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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

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To be able to telework, people usually need five things: a computer or tablet, broadband Internet, access to work email, access to work documents, and a phone. The processing power of our mobile phones roughly doubles every 18 months as does storage capacity, as do Internet speeds with the advent of faster 4G and 4G LTE mobile networks.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

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2013 was the year of an ever-widening NSA spying scandal with its revelations of how little digital privacy we really have – even heads of state. Tablet sales are up 53% while laptop and desktop computers are down 11% from the previous year. The much-heralded wearable computing era arrived with a crop of smartwatches during 2013.

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What Will Happen When PCs and Mobile Phones Converge?

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By "near" he is talking about 2013 or 2014. The robust smartphones of the near future will likely use a combination of mobile apps and cloud apps and because we'll dock them so much with our laptops, we'll begin using those types of applications much more on our computers as well.

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Mobile for Good: Earth Month Edition

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To celebrate, I've rounded up some of the latest news in green mobile technology news. Fairphone wanted to do something more so they decided to make their dream earth-friendly phone a reality. Owners of a Fairphone will also be able to easily order new parts in case their phone is damaged. 11,000 were laptops.

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How Security Breaches Really Happen at Your Nonprofit

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" Monochrome green code scrolls across his screen, and an unnecessarily large "Transfer Status" window shows stolen data in the process of being transferred. According to the August 2014 Symantec Intelligence Report , there were 259 data breaches between September 2013 and August 2014. Accidental leakage (21 percent).

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Tech for Good at Mobile World Congress

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Besides the latest and greatest smartphones and tablets, the conference is a forum for innovation, ranging from green technology to accessibility. Windows Phone 8. Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 had solid representation at the show with Nokia showing off a few new smartphones, including the Lumia 520 and Lumia 720.

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Nonprofit Technology News Celebrity Forecasts for 2014

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Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014.