At a time when mobile phones comprise a larger share of total Internet usage and when search engines process more than a trillion requests every year, website design and maintenance are essential to any successful business model. Most businesses, large and small, have at least some kind of online presence. From a modest home website […]
Cloud hosting services can do some pretty amazing things to say the very least. They can make companies more productive, more innovative, more cost-efficient, and if a new startup is successful, heat homes. Dutch startup Nerdalize offers consumers high-performance cloud servers that double as radiators thanks to the excess heat generated from computing. Though it’s […]
If you’re looking to send very large files over the Internet, you may have already found that email isn’t an option. In those cases, you’ll want to use something called a file transfer protocol, or FTP, a standard network protocol that transfers computer files from one host to another. FTP is the method most website […]
Health research can often seem limited to the labs and biobanking facilities where it takes place. However, thanks to the very nature of translational medicine, this type of study has a significantly likely chance of being used to guide healthcare decisions, develop new technologies and even direct lifestyle choice. Take the national Women’s Health Initiative, […]
Ecommerce websites — ones that look to sell products online, rather than simply giving information or hosting content — are a subset of web design that deserve special attention. As with all websites, there are many things you can do to boost an ecommerce site’s success, such as catering to mobile and even choosing the […]
Sally was good at a lot of things. She was a good communicator, a great cook, and her kids frequently made her cards that declared her the best mom in the world. But Sally struggled in one important quality: balance. She started her own accounting business after her kids were old enough for school, and […]
Consider these facts: Data from 2010 shows that more than 285 million prescription medications were either ordered or prescribed — in just that one year — by doctors when treating patients at outpatient hospital visits. Between all of the doctors, nurses, and pharmacists that provided medical care to patients in hospital emergency rooms during that […]
One of the biggest vulnerabilities that network security systems face is the password. An astonishing number of employees use easy-to-guess passwords (think “123456,” “password” and others) for their work log-ins, and these weak passwords can make your network security management completely ineffective by leaving the door wide open for hackers. However, a new keyboard could […]
In today’s globalized world, where countries halfway around the world can communicate and trade instantly, businesses have options that were unheard of as early as 50 years ago. Manufacturing in particular has gone through immense change, not only in the ways products are made but in how they are traded, and by whom. For example, […]
Beautiful landscapes have the power to take our breath awe, inspire awe, and cause thoughtful reflections. The sheer force and majesty of the beauty around us is truly something to take in, and when you come across the sun setting over a gorge when you’re hiking, or the rush of a river underneath a bridge […]
