Samsung Announces Galaxy S8 & S8 Plus
The big tech news yesterday is that Samsung as announced it’s new flagship phones the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus. Both phones will be available for pre-order today, and will be officially released on April 21st. These phones are going to explode off the shelves (hopefully not literally this time). The latest model has removed […]
How to Achieve Inbox Zero
Your inbox can be a dangerous spot, and important items can very easily get lost. The goal for a lot of people is to attain “Inbox Zero”, where your main inbox for your email is usually empty (at least by the end of the day), and you feel much more on top of your communication […]
Snapchat for Business?!
There is a cloud based service that is being called the Snapchat for enterprise level business that is seriously turning some heads right now. Instead of just a more complicated way to text one another, this service looks extremely useful and promising. The service is called CloudApp and instead of a crown of flowers on […]
Understanding the Cloud
These days most of our tasks are taking place in the cloud, and often, we really aren’t even sure what that means. Broken down to it’s most basic form, essentially the cloud is the internet. Network diagrams always showed the internet as a cloud, and thus the name “cloud” started getting used. As we were […]
Microsoft Launches Chat Program with Teams
Announced back in November, Microsoft Teams has now been launched! This is a brand new collaboration tool from Microsoft to help with communication and collaboration within a business. Messaging or chat apps have been dominating businesses for quite a while, and they continue to improve. I remember using MSN Instant Messenger WAY back when, and […]
Keep Your Passwords Secure
As a managed IT support company, we can tell you that we’ve seen (and heard) our fair share of password no no’s. There’s nothing that will shake our heads faster than approaching someone’s workstation and the passwords to their computer is on a sticky note on the monitor. What is even the point of having […]
Misaligned Cyber Security Defenses: Are You at Risk?
Recently Intel Security and the Center for Strategic and International Studies surveyed 800 cyber security professionals from five major industry sectors in nine countries, and put together an extensive report about how the attack and response to cyber criminals is not matching up. A good portion of the problem is between corporate executives and the IT professionals that […]
Learn to Spot a Scam – Email Edition
One of the easiest ways for hackers to gain access to your company network is through individual employees. How well can you and your business employees spot a scam? This month the ransomware called CryptoLocker is making the rounds again in a massive way. Ransomware takes over a computer or a network and demands money […]
Amazon Service Brings Thousands of Companies Down
On Tuesday this week AWS (Amazon Web Services) suffered an outage that left several websites and services down for hours. This was not the work of hackers or a DDoS attack though, it looks like the S3 service took a nose dive on the east coast which caused even isitdownrightnow.com (a site dedicated to letting […]