Category: Technology

  • The Importance of Email Newsletters in Fitness Marketing Campaigns

    The Importance of Email Newsletters in Fitness Marketing Campaigns

    An email marketing newsletter which is well planned and contains useful content can be a very powerful tool for a fitness marketing campaign. Offering a monthly or fortnightly email newsletter to your current and potential customers is a very cost effective and simple strategy for enhancing your business.

    An email marketing newsletter is useful for fitness marketing campaigns for several reasons.

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  • Technology is Magic

    Technology is Magic

    No matter how far along we get in the technology age, I’m still kind of stuck back in the 70s, or 80s—or when did we first create the computer? It still blows me away that we can use mobile devices to send messages through the air and have them instantly received by someone else’s device thousands of miles away. I guess that’s telecommunications for you.

    These days, most of the time I’m using telecom services it’s to look up local residential painters on the Internet, or great deals on cupcakes. I’m not even using it for the more advanced functionalities, and it still amazes me.

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  • The Best Reveals of CES 2012

    The Best Reveals of CES 2012

    CNET totes themselves as “the premier destination for tech product reviews, news, price comparisons” and more. This is why when CNET hosts CES 2012—the world’s largest consumer technology trade show—you cannot help but be impressed with many of the products. The trade show covers a wide array of items from network or storage devices, to cell phones, to Televisions. CNET separates all of these items into 15 different categories and many of those are separated into subcategories. So picking out the top 5 pieces of technology is a hard choice to make.

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  • Burning CDs from Albums

    Burning CDs from Albums

    Technology is quickly changing, even more so today. Many of you have found that while music has advanced to the CD, and actually honestly beyond that to simply MP3 files stored on devices such as IPODS and your personal cell phones, that there is a large stack of records just sitting in your basement. When growing up all of the records played music that you found relaxing or catchy, but now their technology is outdated and over the years the music has just become nostalgic and worth more to you. This presents a larger problem than just the storing of the music, but now you crave it again and want to hear the hits that you grew up to, without having to potentially wear down the remaining albums you have through repeated use or even risk breaking the albums or record player. Following these simple steps you can fix that problem and burn your classic albums onto CD-R disks.

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  • Vehicle Technology Not Exempt from Driving Distractions

    Vehicle Technology Not Exempt from Driving Distractions

    Nearly every driver understands the dangers of driving while their attention is not on their duty at hand. Talking on a cell phone and possibly more distracting, texting while driving has been outlawed in many communities but still drivers face a constant barrage of distractions behind the wheel. Add to that police officers in a high speed pursuit putting two vehicles traveling at usually a high rate of speed – the police and the one trying to get away – and the dangers of driving go up even more.

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  • Top Tips for Starting a Career in IT

    Top Tips for Starting a Career in IT

    Information Technology (IT) careers have been the go-to field for many computer, maths, and engineering-oriented students and professionals for more than half a century. The nature of many of those jobs have changed quickly over the years from archaic positions like punch-card processor and many types of programmers, to future positions beginning now like cloud architects and capacity planners. Despite the many rapid changes, the IT field remains one of the fastest-growing, hottest career fields ever.

    There are a number of ways to enter the IT field, from getting a low-level position out of high school, joining the military to enter a technical field, getting an IT-based degree from a college or university and more. Professionals currently working in non-IT fields may take night classes or external training like Microsoft Training Courses to enhance their skills.

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  • Tips For Working Remotely

    Tips For Working Remotely

    I’ve been working from home for more than a decade. Working remotely can mean working off-site and online for employers using email, chat, and web-based collaboration apps. Or you might own your own business and have a network of people that you deal with regularly.

    Most people think that working remotely means you are in your pajamas all day. And friends and family think you are free to run their errands and talk on the phone all day. Now, don’t get me wrong, there are those days that I do stay in my pajamas, that is definitely a perk but all of my days aren’t quite so easy. I am trying to make a living after all.

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  • Make 2012 The Year of Unified Communications

    Make 2012 The Year of Unified Communications

    Until recently, business telephone systems were unwieldy things. Businesses were limited to clumsy switchboards, arcane PABX systems, and, if they were lucky, an email and calendar system that only the IT guys knew how to use.

    We’ve come a long way in the last few years, and today’s unified communications suites are powerful, stable, and user friendly. If you haven’t invested in your business telephone systems recently, then 2012 is a great year to improve your infrastructure.

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