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Do your Business need to have a QR Code?

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Theo Lagerquist, who loves how easy technology is making communications and business. He also loves using his favorite search engine to find jobs in healthcare, his iPad, and other devices to stay in touch with others. His business is currently developing a QR code!

First off, what’s a Quick Response (QR) code? Right?! It’s likely you’ve heard of this latest technological trend, but do you understand what it is, and what it can do for your business? If not, then you may be missing out on a great marketing and customer relations resource, and you should definitely read on.

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How Social Media Changes The Art of Modern Marketing

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Social media began as a way for college students to communicate with their friends by using computers. It has now turned into a multibillion networking system that has spanned across the globe. And, this marvel has not gone unnoticed by the marketing industry.

The advent of social media over the past few years has caused a major shift in the modern marketing field. Not only are companies using social media to promote their products and services, they are also hiring social media experts to develop marketing strategies to further connect with consumers and other businesses.

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Facebook Faces $138,000 Fine; World Shocked!

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Facebook is facing a possible fine of €100,000 ($138,000) for storing data of the users even after their account data was deleted. In one of the latest developments to shock the social networking world, Facebook’s Ireland offices are being audited after a 24 year old Austrian law student, Max Schrems; who filed 22 individual claims about Facebook’s practices.

It all began when the 24-year-old asked Facebook for a copy of all his private data in the month of June. Facebook acknowledged the request and sent him a CD containing 1200 pages of data which included his likes, ‘friend’ and ‘unfriend’ history and also chat logs. The information provided to him was broken down into 57 categories which included log-ons and email addresses, which he assumes were discerned from another user’s profile. The Austrian law student was taken aback as some of the data returned to him had already been deleted. The CD also consisted of a list of photos of himself which he had de-tagged, the names of everyone he had “poked”, which events he didn’t attend and much more. His 22 individual claims were a part of the Europe vs. Facebook initiative taken by him. His claims include the ways Facebook retains deleted user data and also puts a lens on the social networking site’s Terms of Service and business shortcomings.

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Could You Trust Twitter, Facebook and Linkedln To Launch Your Business Online?

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Surprisingly, the prevailing attitude towards social media websites such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn is one of either ignorance or disdain. Many small businesses have not seen how much of the small and medium business world have begun to use these formerly consumer products for various business purposes.

Social media hubs like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn can definitely be trusted to launch your business online. That was an easy question, wasn’t it? But you are not that easily convinced, and nor should you be, because you did not become a successful businessperson by simply believing whatever anyone had to say about something. You required proof and statistics.

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Military-turned Commercial Exoskeleton is Reanimating Paraplegics

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Part paraplegic-lifesaver, part sci-fi-inspired-robotic-device-of-the-future, the new Bionic Exoskeleton from Ekso Bionics is bad-ass. Despite being initially funded by the US military, engineer extraordinaire Thomas Dwyer’s Skynet-inspired design isn’t aimed at world domination by a robotic race, but instead the less malevolent intention of re-animating paraplegics. The device seems to have come full circle though as the machine may be used by many of the wheelchair-confined vets who were injured, then released by the US military.

The Exoskeleton launched Oct 21 of this year at the Excel Center in London is a wearable robotic exoskeleton that will help paraplegics and other spinal chord-injured users in wheelchairs stand and walk, for the first time in years. The new bi-pedal, battery-powered device debuted from Ekso Bionics alongside inventor Dwyer and the skeleton’s first user, inspiration speaker and paraplegic Amanda Boxtel. “The first time I walked, I just cried,” says Boxtel after the exoskeleton provided her with her first steps in almost a decade.

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5 Reasons the Android Tablet is Better than the iPad

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The Android tablet may prove to be better than the iPad in many aspects. Here are the top 5 reasons why Android Tablets will be challenging the iPad stronghold as the consumers’ preferred tablet. It’s important to keep in mind that some features that don’t matter at all to one user, might mean everything to another user. In addition, since the Android Tablet is newer than the iPad, it was able to function beyond design flaws that existed earlier. All of these devices are bigger than a cellular phone but not as bulky as a notebook computer.

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Is iSolar the Wave of the Future?

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Apple sure has given us a lot of funky and awesome tech. And the surprises certainly ain’t over, even after the untimely demise of Steve Jobs, Apple still has trick up its iSleeve. The future innovation from the innovation king is coming in the form of uber-chic, solar-powered Apple products (including laptops, tablets and smartphones). New patents filed with the US Patent and Trademark office clearly state plans to use an “apparatus and methods for harnessing external light to illuminate a display screen of an electronic device.”

These newest solar patents from Apple intend to use sunlight to light-up the screen of their Macs, iPhones and iPads (as the patent was filed for laptops, smartphones and tablets). The screens will be illuminated using one, or a combination of, light harnesses, reflectors and/or translucent surfaces.

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Discussion over Windows 8 Tweaks after User Feedback

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Windows 8 developer preview generated a large amount of excitement across the globe with its release. Though it’s much-vaunted “Metro UI” was considered Marvelous, the final release has been postponed to a year as Microsoft has started to discuss Windows 8
tweaks after user feedback.

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Ubuntu’s Next Foray – 11.10 ‘Oneiric Ocelot’

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The amazing thing about technology is that the curiosity and spirit of a new system does not depend solely on the expense of the product. This fact is upheld repeatedly when open source technologies launch their impressive additions to existing technology, in the market. The latest to join this impressive line is Ubuntu’s 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot.

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How to be a Password Ninja on a Mac, Windows or Linux

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You’ve heard about it, read about it but very few manage to have complex passwords for all your services – Email, Facebook, Twitter, et al. The consensus to have a safer online experience and hopefully, prevent hackers, crackers and script kiddies from gaining access to your accounts is to have a complex password – UPPERCASE + lowercase + numbers + special characters – and a unique different one for each of your accounts.

Unfortunately, that’s not an easy task at all. Nonetheless, there are solutions that can help you become a Password Ninja with few, easy to remember steps. I’ve had multiple passwords – complex ones at that for quite sometime – and I don’t need to remember any of them.

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