If youre the type that share large documents over the internet then this post is for you.

The widely-known method of sharing files to people at a distance on internet is using emails, but we cant cope anymore with the limitations encountered especially when sharing LARGER files, most email service providers limit the byte size of the file you can send using their email portals.

But with these 14 file sharing websites you can share your large files without any limitation or hassle.

10 best File sharing websites to easily share your large files over the internet

Note: I may not have personally used all of this service, but base on general user rating they offer the best and likely the cheapest way to share you large files online.

Sending and shsring your files with these websites are free, some of them does not even require registering an account with them to start using their services, Almost all of these file sharing websites offer premium service even Google drive.


1. Google Drive
Price: Free

2. Dropbox
Price: Free and Premium

3. Mediashare

4. Box

5. Senduit

6. Dropsend

7. WeTransfer

8. Hightail

9. TransferBigFiles

10. MailBigFile

11. Datafilehost

12. Egnyte

13. Sugarsync

14. OneHub

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To begin with, whats a web browser?

An Internet browser is a computer software application, programmed to interact with the webspace for the purpose of presenting and retrieving data.

The first web browser was designed in 1990 by W3 CEO Sir Tim Berners Lee. Since then there have been tons of web browser invented across several platforms and operating systems.

However, there are a couple of things you should watch out for as you choose your favorite web browser;

* Navigable and simple user-interface
* Security
* Speed
* Fluidness
* Enhanced flexible features

Most times your choice of web browser boils down to the hardware specification of your device, If you install a high-performance web browser like Mozilla or Chrome on a low RAM device, it can make your device go haywire.

Devices with modern processors and RAMS performs better with these top browsers.

However, here is a list of the top 10 web browsers widely used by internet users across multiple types of devices.

1. Google Chrome

Developer: Google
Active Installs: 39% of internet users (800 million)
Global Acceptability: 80%
Performance Ratings: 95%
Cost: free
Extra Features: Extension, chrome apps

2. Mozilla

Developer: Mozilla foundation corporation
Framework: Gecko layout engine
Active Installs: 30% Internet Users (680 million)
Global Acceptability:
Performance Ratings:
Cost:
Extra features: Robust Add-ons and Extension apps

3. Internet Explorer

Developer: Microsoft Corporation
Active Installs: 65% Internet Users (1.7 Billion)
Global Acceptability: 97%
Performance Ratings: 70%
Cost: free
Extra features: Tool bars

4. Safari

Developer: Apple
Active Installs: 12%
Global Acceptability: 40%
Performance Ratings: 80%
Cost: Free
Extra features:------

5. Opera

Developer: Opera software corporations
Active Installs: 80% (50 million)
Global Acceptability:70%
Performance Ratings: 65%
Cost: Free
Extra features:-----

Another internet web browser worth mentioning is the new browser from Microsoft- Edge. Microsoft as an hardware manufacturer of PCs and computer devices usually preinstall internet browsers on all of their Windows operating system.

The company now shift to using Edge as the new official internet browsers pre-installed on newly manufactured PCs.

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Starry Eyes Speedy Internet Access

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Project Decibel on Wednesday announced Starry, a company that promises easy broadband Internet access at speeds of up to 1 GB with no caps.

Starry will deploy what it says is the worlds first millimeter wave band for consumer Internet communications.
Initial deployment will be a beta in Boston in the summer.
Starry has an FCC license to run pilots for 24 months in Boston and 14 other cities: New York, Washington, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Houston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta, Miami, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Seattle, Denver and Chicago.
Consumers will be able to install Starry products themselves, the company said.
It also unveiled Starry Station, a WiFi router with a 3.8-inch ambient capacitive touchscreen priced at US$350.

The Tech Behind Starry

The Starry Internet access network will have a hub-and-spoke architecture. Metro hubs will connect to the subscribers device and act as a home access point.

