Author: Ala

First and foremost, what is robo advisors? Robo-advisors or Robo-advisers are a type of financial adviser that provides financial advice or Investment management advice online with very minimal human interference or help. Have we truly lost the plot abusing the innovations of great men such as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates? Have we become completely inundated with technology? There are pros and cons to everything in life, so in short, we’ll analyses the virtues and vices of Robo advisors. One of the advantages of robo-advisors is that they are cheap alternatives to traditional human advisors. As with all industries...

If there’s one thing we have in this age it’s choice and lots of it. We are literally a spoiled generation. We have so much in every aspect of our lives that at times we don’t even know what to go for. This fact especially true for computers. Ever since the 2000’s the computer industry boomed past a point anyone could ever imagine. Many brands emerged onto the market, some succeeded others not so much. Let’s get into the best brands of the last 10 years. Apple laptops are known to be a reliable bunch of computerized buddies. When...

Spyware or spying software is as its name implies. It is software that actively gathers information about an individual or an organization without their knowledge that may send such information to another entity without consent. There are four types of spying software namely adware, system monitor, Trojans and tracking cookies. Most people are familiar with tracking cookies and adware. Tracking cookies are used to gather information across two unrelated websites or to present customized data to the internet user. Most websites use tracking cookies and notice is given to users upon opening a website that uses such. These are...

Those of you who are reading this article via a computer, not a Mac or MacBook, will almost certainly have the Windows operating system running your machine. Net Applications, an analytical company that specialises in analysing computer users’ behaviours and patterns, released figures in July 2017 that showed computer operating different versions of the Windows operating system accounted for almost 90 percent of all computers in the world; the exact figure was 88.40 percent. Although hugely popular in desktop and laptop computers, Windows has failed to break into the highly profitable mobile. The same Net Applications report in July...

William Henry Gates III, better known as Bill Gates, is the co-founder and Technology Advisor of Microsoft, the largest software and programming company in the world with annual sales in excess of $85 billion. Gates, along with Paul Allen, launched Microsoft in 1975 and it became the world’s largest PC software company. During his time with the company, Gates has held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect and was, until May 2014, the company’s largest individual shareholder. Gates’ personal fortune stood at a staggering $91.7 billion as of February 2018. It was when gates was 13...