Today Sprint’s on-the-go customers in Houston are, according to a statement, “among the first in the world to experience the power and performance of true mobile 5G. The next generation of wireless service is here, delivering blazing-fast download speeds from downtown Houston to Memorial City Mall and City Centre Plaza, covering approximately 165 square miles…
Optimism lags behind an overall improved economy. In 2009, Northwestern Mutual commissioned a study among U.S. adults aged 25+ to explore their attitudes and behaviors toward money and financial decision-making, as well as their opinions about broader ideas such as the attainability of the American Dream. The project was ultimately named the “Planning & Progress…
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By Daphne Michaels, Special for TTUSA. Profoundly successful people all have this in common: they’ve recognized their personal success teams. A Personal Success Team is a group of people who are truly rooting for your success; people who are on your journey with you in an important way. Every member of your Personal Success Team…
By Elizabeth Thede, Special for TTU This article addresses hidden text from the perspective of a search engine like dtSearch. When you view a file or email in the program associated with that file, like when you view a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel, or read an email in Outlook, or look at a PDF…
In the April 2019 Used Car and Light Truck Guidelines Industry Update, analysts at J.D. Power Valuation Services note that after six consecutive months of declines, the used vehicle market bounced back in March. As a result, the J.D. Power Valuation Services’ Seasonally Adjusted Used Vehicle Price Index increased by 1.1 points – relative to February –…
Ever wondered what is more painful than having a sore throat in a winter morning? It’s wage garnishment. When creditors garnish your wage every month for clearing your credit card debt, you feel like someone has punched your face badly. Suffice to say that wage garnishment is a stressful experience. What is a wage garnishment?…
FROM THE PRICE OF BUSINESS, Media Partner of This Website Price recently interviewed Yappa’s CEO and Co-founder, Jennifer Dyer and COO and Co-founder, Kiaran Sim. Dyer and Sim were on to talk about Yappa World Inc., a Southern California startup that debuted a free audio and video commenting tool for news & entertainment sites, blogs…
Value Colleges (www.valuecolleges.com), an independent online guide to the best values in undergraduate and graduate education, is pleased to share two valuable new rankings: Top 25 Most Affordable Online Cybersecurity Degrees for 2019 https://www.valuecolleges.com/cheapest-online-bachelors-of-cybersecurity/ Top 25 Most Affordable Online Master’s in Cybersecurity 2019 https://www.valuecolleges.com/cheapest-online-masters-of-cybersecurity-programs/ Value Colleges’ ranking of the Top 25 Most Affordable Online Cybersecurity…
By Elizabeth Thede, Special for The Time USA Many people have heard of Boolean searching, which relies on and/or/not connectors. For example, apple and (banana or pear) and not broccoli is a sample Boolean expression as it combines and/or/not with the keywords apple, banana, pear and broccoli. The purpose of this article is to…
The Trump economy — buoyed by a war on excessive regulation and aggressive tax reformed that has fostered economic improvements on every level — has led the US from being one of the least competitive when it came to tax rates among industrialized to the most. That’s the view of Congressman Kevin Brady, the ranking…
Webroot, the Smarter Cybersecurity® company, revealed the results of the 2019 Webroot Threat Report, showcasing that while tried-and-true attack methods are still going strong, new threats emerge daily, and new vectors are being tested by cybercriminals. The report is derived from metrics captured and analyzed by Webroot’s advanced, cloud-based machine learning architecture: the Webroot® Platform….
It may seem like forever ago, but there was once a time where having a cell phone felt like an option. Nowadays, it is practically a necessity simply because of the number of things that it can do. Most of all, we have come to the point where smartphones can help you in nearly…
France has just revealed its new digital tax and it is clear that it is aimed at the United States and its technology firms. The following from a French English speaking news source, goes straight to the heart of that discussion. Today, the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady…
For 18 years, MIT Technology Review has chosen 10 recent technology breakthroughs that are poised to deeply impact our lives. From CRISPR to reinforcement learning, the list has often been early to identify major advances before they reach widespread use. Today, MIT Technology Review announced its 2019 10 Breakthrough Technologies list, which was curated, for the first time ever, by…
The notion that sharks can cure cancer, because they do not get cancer, is nothing new. In the early 1990s Cuba developed treatments based on shark research and the assumption they were immune to the disease. It became a global craze. However, it was eventually discovered that sharks do, in fact, get cancer and the…
By Elizabeth Thede, Special for The Times USA When most people think of text retrieval, they think of word searching: alphabet soup or banana pie. And that is usually the main focus of text retrieval like dtSearch, which instantly search terabytes of Microsoft Office files, PDFs, emails with multilevel attachments, databases, Internet and Intranet data, and…
Charles Darwin and his views about evolution have been “orthodoxy” in the scientific community for literally generations. Somewhere along the way it went from a “theory” to something that has been given the same weight as any law. However, some serious thinkers in the scientific community are reconsidering Darwin and his theories. Over 1000 doctoral…
We enjoy our animals and can’t live our life without them, yet living with the hair your dog or cat loses everywhere can promptly become tedious. That’s why having one of the very best Vacuum Cleaner(new post from Vacuum Cleaner) for animal hair on wood or carpet is vital for those people that share our homes…
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) announced that it has launched HowCollegesSpendMoney.com, an innovative gateway into a vast trove of data on college spending across the country. HowCollegesSpendMoney.com provides unprecedented ease of access to financial information and spending trends from 1,500 public and private colleges and universities. Visitors can select specific colleges…
A new report from Kaufman Hall shows a striking 66 percent of higher education finance professionals today say their current business models are not sustainable for the next five to 10 years. Yet two-thirds are very or somewhat confident their organizations can adapt to the new realities, according to 2019 CFO Outlook: Performance Management Trends…
