TechImpact

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Dollar for dollar, VOIP phone services are the cheapest options available for nonprofit organizations seeking a versatile communication platform. By calling long distance over the internet you are avoiding the use of the traditional phone infrastructure that make calling long-distance so costly. Let’s get right down to it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

In order for one computer to talk to another computer on the internet, it needs an address, the same as you have an address so that people know where to send you junk mail catalogs. This system is called IPv4, or Internet Protocol Version 4. It’s a new and improved internet Protocol, IPv6. to 255.255.255.255.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2025

Mobile giving is raising funds through a mobile device, whether via text, the Internet, an app, or email. Donors can text a unique keyword or donation amount to your nonprofits dedicated phone number. Donation pages Donors are already used to giving via an online donation page on their desktop or laptop computers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

You need a mobile phone number to create an account. It is especially popular with grassroots organizations in the developing world because it is free and does not require an Internet connection. FrontlineSMS is an award-winning free, open source software that turns a laptop and a mobile phone into a central communications hub.

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The Verge

MARCH 26, 2022

The way satellite navigation works, phones or other receivers look for signals from a network of satellites that maintain a fixed orbit. The satellites send messages with the time and their location, and once it’s received, the phones note how long each message took to arrive, then use that data to figure out where on Earth they are.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 28, 2010

is all of the above except that the Web experience is no longer limited to desktop and laptop computers while stationary in one place. It’s the Internet on the go fueled by mobile phones and tablets. Text-to-Give technology allows quick, easy donations on your mobile phone inspired by urgent calls to actions.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 11, 2014

Mary Meeker of the of the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, does a yearly report on current state of the Internet and IT at about half way through the year. Here's what I found: Internet growth: 2.6 billion people are now using the Internet worldwide, 618 million of them are in China.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2013

Twitter and other social media services offer verification logins. That means if try to log on from an unfamiliar IP address, the service will send a code via SMS to your mobile phone and you enter that code. Every so often, it is a good idea to do security and privacy assessment of your Internet presence.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Mistral released impressive new small language models that can run on laptops and even phones with its Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B, as did Microsoft with its Phi-3 and Phi-4 models. This makes it possible for the model to watch a video clip, or live video from a phone camera, and quickly analyze and reason about it.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

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. As smartphones mature, we’re doing more on them and less on our laptops. Often our best contact lists are now on our phones. Mobile Addiction. The downside?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The startup wants to make it easy to use the phone that you have in your pocket with the livestreaming platform that you already use, such as Zoom, Google Meet, Twitch, Hopin or YouTube Live. First, as Joanna Stern of the Wall Street Journal demonstrated , laptop webcams suck. The future of photography is code.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

I checked my phone three times just writing this paragraph.) The premise is simple: a camera built into the frame of Specs uses machine learning to identify what you’re looking at, whether that’s a laptop, book, or a fellow human being. Auctify’s Specs (above) are being marketed as a “productivity-boosting” tool. Image: Auctify.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 24, 2021

They’re only on phones, tablets, and computers for now. Unfortunately as of now, our X-rays aren’t available on TVs and can only be accessed on phones, tablets, or laptops. But I couldn’t find them on Apple TV or Google TV, and the showrunners have confirmed that’s because Amazon hasn’t made them available there yet.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The newest version of your favorite phone may go up a little, but you’ll recoup any up front loss in the long run. The Internet behemoth unveiled the Now on Tap feature that cuts down on the amount of time you need to find something on your phone from minutes to mere seconds. Microsoft Takes Over the Laptop/Tablet Hybrid Scene.

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The Verge

MARCH 16, 2021

There are a lot of iPad keyboard cases out there that aim to turn Apple’s tablet into a laptop, but the Kensington StudioDock is something altogether different: it turns your iPad Pro into the world’s tiniest iMac. It’s really quite adorable, if you find things like the idea of wired internet connectivity on a tablet adorable.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Getting the shot, which has drawn a few cynics on the internet, wasn't as easy as the click of a button. The equipment included 14-inch and 11-inch telescopes, a couple of cameras, cell phones, and a Canon R5 with a 1,000-millimeter telephoto lens. Then he set up a Starlink to connect to high-speed internet.

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2021

While Nielsen has tried to calculate the popularity of various streaming programs before (through audio analysis ), The Gauge seems to hew closer to the ways Nielsen has measured TV viewership in the past: via a device which, according to The New York Times , “observes internet traffic that passes through a router.” Image: Nielsen.

