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Inventor of the first cell phone is hopeful that new tech will improve it

03/06/202303/02/2023 Jorge Gonzalez

Marty Cooper feels that this device definitely has a dark side, but he’s optimistic for its future. The first cell phone call ever made was placed in New York City on April 3, 1973, by its inventor, Martin Cooper, using a massive gray prototype gadget. He and his team at Motorola had only recently developed the technology he was testing. The device that has now managed to change the world was invented by Cooper fifty years ago. Obviously, the original cell phone looked absolutely nothing like the slim, touchscreen devices…

Canada’s government becomes the latest to launch TikTok ban

03/03/202303/02/2023 John Montgallo

The country is mandating that the app be removed from all government devices. The Canadian government has just announced that it is implementing at TikTok ban on all its government-issued devices as concerns continue to rise over privacy and security. That said, the North American country is far from the only one to have made such a move. It is becoming increasingly commonplace for governments worldwide to put a TikTok ban into place on their own devices or across their entire populations. The app, which is owned by Bytedance, a…

The State of the Internet of Things in 2023

01/10/2023 Guest Post

The State of the Internet of Things in 2023 with each other seemed the next logical step after the explosion of the internet and improvements in both internet speeds and reliability. This reality has not panned out yet, and it might seem that it is doomed. But is it, or have we achieved what we sought to do without realizing it? Big Challenges The biggest challenges to IoT lie in what it intended to do. To ensure the connected world it envisioned, we need to deploy a high level of…

Cost and Consequences: 5 Risks of Continuing to Operate with Legacy Software

12/20/2022 Guest Post

If you haven’t yet upgraded to the streamlined and sophisticated efficiency of Pronto ERP or another Enterprise Resource Planning system, you’re setting your business back in more ways than one. In addition to being slow and outdated, legacy software also presents security concerns and other risks that are worth understanding. To ensure you don’t harm your business by holding onto the old way of doing things, consider the following costs and consequences of operating with legacy software: 1. It can end up costing you more money than upgrading Many business…

YouTube comments cleanup attempt launched, giving trolls a timeout

12/20/202212/17/2022 Julie Campbell

Users whose abusive comments violate community guidelines will be suspended for 24 hours. A new rollout has begun in an effort to help control the growing toxicity in YouTube comments, particularly in terms of those violating community guidelines. The platform had previously used tools such as popups in the hopes of keeping interactions “respectful”. The improvement the YouTube comments environment had previously taken more subtle approaches, but the company has now added a touch more assertiveness to their angle by applying warnings and timeouts. If abusive YouTube comments are detected…