Many of us use our PCs, Macs or even cell phones to access the internet every single day. But have you ever thought to ask yourself how it all works? The Internet started as a small internetwork of military computers. The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), a division of the U.S. Department of Defense, laid the foundations for the modern Internet we know today. By 1992, the network bandwidth of the Internet had increased 20 million times the bandwidth seen [...]
The medical industry is undergoing a quiet revolution in the technology that forms the core of its daily work. The ubiquitous patient record is finally entering the digital age. While some cutting edge doctors and hospitals switched to electronic record keeping years ago, there is a movement underway to get all health care facilities to convert over the next four years. This has led to an explosion in the development of medical EMR software . These programs create, maintain, and [...]
Online video games are popular throughout the world and it is possible to play against people you have never met and who are from countries, or at least cities you may never even have heard of . This is just one of the ways in which the Internet is shrinking the world and global communities continue to increase. The effect this has on international relations has yet to be seen, though it is unlikely to be the top priority on [...]
Businesses are going from online marketing campaigns that were designated for someone with a computer looking for goods and services to now smart phones looking for the same things. With this new phone technology, there has been a new job created called the app developer. Every new smart phone has their version of a developer like the Android app developer who creates the new applications on the Android phone. There is a lot to the answer of what an app [...]
No one could have predicted the wild success of the social networking sites. In the past five years, they’ve utterly transformed the way we do things in the world. Where at one time, they served as bulletin boards where we could log in and talk to people who had the same interests as we did, we can now connect to a stunning number of people all across the world, sharing interests, news, videos, and a whole generation is learning how [...]
One of the most basic of problems for the energy created by a wind turbine, is that the wind does not constantly blow, and this could result less energy production than the standard power plants or nuclear power plants, which harness up to ninety percent of the available energy. One of the best wind turbines, will at its optimum harvest just thirty percent of the energy that is potentially available. This has caused many of the production companies building turbines [...]
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