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Cyber Threats Amid Growing Global Tensions
As global tensions continue to climb in the wake of to North Korea’s nuclear activity, many are focused on the physical aspects of a possible global conflict. Unfortunately, what many aren’t focused on are the aspects that are not so physical.
4 Things a Business Needs to Understand About Data Breaches
Data breaches have become a fact of life for businesses. Ruthless hackers infiltrate systems, injecting malware and stealing vital information from companies. You must protect your organization from them. When you can’t, you must behave proactively to lessen the damage. Here are four things a business needs to understand about data breaches.
Becoming a Cisco Certified Sales Expert – How It’s Done
IT professionals are in great demand in today's fiercely competitive job market, so IT professionals have relative job security, but the fact remains that the more abilities you have, and the more training you have, the more job security you have and the more money you are likely to make.
Proving Your Skills… Again
In order to have the best chance of getting a good job in the information technology and computer field, it is essential to obtain an A+ Certification from CompTIA. In the past, these certificates were touted as lasting for a lifetime, but CompTIA has recently made changes that will impact everyone who has a certification. Unfortunately, new guidelines have been put in place, and each certificate is now only valid for three years.
Intel’s WiDi Standard: What You Need to Know
Intel’s recent ultrabook draft requires manufacturers to implement some version of their own proprietary “Wireless Display” standard across new lines. A competitor to technologies such as Apple’s AirPlay and Microsoft’s SmartGlass display broadcasting firmware, WiDi seeks to eradicate cables and pave the way for an instant-streaming future. Here, we’ll use Intel’s latest and greatest to explain how to connect a laptop to a TV supporting WiDi. Image copyright by Intel. What do you need? First up, WiDi has some pretty demanding hardware specs. Not to worry, though: any modern laptop, ultrabook or tablet should support most of the required technologies (excepting anything running Windows RT). You’ll need a third generation…
How to Run A Memory Test
There are a number of sites on the web which were created to assist computer users in running memory tests and debugging memory problems with their personal computers. They will help you to automatically complete these tests, but if you must do them manually, here are some tips.
Five Modern Day Overreactions
The availability and speed at which we can get almost anything in the modern world is amazing, but it comes with dramatic overreactions to small failures every day. This article will consider five of the most common modern day overreactions and will provide some simple solutions to prevent their doom.
Top Tech Trends of 2011 [Infographic]
The year 2011 brought many changes to the tech industry. Such tech trends as group buying, geolocation apps, or tablets revolutionized the whole industry. Other major tech trends include cloud computing and cloud based productivity apps, online video in enterprise, online Q&A, crowdfunding, and mobile photo sharing apps.
Easy Tech Support – Part 5: Finding Information
In this fifth and final part of the easy tech support series, the folks from Google focus on ways to find information on… you guessed it… Google. It may seem like a lot of self-advertising, but they present us with lots of different useful Google services that show up in specific Google searches.
Easy Tech Support – Part 4: Media
Various Google services are introduced, which can be used for digital media managing and sharing. For example Google Docs can be used to share large media files such as photos and videos to a group of friends or family. YouTube is another alternative for videos and Picasa is for photos.
Easy Tech Support – Part 3: Communication
In this post, most of the videos are centered around Google's email service, Gmail. However, most email services work in a similar way, so the videos would still be helpful for non-gmail users. For example, if you know someone that might be vulnerable to phishing scams, send them the video titled: "How to know if an email is real".
Easy Tech Support – Part 2: World Wide Web
If you have friends or family that know some computer basics, but would need help with the proper use of the internet, then show them the following videos. For example, you'd be surprised how many people don't know how to create a strong password, or how to shorten a long URL.
