Archive for February, 2011
How Your Passwords Control your Credit, and How to Protect Yourself from Identity Theft
This is a guest post from Michael Yingling The Problem Identity theft affects around 10 million people per year, destroying credit ratings, preventing people from buying cars, houses and even getting loans for college. As we move towards an increasingly digital world, the ease of access to our financial information — like banking websites — [...]
Full StoryAccess C-Level Executives Using Social Networking
Guest Post from Storagepipe Solutions In the past, high-level decision makers have been reluctant to jump on the social networking bandwagon. For many, it seemed trivial and of little use. However, times have changed and these same people (the ones who mocked social networks as being a pass-time for teenagers) are now beginning to see [...]
Full StoryResearch Shows Green IT Is One Of The Hottest IT Trends For 2011
This Is A Guest Post By Sumir Karayi, founder and CEO of 1E With an increasing global focus on energy efficiency and sustainability, 2011 certainly promises to be a big year for Green IT. In fact, Gartner recently cited Green IT as one of the 10 technology trends organizations can’t afford to ignore. Based on [...]
Full StoryHow Hard-As-Nails Canadians Protect Their Businesses From Disaster
B-ReadyNow is a service offering developed by the Canadian Centre for Emergency Preparedness (www.ccep.ca), a non-profit organisation whose main mandate is to build more resilient communities. The CCEP has done research and provided services in the areas of business continuity, emergency management, critical infrastructure protection and other crisis management fields since 1993. Through such research [...]
Full StoryPhishing Alert! Employees Using The Same Passwords Across Many Web Sites
OneLogin, Inc. is an on-demand single sign-on and identity management solution based in Santa Monica, CA. In short, they eliminate user-managed passwords. Their customers use on average 30-40 cloud applications. By using OneLogin, users can access all their web applications through their secure OneLogin Portal. While eliminating passwords contributes to greater ease-of-use, the ability for [...]
Full Story12 Ways Hackers Can Break Into Your Web Site, SaaS App or Customer-Facing Online Systems
Golem Technologies is a web security firm specializing in website threat detection and vulnerability scanning. The service scans websites for places where a hacker might be able to steal customer data, take over the site or the server it is hosted on, or trick users into harming themselves. They cater especially to small and medium [...]
Full StoryDr. Robert Gehl Talks About The Future Of Anonymity, Net Neutrality And Web 2.0
Can you tell my readers about your background and your current role at U of Utah? I understand that you did your doctoral work on Web 2.0. Can you tell me a bit about this? At Utah, I am a professor of new media in the Department of Communication, and I work in two areas. [...]
Full StoryA First-Person Insider’s Perspective On Domain Seizures And The Future of European Online Regulation
BlacKnight Solutions is Ireland’s largest hosting company and domain registrar. They provide domain registration and a comprehensive range of website hosting solutions to clients all over the world. Clients range from hobbyists through small business to multinationals. Today, I’ll be interviewing BlacKnight founder Michele Neylon. How has the domain name business changed over the past [...]
Full StoryTop 24 Web Analytics Software Packages
It’s often been said that fifty percent of your marketing efforts are wasted. The problem is that you never know which fifty percent it is. But one of the great things about doing business in the digital age is that everything can now be measured. With the right web analytics system in place, you can [...]
Full StoryNew FREE IT Magazines and Whitepapers Added!
As you might have noticed, we’ve just updated the site with a new section. The new IT RESOURCES page is full of Information Technology whitepapers and magazines. And everything is FREE. Go ahead and browse around. You’re sure to find something of interest!
Full StorySurvey: 80 percent of network managers adopting network automation tools
Stu Bailey founded Infoblox while doing academic research in the early 90s on large-scale computing networks, and specifically large data management problems. His hypothesis back then was that information management problems would manifest in the network, and he wanted to increase the reliability of networks as they became more strategic. Stu founded Infoblox with the [...]
Full StoryThe IPv6 Transition: Why it Matters and How to Prepare
This is a guest article from Dave Kresse, CEO of Mu Dynamics Change is coming. The protocol that underpins the Internet, IPv4, is at its limit. Early this year, the last of the IPv4 addresses were distributed, marking the end of an era. In order for the Internet to continue to connect people and devices [...]
Full StoryWhy Collaboration Is Good For Customer Support
There are many companies out there selling support, sales, or CRM solutions, but the majority of them spend little if any time focusing on collaboration. They are offering tools that help the departments they target to organize or communicate, but amongst themselves, not with the entire company or the company’s customers. Collaboration is the key [...]
Full StoryHow To Buy a Used Laptop: 5 Key Tips
With computer manufactures releasing new and innovative models every 6 months, many consumers can still get a powerful used laptop at an affordable price. When looking to purchase a used laptop computer many factors come into play that will impact your purchasing decision. I have compiled my 5 top tips for making sure you get [...]
Full StoryHow Network Team Collaboration Can Help Companies Prevent Miscommunication and Enforce Adherance To Deadlines
LumoFlow started around four years ago when social media was still pretty unknown within enterprises. During those days you had to build your enterprise collaboration environment from process centric project management and task tracking systems together with wikis, discussion forums and other communication platforms. Years passed and new social collaboration solutions came to the market, [...]
Full StoryTablet, Laptop or Desktop. How do you pick the one that’s right for you?
When it comes to making your next computer purchasing decision, you’ll most likely find yourself asking which is right for you. A laptop, a tablet, or a desktop computer? Before you can make this decision, there are a number of questions you must ask. The first and most important question will be “What will I [...]
Full StoryAn insider’s perspective on the IPV4/IPV6 crisis
For more than 20 years, Allied Telesis has been a leading provider of networking infrastructure. Today the Company enables delivery of data, voice, and video services to a variety of clients globally. The origins Allied Telesis can be traced back to the Government Research Organization that first connected New Zealand to the early Internet. Unable [...]
Full StoryD-Day is Coming for the IPv6 Transition: Are You Prepared?
This is a guest post from Asif Hazarika, Senior Director Product Management at IP Infusion Inc. The Internet as we know it today is in many ways now a legacy system unsuitable for the demands of the continuing exponential growth of users, traffic and traffic types. In fact, the original design for the Internet Protocol [...]
Full StoryOutsourcing your work to strangers but don’t allow your internal employees to telecommute?
I’ve always found it really odd how we’re willing to blindly trust untouchable strangers more than the close friends we’ve known for years. We’ve all had an experience where we’ve tried to provide common sense advice to a close friend, only to have your friend reject your advice and turn to the insane ramblings of [...]
Full Story6 Ways That Business Analytics and Business Intelligence Can Help Your Business
Price Your Products For Maximum Profit: Pricing is one of the most critical, and least understood areas of any business. Pricing too low can destroy your brand and increase financial risks, pricing too high can lead to unhappy customers and lost sales opportunities, and fluctuating prices can create a bad reputation and confusion. Instead of [...]
Full StoryHow To Pick The Right Computer Microprocessor (Basic Guide)
This is a guest post from Aaron Collins at Ethos Tech Consulting, a leading Bay Area Technology Consulting company. Shopping for a computer can be scary. A person can get lost in the hoard of customers at retail stores on a Sunday morning. Getting a physical person to help you is a challenge, and an [...]
Full StoryWhat Are The Most Common Problems That Affect Corporate Laptop Users?
LaptopMD is New York City’s premier computer, laptop and i-Phone service center. It was founded in 1995 by Arthur Zilberman, who saw a niche opportunity to provide quick, reliable computer repair service. They have offices in midtown Manhattan, New Jersey and Florida. They are also open seven days a week, and even make house calls. [...]
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