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Submitted by Melanie Fricke on Thursday, April 19, 2012
SMBs can’t afford to lose their data, and mobility opens the doors for multiple security risks
The much-discussed Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement that’s swept across the business world in recent years has also opened up data security risks that businesses are only now beginning to face.The...
Submitted by Tim Roper on Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Phishers and Internet scammers are always coming up with innovative ways to separate victims from their money. One of their favorite tactics is to prey on victims’ fears about taxes by posing as the IRS, particularly around filing deadlines. Here are a couple of tax scams that, at first glance,...
Submitted by Tim Roper on Thursday, April 12, 2012
Recent tornadoes in Texas and the Midwest, along with other recent extreme weather events, remind us that catastrophic data loss is one of the most detrimental events that can happen to a small- or medium-sized business (SMB). According to the The Underwriting Guide for Insurers, only six percent...
Submitted by Tim Roper on Thursday, April 05, 2012
Facebook switched all users to the much-discussed timeline format for all pages on March 30th. Perhaps the most obvious change is the inclusion of a “cover image,” the large banner-like graphic at the top of your timeline.The exact dimensions are 851x315 pixels. If you upload an image smaller than...
Submitted by Tim Roper on Thursday, March 29, 2012
Nowadays, professionals in every line of business are using their personal devices — laptops, smartphones, tablets — for work.The phenomenon is often called “Bring Your Own Device (BYOD).” As one might imagine, having devices that are owned and maintained by employees connecting to your network...
Submitted by Tim Roper on Tuesday, March 27, 2012
We've all heard the old cliche that proper prior planning prevents (ahem) pathetically poor performance. Just as you shouldn't put an unconscious bobcat in your car without a plan to get it out if it wakes up, failure to plan ahead in the realm of IT may spell disaster.
Your computers generally...
Submitted by Tim Roper on Friday, March 23, 2012
Spam filters rank incoming emails using a point system according to the content of the message. If a message has enough red flags to cross a certain points threshold, off to the spam folder it goes. Don’t let your important emails languish in the recipient’s junk-mail folder. Avoid these red-flag...
Submitted by Tim Roper on Tuesday, March 20, 2012
If your laptop or desktop computer leaves a bit to be desired in the speed department (assuming it's not due to malware or insufficient system memory), you may want to consider swapping out the original hard drive with a new type of disk—a solid-state hard drive. Solid-state drives (SSDs) differ...
Submitted by Melanie Fricke on Friday, March 16, 2012
Inner-city students at charter school benefit from overhaul of IT system
Michael, a sixth-grader at the science, math and technology charter school Park City Prep, was having serious trouble keeping up with his class back in the fall. He’s a bright boy, but his reading comprehension and writing...
Submitted by Melanie Fricke on Friday, March 09, 2012
Software firm’s head tech guy relies on CMIT Solutions of Central Fairfield County to manage company’s IT system
As a software developer with more than a quarter-century of technology experience, Kurt Strumpf knows when an IT services provider is doing its job and when it’s not.So it’s telling that...
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