Preventing Cyberwar Victimization: 7 Changes You Must Make To Your Network
We are at the start of what could be a cyberwar which is making people and businesses uneasy. Everywhere we turn we're bombarded with new hacks being done by foreign…
2016 Technology: Four New Year’s Party Conversation Starters That Are Sure To Be A Hit
New Year's parties have always been some of my favorite times. Usually, though, people tend to either walk away or avoid me when I start talking about technology. This year…
Storing Data: Backups are one thing, but nothing beats a properly designed properly designed RAID1 computer system.
No matter what business you're involved with, I can almost guarantee there's some type of data. Data can be as simple as a mailing list or a complex database, without…
Reporting Inaccuracies: Don’t trust everything you read on a computer screen.
Monday morning I was boarding my flight from St. Louis when I received a text message asking if my parents could hitch a ride from Boston. Of course I obliged…
Planning for Disaster: Keep your business up and running by taking a few small steps to insure downtime will be kept to a minimum.
Thirty years ago computers were a novelty. Computers existed for specific business applications and only the most elite of companies ran on mainframes. In those days systems were designed around…
Going Paperless. Why making the switch to electronic records may be a bad idea.
Making new friends and influencing people have always been something that comes to me naturally. But not Saturday. Saturday night I attended a dinner party and didn't hesitate to tell…
Medical Imaging: Digital technology in hospitals has made patient care faster and less expensive.
Digital imaging in the medical field is a huge advancement since the days of film based x-rays and exploratory surgeries. Rather than take an x-ray and wait for it to…
Office Basics: Keeping your business’ technology running properly will make you money.
The sole purpose of a business is to make money. Business school taught me many things about how to run a business. Out of all the hours of Economics, Marketing,…
Intercepting data: It’s important to understand that your privacy can be compromised at any time when using technology.
During my younger years I lived in a fairly congested part of New York. I was fortunate enough to live alone and had neighbors on all four sides of my…
Reload or Repair? A properly maintaned operating system shouldn’t need to be reloaded unless the computer suffers catastrophic failure.
Lately I've been listening to a lot of talk radio during my arduous Sunday night trips from Brattleboro to home. Coincidentally, during a ten mile stretch of highway, my cell…