Eight out of 10 U.S. manufacturers expect to grow sales this year, buoyed by their optimism about the strength of regional, national and global economies, according to the 2019 National Manufacturing Survey Report prepared by Leading Edge Alliance (LEA), a global association of 220 accounting and consulting firms. “Across the board, manufacturers are optimistic about the…
Achieving the full societal benefits of curing chronic or life-threatening diseases will remain an elusive goal unless the pharmaceutical industry changes its economic model, according to new report by Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The report, titled Aligning Economic Incentives to Eradicate Diseases, was recently released. The study recommends that the industry replace its current economic…
Nearly 15% of people use social media to find a new job, according to a new survey from Clutch, a B2B ratings and reviews firm. Social media use in recruiting varies by industry. For example, recruiters in creative fields can identify candidates on visual platforms like Instagram, while traditional businesses are more likely to discover…
Gravyty, is a leading provider of AI-enabled fundraising software. This week it announced that The College of Charleston (CofC), a nationally recognized public liberal arts and sciences university with 10,000 undergraduate and approximately 1,000 graduate students, internationally known for its history, architecture, culture, and coastal environment, has expanded the capacity of its Advancement workforce by…
A new report from the world’s leading scheduling platform, Doodle, interviewed over 6,500 professionals across the USA, Germany, Switzerland & the UK and examined 19 million meetings arranged through its platform in 2018. Professionals spend 2 hours a week in pointless meetings, which will add up to over $541bn worth of resource in 2019 –…
By the Price of Business Show, Hosted by Kevin Price. The Price of Business is a media partner of this site. Price of Business Host Kevin Price talked with cybersecurity expert Tom Kelly, president and CEO of ID Experts, about the recent Marriott breach that affected more than 500 million guests and how Americans can protect their privacy in the aftermath of this record-breaking…
Many U.S. companies are looking for assistance from cybersecurity consulting and training vendors as they face constant attacks from outside their organizations and the use of unauthorized IT products by employees on the inside, according to a new report published today by Information Services Group (ISG) (Nasdaq: III), a leading global technology research and advisory…
The Paychex | IHS Markit Small Business Employment Watch closed the year with a decline in small business job growth and continued, moderate growth in hourly earnings. The Small Business Jobs Index stands at 98.88 in December, down 0.13 percent for the month and 0.82 percent for the year. At $26.95, hourly earnings in December gained…
New Jersey’s acute care hospitals deliver a $23.6 billion boost to the state economy, along with 150,000 jobs, according to the 2018 Economic Impact Report by the New Jersey Hospital Association. (PRNewsfoto/New Jersey Hospital Association) “Healthcare is a critical part of New Jersey’s economic infrastructure,” said NJHA President and CEO Cathy Bennett. “The $23.6 billion…
New research from Parks Associates shows the prospect of saving money, either through reduced household bills or a discount on insurance premiums, raises the interest in smart home devices among 60% of the U.S. broadband households that do not own and do not intend to purchase a smart home device. The research firm will host…
Professor Greaves, or Sir Mel, as he can now be known, has carried out groundbreaking work to understand the hidden natural history and causes of childhood leukemia during a 35-year career at The Institute of Cancer Research, London – leading to advances in diagnosis, treatment and potentially prevention. He has also been a pioneer in identifying…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it will ban a device that delivers painful electrical shocks to the skin to “modify” behavior in disabled students at the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center (JRC) in Massachusetts. In a publication of its upcoming priorities, FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said the FDA was planning to issue…
Collabsight, a startup market research and management consulting firm, finished its analysis of its 2018 holiday season prediction survey. The predictions are overwhelmingly optimistic – results indicate an over 70% chance of U.S. consumers spending as much or more this holiday season, and taking on the same or more debt to support this spending, as…
By the Price of Business Show, Hosted by Kevin Price. The Price of Business is a media partner of this site. Price of Business Host Kevin Price talked with cybersecurity expert Tom Kelly, president and CEO of ID Experts, about a recent survey in USA Today that found data privacy was the number one social issue Americans wanted companies to address – above health…
GRC – Growth, Risk, and Compliance – has fast become the most important movement in business management. Organizations across different industries are implementing GRC solutions to improve overall management, compliance levels, and risk management. One major overlooked factor in the growth of GRC is the advancements in technology. While GRC solutions may seem similar to…
Access to bank loans for small businesses climbed last quarter signaling strength and optimism in the economy, according to the latest Private Capital Access Index (PCA Index) from Dun & Bradstreet and Pepperdine Graziadio Business School. Fifty-five percent (55%) of surveyed businesses reported successful financing with a business bank loan, a record high since the…
With an estimated 270 million Americans viewing their smartphones about 14 billion times per day, the smartphone continues to reign supreme as consumers’ preferred device for online actions, as well as for controlling and monitoring many daily activities, according to Deloitte’s U.S. edition of the “2018 Global Mobile Consumer Survey.” This year smartphone penetration rose…
The first book in its genre, Genius Weapons: Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Weaponry, and the Future of Warfare (Prometheus Books, November 6, 2018) by Louis A. Del Monte, delineates the new arms race between the United States, China, and Russia to develop genius weapons, weapons whose artificial intelligence greatly exceeds human intelligence and the destructive force…
Most professionals feel confident testing the employment waters, even from their current office, research suggests. In a survey from global staffing firm Accountemps, 78 percent of workers said they would feel at least somewhat comfortable looking for a new job while with their present company. More than six in 10 respondents (64 percent) indicated they’d…