September 16, 2013 6 min read Ever heard the saying “Failing to plan is planning to fail?” That old but wise adage often rings true when it comes to social media marketing. Creating a detailed, goal-oriented social-media strategy is just as important as having a rock solid business plan. “If your social-media plan is to just […]
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In 2010, Internet Explorer for the first time dipped below 50% market share, an impressive slide from ten years ago, when nearly 90% of users decided on it. Part of the problem has been IE itself, as Microsoft’s development of the browser tends to be slow, but much of the blame for IE’s slide can
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SANTA FE, Texas (AP) — The suspect in the Texas school shooting began his attack by firing a shotgun through an art classroom door, shattering a glass pane and sending panicked students to the entryway to block him from getting inside, witnesses said. Dmitrios Pagourtzis fired again through the wooden part of the door and
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Jun Sawada (NTT Inc) Credit: NTT Inc News that Dimension Data, NTT Communications, NTT Data, NTT Security and NTTi3 will merge to create a heavyweight technology provider has sent shockwaves across the channel. While not exactly surprising in theory – following months of industry chatter – the combined entity will weigh in as a multibillion-dollar
Drools Introduction When we implement a complex software, often we require maintaining a set of rules which will be applied to a set of data for action to be taken on them. In a regular term, we call them rule engine. If there is a small set of rules, we can create our own rule
Social media. A term we hear so often in today’s hyper-technology driven world. But, what does it really mean? According to Urban Dictionary, social media is defined as the, “participatory online media that utilizes the group to write and direct content, rather than a read-only media. Allows for direct contact between participants.” The final sentence
The Apache Spark programming model and execution engine is rapidly gaining popularity over Hadoop MapReduce as… the foundation of high-performance applications for large-scale data processing for a number of reasons. First, the Spark programming model is both simple and general, enabling developers to combine data streaming and complex analytics with a familiar SQL-based interface for
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If you’ve had a blog or website for very long, by now you probably know 2 important things about search engine optimization: a lot of keywords that seem perfect are too competitive, so they don’t bring in much traffic loads of visitors mean absolutely nothing without conversions The trick to a successful website is twofold:
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Network administrators, IT managers and security professionals face a never-ending battle, constantly checking on what exactly is running on their networks and the vulnerabilities that lurk within. While there is a wealth of monitoring utilities available for network mapping and security auditing, nothing beats Nmap’s combination of versatility and usability, making it the widely acknowledged
In an effort to better cater to newcomers, Twitter once again is redesigning its app across mobile, desktop and the web. The revamp isn’t a radical departure from its prior look-and-feel or user experience – unlike when it introduced its own stories-like feature called Moments, for example, or when began reordering the tweets in your
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