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Need storage for your cellphone snaps? Fly to the cloud. Want to synchronize a file across your many devices? The cloud can do that. If nothing else, online storage has shattered the old system of paring down attachments to conform to email server limits. It has also changed forever the way people collaborate on work. You can tap into the cloud with many apps, depending on your device OS, how much space you need, and how much you’re willing to pay, among other factors....

There’s a good reason for such massive growth. Learning models have hardly evolved for the past 150 years, especially in K12 education. We still see a teacher explaining a concept to the class sitting behind desks with most materials being printed textbooks. Yet, modern students are not quite like their peers 150 years ago. They are among the first truly digital generation and they expect the technology to be present in the classroom as well....

While smartphone apps can help you with a variety of everyday tasks, they can also protect your phone from identity theft and hackers and help you keep your personal data from falling into the wrong hands. Here are some of the best Android apps to protect you from identity fraud. 1. Identity Guard It’s common for hacking victims to be totally oblivious to the fact that their personal details have been stolen....

Now that avoiding unicorn culture is definitely a hot idea, here’s a bullet pointed list of his ways to avoid the craze, pulled from his recent interview as well his past writing. Aim to Dent Don’t be the universe. Just dent the universe. Hansson’s previously written about unicorn culture and its founders who “have to fucking own the universe,” saying they should simply try to dent it. In the recent interview, he adds his own feelings about his success: “I go to sleep every night knowing that I already left my dent in the universe....

Here are 8 new health tech startups you should know about and watch in 2015. 1. Flatiron Flatiron is the first cloud-based data solution for the oncology industry that aggregates clinical and financial data in real time. The app helps create and organize e-medical records, offers special analytical tools for deeper medical and business insights, helps finding clinical candidates across the country, tackles billing, and provides patients with direct access to all their data to take active role in their care....

1. Demanding Job Listings As the first step in recruiting, these ads must generate excitement in the position, not simply declare a long list of qualifications. If you list 5 different programming languages for a developer as “must haves”, a candidate who is missing just one will likely move on. Trying to weed out the poorest candidates may also weed out some of the best. Work with a minimum standard for candidates, not an idealized portrait of an employee who probably doesn’t exist....

Yet we intuitively understand what the phrase means. And what it means, I think, is the feeling that you aren’t working too much; a state where you’re enjoying the values from both home life and work life, and one isn’t being sacrificed to the other. That’s not easy to achieve for entrepreneurs. Below are nine (or maybe eight) strategies entrepreneurs use to achieve that elusive work-life balance. 1. Schedule time to relax We schedule meetings, we schedule interviews, we schedule doctor’s appointments; but somewhere in that mass of work, personal time gets lost....

There are a number of important reasons to use content marketing for branding rather than SEO. Check them out below. Content Marketing for Branding Improves SEO Your SERPs will be higher over the long-term if your content marketing strategy is focused on branding rather than SEO. Do you remember Suit101? It was basically a content farm with articles written by freelancers. These freelance writers got paid a percentage of the advertising revenue their articles generated....

The new app is from the Berlin-based spreadsheet software start-up Rows, and it’s publicly available for all now on Windows and macOS, following a stealth launch in December. Rows isn’t hiding the fact that they aim to help users build spreadsheets at the same scale and efficiency as their more well-known competitors. A Rows By Any Other Name The company raised $16 million in February 2021, specifically in order to build this app, and their marketing campaign takes direct aim at Excel and Sheets....

My dad. He taught me to think twice and speak once. I’m still working on that. He also taught me to negotiate from a young age. Not only did I have to make deals in our house all day long, but he also trusted me at only 12 years old to negotiate and purchase inventory for our retail store. Most importantly, he gave me the confidence to become a go-getter....

Hotel Hospitality Meets Technology ALICE or A Life Improving Customer Experience, connects guests to their hotel by way of a mobile app, and at the same time makes it easier for hotel staff to collaborate on a unified platform. To get a better understanding of what they are doing and where they are headed, we spoke with their cofounder and president, Alex Shashou. According to Shashou, the concept for ALICE came to fruition as he was traveling around Asia with his cofounder Justin Effron....

The price for the 32 GB version is $199.99 and for 64 GB is $299. You can buy the phone off contract, too, and you’ll have to spend $649.99 and $749.99, respectively. You can reserve the phone now and it will be shipped after July 25. The phone will be available in the market from the same date. It has a 13 MP primary camera with auto focus and LED flash, as well as a 2....

As you might expect, people aren’t thrilled to hear about yet another massive tech company’s lack of boundaries when it comes to information that they consider private. Why It’s a Privacy Concern Storing any customer data without any clear justification can be considered a violation of certain internet protocol standards, like the UK’s 2017 law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Specifically, saving the data indefinitely as a policy might bump up against the “Storage limitations” principle of GDPR, which holds that data should be removed once it is no longer required....

The Essential Phone Built on Android Launching in “a Few Weeks” CNBC has the news and has included a few interesting fact about the behind-the-scenes drama prior to the phone’s upcoming arrival. Life will be rough for the Essential smartphone once it shows up: It costs $699, relies solely on Sprint, and is entering a smartphone marketplace that is already saturated with the incumbents. In fact, two of those incumbents will be launching flashy new devices in upcoming months: The Galaxy Note 8 will debut later in August, with the new iPhone lineup following....

The best thing you can do to make sure you’re sustaining and growing your audience is to develop a template that you can follow to quickly and easily create the ideal blog post. Once you’ve prepared and honed your approach to with a blueprint to create blog posts, you’ll find that it becomes more habitual. You’ll be able to focus more on the content aspect of blogging, and less on the logistics....

Starting in October, the Challenge Cup will include pitch competitions in 16 cities around the world. Startups will vie to be finalists in the categories of health, education, energy, and city challenges (like transportation or government) – some of the stickiest and most crucial issues facing society today. The Challenge Cup is supported partly by a $180,000 grant from the District of Columbia. Tech Cocktail will host the US events, which tentatively include San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Denver, and DC....

As part of this acquisition, the Washington Business Journal reports that the current employees of the information security firm will join 10Pearls’s current staff in Northern Virginia. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. In light of infrastructure liabilities like the Heartbleed bug, as well as the recent security breaches at Snapchat, eBay, Target, and even more recently the briefly popular Yo, securing data has never been more vital....

iPhone 6 / 6 Plus Both phones will feature an ion-strengthened glass front and an anodized aluminum back. The display is sRGB active and is in retina HD. The iPhone 6 features a 4.7-inch display, while the iPhone 6 Plus features a larger 5.5-inch display. Both phones will be thinner than the current 5S and have 38 percent more pixels and 185 percent more respectively than the 5S. The new iPhones run on Apple’s A8, 64-bit chip, making it’s CPU operate 20 percent faster and increase graphics by 50 percent....

They’re powered by the M1 chip, the most efficient chip Apple has ever created, and run on the new macOS 11, Big Sur, which is designed specifically for M1. Here are the chip’s specs, as well as how it will massively boost the performance of the new generation of Macs. The M1 Chip The new processor has eight cores. This includes four of the world’s fastest along with four of the most efficient cores....

The tech giant launched its iOS 14.5 update just a week ago, and everyone was itching to get it installed. With advanced Siri controls, new emojis, Apple Podcasts support, and the ability to unlock your iPhone with your Apple Watch, the update proved to be one of the more substantial upgrades in recent memory. It even added some heavy duty privacy controls that allow you to control which apps can track your data....