Its foundation will consist of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing modulation coupled with multiuser multiple input and multiple output. It will have active phased array RF front ends.
"They are talking extremely high frequencies here -- approximately 30 to 300 GHz," remarked Mike Jude, a research manager at Frost & Sullivan.
Propagation issues arise with such high frequencies since they begin to act like a light beam, he told TechNewsWorld. "You have to worry about atmospheric attenuation and so forth."
Further, millimeter waves are pretty short and "would probably interact with atmospheric moisture or dust, so there would be attenuation issues," Jude pointed out.

Starry Station

The Starry Station consists of a polycarbonate cover with a silicone foot measuring 80x178x161 mm.

It has touchscreen ambient and interactive modes, an audio speaker, a microphone, a proximity sensor and amplifiers.
The Starry Station has dual-band concurrent 4x4.3 MIMO 802.11ac WiFi radios, dual-core network and display processors, two 1-GB Ethernet ports, and 1.5 GB of RAM and 8 GB of Flash memory.
Its interoperable with 802.11a/b/g/n and 802.11ac. It works with various devices -- including desktops, laptops and mobile devices -- and runs IPv4.
The Starry Station can be preordered at Starry.com until Feb. 5, after which it will be available on that site and for preorder on Amazon Launchpad.

Strong Points, Weak Points

The Starry solution "is designed to bypass last-mile cable and other carriers," said Sue Rudd, a research director atStrategy Analytics.
Its "just a cool-looking 802.11ac- and 802.15-ready WiFi access point with monitoring features," she told TechNewsWorld.
The Starry solution "would be used where theres no FiOS or cable or where connectivity is maxed out, such as risers in New York office buildings, or where the user wants a non-telco system," Rudd noted.
While using ultrahigh frequencies makes the Starry solution less prone to interference from other transmissions, "youd have less penetration through objects," pointed out Jim McGregor, principal analyst atTirias Research.
Starrys solution would require a network and small cells to support the end connection and then connect to a local network for transmission, he told TechNewsWorld.
Starrys differentiators are that it offers WLAN preintegrated with a millimeter wave backhaul, and its offered as a service by Starry, which "presumably takes care of the Internet connectivity on the other end," Rudd said.
As for the no-cap WiFi access, "WiFi use rarely counts against data caps anyway," she remarked.

Possible Challenges

The company "has as much potential as any other new WLAN hub startup," Rudd said.
The market is competitive, and it will have to take on established competitors such as Apple, Cisco, Netgear, D-Link and Linksys.
"I am very skeptical of service startups, especially those that require the deployment of a new network," McGregor said. "It takes time and money, and unless youre someone like Google, those may be limited."

                           source :- http://www.technewsworld.com/

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Let’s be honest: November isn’t the best time to visit Helsinki. But the gloom that envelops the Finnish capital every autumn didn’t stop some 15,000 visitors from descending on Slush, one of the world’s largest tech gatherings, which drew 1,700 startups this year as well as Google, Nokia and GE.

This shouldn’t be surprising. Although there are only 5.4 million Finns, they’ve had an outsized influence on the technology of our modern lives. Finland, after all, is the home of the open-source operating system Linux as well as Nokia, which set off the explosive growth of mobile communications.

“We have a tradition of working together,” says Peter Vesterbacka, co-founder of Rovio, the company behind Angry Birds, who helped start Slush in 2008. “Maybe it has something to do with our cold winter. If you don’t get your house built, you’ll die.”

GE is tapping into this spirit. Last year, the company’s healthcare business opened the Health Innovation Village, a startup incubator that is helping 26 local companies develop products tied to healthcare and medicine. The Village just partnered with the U.S.-based  StartUp Health, the world’s largest digital health hub, which opened its first international location in Helsinki in November.

But GE is also using local brainpower to change the face of medicine by moving healthcare into the cloud. Its engineers in Helsinki are specifically looking at patient monitoring. They are building wireless tools that could one day be no larger than a Band-Aid and constantly stream heartbeat, blood pressure, respiration and other information into the cloud, where software could analyze it, alert doctors to anomalies and looming crises, and effectively create our digital twins.

