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  BaseKit: The Website Builder for 2016

  Website builders have given power to the common web user without coding skills to make great websites. BaseKit is a product for both beginners and professionals. Beginners can use this robust product to create website with simple copy and paste functions just like in Word! Getting started You can choose from one of the four packages; free, basic, business and enterprise. Bandwidth and Google optimization is available for all the packages. Disk spaces ranges from 500 MB in the free package to unlimited in the enterprise package. Business and enterprise packages also enjoy Google analytics and theme customization. There are no limits to webpages or blog posts for all packages. You can start on the enterprise package for $1 for the first month and keep it or downgrade to the other packages. User experience The user gets a simple but powerful interface with drag and drop features. There are templates to choose from and build on. The user can use photo stock images or upload own images and videos. Different formats are supported. The user needs no experience in XHTML/XML/XSLT as the website builder does the heavy lifting. When objects are dropped onto the template they will fit into place automatically, so there is no need of experience with frames and tables. Themes and templates can be changed without losing their original look. The user can change font and color as well as view it before publishing. Features Blog - you can create multimedia blog posts and add maps, videos, images and audio. There are social plug-ins for easier sharing of your blog posts. You can add a comments section for better feedback from site visitors. Ecommerce- only free members miss out on this feature. Sell your services and products online with an online store. The ecommerce feature is powerful giving you sophisticated back end capabilities like order processing, products import and so on. Contact forms – these are standard for every package. All you have to affix is the email address to receive the form data. Google – All templates are Google optimized to help your website rank faster. Business and enterprise packages can also view how well their website is doing by using Google analytics already in place. Easy publishing – You can preview your website before publishing. After reviewing everything, publish with a single click. BaseKit offers a simple and powerful website building engine that can turn out great websites by the average web user. The added value of Google optimization makes it different from competing website builders.

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  7 Women Founders Making Moves in Tech

  Women have been making their way into the technology market for a while now, and it's great to see them flourish in a male-dominated branch. I think they should often be paid more than men, because there are a lot of setback on their journey; setbacks that men don't have to deal with, you can find out a lot on women in tech through the social encyclopedia. Elizabeth Holmes The San Francisco transplant founded Theranos, a blood test company now worth more than $10 billion, when she was a 19-year-old engineering student at Stanford. She dropped out of the elite university, and used the money her parents had saved to put toward her career. Holmes completely transformed the health care industry by making blood testing less painful and more efficient. Ruzwana Bashir She is another woman that is making moves in tech and is originally from England, Bashir is of Pakistani descent and on Forbes 30 Under 30 in Technology list. After graduating from Oxford and Harvard Business School, she started her career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and private equity at Blackstone Group. In 2012, she founded Peek, which functions like Open Table but for vacation activities. It has received funding from Jack Dorsey and other tech big wigs. Bashir also used her success as a way to speak out against sexual abuse because of personal trauma. Marissa Mayer The current President and CEO of Yahoo started out as a pre-med student at Stanford, but before she graduated she would switch to symbolic systems and specialize in artificial intelligence. Mayer received 14 job offers when she graduated from Stanford, and took a job at Google as the company's first female engineer and their 20th employee. Angela Ahrendts The Indiana native left her position as CEO of Burberry in 2014, where she tripled the luxury fashion company's revenue during her tenure, according to Forbes. Ahrendts was hired by Apple, where she remains the company's sole female senior executive. Amy Hood Amy Hood is the first female chief financial officer of Microsoft Corporation, a position she has been holding since 2013. Hood joined Microsoft in 2002 and has been holding several senior-level positions since then, including corporate vice president and general manager. Susan Wojcicki Next powerful women on our social encyclopedia list is Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube. Google's employee No. 16, Wojcicki took over as head of the world's largest video platform YouTube in 2014. Before this she was Google consigliere for Google's ads and commerce. Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook Sheryl Sandberg is the chief operating officer of the world's largest social network Facebook since 2012. Sandberg and is ranked on Fortune's list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business and as one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World.

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  7 MOST ANTICIPATED TECH TRENDS IN THE 2016 CONSUMER ELECTRONICS

  In the technology world, developments occur at a fast pace due to the stiff and tough competition. Startups are unpredictable, and the already existing companies will not relent in any way. The year 2016 will highlight incremental developments in technology that will serve as a benchmark for a much smarter future. 4k Camera Drones, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, and smart cars will move to the critical stages in 2016 as hardware is commercialized. Some of the most anticipated technology trends in the 2016 consumer electronics include: 1. Drones Many companies like DJI, GoPro, Flyer, and Intelligent Energy have changed the way we look at drones. Drones are no longer mere toys. In 2016, we'll be expecting more 4k Camera drones, and hydrogen powered drones. The 4K Camera drones even at a farther distance will still successfully produce a crystal clear image. It will definitely enhance surveillances, selfies, video recordings, and live streaming. The hydrogen-powered ones will be able to stay much longer in the sky. 2. Virtual Reality will soon become Reality Virtual reality is one of the most anticipated technology by every gamer out there. Everyone wants to know how it feels when you are not only controlling the game with consoles & joysticks, but you are involved in the live action. Oculus first introduced VR with the release of Oculus Rift back in 2014. Companies like Sony and HTC have also joined the race, even though there have only been releases of beta version but no finished products. I hope that before the end of 2016, the first sets of Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR should be on sale. 3. Our Cars will get Smarter Energy efficient vehicles, with incredible speed and acceleration, will be released. As we anticipate these fully autonomous babies from Ford, BMW, Mercedes, etc., some of the things we can expect are self-driving, touch controls, amazing designs, very fast speed, energy efficiency, safety etc. Most of these car companies have collaborated with some technology companies to make these a reality. 4. Robots and Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence, similar to the technology that powers iOS's Siri, Windows' Cortana, and Google's search engine powered by machine learning technology, will continue to be consolidated into technology products, services and software in 2016 as mobility remains front and center. Robots able to interact with every member of the family will also go on sale soon. 3D printers will also begin to gain recognition. 5. Smart wears. These days, we do not only wear watches to check time. We expect our watches to do more. Samsung, Huawei, Forgot Pebbles are now making smarter watches than can monitor our health ranging from heartbeat, pulse rate, etc. The can also communicate with our Mobile devices and some other home appliances. They will be able to connect directly to the Internet. Some companies are also planning to release smart jewelry, which will look appealing to women and smarter foot wears. 6. Improvements in Smartphones There will always be improvements and modifications to be made in every smartphone. We anticipate smartphones with a 4K screen, powerful cameras, fingerprint recognition technology, faster processing speed, higher RAM and much more storage spaces. Even in the OS, improvements will always be expected. All these are due to the stiff competitions between the players. Samsung, Apple, HTC, Microsoft, Sony, LG, etc. will always drop a smartphone that will keep on blowing our respective minds. Further plans are also in place for the development of self-charging phones i.e. phones that will charge themselves through wireless transmissions and wavelengths. 7. Smart Home Appliances ​ Home appliances will be now come with super smart features designed for the way we live. We will have more smart televisions with 4K screens, split units, smart refrigerators, ovens, washing machine, etc. All these will come with a general control system.

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