Starting an ecommerce business can be stressful.
Not because it's difficult, but because there's just so much information out there. It's hard to know what to do and when. Sure, you can figure it out through trial and error, but that can get expensive. Fast.
Throwing your computer at the wall can seem like a better solution. But, before you launch your laptop at the drywall, keep reading. The four steps I... Posted: 04/14/17 [ Read More... ]
Most people are still trying to comprehend President Donald Trump’s highly controversial immigration ban, and the way things are going, it seems that Silicon Valley will also have to brace itself for various changes in regards to the H-1B visas given to foreign experts. Posted: 04/11/17 [ Read More... ]
Libraries have been vital in communities for ages. Now, in the era of digital media and instant information, more people are doing research and other traditional library tasks digitally. With so many people receiving information "on the go," local Tomball and Spring-area libraries are working to evolve in the digital times.
Social media platforms are one of the main avenues libraries are connecting with others digitally.
The American Community Survey, which is... Posted: 04/10/17 [ Read More... ]
Most people don’t look forward to doctors’ visits. As kids, we dreaded the needles and the medicine. As adults, we dread the time off work, the commute to the doctor’s office, and worst of all, the wait. So it’s no surprise that modern healthcare consumers are eager to bypass all that. Accustomed to getting everything from banking services to entertainment on demand, they are ready to approach their healthcare...
Posted: 04/07/17 [ Read More... ]
Companies know that at scale, small details can make a big difference. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the realm of design.
While some in the C-Suite deride design as superficial, design isn’t just the way something looks. Design dictates the way we do our jobs, build our businesses and live our lives.
For design skeptics, there’s plenty of data to back up these claims. A study by DMI and Motiv... Posted: 04/03/17 [ Read More... ]
With 2016 over and done with, the gears are turning. Q1 of 2017 is well underway, and with it does come the next ecommerce technology trends. Last year turned out some rather impressive numbers for ecommerce. According to eMarketer, ecommerce generated an estimated 8.6% of all retail spending in 2016, hauling in about $1.915 trillion.
Posted: 03/31/17 [ Read More... ]
When technology and human ingenuity gets together, everybody in society profits. If you look at graphs of GDP / capita over long time periods (850 years+), the trend is always upwards. The only things that drag this progress down are severe periods of sickness (like the black death) and widespread war (such as WW2). Overall though, technology makes everyone healthier and richer.
At this point in our society’s history – technology has... Posted: 03/27/17 [ Read More... ]
The IoT itself can’t even be considered futuristic anymore. It’s here now. In fact, it’s become so big that this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas dedicated a whole track to it.In December, too, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) released a consumer study that showed that close to two-thirds of American consumers own at least one connected device.That includes connected cars, connected/smart TVs, fitness trackers, home control... Posted: 03/24/17 [ Read More... ]
Artificial intelligence has taught itself to create its own encryption and produced its own universal 'language'. Now it's writing its own code using similar techniques to humans.
A neural network, called DeepCoder, developed by Microsoft and University of Cambridge computer scientists, has learnt how to write programs without a prior knowledge of code.
First reported by the New Scientist, the system works by taking lines of code from existing programs and combining... Posted: 03/20/17 [ Read More... ]
Adobe, one of the world’s largest and most powerful software companies, is trying something new: It’s applying machine learning and image recognition to graphic and web design. In an unnamed project, the company has created tools that automate designers’ tasks, like cropping photos and designing web pages. Should designers be worried?
The new project, which uses Adobe’s AI and machine learning program Sensei and integrates into the Adobe Experience Manager CMS,... Posted: 03/17/17 [ Read More... ]