(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business . Did you miss them?
Twitter has been struggling with the decision to increase its 140-character limit and so far the purists are winning. But just this week, it was reported that the company will no longer be including photos and links in that count.
Why this is important for your business:
The more space you have, the more information you can provide to your Twitter followers. This move should hopefully give you a little more wiggle room to get the messages out.
2 – A translation earpiece allows you to understand languages you’ve never learned. According to this report from Forbes: Two Bluetooth earbuds, one in your ear, one in your other-language-speaking counterpart, let you communicate almost normally, just by speaking your own language. Page 1 / 3 Continue
Why this is important for your business:
If you do a lot of international travel, language is a huge challenge. This little gadget won’t be able to negotiate better deals for you, but hopefully it’ll help you better understand what’s going on!
Amazon Echo has been getting a lot of press lately because it’s a very cool little device that will perform functions and look up information for people on voice commands from across a room. It’s considered to be one of the first functional examples of how the smart home will work in the future. And now Google is getting into the game with its own competitor: Google Home.
Why this is important for your business: Here’s yet another hint of what’s to come in the smart home industry. If your business makes products or technologies for the home, you may want to think about how these […]
