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This article was first published by  dmcityview.com Traditionally there are a couple times a year when technophiles start brimming with excitement, and it’s always around early spring and early fall. If the seasons are about to change you can safely bet your house that the big manufacturers in technology are about to unveil the next iteration of their flagship smartphones. Firms roll out the red carpet for fanboys, eager tech reporters, and even competitors who they want to impress with the latest innovation in compact computer wizardry. But as we just learned last month with Apple’s latest tech launch extravaganza, its latest version of the iPhone is nothing to get excited or even remotely jealous about. Truthfully the only innovation to iPhone SE is its name and size. All of the features within the new phone already exist in last years iPhone 6s, except now they’re shrunken down to a more comfortable size for your hand. If you loved the fast load time of the A9 processor, the mov

This article was first published by  dmcityview.com Visit any major tech website this week there’s a very good chance their top story has to do with virtual reality. Once a 90s geek pipe, virtual reality seems to ready for primetime in all avenues of home entertainment. Gaming, movies, concerts, sports, pornography, every type of media diversion you can imagine is one or two years away from providing a firehose of VR content. However Google is secretly making a play at a different type of altered reality, and it’s headset is can barely be identified by the naked eye. For about five years now, the unfulfilled promise of Google Glass has been a rather annoying stick in the company’s innovative craw. Unlike the burgeoning VR field, Google Glass was all about AR, or augmented reality. Whereas virtual reality transports you to another world via a headset that is nothing more than a blinder when powered down, augmented reality takes the world around us and adds a digital layer of informa

This article was first published by  dmcityview.com How many times have you found yourself complaining about the limited amount of space on your phone? Across the planet, billions of smartphone users have encountered this frustrating experience. If you can get past your personal frustrations for a second, consider the firestorm of rage the companies that power the applications encounter trying to store and process the entire world’s data; and that’s every day, all day. While your phone is a convenient delivery system for web provided content, it’s actually a deeply layered onion of computer processing power that can only be understood by examining cloud computing. With one tap of your finger, smartphone applications offer you direct access to boundless sources of entertainment, financial, and educational content. Unlike your phone's web browser which demands you to navigate the internet to your desired content, applications host exactly what you’re looking for in a piece of sof

This article was first published by  dmcityview.com Not everybody gets to work their dream job. Generations of children went through years of school dreaming of becoming an author, read every book they could get their hand on, went on to earn a degree in English from their favorite liberal arts college, only to work in financial services, insurance, or teach. If there is any consolation for those who aimed for the moon, only to land in the stars it's that people are not alone in falling short of their dreams. Businesses too can stop short of the promised land, for a recent example look no further than Meerkat. Just over a year ago, Meerkat was the hottest app is social media video broadcasting. Users downloaded the app to the iOS device, linked the service with their Twitter and Facebook feeds, and then broadcast live video from wherever they are via Wifi or cellular data plan. Meerkat rocketed from complete obscurity to millions within a month. As if that wasn’t enough, at the

This article was first published by  dmcityview.com One of the worst aspects of working in a professional environment is email. Between Reply-All assassins, single sentence sinners, and coworkers who write 6-page love letters over the use of em dashes versus en dashes, most professional inboxes are full of worthless correspondence. It’s no secret that email is huge productivity killer, the question is what tool to replace it with. Thankfully the rise of the application ecosystem has provided a plethora of options meant for both professional and personal use, with the hottest being Slack. Business communication is tricky. Some projects and teams communicate so often messages can pile up and easily be missed. Well where Outlook –the the king of professional memos– falls short, Slack and a few of its peers really take off. The short version of Slack’s genius is messaging grouped around common threads and collaborators. The long version involves project management, message nesting, doc