‘Practical Techie:’ Tuning in to web is good for business
December 11, 2013
Good business people should always have an ear to the ground. Figuratively speaking, of course. In our day and information age, entrepreneurs must be tuned in to the Internet and its plethora of digital social platforms. An ear to the web, so to speak.
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‘Practical Techie:’ Quality content is supreme
November 20, 2013
Some 25 years have passed since the birth of the World Wide Web and it’s spawning of personal, informational and business Web sites by the millions.
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Knight Center to offer course on web-based journalism
November 8, 2013
In an effort to promote the creation and development of sustainable and quality digital journalism projects in Spanish, the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, with the support of Google, will offer this month the Massive Open Online Course (or MOOC) "Development of Journalistic Projects for the Web: an Introduction to Entrepreneurial Journalism."
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‘Practical Techie:’ A brave new digital world
November 6, 2013
The Internet and its gigantic offspring — the Web — is always in flux as new technologies emerge from around the world.
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‘Practical Techie:’ Algorithms are digital crystal balls
October 16, 2013
Although mostly the dominion of programmers and many a computer scientist, a businessperson should often take on the concept of algorithms to better understand the logic on how a corporation’s data is juggled about in cyberspace.
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‘Practical techie:’ Deep fishing in the seas of cyberspace
October 8, 2013
The Web is full of useful data analysis for small business professionals. It's all out there in a vast ocean of binary information just waiting to be fished out by the deft explorer.
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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’: 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: 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 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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T-Mobile launches $30 ‘4G Unlimited Internet’ plan
September 6, 2012
Wireless carrier T-Mobile launched Wednesday its new “4G Unlimited Internet” plan that lets customers browse the web on their smartphones without extra charges or speed limits.
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Level of influence: Traditional media on the web
January 25, 2012
“Primera Hora” is not the island’s best-selling newspaper, but it is the one with the greatest influence on the Internet. While “TránsitoPR,” which is not a traditional news outlet but a service that provides traffic information to other media and the public, has more influence on the Internet that all news stations on the island and several major circulation newspapers.
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