Practical Techie: Tech in Cuba ‘ready to go supernova’
September 24, 2013
No one knows when or how it will happen, but it when it does, U.S.-based companies that do tech commerce in the Caribbean will be ready.
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Op-Ed: Condado unites to block mega billboard
September 20, 2013
In an unprecedented show of unity, members from different sectors of the Condado community came together this week in an old fashion sit in, on the sidewalk opposite the newly renovated Vanderbilt Hotel, to protest the clandestine installation of a 60-foot high, 20-foot wide, multisided, illuminated, mega billboard in a parking lot in the heart of the "Fifth Avenue of Condado," Ashford Avenue.
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Practical Techie: Biz tech takes on new clothes
September 19, 2013
New technologies always climb on the shoulders of older, successful development. The next wave of inventiveness is already sprouting up all over the digital landscape, on a very worldwide scale.
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Op-Ed: EPA Brownfields Program’s role in redevelopment
September 10, 2013
EPA’s Brownfields Program was created in 1995 and it assists states, municipalities, communities, and other stakeholders (including nonprofit and private sector) to asses and redevelop abandoned or contaminated properties and redevelop them in a sustainable way.
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‘Practical Techie:’ To give or not to give?
September 4, 2013
A merchant must decide nowadays whether providing customers free access to the Web is good for business. Very much so, since connectivity is the backbone of the Internet. Let's look at it this way, our lives revolve around three digital windows: cellphone, computer and TV screens.
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‘Practical Techie:’ Optimizing websites with key tools
August 27, 2013
Keeping a website functional and fully purposed, is not only prudent but financially rewarding. If your commercial site is of you’re own doing, or professionally designed, keeping it running the way it should is a sound business move. Not only for profit reasons, but to avoid technical hassles or legal entanglements.
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‘Practical Techie’: Web hosting maneuvers
August 20, 2013
A critical aspect of any business web site is where to host it. And then, how to host your portal.
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‘Practical Techie’: A new business model for newsprint
August 13, 2013
A common diatribe these days is that the Internet has broken the newspaper business model.
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‘Practical Techie:’ Social media branding grinds slowly, yet finely
August 6, 2013
Social media did a full turn of the screw in recent times and along the way created a new paradigm for product marketing.
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Practical Techie: New commercial domains will light the cybersky
July 30, 2013
The year 2013 will go down in Web history as the time when new top-level generic domain names came to be. Finally. And exactly 30 years after the Domain Name System was introduced into to what was then the brand new commercial Internet.
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‘Practical Techie:’ The magical science of portals
July 22, 2013
Like the Stargate science fiction TV series, a web portal is like a magic entryway into a world of interesting information and events. Like any magical doorway, the design morphs and alters according to usage.
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‘Practical Techie:’ The quest for a potent message
July 16, 2013
Let's be frank about it. A good business website requires a bit of malicious intent.
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‘Practical Techie:’ The web is the great mobilizer
July 9, 2013
The ability to organize is the basis of life. A true foundation of a civilized world. As the world turns, so change the methods of bringing humans together to a point of common interest. In the field of commerce, to a point of sale.
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‘Practical Techie:’ A polished biz site without the hassles
July 2, 2013
If your business hasn't one yet...it should by now. A website, I mean. The size of the business doesn't matter anymore. Every small biz or any multinational corporation deserves a radiant spot in the World Wide Web. Rather, it needs to have a very rewarding presence online.
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Op-Ed: The Jones Act
July 1, 2013
We knew that the recently completed study on Puerto Rico’s maritime cargo would be controversial because cabotage issues, part of the study, have been discussed for decades and have become an emotional and politically charged subject.
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