• UPS Battery
    Gadget

    Don’t Let Valuable Company Data Get Lost – Protect It With a Battery Backup

    Now that technology has become so pervasive in our personal and professional lives, it's easy to ignore just how much we all rely on it – including your company. If you're in the business of industrial automation, telecommunication, or data collection, your business depends upon computers and their databases running constantly. But how can you expect them to work should an unexpected power outage interrupt your power supply.

  • Arduino Integrated Circuit
    Gadget

    Arduino: The Hit Among Geeks and DIY Fans

    Arduino has proven to be more successful than many powerful computing boards that have been in the market for a long time. The Arduino community has grown to more than 100,000 users strong. But what exactly is Arduino? Simply put, Arduino is a programmable circuit board. It has grown popular among designers, scientists, hobbyists, programmers, engineers and hardware hackers. It enhances interactivity to project and objects and comes with a myriad of benefits to the user. Benefits of Using Arduino Whenever you use Arduino, you will enjoy the speed and the simplicity of prototyping. You can hook up an LCD and start displaying text in a few minutes. With Arduino,…

  • Printer Fax Scanner
    Gadget

    How to Buy the Best Office Fax Machine

    Even though dedicated fax machines continue to lose ground to the multifunction printers, they remain beneficial especially to those that receive or send plenty of faxes. In role reversal, most of them can print, scan, or copy from a computer too. This makes them a jack-of-all-trade.

  • Portable Hard Disk 1TB Western Digital. Image by Harke. License: CC BY-SA 3.0.
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    Why Portable HDD Will Make You Free

    Portable HDD, also known as an external hard disk, can be really helpful in many situations. As a result of a fast development in the hard-disk production technology, external hard-disks have become more available for everyday use and, more importantly, they are also more affordable than they used to be a couple of years ago. Although they have a serious nemeses in the form of cloud storage services and internal ultramodern SSD devices, portable HDDs still hold a significant part of the market in their hands. Now we are going to see what keeps their heads above the surface. Portable and practical The largest advantage of this device over the…

  • Fiber-Optic
    Internet

    What’s Streaming in Worldwide Fiber Optic Internet News?

    In April 2013, Google and the city of Provo, Utah announced that the search giant would be taking over the city’s $39 million fiber optic network for a single U.S. dollar, according to Mercury News. Because of its status as a worldwide Internet power, attention is on Google as it moves forward with plans to install or take over fiber optic networks in U.S. cities. However, Google is far from the only player in the fiber optic field, especially when the worldwide stage is considered. The U.S. Picture It is sometimes easy to forget that Google isn’t the only player in the American fiber optic network game. In fact, Google…

  • Wireless Router
    Internet

    WLAN vs LAN: Which is Better?

    With the growth of internet users and importance of the internet in our lives, people have to find an easier, cheaper and a faster way to connect to the internet. Laptops, desktops, and even cheap notebooks have a LAN, Wi-Fi and dial-up for users to connect to internet through all means. But with choices, there is confusion about which technology is better.

  • Computer Memory
    Computer

    Proving Your Skills… Again

    In order to have the best chance of getting a good job in the information technology and computer field, it is essential to obtain an A+ Certification from CompTIA. In the past, these certificates were touted as lasting for a lifetime, but CompTIA has recently made changes that will impact everyone who has a certification. Unfortunately, new guidelines have been put in place, and each certificate is now only valid for three years.

  • Fiber-Optic
    Internet

    The Advantages of Fiber-Optic Communication Systems

    Fiber-optic communication systems are becoming increasingly common in modern society. Where once they were restricted to government or business use, fiber-optic systems are now available to individual households. This has been driven by the rising demand for high bandwidth connections for a variety of industrial and residential purposes. What is a Fiber-Optic Communication System A fiber-optic communication system uses fiber-optic cables to transmit information via light channeled through the cable. In most cases, this light is coherent laser light, although some recent systems use light emitting diodes (LEDs) rather than lasers. Modern fiber-optic communication systems make use of a cable to carry the light impulses to a receiver, which converts…