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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2021

Shopping for a phone plan doesn’t have to be painful Some of us get excited about shopping for a new phone (New technology! but none of us enjoy shopping for a new phone plan. If you also happen to be shopping for a new device, we’ve got suggestions for the best phone you can buy right now and the best phone under $500.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

If you are presenting remotely you need two things: a robust Internet connection and a moderator in the room who can serve as a bridge between you and the folks in the room. It is also helpful to have a back channel for communications with the moderator. We had a very reliable Internet connection.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Home office supplies Home office supplies — from your laptop to your pens and pencils — are all considered tax deductible for small business owners and solopreneurs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

Technology can be a huge barrier for inclusion if we don’t consider the digital divide of skills, tools, and Internet speeds when selecting platforms and tools for meetings. Organizations have to consider more than just Zoom and high speed Internet, everything needs to be digital to get the job done.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

” His work is focused on this question: What if there were a way to use the internet – and all our web-connected phones and tablets and laptops and games consoles – to foster rather than erode our attention spans, and to replace that sense of edgy distractedness with calm? ” (Note: I created a list.ly

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The Next Web

JANUARY 25, 2014

Short for Bring Your Own Device, the movement means employees can use their own digital tools, like laptops and smartphones, instead of the ones that are provided (or not provided) for them by an employer. The fact of the matter is, a phone has as much access to the Internet in the office as it does outside the office.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2011

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. Developing countries are moving toward LTE or WiMAX to generate data networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2008

Yes, I hope they will contribute the $10 so we can win the $50,000 (which will certainly help us make improvements to our computer school and the Sharing Foundation's many other programs), but I am also want feedback about how to improve a computer program in a rural village in a developing country with really slow Internet.

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The Verge

MARCH 28, 2022

Reviewers like myself find these very helpful in comparing laptops we test to each other. However, the free version requires an internet connection and can’t be run offline. For the next few weeks, we’re showing you how to run various commonly used benchmarks on your PC.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

This tool allows nonprofits to easily create Web-based Internet “TV” stations. Definitely a trend to keep your eyes on as Internet TV begins to penetrate our living rooms in coming years. Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: web.archive.org. You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone.

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Care2

DECEMBER 10, 2014

According to Pew Research , 63% of adult cell owners use their phones to go online, as of May 2013, and 34% of cell internet users go online mostly using their phones, and not using some other device such as a desktop or laptop computer.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 6, 2016

. • Health care, online payment systems, smart homes … everything will start to be connected with apps that utilize the Internet of Things (IoT). But to keep them relevant and useful app developers will have to focus on cross-platform structures that help people transition from desktop to laptop to tablet to phone.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

It's hardly news to anyone that we're experiencing a gradual convergence of phones, Internet, computers, video, and social networking. We now have smart phones that use wireless 3G and 4G networks to receive and send data, voice, and video. We have laptops, netbooks, and tablet computers that can go everywhere with us.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2006

Our agency has that functionality - we have disaster web site, email address and phone number on our ID badges to let the agency know where we are and what is happening, but there isn't any connection outside. Sure, not as important as search and rescue, food and water, but I think it's up there with healing from the incident. -

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2010

In a time of crisis, there's so much need for food, water, shelter, medical care, and whatnot, but the communications infrastructure has made securing those things much harder, since phone, computer, and Internet systems have been damaged as well. World Concern and InterConnection are asking for your help.

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The Verge

MAY 2, 2021

Specifically, it’s powered by the Snapdragon 7c Compute SC7180, the type of chip you’d generally expect to see in a tablet or phone. I’m picky about touchpads, but this one is quite roomy, with a smooth Gorilla Glass surface — I’d choose it over plenty of touchpads I’ve used on multi-thousand dollar Windows laptops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

However, in one of the discussion threads on the Summit wiki, there has been mention about using cameraphones or smart phones for this in addition to. Our questions were: What do you need to know about web/blog design so that your blog can be read by people on a mobile phone? What video hosting platforms support cell phones?

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are the biggest shopping days of the year, a relentless, deals-packed weekend when you can find the best prices on tech products like laptops, 4K TVs, phones, and more. Slickdeals aggregates some of the best deals around the internet, as discovered by its team and community of users. Slickdeals.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 29, 2020

If you bought a new Windows laptop on Black Friday or received one as a gift, you may be struggling to figure out which apps to download. I have scoured the internet, the Microsoft Store, and my own downloads folder to find all the best Windows apps for whatever purpose you may need. Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge. Never fear.

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2011

One of our hopes was getting a strong FCC ruling on Net Neutrality to protect free speech and innovation on the Internet. NTEN and other public interest organizations were pushing for a rule that would prevent Internet providers from acting like Web gatekeepers. In December, the FCC passed a weak Net Neutrality rule. Join us!

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