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Submitted by Tim Roper on Friday, December 28, 2012
USAToday.com recently posted an item concerning a malicious mobile app that has been infecting Android-based mobile phones. Potential victims receive an offer to download free versions of popular games like Grand Theft Auto and Angry Birds Star Wars. If an unsuspecting user installs the software,...
Submitted by Tim Roper on Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Apple co-founder, tech enthusiast, and all-around swell guy Steve Wozniak recently penned a guest article for Forbes Magazine, in which he discusses the changes in business tech we can expect to see in 2013.
It's well worth the read, and the Woz makes some interesting, if not exactly unheard-of,...
Submitted by Tim Roper on Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Mashable is reporting on a Trojan targeting Apple’s OS X operating systems. The malicious program disguises itself as an installation package for a legitimate Russian-language application called VKMusic4 and makes unauthorized charges to mobile phone accounts.
Mashable claims this Trojan is the...
Submitted by Tim Roper on Thursday, November 15, 2012
The northeast US continues to deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, and with temperatures plummeting across the nation, businesses elsewhere may soon start feeling the pinch as staff can’t physically get to work. However, inclement weather, disasters, and other disruptions don’t have to...
Submitted by Tim Roper on Thursday, October 25, 2012
At Tuesday’s iPad Mini launch event, Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed some impressive numbers about the full-size iPad’s success. Since the release of the original iPad on April 3, 2010, Apple has sold 100 million of them worldwide. That’s a rather staggering number for a new class of device that, as...
Submitted by Tim Roper on Wednesday, October 24, 2012
On October 22, 2012, Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) experienced an interruption of service lasting from approximately 10am to 4pm Pacific. The outage affected websites such as Reddit, AirBnB, and Netflix, among others.
Details on the outage are sparse, but this is not the first time EC2 has...
Submitted by Tim Roper on Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Microsoft has selected October 25, 2012 as the launch date (with general availability scheduled for the following day) for the latest version of its Windows operating system, Windows 8. Recently, Microsoft published information regarding upgrade paths from previous versions of Windows all the way...
Submitted by Tim Roper on Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Congress has extended IRS Section 179 to cover the 2012 tax year. This means that qualifying business equipment purchases, which includes most computer hardware and software, can be depreciated at an accelerated rate on your 2012 business taxes. According to section179.org:
“Section 179 limits for...
Submitted by Tim Roper on Wednesday, October 17, 2012
1. You constantly have to troubleshoot and fine-tune your network. This not only cuts into your productivity, but also your free time. Business technology has matured to a point where a properly configured network should run stably with little to no unscheduled maintenance. You’d be surprised how...
Submitted by Tim Roper on Wednesday, October 17, 2012
As the landscape of the modern office changes, so does the way we get work done. We often find ourselves closely interacting with co-workers who aren’t in the same physical location, whether they’re on a different floor or in a different hemisphere. Use these handy tools to stay on the same page as...
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