Technology

Jan
07
2016
Best Email Provider

Best Email Provider

In this article, we will look at 1) what to look for when choosing an email provider, 2) free email providers, 3) paid email providers, and 4) most secure email providers. WHAT TO LOOK FOR WHEN CHOOSING AN EMAIL PROVIDER Email is increasingly becoming the primary mode of communication in today’s world. Through both paid and free email providers, we are able to maintain personal and professional communication easily. In addition to this, other online platforms and social media websites now require a personal email address for registration. With ever increasing choices in email providers available, it can become very…
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Jan
07
2016

Top Free Email Services

Your chosen email service will reward you with plenty of—possibly unlimited—storage, effective spam filtering, a fast and productive web interface, access in desktop as well as mobile email programs, and more. 1.  Gmail Gmail is the Google approach to email and chat. Practically unlimited free online storage allows you to collect all your messages, and Gmail's simple but very smart interface lets you find them precisely and see them in context without effort. POP and powerful IMAP access bring Gmail to any email program or device. Gmail puts contextual advertising next to the emails you read. 2.  Zoho Mail Zoho…
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Jan
07
2016

Business Email – Guide To Select Email For Your Business

For many companies today, email is the single most important communications tool their employees use. In fact, the typical employee spends 28% of his or her day doing something involving email — more time than they will spend on the telephone, real-time communications and social media combined.1 It’s no surprise, therefore, that most businesses now consider email a mission-critical application. When an email system goes down, the costs quickly add up: According to one estimate, just one hour per month of unexpected downtime can cost a typical organization more than $250,000 a year.2 That doesn’t include the possibility that a…
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Jan
07
2016

The Best Places to Host Your Email With Your Own Domain

Email is the most important online service you use — it’s essentially your online passport, used to login to most apps you use — but it’s often the most neglected. Sure, we check our email all the time — you may even run emailing marketing campaigns for your business — but how much time did you put into finding the best place to keep your email? Have you ever thought about the possibility of needing to switch email services, and how much that would affect your life? Now’s the time to think about it. Let’s take a look at the best…
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Jan
07
2016

FrontlineSMS – Healthcare Mobile App

FrontlineSMS:Medic was preceded by two independent projects, Mobiles in Malawi and MobilizeMRS. Josh Nesbit initiated Mobiles in Malawi in the summer of 2007, working at a rural Malawian hospital that serves 250,000 patients spread 100 miles in every direction. To reach remote patients, the hospital trained volunteer community health workers (CHWs) like Dickson Mtanga, a subsistence farmer. Dickson had to walk 35 miles to submit hand-written reports on 25 HIV-positive patients in his community. The hospital needed a simple means of communication, and in the summer of 2008 Josh returned to the hospital with mobile phones and a laptop running…
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Jan
03
2016

How Instagram is Boosting Food Tourism

It’s the holiday season and as always many people are using the occasion to travel. But where once people would seek out relaxing beaches, exciting adventures or famous historical sites, a growing amount of people’s travel choices are now being dictated by another element - food. Food tourism - or gastronomic tourism - has been on a steady rise. According to the American Culinary Traveler, “The percentage of US leisure travelers who travel to learn about unique dining experiences grew from 40% to 51% between 2006 and 2013.” More people are curious about local foods and are planning entire travel…
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Dec
26
2015
Top ten hackers of all times according to Anonymous

Top ten hackers of all times according to Anonymous

The online hacktivist group, Anonymous has named a British computer whiz Gary McKinnon as the most dangerous hacker of all time. Anonymous is a hacking collective that has a website nominally associated with the group, which describes it as “an Internet gathering” with “a very loose and decentralized command structure that operates on ideas rather than directives”. The group became known for a series of well-publicized publicity stunts and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government, religious, and corporate websites. The group who have released an album of the top 10 best-ever hackers, wrote: “Although sufferers of Asperger’s tend to have…
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Dec
26
2015
When should small business shell out for hosted service?

When should small business shell out for hosted service?

Where would small businesses be without hosted services? They let you do everything from store files to hold meetings, without adding costly infrastructure. In most cases you can take advantage of these services without spending a cent thanks to generous free entry-level plans. But while these unpaid options are understandably attractive, there are times it makes sense to pony up for a more premium offering. We took a look at several hosted services small businesses commonly use to determine which are worth paying for and when. Domain name If there’s one thing you must drop some cash on, it’s a…
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