Top Ten Technologies 2008

Traveling in a vehicle is an enjoyable experience for numerous people, particularly those who take pleasure in listening to their preferred music during their early morning commute to work. However, on certain occasions, regardless of how much effort you put in, there is hardly anything enjoyable to listen to on the radio, and you are fed up with the CD's that you have also.

The Internet’s beginnings took place in a United States Department of Defense program for a strategic computer network. It was designed to carry sensitive and critical data over a computer network that was supposed to be able to remain intact in the event of nuclear attack. The project was called ARPANET, for “Advanced Research Projects Agency Network.

E-mail, or electronic mail, was one of the first social mediums available to visitors in cyber space. Developed by Ray Tomlinson in 1971, e-mail originally allowed users to only post mail messages to individual accounts across a single network

Messaging techniques are so convenient it is easy to overlook the pitfalls of not communicating in real time.

Are you familiar with the phrase 'all the gear, but no idea'? This is very fitting for many Microsoft Office owners. As I'm sure most of you will agree, Microsoft products can be extremely powerful but at times incredibly frustrating too.

How a small iPod can help you loose weight.

In my opinion, lap top computers are the best technological conveniences of our time.

Data Processing has changed greatly over time. While one can track the beginnings of the modern analytical computer to Charles Babbage (1791-1871)

In our world where data is power, large companies put a high priority on their data back-up and data storage. Unfortunately, this kind of data storage is typically very expensive and impractical for the small home PC user...

47% of the CEO's of the US's fastest growing companies believe that their most critical success factor is having flexible strategies to respond to accelerating business changes. Information Systems still tend to ignore this need for flexibility and at times are hard to scale and customise.