title: Technology Now: Your Companion to SAM Computer Concepts
author:  Corinne Hoisington 
description: Corinne Hoisington is a professor at Central Virginia Community College in Lynchburg, Virginia. With more than 25 years of teaching experience, Professor Hoisington has been honored with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in Computer Programming award. A dynamic speaker, she regularly presents on new technology and education trends to instructors across North America. She is the author of several best-selling Shelly Cashman Series texts on Windows, Visual Basic, and Adobe Dreamweaver, as well as Android app development.
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  About the Authors
  
  
  **Mary Branscombe** has been a technology writer for over 20 years, writing
  for numerous websites, magazines, and daily newspapers like the _Financial
  Times_. She’s fascinated by the how, the what, and the why of technology—how
  and why it works (and why it works that way), why anyone would use it, and
  what it does for you. You can currently find her work on _TechRadar_ and
  _ZDNet_ , where she co-writes the _500 words into the future_ blog with her
  writing partner, Simon Bisson. Together, they are the authors of _Windows 8:
  What Your Business Needs to Know_. With a smartphone in one hand and a Windows
  tablet in the other, Mary is rarely away from computers entirely, but when
  she’s not working, you can find her on a road trip, with her nose in a book,
  or knitting something complicated.
  
  
  **Simon Bisson** is an IT journalist and technology strategy consultant. He
  has written for many publica