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Submitted by Tim Roper on Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Perhaps you saw the recent New York Times article about airline pilots replacing bulky, printed in-cockpit flight manuals with digital versions on iPads. It makes great sense—the digital version weighs a fraction of the 40lb. paper version, receives updates in real-time, and is easily...
Submitted by Chris Bush on Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Microsoft very recently announced its Windows 8 platform (Slated for Q4 2011) and, by appearances, has finally geared up to take on rivals in the booming mobile and tablet markets. Built on top of lessons learned from Windows Vista and it’s much more successful Windows 7 offerings, combined...
Submitted by Paul Okura from CMIT Solutions of Southern Westchester on Thursday, July 07, 2011
While we have yet to see a major shift by larger companies to cloud computing, we do see more acceptance by smaller companies to move their computing environments to the cloud. With the growth of mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets and laptops, the movement of data and computing resources...
Submitted by Helen Feng on Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Have you ever borrowed computer software from a friend and installed it on your computer? If so, you probably just pirated that piece of software. When we purchase software, we purchase the license to use that software. Most often, the license that we purchased is for utilizing the software only on...
Submitted by Tim Roper on Wednesday, July 06, 2011
A picture is worth 1000 words, and sometimes it’s much easier to show someone what’s happening on your computer than trying to explain it. Call them screenshots, screen captures, caps, or grabs, Windows 7’s Aero feature offers a few different ways to take snapshots of what’s displayed on your...
Submitted by Tim Roper on Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Maintaining a company blog is a great way to engage your customers and raise your online profile (Google’s search algorithm loves good blog content), and you don’t need to hire a web developer to do it. Microsoft’s Windows Live Essentials provides several useful tools to help you publish a media-...
Submitted by Bruce Newman from CMIT Solutions of The Northeast Valley on Thursday, June 23, 2011
Would you go to a strange place and announce you have thousands of dollars on you and no way to protect yourself if someone attacked you? Of course you wouldn’t, so why do you let your personal technology to continuously reach out and announce its vulnerability?
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Submitted by Greg Miller from CMIT Solutions of Goshen NY on Wednesday, June 22, 2011
If you are working with a good managed service provider, then you should already be in good shape, or at least on the path, to having proper security for your business network. But there is one aspect of security that only you can do for yourself: strong passwords for your network and internet...
Submitted by Helen Feng on Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Bill Gentry and I have been friends for a few years. Bill was supposed to meet Dwayne Holmberg and me in Los Angeles for the E3 Convention, June 2010. I hadn’t heard from Bill lately, so I wasn’t exactly sure if he was going to show up. He did call me when I was in Los Angeles, and...
Submitted by Devi Mazumdar from CMIT Solutions of San Antonio NE on Monday, June 20, 2011
You shouldn’t, unless you are somehow linked to the healthcare industry. And then if you don’t, it could cost you up to $100,000 or 5 years in prison, depending on the severity of the violation.
Have you ever stood in line at a pharmacy at Costco or Walgreen’s, and had your name called out loud? Or...
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