Big data is term being thrown around in most businesses these days. With the mass amount of information available through digital records, data has become a gold mine for making business decisions. And the trend does not look to go away as systems become more capable and complex. An entire field has emerged from IT […]

Virtual assistants have issued in a new era of IoT, with Alexa and Google Home leading the media in user friendly devices. Yet smart home technology has more capabilities behind the media hype. Appliances, such as washers and dryers, have contained smart technology for almost a decade. Now home owners can run a house smoothly, […]

For the last several years standard tech advice has been consistent.  Creating mobile apps will help business. Download applications have changed how people interact with their phones, but apps may have turned the corner on efficiency. If you do not have an app yet, should you focus resources on development? Mobile Apps development So the […]

Children, adolescents, and adults staring at mobile screens while chasing imaginary monsters overran first world countries last year. While Pokimon Go has successfully achieved the largest uptake for augmented reality (AR), the app was not the first to use the technology. Apps such as Yelp’s Monocle and WallaMe have been lurking around the corners of […]

Artificial Intelligence is here to stay. There is no debate regarding this. Siri, Google, and Alexa, to name the most well-known VAs, are coming standard with more and more technology. This artificial intelligence can make life easier, more organized, and more efficient. Yet virtual assistants and chatbots have the same weakness as all tools.  They […]

Recently Bitcoin, and the supporting blockchain technology, has made a splash on mainstream investor consciousness. While Bitcoin has existed for nearly 10 years, main stream society has ignored cryptocurrency. Bitcoin's and other cryptocurrencies' decentralized and deregulated nature caused the slowness in which they have taken stage. Consequently, no government can control or dictate cryptocurrency which […]

Last week Facebook took front page as their negotiation chatbots went off rail with some weird language. A few days later, two Chinese chatbots were taken offline for refusing to support China’s Communist party. With all this news regarding chatbots, the public is suddenly much more aware of tech advances that have otherwise gone unnoticed. […]

Last week we discussed the history of invasive technology that continually provides information to your metadata fingerprint. We mean technology that tracks and records our actions or words in our private spaces. This technology is all over, and in everyone’s favorite devices. Let's break down one of the greatest virtual assistants that has broken onto […]

A week ago, there was coverage regarding an Amazon Echo calling 911 in the case of domestic abuse. Concerns over privacy have risen, despite Amazon’s clear explanation of how Echo is incapable of calling 911. The debate over privacy and how our smart devices track us is not a new discussion, despite the new fervor. […]

Many of us remember the Super Bowl fiasco where a commercial turned on thousands of Google Homes around the country. While amusing or uninteresting for most of us, there was an outcry from those who realized their televisions just turned on their auditory web browsers. Anyone with a smart phone that links to a car […]