a shift in activity to emerging countries as their Internet infrastructure ... Views: 993
As the affordability of healthcare spins away from most Americans the statistics surrounding the healthcare industry paint a couple of pictures; one of a populace that increasingly requires healthcare, the other of institutionalized care designed to generate immense profits while impoverishing ... Views: 955
Spam, named after the canned meat that has been the butt of many jokes, is the mass sending of unsolicited emails. It clutters email inboxes, makes it hard to find legitimate communications, eats bandwidth, consumes mass amounts of storage, and irritates the computer user. If the computer user ... Views: 939
A Wireless Distribution System (WDS) allows different computers and other hardware, known as access points, to connect using wireless radio frequency links.
Anthony Ricigliano Wireless Distribution System is the name of the wireless connection used for the IEEE 802.11 standard network. ... Views: 843
The invention of email attachments back in 1996 changed the way that we communicate as well as the way that we view the internet. With the advent of such a system, people started wielding the ability to easily send out properly formatted documents to their email contacts with a very little ... Views: 751
One of the main issues for health care in general and for the survival of the Medicare system is caring for our fast-aging population. Most middle-aged Americans can now expect to live into their 80's and even 90's. This is good news for the baby boomers but with that added longevity often comes ... Views: 726
The national debt is the amount that the United States has borrowed and is currently paying interest on. The national debt of the U.S. is now over $14 trillion, a number that is larger than the gross domestic product of China, the United Kingdom, and Australia combined.
Here’s a list stats ... Views: 725
The internet is changing just about everything it touches including starting a business. If you’ve lost a job recently or are just trying to make some extra money, starting a business on the internet may provide an answer.
The great thing is starting a business on the internet is can be done ... Views: 720
Time management is more than just setting a schedule and then sticking to it. Many people see time management as the setting of a list of rules that involve scheduling of appointments, goal setting, thorough planning, creating to-do lists and prioritizing activities. While these would be ... Views: 709
Advances in communication technology have made a variety of cost-effective features available to companies of all sizes. These newly available features provide benefits including greater productivity and flexibility for employees and enhanced reporting for the business. The following is a list ... Views: 708
The job landscape in the US has been in the process of dramatic change, even prior the start of the recession. Two of the main reasons that these jobs are disappearing are advances in technology and the opportunity for companies to outsource work to offshore locales where labor costs are a ... Views: 694
As tensions, demonstrations, and unrest play out across the Middle East, the possibility of oil related terrorism has increased. Here are the three biggest choke points in the region. Any violent activity at any of these locations could send oil prices soaring.
The Strait of Hormuz – Located ... Views: 684
Voice over Internet Protocol – a.k.a. VoIP – is taking the business world by storm. While larger companies are slower at shifting their communication departments to the technology, the much more agile small business owner has embraced VoIP as a solution for increased productivity at cut-rate ... Views: 670
The greatest benefit of starting your own business is that it’s all yours. You have the freedom to work the hours you want, decide on the work to be done each day, and run your schedule to your choosing. A second substantial benefit of starting an your own business is that, like many successful ... Views: 663
Many small businesses are taking the opportunity to go green for a variety of reasons including social responsibility and the approval of customers. There is also the potential for company-wide green initiatives to cut costs and improve the bottom line. Prior to deciding on what types of actions ... Views: 661
According to a report from Reuters News Service the North Atlantic current, which delivers warm water to the Arctic Ocean, is recording high temperatures at levels not seen in the last 2000 years. The finding is another signpost of global warming as the temperature change is now likely to result ... Views: 661
In President Obama’s weekly address, he mentioned a visit he made to Penn State this week to learn about energy-efficient technologies at the school's Energy Innovation Hub. He specifically mentioned how researchers and students are designing more energy-efficient buildings as they move toward a ... Views: 642
In an age of data explosion, adequate storage is essential. However, finding the right balance between reliability, cost, and performance is difficult. As technology continues to evolve, trends in storage media are moving from localized storage units to distributed arrays that better support ... Views: 641
In exempting up to twenty industrial facilities from new federal controls on air pollution and the gases blamed for global warming, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has signaled that the Obama administration does not have the political will to move aggressively on any kind of global ... Views: 627
While most companies have several security defenses in place to guard against threats, such as firewalls and antiviral software, a very important question is still left on the table: Exactly how effective are these measures? Although it is a deceptively simple question, every company must find ... Views: 620
In order to protect company resources, every business, both large and small, must implement a network access policy to secure both confidential information and core computer systems. If this task is ignored, the net effect is to implement a network access policy that grants full permissions to ... Views: 604
The recent algorithm changes by Google, namely Panda and Penguin, have set forth a “punch list” of what the search engine wants from an SEO campaign. The beauty of these revelations is that what they want now is pretty much what they’ve wanted all along. The bad news, at least for some of the ... Views: 601
According to U.S. government calculations, the unemployment rate had a huge drop down to 9% in January. The headline number indicated that maybe the worst is over and that America is hiring again. A look at a couple of numbers inside the report took the air out of the report pretty quickly and ... Views: 598
As reported recently in the Wall Street Journal, a study of prescription patterns in 2009, conducted by IMS Health, showed that 25 percent of children in the U.S. were on regular medication. According to the study, 45 million children are taking asthma medications, 24 million are taking ADHD ... Views: 597
Computing in the cloud is a natural progression for streamlining and obtaining cost effectiveness with regard to all computer functions for modern business operations. By using cloud computing, a business can access equipment, programs and technical personnel at a fraction of the cost of trying ... Views: 595
If you starting a new business, the beginning of a new venture that provides a fantastic opportunity should be accompanied by a bunch of excitement and anticipation, right? Setting your goals, developing your strategy, an imagining your life once you’ve achieved what you set out do should have ... Views: 587