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There are some work environments with which employees truly fall in love.  Those places where you might work where you find a sense of fulfillment and potential for advancement may be the best workplace of your life.  Sometimes, though, they might not be absolutely right for all you need at a certain point in your life.  When that happens, you may well move on.  The best workplaces, however, are the ones that will have you back when your circumstances, or those of the company you love, change once again.  Cadence Design Systems was an environment Susan L. Bostrom loved and one that eagerly took her back in 2011! Read more »

The marketing and statistics company Barclay’s has released its new CIO survey results, which explore how businesses are investing in technology.  Unsurprisingly, one of the emerging technologies that businesses are investing in more and more are tablet computers.  As the dominant manufacturer in the tablet computer market with its iPad, Apple Computers is witnessing a potential windfall from businesses buying iPads.  However, businesses investing heavily in iPads have the potential to be bad news for both Apple and businesses that invest in them.  Some of the looming issues for Apple include: Read more »

For some entrepreneurs, it is hard to define the moment their life turned to take them down a road to greatness.  Every company founder, CEO, and inventor, though, has a moment when something changed for them or they made a connection no one else made and they were able to push their idea or business in a new, successful, direction.  For William Wang, that seminal moment is very easy to define: he was in a plane crash.  From that plane crash came Vizio! Read more »

Virtual reality and augmented reality have been concepts in the public mind for years. Innovators and researchers have spent a great deal of time imagining and designing immersive technologies, but so far, most of them are still a long way off from commercial sale. The Zeiss Cinemizer OLED, however, is closer than most. Read more »

No musical artist produces a track with the idea that the ideal format upon which it will be presented is a digital music player.  Digital music files often compress sounds, limiting the range and even editing out the richer tones of a composer’s work.  Musical artists today produce music to be heard over speakers at concerts and stereo systems and outside where the music can resonate and breathe.  While you cannot easily improve the quality of digital music files, you can easily upgrade from earbuds.  The Yamaha PDX-11 is one such speaker system that gets you closer to the sound the artists intended! Read more »

Big business transactions happen every day in the tech sector.  As more and more technology companies buy out their competition or diversify to stay relevant in a changing marketplace, it is sometimes tough to understand what specific transactions might actually mean.  Lately, there has been a lot of speculation that Google will pay $12.5 billion to buy Motorola Mobility.  This transaction has created a lot of buzz in both the tech sector and the business world.  There are several factors that make Google’s purchase of Motorola Mobility an atypical buyout. Read more »

With so many advances in computer graphics and streaming video technologies, it is more important than ever to have a great computer monitor.  After all, what is the point of streaming high definition videos from your favorite online video provider if your monitor does not support full 1080p resolution?  For a reasonably-priced high definition computer monitor that is more than likely to exceed your expectations, you should look at the HZ281HPB LCD Monitor from Hanns.G. Read more »

The fax, the facsimile which was essentially a scan sent from one machine to another over the phone line, is a dying technology.   Scanners and e-mail provide essentially the same services and they are easy-to-use technologies used in every industrialized nation on Earth.  However, e-mails do not have the legal authority of faxes.  As a result, Fax Over Internet Protocol technology has emerged as a new industry.  Choosing the right FOIP provider can be a challenge.  Three of the best are: Read more »

For a long time, the fax was a tool of businesses everywhere.  The facsimile was a great way to transmit documents that was quicker than using mail or courier services.  With the rise of the fax machine, many laws involving acceptable forms of documentation came to include facsimile copies of important documents.  Ironically, the speed of the rise of the Internet and e-mail communications radically outstripped the speed at which laws are altered.  As a result, today facsimile copies remain legally relevant for many important documents, whereas e-mailed copies of documents do not carry the same weight.  One solution to this problem is Fax Over Internet Protocols. Read more »

With so many forms of technology becoming interconnected, it is sometimes hard to keep up with all of the advances that hit the marketplace.  Shortly after you buy a Blu-Ray player, for example, a new upgrade may easily appear that would allow you to do more with your simple Blu-Ray disc player.  Fortunately, even as technology changes, there are often adapters that allow you to upgrade the device you spent good money on to work with the latest technology.  The IOGEAR Universal Wi-Fi N Adapter – Ethernet to Wi-Fi N is one such adapter.

The IOGEAR Universal Wi-Fi N Adapter – Ethernet to Wi-Fi N adapter (Product number GWU627 in the IOGEAR catalog) is an adapter which connects to any of your Ethernet-ready devices.  Many common electronics appliances that are intended for entertainment purposes are Ethernet-ready devices, like Blu-Ray players and HDTVs.  Many monitors have Ethernet ports as well.  The purpose of the IOGEAR GWU627 Adapter is to allow you to connect those Ethernet-ready devices to your home’s wireless computer network!

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