“The same transformation that happened with mobile phones is taking place in patient monitoring,” says Erno Muuranto, the engineer leading the effort. “The world is going wireless and wearable. We could run hospitals like smart factories. Wireless sensors and data analytics will help correctly diagnose patients in the ambulance. It will allow us to administer correct treatment faster, which could lead to faster discharge. It will also allow us to monitor people remotely from home. All of this will help improve care and costs.”

Like many members of his team of 60 scientists and engineers, Muuranto came to GE after cutting his teeth at Nokia. The researchers, who specialize in everything from miniaturization and wireless protocols to user experience design, are developing the first generation of wireless sensors that can monitor heartbeat, blood pressure and several other parameters.

On a recent visit his lab, Muuranto attached one such device to a colleague and then monitored her heartbeat and blood oxygen level with an iPhone app the team built using Predix, a software platform GE developed specifically for the Industrial Internet. “It’s still early, but remember how quickly we moved from the mobile phones that looked like a brick to devices that slipped in our pockets,” he says.

Within five years, the technology could enable patient monitoring over a wireless network that will allow doctors to learn what’s happening with a patient from any connected device. Image credit: GE Healthcare

The first opportunity for the tech is to remove the spaghetti strands of wires attached to patients in intensive care units and to use algorithms and analytics to eliminate false alarms. “Some 90 percent of alarms are not actionable,” Muuranto says. “We are looking for ways to use signals from multiple sensors to generate meaningful alarms.”

Within five years, the technology could enable patient monitoring over a wireless network that will allow doctors to learn what’s happening with a patient from any connected device.

“The world is going wireless and wearable,” says GE’s Erno Muuranto. “We could run hospitals like smart factories. Wireless sensors and data analytics will help correctly diagnose patients in the ambulance.” Image credit: GE Reports

The sensors would draw power from a tiny integrated battery and use radio waves to communicate with a receiver either in the patient’s pocket or in his hospital room. Outside the hospital, the information aggregated locally from the sensors could be relayed into a cellular network and automatically provide doctors and hospitals with round-the-clock patient monitoring and an uninterrupted flow of data.

GE Healthcare’s head office in Helsinki has the feel of a startup. It includes Warrior Coffee, an artisanal espresso joint complete with tattooed baristas piping Nirvana and Joy Division into the sitting area. Image credit: GE Reports

GE and other companies are already building so-called medical body area networks (MBANs) and have applied to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission for access to the radio spectrum, where wireless medical devices could operate.

“This is the digital health we’ve been talking about,” says Mikko Kauppinen, finance director at GE Healthcare Finland and cofounder of the Health Innovation Village. “This is different from gadgets. We already know how to build super-robust monitoring devices you see today in hospitals that meet FDA standards. This is a platform. Mobile phones got smaller and our devices will also shrink. We are building an ecosystem for Industrial Internet for the body.” Says Kauppinen: “It will transform patient monitoring. Before long, you could see these devices everywhere.”

The future of wireless healthcare is dawning in Helsinki. Image credit: GE Reports

This post originally appeared on GE Reports.

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MWEB, ShowMax, offers to give free Internet and SVOD contents to customers

Subscription-based video-on-demand service (SVOD), ShowMax has disclosed a partnership agreement with MWEB-an Internet service provider in South Africa to make available for clients free ADSL (Internet) and complimentary access to ShowMax.

Offer last till March 31, 2016 for customers who subscribe to  a 12-month package to one of MWEB’s ADSL service products (excluding 1GB, 2GB, 5GB Capped and Uncapped 1Mbps services).

In a press release, GM Sales, Marketing and Product at MWEB, Carolyn Holgate said “If your New Year’s resolutions have anything to do with becoming more tech-savvy, living a more connected life, improving your internet connection or saving money, then this offer comes at the right time. By combining free internet access and giving you access to ShowMax this the perfect way to start the New Year,” 

Customers who sign up will receive 90 days of free MWEB ADSL services as well as a complimentary voucher for 90 days’ access to ShowMax. They will then be billed for both the ShowMax and ADSL amounts for the remaining months of the 12-month contract.

If youre interested in this offer, visit  MWEB or reach out to  MWEB on 087 700 5000 for more.

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