Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve, and exchange all kinds of data and information. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information technology system (IT system) is generally an information system, a communications system, or, more specifically speaking, a computer system — including all hardware, software, and peripheral equipment — operated by a limited group of IT users.
According to the Economist, things are not exactly as they seem at most glamorous tech startups that offer illusory extravagant perks to their employees. While software firms are supposed to be a paradise for “talent” – showering workers with fabulous salaries and perks to the likes of cooked food, on-site gyms and yoga classes – there exists…
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Communications technology innovator, Harold Haas, is the pioneer behind a new technology that can communicate as well as illuminate. In this groundbreaking TED talk, Haas dares to answer the question: What if we could use existing technologies to provide Internet access to billions of people living in places where the infrastructure currenty does not allow…
Huntsville in Alabama may seem like one of the most unlikely cities to base a center for genomics and other biological-technological endeavors. Yet Huntsville turns out to be a great place to recruit high-tech workers. In fact, it’s one of a growing number of smaller U.S. cities, far from the grandiosity of Silicon Valley, that…
Who serves who? Does Technology serve the people – or do the people serve technology? I started my business during the “Golden Age of Technology” back in 1985. This was a time when the power of computing was being brought to the individual level; a time of personal computers (starting with the Apple-II and IBM-PC)…
According to Bloomberg, marketers mistakenly thought the Web would allow perfectly targeted ads. As based on a study last year in conjunction with the Association of National Advertisers, most of your digital ad audience isn’t even human anymore. So, who, or what views these ads that marketers had previously hoped to promote to people? Well, turns…
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Did you know there’s a parallel Internet you may not have run across or even heard of? Only accessed by a special browser, it is home to a freewheeling collection of websites for everything from anonymous activism to illicit activities. It’s the place to go for those who have something to hide… Hence the “dark…
