All Posts Tagged With: "technology"

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Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) Using Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) TelePresence Systems to Improve Team Collaboration

Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) has just announced it’s agreement with Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) to install 200 units of Cisco TelePresence systems across the bank’s global operations by the end of the year. The units will allow Bank of America associates around the globe to communicate on a face-to-face level – almost as if they [...]
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Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWX) Challenges Students to “Crack the Code”

Middle school students in California, New York, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Idaho, Maine, Arizona and Wisconsin are participating in the “Cracking the Codes in the Digital World” technology curriculum. Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWX) and Invent Now, Inc., a company which creates programs for students and inventors [...]
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Options for Sharing Files & Photos Online While Maintaining Your Privacy

It’s hard to imagine that just fifteen years ago we were sharing files with one another by means of a slow, magnetic and relatively unreliable format called the floppy disk. After the demise of the floppy disk, there was a move towards flash memory such as Compact Flash, SD Cards, and USB thumb drives. All [...]
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Why Having Groceries Delivered To Your Door Might Make Financial Sense

Most people consider having luxuries delivered them to be a luxury and something that just doesn’t make sense for the common man. Many believe that the added cost of having someone else grab the items for you and deliver them is a waste of money and you’re just better off to do it yourself. For [...]
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The End of the Era: Payphones Going Away in the United States

From the early part of the 20th century all the way through the late 1990’s, payphones have been an integral part of the communications infrastructure in the United States. We would use them to call our loved ones when we were traveling or just away from home and the idea of carrying a phone with [...]
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Prevent Identity Theft with One-Time Use Virtual Credit Cards

When it comes to shopping online, you can never be too careful when it comes to security. There are criminals out there that would pay good money for your personal information and your bank/credit card account numbers. They use trojan-horse viruses and phishing scams in attempts to steal this personal information. Most of us know [...]
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Have an Open WiFi Access Point? Be Prepared to Track and Report Child Porn or Face a $300,000 Fine

Wireless routers are proliferating homes nation wide as technology improves and prices decrease from market competition. Many people have home WiFi wireless routers so that they can use the web on their laptop throughout their home. The signal from these routers can often extend a few hundred feet outside the walls of one’s home, so [...]
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T-Mobile Offering Great Holiday Deals

For many industries the fourth quarter is considered to be one of the most profitable times of the year. For the cell phone industry, this is no exception. For whatever reason, the Christmas season is when a lot of people are ending their 2 year cell phone contracts and are looking to switch carriers. Because [...]
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How to Call the Pope (And Other International Numbers) For Free

Up until the last few years, international calling was a very expensive proposition. You could be paying several dollars per minute even when you had the best deal on international service there was to get. In order to skirt around the system and get free calling, a number of intrepid technologist invented a device called [...]
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Five Ways Google Can Save You Money

In the last five years, Google has moved from being a relatively obscure internet company to a house-hold name and de-facto search tool on the internet. Google has given us a lot of great new tools, such as Gmail and Google Earth, but did you know that Google can save you money? It’s true. Here [...]