Bulgaria has experienced a rapid growth in the number of internet users since 2000, which spiked from 430,000 to 3.4 million in 2010. Many experts link this rise to the fact that the nation enjoys one of the world's fastest internet broadband connections. In 2014, the country's online marketing value was calculated at 2.6 billion euros by the National Statistical Institute, recording more than 925,000 online shoppers. This trend indicates a yearl...

This post, Control My PC, is really about a few things: Being alert Exercising wisdom Keeping your computer up to date Controlling your online experience Control My PC It's early Fall 2012 and a few days ago the technology company Mashable reposted an article about how Skype is being used as the latest platform to trick us into opening our doors to a computer worm called "Dorkbot." Here's a link to the original TechNewsDaily article that Mashable...

We don't need no battery calibration… let's just buy a new one! "What if we could get people to buy new batteries for all their devices before they're even close to dead? Cha-Ching!" We should care about battery calibration. Hey, batteries get old and need to be replaced, right? Let's take a closer look, because that battery in my cell phone is not available at my local hardware store and it's not 3 bucks! Here are some simple ideas to get you st...

Now is the best time to log into and secure online accounts you have open across all the social and web based sites. How many of us have opened accounts with web based services to accomplish one task and then never return… well, for a really long time… then one day you decide to go log into one of those ancient sites to see what information is out there on (sorry to pick on you) Friendster. Yep, you still have that account out there. But you've g...

Arthur C. Clarke isn't credited with creating the first search engine; that honor goes to a student at McGill University during the infancy of the Internet. Clarke, however, certainly had a handle on what we're still looking for in his HAL 9000 creation—perhaps the most famous example of artificial intelligence of its era. If you'll pardon the quick trip back in movie history, HAL 9000 was the spaceship Discovery's paranoid central computer that ...

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica-Facebook data scandal, Facebook is changing the way that it operates, by putting business posts on the back burner . This is reportedly a response to "Facebook fatigue", which is a euphemism for people getting tired of using the social media network. It's safe to say that the changes are also a form damage control after the data debacle. Facebook execs want users to have a more meaningful experience at the p...

A €150 million injection is a welcome surprise for Bulgarian entrepreneurs, as was recently announced at the Sofia Startup Show. For entrepreneurs, cash is always top of mind when running the day-to-day activities, which means careful attention should be paid to helpful tools that won't drain the budget. Online tools that help with CMS and CRM are a good place to start, but for the event management companies, a little more is needed. Discover onl...

Technology commercialization seems a complicated term at first sight, but its meaning is an easy one: the process of transforming knowledge into services/ products. Simple, but exceptional ideas are analyzed in labs, converted into services and products, and then launched to a wider international community. The main purpose of technology commercialization is to add more value to the new products/services developed and based on the appropriate com...