Touchscreens are becoming an integral part of our way of life.

Consumer spending heavily depends on digital currency and possibly someday paper money will be obsolete.  It may sound fantastic but consider the frequency of which you yourself use a credit card to buy things, go online to shop, or receive gift cards preloaded with a specific dollar amount.  Probably you pay your bills via internet banking, pay-at-the-pump with a credit card, as well as purchase movie tickets online.  Once you take into account the frequency of which you actually use digital currency on a day-to-day basis, we aren’t really that far off from going completely digital with our currency. The Bitcoin revolution? Did you know there is an increasingly popular digital currency currently in “circulation?” Bitcoin, first seen in 2009, is an “unhackable” peer-to-peer digital currency that’s recognized worldwide and can used to buy goods and services

There’s a significant distinction between Android smartphones and Apple’s iPhones. Android phones, powered by Google, permit a remarkable amount of customization. Android phones are open source.

As the holidays quickly approach, advertisers appear to be pushing smartphones and tablets as the only tech gifts available this season. However, there are many other good high-tech gift ideas that will make that tech savvy relative happy without breaking the bank, and many of these are flying under the shopping radar. Some are fantastic for the eco-conscious, some are great for that inner geek in all of us, and some are even perfect for those lucky ones who already own a smartphone and tablet.

The Intel 4004 was the first CPU on a single chip and the first available to the commercial market. Recently it celebrated it’s 40th birthday! We would like to say thank you to the microprocessor that grandfathered the CPUs we have today. A CPU is the brain of a computer.