Does your business use remote workers? If you currently don’t, you should know that there are several benefits of allowing your staff to work outside of the confines of your office, but you have to be careful. These days, with the threat landscape as it is, it is...
3 Ontario Hospitals hit by ransomware
Hackers have crippled the computer systems of three Ontario hospitals in recent weeks, prompting concern about the type of malicious software used and whether more facilities may be at risk. The malware, known as "Ryuk," attacks computer networks but remains invisible...
No More Pencils, No More Books… Examining Technology in Education
While we typically write about matters that concern your business and its use of technology in this blog, we decided to do something a little different today. Someday in the not-so-distant future, today’s students will make up the workforce, and their educations are...
A Brief Introduction (No, Really) to Virtual Private Networking
Any business should list its priorities as follows: #1 - Security#2 - Everything Else This means that, should an employee be working from a location that isn’t in your office, you need to have something in place so they can do so without compromising your security....
Pushing the Limits of the Smartphone Battery
The smartphone is a transcendent innovation of a brilliant idea. As these devices have gotten more and more powerful, it has seen a situation where the batteries powering these devices keep having to outperform the batteries from the previous year’s devices. The...
How Smartphones Can Make Your Business More Productive
It’d be hard to find a more influential modern invention (not counting the Internet) than the smartphone - it has expanded from voice and messaging to include entertainment, social media, and countless other purposes. This just so happens to include mobile...
At Long Last, Windows 7 Users Have to Switch to Windows 10
It wasn’t too terribly long ago that Windows 10 was offered for free to users of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. While this offer was constrained to a limited time, the response was surprisingly stagnant. Why didn’t more people jump at the chance to snag the latest version...
Do Not Let Disaster Devastate Your Business
Plan: NOUN 1. A detailed proposal for doing or achieving something. We’ve all heard or maybe even used the expression “That didn’t go as planned”. More often than not, a well-designed and implemented disaster recovery goes as planned, but do you really want to wager...
Let’s Buy a Computer, Part V
You should be well on your way to getting your new computer. We’ve gone over the processor, the memory, the storage, and the display, and should be confident about what you are looking for. For our final part of our computer buying guide, we are going to focus on...
Let’s Buy a Computer, Part IV
After you’ve got the machine’s core specifications worked out, you then have to turn your attention to your displays. In part four, we take a look at how you are going to broadcast the information from the computer, what you should know about modern displays, and what...