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Can Blocking the Internet Entirely Prevent Security Breaches? Google Wants to Find Out
How far would your business go to protect itself from threats? One of the largest technology companies in the world, Google, is going as far as possible without compromising the productivity of its employees: blocking the Internet entirely. How will Google get away...
The Right Cloud Options Go a Long Way for SMBs
The cloud allows businesses to improve flexibility and scalability in previously unheard-of ways. Today, we want to explore what the cloud can enable for small businesses, as well as the best options to get the most out of your solution. Software as a Service With...
Incorporating the IoT Can Help Your Business Save on Utilities
The IoT—the Internet of Things—has proven itself to be valuable to various industries in equally varied ways. This value comes from the increased insights into the business’ utilities and how cost controls can be implemented to improve the management thereof. Let’s...
Your Data Will Not Last Forever. Here’s Why
The future presents countless interesting and daunting challenges, one of which you might not necessarily expect: data preservation. Is today’s data storage up to the task of preserving information for the decades and centuries to come? Today we explore this...
Five Qualities to Look for in Your Business’ IT Technicians
When it comes to your business and its technology, you want people managing it who know what they are doing. Enter the IT technician, a person who has dedicated themselves to learning the ins and outs of your technology solutions. Employing individuals who are both...
Would You Believe that Google’s Blocking Its Employees from the Internet?
Web-based, online threats pose significant danger for businesses today, which makes it all the more important that you take steps to protect your organization. Google is taking its own protections to the extreme, recently launching a pilot program where the Internet...
Tip of the Week: Making It So People are More Likely to Listen to You
Communication is critical to successfully working in a group, regardless of your role in that group, including your capability to be heard when you have something to contribute. Let’s review a few ways you can help make it more likely that your collaborators will...
No Data Storage Device Lasts Forever (or Very Long, for That Matter)
Bear with me while I get a little nerdy here, but I recently finished the sci-fi novel series Remembrance of Earth’s Past by Liu Cixin. It’s also known as the Three-Body Problem series, and while I don’t want to spoil anything, the series is full of very interesting...
Before You Implement New Technology, Consider These 4 Steps
When a business needs to improve processes, they might turn to technology as a means to solve specific operational challenges. However, the implementation of technology is only as effective as the technology is at resolving the aforementioned problem, and if it...
Tip of the Week: You Can (Sort Of) Use FaceTime on Android. Here’s How
It’s no secret that Apple’s iPhone has some features exclusive to users of Apple products, one of which is the convenient mobile video chat platform, FaceTime. However, Apple has made FaceTime available to Android users in at least some capacity, albeit an incomplete...