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Digital Transformation And The Evolution of Apps – What’s The Link?

YoungUpstarts

Technologies — from mobile to cloud — are integral to every business regardless of industry, and those that fail to set an efficient digital strategy and maximize the impact of digitalization risk being left behind. Fact: the world’s first mobile phone call was made on April 3, 1973, by Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola.

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50 Great Ways To Use QR Codes In The College Classroom

YoungUpstarts

That was 1994, and now, almost 20 years later, QR code technology is experiencing a revival — but not in the automotive industry. Mobile class newsletters. Keep students updated on what’s happening in class with a QR linked mobile class newsletter. Mobile reminders. Polls and feedback. Information & Enhancement.

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3 Ways Technology Is Changing Small Business Lending

YoungUpstarts

In 1994 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said, “retail banks are dinosaurs, they can be bypassed,” in a Newsweek interview. Consumers can now conduct a wide variety of bank-related transactions from the comfort of their computers, tablets and mobile devices. by Jake Dacillo, Marketing Director, Balboa Capital.

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The End Of The Road For Web Services

blogs.computerworlduk.com

Contact Author Email : Simon The End Of The Road For Web Services A decade of corporate politics by the big software companies is finally over as WS-I shuts up shop and gets folded in to OASIS. Flawed Web services as a strategy was fundamentally flawed in my view because it was so un-web.

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A Year in Review: 2016

Version One Ventures

Every 10-15 years, a major cycle reshapes the computing landscape: PC (1981), Internet (1994), Mobile (2007). In short, Perez believes that we are currently in the deployment period for web and mobile. Of course, upcoming IPOs like Snapchat will bring some added excitement to the industry.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. In India, two female journalists launched a mobile app to allow women to report harrassment and abuse, an issue in their hometown of Delhi and throughout the world.

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Addressing Common Enterprise Application Pain Points

YoungUpstarts

By John Enright, General Manager of Web and Application Services at Hostway Services, Inc. Today’s workforce is increasingly mobile, whether traveling or working from home. In the current business environment, applications are everything. These employees must be able to use their mission-critical applications.

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