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Amazon Web Services (AWS), a secure IT infrastructure service platform in the cloud, has helped millions of corporations bring their total cost of ownership (TCO) down by a huge margin. From computing to storage, AWS has it all. AWS means a low headache and a high profit. It is the perfect platform that can fulfill a growing corporation's varying scalability needs with ease and is capable of handling each and every use case. To create an AWS account, you need to go to the  AWS  sign up portal. You need to log in using Amazon's secure server providing the credentials of your existing Amazon account. If you don't have an Amazon account, you can get one in minutes. After logging in you will reach the AWS Console page. You need to provide contact information and indicate the account type on this page. You can either create a company account or create a personal account. In this article, we are going with a personal account. You are required to provide your full name, ...

In the last few years, world-renowned game studio Epic Games has shifted its focus from a product-based model to a service-based model. In a recent interview to GamesIndustry.biz, Donald Mustard, creative director of the studio explained how the studio decided to shift to a "games-as-a-service" model. Microsoft's software-as-a-service offerings such as Office 365 have been well accepted by the world. Office 365  solutions let a person be in office without being in office. Georgia State University saved $1 M in operating costs by switching to Office 365. British Airways is using Office 365 to improve customer experience . Carlsberg is using the solution to improve collaboration among its employees. IBM Cloud's Bluemix  is a platform-as-a-service offering which has attracted a significant amount of global attention. It's a cloud platform which can be used to solve complex business problems in an elegant manner. It supports the creation of new apps and the migr...

Hope is humanity's most powerful weapon. Hope can give people the power which even the heaviest nuclear weapon cannot give. Hope is the biggest source of courage. Hope has never failed humanity., and it never will. Even when there is nothing, there is hope. Bomb blasts and other acts of terror are of regular occurrence in Iraq. Beasts of violence are devouring the spirit of Iraqis. There have been around  171,967 to 191,891 documented civilian deaths from 2003 to present. In countries where the security situation is much better, tech entrepreneurs get an environment conducive to growth. In Iraq, tech entrepreneurs face myriad issues. Doing business in Iraq is difficult. A country's tech startup landscape tells many stories. A strong tech startup landscape means a bright future. Successful tech startups make great contributions to humanity in a million ways. Tech startups are also the best measure of a country's innovative spirit. How is the tech startup landscape in Ir...

Storytelling is an art, ... an art which can win hearts and minds, ... an art which can change lives, ... an art which can spread an idea to millions. When a person tells a story he relives the moments of the story with the audience, it's as if the person's heart beat gets synchronized with the audience. Josh Talks is a storytelling/presentation platform from India, which is creating huge waves in the media. The word "Josh", which is a Hindi word, means a mix of power, energy, passion, inspiration, and determination. It was founded in 2014 with the mission to take interesting stories and ideas from diverse domains to the masses in the country and beyond. The team behind Josh Talks is a conglomeration of brilliant newcomers and veterans from various industries. Shobhit Banga is the Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of the company. Supriya Paul is the Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder. In his teens, Shobhit was an avid cyclist. He was the youngest memb...

Facebook has over 1.86 B monthly active users worldwide. Let's understand how big the number really is. If each of the Facebook users gave one dollar, the money raised would be very close to twice the money raised till December 31, 2016, by Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election. If each of the Facebook users gave one dollar, the money raised would be very close to 19 times the budget of the film The Wolf of Wall Street . If each of the Facebook users gave one dollar, with the money raised around 3,720,074 Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headsets could be bought. American City Business Journals reports, an average smartphone user checks Facebook around 14 times every day or 420 times every month or 5,110 times every year. There are countless incredible  stories of friendship forged on Facebook. Over the years the platform has evolved a lot and offers numerous attractive features for its users. There are people who are making thousands of dollars a week with...

Fiber-optic broadband has massive coverage in countries such as Japan, Korea, and Sweden . Fiber-optics penetration is above 70% in Japan which is the highest in the world. Let's have a look at some of the software solutions which are used in fiber-optics industry for test, inspection, and similar purposes. AFL SimpleView Fiber Inspection Software is from AFL. AFL is a leading global manufacturer of fiber-optic products. AFL has a distributed portfolio that includes plant equipment, test equipment, and inspection equipment. It's headquartered in Duncan, South Carolina. AFL SimpleView is required to use DFS1 Digital FiberScope with a computer running Windows XP or Windows 7. On AFL SimpleView, the user gets a live hi-res "video image of the end-face of an optical fiber." The software solution helps in easy inspection and troubleshooting of optical fibers. The condition of connector end-faces can be verified in the most convenient manner with the help ...

Black Menu for Google (BMFG) is a chrome extension from Carlos Jeurissen  which aims to improve user experience on chrome by providing users quick and convenient access to Google's ever-expanding universe of services. When installed it takes users to a welcome page  on the developer site which guides the user on how to get started. The welcome page also offers the option to contact the developer. To use the extension, you need to click on the extension's button on the extension bar. This opens a popup which gives you access to all the necessary services from Google. You don't even have to leave the page you are on. The search box (search service is selected by default), for instance, allows you to search anything on Google. The results are displayed in the pop-up. The search box has autocomplete feature which assists the user. One problem we noticed (version 14.5.1) was that the extension does not save the results. So, if you open the popup and search a phrase and then cli...