Your business keeps you busy. You’re balancing three projects at once for your employer. You are traveling more often than you are at home, and your day planner is covered in ink. You would like smartphone apps that will make your life easier, not complicate it. Fortunately, there is a host of smartphone applications out [...]

Are you gunning for a raise or a promotion? Maybe you simply want to get noticed for job security. Regardless, you can do this by impressing your boss, but how? What about Excel? Most of us, despite our job, use spreadsheets in Excel. This program is a very powerful business tool; here are some tips [...]

Technology is ever changing, and cyber-criminals will be ever adjusting to it. Recently, MIT’s Technology Review published an article relating to technology security threats that we must be aware if in 2012. As many of us spend a significant amount of time online, being aware of these threats can help safeguard vital data. Stolen, Spoofed [...]

Can you imagine life without the computer? It wasn’t that long ago that people didn’t have them, yet today we carry them around inside our purses in the form of smartphones. How did computers turn into such an important appliance in such a short amount of time? That’s the question that science historian and author [...]

As the planet gets to be more connected so do our cars. Cars like the Audi A6, Ford Edge, and the Lincoln MKX allow individuals to browse the Web while in their front seat. People may now, stream music, get up-to-date traffic information, but is all this access the best thing while driving? Typically it’s [...]

You hear the term “nanotechnology,” and what do you think of? Science fiction, maybe robots, something along those lines? In reality, nanotechnology is making life easier for everyone. At its core, nanotechnology is the science of dealing with matter on an atomic and molecular scale. The hope is that scientists can use nanotechnology to create [...]

There are a lot of problems in the world today; Climate change, poverty, Illiteracy, debt crises, these are only a few. Google has decided to give solving these problems a try and created the “Solve for X” initiative. This project brings together some of Google’s finest minds and asks them to imaginatively tackle some of [...]

Do your employees voice their ideas and opinions? Do they come to you with ways to enhance effectiveness or new revolutionary marketing ideas? If the answer is no, the creativity of your staff may be stifled. Today’s business world is very aggressive, so if your company is deficient in creativity and innovation, it could put [...]

Are you just getting used to the idea of social media? Well here comes another that is certainly growing in popularity: Pinterest. Something that is different about Pinterest is that it focuses less on updates about the day-to-day and more on the interests of the users. This encourages creativity among its user base. But that [...]

Finding employment these days is not an easy task. This means you need to put your best foot forward when interviewing. A great way to accomplish this is dress the part. I know what you are thinking: “The business world has gotten so casual—people wear flip-flops for goodness sake! Workplace attire doesn’t matter anymore.” Incorrect! [...]