Keeping you and your colleagues on schedule can be tricky if some of your organization’s work involves being on-site and meeting with donors. Add to that the annual fundraising gala or organizing staff for a booth at a fair and scheduling can become a nightmare. Thanks to ever growing wi-fi networks and smartphones, though, keeping […]
#Tech: Near-Field Communication (NFC) Could Turn Smartphones Into Donation Engines
Near-Field Technology (NFC) allows short-range communications between an NFC antenna or engineered SIM card and a receiver. The communication is good only up to a couple of feet, which might help make it a secure connection because eavesdroppers need to be next to the users. It is a technology that first appeared in Taiwan in 2007, […]
Tech: Is The iPad Losing Its Sheen In The Tablet Market?
As the first economic quarter winds up for 2011, we will be barraged with numbers about economic growth, unemployment figures, the rising price of gasoline… Many of those numbers will be too low, or too high, for most of our liking. But in today’s tech posting, we wanted to catch up with the numbers in […]
#Tech: Nielson Reports Smartphone Use Up To 28% In US
The people at the Nielson rating agency have just posted information about the use of smart phones (phones with an operating system for applications beyond phone/text communications) in the United States. For those of us who follow the industry, the numbers are striking though not surprising: Adaptation of smartphone technology continues to outpace traditional cellphone […]