Smart businesses strategically plan. That's inarguable, right? And really smart businesses include IT in their strategic planning. All those big business plans, so carefully mapped out, can be thwarted if the right personnel aren't in place to carry them out. In today's world, other than human...
If you are a frequent user of any of Google's myriad services, you have a LOT of data sitting in the company's databases. Contact information, calendars, documents of all kinds, photos and more make up the common types of information many people have begun to rely on Google to store and serve up...
In technology years, email is a really old technology. One drawback to the way email works is that it wasn't designed to filter out spam and fishing emails. There's just no inherent way to prove that the sender of email is really who they say they are. There have been systems put in place on top of...
A server is a device on a network that manages network resources. Most commonly we mean a specialized computer on a network, but there are other types of servers, too such as game servers. Servers can be dedicated to just one function, such as storing and managing shared files, managing print jobs...
UK-based Sophos, an IT security company, notes on its blog a couple of recent scams making their way around Facebook. Don't fall for a current Facebook trend that promises to give you a custom pink or red facebook profile page. It's a scam! However, if you see your friends' profile pictures...
"Seven out of 10 young employees frequently ignore IT policies, and one in four is a victim of identity theft before the age of 30," according to a global study from Cisco, released in mid-December. The three-part Cisco Connected World Technology Report uncovered some possibly worrisome...
