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With the click of a mouse button, you can send an email from one point of the globe to another in a matter of seconds. Most of us take this process for granted, giving little thought to how it actually works. It’s easy to understand how standard snail-mail gets from point A to point B…
[Read More]Update Your Geolocation This page requires you to approve the usage of browser location services. This page performs a comparison of several geolocation service providers: W3C Geolocation, Quova, Maxmind, and IP2Location. The W3C Geolocation service determins location by the browser providing GPS location (if available) and signal strengths of visible WiFi annoucements. Each provider determins…
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Learn what an internet service provider is and how to shop for the right one for your home or office.
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Integrated Service Digital Network, or ISDN, is the original high-speed internet service. It sparked the high-speed internet development between service providers during the 1990s and, of course, revolutionized internet use. Much like its predecessor, the dial-up internet service, ISDN utilizes a phone line. In fact, it set the standard for telephone data service. ISDN internet…
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It seems as if the latest thing is the “Internet of Things.” Have you heard that expression before, or come across it in print or in an online article? If you did, did the writer bother to provide an explanation? There’s a good chance he or she didn’t. For some reason, the Internet of Things…
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Your access to the Internet is determined by many factors. Your school or your local library can put limits on websites you can see. However, beyond that, most of us are used to accessing pretty much what we want on the Internet. Some households even put Internet filters on their networks, voluntarily, to prevent access…
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The Internet handles every transaction or request you’ll make today, tomorrow and the next day, along with the online requests of billions of other Internet users around the world. With incredible consistency and seemingly without fail, it takes care of our emails, Google searches, credit card payments and social media posts, and it gives us…
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If you can remember the last time you had to set up an email account, you may recall being asked to choose between POP or IMAP. And if you’re like most people, you had no idea what a POP or an IMAP was, much less why you would prefer one to the other. POP vs.…
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